Gonzolanga

Gonzolanga is a city in the Hakuna Matata jungle. It is the home of the lead ape and his troop.
==Physical attributes==
Gonzolanga is a massive, sprawling building of human-made stone dwellings. However, due to the humans having abandoned the city to become a ruin, the houses are overgrown with palm trees, vines, and other forms of vegetation. In the midst of the city is a large pool.
==Information==
===Background===
Originally a human city, Gonzolanga was abandoned and left to become a ruin. This led the lead ape and his troop to take ownership of the city, which quickly became their home. However, a wizard monkey fashioned a magical whistle, which he used to control a giant ape into terrorizing the troop. Though the wizard ruled as a tyrant for some time, he was eventually overthrown and banished from the city with his memories scrambled.
===The Lost City of Gonzolanga===
While in exile, the wizard continues to search for Gonzolanga. He runs into Timon and Pumbaa, whom he relates his mission to. At first, the two panic, but the wizard uses magic to frighten them into paying attention to him. He then implores them to guide him to Gonzolanga; in exchange, he will refill their pool of water.
The wizard tells them to uphold their end of the bargain, and Timon declares that he always keeps his word and that the lightning will strike him down otherwise. Mid-sentence, he is struck by a bolt of lightning. Unable to heal Timon, the wizard tries to urge Pumbaa to lead him to Gonzolanga without Timon, but Pumbaa refuses to leave his friend behind. This prompts the wizard to hypnotize Pumbaa and force his submission.
Meanwhile, Timon has a nightmare in which a gorilla captures him. Timon cries out for Pumbaa, only to awaken to an empty cave. Timon quickly deduces that the wizard has forced Pumbaa to travel to Gonzolanga with him and so takes off in the hopes of rescuing his friend from the hypnosis.
Across the jungle, the wizard and Pumbaa nearly get trampled in an elephant stampede. After the elephants pass, the wizard falls into a deep hole in the ground, and though he pleads with Pumbaa to give him a vine, the warthog mindlessly follows his master into the hole. As the wizard examines his surroundings, he notices a map to the lost city.
Eventually, Timon catches up to the two and frees them from a tribe of bats. Once free, the wizard attempts to hypnotize Pumbaa again, but Timon forbids him to do so. Pumbaa questions the wizard on why he wants to visit Gonzolanga so badly, and the wizard replies tearfully that he simply wishes to be reunited with his family.
Just then, the bats return, and the three escape into a nearby underground river, which spits them back out in the jungle. The three follow a trail through the underbrush that leads them to the lost city of Gonzolanga. Once they arrive, a parrot spy rushes off to report their presence to his masters, and the wizard flees in a panic. Timon and Pumbaa attempt to follow him, but are quickly surrounded by a troop of monkeys, who demand to know what Timon and Pumbaa are doing in Gonzolanga.
Timon explains that they had followed a magical monkey to Gonzolanga. The wizard then appears in the branches of a tree overhead and proclaims that he is furious. Though the leader of the troop orders his lackeys to capture the wizard, he pulls out and plays a whistle, which causes the other monkeys to run away in fear. The whistle summons a massive gorilla, who bows before the wizard and calls him his master.
Timon questions the troop leader on the wizard's identity, and he regretfully explains that he and his fellow monkeys had happily lived in the ruins of Gonzolanga until the wizard had made a whistle through magical means to control the giant gorilla. The troop had managed to subdue the wizard, force him to drink a potion that made him forget the path to Gonzolanga, and send him drifting down the river on a log.
The story is interrupted by the wizard, who explains that he had hidden his magic whistle from his troop. Timon attempts to use his fiery breath on the wizard, but it does not work, which prompts Pumbaa to race to Timon's rescue. However, Pumbaa is easily defeated, and the gorilla seizes Timon in one fist. To escape, Timon tickles the gorilla's hand, and the gorilla falls backward onto his wizard master. In the process, the magic whistle is broken, and the wizard hits his head so hard that he forgets who he is.
With the wizard defeated, the troop thanks Timon and Pumbaa for their help and sends them back home.
==Appearances==
* The Lost City of Gonzolanga
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