Of Lions and Hyenas
Disclamer I do not own The Lion King
Chapter 1: A Trio's Problems
It was a stifling hot day and the sun beat down on a luscious green part of the savannah, three hyenas looked on jealously from the borders of these lands knowing the penalty if they entered, but also knowing their fate if they didn't.
"Man, this sucks!" one of the hyenas said "we're dead if we go back to the Pridelands, and we'll starve if we don't, it just ain't fair why do those damm lions get to choose who can eat and who can't!"
"Banzai!" another of the hyenas, this one female, said angrily "You ask me that almost every day! And you know just how I'm gonna answer! It's because they are both bigger and stronger than us so if we try to get on to their lands we could be torn to shreds by the king easily."
The third hyena just stared at them vacantly, tongue hanging out.
"It's not like we've ever done anything to him is it?" Banzai said, turning to look at the female.
"Oh no of course not" She said, sarcastically "we only tried to kill him twice"
The third hyena nodded in agreement.
"Yeah but you know Scar forced us to do that Shenzi" Banzai argued.
"And Simba don't, and even if he did he wouldn't care. We're hyenas and lions hate hyenas. We will never get fair treatment," Shenzi answered.
With this the three hyenas went silent and just looked out over the Pridelands not knowing what to do.
Meanwhile Simba the king of the Pridelands was on his daily rounds of his lands looking out for any abnormalities. He had been king now for several months and was beginning to get bored of the whole thing. When he was a cub he had always thought that being king would be exciting and interesting, he would always have something to do like chase off enemies or fight for territory but he found it wasn't like that at all. He looked at some grazing animals to his right and thought to himself 'every day same old zebra'. But he knew that it had to be done so he decided to just get on with it. After all, he needed to set a good example for his daughter Kiara. He continued his journey across the Pridelands in the direction of the Gorge.
Back on the edge of the Pridelands the hyenas had come to a decision.
"That's it, I'm not staying here," Shenzi said, standing up. She started walking into the Pridelands.
"Shenzi, you'll be killed!" Banzai shouted. Shenzi turned around and looked at him
"Only if we're caught!" she shouted back, then continued walking.
"Wait! What do you mean 'we're'" he shouted, Shenzi ignored him. He looked over at the other hyena hoping for some advice; the hyena just stared back blankly.
"You're no help are you Ed?" Banzai said exasperatedly "Let's go" He got up and started to follow Shenzi, Ed let out a laugh and followed obediently.
Simba had almost finished his rounds and he was now thoroughly bored, nothing was happening in the Pridelands. He had reached the Gorge and was reflecting on what had happened there when he was a cub, he sighed and turned around to head back to Priderock. It happened in a second, one of his hind legs missed the edge of the Gorge; he slipped back and ended up hanging of the edge by his paws. He tried to pull himself up but he couldn't get a grip with his hind legs. 'Damn' he thought. He could only hope that someone would come to help, fast.
"Shenzi, this is stupid" Banzai complained, "… Are you even listening?"
"No I'm not, you know very well that I'm right, so stop complaining and let's go!" Shenzi answered angrily.
"Where are we actually going?" Banzai asked.
"We're going to get food, the easiest place to get it as I see it is the herd of wildebeest that lives near the Gorge, It's quite far from Priderock and all we need to do is chase one off the edge and gravity will do the rest of our work for us" Shenzi said before turning off and continuing walking. Banzai turned to Ed.
"You gotta admit, she's right, as usual" He said, Ed nodded and they both followed her.
The three hyenas were walking along the edge of the Gorge, toward dinner they hoped. A small noise made Banzai turn around.
"Hey did anyone else hear that?" he said.
"No, come on!" Shenzi shouted at him, not looking round.
Banzai was just about to do so when he heard the sound again, he turned around and looked in the direction the sound was coming from, he saw nothing until he looked down at the edge of the Gorge.
"What on earth…" he said to himself when he saw the two paws on the edge, he went as close to the edge as he dared and looked down what he saw made him jump back in surprise. Simba the king of the Pridelands was hanging off the edge of the Gorge, he walked back toward it and said.
"Well, look who it is, Mr King him self, how unfortunate"
"What are you doing there Banzai?" Shenzi shouted back when she saw him apparently talking to the Gorge, she walked over to him to see who he was talking to when she saw Simba she was taken aback.
"Simba what ARE you doing, just hanging around?" she laughed at her own joke; it also sent Ed into a fit of hysterics.
"Get out of here you filthy creatures!" Simba shouted trying to swipe at them which almost made him fall.
"So you don't want our help then?" Shenzi asked.
"You, help? You just want to watch me plead for my life! Well I won't!" Simba shouted.
"Oh shut up you stupid lion" Shenzi said, she tuned to Banzai "here help me with this will you?" she went to one of Simba's paws and started pulling on it.
"Shenzi why-" Banzai started but Shenzi interrupted him.
"Just do it!"
Banzai shook his head and went to help her Ed who had stopped laughing now also went over to help but try as they might they couldn't pull him up. Eventually Shenzi gave up and sat down, the others both did the same.
"Right Banzai, you run to Priderock and get help," Shenzi said looking at Banzai.
"WHAT! If I'm seen I'll be killed!" he exclaimed.
"Not if you say why you're there," Shenzi answered.
"They won't believe me!" Banzai argued.
"BANZAI!" Shenzi shouted.
"All right, all right" He said running off muttering something under his breath.
"Well" Shenzi said to Ed "Simba's life is in Banzai's paws now…" She paused, "He's doomed, isn't he?" Ed nodded in agreement.
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