Author's Notes: F***, I haven't updated for 6 months… Sorry dear readers, I was busy with school, video games, other stories, sleeping, drawing and crap. FORGIVE MEH (gets hit by a flying shoe) Plus, I now have the Lion King Blue-ray and DVD! Now I have no troubles with the internet and finding Lion King Movies and internet connection problems, I will happily update every few weeks or so! If more, I'm busy with video games XD (mainly Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword DX)

Anyways, enjoy this chapter, and if it's bit rubbish at the middle, that's the part where I was a bit too lazy… Anyways, enjoy! And please remember I'm not the best writer, I write to get it out of my head!

Belgium: Bella

Egypt: Ceasar, or Cea

Far away from Roderich as possible, the three cubs, Gilbert, Ludwig and Elizabeth raced each other and laughing hard until they found a hiding spot, just in case Roderich escaped the heavy rhino and found them in the Outlands. They'd be killed by their dads, literally!

"Yes, it vorked!" Gilbert cheered happily and loudly to the other cubs, cheering right afterwards.

"We lost him!" Elizabeth commented after settling down from her giggling fit.

"I am a genius, aren't I?" Gilbert suspiciously eyed Elizabeth, waiting for her answer very carefully.

The lioness cub's smile suddenly decreased into a bit of a frown. "Hey, it was my idea too!"

"Yeah, but I pulled it off."

"With me!"

"Oh yeah?" Gilbert the white lion cub then pounced at her out of the blue, two of the lion cubs rolling over each other and Ludwig just following them very quietly. The rolling of the two cubs stopped, as Elizabeth pinned Gilbert down, meaning she won the fight.

"Pinned ya!" The tomboy lioness declared to the other, walking off to Ludwig. "Hi Luddy~"

"Hello…" The other brother quietly replied to her, looking down once again. Just then, Gilbert pounced on both of them, all cubs stumbled onto one another and elapsed over a steep ledge, Elizabeth pinning Gilbert down again after they stopped rolling.

"Ha, pinned you again, this time with your little brother!" Elizabeth purred slightly, letting go of the captive princes. Suddenly, a huge blast of smoke from underneath startled them, causing them to stare that way. While the smoke settled, they came in face to face with deceased elephant skulls, scattered all around as the eye could see. Dumbfounded by the new discovery, the three lion cubs curiously walked up towards it.

"Zis is it… Ve finally made it!" Exclaimed the white cub, viewing the site all around him

"Yeah, 'cause of me!" protested Elizabeth, pouncing on the prince once more for a play fight. At the time those two fought, Ludwig glanced over the skull's tusk, his eyes amazed of what else he saw. There, he saw millions of deceased bodies which looked as if they were killed inhumanely. He slowly backed away, as a flurry of feathers surprised him for behind. The feathers were chocolate brown, and the bird himself was very mad at the trio of lions.

"And where do you think you are?" Roderich questioned the young lions, flying right in front of their faces. Oh yes, he was mad indeed.

"I think we're in… Something called an Elephant Graveyard?" Ludwig answered for the team, as the other two were still busy play fighting.

"We'll I'll tell you where we are! We're far away from the light, very far away from home!" The chestnut brown hornbill panicked almost, as little feathers started to moult from his body.

As the two fighting duo heard the chestnut brown bird in a panicky tone, they immediately stopped fighting. Gilbert smirked and padded closer to the hornbill.

"Vell, I say that Mr chocolate feathers is scared!" Gilbert mocked, smirking at the small brown hornbill.

"Hey, that's MR chocolate feathers to you, furball and right now, we are all in very real danger in the Shadow Lands!" Roderich panicked, as the only white lion cub trotted straight past him.

"Danger? I valk on the wild side." Gilbert scoffed as he neared the elephant skull, not aware of anyone else. "I laugh at ze face of danger…" And right then, he just laughed an evil laugh. Although, he didn't mean it, he was just playing around. But, he never thought of anyone living in the Shadow Lands…

Suddenly, a laughing fit emerged from the deceased skull, surprising Gilbert so much, his fur almost stood up as he skidded past the group to hide behind Elizabeth. All of the group almost lost their soul to be honest, things shouldn't be living in the elephant graveyard. As slowly as can be, a trio of dark coloured hyenas crawled out of the skull in different ways, still laughing for some reason.

"Well, well, well, Sadiq, what have we got here?" The lead hyena spoke, as to the sound of her voice, she was defiantly a female.

"Hmm, I don't know, Bella… What do you think, Ceasar?" The middle hyena, Sadiq asked the one behind him, who was chuckling like mad as if he had a disorder of laughing.

