Episode 4 – the black sheep in the family
"It is tiiiiiiiiiime!", Simba shouted that everyone could hear him. The other lions, Timon, Pumbaa & Rafiki were looking confused at him.
"Yes, Rafiki. That's how you sound to everyone here. Anyway, I have something to tell you. I'll leave with Nala for 5 days to train with my father. When I come back, I want everything to look like before I raged and damaged our home. Be brave, don't cry and..."
"Who's gonna be the lion king for these 5 days?!", Kovu asked excited and looked hopefully at Simba.
"Oh, right. A replacement..."
"Yeees? Yeees?"
"I need a male lion for this..."
"And I aaaaam maaale?"
"Kovu, stop that. I would rather pick Nuka instead of you."
"You..mean if he'd be alive, right?"
"No."
"Simba, please! You must pick me! There is no other male lion here!"
"Really? Hey! Rafiki!" Rafiki turned his head in Simbas direction and listened.
"I hope you gained some muscles."
In the next moment, Rafiki heaved Ken above his head and tried to hold him.
"Ladies and gentlions, the Lion Gay!", Simba yelled and laughed while looking at Kovu. Kovu just stood there next to Kiara with his mouth open.
"I can't believe he did that."
"Well, Ken is male, right?", Kiara tried to argue.
"But he's gay!"
"Wow, Kovu. For someone who nearly slept with him, you are really homophobic."
"No no no, I didn't mean in it that way!", Kovu said, but Kiara already walked disappointed away to her father. Rafiki was shortly before he collapsed and went down on his knees.
"Can I...let you down...your majesty..?"
"Ehm, okay." When Ken said that, Rafiki collapsed and he landed right on his back. Simba laughed heartfully and wiped some tears out of his face.
"Okay everyone. Do what your King commands, but rebuild the Pride Rock in the first place. We will see us soon, bye.", Simba said to everyone and walked off with Nala.
"Father, wait! If only you train, why do you take mom with you?"
"Because training is really stressful, Kiara."
"What's that supposed to...oh my god!", Kiara said disgusted and turned herself away. Now everyone was looking at Ken, waiting for him to do something. He had obviously no idea what to do and got more and more nervous over time.
"Okay...my...subjects. Let's have fun and enjoy life!"
"Maybe Sarabi would have been a better choice.", Kiara said sceptical and sighed.
"What about me?! Sarabi is not even male!"
"Kovu, you got a serious problem with your ego. All I hear is me, me, me."
"Bu...whatever, I can't win a discussion against my girlfriend anyway, right?", Kovu asked and saw Kiara nodding like crazy.
Far away from the Pride Lands, a female lion walked together with some panthers towards the Pride Rock. The female licked her lips and was obviously walking faster than her minions.
"Come on, hurry!"
"We're already really fast, stop rushing like that."
"Not fast enough!"
"What's the deal, Tamilia? Afraid of losing your brother's smell? I mean he left a week ago and even I can still smell where he went. This guy makes a corpse smelling like a flower by just walking by.", one of the panthers said.
"Of course I won't lose him! It's just...I can't wait to see Ken again...and finally erase this shame of ours from this planet.", Tamilia said and laughed out loud, before she started running.
"Oh boy...don't lose her! The faster we walk, the sooner we'll arrive!", the panther on the front said to his man and started running with them, to catch up on Tamilia.
Three days later, the Pride Rock was still one huge mess and Ken sat on top of everything, without any idea what to do. The other lions were hunting like always to survive, but no one did what Ken tried to say. Kiara walked slowly from behind next to Ken and tried to cheer him up.
"Everything okay?"
"I'm just sooooo glad when this is over and Simba is king again. I'm so bad at this."
"Well, to be honest...your commands were a little bit...I don't know...pointless."
"What's so pointless about picking up flowers to make everything look better? Vitani always likes it when I put flowers in her hair."
"No, I don't!", Vitani screamed from the Pride Lands where she was hunting.
"She's soooo moody, but I like her."
