Cherry's Adventures of the Lion King: chapter 18

There was now rain coming which extinguished the flames.

Atticus could now see that things were going according to the good vision he had selected in which Dr. Whooves and Derpy had told him about. "Come on, Simba, let's get back to the others." he smiled to the true and rightful king to Pride Rock.

Simba smiled in agreement, they had done it. Zira came out with Nuka, Vitani, and Kovu.

Simba glared to them however. "For being Scar's followers, I'm afraid you are all banished."

"You can't do that!" Nuka glared.

"I'm sorry, young one, but Simba is the king now," Sarabi came to her son's side. "You must go now."

"This isn't over, Simba..." Zira sneered. "We will be back and Kovu shall become the new King of the Pridelands!"

With that, Zira left with her children to find a place they could all come home and she would plot revenge on Simba, someday, somehow.

"Excellent decision, Simba." Nala said to him.

Simba passed Timon and Pumbaa and then embraced them and smiled to them and his other lion friends. "I couldn't have done it without you guys."

"We were happy to help." Patch smiled.

Simba then marched up to Pride Rock to proclaim his destiny.

"That's our boy." Pumbaa smiled proudly.

"Oh... I promised myself I wasn't gonna cry!" Timon sniffled before sobbing.

Rafiki came to the lions who were not born lions. "I knew you could all help Simba..." he smiled to them.

"We couldn't let Simba go back alone." Patch smiled.

"Yes, I knew having a strong bond with you all would do him so good..." Rafiki said mysteriously. "That is why you are all here."

Darla looked curious. "What do you mean?"

"Do you wonder how you all ended up here and became what you think you are?" Rafiki asked, hinting something.

"What, did you turn us into lions and give us those tickets here or something?" Mo asked.

Rafiki chuckled. "Not exactly, somebody else felt it was right..."

"Who?" the lions asked.

There was a glowing ball coming up in front of them to reveal the alicorn princess of Equestria.

"Princess Celestia!" the others recognized instantly.

"Hello, my friends." Princess Celestia smiled.

"Boy, you must be really bored or something if you always come to us..." Cherry said to the alicorn, but of course, she bowed respectively.

"No, the reason why I chose you all to come here is because I knew you all could help Simba." Princess Celestia told them.

"Well, we're glad we could help, Princess." Mo smiled.

"How was your first adventure, Darla?" Princess Celestia asked her newest recruit.

"I was hoping for something a little more glamorous..." Darla sighed. "Like, I dunno, investigating a shoe store in Paris..."

"Not all adventures will be glamorous." Atticus said.

"Hmph..." Darla pouted slightly.

Princess Celestia smiled to them. Simba roared once he ascended to the top of Pride Rock. The lionesses roared back to him once he became the new and true lion king of the jungle.

"Mufasa is proud." Princess Celestia told the others.

"I know he is." Atticus smiled.

Suddenly, as the rain cleared, it seemed as though everybody returned to their human and dog form, back to their rightful ages.

"What just happened?" Dot asked.

"Lucky, you're a dog again!" Patch noticed.

"So are you!" Lucky pointed to him.

The others looked to each other to see they were all back to normal.

"This is weird, but... I guess it's the right thing to do..." Cherry folded her arms. "I just hope Simba doesn't kill us too slowly when he realizes we're human."

Luckily Simba didn't do that when he first saw them in their true forms.

"Guys...?" he asked once he came up to them. "Is that you?"

Nala was both shocked and curious, as was everyone else.

"Yes, Simba, we're not originally from your land, we were trying to help you see the light and help you remember who you are," Mo spoke up maturely. "We now see that you have succeeded your own mission just as well as we did. This looks like goodbye though."

"Goodbye?" Simba frowned.

"We have to go back to our families and place we where we came from." Atticus said.

Nala looked sad. "Promise to come again?"

"Someday..." the others promised.

Simba gave each of them a hug. "Thanks, guys... For everything."

"You're welcome, Your Highness." Atticus smiled.

Simba had tingles when he was called that. "Guess you all better go then."

"We'll never forget you." Nala added.

The two then went back to Pride Rock as it was now goodbye to their new friends and hello to their new lives.

"How do we get to the airport?" Dot asked.

Forte walked one way without even saying anything.

Cherry followed after, looking to her friends. "I think it's a safe bet Forte knows the way."

Dot shrugged. "Good enough for me."

"I agree with Cherry." Atticus said.

"Come on, Lucky!" Dot smiled to her pet.

Lucky chuckled. "I'm comin', I'm comin'."

With that, they all went to the airport after Simba took the throne and Timon introduced his family to his new life. There was a scruffy female meerkat who smiled to Timon bashfully and nuzzled up to him. Timon's eyes widened and he stepped back to see her. The female meerkat looked down shyly, then smiled to him. Timon blinked and smiled back, feeling something that he never felt before.

"So Timon, who's this your girlfriend?" Pumbaa teased in a best friend kind of way.

"Huh, what?" Timon jumped out of his fur, metaphorically speaking. "Uh, what're ya talkin' about? I don't know this girl!" he laughed, then glanced back to the female. "Do I...?"

The female meerkat giggled. "You're funny~..."

Timon grinned and took her paws. "My kind of gal."

"Who is she?" Pumbaa whispered to Timon's mother.

"Her name's Tesma," Timon's mother smiled. "She's a very lovely girl..."

"So does she know Timon?" Pumbaa asked.