"Yeah, just what I was saying…" Sadiq guessed at what the wild hyena said, as they inched closer to the invaders of their land. "… A trio of trespassers!"

"And quite by accident, let me reassure you…!" Roderich said with a shiver in his tone, as the three hyenas started to surround them. "A simple navigation error!"

Without delay, one of the female hyenas, Bella, grabbed the chestnut brown bird by his tail stopping his in his tracks.

"Hey, wait a minute. I know you… You're Berwald's little stooge!" She said mischievously, eyeing on the tiny hornbill.

"I, madam, am the king's major supervisor!" He simply huffed at the comment as he dusted his feathers to hide his half shattered pride.

"So what does that make you guys then?" Sadiq questioned the trio while circling around them like vultures. Elizabeth and Ludwig were cowering behind the brave Gilbert.

"I and Ludwig are going to be the future kings!" Gilbert abruptly spoke out to them.

"Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their land?" Bella asked them, as she thought they would have no idea of what she was saying to them.

Gilbert scoffed at that comment. "You can't do anything to us…"

"Technically, they can, we are on their land…"

"But Roderich, you told us zat zey vere nothing but slobbery, mangy, stupid poachers!" Ludwig interrupted, as the white lion cub could tell that Ludwig was a bit angry.

"Ixnay on the Oopin stay…!" The auburn bird nervously said, or rather, loudly whispered to the small lions.

"Who are you callin' Oopin stay!" Sadiq blurted on their conversation, a bit annoyed that he didn't know what that meant.

"My my, look at the sun, it's time to go!" The beige hornbill excused himself as quickly as possible to protect the fellow lion cubs from disaster. In a flash, Bella the sand coloured hyena was right in front of them, stopping them in their tracks once more.

Whoa, what's the rush? We'd love for you to stick around for dinner…" Bella gazed at them smoothly, backing them up to the other hyenas that were hungry as a… Well, a starving dog.

"Yeah, we could have whatever's…"Sadiq thought for a while. "… Lion around!" The dark auburn hyena snorted at his own joke. The other dogs joined in with the laughter, rolling around in the dry and dusty dirt.

As Bella calmed down from the laughter hyenas were famous or, she thought of another pun about lion cubs for lunch. "I got one; make mine, a cub sandwich! What did you think of that one?" Right after her sentence, she just died of laughter.

Rather randomly to the wild dogs, Ceasar just jumped up and down rather awkwardly and distorted in front of Bella to attract attention.

"What, Cea?" She asked, quite annoyed that he didn't laugh along. He was pointing at a certain direction on where the lion cubs were, as Sadiq followed his arm to where he was actually pointing.

"Hey, did we order this dinner to go?"

"No, why?"

"'Cause there it goes!" Sadiq shouted at her, senses of hunger alerted and began to chase after the vulnerable little animals.

~A Nation's king~

The triad of lion cubs ran through expired skeletons in the elephant graveyard, desperately trying to keep up with the speeding bird. As the auburn bird raced along the path to alert Berwald of the danger, a dark grey paw came up and snatched him up. The cubs suddenly lost track of Roderich, and of the hyenas. They looked around to see if they were safe for now.

"Did we lose 'em?" Elizabeth asked, panting as she was out of breath.

"I zhink so…" Gilbert replied while panting, as the little lions just didn't have enough energy to run very far yet. "Where's Roderich…?"

But as they didn't know, both Roderich and the hyenas were very close by. Sadiq grabbed the bird by his wings, as if he was a little doll.

"As the little major-domo bird hippety-hopped all the way to the birdie boiler, he flew higher than he ever did before!" Sadiq sing-songed, grasping the little bird and pushed him in the so called 'birdie boiler', as it was just a little crater filled with lava.

"What does that even-" But before Roderich could finished his sentence, he flew up way higher than he did before with a little smoke and screams of pain following him.

The hyenas died of laughter, hurling in such ways and tearing up from the hilarity.

"Hey, why don't you pick on somebody your own size?" Gilbert blurted out on top of a skeleton elephant.

"Like… You?" Bella suggested, the other wild dogs starting to inch forwards for the kill.

"Oops."

As the dark grey dogs targeted their new prey, the cubs just ran for their lives. Nearing a steam geyser, the hyenas just outran them and scared the living ship out of them, popping their heads out of the hot steam and all in union, saying "boo" The young lions skidded the other way, the hyenas chasing after them in full speed.

