"Where did you come from?" Simba asked Maia.
"I'm from the Outside lands, so basically I'm an outsider." Maia explained.
"But why?" Nala asked.
"I don't know, me and my mom just live out here. She said is basically more peaceful out here then it is around other animals."
"Can't argue with that, say Nala and I are on our way to the Elephant graveyard. Wanna come?" Simba asked.
"The Elephant graveyard? Isn't that where the Hyenas live?"
"Well,...yeah."
"I don't know, my mom told me never to go there."
"Come on, it won't be that bad. Besides I'll protect both you and Nala."
"How?" Maia asked. "Because he going to be king one day." Nala revealed.
"Whoa! Really?"
"Yeah! This is whole land will be mine soon. Come on let's go." Simba says as he leads the way with both Nala and Maia leaving with him. Soon Zazu flies behind them realizing that Simba is aware of his half-sister.
"Oh dear." Zazu said terrified about Simba meeting Maia meaning that the King's secret would be revealed.
"So, how are we going to ditch the dodo?" Nala asked.
Simba smiled, Nala and Maia knew he already had a plan in mind.
"Well, we could distract him, from us." Simba said.
Nala laughed, and nuzzled Simba. He blinked, then smiled.
"Great idea, but how?" Nala asked.
"Oh, just look at the two of you. Little seeds of romance blossoming in the Savannah. Your parents will be thrilled... with your being betrothed and all." Zazu said while flying down in front of the two cubs.
"Be-what?" Simba asked.
"Betrothed. Intended. Affianced." Zazu replied.
Simba, Nala, and Maia were confused, they have no idea what Zazu is talking about.
"Meaning?" Nala asked.
"One day, you two are going to be married." Zazu said, smiling.
Nala and Simba wrinkled their muzzles in disgust.
"Yuck!" Simba exclaimed.
"Ewww." Nala exclaimed.
"I can't marry her, she's my best friend." Simba said.
"Yeah, It'd be too weird." Nala agreed.
"Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but you two turtle-doves have no choice, It's a tradition..." Zazu said.
"Hahaha, you two are gonna be lovebirds." Maia laughed.
"Well little Maia, it won't be long till you will be married yourself." Zazu revealed to Maia. "What? No way! I'm not gonna get married."
"I wouldn't be so sure, one day you'll meet a male lion and be married to him one day." Zazu said. "Yeah, right."
Simba mimics Zazu saying those words.
"Going back generations." Zazu finished.
"Well, when I'm king, that'll be the first thing to go." Simba said.
"Not so long as I'm around." Zazu said.
"Well, in that case, you're fired." Simba said, smiling.
"Hmmm... Nice try, but only the king can do that." Zazu said, poking Simba's muzzle.
"Well, he's the future king." Nala said.
Simba thumped Zazu's chest, "Yeah. So you have to do what I tell you." Simba said. Zazu was getting upset.
"Not yet I don't. And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed." Zazu said angrily.
Simba smiled at Nala and Maia then at glared at Zazu.
"Not the way I see it." Simba said.
Simba jumps in front of Zazu and the whole place turns into many colors.
Simba begins to sing.
"I'm going to be a mighty king, so enemies beware!" Simba sang.
"Well, I've never seen a king of beasts, with quite so little hair." Zazu sang, while plucking one hair from Simba's head, Simba winced.
Simba puts his head through a bush, and it looks like the leaves are his mane.
"I'm gonna be the mane event, like no king was before."
Simba climbs a log, and puts his paw on his chest.
"I'm brushing up on looking down, I'm working on my Roar!"
Zazu was startled and fell backwards into a puddle.
Zazu gets on his feet.
"Thus far, a rather uninspiring thing." Zazu sang.
Zazu grabs a red thing and wipes his beak, the red thing was an ear of a red elephant, the red elephant swung its trunk and hit Zazu.
Zazu went flying into another puddle.
Nala, Maia, and Simba run to Zazu.
"Oh, I just can't wait to be king!" Simba sang.
Nala is on the left of Zazu, Maia is behind Zazu, and Simba is on the right.
"You've rather a long way to go, young master, if you think..." Zazu said.
"No one saying do this." Simba sang.
"Now when I said that-" Zazi said.
"No one saying be there." Nala sang.
Simba stuck out his tongue at Zazu.
"What I meant was-." Zazu said.
"No one saying stop that." Simba sang.
"What you don't realize-." Zazu said.
Nala made a face at Zazu.
"No one saying see here!" Nala and Simba sang together.
"Now see here!" Zazu yelled.
Nala jumped in the puddle and Zazu was dripping with water.
