A/N: Thanks for choosing to read the sequel if you do. Usually, I will respond to any direct queries to the story anyone has in the next chapter. I try to read all of the reviews, so if I skip yours, please let me know and I will address it in the next chapter. But same things apply, like this story is mostly set in stone, events affect other events, so I can't change much. Sorry. Hope you enjoy my take on LK5!- Lotta.

Chapter 2- Family

Bovumtumishi had grown into a white hyena pup of 5 months.

Solanga, a mother figure in his life trained him hard, similar to how Kovu was trained by Zira a couple of years ago.

He didn't understand right away when he was one month what to do and say, but at five months he was already a smirking, manipulative, evil, ferocious pup who would help one of his Aunts, Aunt Nneka, to kill and torture Pride Land animals that crossed the Eastern border.

Solanga slowly circled around him, checking his growing muscles and battle stance carefully.

"Nice. Very nice. You are only five months and yet you have the evil, manipulative mind and blackness in your soul that Vladek, and his inspiration, Scar had." Bovumtumishi smirked at his mother's praise.

He sat upright, waiting to be quizzed. "Now, when you grow up, what will you do?" she asked. "I will avenge Vladek. Take his place in the Pride Lands." Solanga nodded.

"And what must you DO?" She spat out.

"I will kill Xandor, and take my rightful place as King." Bovumtumishi answered, right as always.

"Yes! YES! You are shaping up to be a marvellous Future King! You shall be fed handsomely. A feast for tonight, to celebrate a beautifully trained young white hyena!" announced Solanga, making the Aunts, Uncles, his Father, and his Grandparents cheer in joy.

Solanga and Oshaka went to kill the feast, as always, stealing food from the Pride Lands.

Meanwhile, his Aunts, Uncles and father came together close to him to preen over him.

His dear Aunt Nneka who bonded over while torturing Pride Land citizens came up to him first. She was a middle adolescent of 15 years old.

"Oh, my little Bovu. You are a joy to watch grow up. You are a spitting image of Vladek, although you are not related to him. I never saw him. He died before I was born, but Mom described him to me so vividly I could almost see him. The retracted claws, the blackest black eyes, and the purest white coat. You are better and stronger than any of the other low-life half-bloods." Nneka said half-bloods with a snarl and contempt.

"Hey, we of Oshaka are more evil, as displayed from our little nephew down here." Abeni, the eldest daughter of Oshaka snarled back.

"He is Vladek's Grandson in spirit. And, besides, you turned out to be the Whore of the Pride Lands. How many cubs and pups have you mothered? It must be something like 10!" Kayin chuckled and the rest of Vladek's children laughed with him.

"Hey! It's only 7! I wouldn't get to know the stupid little mites anyway. They're their fathers' problems now. I'm an old adolescent; I can do what I want!"

Vladek's children laughed further at her claim of 7 children, and Abeni's general stupidity. The poor girl was about as smart as a rock, and the whole family knew that.

Kagosi, the eldest child of them all, a middle age hyena and Bovu's father, stepped forward.

"Well, Oshaka's children are better, because I was crowned King of this pack, unlike my stupid brother or my idiotic mute brother!" Kagosi snarled at Vladek's clan.

"If you say things like that about my younger brother, I must just leave with him for the Pride Lands!" Zubani snarled, defending his younger mute brother.

Bovumtumishi stepped back from the fight, he knew better than to be in a scrap with his Aunts and Uncles.

Jelani, Kagosi's mute brother, leapt forward and attacked him.

So did Zubani, Kagosi's jealous brother who was just younger than him.

Kagosi wrestled with a young adult and middle age hyena.

Abeni leapt at Kayin, Vladek's first daughter, which was a mistake, because Kayin started beating her brutally, making her lose fast.

As Nneka tried to join in to help her beat Abeni, Yewande, an older pup with plenty of fight, and the youngest child overall, a child of Oshaka, tackled her, and the middle adolescent fought equally blow to blow with the advanced elder pup.

Bovu sat back and smirked at the entertaining fight scene stretched out in front of him, hearing the howls of pain and seeing the blood.

Solanga and Oshaka soon returned from their hunt, attempting to drag 2 elephants and 8 antelopes when they saw the fighting scene.

"Everyone! Stop your battles and lick your wounds, or you get no kill! And we killed two whole elephants!" Solanga announced.

The Aunts and Uncles tore themselves off each other, licked their wounds quickly, and then ran to the kill and swarmed it and attacked the meat savagely with their jaws.

Bovu simply took two elephant's foots and two drumsticks from an antelope.

He sat with Nneka, and Kayin, two Aunts he liked hanging out with, and Jelani, the mute Uncle.

He conversed with his Aunts and used his special signs with Jelani, a language they used with each other.

The sun dipped into the sky, and Bovumtumishi fell asleep on his Grandmother's lap.

Next morning, in the Pride Lands…

May and Billi were now three months old, and as a celebration for their third birthday, the adults Zahara, Xandor, Kovu and Kiara decided to tell them some special stories of the past.

May asked a question first. "I have one. Why do I have a scar?" Billi looked at her confused.

She didn't have a scar, just a patch of dirt on her face.

But when the elder Liyena twin brushed the dirt off the sides of her eye, it revealed a scar, like the evil Uncle Scar's of generations ago.

"I thought it had disappeared! You've been hiding it all this time?" Zahara asked the black Liyena twin with a tuft of brown hair on her head.

"Yeah. When I got my memory at one week old I couldn't remember getting it, so I've always wondered where it came from." May confessed.

