Lilo meets Timon and Pumbaa

In the glade of the forest, Lilo made her way into the center of the woods, calling out his name twice.

"Mister Duck! Oh, Mister Duck!"

However, Daffy was gone again. There was still no luck for the Hawaiian human girl to catch the duck.

"Oh, dear. I’m sure he came this way,” she said, looking around with her fists on her hips. "Do you suppose he could be hiding somewhere?"

Little did she know that there was a meerkat and a warthog peeking from behind the bushes.

The meerkat was a beige one with a peach underbelly and palms, brown fingers, brown ears, wide bulging eyes, and red hair. His name was Timon.

The warthog was a crimson one with a long tail, a black mane, white tusks, four slender legs, black hooves, and a large pink snout. His name was Pumbaa, Timon's best friend.

"Where could he possibly be hiding?" Lilo wondered, as she looked behind a tree. The meerkat and warthog moved between the bushes and the tree, yet they were hidden within a shadow. As Lilo turned toward an open log, the meerkat and warthog moved next to the tree and they stood right behind her.

"Not here…," Lilo said, before kneeling down to the log’s level. "I wonder..."

As she crawled into the log, the meerkat and warthog looked at each other and skipped on top of the log in unison, before stopping in front of the other side of the log. Once Lilo came out from the log, she stood still for a moment and brushed her muumuu with her hands.

"I suppose he—" she started to say, before she jolted and gasped in shock when she turned and glanced at the meerkat and warthog.

"Why… what peculiar animals."

Just then, she spotted two blue ribbons with their names embroidered in yellow and read them one at a time: "Timon...And Pumbaa!"

Lilo placed a finger on the meerkat's nose, and a low honking sound came out of his mouth, surprising her.

"If you think we're made of wax, you ought to pay to see us, you know." Timon said, and he jabbed his friend with his left elbow. As a result, a high honking noise emitted from Pumbaa's mouth.

"If you think we've come to life, you ought to say something to us." Pumbaa added, before jabbing his friend with his right elbow. The same low honk came out of Timon's mouth, and Timon bounced into Pumbaa, the same high honk emitting from him. The meerkat and warthog then hopped on the log and made the same honking noises by jabbing one another with their big/small feet/hooves, svelte/heavyweight hips, torsos, and backs before landing on the grassy terrain.

"That's logic!" the meerkat and warthog said in unison, holding their left index finger/hoof up.

"Well," Lilo said with a short chuckle, as she gave them a short curtsey. "It's been nice meeting you boys. Goodbye."

Just as she started walking away, however, the meerkat and warthog darted and stood right in her way.

"You’re beginning backwards." Timon said to her.

"Aye, the first thing to say actually is,” Pumbaa added, before the meerkat and warthog broke out in song again and took Lilo's hands. They spun her around in a circle, like a game of ring-around-the-Rosie, before they shook her hands rapidly and released her, causing her to fall on the ground.

Timon and Pumbaa: *How do you do*
*And shake hands*
*Shake hands*
*Shake hands*
*How do you do*
*And shake hands*
*State your name and business*

"That's manners!" the meerkat and warthog said to her, holding up their opposite index finger/hoof in front of her.

The two front bangs of Lilo's hair were covering her face, so Lilo flipped them out of the way to give herself a better view.

"Really?" Lilo asked them, and she then stood up on her feet. "Well, my name is Lilo. Lilo Pelekai, and I’m following a black duck, so—"

As she turned to leave, the meerkat and warthog suddenly appeared in front of her again, stopping her in her tracks.

"You can't leave yet." Timon said to her, waving his hands in front of her.

"No, the visit has just started." Pumbaa added.

"I'm very sorry, but—" Lilo said as she continued walking, with the meerkat and warthog still in her way.

"Would you like to play hide and seek?" Pumbaa asked, as multiple clones of the meerkat and warthog popped up from the trees and a single bush. The clones disappeared, and the meerkat and warthog then fused themselves into one body, yet their legs and arms were still with each of the meerkat and warthog.

"Button! Button! Who's got the button?" Timon said.

"No thank you." Lilo replied to them politely, only to see the meerkat and warthog in front of her again in fighting stances.

"If you stay a little longer, we’ll have a battle." Pumbaa said, and the meerkat and warthog began bopping one another in a honking, comical fight.

"That’s very kind of you, but I must get going." Lilo said, as she gently pushed them out of the way. The meerkat and warthog then jolted in front of her and stood next to two trees that served as an archway in the woods.

"Why?" they asked her in unison.

"Because I’m following a black duck." Lilo answered them, only to be blocked by them again.

"Why?" the meerkat and warthog asked her once more.

"Well, I'm curious to know where he's going." Lilo replied to them, before finally starting to leave again.

"Ohhh, she's curious." Pumbaa whispered, as he and Timon had inquisitive expressions on their faces.

"The oysters were curious, too, weren’t they?” Pumbaa whispered to him, causing Lilo to stop and turn around to listen to what the meerkat and warthog were saying.

"Aye. And you remember what happened to them."

The meerkat and warthog huddled with one another and started crying before Lilo came walking straight back to them.

"Poor things!" they said in sad voices.

"Well, what did happen to the oysters?" Lilo asked them. Timon and Pumbaa began marching towards the log.

"Oh, you wouldn’t be interested in hearing about it." Timon said to her.

"Oh, but I am." Lilo replied to them, as she followed them and got in front of them.

"Ohhh, no. You’re in much too much of a hurry." said Pumbaa.

Lilo was still in front of them as she was walking in reverse towards the log, and said, "Well, perhaps I could spare a little time."

"You could?" the meerkat and warthog said, smiles of delight forming on their faces. "Well!"

With that said, Timon and Pumbaa placed Lilo on the log before making back-flips and landed in front of the bushes and trees.