Hey guys! I'm back with another chapter! As you can see I started to name my chapters. I also changed my name. Get it? AjaniTheLion? As in the same Ajani in this story. Ajani is supposed to be the lion version of me anyway so I thought it was a good name change. Anyway enough about me on to the chapter! Oh before I forget! I do not own The Lion King. Disney does. If I did own The Lion King, we would be on like the 20th one by now.

Starting Over Chapter 8

Nala finally started to wake up. It was late afternoon. She looked around the den and saw that Simba and Ajani were gone. She lightly tapped Sapphire on the shoulder and said, "Hey Sapphire, wake up."

Sapphire lifted her head up and looked around the den. "Where are Simba and Ajani?" Sapphire asked.

"I don't know," Nala replied.

Nala's mother appeared at the entrance of the den. "Nala, Sapphire. Come with me. Scar says he has an important announcement to make."

"Ok," both the cubs said.

When all the the lioness gathered at the bottom of Pride Rock, Scar started to speak, "Everyone, I have gathered you here today to bring you all very sad news." Scar paused for a moment. "There was a stampede in the gorge today and Simba and Ajani just happened to be there playing. Mufasa tried to save them, but to no avail. All three of them died in the stampede. It was a tragedy that Mufasa had to die. But to lose Simba and Ajani, who had barely become to live, it is a deep, personal loss." Nala and Sapphire, as well as their mothers and Sarabi, started to cry uncontrollably. Scar continued, "So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne. But out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise, and reach the dawning of a new era in which lion and hyena come together in our great and glorious future," Scar said as he climbed to the top of Pride Rock.

All of the lionesses just stared in shock. Kamili was the first to speak, "I never got to tell Ajani who his real father was."

"Who was his father?" asked Sapphire.

Kamili looked at Sarabi and sighed, "It was Mufasa."

Simba and Ajani layed unconcious in the middle of the desert. Buzzards were flying over them. Figuring the cubs were dead, they swooped in to start feasting on the cubs. Suddenly, a warthog and a meerkat ran straight for them, making them fly everywhere. The warthog spoke, "Oh! I love this! Bowling for buzzards."

"Gets 'em everytime!" said the meerkat while trying to contol his laughter.

The warthog made his way over to the unconcious cubs. "Uh oh. Hey Timon! You better come look! I think they're still alive!"

Timon looked at the two cubs. "Eww," he muttered. "Alrighty, what have we got here?" Timon started to sniff Simba and lifted up his paw. Timon's eyes widened at what he saw. "Jeez, they're lions!" He climbed onto the warthog's back. "Run Pumbaa! Move it!"

Pumbaa didn't think these cubs were dangerous. "Hey! Timon, they're just little lions. Look at them. They're so cute and all alone. Can we keep 'em?"

"Pumbaa are you nuts? We are talking about lions! Lions eat guys like us!"

"But they're so little."

Timon fell off of Pumbaa. "They're gonna get bigger."

"Maybe they'll be on our side."

"Ha! That's the stupidest thing I ever heard! Maybe they'll be... Wait! I got it! What if they're on our side?" said Timon completely taking Pumbaa's idea. "You know, having lions around might not be such a bad idea!"

"So we're keepin' em'?" Pumbaa asked.

"Of course we are!" replied Timon. "Who's the brains in this outfit?"

"Uhh..." Pumbaa started to say but Timon cut him off.

"My point exactly! Jeez, I'm fried. Let's get out of here and find some shade," said Timon as Pumbaa picked up the two cubs and trotted away.

"Wait," Nala said. "So Simba and Ajani are brothers?"

"Yes," replied Kamili. "Mufasa and I had a little too much special fruit from Rafiki's tree and some things happened, resulting in me getting pregnant with Ajani. I'm sorry Sarabi."

Sarabi didn't seem affected at all, "Its ok, Kam'. You didn't know what you were doing. And besides, Mufasa was the king. He was bound to mate with someone else sooner or later. I'm glad it was you."

"So you're not mad?"

"Of course not. Kam', we've been friends since cubhood, I'm fine," assured Sarabi as she pulled in Kamili for a hug.

"Thanks Sara',"

"So if Mufasa was Ajani's father," Sapphire said. "That means Ajani was a prince."

