Here's a fic for any of you who are interested in such things. And it's going to be about Simba! Yeah, my first fic starring Simba. Kinda strange for me, I know. But you can't not love Simba.

Also, if anybody thinks they have a good idea for a tlk fanfic, be sure to PM the idea, and if I like it, I'll put it on my 'to do' list, and eventually, I'll write it! And if you're just a guest, leave a review on any one of my stories with the idea.

Anyways, be sure to leave a review! And enjoy the fic.

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Taka's POV

"I'm sorry." Said Simba finally.

"You'd better be." Snarled Shenzi, who glared at the golden lion cub.

"I…. I'm sorry. I didn't know conditions were… well… this bad." Sighed Simba.

"That's the reality of it furball. So excuse me for not finding your species altogether delightful."

Simba stared at his paws, silent. Taka stood next to him, also a bit uncomfortable at their revelation. As far as he could tell, no species deserved to be so steeped in such a hellish environment. That the hyenas had to go through this every day was horrible, made worse that if a pup couldn't make it, they were simply killed.

"So….. why did you two come into the Graveyard in the first place?" Asked Shenzi after a few moments of silence. Taka glanced up to see her still frowning, but she didn't look as angry and disgusted as a few moments before.

"We… we were going to explore this place. You know….. because we hadn't been here before." Explained Taka.

"Didn't you know hyenas lived here?"

"Well….. Simba thought you guys were here, but I didn't, and so we got into an argument over whether or not we go, and that's how we ended up in that hole you rescued us from."

"It was my mistake." Said Simba quietly.

"Yours? Doesn't surprise me." Remarked Shenzi, as she rolled her eyes. "Say how about I introduce you to two friends of mine?"

"Friends?" Asked Simba, looking up. "Are they... well... normal?"

"Depends what your idea of normal is. They're pretty exuberant and one of them is the whacky one I told you about." Shenzi answered.

"Can we play with them?" Asked Taka, shrugging off the atmosphere of gloom. Simba was looking back down at his paws, scowling. Really, Taka didn't know why he was so sad all of a sudden. Of course, he didn't like what was happening to Mzazi either, the poor pup was in a horrible position, but Simba looked as if he was taking it... personally.

"Yeah, sure." Shenzi answered.

She noticed Simba's reaction though and raised an eyebrow.

"Are you okay furball?" Shenzi asked. Simba looked her in the eyes, grimacing.

"Yeah… I'm just swell." He replied, as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Fine, let's go then." Shenzi walked off towards a pile of bones. "I'll lead the way to my den. Just be careful not to fall into a geyser, or your rump will be hardboiled!"

Taka grinned and padded after her. A few moments later he stopped and glanced back at Simba, who hadn't moved yet. He raised his eyebrow in confusion, what was he doing?

"Simba! Come on, we're going to make new friends!" He exclaimed, trotting back to him.

"I'll catch up." Muttered Simba.

"But Shenzi's going right now. So come on already."

"I... I said I'll catch up."

"What's the matter?" Asked Taka, sitting down next to the golden cub. Simba scowled, as bared his teeth in frustration.

"I messed up. I just messed up, that's all you need to know."

"Come on you slouches! I got no intention of waiting!" Shenzi said from the top of the bone pile.

Taka glanced up at Shenzi, gritting his teeth, hopefully she'd wait at least a little longer.

"How did you mess up? When we tumbled into the hole?" He asked.

"No. Something a whole lot worse than that. Look, I don't want to talk about it, okay?"

Said Simba, looking irritated.

"Uh... okay then... but you can tell me later, you know? That's what friends are for!" He said, shoving his paw forward in a gesture of solidarity. "But now come on, I want to meet new hyenas!" Taka turned around and jogged after Shenzi, who was picking her teeth as she lied on top of a giant rib.

Simba and Taka nodded, and Shenzi hopped off and jumped into a large, expansive pile of bones that seemed to fill the entire valley.

