Sorry for the lateness of this chapter!
Enjoy!
P.S: "Mlezi" is "guardian" in Swahili.
I watch Mufasa's face for his reactions. At first he seems confused. But then he smiles. "I've never heard anything like this", he says. "You should start a trend".
"That's what I plan to do", I tell him.
"You should call it 'step' ", states my brother.
I respond, "no, that's too short".
He thinks for a while. "How about 'dubstep'?"
"That's it!"
The sun sinks slowly in the lapis-lazuli sky; it's around dinnertime. As if on cue, Father roars, signalling that the food is ready. I walk up the stone steps that lead to our den.
"Taka", Father states sternly. "You and I will have a conversation about the outlands."
My heart stops for a minute. "Yes Father", I respond, trying not to show the fear in my voice.
Father hands me a zebra leg, which I gladly start to eat.
"Taka, you know very well that the outlands are out of limits," states my father. He continues, "I overheard you and Mufasa talking about you going to the outlands."
"What do you even do in the outlands?"
"I play with my hyena friends", I explain to Father. This causes all the lions and lionesses in the pride to turn their heads towards me. I pretend to not notice.
Father responds, "hyenas aren't friendly Taka. They will eventually betray you. Like you betrayed your pride by leaving the pridelands.
"I don't see leaving the pridelands as betraying the pride", I say out loud.
This causes father to become enraged. "You betrayed the trust we had in you! do you ever hear of mufasa leaving the pridelands! No you don't! Taka, you are exiled from the pride for not keeping your promise."
I walk away, feeling misunderstood…
It has become dark outside, so I think of a place to stay the night. Luckily for me, I stumble upon my three best friends. After the initial fear of not being able to tell who they were, I explained to the trio that I needed a place to stay the night. And so, my kind friends invited me to sleep with them in their cave. And so I slept that night with hyenas.
The next morning, I was woken up early by Shenzi. "Yo, Scar. You have to come to a meeting that we are having!" exclaims Shenzi.
"A meeting for what?", I respond still half-awake.
"A meeting to see if ya can live with us and stuff. We've all heard that ya been exiled from yer pride and we're thinkin' of lettin' ya live with us."
I reluctantly wake up and follow Shenzi out of the cave.
In front of me was Shenzi's and Banzai's family. (Ed had no family there, but they all treated him like he was family). The matriarch of the hyena clan was Shenzi's mother, who introduced herself as Mlezi.
"Scar, do you swear loyalty to our clan and promise to be a kind member?"
"I do"...
