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¤ Chapter 2 ¤

"Yeah you didn't and to make up for it you are going to tell me what you were doing with a couple of lions." Taka circled around them so that he was blocking their only escape.

"We were walking along and we ran into a huge lion and a smaller one, they were both golden brown. We think that one of them was the king." The female stared to get smart and comply with the lion; maybe he could become their friend, or just let them go.

"Ok I believe you…but if you were older would you have tried to kill them?"

"Oh n…." The female started to say, when the still literate male stepped in.

"Oh yeah!! Boy would I ever! Just to see their blood on the ground would satisfy me!"

"Shut up you idiot!" The female pushed him into the water and "Ed" laughed hysterically.

"Um… he really didn't mean it. We are so sorry, uh, I think we'll be going now." They slinked off and Taka followed them just to get his last word in. He followed them to their home, which was on the northern border. He never knew this place existed. It was really cool; elephant bones were lying all over the place. He followed them right to their living quarters with out them noticing him.

"Hey Shenzi, what was up with that lion we met today?" The literate male asked.

"I don't know, Banzi, but he was kind of different." Shenzi walked over to a pile of bones and lay down.

"Well I like the guy, don't you Ed?" Ed nodded and lay down next to Shenzi. Taka had enough and trotted back home.

When he got there the other lions were eating a wildebeest and he got there late so he didn't get anything. He went off to his sleeping space, he lay down and Mufasa came over.

"What do you want Mustafa?"

"I just thought that I would be a good brother and bring you a chunk of meat, seeing as you got home late. But I don't really think you deserve this." He held up a fat juicy leg of wildebeest.

"Ok fine I'm…sorry." Taka was really hungry other wise he would have let him go.

"What was that?"

"Sorry."

"Hummm?"

"I SAID SORRY!" Taka ripped the meat from Mufasa's jaws, turned around and started eating it.

"What, no thanks?" Mufasa glared at Taka and laughed. "You, are one sad, sad little lion." He turned tail and walked back to the rest of the pride, and to his girlfriend, Sarabi. Sarabi is a beautiful lion her outline and curves are perfect and she's the daughter of the king's best friend. Which as the tradition goes, the king's friend's daughter must marry the king's son. So it all worked out very well. But Taka didn't like it; he liked Sarabi and he wished that he could have her.

But, he sadly thought, everybody knows that the soon to be king's younger brother would have to leave or remain in the pride, with out a mate. He wallowed in his self-doubt until sleep over came him.

He woke the next morning with a start. He knew what day it was. It was the day that Mufasa would be crowned king and marries Sarabi. Sarabi. What was he going to do? He couldn't stay here, so he left. He went to go visit the hyenas. He traced his steps back to the hyenas cave, in the now dubbed Elephant graveyard. When he got there the hyenas were scared stiff.

"Banzi what are we going to do?" Shenzi whispered.

"I don't know, maybe we'll just get a nice painless death."

"Oh that's so comforting." While they were talking Ed had gotten up and walked over to Taka and invited him in. Ed really is the only civilized hyena in the group.