A/n thank you all for your wonderful reivews. Here's ch 12 for you and as usual see ch 1 for disclaimer.
Ch 12 Reunion
Nala covered her mouth with a gasp her green eyes wide as the Princess realized the mistake she had just made. "Did you say Simba was in the jungle?" Vitani asked her blue eyes wide with surprise.
"I uh I uh..." Nala stammered unable to think of a responce quickly enough.
"Now Vitani don't be cruel," Kurya said gently. "I'm sure Nala just made a slip of the tounge. Prince Simba is dead. Everyone knows that."
"Yeah," Nala piped up suddenly. "I don't know why I said that. Heh. Can we just forget I said anything please? The important thing is Tojo and Nuka are safe."
"Yes that is the important thing," Kurya agreed. "And I think it's best we don't mention any of this to King Scar. You know how he gets when things like this are mentioned." The three female cubs nodded and with that the group headed back to Priderock without another word
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Meanwhile Tojo and Nuka had reached the jungle where Kurya had told them to go. "Wow," Nuka said his red eyes wide with amazement. "This place is great."
"Yeah," Tojo said nodding his head. The pale cub looked around and spotted the waterfall. "Hey Nuka there's some water," Tojo exclaimed running over to the pond with Nuka right behind him. After both cub had enough to drink they beagn to explore hoping to find something to eat. As they were searching they spotted a meercat scrounging around a nearby rock. "Hey Nuka do you think you can catch that meercat over there," Tojo asked his voice a low whisper.
"Sure I can," Nuka whispered back. "I think he's big enough to split." With that Nuka crouched down low preparing to pounce on the unspecting meercat. Nuka positioned himself and whispered, "Now!" And went flying through the air towards the meercat who upon seeing him let out an ear piercing scream. Just then a golden fured cub came out of nowhere and tackled Nuka in midair causing both cubs to come crashing to the ground. "Hey," Nuka said pushing the other cub off of him. Just then Tojo came out of hiding and helped his friend to his feet glaring at the other cub. "Why'd you do that for?" Tojo asked the golden cub angerily. "We saw the meercat first."
"Well that meercat is my friend," the cub growled baring his teeth. "And you can't eat him. I won't let you."
"He's your friend," Nuka said with surpirse.
"Yeah you got a problem with that chump?" the meercat said form behind the cub's front leg. "Simba here's our friend so don't mess with us or else."
"Simba?" Tojo and Nuka said together. The golden cub looked at the pair and his amber eyes widened as it dawned on him who the pair were. "Nuka?" he said softly. "Tojo?" The three cubs stared at each other for a minute then burst into cheers of joy tackling each other and rolling around laughing. Timon just stared at all of this with his mouth wide open in shock.
"What are you guys doing here?" Simba asked getting up and looking at the two lion cubs.
"Us?" Nuka said. "What about you?" Just then Timon shouted, "Hey what the heck is goin' on here?" Simba looked at his friend and smiled. "Timon these are my friends Tojo and Nuka. Guys this is Timon and this is Pumbaa." Simba pointed at the warthog who had just joined the scene.
"Very nice to meet you two," Pumbaa said with a grin.
"Same here," Nuka said also grinning. Then the brown cub turned towards Simba and said, "So what gives? We thought you were dead."
"Yeah well looks like I'm not," Simba said quickly. "Look guys please don't tell anyone that I'm alive. If Scar finds out..."
But Simba was interrupted by Tojo saying, "Simba relax. We're all in the same boat here." Simba gave his friend a confused look so Tojo continued, "We're not going back to Priderock. If we do then Scar will kill the both of us."
"Really?" Simba said his amber eyes wide with shock. "But why?"
"He thinks we'll be a threat to his new son," Nuka said waving his paw in annoyance. "So he said we either had to leave or he'd kill us so Kurya told us about this place and here we are."
"Whoa that really stinks," Simba said softly, felling sorry for his friends. Then the golden cub got really angry, "Why does Scar have to be such a twisted psycho path? I mean first he kills my Dad. Then he has his mate kill my Mom. And now this. He has to be stopped."
"Scar killed your parents," Nuka asked his red eyes wide with surprise.
Simba lowered his eyes as the sadness creeped in, "Yeah he did," he whispered the tears forming in his eyes. "And he would've killed me too if is wasn't for Nala."
"Nala?" Tojo said raising his eyebrow. "Nala knows you're here?"
