I finally get a chance to start rewriting this story! Hopefully it will turn out a lot better than its previous condition.
Anyway, here's the full summary: T's aunt and uncle from her original clan wonder into the Pridelands and run into the trio. When they find out T's not dead they are completely surprised and they want to take her back to the clan with them.
Fooled by Shenzi and Ed's fake happiness, T reluctantly agrees to go. (Although she seems a bit uneasy, especially around her uncle) THEN T finds out that not all the members of her clan were killed by the humans and some familiar faces she knows emerge. Will she stay with her old clan? Or go back to the trio? R+R!
Also, a couple of cheetahs appear in this chapter from the Timon and Pumbaa TV series, Cheetahto (Chi-ta-toe) and Cheetayta (Chi-tay-tah, yeah, you were right Alyssa). Enjoy!
Shenzi, Banzai and Ed were scouting their clan's territory for food on a particularly hot and arid day. T had been left back at the cave because it was her turn to clean the place up and arrange it for when the trio got back with the meal. Although the current season had not made finding food successful; it was near summer and most of the herds had migrated to the northern parts of Africa to escape the heat.
"I think I saw a herd over this way." Shenzi stated as she and her two male friends treaded through the plains to reach a hill overlooking the grasslands. The now somewhat harsh climate had already tinted the tall grass a golden color, and it looked more like wheat than African shrubbery, which gripped onto the fur easier than its former, greener state. Upon reaching the peak of the hill though, the hyenas were not pleased at what their eyes beheld.
"Population: 0." The Kenyan matriarch stated disappointedly. Ed's ears drooped in discontent as the hollow feeling in his stomach lingered, this was about halfway close to his former state back in Scar's reign; near starving and miserable. Banzai grunted in annoyance; this was the fifth time this week their hunts hadn't been successful. Shenzi sighed.
"Well, might as well go home." She stated. Ed followed her as she walked back in the direction of their cave.
"Banzai let's go." Shenzi commanded when she saw he wasn't with them. No answer came however. She and Ed looked around for their friend.
"Banzai?"
"Guys, get over here!" Came a voice to Shenzi and Ed's right. The two hyenas exchanged glances before running in the direction of their friend. The two soon found Banzai in the middle of a thick patch of half-dead grass, looking at something on the ground.
"What is it?" Shenzi asked. Banzai smirked as he pointed to what lay beneath him.
"I think I just found our lunch." Shenzi and Ed looked in the direction he was pointing in, and their eyes widened at the sight of a large, waterbuck carcass. It looked fresh too.
"Chow time!" Shenzi and Banzai yelled in unison. Ed laughed in his usual happy tone for the first time in days and the trio dug into the carcass. They'd leave just enough to fill T up though, when they took it back to the cave. Soon they had three haunches cleaned off to the bone.
"Oh yeah." Banzai contentedly sighed after finishing off his haunch, smacking his lips. Shenzi also licked her lips, although a little less sloppily than her male counterpart, when she had finished off her meal too. Ed just laughed insanely after he swallowed down some of his.
Suddenly, the trio heard rustling. They looked at the golden colored tall grass behind them, but nothing was there. The three looked at each other, confused. But just shrugged and started to rip the fourth haunch off the carcass; meant for T. Shenzi grabbed the last haunch and Banzai and Ed grabbed the remains, before starting to rip it apart.
But then they heard low and annoyed growling. They dropped the meat and bones from their mouths and looked up at the tall grass in front of them, but didn't see anything. They looked harder, but still could make out nothing. And, for some reason, the golden-tinted grass had become…spotted? This confused the trio… until two cheetahs stepped out of the dry shrubbery.
Shenzi was terrified but kept it hidden, unlike Ed, Banzai just raised an eyebrow at them.
"Well, well, well Cheetayta, what do we have here?" Cheetahto said as he and the other cheetah started to slowly but sharply circle the trio. The trio backed away from them as much as they could, until they were back-to-back in the middle of the two large felines.
"Hmm. I say, looks to me like a trio of food-stealing hyenas." Cheetayta said.
"Um, uh, we didn't know it was yours; we were just walkin' along and uh, your kill just happened to be in our way." Shenzi falsely explained with a forced smile on her face, her eyes darting back and forth to keep track of their movement. The cheetahs, ignoring her justification, continued to encircle the hyenas.
"Well, now that we've lost our kill, what do you suppose we do for food now, Cheetahto?" Cheetayta asked his companion.
"Hm, it seems to me the carcass was quite large." Cheetahto began.
"And tastey." Banzai smirked. Shenzi bonked him on the head to keep him from saying anything else that could get them killed.
"So large, that it rather exhausted us trying to get it." The cheetah went on.
"Indeed; it would take some fine hunters to hunt down our next meal." Cheetayta stated. Shenzi's eyes widened as she realized what the two felines were getting to.
"Look, I know we may have cost ya both a lunch, but you two can't just make us hunt down more food when there's a drought approachin'!"