"This way!" She quipped, moving between the bones and further into the pile. She moved around the intricate mazes of bones with ease, while the two cubs were having difficulties.

"Very agile!" Shenzi joked.

"You're smaller than us!" Retorted Taka, as he jumped across a thighbone.

"All excuses." She smirked. "Just what you'd expect from a lion."

Simba rolled his eyes and slid over a few rocks, the pebbles scattering across the stone."Why did we have to go through such a dense area?" He asked, squeezing through two large femur bones, following Taka through the maze.

"Yeah, we could've gone around." Added the orange cub.

"Hmph too long too easy, and plus, there are less geysers in the bonefield." Shenzi pointed out. "Come on you two can't handle some bones?"

"We can handle..." Taka grunted, trying to squeeze underneath a massive leg bone, "a few bones!" Simba jumped over Taka, landing in front of him.

"How much further?" He asked, frustrated.

"Actually…." Shenzi trotted into a clearing. "We're here."

Taka padded after her, looking around. They were in a clearing, with a sinister looking elephant skull looking over the small space. It's dark eye sockets, now housing nothing but cobwebs, stared down at them, and what might've been the mouth seemed to leak dark shadows.

"Spooky." Said Simba, padding up behind them.

"I'll say." Added Taka, staring up at the skull.

"Come on then, they're just in here." Said Shenzi, as she walked into the skull, swallowed up by the darkness. Glancing at eachother, Simba and Taka padded after, blinking to adjust to the shadows.

"Where are they?" Asked Taka, looking around.

"Right here." Muttered Shenzi, standing next to two lumps of fur, that seemed to be moving up and down ever so slightly. "And they're asleep!" She added.

"Do we wake them up?" Wondered Simba.

"Hell yes we do." She replied, rearing up on her hind legs, then jumping onto them with all her strength.

"Ow!" Exclaimed one of the hyenas, jumping up immediately as Shenzi landed on him.

"Shenzi! What gives!?" Banzai asked her grumpily, as he rolled onto his back and felt his quashed stomach. Next to him stood another hyena pup with an idiotic smile on it's face and an unfazed expression.

"Banzai, Ed, meet our latest guests." Said Shenzi, gesturing at Simba and Taka. Banzai glanced at them, and his eyes widened in surprise.

"What!? Lions!" Exclaimed Banzai, jumping back.

"Relax furbrain, they're with me."

"We're... exploring the Graveyard, and Shenzi's helping us!" Explained Taka, smiling so he could make a good first impression. Simba didn't say anything, but rather stared at the hyena inquisitively, as if he was trying to remember something.

"Yeah that's right," Shenzi said.

"Well, why are they here! They're greedy, gluttonous morons!" Exclaimed Banzai.

"Come on Banzai, don't be so grumpy now, you know you'd be a greedy, gluttonous moron if you had the chance." Shenzi smirked at him. "And you're already a moron, so you're partway there!"

"We're only here because Shenzi invited us." Added Taka, as Banzai threw a glare at Shenzi.

"Yeah, I've old them that they can play with us." Shenzi said. Banzai curled up his nose in disdain.

"Play!? No way i'm playing with a pushy stinky hairy ugly lion!" Banzai on the other hand made a *nope* expression, then broke down in giggles.

"Oh yes instead, you two will play with us," Shenzi answered, grinning.

"Why?" Banzai asked.

"Because I say so, and as a female I have the authority." Shenzi stood smirking.

Banzai groaned. "Yech...fine." Taka on the other hand, frowned. Since when did the female of any species old dominance over the males? It sounded… strange.

"Wait, it's the females who hold dominance?" Exclaimed Taka, caught by surprise.

"Yeah, as I told you. Don't you remember?" Shenzi puffed the hair on her chest.

"She did tell us that." Said Simba, speaking up.

"Really? Uh….. I just forgot. Sorry."

"So...what would you like to do?" Shenzi asked, as she picked at her teeth. Taka raised his head, smiling.

