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The feast was a hit, all the lions loved it and it continued for a long while. Taka, unfortunately, had decided to visit the main cave, but stopped when he heard the commotion. He slinked to the cave door and watched all the lions having fun; he was disgusted with them.

' Why didn't they invite me?' he thought to himself. He was wallowing in his self-pity when he got a sudden idea. He would get the hyenas to crash the party; they owed him anyway. He quickly crossed the Savannah to the northern border where the hyenas were. He ran to their cave and shouted.

"Hey! Hyenas! I got something for you…!"

"You got us something?" Shenzi interrupted drooling.

"No you idiot, I got something for you to do."

"Oh."

"What's going on?" Banzi said coming into the cave, Ed was following him.

"I got a job for you guys to do, that is if you want to… I'm not making you, but if you want me to bring food for you anymore…"

"Ok, ok we'll do it. What is it that we are going to do?"

"Well my dear old brother is having a party and well they didn't invite me… I want you guys to crash the party for me."

" Hey that sounds fun!" the female hyena said. " We'll do it." With that they bounded off and gathered a few of their closer hyena friends and trotted to the cave.

Taka ran to Pride Rock and hid behind a large rock near the front of the cave. It was getting darker when the hyenas showed up. Taka hid behind in the shadow so they didn't notice him.

Inside the cave, you could hear Mufasa laughing and the lionesses giggling, but they were unawares of the danger outside. Most of the lions were going back for thirds when one of the lions smelled something strange.

"Hey" whispered a lioness to her friend "do you smell that?"

" Yeah, what is it?" replied her friend.

" I don't know, but it doesn't smell friendly, let's get out of here." The walked back to the rest of the pride and told Sarabi what they had smelled. Sarabi turned and told Mufasa, Mufasa stood straight up and stiffened.

"Hyena." The hyenas came bounding in and started to snap at the lions. Mufasa roared and chased some outside.

"Sarabi! Take the younger lions and leave!" Sarabi gathered the young ones up and bounded out the back door. She took them to Taka's cave, where she hoped she could trust him in watching the little ones. Mean while Taka had to retreat to his cave because it over took his spot and Mufasa saw him there. When he got there Sarabi was already there ushering the young ones in.

"Oh, Taka! I'm glad you're here, please watch the little ones for me, I have to go back and help the other lions."

"Sure Sarabi, whatever." He looked at the younger lions and they all gasped and shrank down. Some of them trembled. But one of them came up to Taka and said.

"I'm not afraid of you! Or those hyenas!"

" Oh really?" Taka lowered himself to the cub's level and gave him a horrible glare. The cub yelped and ran back to his friends whimpering. Sarabi had gone back to the fighting. Mufasa was holding off two hyenas, while the other lions drove back the others. Mufasa roared once more and the rest of the hyenas scampered off, laughing.

"Mufasa, are you ok? Did those murderers hurt you?"

"No Sarabi they didn't. But I'm afraid that they didn't come on their own, someone sent them."

"Oh my gosh really? Who would do something like that?"

"My brother…" Mufasa got a mean glare in his eyes he turned towards the cave when he felt something cold and squishy under his paw. He looked down and tears came to his eyes. It was a cub, not nearly a year old. He could see a giant bite mark on the cub's stomach; He was bitten by a hyena. He called Sarabi over to him.

"What?"

"Look Sarabi." She looked down and saw the cub. "Oh no I thought I got them all. This is terrible what are we going to do? Mufasa?" Mufasa was staring at the cub and remembered what he said earlier, his brother.

" Sarabi, do you know who this cub belongs to?"

"Yes, I do, his mother is going to have a breakdown. This is so sad. I can't bare to look any more." Sarabi turned away.

"Sarabi, will you tell the mother? Please be gentle. I'm going for the cubs."

" Sure I'll tell her, the cubs are at Taka's…Oh my god! They're at Taka's! Hurry Mufasa before he hurts them." He barely heard the last words when he rounded the corner and slipped into Taka's cave. He saw that the cubs were huddled against the back of the cave trembling. Taka was sitting there cleaning his claws and looked a little bored.

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AN: Sorry this took so long to get out! But I didn't have timeL. Thanx to those who have read my story and reviewed. Sorry to leave you at a cliffhanger. Poor Cub! What will they do to Taka? Who knows you'll just have to tun in next time with Buruma!