Well, now I am publishing chapter 6 of my fanfic. I'm sorry if some of you waited very much. Zuzu (female) is copyrighted to the authors of "The Lion King: Six New Adventures" series. Sharia (female) is copyrighted to TakaPL, and I have permission to use her. Hivyo (male) and Athari (female) are my characters, and are not to be used without my permission. Now let's begin the chapter.
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Chapter 6 – The Tree of Life
Life on Pride Rock was going well, as well as possible. Simba and Nala were the youngest cubs of the pride, and were growing healthy. In the beginning, Sarabi and Sarafina had to stay with their cubs during day and night.
In those days, normally, Penda stayed with Sarabi, and Safura with Sarafina. Moyo always stayed with Sarafina and Nala, and even Mufasa made a supreme effort to always have some time for staying with Sarabi and Simba.
Around a week after Simba's and Nala's births, Sarabi and Sarafina already could go on hunt.
During the few times they went on hunt, they left Simba and Nala with Penda and Safura. Simba and Nala couldn't really move yet, and still had the eyes half-closed, so it wasn't too hard to take care of them.
Most of the other cubs didn't really care too much for Simba and Nala, as they hadn't enough age to play, but Tojo liked to stay with Simba and Nala, even though they were too small to move.
"You want to stay with cubs that don't even move?" asked Koza when he heard that.
"What a way to waste time." said Kianga, with an annoying expression.
Unfornately for them, Asmini heard them, and made them both to apologize to Tojo. They apologized, but, as a matter of fact, no one of the cubs really understood Tojo's attitude.
"They're somehow right." said Jani to her son, a little bit worried. "Why do you want to stay with them?"
"It's simple, Mom." said Tojo. "Here inside the cave it's more unlikely that I have an accident. I already had enough when I climbed the termite mound and the termites bit me."
"No one told you to climb the termite mound!" said Jani, in an angry voice.
"Calm down, Jani." said Mega, trying to calm down her daughter. "Don't get mad at Tojo. Besides, this is the reason for those things to happen. For we to learn."
"If that cheers you up, I'll stay with you." said Kula, placing her paw on Tojo's shoulder.
And so, Tojo and Kula were the only cubs from the pride that stayed with young Simba and Nala, while all the other cubs went to have fun. But Tojo and Kula also had fun with Simba and Nala, in their own way, and that always gave Penda and Safura some time to talk.
Two weeks after Simba and Nala's birth, the cubs opened their eyes. On that day, Sarabi and Sarafina saw the eyes of their cubs. Simba's eyes were brown, like Mufasa's and Sarabi's. One funny thing to notice about Nala's eyes was that Nala had blue-green eyes. That was quite funny because Sarafina had green eyes and Moyo had blue eyes.
"She doesn't look that much like you, after all." said Leo when he saw his niece's eyes.
"Oh yes, genius with elephant memory?" asked Sarafina, a little bit annoyed, but at the same fun.
Her brother's comments always made her to laugh a little bit.
"Yes." said Leo, chuckling. "And you're darker than her."
"For once, Leo is right." said Fani.
The only ones who seemed not to care at all with Simba and Nala were Scar and Zira. They seemed to live almost apart from the pride, and, always that Scar saw Simba, he gave him a look full of hatred.
Mega was getting more worried by the day. Scar always had been quite good at repressing his feelings, but, after passing so much time repressing them, for how much longer he would hang on?
When Simba and Nala were three weeks old, they finally started walking… well, in the beginning, Simba needed some help of Tojo, and Nala needed some help of Kula, but, after some time of practice, they managed to walk around twenty steps without falling.
When Mufasa, Sarabi, Moyo and Sarafina returned to the cave, they were all excited with the fact that Simba and Nala were walking. And even more surprising was when, right on that moment, Simba and Nala began talking. When Sarabi came close of her son, Simba said: "Mom."
There was the biggest excitement seen on Pride Rock for the last months, and when Nala also said: "Mom." when she looked at Sarafina. Some time later, when Simba and Nala were in separate parts of the cave, with their respective parents, both Nala and Simba said: "Dad."
