Prologue

Shenzi was just laying around, bored out of her mind. Normally her closest meerkat friend Timon would make her laugh by making a funny face, or recalling a silly memory. "In fact, you're kinda sweet," That one sentence from the redhead's mouth kept playing in her head. It was the first time anyone ever called her sweet. She didn't even realize that she was crying until a tear rolled down her cheek.

Then Banzai and Ed came up to her with a bunch of meerkat corpses that she didn't recognize in their mouths. Shenzi quickly wiped her tears away. "Hey Shenzi, we caught some meerkats!" Banzai exclaimed with his mouth full. "You want some?" Shenzi was tempted. In the past, she loved to eat meerkats, but she had a small change of heart.

Ever since her shrinking experience, she vowed never to eat another meerkat ever again, so she said, "No thanks, guys."

Banzai and Ed were surprised, but Banzai broke the silence by saying "OK then, more for us!" before he and Ed started digging in.

Horrified to watch, Shenzi walked away, and watched the sun set. She thought about all the kindness she had received the previous day, and smiled. 'I'll never forget you guys!' She thought, as the sun disappeared behind the horizon, 'I don't want to make a scene, I don't want to let you down!' She sang in her head before she started to fall asleep. But then her eyes shot open, realizing what she had forgotten. 'D'ah, I forgot to perform that song for Timon's Mom! Dagnabit!' She thought. Then she groaned and did a faceplant on the floor. 'I'm so stupid!'

"Hey Shenzi? You OK?" A male voice asked her. Shenzi's head shot up, and saw Banzai looking at her with a confused expression.

"Oh, I'm fine. I'm just tired, I went through a lot like you wouldn't believe." Banzai raised a thick eyebrow at her.

"Try me." He smirked in a daring way.

"Hmm, OK then," She decided before taking a deep breath. "Well…"

A few minutes later

"Dang, what an adventure!" Banzai exclaimed with wide eyes. "I was wondering why you were all wet when you came home."

"Yup, and well, this isn't easy to say…" Shenzi started with a nervous tone. "Well, I want to go back." She finished.

"Whoa, really?" The male hyena's eyes widened in surprise. The female nodded nervously. "Yup, and I have a hunch that this time, the shrinking will be permanent, so I want you, Ed, and Vitawny to come with me. So it'd feel more like home." Shenzi explained. "So, will you?" She asked, afraid he'll say no.

He just shrugged. "Sure, why not?" He smiled, "Just one thing first."

"What?" He then elbowed Ed in the side, making the goofy hyena wake up from his slumber. He looked up at Banzai with an expression mixed with confusion and annoyance. "Pack your bags, laughing boy, we're moving," Banzai told him in a blunt tone. When Ed looked confused, Shenzi whispered everything in his ear, and he was shocked.

"So, what do you say?" She said to the goofy male hyena. He nodded vigorously. Then she turned to her sleeping stepsister. "HEY VITAWNY! WAKE UP!" She shouted in her ear. The redhead screamed and shot her head up before glaring at Shenzi.

"What do you want?!" She shouted.

"Pack your bags, Red, we're moving," Banzai told her. Vitawny furrowed her eyebrows.

"Moving? Where?" She asked. Shenzi leaned over and whispered in her ear what she had told Ed. "Oh," She said as she widened her eyes.

"So, what do you say, sis?" Vitawny shrugged.

"Sure, why not? It ought to be better than this foodless dump," She referred to the barren wasteland known as The Elephant Graveyard.

"So it's settled: We're going tomorrow!" Shenzi smiled excitedly. She couldn't wait to be reunited with her new best meerkat friend. 'Wait a minute…' She thought. 'Isn't Vitawny like around Max's age?'

(A/N: I finally have this whole story written out after over a year! Sorry about the short prologue; I promise the chapters after this one will be a lot better! The Lion King and its characters don't belong to me, but Vitawny does. I'll update when/if I get one non-anonymous review at most.)

Random Fact about BxB (I decided to do these after seeing Digidestend Angel do them about her. ;); Some of the others will be less obvious. XD Plus I won't put anything too personal.):

The Lion King is my favorite Disney franchise