The Hyena Lion
A/N: Things are bound to change for Kion attitude in this chapter. Also with Zuri's imprisonment, the lion ain't so happy.
Chapter 18
Confrontation And Kion's Conflict
Zuri were taken back to the outlands and watched by two jackals who clearly is watching her. She had thought of Kion and the hours they spend with each other. Everything seemed into bliss when Kion and her were alone and feeling joy unlike any of them could have imagine. She had slept with her best friend's lost little brother yet she didn't regret it. After all, that season came by and as she slept on his mane, he saw the fire in the distance and both had to head back only to see her deranged aunt with Janja and Reirei. She saw Usaliti is more insane now and have became like Zira if not worst. She clearly would stop at nothing to achieve her goal and wanted to sleep with someone who were an cub when she was young.
Outside of Zuri's cell, she saw her aunt storming up, dismissing the two jackals who went away as ordered. "Oh, Zuri, it's nice to see you again," Usaliti said cruelly, glaring at her niece who were currently in a cell. "I have miss having you around."
"Spare me your sarcasm," Zuri said bluntly. "I would never become your puppet again and at the end of the day Kiara and Simba would defeat you and Zira."
"Now, my darling, don't be rude," Usaliti interjected softly. "After all, Kion wouldn't want you to put much stress on yourself." Zuri didn't respond but a low growl came from her lips that Usaliti heard. "Plus, it would hurt the cub."
"Cub?" Zuri demanded, her rage becoming confusion.
Usaliti bit back a laugh. "I know you and Kion gotten to know each other and now you no doubt bare his cub in your womb. When it's finally born, I shall take it from its mother and raise it as my own for you have failed me yet it wouldn't do the same." Usaliti gotten closer to her, their eyes meeting for a second, both wielding different expressions, Zuri had deviance and anger in her, while Usaliti has hunger and rage.
After a minute, Zuri spoke. "Even if I do have a cub," she said defiantly. "I won't allow you to take it from me. I would defend anything that I love with my life if I have to."
"You would need help to bare your cub," Usaliti countered with a growl. "No doubt Kion will come and would try to save you but without his friends he would be too weak to stop us. Zira have formally ambushed Simba and now she has plans to attack at fall. No one would be able to stop us but once she returns to gather us, I shall kill her and take her place as the pride lands queen."
Zuri snarled but the hope in her eyes were slowly disbanding and being replace with something else... remorse. Usaliti turned away from her and were about to walk out but Zuri stopped her. "How can you become like this? Sure, you were an jerk throughout the first part of my life but yet things have truly taken a worst for you," she said bitterly as her aunt turned back to her. "This isn't what my mother would have wanted of you. Why do you hate Kion so much after he did nothing to you to deserve your hate?"
Zuri had wondered this for years. Kion haven't done anything to her beside that fight they had which was quickly forgotten. It clearly is something deeper and more emotional than she likes to admit.
Usaliti smiles. "So much like your mother," she whispered. "Now, Zira and I have different intentions," she added crazily, her voice rising higher as she spoke. "You see Zira wants to avenge Scar whereas I want power. Scar have hurt me and force me to bare his cub which was a failure, now all I have is myself. Kion and Kiara are blood relations of Scar and both shall die, along with Simba and Nala."
"Why Nala though?" Zuri inquired. "She certainly isn't Scar's daughter. What have she ever done to you?"
"She is far too loyal to Simba, it would pain me to kill her since I knew her for a long time but yet after I was force to mate, Nala didn't comfort me but instead left me to suffer instead of being an true friend." Usaliti states. "But anyways where was I?" She begins to pretend thinking until she decided to continued. "Oh yes, you see Kion and Kiara carry Scar's blood in them. Kion and Kiara is suppose to die to prevent a tyrannical rule to return in the future."
Zuri frowned and tensed her muscles, hanging her head low and shaking her head. "Just because it happened to Scar doesn't mean it would happen to Kion and Kiara's legacy."
"Perhaps you are right," Usaliti agreed, surprising the tawny-orange lioness. Zuri growled from behind her as she turned around and send an harsh strike to Zuri's front shoulder, knocking her back and against the corner. Zuri shrieked out in pain and rubbed her shoulder, still surprised that she send such an mighty strike.
Kion arrived back to the place he called his home for years only to see the hyenas gathering up; even ones whom he recognized as enemies in the past. His other friends were gathered around the den.
The teenage lion went up and saw their faces growing wide. They were sure he may have died in the assault but yet he was standing right there, infront of them. Yet something was different about him, he seems to be paled and his eyes were raw.
The lion narrowed his eyes at Janja and his hyenas. "Janja, what are you doing here?" The lion demanded, wanting to hear his side of the story before he jump onto him for trying to kill them hours ago.
Janja stiffened, his muscles tensed. "Zira and Usaliti have betrayed me," he said bitterly. "And I shall never join them again. I own it to Jasiri who save me and my clan's life."
Kion glared at him, not entirely convince and not willing to trust anybody so easily. Despite him still loving Zuri, the fact that she had been behind his back hurts his soul. But before he can retort something, Jasiri got in the way to stop him.
"Kion, before should you judge him, think for a second," Jasiri states, her eyes staring at Kion pleadingly, not wanting him to make an rash decision. She can see that Kion is slowly starting to become something else. He seemingly is allowing everything that happened to him influence his choices. Kion did almost lost them all so that is one reason to why he's acting with hostility to Janja. Another reason is that he and Janja are long time rivals since they were very young.