Like usually, there was big excitement. But, the high point of the day was when Simba and Nala made a supreme effort, got up from their mothers' paws, and walked to each other without anyone holding them.
Sarabi and Sarafina followed their respective cubs, but without holding them, and Simba and Nala managed to go to each other. Then, Simba said: "Nala."
And Nala said: "Simba."
The two lionesses burst in laughter when they heard the words of their cubs.
"What's going on here?" asked Sabini, who was just passing by with Hiari.
"Yeah, aunt Sarabi, what happened?" asked Hiari.
"By what I could see, it was kind of weird." said Leo, who had seen almost everything of that situation. "Simba and Nala walked to each other, and they said eachother's names."
"That's unusual, in fact." said Penda, who was passing by.
"I have an idea." said Mufasa, who arrived shortly after Leo's talking. Moyo also came.
Mufasa exposed his idea: "Since Simba and Nala are so good friends, what about if we make them betrothed?"
"What?" asked Moyo. "Mufasa, don't you think it's a little bit early?"
"I can't see why." said Mufasa, smiling at Sarabi, and adding: "With us worked well."
"But you were older." said Penda, with a worried expression. "Simba and Nala are just young cubs."
"And betrothing doesn't work well always." said Sabini, also worried.
"Well, but Simba and Nala are friends." added Safura, trying to calm them down. "It can't work all too bad. And besides, for a wedding work out well, the pair doesn't have to be betrothed. I know one case…"
With those words, she looked at her daughter and at her son-in-law.
"I know, Mom." said Sarafina.
"But I think, if we all agree, that there is no problem in Simba and Nala beign betrothed."said Moyo.
"No." said Mufasa. "Alright, if we all agree, they can be betrothed."
After they deciding that, they noticed about three more members of the pride that were hearing the conversation: Scar, Zira, and Sakia.
Scar looked at Sakia, giving her a "What did I tell you?" look, and then he and Zira left the cave together.
"It seems that Scar was right." thought Sakia, watching Scar and Zira leaving the cave. "It took less than a month for Simba being betrothed to another cub. And it had to be with Nala."
Because Simba and Nala already were old enough, Mufasa decided that Simba's presentation to the herds should be two days later. Enough time for Rafiki to prepare everything what he needed.
"So…" said Mufasa, speaking to the whole cave. "I need someone to go to Rafiki's tree. Anyone volunteers?"
"I do!" said Tama, jumping excitedly.
"Why you, Tama?" asked Alama.
"I want to paint with Mr Rafiki's ink." said Tama. "He has nice ink colours, maybe he can give me one."
And so, Tama went to Rafiki's house, a big tree close to the border of the Pride Lands, called the Tree of Life.
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After some time of running, Tama finally arrived to the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life was the biggest and oldest tree of the Pride Lands. That is the reason why Rafiki, a wiseape, chose it to live, and make his divinations and general shamanistic preparings.
"It's so big." thought Tama when she saw it. "I hope Mr. Rafiki is in here."
When she arrived under the tree, she shouted: "Mr. Rafiki, are you in here?"
No answer.
"Mr. Rafiki, if you in here, can you come down?"
No answer again. However, after paying some attention, Tama heard some noises on the top of the tree, noises that could be made only by the activity of the mandrill.
"CAN YOU COME DOWN, MR RAFIKI?" shouted Tama, annoyed. "DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME?"
"I didn't hear "please"." answered Rafiki's quiet voice from the top of the tree.
"Alright… can you come down, please?" asked Tama, sighing.
"Yes, I can." said Rafiki, chuckling.
After some short moments, Rafiki slipped down the tree with an amazing agility for a mandrill of his age.
"What do you want, my dear?" asked Rafiki to Tama, sitting dowm.
"Mr. Rafiki, I came here to tell you that Mr. Mufasa wants the presentation of Simba to be two days from now." said Tama.
"Oh, I see…" said Rafiki. "Thanks, Tama… but you didn't come here just to say this, right?"
"No, Mr Rafiki." said Tama excitedly. "I came here to ask you to climb to your tree and make some paintings with you. I paint well."
