SORRY! I'm sorry for the super long update, I had a bad case of writer's block. (smiles and shrugs)

But, here you go ENJOY!

I don't own the Lion King, Disney does

SCAR'S POV

I stared as the lionesses dragged a sickly antelope carcess up Pride Rock and scowled. This could not be it! We had not eaten in 4 days and all that they could find was one, skinny, sick not even adult antelope! I decided to confront Sarabi. She was not doing her job. "SARABI!" she walked ever so slowly and dignafied up to me. As if she still was queen. It made my blood boil. "Yes Scar?" I finally lost it and struck her. "That's YOUR MAJESTY TO YOU!" She laid on the floor for a while just breathing silently. The lionesses started growling but one look from Jari and they all shut up. I mentally thanked my daughter. The only sane lion in this whole pride, besides myself of course. "You are no longer my brother, Scar. I was a queen.
I do not need to call you majesty." She kept her voice level but I sensed the anger behind the words. I let a growl escape. "Your majesty is what I am to be called. I am king now. End of disscusion. Now, do your job correctly and get some actual food. NOT and afternoon snack!" her eyes narrowed dangerously. "There was no rain for the last 5 months Scar! Almost all of the herds have left! What do you want us to do?" I roared in her face. She didn't budge. Stubborn lioness. "Hunt. Get food. Simple." She just huffed and walked off. I turned to the scrawny carcass and started to eat. Nuka came up and tried to eat too but I knocked him down with one swipe off my paw. He whimpered and ran off calling for his mommy. He gave me a headache. Jari sat silently and I let her eat next. She had promise in her. It was coming through already. I saw her beat some hyenas and Nuka for disobeying her. It made me proud.
Almost.

KUJU'S POV

We had been in the jungle for 2 days. We had survived by eating fish and the occasional rat. They were HUGE here! But they bit us frequently. So we usually avoided them. Miko just jumped back at a particularly big one crossing the path and let out a girlish squeak. "Miko, its a rat. No need to go all girly!" I laughed but he rolled his eyes. "Let's just focus at the task at hand." I stopped laughing and returned my attention to the faint tracks in front of were looking for something. On our first day here, Tal said that she smelled something familiar. We all searched for the scent but neither me nor Miko could smell it. Somehow Kiki and Tal could! They held it over our heads the whole time, saying how lionesses noses were supierior than ours. But I shut them up by finding some tracks that were slightly bigger than all of ours. I considered myself an excellent tracker and told them all that I could find this other lion, or panther, or jaguar. Kiki's and Tal's exact reactions were, "You, find them? The animal you can't even smell?" then they laughed and let us go find them while they rested under a tree. They tested my patience sometimes. The tracks suddenly stopped. "Great just Great! Now what are we gonna tell the girls? Hey um we failed, you can make fun of us all you want now!" I slammed my head into the tree in front of us and immediatly regretted it. "OW!" I grabbed my head. "Well that was especially stupid." Miko said laughing. "HEY! Genius! Why did you wake me up?" We looked up and there, laying down on a branch was an annoyed, spotted cat. Despite raising their voice, they didn't seem very angry, just annoyed. "Um, who are you?" They just jumped down from the branch about 12 feet above us and observed us with amused blue, gold speckled eyes. "I think I have the right to know who you are since you DID wake me up." It was a she, the voice was that of a female and I could sense the drop of sarcasm. Her fur was a sandy color and she had dark brown, virtually black spots all over her body. She was smaller than us though, and she left small, dainty, barely there prints. "Um, excuse us but what are you?" She looked at me weird. "Haven't you ever seen a leapord before? Geez, are all lions cluless?" Wait, ALL lions? "Hold on leapord...lady. What other lions?" she just rolled her eyes "Um, Peach and Mango!" "What?" that made NO sense! Miko was confused too. "Peach, and Mango?" she huffed. "Yeah, Mango came over earlier to ask for advice." I looked at the tracks. "Those are... Mango's?" she laughed. "Yeah! You didn't think that I made them?" I just rolled my eyes. "Okay, where did they go?" she pointed in a direction and started walking that way. I followed until she hopped up unto a log that a golden lion was sitting on. He had a red short mane. When he heard us crash through the bushes, he turned and looked at us with confused amber eyes. "SIMBA!"

