Chapter 4
Sisi Ni Sawa: We're the Same
"Kion she went this way!" Bunga shouted as he ran ahead.
"Beshte keep up!" Kion called behind him.
"I'm trying!" Beshte called back. "Just go on ahead!"
"Ono fly up there and…" Kion's voice trailed off and Bunga caught the sadness that gleamed in his eyes.
"Kion… you okay?"
"Yeah, sorry Bunga" Kion said as he shook his head to clear away the thoughts. "She's fast" Kion added to lighten the mood.
"Ah, not too fast for the lion guard" Bunga replied with a confident smile.
If Fuli was here we would have caught her ages ago Kion thought.
Finally he came to a halt and the hyena jumped at him, knocking him to the ground. He shook his head to clear it and shook the dust from his pelt.
"You picked the wrong place to fight" the hyena chuckled. "This is my turf."
Beshte finally caught up and stood strong by Kion's side.
"What were you doing in the pridelands hyena?" Kion demanded. "You know your kind's not welcome there!"
"Have you ever stopped to think that maybe I'm not like Janja and his clan?" she demanded.
"Yeah, she says that after she attacked you" Bunga said suspiciously. "I say we take her down right now."
"Yeah? Try it weasel" the hyena mocked.
"I'm a honey badger!" Bunga said angrily. "How long have you been here exactly that you can't tell a honey badger from a weasel?" He laughed a little at this.
"Enough playing around" Kion stated. "If we catch you in the pridelands again…"
"What?" the hyena bit back. "You think you could take me?"
Kion smirked, "I know I could."
"You lions are so conceited" she growled. "You think you own the pridelands, we're not that different Kion!"
"Oh you're completely different!" Kion snapped.
"How?" she snarled.
Kion stumbled for the right words to say. She was a hyena, that's what was different. She was just like Janja and his clan, or like the evil hyenas that followed Scar around that Simba had told him stories of.
"You poach in our lands for one!" Kion said.
"I've never hurt another animal in the pridelands, I was just in the pridelands to hide from Janja" she stated.
"You were hiding from Janja?" Bunga asked in confusion. "But aren't you in his clan?"
"Not all hyenas belong to a clan" she replied. "I'm a loner for now."
"So you don't follow Janja?" Beshte asked.
"I despise him" she replied.
"Oh…" Kion looked between Bunga and then Beshte. "What's your name?"
"I'm Jasiri" she replied. "And your Kion, Beshte, and Bunga, everyone around here knows you."
"We're famous huh?" Bunga said with a smirk as he elbowed Kion. "I always knew we would be."
"I wouldn't say famous" Jasiri giggled. "More like notorious."
"Well good" Kion said. "The hyenas have a right to fear us, at least this way it'll hopefully deter them from coming into the pridelands."
"Well, it was nice to meet you Kion" Jasiri said as she smiled a little and turned to walk off.
"Hey what about us?" Bunga shouted after her. But Jasiri was already gone. Kion watched her go and a small smile came on his face. Bunga watched his friend closely and elbowed him again.
"Got a crush Kion?" Bunga teased.
"Course not!" Kion replied quickly.
Beshte gave him the same look and lifted a quizzical eyebrow at him.
"Come on guys, I barely know her" Kion defended.
"We can change that" Bunga replied. "After all, what are best friends for?"
Kion laughed at that and followed his friends home. For the first time he began to feel a little better. He still had a hole in him from Ono's death, and another from Fuli's abandonment, but at least he still had them. As long as they stuck together they would be alright.
Lead wisely and you'll be okay. Simba's words echoed in Kion's head and he held onto them tightly. He would be the wisest leader the pridelands had ever known. He would make sure his guard would go down in history, become part of the stories passed down by Rafiki and soon….Mkini. Little did he know that although his guard would go down in history, it wouldn't be in the way Kion thought.
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