Kai (Zambezia)

Kai is the main protagonist of the South African animated film Adventures in Zambezia.
== Biography ==
Kai is a young peregrine falcon who lives with his father Tendai in Katongo and has no friends. Meanwhile, Gogo the saddle-billed jabiru and Tini the weaver, who have lost their marabou, stop along the way and tell him that they are taking the hatched chicks to Zambezia, the city of all birds, located on a large tree near a waterfall. Kai, not knowing what this place is, wants to go there and join the Hurricanes (a squad that protects all the birds of Zambezia), but his father is against it. Offended by his father, Kai goes to Zambezia with a flock of birds. Upon arrival, he agrees to a tour of Zambezia with Izi the nightjar and heads to the Hurricanes, where he takes first place in the test and receives the status of a trainee. Tendai, following Kai, stopped along the way to eavesdrop on a conversation between the marabou and their boss, the monitor lizard Budzo, and was accidentally captured by them. Meanwhile, in Zambezia, a party is starting, which is disrupted by the marabou, who kidnap all the weaver birds to create a bridge for the monitor lizards. Kai tries to stop them and disobeys orders. Because of his actions, the falcon is punished and must clean up after the festival and cannot fly on missions. At night, Kai, Zoe (a black-winged kite) and Izya look around near Zambezia and see the marabou with Budzo. The next day, Ajax (a lammergeier), not listening to Kai, kicks him out of the Hurricane. Gogo takes Kai and brings him to Securu (an African fish eagle, the elder of Zambezia). Kai learns that he was born in Zambezia, and his father was also a Hurricane, and there was an invasion of monitor lizards before, in which Kai's mother died, protecting an egg (which was Zoe). Gogo and Kai make their way into the cave where Tendai is captured, and Kai frees him. When the bridge was ready, the marabou hanged him, but Budzo betrayed them and sent him to be eaten by the other monitor lizards. Kai decided to join the defenders of Zambezia and gave them the order to prevent the monitor lizards from reaching Zambezia. Kai himself, together with his father, went to fight off Budzo. All the birds of Zambezia, as well as the marabou who joined them, also begin to fight Budzo, and he, finally detached from the city, begins to fall along with Zoe, who got entangled in the net thrown over Budzo. Kai rushes to help, tries to detach Zoe, shouting "I will not abandon you!" Finally, they are saved. The Hurricane Squad destroys the bridge, and all the monitor lizards fall. The marabou remain to live in Zambezia. All the birds are celebrating Spring Festival, Kai is now with Zoe, and they are becoming Hurricanes for good.
==Personality==
Kai is a young falcon who dreams of freedom, much to the dismay of his father. He goes off to join the Hurricanes, the most fearless falcon warriors in Africa, and arrives at the city of Zambezia. There, he meets some unlikely friends, from the chief's spirited daughter, Zoe, and the Hurricanes themselves, to the hearty citizens. When his father is captured by bandits, led by the menacing lizard Budzo, Kai is determined to save him and Zambezia from an invasion.
==Gallery==
Kai Speaks with Pavi.jpg
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Kai with Pavi.jpg
Kai and Zoe in the Action.png
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==Trivia==
*Kai is voiced in English by Jeremy Suarez, who also voices Koda for Brother Bear.
*He has the same feather color like his mother, which had sacrificed.
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