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A/n: Yep, Name-calling: Mustafa (not a typo) J just like a little brother, huh?

¤ Chapter 5 ¤

Taka had just finished cleaning his claws when Mufasa came bounding in. The cubs looked a bit relieved that Mufasa was here to save them. Taka noticed that the cubs had stopped trembling and turned around.

"Why isn't it my big brother, Mustafa"

"I just came to get the cubs, I'll deal with you later." Mufasa motioned to the cubs to follow him. They filed out and ran to the main cave to their mothers. Mufasa came back with Sarabi and the dead cub's mother. Taka didn't know what was going on.

"Taka did you send those hyenas to crash our party?" Taka stared blankly at them deciding whether to tell them the truth or lie to them. Sarabi interrupted and made an accusation.

"You don't even have to answer that we know you did it." Mufasa cut Sarabi off and told Taka what had happened.

"So you're saying I killed a cub?" The cub's mother started weeping. "What? I did no such thing. Even if I did want to kill something it wouldn't be a cub." Taka didn't believe that he was somehow connected with the death of the cub. Everyone knew the penalty, but Taka thought that maybe Mufasa would go easy on him.

Most of the lions didn't think he should live, especially the cub's mother. Mufasa didn't want to see Taka dead, so he decided to have a trial. This trial was set for the next day. Taka wasn't all too happy about the idea of a trial, but he didn't want the other penalty either. He thought the whole thing was stupid and that he knew that he had no connections with the dead cub. So for the rest of the night he paced, deciding what to do or say that would get him out of the predicament he got himself in. The other lions didn't want him out and about so they kept him in his cave and wasn't allowed outside. He finally fell asleep toward the wee hours of the morning, still wondering what they were going to do to him.

The next day came with great fury, the sun shone extra bright and all the lions were anxious. Toward midmorning Taka was summoned to the front of the main den, where the trial is going to be held. The lionesses took their places in the audience, Taka sitting in front of them and the prosecutor (who was a lioness that tries to convict Taka of his crime.) beside him. Every one hushed when Sarabi came in.

"All rise for the King, Mufasa!" They all stood up. Mufasa walked regally in (or out, since it was held out side) and took his seat in front of the crowd.

"I will now state the claim. Taka you have committed a serious crime by penalty of death or exile, do you deny it?"

"I had nothing to do with the death of the cub."

"Just state your claim."

"Yes I deny it." Mufasa turned to the Prosecutor.

"You may begin your examination of the defendant." The lioness stood up and walked to the front.

"I call my first witness, Furteni." Furteni walked up to the front and the prosecutor began the preliminaries.

" Do you, Furteni, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help your Lion King?" (They gotta have some higher force, so therefore it is called the Lion King. Ironic, no?)

"I do" She sat there for a while until the prosecutor threw her a question.

"Did you or did you not see Taka at the Hyena…let's say crashing party?"

"I did not see him, however, but the other lionesses would tell me that they saw him and would wonder why he wasn't helping us."

"Oh I see. Did you or did you not know of the cub before Mufasa, our great king, so happened to come across him?"

"No I did not, I was too busy fighting off my own hyena."

"That is all. Thank you." The lioness went back to her seat in the audience as the next witness was called up.

"Sarabi, would you please step up to the bench." Sarabi did as was told and went through the preliminaries as the lioness before her.

"What do you say happened on the night of the Hyena crashing?"

"Well I was instructed to bring all the cubs to the back entrance, I decided on a quick glance to see if Taka was there, and well he was. So I told him to take the cubs while I went to go help the rest of the pride."

"Did you ever think that Taka was always in his cave? And not just crashing parties?"

"Objection!" Taka roared. "Accusing too much for the evidence!"

"Objection granted," Mufasa turned to the Prosecutor " Do not make accusations without the right proof."

"Um…ok…" the prosecutor stuttered "Did you come across the cub during the fight?"

" No I did not, Mufasa showed him to me when he found him."

" No further questions, the witness is the defendants." The lioness backed down and went to ponder the little information she got. But what she didn't know was that she left a big gap and Taka was going to blame it on anybody but him, for the time being anyway.

"So is it true that you were suppose to bring all the cubs to safety?"

"Yes"

" Well then how did that little cub get to be out there? If you were suppose to get them all?" The black lion gave her an evil smirk as she realized what he was trying to do.

"Well…"

"So you are the one who killed the cub! You were suppose to get them all but you didn't, do you deny it?" Sarabi's head swirled as the realization hit her it was her fault, she couldn't deny it, but there was something that tugged at her mind. Mufasa sat enraged that his only brother would accuse his wife like that, but he had to remain calm, just for this instance.

"No it wasn't my fault! I did what I was suppose to do! It's not my fault…" she broke down and started crying. Taka smirked as Mufasa stood forward and couldn't contain his rage anymore,

"Taka! How dare you… you…RRRRROOOOOAAARRRR!!!!" he lunged forward and smacked Taka in the face with fully extended claws. Taka bellowed and fell back into the crowd. The lionesses all gasped as Taka fell in among them, bleeding from somewhere on his face. Mufasa went and comforted Sarabi.

" I…I…it wasn't my fault, it wasn't my fault." Sarabi was whimpering into Mufasa's mane.

" I know honey, I won't let anything happen to you." Mufasa turned his head toward the crowd and yelled for Taka to take the stand. Her friend Sarafina led Sarabi still crying, into the cave. The blood on Taka's face was blinding and the slash was burning, it started to throb when the lionesses dispersed into a semi circle around him. Taka was shielding his face from the crowd, he was whimpering to himself and was frantically seeking a way out with only one of his eyes, but Mufasa was blocking the only way out.

"Taka! What have you done? Why did you put all the blame on Sarabi? When you know that someone had sent the hyenas?" Taka quivered and still shielding his face answered.

"I…I…" Taka broke down and decided that he was in enough trouble. " I'm sorry… I sent the Hyenas; I just couldn't stand not being invited to your little get together, I was…jealous." Mufasa agreed that it was mean of him not to invite Taka, but there was still no reason that he should have brought the hyenas. Mufasa pardoned him, but since there was still a life missing, he still had to be punished.

"Taka please, stop shielding your eyes from me, let me look upon you so that I may punish you rightly." Taka at first was reluctant to move his paw from his face, but did as he was asked. The crowd took a step back and gasped. Some whispered to each other.

"Do you see that? It's all the way across his eye." One noted the obvious.

"Yep that's going to be one nasty scar, it'll probably get infected." One stated.

"I think he deserves it" One judged. Mufasa flinched but did not move Taka knew he was deformed forever, he closed his eyes and fell quivering on the ground. Mufasa came up to him and touched his back.

"I think you have learned your lesson, you may go now, take care of your wound for if it never closes up, may it remind you and others of what you have done and what you are capable of." Taka fled to the river and dunked his head into the water, and thought about what Mufasa said as the cool water cleaned the wound and relieved him of his pain for one spilt second.

The other lions had dubbed him Scar, it had started as a joke but now as his heart grew more with hate and resentment, it has forever remained his name.

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A/N: so what do you think? Should I continue? Should I leave it here? Tell me what you think of how he got his scar, should it have been by Mufasa? Or maybe it should have been the dead cub's mother or perhaps Sarabi? A different circumstance? Well tell me what you think!

Thanx to all those who reviewed.

P.S. Shenzi was the female Hyena, not Banzi.