Simba ran and Nala and Maia followed.
Simba climbed on an ostrich, Maia and Nala climbed a different ostrich.
"Free to run around all day." Nala and Simba sang.
"That's definitely out." Zazu said.
Zazu flew ahead of the cubs not looking in front of him.
"Free to do it all my way!" Simba sang.
"I think it's time that you and I arranged a heart-to-heart." Zazu sang.
WAM!
Zazu flew right into a rhino's rump.
Zazu fell to the ground, he was dizzy.
The ostrich that Nala is on lowered its head, and Nala hung on to it's neck.
"Kings don't need advice from little hornbills for a start." Nala sang.
"If this is where the monarchy is headed count me out!" Zazu said.
"Out of service, out of Africa, I wouldn't hang about." Zazu said.
"This cub is getting wildly out of wing." Zazu said.
"Oh, I just can't wait to be king!" Simba sang.
"Everybody look left." Simba sang, a herd of animals tramples Zazu.
"Everybody look right." Nala sang, the herd of animals trample Zazu again.
Simba hops up a ladder of giraffe heads.
"Every where you look I'm..." Simba sang.
Simba and Nala roll down a giraffe neck and land on its stomach.
The two cubs held out one paw in the air.
"Standing in the spotlight!" Nala and Simba sang.
Zazu is stuck between two animal butts.
Zazu pushes them away as strong as he can.
"Not yet!" Zazu exclaimed.
The two animal butts crush Zazu.
"Let every creature go for broke and sing, let's hear it in the herd and on the wing, It's gonna be King Simba's finest fling." Nala, Maia, Simba, and the other animals sang.
A pyramid of many animals form, and and Simba, Nala, and Maia are on the very top.
"Oh, I just can't wait to be king." Simba sang.
"Oh, he just can't wait to be king." Nala sang.
"Oh, I just can't wait..." Simba sings.
"Just can't wait." Nala sings.
"To be king!" Nala and Simba sing.
The pyramid of animals crumbles, and Nala and Simba go flying to the ground.
Simba hits the ground first, but he isn't hurt, Nala falls on top of him.
Nala gets of Simba, and the two cubs run away.
Nala looked back at a rhino, she sees a meerkat and a warthog, walking away from the rhino.
"Hey, Simba, look a meerkat and a warthog." Nala said.
Simba turned around and he did not see a meerkat, or a warthog.
"Yeah, right. Let's go." Simba said.
Nala and Simba ran again.
Nala began laughing, Simba joined her.
"All right, it worked!" Simba exclaimed.
"We lost him." Nala said.
"I am a genius." Simba said, arrogantly.
"Hey, genius, it was my idea." Nala said.
"Yeah, but I pulled it off." Simba said.
"With me!" Nala exclaimed. "Well technically, with us." Maia said.
Simba got into pouncing position.
"Oh yeah?" Simba said.
Simba growls playfully, and jumps on Nala, they wrestle, and Nala pins Simba on the ground.
He widened his eyes in shock, he had no idea Nala could do that.
"Pinned ya." Nala said.
"How did you do that?" Simba asked.
"I learned." Nala replied.
"Let me up." Simba said, annoyed.
Nala turned away smiling, Simba glares at her, then jumps on her again, they both tussle, and roll off a small cliff with Maia running behind them, the atmosphere grew darker around them, they did not even notice.
Nala pinned Simba again, he grunts.
"Pinned ya again." Nala said, with triumph.
Playing with Tojo, payed off.
A geyser nearby makes a loud noise, ejecting steam.
The two cubs gasp. Nala, Maia, and Simba see a craggy vale filled with skeletons of elephants.
Nala stares at the eerie place in awe.
"This is it, we made it." Simba said, smiling.
Nala, Maia, and Simba walk to ledge, and put their two front paws on the ledge to see over it. There is gray mist everywhere, and piles of bones everywhere.
Nala, Maia, and Simba look at each other.
"Whoa!" the two cubs say.
"It's really creepy." Nala said.
"Yeah... Isn't it great?" Simba said.
"It's great alright, greatly terrifying." Maia adds.
"We could get in big trouble." Nala said.
"I know, huh." Simba said.
Nala gets off the ledge, and sees an elephant skull.
"I wonder if its brains are still in there?" Nala said.
Simba walks toward the skull.
"I heard there were intestines in there." Maia said.
"There is only one way to know, come on, let's go check it out." Simba said.
Simba continues walking to the skull.
Zazu flew in front of Simba, "Wrong!" Zazu said.
"The only checking out you will be doing is checking out of here." Zazu said and rushed Simba to start moving.