"Ken, if you wanna be good king for the last two days, it would be really helpful if you could stop beeing a stereotype and try to think what Simba always does." Kiara made Ken think about this and he started ruminating.
"Hm, okay. Kovu you stupid piece of shit! I..."
"No no no! Not that part, I mean when he gives everyone their jobs and solves problems."
"Oh, that thing. Hm...", Ken started ruminating again, when suddenly Kovu appears.
"I...ran as fast as I could...what is it...?", he panted and nearly collapsed.
"Wow, that really works.", Ken said, while Kiara stood as surprised as he in front of Kovu. Kovu started to breathe normal again and looked by Kiara and Ken on the PrideLands.
"Hey...is that a lion?", he said and made everyone turn around.
Kovu was right, Kiara and Ken saw the lion with her panthers immediatly. Ken got paralyzed and started sweating on his whole body.
"No..."
"What is it?"
"That's my sister I told you about, Tamilia. And everyone is out hunting...", Ken stuttered. Tamilia stopped and looked up to Ken on his heap of brocken rocks.
"Ken! How are you, little brother?"
"Wha...what are you doing here?! You already exiled me..why don't you leave me alone?!"
"Oh Ken, we made a mistake. We should have never exiled you in the first place."
"What?"
"You know that our herd is one of the strongest in africa and exiling you for beeing gay was so wrong."
"Y..yes! That was definitly wrong!"
"I know! Exiling made you run away and maybe tell someone that you gay freak come from our pride herd. We didn't overthink it enough and now I'm here to correct our mistake."
"You mean.."
"Yeah, time to die.", she said and send all five panthers to attack Ken. Kovu walked in front of him and roared like he never roared before. The panthers stood still and were looking at him shocked.
"Kiara. Get her.", Kovu said without looking back. Kiara nodded and ran away.
"You guys don't wanna mess with the Pride Rock! You maybe see only us, but you're wrong. While everyone is out hunting, the elders queen is still here! You should start running away, because our mighty queen Sarabi is..."
"Dead!", Kiara yelled from Sarabis cave.
"What?"
"Yeah, no pulse. Grandma's dead."
"Bad...bad...timing." When Kovu spoke the last word, all five panthers jumped at the same time on him. Ken ran away to Kiara and tried to hide from her sister, who walked slowly up the Pride Rock, towards them.
"Get...off!", Kovu yelled and threw all panthers at the same time away from him. His body was glowing and some small stones around him started levitating.
"What are you waiting for?! Attack again!", Tamilia screamed and looked at Kovu. The panthers started jumping again on him, but this time, Kovu was able to block and counter them. Tamilia forgot for a moment that she was there to kill Ken and bared her teeth at Kovu. He could fight the panthers with his new power, but was exhausted as fast as his attackers.
"What's wrong, boy? Out of breathe?! Don't worry, I'll make this quick!", Tamilia said and prepared herself to jump on Kovu and bite into his neck.
"You better make you and your minions vanish quick out of our eyes.", a voice said from behind. Tamilia turned herself angrily and saw all of Simbas lions stand there baring there teeth and Vitani on the front.
"It's your decision. You can fight everyone here at the same time, too if you want.", Vitani said and smiled pugnacious. Angrily Tamilia looked at her panthers and walked slowly off.
"I was wondering why there were only 2 lions by Ken. Looks like there's nothing to do here. For now. Follow me guys and this time...hurry.", she said and ran away with with her panthers. Kovu looked exhausted, but really happy at Vitani.
"Thanks...for saving us all, Vitani."
"Nothing big to thank me for."
"It's just..."
"What?"
"I'm really really glad you saved us, but why didn't we just kill them?" Vitani looked at Kovu for a moment without moving at all.
"Fuck, that was stupid."
Tamilia and her panthers flew from the Pride Rock and ended up in the outland. While the panthers were trying to recover, Tamilia stomped on the ground and roared hatefully.
"I can't believe that another herd let him join them. And now that we ran away, they think we're even weaker than before, because of our gay cat."
