Simba and Nala ran onto a hill. "Alright!" Simba shouted. "We lost him!" Nala said grinning. "I..am a genius." Simba said posing. Nala snorted. "Hey genius it was my idea." "Oh yea?" Simba said. He tackled her but she flipped him over. Thoughts rushed through her mind. She could kill him now! "Pinned ya." She said. "Let me up" he snarled crawling out from under her. Simba glares and pounces her again, and the two roll down the hill. Nala again ends up on top. "Pinned ya again" A geyser explodes next to them and Nala screeches, jumping off Simba. Simba laughed and looked around. The two cubs walked over to a ledge and looked over it. "Whoa…" they said in awe. The area was covered in dead animal skeletons. "It's so creepy" Nala said. "Yea. Isn't it great?" "You could get in big trouble." Nala said. "You mean WE could get in big trouble" Simba said. Nala turned away. "whatever" she mumbled examining a bone. Nala looked up at a huge elephant skull. "I wonder if it's brains are in there." She said. Simba looked up. "Only one way to find out. Let's check it out" he said walking over to it. Something flew into his face. "The only checking out you'll be doing is out of here!" "Aw man" Simba pouted. Nala sighed. "We're way out of the boundaries of the Pridelands" "Hey look! Banana beak is scared!" Nala said. "That's Mister Banana beak to you madam and right now we're all in very real danger." Simba moved towards the skull and stood in front of it. "Danger? Ha. I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha ha." Simba's laughs turned into the cackles of hyenas. Three hyenas emerged from the skull as Simba ran back to Zazu and Nala. Nala recognized them at once as her father's friends. Shenzi smiled and circled Simba. "Well well well. What do we have here Banzai?" "Hmmm I don't know Shenzi..what do you think Ed?" They looked at Ed and he just laughed. "Yeah, just what I was thinking. A trio of trespassers!" Shenzi said. "And quite by accident, let me assure you. A simple navigational error. Eh heh heh…" Zazu explained. Shenzi looked at Zazu. "Whoa, whoa, wait wait wait... I know you. You're Mufasa's little stooge." Banzai looked at Simba. "And that would make you?" Simba glared. "Future King" Shenzi smiled. "Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?" Simba snorted. "You can't do anything to me" Zazu looked up at Simba. "Uhh... technically, they can. We are on their land." "But Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbering mangy stupid poachers." As Simba said this Zazu shook his head trying to make him stop. He whispered to Simba. "x-nay on the oopid-stay..." Banzai growled at Zazu. "Who you callin' "oopid-stay?!?" Zazu smiled at Banzai and looked up. "My, my, my. Look at the sun. It's time to go!" he said pushing Nala towards the exit. Shenzi stepped on his tail. "What's the hurry? We'd looove you to stick around for dinner." Banzai nodded. "Yeaaaah! We could have whatever's... "lion" around! Get it? Lion around!" he said laughing. "Oh wait, wait, wait. I got one, I got one. Make mine a "cub" sandwich. Whatcha think?" Shenzi said. Ed jumped up and started mumbling and making gestures. Shenzi rolled her eyes. "What? What is it Ed?" Banzai looked around. "Hey uh, did we order this meal to go?" Shenzi looked at him. "No why?" "Cuz there it goes!"

The cubs ran through the mazes of bones. They stopped to catch their breath. "Did-Did we lose them?" Nala asked. "I think so..hey where's Zazu?" Simba asked. The cubs looked around.

Shenzi held Zazu over a geyser. Banzai grabbed his wings and controlled him like a puppet. "the little majordomo bird hippity-hopped all the way to the birdie-boiler." he said stuffing Zazu in it. "Oh no not the birdie boiler." Zazu exclaimed as it shot him into the air. The hyenas started laughing. "Hey! Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" Simba exclaimed. Shenzi looked up at him. "Like, you?" "Uh oh.." Nala said. She screamed as the hyenas jumped up and started chasing them. Simba slipped and Nala grabbed onto him as the two slipped down a elephant spine. They landed in a pile of bones and continued running. Simba started climbing up a rocky slope, when he heard Nala scream. He looked down and saw Nala slipping towards Shenzi. Shenzi recognized her. "Nala?!" But before she could do anything Simba ran down and scratched Shenzi on the nose. Simba pulled Nala up and they ran into a cave. The hyenas entered the cave slowly as the cubs found themselves in a dead end. "Look, boys! A king fit for a meal!" Shenzi howled. "Here kitty kitty." Banzai taunted. Simba roared a short cub roar. The hyenas laughed. "Oooh. That was it? Do it again." Shenzi said. Simba did, and his roar echoed through the cave. "Huh?" The hyenas said. Mufasa jumped on top of the hyenas. "Oh please! Uncle, uncle!!" "Ow ow ow" "Silence!!" Mufasa roared. "Ok. We're gonna shut up right now!" Banzai said. "Calm down! Look, we're really sorry…" Shenzi said. "If you ever come near my son again…" "Oh this is... this is your son?!?" Shenzi exclaimed. "Oh your son?" Banzai repeated. "Did you know that?" Shenzi asked. "I didn't know it.. D-did you?" "No! Of course not!" "Nope." The hyenas turned to Ed. "Ed?" Ed nodded. Mufasa roared. "Heh..Toodles!" Banzai exclaimed. The three hyenas ran for their lives. Zazu lands in front of Mufasa and nods, but wilts under Mufasa's glare. Simba stepped up. "Dad I-" Mufasa turned to him. "You deliberately disobeyed me." "Dad..I-I'm sorry…" Mufasa turned away. "Let's go home" The cubs followed Mufasa silently, until Nala spoke up. "I…I thought you were very brave." Nala looked up and smiled at her father and winked as she left. Scar sat on his ledge and watched angrily.

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