Author's Notes: Still Pre-Lion King 2 arc.

Chapter 10: Kopa meets Vitani

The two race through the Out Lands until Kopa runs into another cub and the two tumble into a heap and Shredder watches with some amusement. The cub gets up and growls at Kopa yet ignores Shredder.

"What're you doing here?" growled the cub, the voice female.

"J-just playing." said Kopa and looked at Shredder, the female cub followed his gaze and saw Shredder and she jumped.

"What the heck are you?!"

"Oh, yeah, I get that outcome all the time! If you must know, miss 'Yell-til-we're-deaf' I am a lion, hyena, dragon Hybrid and if you make fun of me I'll show you why I was named Shredder!" said Shredder lifting up a paw.

*SHING!*

Five razor sharp claws extend from his paw that glistened in the sunlight and both the lioness cub and Kopa gulp. Shredder's expression suddenly goes from dead-serious to relaxed.

"Now then, tell us your name. You know mine already. Hahahahahahaheheha." said Shredder.

"I-I'm Vitani." said the female cub.

"I'm Kopa." said Kopa.

"To quote an annoying hornbill, 'Just look at the two lovebirds'!" said Shredder before he burst out laughing and both Vitani and Kopa glared at him.

"What? HAHAHAHA! I can't help it! HAHAHAHA! I'm half hyena! HAHAHAHAHA!"

Kopa and Vitani share a quick glance before they both turn their attention back to the Hybrid with sinister smirks on their faces, Shredder notices this.

"Come on guys. Can't we take a little joke? Ha ha!" said Shredder back up into a tree as both Kopa and Vitani pounce at him. The three roll around in the dirt for a bit before Shredder pins Kopa and Vitani pins Shredder who is pinning Kopa. All three laugh. Soon three figures arrive, all hyenas.

"Shred, what are you up to?" said Shenzi, "And what's the little fuzz ball of Simba's doing here?"

"Ah, ah! Remember Shenzi, heh heh heh, Fang told us to be more polite when addressing royalty, unlike when we...'talked' to him when he was a cub." said Ed.

"You know Ed, I can't get used to you talkin'! I preferred it when you were a babbling idiot!" said Banzai.

"Jealous much? I get to be called the uncle and you get to be called-" said Ed.

" S#$t Face!" said Shredder pointing at Banzai.

"HAHAHAHAHA! He said it! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" laughed Ed.

"[Sigh] I'm surrounded by idiots!" mumbled Shenzi face-pawing.

"Oh, come now honey. He's not that bad." said Fang making an appearance beside Shenzi. Fang's appearance hadn't change much except he was a bit taller when compared to Simba.

"Hmm, an Out Lander cub." mused Fang to himself looking at the somewhat frightened Vitani, "Oh, [chuckles], don't worry little one. We patrol the border and only stop your kind from crossing. Otherwise, we do as we see fit, you could call us the...Mid Landers."

"Now then Kopa, I believe it's time for you to go home and- Where's Zazu? If I remember correctly, he would follow the next for the throne everywhere." said Fang.

"Shred, scared him off. He said Birdie Boiler and the hornbill took off like a rocket." said Kopa.

"That explains it. He never liked the mention of that word at all...after what happened when we were cubs." said Fang before he snickered. The three hyenas started giggling at the memory.

"What happened?" said Kopa and Vitani at the same time and Fang raises an eyebrow but shrugged it off.

"Banzai, Shred, if you please." said Fang getting out of the way for the two to watch. Banzai clears his throat and then grabs Shred and stretches out the Hybrid's wings.

"The little majordomo bird, hippity-hop, all the way to the birdie boiler!" said Banzai forcing Shredder into a "geyser".

"Oh no, not the birdie boiler! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" fake screamed Shredder as he ignited himself and took off into the sky and Fang, Shredder, Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed fell back laughing with Vitani and Kopa trying to repress their laughter. At that moment Zazu landed and Fang straightened up, elbowing Shenzi, who elbowed Ed, who elbowed Shredder, who sliced up Banzai's face who screamed in pain at the tiny cuts and Shredder had to repress his laughter.

"Were you four talking about me?" said Zazu crossing his wings/arms and glaring at them.

"[Sarcastically] No, no, no. We were just talking about a pouncing lesson." said Fang before he winked at the three cubs who all had sinister grins at that.

"Ah, very good. Pouncing. POUNCING!? GAH!" said Zazu before all three pounced on him.

"Come now, time to leave. Shred, Kopa, say goodbye to your friend." said Fang as he began walking off.

"Bye." the two said to Vitani at once before they followed the four.

"Bye." said Vitani with a smile before she ran smack into a rather mangy looking lion tween(?). He was scratching his head and looked at her with a sneer.

"~Vitani's got a boyfriend!~Vitani's got a boyfriend!~I'm tellin' mother!~" said the tween in sing-song voice.

"Nuka, I'll wrestle you. If I win, you keep quiet but if you win...you tell Zira..." said Vitani thinking of a way to avoid trouble.

"DEAL!" said Nuka quickly.

Five seconds later, despite Nuka being older and bigger, he's pinned to ground by Vitani.

"DARN!" yelled Nuka and he kept his end of the deal...for a while.

END CHAPTER