"They want us ta what?!" Banzai and Ed's eyes widened at this absurd array.
"The heck if I'm gonna go get lunch for a couple a-" Banzai was cut off when the two cheetahs began growling again.
"Somethin' tells me we don't have a choice." Shenzi replied.
A few minutes later…
Shenzi, Banzai and Ed were hiking through more rugged terrain than they were used to; this was generally cheetah's hunting territory due to being comprised of lots of trees with scrawny branches, high-leveled rocks, and plains to match the predator's fur. And with Cheetahto and Cheetayta at the rear of them it didn't make things any easier. Shenzi scowled when she heard one of them grumbling under his breath.
"Hey, we don't like it either. But you're the ones who made us hunt. And it we can't do it any faster so either tol'rate it, or let us go."
"Finally, she starts gettin' pushy with 'em." Banzai mumbled in a low tone. Ed, who was beside him, was the only one who heard. Cheetayta, the one who growled, stepped forward.
"Perhaps you three don't understand the position you're all in. You're indebted to us and until you repay that debt, you must abide by what we tell you."
"And what if we don't want to?" Banzai scowled. Shenzi slapped her paw against her muzzle; this could not end well now. And Banzai soon realized the error of his statement when both cheetahs narrowed their eyes. The trio gazed down and realized the feline's claws were pointing in their direction. The hyenas gradually backed away from the duo of cheetahs…before whirling around and racing away from them. Both cheetahs rolled their eyes.
"Always wanting to run, aren't they?" Cheetahto said.
"Pointless, the entire endeavor." Cheetayta added, before the two of them pursed the hyenas, and barely even trying at that. After all, they were cheetahs; it wouldn't be that hard catching up with them, and they could go up to 60 mph in nearly 2 seconds.
Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed glanced behind them and saw the two cheetahs quickly covering ground. The duo jumped up and reached their non-retracting claws out at the hyenas in front of them. The trio felt the air knocked out of them as they were slammed to the ground, the impact sending them rolling a few feet.
They clumsily tried to get to their feet as they struggled to bring their eyes back into focus. But didn't have much time as the two cheetahs smacked their paws into the side of their faces. They were knocked a few more feet away, landing face-first into the dirt. They shook their heads from the impact and their eyes widened when they saw the cheetahs slowly closing in. This was it, the circle of life was about to claim its three newest victims.
"Hey!" Came a voice from out of nowhere. Cheetahto and Cheetayta looked confused, however, Shenzi, Banzai and Ed's eyes widened; they knew that sound. The trio of hyenas and the duo of cheetahs looked behind them to see T glaring at her friend's adversaries.
"Young lady, I believe this is none of your concern." Cheetahto said.
"Yes. And we suggest you leave before you receive the same fate as these three." Cheetayta warned.
"Don't think so. You two are about to use that super speed of yours ta run away from me with your tails between your legs!" T replied.
"Clever words for such a young hyena." Cheetahto stated.
"Indeed. What do you say we find out Cheetahto?" Cheetayta added.
They turned around to face T. Now Shenzi allowed her fear to show and nipped at their heels to try to divert their attention from the younger female. But Banzai and Ed stopped her before she could go after the cheetahs; they didn't want to lose their other friend.
"Young?! In hyena years I'm 19!" T said. Of course the two cheetahs didn't believe her, for her voice still sounded like that of an adolescent. Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed knew this was true though.
"Besides why do you wanna eat those three anyway? All that meat at once is bad for you." She finished.
"Eat them?!" The cheetahs exclaimed.
"Eat us?!" The three other hyenas echoed, in equally stunned tones. She seemed puzzled.
"Yes. …I-isn't that what you were planning on doing?" The cheetahs glanced at each other before cackling at her theory and the trio, despite having almost been killed, were holding back laughter as well.
"Perhaps we should spare the other three Cheetahto; she's certainly a credit to their species." Cheetayta stated.
"Indeed." Cheetahto agreed. And without another word both cheetahs left them, ongoing their hilarity as they did. T hung her head, letting her bangs cover her face as she stared at the ground. Making sure the cheetahs were out of view first, the trio walked up to their humiliated clan member. Shenzi patted her on the back.
"Eh don't feel so embarrassed T; ya really saved our tails back there." Shenzi said. Banzai and Ed nodded.
"Yeah, even though ya managed ta look like a total greenhorn while ya did, the effort's still appreciated." Banzai added. T blew some of her bangs out of her face, causing them to cover one of her eyes, as she brought her head halfway back up.
"Thanks." She sarcastically replied; even T knew she had a long way to go before she achieved full-fledged Kenyan status. Plus it would take some time to branch off from her roots, which only made it more difficult.
There was an awkward silence, before Shenzi finally spoke up.
"Let's uh, let's go home." She said. And the four hyenas turned to go back.
CHAPTER 1 IS FINALLY EDITED AND CHAPTER 2 IS RIPE FOR THE READIN'!