"That is correct," Sarabi said.

"I just wish he was here now," Sapphire said as she started to cry again.

Timon started to splash water onto to the two cubs and then they finally started to awake. "You ok kids?" Timon asked.

"I guess so," they both said.

"You nearly DIED," Pumbaa said.

"I saved you," Timon said. Pumbaa grunted. "And Pumbaa helped... a little."

"Thanks for your help," Simba said as him and Ajani started to walk away.

"Hey where you going?" Timon asked.

"No where," Ajani replied.

"Gee, they look blue," said Timon.

"I'd say dark brown and brownish gold," said Pumbaa, not getting what Timon meant.

"No, no, no. I mean they're depressed."

"Oh." Timon and Pumbaa walked up to the cubs. "Kids, what's eatin' ya?"

"Nothing. They're at the top of the food chain! Haha! The food chain..." Timon laughed but then stopped when he realized no one was laughing. "So, where you from?"

"Who cares? We can't go back," Ajani said.

"Ah, you're an outcast. That's great, so are we!" Timon said.

"Whatcha do kids?" Pumbaa asked.

"Something terrible, but we don't want to talk about it," Simba said sadly.

"Great! We don't want to hear about it," Timon said.
"Come on Timon," Pumbaa whispered. "Anything we could do?"

"Not unless you could change the past," said Ajani.

"You know kids, in times like this, my buddy Timon here says, 'You gotta put your behind in your past.' Wait I mean..." Pumbaa said, knowing he got it wrong.

"No no! Amature. Lie down before you hurt yourself. It's 'You gotta put your past behind you.' Look kids, bad things happen and there's nothing you can do about it right?

"Right," Simba muttered.

"Wrong! When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world!"

"Well that's not what we were taught," Ajani said.

"Well, then maybe you two need a new lesson. Repeat after me. Hakuna Matata."

"What?" the two cubs asked.

"Hakuna Matata," Pumbaa said slowly. "It means no worries."

"Hakuna Matata," Timon said. "What a wonderful phrase."

"Hakuna Matata. Ain't no passing craze!" Pumbaa sang.

"It means no worries, for the rest of your days." Timon started to lead the cubs into the jungle.

"It's our problem free philosophy!" both Timon and Pumbaa sang.

"Hakuna Matata," Timon finished. Welcome to our humble home," he said as he showed the cubs the oasis.

"You live here?" Ajani asked.

"We live where ever we want."

"Yep! Home is where your rump rests!" Pumbaa said.

"It's beautiful," Simba said in awe.

As they walked through the jungle, Pumbaa belched. "Man, I'm starved!

"I'm so hungry I could eat a whole zebra!" Simba said.

Timon shook a little bit. "We're fresh out of zebra,"

"Any antelope?"

"Nah ah,"

"Hippo?" Ajani asked starting to get desperate.

"Nope. Listen kids, if your gonna live with us, your gonna have to eat like us." Timon walked over to a log. "Hey! This looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub!"

Pumbaa lifted up the log to reveal hundreds of bugs and insects.

"Eww, what's that?" Simba asked.

"A grub," Timon replied. "What's it look like?"

"Eww! Gross!" Ajani said.

"Tastes like chicken!" Timon said as he swallowed a grub. He went up to a mound and pulled out a red grub. "Pequant, with a very pleasant crunch."

"You'll learn to love 'em!" Pumbaa said with a mouthful of grubs. After he swallowed them, he slurped up a worm and said, slimy, yet satisfying."

"I'm telling you kids, this is the great life. No rules, no responsibilities." Timon pulled out a blue grub. "Oh! The little cream filled kind!" he said as he ate it. "And best of all, no worries. Well kids?" Timon asked the cubs as he held up the leaf platter.

Both the cubs picked up a grub. "Oh well, Hakuna Matata," said the two cubs as they swallowed their grubs. At first, they thought it didn't taste good, but then it got better and they said, "Slimy, yet satisfying."

Timon smirked. "That's it."

So how was the chapter. I bet you guys didn't expect Mufasa to be Ajani's father! The next update will either be tomorrow or Tuesday. Remember to leave reviews. See you guys later!