"Maybe they don't know any other lions they could tell. That way we don't have to kill him and can go home aga..."
"You wanna spare him?!", Tamilia yelled angrily and pushed her face against the panther's.
"I...I mean.."
"You are the reason why Ken is still alive! If you weaklings were strong enough, this other lion had no chance to defend Ken until the rest of them showed up!"
"Bu..but how could we? Di-didn't you saw him glowing?! We don't even know what happened!" Tamilia turned herself away him and walked away some steps.
"Yes, I'm still curious about that. I have no idea what that was, but I'm sure we'll find away to beat him." A laugh from behind a rock suddenly appeared and pulled Tamilia's and her panther's attention.
"Glowin' lion, huh? I'm sure we'll find a way to solve ya problem." Baska walked on his four feets towards them and continued laughing. Tamilia bared her teeth and walked two steps backwards to get some distance from the enourmos bear.
"Who are you?"
"I'm just a guy who know's what's up, got it?"
"Not really, no."
"Listen: This lion you met got spiritual power from a dead lion with a strong will. My boss got these power's, too but is right now looking for a specific one by himself. Translated for you: It means that I got enough time to fuck up Simba with you and surprise my boss with his head."
"Simba, huh? I don't really care about this guy, so if you could handle him while I take care of my brother...I'm statisfied."
"Ha ha. I like your fire, girl.", Baska said and started making up a plan with Tamilia to defeate the Pride Rock.
At the Pride Rock, Ken explained everything to the rest of the lions, that they know who this lion and her panthers were.
"Sounds like we came just at the right moment.", Vitani said and smiled at Kovu like an older sister that saved her little brother for the thousandth time.
"At least better timing than Sarabi who just died when I needed her."
"Hey, I saved your ass you dickhead." A voice out of the sky said. Everyone looked up and saw how the clouds were gathering and forming Sarabis head.
"Sa..Sarabi?", Kovu said stunned.
"And I just wanted to point out that I died 3 days ago. Thanks for checking everyday, my dear granddaughter." Kiara started to whistle and looked away.
"Now to you Kovu: My timing fucking saved you. I was the one who gave you the power to beat those panthers."
"I thought only lion with a strong will become these kind of spirits."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You know...ehm.."
"Because I'm a female? You know how many years I laid deaf and nearly blind in my cave, only alive because I didn't want to die?"
"You're right, you're right! Sorry for..."
"Next time I'll merge with the gay one."
"No no no no, I'm sorry! Really! Please grand queen Sarabi, lend me your strengh to protect the Pride Rock!", Kovu yelled and bowed down. Sarabi looked at Kovu for a moment and then sighed.
"Fine, I'll stay by your side. But fucking respect me or else..."
"Yes, my queen!" Sarabi smiled and turned her head to Kiara.
"Look Kiara, your boyfriend is my bitch now."
"I understand what you and Mufasa had in common.", Kiara said skeptically and tried to smile.
When the sun went down, every lion was prepared for an attack at night. Ken was sure that her sister was the type of lion that tries to go for the easiest and sneakiest way. Ken was hiding in a cave and talked with Kiara about girly things, to waste the time faster. Around midnight, one of the lions saw some animals coming towards the Pride Rock and alarmed everyone who was there. Kovu gave everyone the signal to go in their attacking postion and waited. Tamilia came really fast close, but stopped with her minions in front of the Pride Rock and looked up to Kovu who stood on the highest point.
"So, we meet again.", Tamilia said.
"It's not like you didn't know I was here."
"Anyway!...I hope you had a nice day, because it was your last, King...Simba."
"What? I'm not Simba, I'm Kovu!"
"Who?"
"And how do you know about Simba?"
"It doesn't matter now! The quintessence of my statement was: Get ready...to face your death."
"It's over, Tamilia! I have the highground!"
"You underestimate my power!"
"Don't try i..."
"Kear Bick!", Baska said from behind Kovu, who just came out of the sky and kicked him far behind Tamilia.
"Yo! That's not Simba! That's the jerk I already beat up!"