"Well, Tama, I can't let you." said Rafiki. "It's bad luck. Only shaman can see the paintings. Because these paintings aren't just for fun. They are also divinations. And if someone, besides the shaman, sees them, it means bad luck for who saw it."
"Alright then, Mr. Rafiki, then can you give me some of your inks, for me to paint?"
"That is one thing I can do." said Rafiki. "Wait a moment."
Rafiki climbed the tree, and some time later came down with two of his inks. But Tama still wanted one thing more.
"Mr. Rafiki, you're a wiseape, I can see that. But who was the wiseape in the Pride Lands before you?" asked Tama, jumping up and down excitedly.
"Uh…" said Rafiki… "That's a quite difficult story. But let's see… how was it? Oh yes… Mufasa was a young cub at that time, quite rebelious… and it all happened in a time when hyenas came to the Pride Lands."
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"Daddy." asked cub Mufasa to Ahadi, when he was just a small cub. "Can I go to play outside?"
Things had been getting well in the Pride Lands. Ahadi had accepted the thing that he would be king, and always went to his lessons with Mohatu, to learn everything what was necessary to rule that wonderful place. It rather surprised him how much a king needed to know to rule a kingdom.
But Ahadi was a good student, and Mohatu, Laini, and Uru were proud of him. As time passed, he became less fearful about being a king, but it look a lot more time to Ahadi become less fearful of another thing: to have cubs.
The deaths of two cubs early in his past life made Ahadi to become a lot fearful of having cubs with Uru. But, as time passed, Uru ended up pregnant, and had a cub with Ahadi. Much to his relief, the cub's birth was… well, a bit hard, but the cub was also big, so that was normal. The cub was a male, and was golden, just like Ahadi, but had Uru's brown eyes.
So, Ahadi became less fearful of having cubs. The golden cub was named Mufasa, and was quite rebelious, which made Ahadi and Uru having trouble to control him. Mufasa liked to play with the cubs in the pride, especially Sakia and Jani.
Mega and Mimea also ended up as a happy couple, and, some time before Mufasa's birth, their daughter, who they named Jani, was born. She was yellow, just like her mother, but had green eyes, possibly from one of Mega's unknown parents, since, according to what Mimea told him, her parents hadn't green eyes.
Sakia was a small cub with grey fur and blue eyes, who had been found and adopted by Uzuri. Uzuri, for some reason, didn't seem interested in have any real cubs, and when someone asked why, she answered: "It's my own secret. We all have secrets, I have this one."
On that day, Mufasa wanted to play outside, alone. Mufasa sometimes found rather annoying to play with girls, but there weren't too much cubs in the pride besides Sakia, Jani, and himself, and all the cubs were girls. But soon this wouldn't be a problem, because shortly after Mufasa's birth, Uru got pregnant again. This was rather dangerous, but now, the problem had begun. And soon Mufasa could have the wish of having a little brother to play with granted. Now, he only needed the wish to play outside granted.
"Uh… I don't know…" said Ahadi, turning to Uru. "Uru, do you think…"
"Ahadi!" said Uru, in a warning voice. "You're king now. You have to make up your own decisions."
When Mufasa was born, Mohatu and Laini stepped down, and Ahadi and Uru became king and queen. Ahadi felt somewhat nervous because of that, but he accepted it.
"Alright, Mufasa, you can go play."
"Hooray!" said Mufasa, running away, but on that moment Ahadi interrupted him.
"As long as Zuzu goes with you!"
"NO!" said Mufasa. "Not Zuzu!"
Zuzu was a female hornbill that helped Ahadi, and previously helped Mohatu, reporting everything what happened in the Pride Lands.
"I don't think this is a good idea." said Uru. "Zuzu is still in her morning round, Mufasa will have to wait."
"Uh… alright." said Ahadi. "Mufasa, you can go play outside. But be careful."
And so, Mufasa went outside Pride Rock, and wandered off to play alone.
But leaving him wander off outside seemed to be a bad idea. About an hour later, Zuzu flew back into the cave, shouting:
"King Mohatu! A problem! A big problem!"