"Oh, honey, everybody knows Timon back in our colony." Timon's mother said.

"Really?" Pumbaa asked.

"Yes, such a shoddy reputation!" Max stepped in, sounding rather paranoid and hysterical. "I feel disgraced to have him as a nephew! He collapsed one tunnel exit before he left home because he tried to make what he called a sky-light! Four in one week! A new record!"

"Not now, Max." Timon's mother sighed.

"You were so busy cuddling him, you forgot to teach him how to be a meerkat!" Max glared to her.

"Yeah, and unfortunately, I left that to you." Timon's mother folded her arms, very much annoyed with his behavior, then looked to Pumbaa. "Dear, you should go home, your family must be worried."

"Oh, uh, I'd love to, but... I don't have a home..." Pumbaa explained softly.

"Oh, dear..." Timon's mother said out of sadness.

"I didn't have anybody until I met Timon..." Pumbaa explained.

"He didn't really have anybody either..." Timon's mother cooed. "Poor thing didn't have a friend in the world... In fact, his closest companion was me... We would spend hours and hours together!"

Pumbaa had a sad smile.

"Uh, maybe you could help show us this whole 'Hakuna Matata' thing?" Timon's mother suggested.

"It would be my pleasure." Pumbaa smiled.

Timon's mother smiled. Pumbaa then left the two older meerkats up on his back and walked off with them as things were right once more in the Pridelands and where they would all get better.

"I wonder if Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed survived after finishing off Scar..." Mo said to herself as she looked out the window to see the African jungle one last time before their plane would take them all back home.

"I think they survived." Atticus said, sitting next to her.

"You think so?" Mo looked back.

"Well, even if they didn't, at least they got to finally have one last meal." Atticus said, gravely serious and gentle for her sake.

Mo hugged him with a tear rolling down her cheek. Atticus began to comfort her to make her feel better.

Mo took a deep and shallow breath. "I saw my parents..." she whispered.

"Hm?" Atticus heard that, but wanted to make sure he heard her right..."

"One night before we went to bed..." Mo explained, then let go of him. "I saw my parents.... My... Real parents..."

"What were they like?" Atticus asked.

"Just wonderful..." Mo said softly, unsure of the right words to find. "Unbelievable... Amazing... I barely remembered what they looked like... I just... I don't how how to describe or how to even start..."

"Well, all I can tell you were very happy to see them, right?" Atticus asked.

"Yeah..." Mo smiled. "It was surprising and just wonderful... It's... It's just something you have to experience for yourself."

Atticus could actually relate, despite not being an actual orphan, but he felt the same way when he had his first solo adventure with Scamp and they happened to run into his long-lost family. What were the odds of that happening? He gave her a hug though.

"Looks like your next adventure is in the Indian jungles." Forte said to Cherry.

"So it seems..." Cherry said as she got a message invitation to go to India with Penn and Teller after she had went before. "I've been there before... We met Mowgli."

"How am I not surprised?" Forte chuckled.

Cherry glanced to him, then looked back at the message she got. "I wonder what Mowgli's up to anyway ever since he followed that girl back to the village and Baloo and Baghera let him go."

"I guess only one way to find out..." Forte said to her.

The plane then took off and sent them back home. The image of Mufasa seemed to appear in the clouds with a heavenly glow as peace was restored back to Pride Rock.

In the Pridelands, about three months later, history seemed to repeat itself as Rafiki stood between Simba and Nala and presented their first cub together who looked a lot like his father, but had a brown tuft of fur on his head.

"I think we'll name him Kopa." Nala smiled.

"That is a wonderful name." Rafiki approved.

The animals of the jungle were blessed and fortunate to meet their future king after Simba's time would come. Zira stood with her cubs after she had found shelter for them all and she would vow revenge, but that was a story for another time. As for Atticus, Mo, Dot, Darla, Forte, Cherry, Patch, and Lucky, they had safely arrived back home.

"So, you're going to India then?" Mo asked Cherry.

"Yeah, I'm gonna leave in a few weeks," Cherry replied. "They said I could bring friends if I wanted to... You and Atticus wanna come?"

"Yes!" Atticus, Mo, and Patch smiled.

Cherry then messaged back after a long time of not answering due to the lion transformation, once she got an answer, she put her phone away then. "All right, it's set, our next adventure will be in the Indian jungles."

Atticus, Mo, and Patch cheered to this.

"I guess you'll come too?" Cherry glanced at the court composer.

"Erm... I think you'll be fine without me..." Forte decided to give her some space. "I'll wait for you at home."

Cherry glanced at him. "Well... That's fine by me!"

"Have a fun time in the Indian jungle." Forte smiled.

"Hopefully..." Cherry said with a shrug. "Penn and Teller will be there, so, hey."

"I have a question." Mo said.

"Yes?" Patch looked up to her.

"Who's Penn Teller?" Mo then asked.

"They're preforming magicians." Atticus said.

"Cherry has a crush on Teller." Patch added.

"I so do not!" Cherry's eyes widened.

"You do so!" Atticus retorted.

"NOT!" Cherry folded her arms.

Mo was very curious, but she guessed she should do some research before their next adventure.

They all then went back home after their exhausting adventure together.

"I can't wait to get home." Dot said.

"You deserve a nice long rest..." Lucky smiled to Dot.

When they all got home, it was time to reunite with their families, take a good rest, and chill out until the next adventure.

The End