I don't own the Lion King

As Scar stepped into Zira's shelter, he was shocked to see that he used to live just like her before he was king. Isolated with little food. He never understood why the Pride Landers would be so cruel to the other lion. What differences were there between them? The Out Landers were different from the Pride Landers but they were all lions. Nevertheless, even though he was part of the Pride Lands, he felt like he was an outsider from his family.

"Well this is where we lived before you became king," Zira said after she gently set Kovu on the ground. She kicked the dry land with her paw. "It's awful."

Scar made a face at the living conditions. He had the urge to not stay here but he had nowhere else to go. He saw two lionesses playing tug of war with a dry scrap of meat that they found on the ground. Then, two little lions ran outside of a cave and straight at Zira. "Mother? Mother!" a skinny, not so handsome looking lion, jumped in the air at the sight of Zira. "I caught some filed mice tonight. They were this huge!" he stated as he held out his paws and distanced them from one another.

"Nuka chill," a lioness cub, with blue eyes and a tuft on her head told him as she walked up to them. "You are still not going to be a king."

"That's what you think. You would not be a king either, Vitani."

Vitani made a face at him. "That's because I'm a girl idiot, if you have not already noticed."

"Oh blah-" Nuka said but he was interrupted by Zira's outburst.

"You two!" she snapped as she slowly pushed Kovu in front of Scar's paws, "should be ashamed of yourselves. I bring you the king of the Pride Lands and this is how you welcome him? With your nonsense?"

Nuka and Vitani took a step back from Zira. Nuka resisted the urge to make an eye roll at her and Scar. When he was born in the Pride Lands while Scar was still king, Scar had chosen Kovu who was unborn. Why couldn't he have been king? "Sorry mother," he heard Vitani say as she bowed her head.

"Don't apologize to me," Zira told her, "apologize to the king who provided us with a better environment to live in."

Nuka held up a paw and put it at the side of his mouth. He whispered at Vitani and said, "yeah right."

"What did you say?" Zira yelled as she turned her dangerous eyes to him.

"Nothing!" Nuka quickly answered.

Zira gave him one last glare as she turned her attention back to Scar. Her features softened when she looked at him. "I know that this is not much for a king but I hope that you will be comfortable."

Scar looked around. He was used to this kind of environment by now that it did not matter much to him. "Of course I will be comfortable," Scar finally answered her which made her smile. He looked down at his feet and looked at the sleeping Kovu.

Kovu's paw fidgeted. Then his muscles relaxed and he slowly put his small paw on the ground. Scar put a paw over to Kovu's side and dragged him close to him.

"Great," Zira smiled as she turned her back on him, "follow me," she said as she nudged her head to a direction.

Forgetting about Kovu, Scar stepped over him and followed the lioness into a cave.

"I should be king!" Nuka growled through his teeth as he stormed away from Vitani and Kovu.

Vitani looked at him with a smirk on her face. She giggled as he began to have one of his scratching fits. He scratched himself as each and every flea bit his flesh. He looked like a complete monkey. "I can see why he wasn't picked," Vitani mumbled with one last smirk on her face.

In the cave, Zira led Scar to the highest level possible. "Is this good enough for you?" she asked him as Scar elegantly met up with her.

"Zira, its perfect," he told her as he laid his body gently on the ground.

Zira softly gave him a nudge with her nose as she sat down next to him. "I cannot believe that he was alive in the first place. Wasn't he supposed to be dead?"

Scar let out a sigh at his foiled plan. "When he was a cub, I sent three hyenas to kill him. They were too idiotic enough to follow him wherever on Earth he landed to."

"Hmm," Zira said.

"At least they are not around anymore. Either killed in the fire or they fled."

"You have nothing to fear about my lionesses, dear," Zira began, "they are trained to kill and are brave enough to face death."

Scar turned his green eyes and looked at her. "Lions are much more better than hyenas of course."

Zira nodded in agreement. She suddenly remembered that she had left Kovu out of the cave. She walked off a ledge until her paws made contact with the rocky ground. She walked out of the cave and into the night. She saw Vitani standing over Kovu as if she was protecting him from an attacker.

Vitani turned and looked at her mother when she heard her paws making contact with the ground.

"Aren't you supposed to be sleeping young lady?" Zira asked her as she cupped Kovu's small body in her mouth and carried him away in the cave.

Vitani looked at her mother disappearing into the cave. She loved Kovu of course but the thing that bothered her was why did her mother have to be so admiring to Kovu and so mean to her and Nuka?

Things were meant to change in the years to come.