"I'm not the king anymore, Zuzu." said Mohatu calmly. "Now Ahadi is the king."
So, Zuzu flew to Ahadi, who asked: "What's wrong, Zuzu?"
"It's hyenas!" said Zuzu. "A pack of hyenas entered the Pride Lands. There are twenty of them!"
"Mufasa!" shouted Ahadi in panic.. "We have to stop the hyenas. Laini, Uzuri, Mega, I need you three to come with me. Zuzu, find Mufasa!"
Ahadi didn't even realize that he was giving instructions, and he realized even less that they were being obeyed. Mega, Laini and Uzuri quickly went to him, and the four left the cave. Uru wanted to go as well, but Ahadi stopped her saying: "You're pregnant, you need to rest."
It was quite true. Uru's second pregnancy was already advanced, and she couldn't make too many efforts. This bored her, because she, as queen, and rightful heir, wanted to be inside the action, but Mohatu, much to her disagreement, said that Ahadi was right.
"Daddy!" said Jani, when she saw her father leaving the cave. "I want to go with you!"
But Mimea placed her paw on her daughter's tail, and asked: "Where do you think you're going?"
And so, Jani had to stay in the cave.
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Meanwhile, Mufasa was wandering in the Pride Lands, looking for something to do. Play alone was quite boring, but play always with girls was even more boring. He couldn't wait for having a younger brother to play with. Finally, after some time of thinking, he decided to practice pouncing. Now, he had to look for a proper target. Most of the animals were too big for him, and most of the small enough ones were too fast.
However, after some time of wandering, Mufasa found out the proper target to pounce. An old mandrill, who was just standing in a rock, apparently watching the landscape… no… he was in a meditative lotus position… The monkey had his back turned to him, so would be the right target.
Mufasa tried to recall everything that his mother and father had already taught him about pouncing. What was it… stay low to the ground… not a sound… and come close to his target very quickly…
And so, Mufasa approached the monkey while thinking of coming close. But, surprisingly, when he was about to pounce, he heard the monkey saying: "Will you come out now, or I'll have to make you?"
"Uh?" thought Mufasa. "He found me?"
"You're still too unexperienced for pouncing on a careful prey." said the mandrill. "Now come out."
Mufasa came out. The mandrill went to him, grabbing a strange stick that had some things tied on him, and asked: "Now, little one, what is your name?"
"Mufasa." said Mufasa. "Mufasa, prince of the Pride Lands."
"Oh… prince." said the monkey, chuckling, and bowing a little bit. "Well, I'm Rafiki."
Rafiki and Mufasa gave a hand/paw shake.
"Now, would you like to meet my family?" asked Mufasa.
"Well, I suppose so." said Rafiki. "I have to go on, but I think that losing a day or two won't harm very much."
But, before they could move on, Rafiki and Mufasa saw that around some twenty hyenas were staring at them. Two of them, a male and a female (the female seemed pregnant), advanced.
"Hyenas!" shouted the terrified Mufasa.
"Climb to the rock!" said Rafiki. "I'll fight them."
Rafiki placed Mufasa on the rock, and then turned to the hyenas, with an angry look, and waved his stick while he prepared to fight.
"Calm down." said the female. "No one is here to fight."
"Then what are you doing here?" asked Rafiki.
"Shouldn't start by introducing ourselves?" asked the male.
"Oh… alright." said Rafiki.
"I'm Sharia, leader of this clan, and this is my mate Hivyo." said the female hyena.
"I'm Rafiki." said Rafiki, bowing slightly in respect.
Then, Mufasa advanced to face the hyenas, and Rafiki stepped back to the top of the rock. Mufasa looked at Sharia, and said: "I'm Mufasa, prince of the Pride Lands."
"Oh… so could you take us to your father?" asked Hivyo.
"Why?" asked Mufasa.
"We want to ask him for permission to hunt in the Pride Lands."
"Permission?" asked Rafiki. "Since when the hyenas ask for permission for anything? That is against the Circle of Life."