SIMBA'S POV

I woke up that morning with sun in my eyes, warthog, and meerkat on my stomach. They were snoring happily while Pumbaa was muttering something about grubs. I silently and carefully slid out from underneath them. I failed miserably. They both fell with a 'thump' on the ground but continued to sleep soundly. Unbelievable. If the jungle was on fire, they wouldn't know it! I walked off, yawning the whole way to the stream nearby. Nala had taught me how to fish, so I usually ate fish for breakfast. And lunch, and dinner. Don't get me wrong, I liked bugs, they were ok. But I was a growing lion, I needed more than beetles and worms. So I asked Nala to teach me. I was getting better at it but sometimes I missed. Like today. I probably missed about 4 different fish. I watched for the gleam of fish scales and right when it was next to my paw...SPLASH! YES! I caught one! I ate it while I planned my day. Nala was currently mad at me. You see, I tried to ask her out on a date, stargazing. Like a reaccuring dream I had. BUT, I kept getting nervous and running off like an idiot. Now she thought that I didn't like her anymore, even as a friend! So I planned to visit a friend of her's. A leapord named Jessikia. She would know what to do. How to get her happy with me and how to ask her out. So I set off to Jessikia's usual spot and found her sleeping, perfectly balanced on a branch. "Pssst! Jessikia! Pssst! Wake up!" She blinked a couple times and yawned.
"Oh, hey Mango! Watcha want?" I smiled. "Um, you know how Nala's mad at me?" She laughed a little. "Yeah, she told me something about you not liking her and running away from her."
I laughed nervously. "Um, yeah, Im...I...Im just nervous about asking her out. That's all! I need your help, to you know..." she laughed "Mango, just gather some of her fave flowers and explain to her why you ran away, then ask her out. Trust me." I thought about this. It was that easy? Really? "Um, thanks Jessikia. Do you know where she is?" She laid her head back down. "I think shes at the Mapola clearing." Yes! That was perfect! Nala LOVED Mapola's! I made a mental note to get the orange ones. I started running off. "THANKS JESSIKIA!" I ran as fast as I could to the clearing but didn't find her. I then checked a lake we always went to, a clump of trees covered in vines, and several other places where we usually went. All with the Mapola flowers in my mouth. She was nowhere. I finally went back to Mapola clearing and laid down on a log. Defeated. Nala would hate me now. I wouldn't be able to ask her out. Would never be able to tell her that I didn't like her. I loved her. I wasnt there long when I saw Jessikia hop up unto the log. Right after her, somebody crashed throught the bushes. I looked up. It wasn't Nala. She was always graceful. Instead, there were two male lions about the same age as me. One had brown fur and small brown mane and light brown eyes. The other had a light red mane, almost orange, and tannish fur with blue eyes. I was a bit confused until one of them yelled. "SIMBA!" It all came back to me, this was Kuju and Miko, my two best friends! "Kuju? Miko?" I laughed and tackled them both, we wrestled for a while, laughing the whole time before we calmed down enough to actually talk. "What, what are you guys doing here!" Miko became serious. "Simba, it hasn't been the same since you... Simba, everyone thinks your dead. Scar has taken over. He banished us." the smile I had faded away.
"I'm alive guys. But...what did you guys do?" Kuju scoffed. "Us? Yeah, we were actaully smart and big enough to be competition for Scar so he banished us. And what makes things worse,
he banished Kiki and Tal just because they tried to reason with him!" I couldn't believe it. Miko laughed again "But your ALIVE! Is Nala alive too?" I smiled sheepishly. "Yeah but shes mad at me right now, I can't find her." they laughed. "What did you do dude?" I rolled my eyes and was about to explain when some more people came into the clearing.