Clawing their way up an expired skull, they slid down the bumpy spine and were flung high up. Landing on a hill full of bones and skulls, they used their claws once again to climb up the rather large hill. With the hyenas closing in, Gilbert reached the top, Ludwig second, before hearing a voice of help.

"Ludwig!" Elizabeth screamed for the nearest lion as Ludwig came to the rescue. Just as Bella was about to nearly kill Elizabeth; Ludwig scratched her in the left cheek, leaving a blood-red mark. He helped his female friend up and the cubs went on to running for their lives.

Running towards a cave with a huge skeleton inside, they climbed up to the highest point where they could escape and clawed the cliff, in hopes of reaching it. The bones couldn't hold out on their weight, collapsing underneath them, leaving them now tired and vulnerable. The hyenas closed in for the kill.

"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty…" Sadiq called for them, inching closer to the cubs with a drooling mouth and an empty stomach. The other hyenas followed with Sadiq, Ceasar with his usual Joker face and Bella smiling devilishly at them.

Just as Gilbert ran out of hope, Ludwig stood up and roared his best roar, which actually sounded like a squeak.

"That was it?" Bella scoffed, looking back at the cub. "Do it again, come on…"

As Ludwig roared again, it mysteriously amplified and it sounded like a real lion's roar. Before the hyenas could calculate on what was going on, the king of Pride Rock pounced on them, starting a fight on somebody their own size. He slapped them with his huge paws with all the strength he had, claws intact. Sadiq climbed up his back, tearing a few of the pale yellow fur before Berwald grabbed him with his teeth and hurled him on the floor. As the fight continued, Roderich flew down to the cubs, rather enjoying the fight with the cats and dogs before realising the pain the hyenas were suffering from.

The hyenas lost, as the lion king herded them beneath them, cowering and shivering in defeat.

"Please, please! Uncle, uncle!"

"Silence!" The loud voice of Berwald silenced them for his warning.

"We're gonna shut up right now!"

"Calm down, we're really sorry." Sadiq and Bella both said, as the hideous dogs used their front arms to brace themselves for the punishment.

"'f you ever c'me near m' tw' sons 'gain…" Berwald warned them, the hyenas immediately knew to act dumb.

"These… These are your sons?" Bella played dumb, remembering what the little white cub said. "Did you know that?"

"No. Me? I didn't know… No, did you?" Sadiq asked quickly and panicked, afraid if they did intend to eat the future king.

"No, of course not!"

"No!"

"… Ceasar?" They both asked. Of course, the dumb hyena didn't pick up on their intentions, so he nodded very stupidly.

The king roared furiously, now knowing they were acting dumb. The dogs, cowered once more, said a quick goodbye and ran faster than their full speed on the chase. Roderich flew down after the dogs were chased away, but Berwald just gave him a furious stare. The cubs padded towards him, as Elizabeth hide behind the two male ones.

Ludwig was the one to speak out first. "Dad, we-"

"Yo' deliberately dis'beyed m'." He looked at his sons, still very angry and worried.

It was Gilbert turn to apologise. "Dad, we're sorry!"

"L't's go h'me." He plainly said before heading to the exit of the cave and getting out of the graveyard.

"I thought you guys were very brave…" Elizabeth said to the two lions, attempting to cheer them up.

It didn't work. But as none of them looked back at the cliff the trio were trying to climb, Uncle Ivan was not pleased with the results.

Walking across the sunset lit savannah, Berwald walked far faster than the rest of the troop, as they were lagging behind from the incident. Elizabeth took a glance at the two depressed brothers before looking down at the dry dirt again.

"Roderich."

The said bird swooped over to the king's side, a little bit scared of the up-coming sentence. "Y-yes sir?"

"Take 'lizabeth h'me. 've got t' talk to m' s'ns." When he slid that, Gilbert lowered into the grass, ears down with fear.

Roderich, slightly relieved of the 'calm' sentence, glided over to the frightened future kings.

"Come, Elizabetha. Ludwig, Gilbert…" A sigh from the supervisor. "… Good luck." He said before flying home with Elizabeth.

"Ludwig, Gilbert!" Berwald called the brother with a stern voice. Gilbert looked at his Iron Cross, before sighing and obeying his father's command. Ludwig followed behind, cowering behind his older brother. As Gilbert sat beside his father, Ludwig stepped on his father's footprint. He wondered for a moment, asking himself how he can make himself as big as his father overtime. Slowly, he sat beside his brother, lowering his head for the punishment.

"Ludwig, Gilbert… I 'm very d'sappointed 'n yo'." He said almost worryingly.

"I know…" Gilbert said glumly.