"I know now!"
"And you lost against him?"
"Doesn't matter now! Go kill him, I'll take care of the rest.", Tamilia said annoyed and walked slowly up the Pride Rock with the other Panthers. Baska twitched with his shoulders and jumped right in the direction in that Kovu flew.
"Here we go ladies. Didn't you want to fight?", she said laughing to Simba's lions. Vitani bared her teeth and roared at her.
"For the Pride Rock!", she screamed and jumped with the other lions at the panthers. Most of the Panthers fought two lions at the same time, since they were only five against ten of them. While looking for Ken, Tamilia walked by most of the fights and scratched everyone who attacked her away.
"Keeeeen, your lovely sister his heere. Come out and plaaaay." Ken heared Tamilia looking for him and looked skeptically at Kiara.
"That's a trick! I'm sure she doesn't want to play with me! She never did when we were little..."
"Oh, really?", Kiara said sarcasticly.
"Keeeeeeen, I can see Kovu's butt from heree."
"Where are you?!", Ken yelled excited when he jumped out of his hiding place.
"There."
"Oh oh." Ken started running away and Tamilia chased him immediatly. Kiara ran out of the cave and looked after them.
"Great. That's not why I asked for a hiding place.", she said to herself and ran after Tamilia and Ken.
When Baska arrvied where Kovu landed, Kovu already stood up and was glowling even more than before. Baska laughed and walked slowly towards him.
"Since I saw you're not Simba, I thought that lady fooled me, but you actually have spiritual power. Haha great, maybe this time you'll last a minute."
"He, I hope you last a minute!"
"Oh boy, trashtalk's not ya thing, right?"
"Sorry, I prefer fighting."
"Haha, there we go!", Baska said before he and Kovu dashed against each other. Baska kicked and punched Kovu as fast as he could, but Kovu could block every single hit by his paws. He blocked the hits, but got still pushed away with every single one.
"Pega Munch!", Baska screamed and punched Kovu with everything he got and made him slip several meters backwards. Kovu breathed heavily and got problems standing on his paws that got hit all the time.
"You're good, kid. But you're stamina's to weak." Kovu started smiling while breathing heavily and looked at him.
"If you have so much stamina, why don't you continue attacking me?"
"As you wish." Baska jumped at Kovu and attacked even faster than before, but this time, Kovu was able to dodge every single hit.
"Okay, that's it! Freeze!", Baska screamed and punched to freeze Kovu once again in the air. Right before his fist could hit him, Kovu spun in the air over Baska.
"You never attacked me. You punch and kick always the same way. Not even your special attacks are different from you usual pattern. Once I got it, there was no way I couldn't know where you gonna try to punch me.", Kovu said while he flew over Baskas head and kicked him with his left foot in the dirt. Baska slided some meters and stood up immediatly after that.
"What happened?! You're not the same guy as before!"
"I am Sarabi, god of all lions...", Sarabi said through Kovu's body with a voicemix between her and his.
"Okay, that explains something."
"...now feel my wraaaath!" Kovu's body was overwhelmed by spiritual power and charged at Baska with full power.
"Ceath Dlaws!", Baska screamed while runnung at Kovu and reached out his fist.
"Get dooown!" Both screamed and clashed with their attack at each others. Baska punched as hard as he could against the fullcharged Kovu and ignited a shockwave through the whole Pride Lands, that even the lions and panthers fighting fell down. After thrity secounds, Baska and Kovu rushed by each other and fell down. Kovu laid unconscious on the ground, while Baska slowly stood up again and looked at him.
"You...pathetic...little..bastard.." Baska walked slowly towards him, when suddenly his whole body glew again and Sarabis voice screamed:" You're lucky that I've got that weak body! But one more step and I'll stick your Alaws up your Cnus, you got that?!"
Afraid of Sarabis power, Baska turned himself away and hobbled slowly back into Outland.
"Didn't expect that. Tzh, whatever. Next time, there won't be a draw.", Baska said to himself.