"Aww, man." Simba said angrily.
"We're way beyond the boundary of the Pridelands." Zazu said, looking in every direction.
"Look guys. Banana Beak is scared." Simba said
Zazu pokes Simba in the nose, "That's Mr. Banana Beak to you, fuzzy." Zazu said angrily.
And right now, we are all in very real danger." Zazu added.
"Don't be scared Banana beak, if anything goes wrong Simba will take care of it." Maia said.
"You, Simba, and Nala are still cubs and have no business being in the Elephant Graveyard." Zazu spoken. "...and your mother is going to be very angry with you being here." Zazu whispered to Maia.
Simba walked to the mouth of the skull, "Danger? Hah! I walk on the wild side, I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha ha!" Simba said, then laughing.
In the middle of Simba's laughing, inside the skull came evil laughter. Simba gasped in horror. He ran over to Nala, Maia, and Zazu.
They saw two hyenas coming out of the eyes of the skull, and one came out of the mouth. Nala gasped.
Nala, Simba, Maia, and Zazu were frightened at the sight of a trio of hyenas. Simba glared at the trio.
"Well, well, well, Banzai. What have we got here?" The female hyena said.
"Hmm. I don't know, Shenzi. Uhh.. What do you think Ed?" Banzai asked.
The one hyena with crazy looking eyes, and the tongue sticking out of its mouth just laughed.
Maia thought she would puke, because, the saliva dripping off the tongue belonging to the hyena known as Ed, was green, it made a sickening squish noise when it hit the ground.
The trio of hyenas circle the two cubs and Zazu.
Shenzi growled at Maia, the lioness cub backed away.
"Yeah, just what I thinking. A trio of trespassers!" Banzai said.
Zazu luaghed nervously, "And quite by accident, let me assure you. A simple navigational error." Zazu said.
Shenzi shook her head, her mane shaking, "Whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait... I know you, you're Mufasa's little stooge." Shenzi said.
Zazu frowned, "I, madam, am the king's majordomo." Zazu said.
Banzai turned his gaze on to Simba.
"And that would make you...?" Banzai asked.
"The future king." Simba said, showing no sign of fear.
Maia looked at Simba, she could not believe Simba was not afraid of three hyenas, he could have been, but it was to difficult to find out.
The three hyenas continued circling them.
"Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?" Shenzi said.
Simba shook his head, he glared at each hyena at a time.
"Puh. You can't do anything to me." Simba said.
Maia was so afraid, she wanted to be in her mother's arms right now.
"Uhh... technically, they can, we are on their land." Zazu said.
"But Zazu, you told they're nothing but slobbering, mangy, stupid poachers." Simba said.
"Ix-nay on the oopid-stay..." Zazu whispered to Simba.
Banzai came face to face with Zazu, "Who you callin' "oopid-stay?!" Banzai yelled.
"and who's this little cutie?" Shenzi asked staring hungrily at Maia.
"My, my, my! Ooh, look at the sun! It's time to go." Zazu starts to hasten the two cubs away. Shenzi notices and jumps in front of them.
"What's the hurry, we'd looove you to stick around for dinner." Shenzi said. Banzai shook his head in agreement.
"Yeaaah! We could have whatever's "lion" around." Banzai said. He burst out laughing.
"Oh, wait, I got one. Make mine, a "cub" sandwich." Whatcha think?" Shenzi said. She started laughing.
Ed starts jumping up and down jabbering,
"What is it, Ed?" Shenzi asked.
"Hey, did we order this dinner to go?" Banzai asked.
"No, why?" Shenzi replied.
"Cause there it goes!" Banzai yelled. Meanwhile a mile away from the trio of hyenas, Nala, Maia, and Simba are running away. Zazu tried flying away only to be caught by one of the Hyenas. Simba, Nala, and Maia escape from the Hyenas.
"Did we lose 'em?" Nala asked panting, and so was Simba and Maia, they looked in all directions, they had no idea where to go.
"I think so... Where's Zazu?" Simba replied.
After Simba said that, the three cubs heard Zazu screaming about a birdie boiler, they wanted to laugh, but they were too scared to laugh.
"A majordomo bird hippity hop all the way to the Birdie boiler." Benzai says as he sets Zazu in there. "Oh no! Not the Birdie boiler! Aah!" Zazu screams as the Birdie boiler sends him skyrocketing in the sky.
Simba, Nala, and Maia start running to help Zazu somehow. Maia saw Zazu being blasted away, into the Pridelands.
"Hey, why don't you pick on somebody your own size?" Simba said. Shenzi slowly turned her head and looked at Simba, "Like... you?" She said.
