A/N: What will Detective Haiba face to find the truth about Simba? Let's find out...
The Ring: Part Two
Haiba began walking around the bar. That cub he had just spoken to clearly knew something, but he had decided to be mysterious rather tan straight forward about it. There weren't too many lions in the bar, so, the clue the cub was talking about shouldn't be to hard to find. As Haiba scanned the bar, his eyes moving to the different patrons, who were talking, laughing, and drinking. He stopped when his eyes fell upon a particular lion sitting at the end of the bar.
"He could know something..." Haiba said to himself as he walked over to the lion, who had a beer sitting in front of him.
"You staying out of trouble?" Haiba asked.
The lion turned to look at his speaker. "Detective Haiba..." he said a little venomously.
"Still mad, Tamba?" Haiba asked. "Maybe next time you shouldn't knock off a convenient store, then I wouldn't have had to throw you in jail."
"What do you want?" Tamba asked, taking a sip from the bottle on the bar.
"You may remember my friend, Simba," he said. "I'm conducting a little investigation on him. Have you seen him around lately?"
"That little pest?" Tamba said flatly. "No. Last I heard, he was divorced. That's all I know."
"That doesn't help me," Haiba said, "but thanks anyway."
Tamba just grunted in response as Haiba walked past him. He took another sip of his beer.
With Tamba being a dead end, Haiba knew that someone else must have the information he was looking for. Sitting at one of the tables, he spotted two cubs sitting, one of them, a female, had a gold earring in her left ear. The other cub was a male, most likely her boyfriend. As Haiba was going to walk right by them, seeing as they probably wouldn't know anything, but then he heard the female say something.
"Yeah," she said, "Simba should be back in a few days."
"Then it goes down?" the male asked.
The girl smiled. "Oh, yeah."
Haiba walked over to the table and pulled out a chair, sitting between the two cubs.
"Can we help you?" the female asked.
"I don't know," Haiba said, "can you? What are your names?"
"Uh... Vitani," she said, "and that's my boyfriend, Kulaani."
"I hear you two know Simba," he said to the two cubs.
Vitani looked at Kulaani nervously. They both shifted in their seats awkwardly.
"Uh... Yeah," Kulaani told him. "What's it to you?"
"I'm investigating him," Haiba told them. "It sounds like you two know where he is."
"We don't know a thing," Vitani hissed. "Now, get away from us!"
Look, I heard you mention him, and there is only one Simba in this city," Haiba looked down and saw a backpack next to Kulaani. One of the pockets was open, exposing a plastic bag with a substance in it. Haiba reached down and pulled the baggie out.
"Hey!" Kulaani yelled, snatching it away from Haiba.
"Weed?" Haiba asked. "You kids shouldn't be doing that stuff."
"Kids?" Vitani asked. "Aren't you a kid, too?"
"Never mind that," Haiba told her. "I could arrest you right now for possession," this caused both cubs' eyes to widen with fear, realizing that Haiba was a cop, "but I'll let this one slide if you tell me what you know about Simba."
Vitani and Kulaani looked at each other again. They didn't have a choice.
"Fine," Vitani said, "but you're only getting some information."
"That's all I need," Haiba said.
"Simba is out of town right now for... business," she told him. "If you really need to find him, he will probably be in that classy part of town with all the big houses... That's all I'm saying."
Haiba stood up and pushed his chair in. "Thank you for your time," then he walked outside the bar.
"We can't tell any of them that we spoke to a cop," Vitani told her boyfriend. "He will have us killed."
"I know," Kulaani replied, "As far as I'm concerned, that conversation never happened."
There was silence between the two.
"So... Want a joint?" he asked.
"Hell yes!"
"The rich part of town?" Haiba asked himself. "Why would Simba be there? Well, there's no point in going now... They said he was gone for a few days. Hm... Might as well bust a few drug addicts while I'm out. Friday nights are always good for that."
Further down the street, away from the bar, Haiba came across an alleyway. He had made a lot of arrests here before. It was a popular spot for cubs to hang out at night, usually just to get into trouble. However, tonight, he didn't see anybody.
"Strange..." he said. "Even in terrible weather, there's always cubs here."
He was about to leave, but just before he did, he caught what looked like the outline of a cub in the dark alley. He walked closer to the cub until he became clear. He watched as the cub plunged a needle into his foreleg.
"Hey!" Haiba yelled as he ran over to the cub, who looked at Haiba, not even attempting to escape. Haiba saw that the cub's eyes were dilated, and his breathing was fast.
"You!" the cub began backing away from Haiba. "The law-abiding one!"
"Who are you, kid?"
"They all call me Ugaidi!" the cub yelled. "I know what you are up to, and it shall end in death!"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Haiba said. "That drug is messing up your mind!"
"It makes it better!" Ugaidi yelled. "Beware! Death is upon us! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Ugaidi ran down the alley, leaving Haiba standing there. As far as Haiba was concerned, that fruit cake wasn't worth his time. He had more important things to concentrate on.
"What a nut..." Haiba said. "'Death is upon us.' Man, drugs really mess you up... I better go get some sleep. It'll be a long week, I can tell..."
Haiba left the alley way; in the distance, Ugaidi's maniacal yells could be heard.
"Death! It is all around us! Beware!"