Meanwhile, ended Tamilias hunt at a huge river behind the Pride Rock. Ken stood in front of the rushing water and couldn't get past it. Tamilia catched up on him and walked towards her little brother.
"I'll just kill you here without many words, you know why I hate you."
"I...I just don't get how you can kill me...just for beeing homosexuell."
"I only hate you thirty procent for beeing gay, but that's not the reason I wanna kill you so badly."
"But...whatelse?"
"You laughed...about my beautiful necklace!"
"I'm so sorry! I didn't know you got a beautiful necklace, I only saw the shit one."
"Die!", Tamilia screamed and reached out with her claws to push Ken into the river and drown him.
"No!" Kiara charged from behind and headbutted Tamilia straight forward above Ken. Ken smiled and yelled:" Have a nice bath, you slu..." But she landed on the side of the river, instead of in it.
"Wow did I..."
"Yap."
"Damn, I'm strong."
"Do..do you think she can, unlike me, jump over it back to us?"
"I hope not." Then Tamilia jumped easily back to them.
"Well, shit.", Kiara said and walked defending in front of Ken.
"Now...since you know my little brother, you can tell everyone else about the gay sheep in our herd. Means: You're next."
"Wait!...Knock knock!"
"What?"
"Blubb."
"I don't play your little game!"
"You in a secound!", Kiara said and headbutted Tamilia again, that she falls into the river and rushed away. She screamed, but the water was to fast to hear anything more from her.
"Yes! Get zira'd, bitch! Woho, Kiara - Kiara - Kiara is so cool, hey!", she sang and danced while Ken saw far away her sister swimming to survive.
"Let's go home, Ken. I hope Vitani and the rest is alright.", Kiara said and walked off with him, towards their home. But when they arrived, a bloodstained Vitani came at them. Kiara was shocked and ran over to her.
"Vitani! What happened?!"
"I...I...I managed to get some yummy panthermeat for everyone!"
"Haha, you got me for a secound! Let's eat and celebrate that we beat the bad guys!"
"Shouldn't we look for Ko..."
"Eat and ceeelebrate.", Kiara said and walked to the rest of the lions and their panthermeat. Ken looked at Vitani and asked her:" Does she even love him?"
"Not sure, I guess in some way."
Meanwhile at Kovus place:
"You already sleep for an hour, now wake up! I did all the work, you were just there so stop acting exhausted. I can't demerge from you when you sleep...that makes no sense, but that's how it is! Kovu pleeeeeeease!
...Piece of shit."
Back at the Pride Rock when Simba and Nala came back:
"Aaaah, home sweet home. And everything is still damaged, as I expected.", Simba said and took a deep breathe to feel his land.
"Simba, Simba! Welcome baaack!", Ken yelled and ran right at him.
"Cover my butt, Nala. There he is.", he wisphered to Nala before Ken arrived.
"It was nice to be King for a week, thanks for the..."
"Yea yea yeah, did something special happen?"
"Naw, everything's okay."
"Ogay then. Where are Kiara and Kovu?"
"Oh right, Kiara is trying to help Kovu recover from his fight against this giant bear where he used his new spiritual power from your dead mother. Oh by the way, your mother died."
"About time, she was really oooool...oooh Kovu has what?!"
And then, Ken explained everything that happened while Simba was away and gifted him the most beautiful flower he ever saw.
"Well, I hope you enjoyed our vacation Nala..."
"Not really, I was alone for most of the time."
"..because it looks like I can't leave without risking that my home gets destroyed. Even more I mean.", Simba sighed and just went into his cave.
In the outland, Zerrath came back from his search and met Baska who was waiting for him to talk.
"Another spirit?"
"Yea and it was strong enough to knock me out. Even in this weak body."
"Interesting. And what about that female you told me about?"
"Still alive.", Baska said and threw Tamilias body in front of him. Zerrath laid his paw on her head and started speaking into her ear.
"Wake up, it's not over yet." Tamilia started speaking unconsciously with her eyes closed.
"Who...is there?"
"Revange."
