Tembo

Tembo is an African Bush elephant and is close friends with Steven diamond and many other equestrians

## appearence

Tembo is like any other african bull, standing 13 feet tall with a 24 foot length weaing at 11 tons with brown sking, large ears and long curved tusks.

## personality

Tembo is kind, helpfull and very gentle but knows when to be serious and brave when the going gets tough

## early life

   Tembo was born on the African savanna where he lived with his mother's herd with his brother butu, and kitchaa, an oxpecker who thinks he's an elephant. Growing up, Tembo's curiosity and fascination with bugs gets him into many scrapes. When his mother have him a twig calling it a "friend stick" he got into so much trouble, it embarrassed but when he was about to go head to head with a bull hippo.

    butu then tells him that he had to be tough cause that was just how the world worked with Tembo being heartbroken.

## shipped over seas

    later Tembo becomes the laughing stock of the herd being called "bug boy", when the older calves bully him and Tembo accidentally punched one them,he gets  chased with butu behind him. Soon they get too far from the herd and get surrounded by a circle of fire with Tembo getting captured with butu caught in another net with the two of them getting seperated.

     the next morning Tembo, with kitchaa as a stow away, and up in a cage and being put on a ship across seas and waking up days later to find himself at a harber in india.

## marketplace

    soon Tembo is leashed and goes to the marketplace where he their meets a female Asian elephant calf named zara, however when a bull named sarge comes along and picks him for the army, his fear of fighting gets the better of him and it is zara who was picked and Tembo gets sent to the farm to toughen up.

## 15 years later

    soon Tembo grows up to be a giant bull but wants to go home to africa. But sarge comes along and picks him for the army thinking Tembo toughened up and takes him to the training grounds, their he reunited with zara who is now Sarg's second in command and meets popadum musky pinky and twitch along with his trunk who somehow has a kind of its own. However Tembo is still too scared to fight as he flunks training and runs head first into a pole.

     sarge thein takes him to a quarry where broken elephants or ones who dont want to fight go saying tembo will end up their if he doesnt toughen up.

## changes

     that night Tembo and kitchaa run away ending up with his friends getting captured by the enemy. Soon Tembo finds his inner elephant and takes all of them on by himself, resulting in home becoming a hero. Soon sarge trains Tembo how to be a heartless warrior for the final battle in the mountains, soon sarge makes Tembo the leader of the charge, however when kitchaa comes telling him he found directions home, Tembo decides to stay saying kitchaa would never understand because he was just a bird. Soon kitchaa leaves with Tembo leading the charge to win the war.

## unexpected riunion

    soon Tembo leads everyone into battle and goes head to head with the leader and at the last moment, he finds claw marks on the leaders ear, realizing it was butu! However sarge doesn't care and straps Tembo dawn in the final battle because sarge wanted to do whatever it took to win. Soon butu and Tembo fight again with the two of them falling down on a frozen river. Soon butu has Tembo cornered and at the very last second,

     tembo grabs a small plant and shows it to butu, soon butu takes the helmet off and figures out it was tembo. The to reunite and declair peace, and with that they all go home to africa and reunite with their mother and tembo and zara embrace knowing they might have a future together.