"I'd like to play something with you all! I've never had four play partners! We can do something like... like a real good game of hide and seek!" Exclaimed Taka, grinning.

Shenzi smirked.

"You wanna lose?"

"Yeah you'd be playing in our home furball!" Banzai said.

"Well, sure I guess, but I just want have fun." Replied Taka.

"Alright then, we are going to take it easy on yah." Shenzi blinked.

"We are?" Banzai asked and Shenzi glared at him. "I mean, of course we are." Banzai whistled innocently.

"Okay then! Well... where are we going to play?" Asked Taka, getting excited.

"Isn't that obvious? We are playing here! Now...who hides?" Shenzi asked.

"Oooh! Let us hide! And you seek!"

"Uh... I guess we're hiding." Said Simba, standing up.

"Better be quick! 1...2...3..." Shenzi closed her eyes and started to count. Banzai and Ed immediately dashed out. Casting each other a glance, the lions jogged out after them, following them through the bones as they hopped through the maze.

"Come Ed we let's hide!" Banzai yelled looking around for a hiding quickly took a small skull and covered his head with it, giggling in his little echo chamber.

"That's not hiding!" Banzai yelled.

"Do you guys know any real hiding spots?" Asked Taka, leaning down to talk to them.

"Well, we mostly look for some random hole or skull to hide in."

"There's no shortage of that." Quipped Simba,

"Then….. are we going to just split up and hide randomly?" Asked Taka.

"That's the idea lion, you're smarter than you look!" Banzai smirked. Taka frowned.

"But….. that sounds like a dumb idea."

"What would you suggest then?" Demanded Banzai, glaring at him.

"Uh… is there any place you know of that Shenzi doesn't?"

"Hardly...she is the matriarch's daughter, meaning she has to know this place from top to bottom." Banzai answered. Ed began laughing as Banzai said 'bottom'. "Ah ah ah...shut up..." Banzai glared at Ed.

"She's the Matriarch's daughter?" Asked Taka.

"Oh... so that's how she was able to call off that hyena... you know, Mzazi's... mother..." Simba's voice suddenly got extremely quiet.

"Yeah she is, that also makes the leader of us pups in a way. Wait...you met Mzazi's mother?" Banzai asked surprised.

"Yeah, we did... she almost ate us, but Shenzi had told her that if she did, she would get any extra rations revoked." Explained Taka.

"I don't blame her for wanting to at least hurt us." Added Simba, scowling.

Banzai end Ed glanced at each other upon hearing Simba's words.

"Woah...that's surprising," Banzai remarked.

"How so?"

"Just…. one of you lions admitting that you were in the wrong. Didn't even think it was possible with all the pride you got swirling around in your brains."

"Maybe we're supposed to be prideful, but I can still recognize an issue when I see one." Replied Simba. "Trouble is…. I didn't see it before."

"Better late than never!" Grunted Banzai. "But… I suppose sorrow doesn't fill empty stomachs." Simba grimaced, and sighed. Taka supposed sorrow really didn't fill empty stomachs. Silence pervaded the area for a few moments.

"Well then…. are we going to…. hide, then?" Asked Taka.

"Oh, uh, yeah. Come on, we can group together in a skull or something." Replied Banzai, turning around and trotting back into the bones. Ed giggled, and rolled back over from his back with his tongue lolling out of his mouth. Taka didn't know exactly why the one called Ed seemed so….. absent minded, but he suspected it was the same reason Mzazi couldn't walk.

The hyenas really didn't have a good shot at their life.

Taka and Simba jumped after Banzai, going into the maze of bones. Taka glanced around for Shenzi, then followed him in. At least the hyenas still knew how to have fun.

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Filler chapter filler chapter filler chapter….. nothing much happned here. But that'll change the next chapters, and things will pick up. But do tell me, do you think the pacing of this story is good? I mean, I'm not rushing it, am I? Or adding in awkward chapters?

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