NALA'S POV

I woke up only because of Falo dropping something on the floor. I muttered something and blinked the sleep out of my eyes. There he was, picking some broken chips of wood off of the floor. "Good morning papa." He turned and hid the broken wood behind hid back. "Oh what? Oh, yes good morning Nala dear. Um, will you be going over to Simba's today?" I decided to ignore the broken object he was failing to conceal from me. "No, he...he ran away from me at least 3 times while stuttering 'go go go... nala...um um' *sigh* I dont think he wants to see me anymore." Falo just growled.. "If, you want me to do something Nala, just ask." I shook my head no and walked outside. "I'll just go think it over at Mapola clearing." He merely nodded and waved goodbye. I was walking, thinking about Simba and what I possibly did to make him...hate? NO...hate was too strong. He didn't like me. It still hurt but not as much as hate. I was so wrapped up in my thoughts that I didn't hear Jessikia calling me until she waved her paw in front of my face. "NALA!" I blinked several times. "Oh, hi Jessikia."
she laughed. "Are ya thinkin bout Mango?" I felt heat rise to my cheeks. Jessikia had a thing for nicknaming others after foods. I was Peach, Simba was Mango. Don't ask me why.
"Jessikia, he hates me. He keeps running off. I'm just going to Mapola clearing to take a nap." She shook her head and wrinkled her nose. "That doesn't make sense. I thought Mango like-liked you?" I sighed and kept walking. "I guess not." She understood that I wanted to be left alone and didn't follow. I kept walking, thoughts still on 'Mango' when two cats tackled me with a loud "NALA!" I was about to shove them off and fight but two light green eyes and two dark brown eyes stopped me. They shot questions at me until I fianlly realized who they were. "Kiki?" Tal?" They laughed and we bumped heads. Apparently Scar told everyone that me and Simba were dead and took over. Hyenas were now in the pridelands and everything was dying. Scar saw Kuju and Miko were competition, deemed them dangerous, and banished them from the Pridelands. When Kiki and Tal stood up for them and tried to reason with Scar, he banished them as well. I couldn't believe this. All that happened...was was from a nightmare. Not real life. Suddenly we heard a yell and sounds of a struggle. We all took off towards the sound and found an embarressed looking Simba, an amused looking Jessikia and two other lions that I immediatly recognized as my old friends Kuju and Miko. Needless to say, we spent the rest of the day laughing, telling stories and playing games that we used to play as cubs. It was a really fun day. Well, I still didn't really talk to Simba, or smile at him for that matter. When the sun started to set, Simba invited the guys to stay with him and the girls followed me back home. When Halette let us stay in a hollow nearby, Kiki immediatly exploded. "What happened between you and Simba?" I flattened my ears and blushed. "Nothing." Tal stood next to Kiki. "Really? Because he was staring at you for an eternity, like waiting...or wishing for you to look at him." This made me blush even deeper. Mabye he didn't hate me. "And you!" Kiki said after Tal finished. "You avoided his gaze all day! WHAT HAPPENED?" I sighed. "He ran away from me at least 3 or 4 times in the past week stuttering gibberish! I don't think he likes me anymore." They looked at each other. Tal finally turned to me. "Don't worry Nala. We'll get to the bottom of this.

MIKO'S POV

Simba's place was pretty decent. we stayed in grass beds that night after eating some fish and meeting Timon and Pumbaa. They were cool animals. As soon as we settled down Kuju pretty much stated the obvious. "Simba, you are seriously in love with Nala. What did you do to make her hate you?" I bit back a laugh. Simba's face turned red and turned away. "I tried to...ask her out a couple times. I just ended up running away from her. She must think I hate her or something." I coulldn't help but chuckle at this. "Simba turned to me. "It's not funny!"
Kuju just patted his shoulder with his paw. "Don't worry man, we'll fix this tommorow."