Scar got up early. Everything was nearly ready. Only left to cover Zira with Rafiki's fruit.

"Zira, are you ready?" said Scar.

"Yes, I am." Scar licked her cheek and picked up the fruit. Banzai and Shenzi picked the rest of the fruits Scar and Zira had stolen from Rafiki, and they headed to the Pridelands.

They entered the gorge. Zira laid down in the floor. Scar bit the fruit, and the juice dropped over her legs. Bamzai and Shenzi did the same with their own fruits. Then, Scar wandered off, to warn Kisasi the plan had started. Menawhile, Zira started roaring, and the three hyenas laughed as hard as they could. Mbawa wss flying over the Pridelands, checking for the King's presence. She finally spotted him, scretching, still on Pride Rock. Then, he started walking, just to the trap. Mbawa went to inform Zira.

Ahadi heard roars. Desesperate roars. Mufasa heard them too. And both started running in that direction: the gorge.

Ahadi ran as fast as he could, as he thought one of the lionesses of the hunting group was in trouble. Mufasa ran too, but before he could reach, wild dogs started running along him. They threw bites to his legs. Soon, he needed to change ways, because all the pack was in that direction. He was being hunted. He quickly turned, panting heavily. And he found Kisasi, staring directly at him. One of the dogs jumped too early, and Mufasa's reaction was to slap it. The dog yelped, got up and growled.

"Who do we have here?" said Kisasi. "If my memory works correctly, you are the onenwho wanted me dead. When I was just an innocent cub. Correct me if I'm wrong."

"I… I…" muttered Mufasa. He was petrified.

"What if I cheer for your death now? At all, you are in our lands."

"No, YOU are in my lands! I am the Prince!" shouted Mufasa.

"I fear what would you do when you are king… A leader doesn't behave like that. A leader cares for his people, helps them when needed, listens to them, and protect them. Not always is bossing around…" said the dog, meassuring Mufasa. The young lion gulped.

"Hey! You!" shouted a voice. It was Wingu. The one who killed Kisasi's mother, Sarabi's best friend. "Leave him!"

"Hold him right there." Ordered Kisasi to some of the dogs. "The rest, with me!" he growled.

Wingu saw herself overpowered by forty dogs, and she ran. Kisasi's stare was deadly. He was a predator. That horrible lioness would suffer a terrible death. He leaded the chase, and bit her leg as hard as he could. The lioness's resistance was going down pretty quickly. She wasn't precisely the kind of lioness that helped with the hunting. Soon, the dogs had her cornered. On her left there was a ten meter cliff. The rest of the escape routes were covered by dogs.

"I'll give you a chance. Why did you kill my mother?"

"Your fucking mother was drinking OUR water. Enough reason?"

"More than enough to kill you." He said jumping for her, with two more dogs along. She dodged, but slipped and fell of the cliff. She was left there, hanging just by a paw.

"Oh, no, shit…" murmured the lioness.

"I'll help you…" said Kisasi with a smile. He got hold of her paw with his mouth.

"Thanks…" murmured the lioness.

"But I'll help you go down faster!" shouted Kisasi. He yanked hard, making the lioness suddenly scared, to lose her grip and fall. She shouted, and landed badly. Soon the dogs were down, surrounding her again.

Kisasi was enjoying a lot. That damn lioness. She had killed at least ten members of the pack, only in the dry season. And one of them was his mother.

"What happens? Are you hurt?" he asked, mocking her. Her spine was broken so her rear end was paralyzed. "Why don't you kill me? Huh? Come on, I'm not moving!"

The lioness attacked with a scream of rage and pain. Meanwhile, Mufasa had been able to escape the wild dogs. It was only an strategy. They wanted him to see what will happen to him if he didn't stayed quiet. He shouted over the cliff.

"Wingu! I'm coming"

"No you're not." Was the answer of one of the dogs. Now he was truly in problems. Surrounded, in a trap, as Wingu had been moments before. He watched helplessly.

The lioness, meanwhile, had attacked Kisasi, but the dog jumped off her reach. Thw pain made Wingu fell, and that was his end. All the dogs jumped on her, tearing her flesh off. The growls were terrible, and the screams of the unfortunate lioness made blood go cold.

"WINGU! NOOOOO!" shouted Mufasa. The dogs held him in his place. Mufasa could see the claws of the lioness, scratching the dust, trying to escape. And he saw Kisasi looking directly at him. His mouth was full of blood. He was smiling, showing his sharp fangs. His tail wagged happily. Wingu's head popped out of the dog mass. She clearly asked Mufasa for help. Kisasi fiercely bit her ear, making her struggle more to get free. The head quickly dissapeared under the dogs' bodies. Finally, the struggle and the screams of the lioness stopped. Mufasa was crying for her.

"Hey boss! What do we do with him?" asked a wild dog about Mufasa.

"Just hold him there. He won't harm in that state." Replied Kisasi. "The rest, let's go to the den." The dogs followed their leader. But they weren't going to the den. They were going to the gorge. Mufasa was still emotionally devastated, so he didn't even cared about what the dogs truly did. He suffered occasional dog bites, to provoke him a bit. But he didn't react. He just cried.

While that all happened, Ahadi had arrived to the gorge. He saw a lioness, fighting off three hyenas. She was injured in her leg, that was full of blood. Probably it was broken. She growled fiercely launching swipes of her claws like crazy. The hyenas surrounded her. Ahadi thought he'd had to help quick. He ran down the gorge. When he arrived, he thought he knew the lioness of something. Her smell was familiar. Then he remembered.

"Didn't I told you not to come back?" he said angered.

"Please… I need help…" said Zira weakly.

