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Starting Over Chapter 5
"Wow," Simba and Nala said in unison. Everywhere they looked, there were elephant skeletons.
"Hey! You guys gotta come see this!" Simba yelled up to Ajani and Sapphire.
Both Ajani and Sapphire slid down the hill and ended up right behind Simba and Nala. "What is it?" Ajani asked.
"Look," Simba and Nala both said.
Ajani and Sapphire peered over the log, revealing the hundreds of elephant skeletons. "Wow. This is awesome!" said Ajani. Ajani looked to his right and saw a giant elephant skull. Ajani pointed to it. "Look at that."
"I wonder if its brains are still in there," said Sapphire.
"There's only one way to know," said Simba. "C'mon, let's go check it out."
Just as Simba was about to walk into the elephant skull, a blue blur flew in front of him. "Wrong!" said Zazu. "The only checking out you will do would be to check out of here!"
"Aww man!" all the cubs moaned in unison.
"We're WAY beyond the boundaries of the Pride Lands!"
"Look, Banana Beak is scared, haha," Simba snickered.
"That's Mister Banana Beak to you fuzzy!" Zazu retorded. "And right now we are all in very real danger!"
Simba swaggered over to the skull. "Danger? Ha! I walk on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger. HA HA HA!"
Just then Simba heard wild laughter come from inside the skull. He leaped behind Zazu. Out from the skull came three menacing hyenas. "Well, well, Banzai, what have we got here?" asked the female hyena.
"Hmm, I don't know Shenzi. What do you think Ed?" said one of the male hyenas.
"EHHAHEHAHAHA!" laughed the other male and less intelligent hyena.
"Yeah, just what I was thinking. A trio of trespassors!" yelled Banzai.
Zazu was shivering out of fear. "And quite by acccident, let me assure you. A simple navigational error."
Zazu started to push the cubs in the other direction, but before they could leave, Shenzi stomped her paw on Zazu's tail. "Wait, wait, wait. I know you. You're Mufasa's little stooge." she said getting close to Zazu's face.
"I, madam am the king's majordomo."
Banzai moved over to Simba. "And that would make you..."
Simba finished for him. "The future king!" he said proudly.
Shenzi started to circle the cubs. "Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?"
"You can't do anything to him!" Ajani stated.
"Technically, they can. We are on their land," Zazu whispered to Ajani.
"But Zazu, you told us that they were nothing but slobbery, mangy, stupid poachers," Ajani said.
"Ix-nay on the oopid-stay," Zazu said nervously.
Banzai heard this and put his head right up to Zazu's. "Who you callin' oopid-stay!"
Zazu knew that they had to get out of there. "Oh, my, my, my! Look at the sun! It's time to go!" Zazu said as he started to push the cubs away from the hyena trio.
Shenzi cut them off. "What's the hurry? We'd love for you to stick around for dinner!" she said.
Banzai spoke up. "Yeah, we could have whatever's lion around!" He started to laugh at his own joke.
"Wait a minute, I got one, I got one! Make mine a cub sandwich! What'cha think?" Shenzi said, unable to contain her laughter. Ed started to jumping up and down while pointing to something in the distance. "What Ed? What is it?"
Banzai looked at Shenzi. "Hey Shenzi, did we order this dinner to go?"
Shenzi was confused. "No. Why?" "'Cause there it goes!" Banzai screamed pointing to Zazu and the cubs who were already a long ways from them.
The cubs kept on running for their lives with Zazu behind them. Suddenly, one of the hyenas grabbed Zazu by the tail and pulled him away. The cubs stopped and looked around. "Did we lose 'em?" asked Sapphire.
"I think so," said Simba. "Where's Zazu?"
"Look at the little majordomo bird hippity hop all the way to the birdie boiler!" said Banzai as he stuffed Zazu into one of the steam vents.
"Oh, no! Not the birdie boiler! AHHH!" Zazu screamed as he was shot into the air.
The hyena trio laughed uncontrolably until they heard a voice from above them.
"Hey! Why don't you pick on somebody your own size!" Simba commanded.
Shenzi smirked. "Like, you?
Simba realized his mistake. "Oops."All four cubs ran and screamed while barely avoiding the trio's sharp teeth. They ran up an elephant skeleton and slid down its spine. Suddenly, they all flew off the skeleton and landed on a mountain of skulls. Simba looked back and saw that the hyenas were still following them. They all ran up the skulls. Simba and Ajani made it to the top, but soon realized that they were the only two at the top. They both heard Nala and Sapphire screaming their names.
"Simba!" screamed Nala.
"Ajani!" screamed Sapphire.
Both the girls were slipping down the skulls and the hyenas were right behind them. Simba and Ajani gave each other a quick determined glance, and sprinted down to help Nala and Sapphire. Before Shenzi and Banzai could take a bite out of Nala or Sapphire, Simba and Ajani both clawed them in the face and helped the girls up the mountain of skulls. The four of them ran into a dead end. They tried to climb on leftover elephant skin and jump over the wall, but the skin caved in from under them. The four turned around to see the hyena trio closing in on them."Here kitty kitty..." Banzai taunted.
Simba and Ajani both attempted to roar, but they only came out as minor yowls.
"RAAAWWWWRRRR!"
Shenzi snickered, "That was it? Ha! Do it again. Come on."
Just as Simba and Ajani were about to try and roar again, their yowls were drowned out by the sound of a full grown lion's roar. Mufasa came out and pummled the hyenas to the ground as the four cubs watched in amazement. Zazu landed next to the cubs and surveyed the scene as well.
"Uncle! Uncle!" Shenzi said. "SILENCE!" Mufasa roared.
"Calm down. We're really sorry."
"If you ever come near my son or his friends again..."
"Oh! This is your son? Did you know that?" Shenzi asked.
"No I didn't know did you?" Banzai said.
"No! Of course not!"
They both turned to Ed. "Ed?" Ed stupidly nodded yes, which made Mufasa roar again.
"Heh, toodles," Banzai said as the hyena trio ran away. Zazu landed next to Mufasa and gave him an approving nod. Mufasa only glared at Zazu, which made him cower in fear.
Simba trotted up to his dad. "Dad I..."
Mufasa didn't let Simba finish. "You deliberately disobeyed me!" Mufasa scolded.
"Dad, I'm sorry," Simba said.
"Let's go home!"
Ajani, Nala, and Sapphire trotted up to Simba. "I thought you two were very brave," said Nala. "So did I," added Sapphire. Nala licked Simba on the cheek and Sapphire did the same with Ajani. Both of them didn't even look up because they both felt equally guilty about what they did. Little did the cubs know, that up on a perch above them, Scar watched the whole scene unfold. He glared at the cubs before turning and walking away.
How did you like it? Yeah, I know, it was pretty canon. The good news is that the next chapter will be all original. Remember to review!