Simba and Nala's ears flattened against their head.
"Oops." Simba said. "Big mouth!" Maia says to Simba.
The hyenas began running toward Maia, Nala, and Simba.
They both screamed. A geyser ejected red steam, in front of the three cubs and the three hyenas poked their heads out through the red steam, they flashed their shiny sharp teeth.
"Boo!" The trio of hyenas yelled.
The cubs run up an elephant skull, Shenzi was very close to biting into Maia rump, but the hyena was to slow.
The cubs slipped and started to slide down the spine of the elephant, Nala held onto Simba as best she could while Maia held onto Nala, her heart pounding faster and faster, the three cubs flew off the spine and fell into a mounatin of bones.
Simba ran up as fast as he could. Maia thought Simba was running too fast for a lion cub, to her horror, she realized Nala was slipping, Nala has lost her grip, and the hyenas got even closer to Nala.
"SIMBA! MAIA!" Nala yelled.
She saw them turn around and come to her rescue, Shenzi got her second chance to eat Nala, but Simba came out of no where, and slashed Shenzi on the cheek as Maia help Nala catch up with them, the three cubs ran up together.
Simba was ahead of Nala and Maia, and he climbed another spine of an elephant, the three cubs were on some rotten flesh, they jumped, but the skin broke and the two cubs fell, both were trapped, the ribs of the rotten beast in front of the cubs.
"Here, kitty, kitty. I want your tasty ribs." Banzai said.
Simba got in front of Nala and Maia, and tried to roar, but out came a squeaky yowl.
Maia started crying, "Don't worry, Maia, it's going to be okay." Simba whispered. She knew he couldn't save them, it looked like to Maia, Simba, and Nala. they would never reach adulthood.
Simba opened his mouth again to roar, but this time a thunderous roar was heard, it wasn't from Simba.
Nala and the trio of hyenas blinked in surprise.
A giant paw swiped at the hyenas, it was Mufasa!
Mufasa was above the hyenas, they were shaking beneath him. The trio of hyenas were begging for mercy.
"SILENCE!" Mufasa half roared.
The hyenas winced the three cubs smiled, they were saved.
"Calm down, we're really sorry." Shenzi said.
Mufasa was glaring at them, not even blinking.
"If you ever come near my son... or daughter again-" Mufasa began but was cut off.
Shenzi blinked, "Your daughter?" Shenzi said.
Mufasa roared for Maia did not have to hear that.
He stopped roaring.
"Oh, this is your son your son?" Shenzi asked stupidly.
"Did you know that?" Shenzi said while looking at Banzai.
"No, of course not." Banzai replied.
"Ed?" Banzai and Shenzi said. Ed stupidly nods his head yes. Mufasa roars, and the trio run away. Zazu went beside Mufasa smiling that the bloodthirsty hyenas scurried away but frowned as Mufasa looked down at him in an angry way. Simba approached his father with his tail between his legs and his ears flattened against his head.
"Dad, I..." Simba said. Mufasa glared at Simba.
"You deliberately disobeyed me." Mufasa said.
"Dad, I'm... I'm sorry." Simba apologized.
"Let's go home." Mufasa said sternly.
Mufasa walked away, with Simba, Nala, and Maia behind him.
Nala looked at Simba.
"I thought you were very brave." Nala whispered.
Simba, looks at Nala and he looks away.
"At least we're safe now." Maia said little did the cubs, Mufasa, and Zazu knew that they are being watched by Scar.
Minutes later.
Nala, Simba, Maia, Mufasa and Zazu are back in the Pridelands. There was Lulu waiting for her daughter.
Maia stopped walking, Nala and Simba did the same. Mufasa called Zazu, and the hornbill landed in front of the king.
"Simba?" Maia said, while looking in his eyes.
Simba turned his gaze to Maia, she was shaking, he was about to nuzzle her, but Zazu landed in front of him.
"Zazu, take Nala home." Mufasa ordered.
"Simba...Good luck." Zazu said. Zazu placed his wing on Simba's shoulder, he sighed.
Zazu flew in the air and told Nala to follow him. Nala left Simba.
"I'll take my daughter home." Lulu said firmly. "Maia!" Lulu called and Maia runs to her mother and the two went home. Hoping that little Simba didn't know that Maia is his half younger sister.
Author's Note: I know that this chapter is pretty boring but I promise that there will be excitement later on in next few chapters. Anyway, be sure to Read, Review, Favor, and Follow if you're interested and want to know what happens next. Do you think Mufasa's secret will be revealed soon?