"What you truly need is a lesson." Said Ahadi getting closer to her. Shenzi bit his leg, but he launched at her growling. Banzai tried the same in his back, but the lion hit him on his shoulder. Banzai rolled and grunted in pain. Ahadi then was distracted for some time. They needed that. Everything is going as we planned, thought Scar. He was watching the scene up in the gorge. He smiled.

Meanwhile, Kisasi and his pack found what they wanted. A buffalo herd. They stopped, smelling the air, that had the scent of the wild dogs. After a minute of alert they came back to eating. Kisasi examined the pack, and Mbawa did the same up in the air.

"Here he is!" said Mbawa.

"You found him?" Asked Kisasi. Mbawa nodded. "So quick… Let's see that little, nice buffalo."

The animal that they were talking about was the leader of the herd. He was an old male, the hugest they had seen. His black coat was incredibly shiny, even at his age, and his still powerful neck muscles tensed as he moved. One of his horns was shorter than the other, proving how fierce the animal was in combat. He walked proudly, with the head up. He knew how powerful he was. Kisasi hesitated for a moment before saying:

"Let's go, then. Warn Scar the herd is on the move." He said to Mbawa, that went flying to communicate the news to the dark lion. "Come on, guys! Let's move this beasts!" shouted Kisasi, launching to the attack. He ran to the leader, and pulled his tail from behind. The buffalo snorted angry and tried to hit him. Kisasi was faster and managed to evade the buffalo.

"How dare you mess with me!" asked the buffalo aggresively. "Don't you know who I am?"

"Not really" answered Kisasi smiling, and bit his leg hard.

"I'm Nguvu! The terrible buffalo!" shouted the big animal, charging for the dog. Kisasi barely escaped, and he regrouped the pack. They attacked by all flanks at once, and the buffalos ran scared. Just in the right direction. But some of them turned their backs to attack the dogs, that because of being way faster, were able to dodge the aggressive buffalos. Then, when all was well, the herd separated in two. Most of them ran in the opposite direcction. Kisasi had to regroup again and to chase the escaped buffalos, but they managed to escape to the river, where it was too deep for thee wild dogs to catch them. Only Nguvu continued in the right direction.

"Try to get them out. I'll chase that old male to the gorge." Ordered Kisasi, running to get the male to the place they said. Two more dogs went with him. The buffalos trotted away, now with a change of his mind after seen how many dogs there where. Nguvu still tried to crush the dogs occasionally, grunting angrily.

Meanwhile, in the gorge, Scar had been warned that the herd was moving. Mbawa flew off to find Kisasi again, and Scar decided to go down the gorge, as Zira and the hyenas had problems. The Outlanders wanted Ahadi to pity the fakingly injured lions, and that he brought as many of the lionesses to the gorge, so there would be less enemies after the stampede. But it was failing.

"Ahadi… what are you doing here, attacking a defenseless lioness?" asked Taka from a rock.

"Taka" Ahadi's expresion brightened. It was his oportunity to tell him how sorry he was. But Scar only left out a low growl, and Ahadi's expresion changed.

"I'm not Taka anymore. My name is now Scar!" he said proudly. The hyenas were circling Ahadi, waiting for orders.

"My son, I.. " Started the golden lion.

"Pfff… Your son? Really? Why that change of mind, dad?" replied Scar with emphasis in the word dad. He went down the rock, slithery as a snake. His claws were extended to the maximum. Zira knew something bad was about to happen, so she tensed her muscles, ready to act just in case Scar needed it. Shenzi, Banzai and Ed drooled, waiting for a meal.

"I realized what I did wasn't right. And I ask you for forgiveness. Sorry, son. I'm truly sorry." Said Ahadi.

"Ha! Good one. Guys, you heard it? Now, all of a sudden, he loves me."asked Scar to the hyenas.

"Yeah! That was a good one!" said Banzai laughing. Ed laughed too, giving chills to Ahadi.

"Tell me it's not true, Taka… I mean, Scar. You are a royal lion! You can't be friends with THEM" said Ahadi horrified. "They are shameful, putrid, unworthy scavengers! You are much more than that!"

Shenzi growled in disgust. Scar put a paw on her shoulder.

"Let me speak, please." He said. Shenzi growled, but let him speak. "Royal lion? Really? Since when you consider me your son? Besides, many, many of you have said to me that I am a shameful, putrid, unworthy scavenger, and even worse things. I have the same enemies as them. The same problems. They helped me when you didn't. Now tell me why I shouldn't join them."

"Taka, please…"

"Oh, and that's another thing! The nice name you picked for me… I'm sure you chose it with all your love and good intentions to me." Said Scar with a grin. "Now answer my question" he said getting serious, pacing from side to side. "Why shouldn't I join them?"

"Becsuse you are a lion! A royal lion, a prince…"

"There is something behind this…" said Scar to the air, submerged in his thoughts. "My own father, that used to hate me with all his might, left me in the Outlands for something I didn't did, he banished my mate for something she didn't did, he always protected little perfect Mufasa and hated Taka! Even named his son Taka! Trash! But now he is apologizing to me." He continued. "Let's be clear? Is this one of Mufasa's jokes? Because it's not funny. Ended Scar.

"No. As I said, I realized I was wrong. I named you Taka, short for Unataka, that means to want" Ahadi clearly was getting really nervous.

"You just made it up." Said Scar

"No, I didn't."

"Then look at my face and say you didn't named me trash."

Ahadi tried, but he couldn't. He was too ashamed. He looked to the floor.

"I knew it… as always…" said Scar rolling his eyes. Zira smiled. The hyenas laughed again, making Ahadi even more nervous…