Mufasa was beginning to get confused, because Ahadi and Uru hadn't yet taught him anything about the Circle of Life, as he was still a cub, and, like Uru was pregnant, they would have to wait for the second cub to be born and quite old, and then they would have to teach them both.
"But is the correct way." replied Sharia.
"No way!" shouted a voice between the hyenas.
A female hyena, with a lot of scars in her fur (about half of those seemingly made by claws and teeth of lions, and the other half seeming like bites of other hyenas), stepped forward, and faced Sharia and Hivyo. The leaders of the clan just couldn't help but to feel a little bit worried. That hyena was named Athari, and she was probably the hyena with the most troubled personality of the clan. She always used to bring problems, because she seemed to hate anything unusual. The scarred hyena said: "We are all sick of your rulling methods. They are anti-Circle-of-Life."
"Did anyone of our methods cost the life to a single hyena of this clan?" asked Sharia, beginning to get furious.
"No, but now it will!" said Athari. "Do you really think that the so-called King of the Pride Lands will allow us to be here? You don't know lions. They will kill the whole clan! So, we can't notify them of our presence in this land. And the first one to go will be the prince!"
And the hyena tried to bite Mufasa. However, she felt somewhat surprised when she felt a stick hitting her in the head. It was Rafiki. He gave a battle scream, and jumped, stepping between the hyenas and Mufasa, while Mufasa stepped back to the top of the rock.
"Let's get the monkey!" shouted Athari.
Instantly, all the hyenas jumped to Rafiki, however Sharia and Hivyo blocked them.
"Not one more step!" said Hivyo.
"As leader of the clan, I order you to stop and apologize!" shouted the furious Sharia. "You should be shameful of your behaviour!"
"For you to be a leader, your clan must accept you as so!" said Athari. "Get them!"
And so, most of the hyenas attacked Rafiki, who persistently tried to throw the hyenas away, waving his stick with one hand and hitting the hyenas, and giving punches and kicks on those who avoived the stick with his left hand and feet.
Poor Mufasa was too small to do anything, and only stepped back in the top of the rock, watching the scene with fear.
"Daddy!" thought Mufasa, while looking to the fighting animals. "Mommy! Grandpa! Grandma! Help me!"
He would have screamed, with all of his strenght, however his voice seemed to be locked in his throat. He could only watch, and quiver with fear.
Meanwhile, four of the hyenas attacked Sharia and Hivyo, who couldn't really understand the reason for the rebelion. Sharia, in particular, was really confused.
"Why?"thought Sharia, while fighting two of the hyenas. "Why does it have to be like that? I and Hivyo always did the best for the clan, and now they pay us like that. I and Hivyo are surrounded by idiots!"
But the idiots were attacking, and were in bigger numbers. The only thing she could do was to wait for a miracle.
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Meanwhile, Zuzu had been guiding the four lions from high, trying to find Mufasa, and hoping in her mind that they would find him before the hyenas.
"Why today?" thought Zuzu. "Great Kings of the Past, guide us to Mufasa, please!"
Fortunately, right on that time, Zuzu found Mufasa. And she saw a terrible thing. She could see the hyenas. Around twenty hyenas. And all were trying to get Mufasa! But there was something more… a strange monkey was standing between Mufasa and the hyenas, hitting the hyenas with a stick. For for how long he would hang on?
"There!" though Zuzu from high. "I can see the hyenas. Mufasa is on the top of a small rock, and the hyenas are trying to attack him! A strange monkey seems to be protecting him! But there are too much hyenas! It won't take too much time before one of them manages to kill Mufasa!"
"Mufasa is in danger." though Ahadi, terrified. "The hyenas will… no way! I'll show them what happens to any hyena that dares to touch a single hair of my son!"
"Let's go!" shouted Ahadi to the lions that followed him. "The hyenas are up there! ATTACK!"
The last word was said with a voice of uncontrolled rage, hatred, and also fear. Fear of what would happen to Mufasa.
Soon, Laini, Mega, and Uzuri followed him, running at full speed. It wasn't long 'till the lions came close, and roared together.
Mufasa turned around, and saw his father… coming with his grandmother, Mega, and Uzuri. He was saved!
