Scar
Scar stormed back out of the cave, leaving Zira to nurce their cub. This better be damn important! One of the hyena's, Banzai, was waiting at the base of the rocks for him.
"Greetings boss" He spoke loudly.
"What is it now Banzai?" Scar said impatiently.
"One of the lionelles wants to speak with you" Banzai said with a slight sneer in his voice.
"Send her over" Scar sighed. Banzai trotted off, shouting loudly to whoever it was waiting for him. Scar wished just for one day, just one, where no one demanded the world of him and pushed his nerves to the edge. As he waited for Banzai to come back he sweeped a glance over the kingdom, his kingdom. The total devastation of the land was sickening. Every time he looked out across his lands his hatred for those brown mutts grew and grew. But he couldn't tell anyone about them but Zira, well he couldn't even tell her everything. The day the hyena's had arrived here they numbered at least a hundred, they took everything. There were just too many of them, if Scar tried to tell them to leave now, he would be over powered and most likely killed. Banzai returned with one of the lioness's in toe. It took Scar a second to recognise her. Sarafina stood before him, the fur hung limply from her frame, bones showing through her skin, her eyes dull and lifeless. She was barely the lion she used to be.
"Scar" She bowed her head.
"Sarafina" He replied, still staring at her skeletal frame.
"I just though you should know that...well...it's about Nala" She spoke softly.
"Nala?" Scar said confused. What's she been up to now.
"Yes well...Nala has been missing for nearly a week. She told us she had gone beyond the Pride Lands to hunt but...she just never came back" She hung her head.
"Have you sent parties out to look for her?" Scar asked.
"Yes but we didn't find any traces of her" Sarafina replied. Scar's tail flicked. Well what do you expect me to do about it then?
"Maybe she's just gone rouge, left the pride just as some of the animals did" Scar suggested. He knew what he said was harsh but honestly, what could he do that hasn't already been done?
"No, she wouldn't do that...not without telling me... I know she's out there somewhere, I just don't know where. Is there anything you can do?" She begged desperately. Irritation flared in Scar.
"I'll send Zazu on a patrol of the area to see if he can find something, other than that the most I can do is tell all the lions to keep an eye out. I'll tell them later" Scar told her. She stared a few seconds more before bowing her head.
"Thank you Scar" She turned and walked away, but not before Scar caught a look cross her face. Scar knew that look. It was the 'if Mufasa was here he would have done better' look. Scar had to stifle a snarl as he stalked away to his den. He needed peace now more than ever of he was sure to snap. He was about to enter the mouth of the cave when he heard the cackle of a hyena echoed from inside.
"Oh now what?" Scar muttered as he entered the cave. The two hyenas, Shenzi and Ed, stood cackling as they prodded a startled Zazu with their hard paws.
"Shenzi, what is this?" Scar asked, suddenly feeling old and tired.
"This feather brain pecked me right in the freaking eye, scratched Ed's nose and even attacked one of the pups" She growled at the bird.
"Well maybe if you furballs hadn't kept chewing on me I wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures" Zazu spoke pompously. Scar sighed irritably.
"Zazu for crying out loud, I'm trying to develop an interspecies harmony here and doing that certainly isn't helping... put him back in the rib cage" Scar flicked his head toward the skeleton in the corner of the den.
"With pleasure" Shenzi snarled and snapped her jaws at the hornbill. He screeched and flapped his wings wildly. Shenzi plucked him out of the air by the tail and threw him in the rib cage. Ed pushed the rock over the hole so he couldn't get out and laughed stupidly.
"Your majesty I object being treated in this manner! I am not a chew toy" Zazu brushed himself off.
"Well maybe if you did as you were told I would have to do this" Scar growled.
"This never would have happened under Mufasa" Zazu muttered. Scar snapped.
"What did you just say!" He snarled at the bird.
"I-I-I said nothing sire I-I would never dream of saying anything to-" Scar cut him off.
"I thought I told you not to talk about my brother in my presence, I am the king. You understand me? I AM THE KING!" The force Scar used to roar these words knocked Zazu into the back of the cage.
"Yes sire, you are the king aha ha..." He trailed away under the icy daggers of Scar's gaze. Scar turned away and stomped out of his den, the two dogs at his heels. God why can't they bother someone else for a change! They followed him to the foot of the hill.
"What do you want now?" He nearly snarled at them.
"Scar where's the food? We haven't eaten in day, the lioness's haven't brought anything back yet and we're starving" Shenzi complained. Even through the anger Scar could feel the gnawing pain of hunger he had been trying to ignore for what felt like days, probably was now that he thought about it. Whenever food did come he gave almost all of his share to Nuka and Zira. But the hunting party hadn't brought back anything for the past few days, it was unacceptable.
"I'll deal with it" Scar stalked over to the flat rock he used to call together the lions. He looked down on the ground around him. Hundreds of hyena's lounged around lazily chewing on old bones of long dead animals. In the center of it all was a group of lioness's glaring at the brown dogs.
"SARABI!" Scar yowled across the clearing. The hyena's stepped aside, allowing the old lioness to pass. Sarabi strode toward Scar, head held high with dignity even as a hyena snapped at her heels.
"Yes Scar?" She asked coolly
"Where is your hunting party? They're not doing their job" Scar began to pace back and forth. Sarabi just stood there, holding her ground proudly.
"Scar, there is no food. The herds have moved on" She still spoke in that proud tone, like she was to dignified to look properly at him. Scar glared at her as he paced.
"No, you're just not looking hard enough" He denied. Sarabi finally looked at him with her orange eyes.
"It's over. There is nothing left" Sarabi stated mater of factly, as if talking to a confused cub.
"We have only one choice. We must leave Pride Rock" Scar knew the truth in her words, but that just made him angrier. They were not leaving the Pride Lands, not so soon after he had finally achieved his goal.
"We're not going anywhere!" He shot her a look of icy daggers.
"Then you have sentenced us to death!" She said sharply. He knew that, but the way she said it made it worse. Scar's anger was building.
"Then so be it!" He growled back at her.
"You can't do that" Sarabi stared at him, disbelief clear on her aging face.
"I am the king. I can do whatever I want!" Scar's fury was reching boiling point.
"If you were half the king Mufasa was-" Sarabi hissed. Scar finally snapped. Taking his massive clawed brown paws he swung out at the lioness.
"I'M TEN TIMES THE KING MUFASA WAS!" His paw connected. The force behind Scar's blow was enough to send her flying into the hard rock ground many tail lengths away. Suddenly, lightning split the sky as an almighty roar erupted from above them. Scar looked up in disbelief. Lit up by the light from the bolt of electricity stood a lion, golden fur washing over his massive muscles red main whipping around him and a look on his face that promised death. The lion's enormous frame sprang from his perch and landed beside the fallen lioness. It...it can't be.
"Mufasa?"