DarkEcoOttsel: I am so sorry for the long wait. I finally got a new computer (huzzah!) and it's taking me a while to get the chapters up. This chapter and the next will contain the tragedy parts. Please review if you want.

Untainted Souls

By: DarkEcoOttsel

Chapter Three

"This place is creepy," Shenzi muttered, staring at the large bones that towered over her and Banzai.

"Yeah...isn't it great?" Banzai asked with a grin and Shenzi smiled back.

They had only been walking around the graveyard for five minutes and they were already hooked on it.

"Hey, look at that," Shenzi stopped in front of a large elephant skull. It was the same one that two lion cubs were to stumble upon in the near future.

"I wonder if its brains are still in there," Shenzi snickered.

"Only one way to find out," Banzai said bravely, walking towards the skull.

Sudden laughter filled the air and the two pups screamed. Their horror soon turned to shock as a hyena pup about their age rolled out of the left eye socket. He fell to the ground, landing on his rear.

"What the...?" Shenzi muttered, walking up to Banzai.

The hyena got up and turned around to face the two. He looked kind of...stupid.

"Uh...hi," Banzai started. "I'm Banzai and this is my best friend, Shenzi."

The male only stared at them, his tongue sticking out of his mouth.

"Do you have a name?" Shenzi asked.

He just gave her a blank stare in response.

"Uhh...do you talk?" Banzai asked after a long pause.

Again, he just gave the two friends that stupid-looking stare. They began to get frustrated.

"Okay, since you won't talk, I guess we'll have to give you a name," Shenzi said. "How about Ed?"

"Yeah," Banzai smiled.

The hyena now dubbed Ed laughed hysterically and ran towards the two. He tripped over a rock and screeched to a halt in front of them. All three burst out laughing, rolling on the ground and clutching their stomachs.

"Man, you're funny," Banzai said once he had stop laughing. "Wanna be friends with us?"

Ed nodded rapidly and then began pointing at the elephant skull he had fallen out of.

"You want to show us something?" Banzai translated. "Okay."

Ed jumped back into the eye socket and Banzai jumped into the other one. Shenzi was stuck with the mouth opening.

"What are we looking at?" Shenzi asked.

"Shh!" Banzai hissed at her, looking through a small crack in the skull. "Find a peep hole in the back of the skull and look through it. You gotta see this!"

Shenzi rushed to the back of the skull but there were no holes or cracks to look through.

"I can't see," Shenzi pouted.

Banzai didn't hear her, he was too busy listening to the conversation his mom, aunt and uncle were having with a large lion with a black mane. There was a scar over the lion's left eye.

"Scar, we've had this conversation once before," Skai growled, "and the answer is still no."

"Please reconsider--" Scar started to say but Kohatu cut him off.

"No, Scar," Kohatu state. "We will not kill off your brother."

What? What kind of moron would wanna kill his brother? Banzai thought. I'd love a brother.

"But I'd let you into the Pride Lands when I became king--" Scar continued to beg.

"Bribery will get you no where," Jayla glared at him.

"What part of no don't you understand?" Skai asked icily. "Face it, Scar, you'll never be king of the Pride Lands."

Scar's eyes narrowed and he growled, "Maybe not, but I could become king of the Outlands."

"What?"

"There're just three hyenas standing in my way!" Scar snarled and leaped at the three unprepared hyenas.

to be continued...

DarkEcoOttsel: I once again apologize for being so late with the updates. That's why I'm posting two chapters in one day. Merry Christmas!