"Yo' could've been k'lled. You del'berately d'sobeyed m', and wh't's worse, yo' p't Elizabetha 'n d'nger!" Their father stated.

Gilbert choked in a sob. "I was… We were trying to be brave just like you…!"

"I'm 'nly brave wh'n I h've to be." The king said in a calm tone in his voice, finally understanding the situation behind this. "G'ys, being br've doesn't mean yo' g' looking f'r trouble."

"But you're not scared of anyzhing." Ludwig snapped out of his little depression trance of his, looking up to his father.

The king sighed, looking away from his sons before replying.

"I w's tod'y."

"You were?"

"Yes." He leaned down gracefully where his two little baby lions sat, now at the same height of them. "I tho'ght I m'ght lose m' two d'rest sons."

"Oh…" Gilbert said in depression, almost saying it as if he was not happy that a superior being had fears. "I guess even kings get scared, huh?"

"But you know what?" Ludwig commented on the conversation, inching closer to whisper something in his relatives' ears. "I think those hyenas were even scareder…!"

A small laugh escaped from the king's own mouth. "'C'use n'-body m'sses w'th yo'r dad…! C'me 'ere!" And he locked his front paws with both of his sons, first giving Gilbert a hard nudge on his head before giving Ludwig one as well. As Ludwig struggled to get out of the grasp, the other lion cub squeezed past the arm of his father and tackled Berwald, freeing his only brother.

"Come here!" Gilbert cried out to King Berwald, who was running away laughing as if it was a game of tag. As Ludwig regained his strength to run, Gilbert already tackled their dad twice. The other cub that didn't play with his dad much joined in the dog pile, playfully biting his ear while the larger turned to his side with laughter.

As the trio settled down, Gilbert slid off from his father's mane while Ludwig rested on top of it.

"Hey, Dad?" Gilbert asked the much larger figure. "We're pals right?"

"Right." Berwald answered with a small chuckle.

"And we'll always be together, right?" The resting cub asked, but the face his daddy made was a bit serious and sad in reply. He tried to figure out what he just said, but he just never did. Berwald sat up, Ludwig still on his pale gold mane.

"Gilbert, Ludwig, l't me t'll yo' s'meth'ng th't m' fath'r t'ld m'. Look 't th' stars." His sons obeyed to his soft command. "Th' great k'ngs 'f th' past look d'wn on 's fr'm those stars."

"Really?" Both siblings asked together.

"Y's. S' wh'never yo' feel al'ne, j'st rememb'r th't th'se kings w'll always b' th're t' guide yo'." He hesitated saying the last sentence with a pause. "'nd s' w'll I."

~A Nation's King~

Deep within the Shadow lands, green acidic lava bubbles up and created a forest green colour of steam. Load and loads of rocks were somehow piled up and made pathways and little homes. And guess who lived here?

"Man, that lousy Berwald. I won't be able to sit for a week!" A familiar male voice echoed through the green caves. It was quickly followed by quick paced laughing. Just through another pathway of rocks, there sat Sadiq and the crazy Ceasar, who was laughing his head off from Sadiq's butt sctratches.

"It's not funny, Cea." But before he could boil with anger, the stricken hyena laughed out loud even harder, causing the ingured wild dog to start a fight with the laughing hyena.

Just above ground, Bella was on the lookout for Scar, as she was hungry as hell. She suddenly hears the commotion. "Will you two quit it?"

Just as it looked like Ceasar was chewing on the ingured dogs leg, he quickly let momentum put him down. "Well, he started it!"

"Look at you guys. No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain!"

"Man, I hate dangling." He protested while a long chain of saliva dangled down his chin.

"Yeah? If it weren't for those lions, we'd be runnin' up the food chain like naturals!"

"Man, I hate lions!"

"So pushy…"

"And hairy…"

"And stinky!"

"And man are they ugly!" Both Bella and Sadiq said in union, crackling with laughter after that.

"Oh, surely we lions are not all bad, da?" An uncle's voice rang through their eardrums. The hyenas looked up in lightning speed as they heard the voice, only finding it as just Ivan.

"Oh Ivan, it's just you!" Sadiq said with a small laugh.

"Yeah, we were afraid it was somebody important!"

"Yeah, you know, like Berwald!"

Ivan the pure white lion twitched slightly at the mentioned name. He despised his brother just that much, seriously. "I see…"

"Now that's power, good thing you're our pal!"

"Tell me about it, not a king, but still so proper to us!"

"Yeah. Hey, did you bring us anything to eat? Ivan, old buddy, old pal? Huh? Did ya, did ya, did ya?"

