Chapter 3: 2 seasons later, Mufasa and Sarabi were out playing when Ahadi called Mufasa. "Mufasa, come here. I want to talk to you!" he cried. "Uh, I've got to go, Sarabi. See you later!" Mufasa cried, running towards Pride Rock. Ahadi was sitting on the top of Pride Rock, waiting for Mufasa. The young lion, Mufasa, was now bigger, so he needed no help getting to the topmost point of Pride Rock. He clambered up the rocks until he reached his awaiting father. "Mufasa." Ahadi said. "Yes, Dad?" Mufasa replied. "I need to tell you something. Do you see this land? One day everything the light touches will all be yours," he gestured toward the Pridelands with his paw, scanning the horizon, "One day the sun will set on my time here, and will rise, with you, as the new king." "And all this will be mine?" Mufasa asked in wonderment, staring out into the Pridelands. "Yes, son, all this will be yours." Ahadi replied. "W-what about that shadowy place? Over there?" Mufasa pointed to a bunch of rocks, where no light touched. "No, that is beyond our borders, you must never go there again, Mufasa. Promise me, promise me you will never go there. Especially after Taka got hurt. Do you promise?" Ahadi questioned. Mufasa looked at the ground. "I promise." he replied. "Come, I must show you other thing now." Ahadi ordered. Then a shadow dashed off of the point of Pride Rock, headed for the ground.

Taka was racing down Pride Rock, furious at what he had just heard about his brother being future king. "I can't believe it! I should be king! Not him!" Taka yelled as he sped toward earth at a breath taking pace, cursing Mufasa and panting as he went. Higari was walking out of a cave as he sped past her. "Man, if he runs much faster, what mane he has is going to be ripped off!" she said to Sarabi as she came up to Higari. Taka left Pride Rock when he hit the ground. Running continually, as if he wanted to reach the horizon. Then he was suddenly stopped, by a tough-looking lioness with a brown streak on her back.

"What are you doing here?" she asked, narrowing her eyes at him, "You look of royal blood." The adolescent lion sat on the ground. "I am running away from home. I just found out that my stupid brother is going to be king. I am the one who should be, not that...!!" he cursed. The lioness was taken back at his sudden use of language. "So, I ran away too. My mother and father are dead, and I've no family left. Let's run away together!" she suggested. Taka's eyes lit up. "Okay, sure! Well, if we're going to be traveling together, I'm gonna need to know your name." he said. The lioness came up to him and rubbed her head under his new, yet still small, mane and said, "My name is Zira. And what might your name be, handsome?" Taka returned her gesture and replied after waiting a couple seconds, "Scar, I am known as Scar."

"Where do you think Taka is going?" Higari asked. Mufasa shrugged, "I don't know, but I do know that I'm going to be king!" Higari was shocked to hear this, Taka had always been her favorite. "Oh really now. And what about Taka? Why isn't he going to be king?" she asked. "Well, Dad said that when we were born, I was born first, and that Taka had done a 'nonking- like gesture' to Rafiki." Mufasa explained. Higari shrugged like she was pleased, although she wasn't, with his information and went on. They walked to the watering hole where they met Sarabi.

"Hey, Sarabi! Guess what? I'm future king!" Mufasa exclaimed running towards Sarabi. This seemed to brighten her day. "Oh, really?! That's so exciting!! " Sarabi said, walking up to Mufasa. She laid her paw on his head and ruffled his almost full mane. "Hey! Stop it! You know, Sarabi, I'm bigger than you now, and I doubt that you'll have any chance of pinning me! Heh, you could never do it as a cub anyway!" "Oh, yeah?! Heh, let's see what you've got then!" Sarabi pounced on Mufasa, and they went tumbling down the hill, and when they landed, Sarabi was on top. "Hah, I pinned you!!"

"Hey, um, Mufasa? C-could I, um, talk to you, in private?" Higari asked from the top of the hill. Mufasa looked at Sarabi, then back at Higari. "Sure, I'll be up there in a minute!" he said, "You stay here, Sarabi." Then he got up and made his way up the hill. When he got there, Higari was waiting. "Mufasa, remember that night, when you, Taka, and I went on that walk together, then looked at the stars in the field?" Mufasa nodded. Higari looked at the ground. "I-I'm, pregnant..."

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