"Daddy!" shouted Mufasa.
Rafiki stopped hitting the hyenas when he saw the lions approaching.
All the hyenas stopped their attack when they heard the roar of the lions. Even Sharia and Hivyo stopped their fights. They turned around, and were terrified. Two lions and two lionesses were running at them, and they all had a glimpse of the typical hatred that lions have for hyenas, and that goes back ever since lions and hyenas lived together. The hulky golden lion of black mane and green eyes was the one who scared more the hyenas, but the lion with orange mane and the two lionesses weren't too less scary.
Instantly, all the hyenas felt completely terrified. When lions attack and have advantage on their side, there's only one rule: run for life.
"Run away!" shouted the hyena with the scars.
But it was too late. Lions are faster than hyenas. And these lions were running fueled by deep hatred, like hyenas were running fueled by deep fear.
Ahadi, who was at the front, pounced on the first hyena that he saw. It was Hivyo. Hivyo shouted from pain, but also from fear, when he felt the lion pouncing on him.
"That's it!" thought the terrified Hivyo. "I'm over… maybe they are right… trying alliance with lions is a bad idea… oh no! They will kill Sharia as well!"
"Run away, Sha…" started to shout Hivyo, but it was too late.
The lion gave Hivyo an extremely powerful smack that made Hivyo to say nothing more… he only shouted from pain. Ahadi's smack broke his right shoulder, and at least three ribs.
"He may be dead…" thought Ahadi, looking at the hyena. "But I must be sure!"
And so, Ahadi bit Hivyo's neck with all the strenght he had, and Hivyo died after giving one last agonizing whimper.
Sharia, who was running with the rest of the pride, heard Hivyo's whimper, and turned back, right on time to see Ahadi dropping Hivyo's dead body.
"Hivyo!" she thought. "Oh, Great Spirit! The clan was right! Alliance with lions was a mistake… Hivyo!"
She didn't feel fear anymore while she looked at Ahadi's eyes. She only felt something she had never felt before… an insane will of kill the lion and avenge her mate.
"I'll get you for that!" she thought, while charging at the big lion. "Even if it's the last thing I'll do!"
Ahadi was rather surprised when he saw Sharia charging at him. But it wouldn't make any difference. She would die, along with the other hyenas of the clan. Sharia jumped at Ahadi's neck, and tried her best to bite Ahadi's throat. If she managed to bite the jugular, Ahadi would die, it didn't matter the fact of he being bigger than her. And Hivyo would be avenged.
But she made a small mistake. It was too difficult to bite through the lion's thick mane. She got her mouth full of hairs, and the lion, just by waving his head, threw her of him, and gave her a heavy blow that threw her some meters away. Ahadi didn't even care about killing her.
"She'll surely die." thought Ahadi, while moving to the next hyena. "But if doesn't, I'll kill her later."
Meanwhile, the other hyenas were running away, without looking behind. Any short stop would give the lions more ground. Athari, however, was feeling somewhat victorious.
"I knew it!" she thought. "Hivyo and Sharia had to die. Their odd way of rulling the clan would some day lead them to their deaths. It was deserved!"
But the scarred hyena stopped her thoughts when she felt one of the lionesses pouncing on her. It was the one with the blue eyes and pale yellow-brown fur.
"However, the normal way of rulling doesn't care at all if I'll die as well!" thought Athari.
And these were her last thoughts. The lioness slashed her throat with a terrible strenght, and then moved on to kill the next hyena.
Mufasa was looking from the rock, without understanding. So many creatures killed… the gentle lions of his pride transforming in strangers who murdered without mercy… when the leader of the clan only wanted to speak…
The technique of the lions seemed to be fast. They pounced on the first hyena they caught, slashed her on vulnerable places, like throat, stomach, or face, and then moved to the next hyena. Because of that strategy, soon the hyenas were all dead.
"It's over." said Mega, sitting down. "The problem of the hyenas is solved, and Mufasa is found."
"Mufasa!" thought Ahadi. "Is he alright? I must go to him!"
