Chapter 2:

Just can't wait to be king

Akefia walks along a cliff-edge, pushing off an old bone grumbling to himself, Ryou runs over to him "Hey uncle Akefia! Guess what?" he said, "I despise guessing games…" Akefia replied frowning. "I'm going to be king of Pride Rock!" Ryou answered for him.

"Oh goody.." Akefia sarcastically said.

Ryou walks over to the edge of the cliff looking out in the view of the entire land, "My father just showed me the entire kingdom, and I'm going to rule it all..hehe!"

Akefia slowly lays on his side "Yes, well.. apologies that I'm not leaping of joy.. bad back y'know?" he finishes laying on his side, Ryou walks over to him "Hey uncle Akefia.. when I'm king, what does that make you?"

" a monkeys uncle.."

Ryou laughs although not noticing Akefia's displeasure of his acting "your so weird", Akefia finally smiles looking at Ryou "You don't say.. so your father has showed you his whole kingdom did he?" he said, rising up from the ground.

"Everything!"

"He didn't show you what's beyond the northern border has he?"

Ryou looked to the side, disappointed from hearing that sentence "No, he says I shouldn't go there.."

"And he's absolutely right! Its far too dangers, only the bravest lions would go there!" Akefia exclaimed, Ryou looked at him "Well I'm brave.. what's out there-" Akefia temporarily interrupted "Ryou, Ryou.. I'm only looking out for the well being of my favorite nephew."

"Heh right…I'm your only nephew"

"For the most part of all reason's for me to be protective.. well an Elephant graveyard is no place with a prince" Akefia quickly fakes that he made a mistake "oops!"

"and Elephant what? Whoa.." Ryou said, thinking it would be cool to check it out.

Pretending to be in dismay he continues "Oh dear, I've said too much... Well, I suppose you'd have found sooner or later, you being SO clever and all... Oh, just do me one favor - promise me you'll never visit that dreadful place"

Ryou thinks for a moment and nods "No problem.."

"There's a good lad. You run along now and have fun. And remember... it's our little secret." Ryou runs off while little does he know that Akefia was up to something.

Ryou runs down a slope of the Pride Rock to where his mother is, he spots his friend Kisara "Hey Kisara!" he said

"Hey Ryou" she replied

"come on, I just heard about this cool place"

"Ryou, I'm kinda in the middle of a bath..!" she said through her clenched teeth, "And it's time for yours.." said Mana picking him up off the ground and started licking him

"Mom,Mom your messing up my mane..!" he yelled, Mana smiles at him

"Okay, okay I'm clean can we go now?"

"So where are we going exactly? better not be anyplace with the name dumb in it.." Kisara frowned, "No, it's something really cool" Ryou replied.

"So where is this 'cool place'?" Mana asked, "oh.." he thinks for the best answer "around the water hole"

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"The water hole? what's so great about the water hole?" Kisara shouted, Ryou smiles at Mana innocently walking towards Kisara "I'll show you when we get there..!" he whispered

"Oh.. uh, mom can I go with Ryou?" she asked

"Hm, what do you think Mana?" the lioness asked looking at Mana

"Well.."

"Pleeeaaase?" Ryou and Kisara insistently asked, "It's alright with me.." Mana finally answered as if she were convinced.

"Alright!" Ryou leaped with joy, "As long as Tristian goes with you..." she added.

"No, not Tristian..!" Ryou moped

Ryou and Kisara walk with Tristian hoovering over the air above them "Step lively. The sooner we get to the water hole, the sooner we can leave." he said.

"So where are we really going?" Kisara intentionally asked "an Elephant graveyard" Ryou answered whispering.

"Wow!" "Shh, Tristian!" Ryou added

"Oh, right, so how are we going to ditch the dodo?"

Tristian flies to them "oh just look at you two, little seeds of romance blossoming over the Savannah, your parents ought to be thrilled.. well when your being be trolled and all"

Be what? Ryou would've asked "Be trolled, Attended, Affiance" Kisara couldn't understand a single word he meant "Meaning?"

"One day you two are going to be married!" he happily said, yuck! gross, Ryou and Kisara jerked back sticking their tongue.