"Ok. Your presentation, after your big Aunt Mayja in the sky vanished, went a little awry…"

Kagosi the middle age hyena laughed to himself as he heard the stupid ceremony with the mangy little hybrids being presented.

He was at the back of the ceremony.

He stole his way up the steps to Pride Rock, and just before everyone left, started a scene.

He yelled "I'll show you what I think of your mongrel pride, with your mangy second-rate leaders! He spat on the ground at Xandor's feet, making him frown, but the father of the children tried to remain calm.

"I won't use force with you, if you just tell me why you're so angry." Xandor reasoned.

"I am here in the name of Vladek, and Igor! My son, Bovumtumishi, will bring a blood-thirsty, war-filled reign in a few years to come! So I don't care about your stupid unified Pride. I hate crossbreeds. And I especially hate YOU! YOU TOOK VLADEK'S RIGHTFUL PLACE! NOW DIE!" Kagosi pushed Xandor off the edge, and Kovu, who was the closest, quickly rushed to his son-in-law's aid, pulling him up the edge.

"Errrgh! YOU JUST DON'T DIE, DO YOU? Well, I'll give you a little souvenir to remember me and Vladek's eternal hate by!" Kagosi smirked and strutted right up to Future Queen May, hitting her right eye with enough force to leave a lasting scar.

Xandor, Zahara, Kovu, Kiara and the royal procession all gasped collectively at the white hyena's actions.

Xandor leapt forward at the white hyena, pinning him, and slapping his face with his claws angrily and snarling. "WHO ARE YOU?"

He spat angrily at the middle age hyena that had given his daughter a scar. "I am Kagosi, King of Solanga and Oshaka's pack. My son is the heir to this throne. He will be here someday." Kagosi said controlled but full of acid.

"Go home, Kagosi. Leave this place. You are allowed to be in Pride Lands, because I can't monitor your every step. But you shall never come around this family again." He mirrored Kagosi's acid tone.

"Ok, I'm so scared of your pathetic family." Kagosi mocked sarcastically, and walked away, receiving shameful glares from Kiara and Kovu, Zahara, Tayo, Rin and their mates Sasha and Henriatta.

He was pushed and shoved out of the Pride Lands by the animals attending the presentation, a reflection of their held contempt for his highly disrespectful act towards the royal family.

"And so that's how you got your scar, May. But now I think another story is in order. We should tell you the tale of me and Kovu. It all starts way, way back, in fact in Simba's reign!" Kiara went on to tell her tale to the Grandchildren, as was customary in the royal family for generations.

May and Billi listened intently to their Grandma and Grandpa's story they told together.

Billi was jealous on the inside.

May already had a pup and a cub wrapped around her finger, and no guys even looked at her, because she was a brain.

Billi would never admit it, but she so desperately wanted someone to love her like that when she was older.

When the stories were done with, it was noon and time for the cubs and pups to play together. Billi and Shenzay immediately glued together.

They were the best friends to each other that they could be, and had spent the past month sinking in all the information there was to know about each other.

Billi and Shenzay sat in front of the waterhole, their usual spot.

There was one thing Billi hadn't vented to her best friend.

"Shenz, I've got to get something off my chest. I'm jealous of May. More than usual. Otto and Mikal are begging to do anything for her, but no one likes me. I'm also jealous of my Grandparents! Now, before you think I'm totally weird, I'll explain. Grandma and Grandpa have this really romantic story of they got together. They got separated from each other, because they came from two feuding prides. They loved each other so much that they broke their families' rules just to be together. They united the two Prides, and a lot of adolescents, young adults, and middle age, even elder people in this Pride are from Kovu's old Pride, the Out Landers." Billi said.

"Bee, it's nothing to be ashamed of. A lot of the cubs and pups like people but just don't admit it. Like, I would only ever tell you this. Mikal's so arrogant and annoying but it doesn't stop me from liking him. I'm jealous of May too, believe me." Shenzay sighed.

"You like Mikal? I thought you hated him!" Billi was surprised.

"Yeah, I hate him sometimes, but he has to be so darn cute. Have you seen those muscles?" Shenzay's eyes glazed.

"Um, I don't think about him in that way. I don't like Otto or Mikal. I just see them as friends." Billi confessed.

"I know, but still, that's what an alpha male is all about! I got to be honest though, if you really want someone to like you, but you don't like a cub or pup in the Pride, it really doesn't leave your options open. Unless you go wandering out of the Pride Lands." Shenzay gave her best friend the truth.

"Wait, that's it! When are we free to explore the grounds?" Shenzay thought back to cub and pup rules they were all taught when they could see and talk.

"About six months old. Where is this going?" Shenzay looked suspiciously at her best friend.

"In three months, when we're let out to explore the grounds, we're not going to explore the grounds. Exploring beyond the borders is what we are doing!" Billi said with a mischievous grin.

"Oh no. Bee, we can't go beyond the borders! Don't you know what dangers could be lurking there? Anyways, the Southern Border and Northern Border lead to nothing but barren lands, so they're ruled out. And that only leaves the West and East Border, and only Rafaki takes residence in the West Border, so that's ruled out too!" Shenzay tried to persuade her friend.

Billi smiled. "But no one's said anything about the Eastern Border. Please Shenz, come with me? I'll be a bit safer with you…" Billi gave Shenzay her best pleading eyes.

"Oh Ok. Only because you're my best friend and I'm worried about you." Shenzay sighed, giving up. "Ok. In exactly three months, we leave for the Eastern Border…"**