Ahadi ran to Mufasa, who was being hugged by the strange mandrill, who seemed trying to calm him down.
"Mufasa!" said Ahadi. "Are you alright?"
Rafiki released Mufasa and tried to send him to Ahadi. But Mufasa didn't want to speak with his father. He was scared of him, a thing that he never thought to be possible, but when he saw his father covered in blood, he cried and tried to hide behind Rafiki again.
"Get out!" shouted Ahadi. "Get out, all of you."
That was because Mega, Laini and Uzuri also returned. No one of them was less covered in blood that Ahadi, and Mega and Uzuri were even more than him. But… under the blood covering… they seemed the same lions… but why they had to kill the hyenas?
Ahadi could see that his son was scared, and tried to calm him down.
"Don't be afraid, Mufasa." said Ahadi in a gentle voice. "That's just… well…"
"Why did you have to kill them?" shouted Mufasa.
"Because they would have killed you if they survived." said Ahadi.
Mufasa didn't seem too convinced, but after some time of calming talking of Ahadi, Mega, Uzuri, Laini and Rafiki, finally Mufasa recovered, and said, feeling more cheered up: "But you didn't see Rafiki, dad! He has an amazing fighting technique!"
"So you're Rafiki?" asked Ahadi, bowing slightly. "I'm Ahadi, king of the Pride Lands."
After the introductions, Rafiki went into his bag, took some plants, put them inside a small bowl, squashed them with a stone, put some water inside the bowl, and he obtained some strange mixing that he placed on the wounds of the lions.
"You seem to be useful to the Pride Lands, Rafiki." said Ahadi in an intriguing voice. "Come with me to meet the other members of the pride. Zuzu, sit on my shoulder, you must be tired of flying. Rafiki, maybe you want also to ride on me."
And so, Laini picked Mufasa by the scruff, Rafiki climbed on Ahadi, and they all returned to Pride Rock. But something disturbed Ahadi. He saw a short trail of blood. It should have been left by the hyena that had pounced on him… the same that he didn't really care for kill.
"Never mind." thought Ahadi. "A lone hyena can't do anything. Let's return to Pride Rock. There were too much deaths for one day."
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"And so, after meeting Queen Uru, and former king Mohatu, they had a talk, and they decided that I would be the first wiseape of the Pride Lands." concluded Rafiki.
"Wow!" said Tama, who had been paying extreme attention. "That was an amazing story, Mr. Rafiki."
"Amazing?" asked Rafiki, in an intriguing voice. "Even considering the deaths of those hyenas?"
"Well, that was the bad part… but all the stories have one." said Tama.
"Tama!" shouted a voice.
They turned around, and saw Zazu, a hornbill, and the current majordomo of Mufasa, landing in front of Tama.
"What is it, Zazu?" asked Tama.
But she soon realized when she looked at the sun. Sun was almost setting. Tama had gotten there too late while hearing Rafiki's story.
"You must return to Pride Rock, Tama." said Zazu. "Your mother and the pride are worried."
"Alright." said Tama. "I'll go then. See ya, Mr. Rafiki!"
"Goodbye!" said Rafiki, waving at Tama. "Tomorrow, you can come back to have your inks!"
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Tama arrived on Pride Rock some time later. By that time, it was night already. But Tama arrived safely.
"Tama, where have you been?" asked Alama, licking her daughter. "Didn't you know I would be worried?"
"Yes, mom…" said Tama, ashamed. "Mr. Rafiki told me a story, and I lost counsciousness of time."
"Alright…" said Alama. "This time, you're forgiven."
"At least, did you tell Rafiki about Simba's presentation?" asked Mufasa to Tama.
"Yes, Mr. Mufasa." said Tama. "Don't worry."
"Alright." said Alama. "Now let's sleep. It's late."
And so, Tama went to sleep, and her dreams were filled with the paintings that she would do with Rafiki's inks.
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Well... what did you think? I'm sorry, I know that Rafiki normally has a "messed-up" talking, but I was unable to recreate it. So show plenty of respect to Jagabor and the other authors who can do it. Or maybe it is just me being stupid... Whatever, please, review! I still need feedback!