Disclaimer: I do not owe the Lion King characters except my new OC, Brina the lyena.

A Strange Hybrid

Chapter 1

This is the story of Brina the lyena, a half lion and half hyena hybrid. She started out as an animal with a hyena's paws and a lion's legs and tail. Her fur is all gray. Her parents were both a lion and a hyena, and her mother was a lion, with the hyena being her father.

As a cub, Brina was at the Pride Lands after the death of Mufasa. After she was born a hybrid, her parents hid her in a small cave so that Scar wouldn't find out. But one night, some snitch informed Scar about them, so after they hid her in the cave, Brin took a peek to see Scar and her parents.

"I know you two went against my authority as king of Pride Lands," Scar snarled. "Tell me now. Where is your child?"

"We don't have a child," Brina's father said. "We just mated."

"You're lying! One of my hyenas had informed me that you had mated and violated my principles of authority. Why are you against me, and where is your child? I want to kill that child so that I'd teach you two not to mate!"

"I'd rather die than to serve you! Ever since I met the lioness, we had decided not to follow you!"

"You dare defy me? Then those words shall be your last!"

Brina's father and Scar fought as they roar. She gasped a bit to see Scar's hyenas rushing in. Her mother came to her and said, "Quick, child, run! Get out of here! If they see you, they'll kill you! Go!"

Brina didn't understand what was happening, but she had to run away, and she did not look back. All she can hear from behind her were the roaring sounds. She then look back to see some angry hyenas after her.

Brina ran as fast as she could, but as soon as she look back for another look, she tripped over and rolled down the gorge. She continued running with a few hyenas after her. She had to climb to the top of the gorge, and she looked to see a log flowing down the river. She jumped on it and flowed away to escape from the hyenas.

Brina had drifted down the river that night and had arrived in a jungle where the river flowed. She jumped off the log and ran through the jungle.

Years had gone by since Brina had escaped from Scar's hyenas. She had grown to a big hybrid, but she is still an outcast. Hiding in the tall grass, she snuck toward a pack of zebras. She then jumped to attack one zebra, but the zebra pack had noticed her and took off. She ran toward the same zebra she nearly jumped on, and she jumped on it to bite it. But the zebra's running was pretty hard for her to hang on, so she suddenly fell off the zebra and hit her back on the ground, and she watched as the zebras ran far.

"Nuts!" Brina said, slamming her paw on the ground. "Now I knew how my father felt trying to stalk his prey."

Brina then sighed but then saw a monkey on a tree. She snuck toward the monkey with a smirk, but just when she was about to attack, she heard some screaming and saw a warthog and a meerkat being chased by two jaguars.

"Hurry, Pumbaa, they're right onto us!" cried the meerkat.

"I'm going as fast as I can, Timon!" the warthog cried.

The warthog ran until he tripped over a rock and fell in the hole Brina used to sleep in.

Brina gasped to see the jaguars getting close to them. She growled and ran to them. She jumped on the jaguars and started slashing them around with her claws.

Brina continue to fight until the jaguars ran off after she bit one of their's tail with her sharp teeth. She turned to look at Timon and Pumbaa, who just step away in fear from seeing her.

"Hey," Brina said, but the two screamed and ran off. "Hey, wait!" Brina ran after them. "I'm not gonna hurt you! I just saved your lives! Come back!"

"Faster, Pumbaa, she's gonna eat us!" Timon cried.

"Stop! I'm not gonna eat you! I'm not...!"

Brina stopped after Timon and Pumbaa fell in the quicksand when Pumbaa tripped over a root of a tree.

"Quicksand!" cried Timon. "Somebody help us!"

Brina looked around to help rescue Timon and Pumbaa. She found a log nearby and grunted as she pushed it toward the quicksand. "You guys! Get on the log!" she called out.

"Why should we listen to you? You're a hyena, aren't you?" Timon asked.

"Just get on the log before you drown! Come on!"

"Come on, Timon!" Pumbaa said. He grabbed Timon's tail with his teeth and grabbed the log.

"Pumbaa, what are you doing?! She's gonna kill us!" Timon protested.

Pumbaa climbed on the log and out of the quicksand, and then he jumped off the log as it sank into the quicksand, barely.

"Pumbaa, we gotta run away before she eats us!" Timon yelled.

"Hey, Timon, relax," Pumbaa said. "She did save us from those jaguars, and now she had saved us from the quicksand." He then looked at the hybrid. "Thanks for saving me and my pal Timon."

"Hey, hold it, hold it," said Timon. He came to Brina and said, "How come you didn't tell us you stopped those hungry jaguars?"

Brina sat down and crossed her paws. "I was about to, but I guess I must've scared you too without thinking."

Pumbaa's eyes suddenly widen. "Wait a minute. What kind of an animal are you?"

"What kind?" Timon asked as he approached Brina. "She's got a lion's legs and tail. Look at her!"

"You may think I look like some sort of freak," said Brina, "but I'm called a lyena. I'm half hyena and half lion."

"Half lion, half hyena?" Pumbaa asked.

"I'm called a hybrid. I've been around this territory after I escaped from the hyenas who worked for Scar. Scar somehow found out that my parents were a hyena and a lion, and...and then it was the last I saw of them when I ran away."

"You used to have a lion and hyena as parents?!" Timon gasped. "What is with this world?!"

"Uh, Timon," said Pumbaa, "since Scar was gone, do you think...she could live in the Pride Lands with us?"

"Pumbaa, are you crazy?! One of her parents worked for Scar! How was I to know she could be trusted?!"

"Hey, I appreciate the invitation, but I don't think I might fit in with the other animals," Brina said. "I'm just an outcast living in this world."

Timon just realized what Brina mentioned. "Well, there's one thing you would know. When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on it," he said.

"Like how?"

"Just remember the words. Hakuna Matata."

Brina confused. "What the heck is haku...hakua...? Whatever that word is."

"Hakuna Matata," said Pumbaa. "It means no worries."

Brina raised her eyebrow. "Really?" she asked, skeptically. "You're asking like if I can be part of it."

"Part of what?"

"Living with you guys being outcasts. I'm an outcast too."

Timon looked at Brina, and then he formed a grin. "I'll tell you what. You can live with me and Pumbaa."

Brina looked at the two, and then she grinned. "Alright, I'll be with you guys. My name is Brina."

"Brina?! Wow, what a name!" Pumbaa exclaimed.

Brina chuckled. "Do you know a place you live in?"

"Sure. It's the jungle down this way. Come along!"

Brina followed Timon and Pumbaa down the prairie, as they made their way to the jungle.