"I can't marry her! she's my friend.." Ryou stated

"Yeah it would be so weird" Kisara said, "Well sorry to bust your bubble! but you have no choice, it's a tradition, going back generations!" Tristian spoke with a wave of his wing.

Well when I'm king that'll be the first thing to go..

"Not so long as I'm around.." Tristian smirked crossing his wings.

"Well in that case 'yer fired.." Ryou smirked

"Hm, nice try buster! but only a king can do that.."

"Well he's the future king isn't he?" Kisara recalled, "Yeah so you have to do whatever I tell you" Ryou gestured

"Not yet I don't, and thus with an attitude like that, I'm afraid your shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed!" Tristian growled.

"Huh, not the way I see it.." Ryou grinned, Hit it!

He leaps directly in front of Tristian "I'm going to be your mighty king! so enemies beware.." he walks Tristian into a hole inside a tree, "Well I've never seen a king or beast with quite so little hair.." he plucks out a white strand of Ryou's hair where his mane would be

He pops out in a ball of white leaves visualizing himself with a full on mane "I'm going to be the mane event! like no king was before" leaps onto a log and crawls his way up to Tristian "I'm brushing up while looking down, I'm working on my ROAR!" he gives out a horrific roar which made Tristian tumbled down falling into a puddle, he picks himself up reaching for a nearby cloth..or is it a cloth? "Thus far a rather, uninspiring thing.." he looks up at what appears to be an red Elephants ear, in anger it gives a sway of its trunk like a golf club which sends Tristian skipping across the shallow water like a pebble, ow!

"Oh I just can't wait, to be king!"

Tristian collects himself getting up off the stream, "You've rather a long way to go, young master, if you think.." he said

Ryou, "No one saying Do this.."

Tristian,"Now when I say that I-" he looks at Kisara not noticing Ryou's sticking his tongue out at him making a face

Kisara, "No one saying be there"

Tristian annoyed "What I meant was" he looks back at Ryou but Kisara is doing the same thing

"No one saying Stop that!"

"Look what you don't realize!"

"No one saying see here"

"What I see here-!" Ryou and Kisara ride on two luster dragon's past Tristian accidently pushing him back down on the puddle

"Free to run around all day!"

"Well that's definitely out.."

"Free to do it on my way!"

Tristian flies in front of them, though however he doesn't know he's flying directly into a rock "I think its time that you and I arrange a heart to heart!" he crashes into the rock, "King's don't need advice, from little hornbill's for a start.."

Tristian flies off the rock onto a branch of a fallen tree, "if this is where the monarchy is heading count me out!" the fallen lumber starts moving, wait moving? "Out of service out of Africa, I wouldn't hang about!" he falls off along with the log down a water fall but manages to fly back upright "This child is getting wildly out of wing.."

"oh I just can't wait to be king!" Ryou and Kisara skip through a corridor of dark Zebras, as they stood at attention, when the left out of sight they turn facing their tales up facing Tristian, superbly vulnerable to what might happen he shields himself with his wing, Ryou and Kisara dance around through a crowd of marching Elephants, Tristian flies overhead hoping to spot them, but he doesn't realize Ryou is standing ontop of a giraffes head.

"Everybody look left!" Tristian is exposed! the herd of animals moved left stomping on Tristian "Everybody look right!" the same thing happens again just in a different direction.

"Everywhere you look I'm.." he leaps up a ladder of Giraffes "Standing in the spot light!"

Tristian momentarily for a short time, "Not yet!"

Now the entire herd starts to sing "Let every creature go for broke and sing
Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing, It's going to be king Ryou's finest fling!"

Now everyone who forms a pyramid with the cubs ontop, except Tristian who is being checked for bugs from two monkeys

"Oh I just can't wait to be king! oh I just can't wait to be king! oh I just can't waaaaaiiit- to be king!"

The pyramid finally comes to a crashing ending, Giraffes get their necks tangled accidentally, and Elephant falls directly onto the horns of a

Antelope, all is left is the Rhino on Tristian..

Muffling to the rhino, "I beg your pardon madam but.. get off! Ryou? Kirasa?"