"He can't be trusted easily," Kion mused, his eyes growing more narrowed at the hyena. They have been rivals for a long time and the resentment is still there. "I won't be surprised if he aided Zira and Usaliti with taking our watering hole in the background." That is very possible because there's no way this was a one time thing and that Janja and Zira have never worked together before. They're outlanders and both do seems to fully intend to throw the Circle Of Life into chaos.
"You're right, Kion," Madoa agrees, coming to take the side of her little sister. "But there is no way Janja will turn back to Zira and Usaliti. Most likely, they would just kill him even should he spy on us and betray us 'till the end. I believe Janja should be given an chance."
"Yeah, come on, K," Bunga said. "I mean if Janja heads back to Usaliti and Zira than that would be stupid even for Janja."
"After all," Ono added, "Usaliti did threw Janja near the fumes and he nearly died. He's in Jasiri's dept which means he's also is in your dept as well."
"Also, he ain't an idiot," Fuli remarked. "If he returns to Zira than I shall bite his head off." Fuli send an dark smirk towards Janja, who gulped in fear having an feeling he would have to be careful infront of this cheetah and not do something reckless since she seems to have that fierce attitude which would make the strongest hyena shiver with fear.
"And you can keep an eye on him," Beshte says, convincingly.
Kion frowned and thought about it for a minute. If his friends and hyena family already trust Janja, maybe he should give them an chance. After all, they really are now seeing through the lies of Zira and Usaliti. But thanks to Zira, he along with his friends and family was force into hiding and Kion never had actually met his real name. They didn't even knew his name because he refused to actually said it.
"Fine," Kion finally grudgingly agreed to the terms. "But you will be watching him, Jasiri, and make sure he don't try anything funny."
"Janja!" A familiar voice squealed from above. Eyes going wide, Kion looks up to see Mzingo. Never actually really meeting Mzingo but knew he worked with Janja, Kion glared and were about to ask what he was doing out there when Mzingo told Janja: One of my vultures told me that in the pride lands, Zira and Simba went into war. I try to find you but I couldn't found you anywhere so I had to look around for you.'
"Zira and Simba is in war?!" Fuli shouted. "What are going to do?"
"Kion, that is your home and you have to defend your dad," Ono said.
Kion, finay having enough, let out a thunderous growl. "I know!" Kion interjected, than he realized his voice was a little too high even for him in the current depression and angry state he was in.
Shocked with his abrupt rudeness, everybody went silent. "Hey, Kion are you okay?" Madoa inquired.
"Yeah, anyway I would catch up!" Kion announced highly. "Mzingo, I want you to track them down. No doubt did they switch locations and I want to find them. Have you and your patrols search the outlands and report back to me once you find them. Everybody dismissed."
They all dispensed, getting themselves ready and getting into a group which caused him to close his eyes and hearing an voice:
"Accept the darkness, Kion!" A familiar voice hissed within him. "It's the only way you can save her! Kill that foolish hyena! He would betray you and your friends and family!" Staggering, Kion fallen back, his eyes narrowed at Janja.
"I known his mother!" the voice of Scar continue, his voice rumbling with pure hatred. "When I needed her even after everything I have done for her, she betrayed me and killed me! He is like her to the surface and will turn his back on you!"
"If he does, he would pay," Kion vowed in his thoughts coldly. "Now get the hell out of my head now! I don't even know how you are in my head!"
"Good, the hatred in your soul is burning through you now," Scar states. To Kion's surprise, a lion formed behind him and he turned, his eyes widened as a glimmer brown-coated lion appeared. Luckily they all were away or he might have been looked on as concern. "Her being captivated had made you grown stronger, my young friend. You could be made into an unstoppable lion machine. Once you meet Simba, he would judge your abilities and will hold you back and restrict you on releasing your strength."
"Liar!" Kion bellowed, wrinkling his nose with complete anger. "You just want me to betray my family and become like you!"
"Fool!" Scar hissed. "Your family will use you as their instrument like Mufasa use me as his. We are more connected than you think. After all you will be stronger than most of them combined. No mere lioness can stand against your abilities. However, as stronge as you may be, you can be stronger on the path of darkness. Your mother had lure Simba into aiding into my defeat and having the hyenas destroying me."
"Unlike you, I know how to contain my strength for the greater good," Kion snapped. "If you did, you wouldn't have fail in ruling an kingdom. My father was right to aid into your defeat. You betrayed everybody whom is suppose to mean dear to you. You're an monster."
"Fool, you have an chance to obtain power and true strength yet you continues denying it!" Scar shouted, pain starting to feel into the prince's head as he backed up, clutching his head and trying to get the thunderous feeling and tingling out of his head. "You could be so much more. Like me, you lead hyenas who wouldn't hesitate to follow you to any path! Your loyalty to them is even more remarkable! The insignificant pride lands can easily fall to your paws. That fool, Zira has always been underwhelming and bloodthirsty that she would be the first to fall!"
"I won't ever become like you!" He snarled, determinedly.
"As we speak, Zira is making war against the pride landers," Scar breathed, the tone in his voice becoming dark. "She would destroy them and you and start a legacy of the pride lands. You however has traits of what is to be king. With your wisdom and strength yet your power and determination, you can make an mighty king that your legacy would follow. You are just like me!"
"No, Scar," Kion interjected, trying to keep his voice low but finding it very hard. "I'm not like you and never will be."
Scar sighed. "So much like your father," he said bluntly yet reasonability. "However, unlike him who's an weakling and would have held you back for his own gain if you had remain with him and force you to do your pathetic sister would have wanted, I can guide you forward and to success if you do what I command."
"You will only lead me to death and destruction," Kion states. He knew that he was going to make darker decisions until he finds Zuri. They were getting themselves ready for war and Kion had to be prepare to kill.