"Yeah," Simba admitted. "I guess she felt guilty about what happened so she saved me. I don't know maybe she likes me or somethin'."
"Wow that surprises me," Tojo said. Simba gave him a strange look so Tojo said quickly, "That she helped you not that she likes you. I mean I guess both surprises me 'cause she's Scar's daughter and they arranged from the beginning for her to set you and your Dad up for a fall."
"Yeah don't remind me," Simba snapped his amber eyes flashing. "I'm still really mad at her about that. And you too Tojo."
"Why me?" Tojo asked surprised.
"Uh gee I don't know," Simba said the sarcasim dripping. "Maybe 'cause you went along with it and set me up too. I remember it was you that told me to go to the gorge in the first place!" By now Simba was furious and he advanced on Tojo who backed up a step. Suddenly Simba let out a furious snarl and lept on Tojo causing both cubs to fall to the ground.
"Get the little tratior," Timon piped up suddenly. "Get him real good Simba."
"Timon maybe we should stay out of this," Pumbaa said to his friend.
"What he deserves it," Timon pointed out but he sat down and was silent as he watched Simba and Tojo fight. Suddenly Nuka shouted, "Stop fighting right now!" and got between the two fighting cubs having to hold a furious Simba back.
"Simba I'm sorry," a terrified Tojo was saying in a shaky voice. "I was an idiot for going along with Scar's plan. But I didn't know any better. But I do now. I hate Scar for everything he's done and I want to help bring him down."
"Yeah me too," Nuka shouted. "He's such a jerk. And he's a murderer which is even worse. He dosen't even deserve to be King."
"Well I don't know," Simba said slowly trying to decide if he could trust Tojo or not. "I trust you Nuka and I guess I'll have to trust you too Tojo. Alright you guys can help me take down my murderous Uncle." This caused the other cubs to let out cheers of joy. This didn't last to long because Timon piped up, "Uh I hate to burst your bubbles fellas but there's a slight problem with your plan."
"What's that?" Tojo asked looking at the meercat.
"Uh gee I don't know," Timon said rolling his eyes. "Maybe the fact that you three are just seven month old cubs and Scar's a full grown lion."
"Yeah and he has a bunch of hyena friends," Nuka said his energy suddenly drained. "We wouldn't stand a chance if we go back now."
"But we will in a few months," Simba pointed out. "We'll be a year old in five months I'm sure if we train really hard we'll be able to come back and win aganist Scar."
"You really think so?" Nuka asked his eyes lighting up.
"Sure," Simba said with a smile. "And besides we'll have help. I'm sure that Tama and Vitani will be on our sides. Not to mention your guys' Moms. They'll help us for sure. Maybe we can eve get Nala to help."
"I wouldn't count on that Simba," Nuka said with a frown. "But how do we train?"
"Oh I'll think of something," Simba said. Then the golden cub turned to his friends, "Will you guys help us?" he asked.
"Of course we will Simba," Pumbaa said eagarly. "Right Timon?"
"Oh no no no," Timon siad holding up his hands in front of him. "Count me out. This goes aganist the whole Hakuna Matata view point."
"But Timon..." Pumbaa began.
"Pumbaa if you want to help them then fine," Timon said. "But count me out. This is you guys' fight not mine."
"But Timon," Pumbaa began. "We are Simba's friends. We must help him. It's the right thing to do."
"Ah Pumbaa leave him alone," Simba said with annoyance. "If Timon wants to be a wimp then fine. We don't need his help anyways."
"Wimp," Timon said glaring at Simba. "Wimp. Who are you callin' a wimp pal? I am not a wimp."
"It's ok Timon," Simba said. "Not everyone is cut out to be the brave one. It's nothing to be ashamed about."
"I'm just as brave as he is," Timon shouted pointing at Pumbaa.
"Sure you are," Simba said with a grin.
"I am so," Timon insisted. "And I'll prove it. I'll help you guys train and when the time comes I'll be right there helping you take down that low down murderer. Come let's go. Let the training begin." With that the meercat took off with Pumbaa right behind him.
"Wow Simba that was amazing," Nuka said clearly impressed.
"Yeah you really manipulated him good," Tojo put in.
"Yeah well what can I say I'm the best," Simba said with a grin proud of himself. "Come on guys lets start our training." With that the three lion cubs were off to begin their training.
A/n yea Tojo, Nuka and Simba are reunited. But can they suceed in taking down Scar? Stay tuned for more to find out and as always please review.