Ivan smirked at that comment. He knew that they didn't kill the lion cubs he practically gift wrapped for them. Oh well.

"I don't think you really deserve this." He plainly said, holding out a carcass of a zebra's leg. Just as he pulled out the piece of meat in front of him, the starving dogs, hungry as they are, drooled and anted at the sight. "I practically gift-wrapped those cubs for you, and you couldn't even dispose of them." And he dropped it.

The hyenas followed the dear scent and eyesore and immediately feasted. As the dogs tore off the skin, Bella looked up at the mighty lion on top of the highest rock.

"Well, you know Ivan, it wasn't exactly like they were alone." Bella complained with a full mouth.

"Yeah. What are we supposed to do?" Sadiq also said in a full mouth, swallowing it full before resuming his suggestion. "Kill Berwald?"

"Precisely…~"

Just as the hyenas could figure out how, Ivan jumped down from his high rock and landed in the middle of the trio with a thump. As Ceasar grabbed the unfinished zebra thigh, Ivan padded along the rocky ground, green steam erupting out of the ground almost in rhythm.

"I know that your powers of retention are as wet as a warthog's backside…" He sang as he crept towards the stupid hyena, Ceasar.

"But thick as you are, pay attention!" He threw the clean bone off the hyena's mouth. "My words are a matter of pride…"

"It's clear from your vacant expressions." He waved his paw right in front the saluting hyena's face, expression dulling to become the normally stupid hyena he is. "The lights are not all on upstairs."

"But we're talking kings and successions…!" Bella and Sadiq cackled at the steamy background. "Even you can't be caught unawares!" He scared them, felling the dogs backwards into two active geysers.

"So prepare for the chance of a lifetime" He sang in tune to his song as Bella and Sadiq fell from a great height and survived. "Be prepared for sensational news!"

"A shining new era is tiptoeing nearer"

"And where do we feature?" Bella joined in for a short time with the song, before being grabbed by the cheek.

"Just listen to teacher. I know it souns sordid, but you'll be rewarded, when at last I am given my dues… And injustice deliciously squared, be prepared!" He finished his lines right after he kicked Ceasar off a short cliff, landing on a pile of scattered bones.

"Yeah, be prepared. We'll be prepared! For what?" The other hyenas mysteriously appeared out of the cluster for some reason.

"For the death of the king!" Ivan announced mid-way of his song.

"What, is he sick?"

"No, fool, we're going to kill him… And those two brats too…"

"Great idea, who needs a king?" Bella mocked, the only duo of hyenas that talked in the trio sang at the plan.

"Idiots! There will be a king!"

"Hey, but you said-"

"I will be king! Stick with me, and you'll never grow hungry again!" As he said that, the green steamy background turned an amber colour mysteriously. As the triad of hyenas praised at the plan Ivan thought up of, the rest of hyenas, hundreds and hundreds of them,

Heard of the plan and chanted along with the original hyenas.

"Long live King Ivan! Long live the king!"

"It's great that we'll soon be connected, with a king that'll be all time adored!" The army of hyenas sang, turning their heads at Ivan's way when they passed by his in the march.

"Of course, quid pro quo, you're expected, to take certain duties on board…~" He said with a clawed animal finger running along his neck.

"The future is littered with prizes, and though I'm the main addressee…" He jumped down in front of the hyena army, now scattering in all directions. "The point that I must emphasise is, you won't get a sniff without me!" And the background turned blood red as one of the hyenas fell into the new cracks of the earth.

"So prepare for the coup of the century, be prepared for the murkiest scam!" He jumped onto various moving pillars as the earth shifted in a very tiny place on the world map.

"Meticulous planning"

"We'll have food,"

"Tenacity spanning"

"Lots of food"

"Decades of denial"

"We repeat, endless meat!"

"Is simply why I'll, be king undisputed, respected, saluted, and seen for the wonder I am!" He sang to the near end of his song, the pillar he was standing on rose up so high, he could feel like he could capture the crescent moon with a hug.

"Yes, my teeth and ambitions are bared, be prepared!" the hyena army played around and danced in the erupting caves, playing with skeleton xylophones and gazelle upper bodies.

"Yes, my teeth and ambitions are bared!"

"Be prepared!" Ivan ended his musical plan, as his hyena army and himself laughed evilly from the elephant graveyard.

Sorry that I got a bit lazy at the end, I was kind of rushing cause I'm not allowed on the computer on schooldays and I don't want to post it up next week after it hasn't been updated for so long! But still, here you go.