Simba woke up early in the morning and trotted out onto Pride rocks ledge and stared off into the horizon. It had been three months since Nala had left and things were starting to get really boring without her. But today was going to be different. Today was the day that His father was going to show him the whole kingdom. Simba ran back in the cave and tried his best to avoid the sleeping figures of the other lionesses. But several times, he didn't step on the lionesses but the other cubs. "Hey Simba watch what your doing!" Diallo exclaimed. "Sorry. Now shut up and go back to sleep" Simba trotted up to his dad who was still sound asleep. "Dad. Dad dad dad dad dad" " Your son is awake." Sarabi said groggily. "Before sunrise he's your son." Mufasa replied just as sleepily. " "Dad. come on dad." Simba said tugging at his fathers ear. Then he pulled back and rammed his father with his head." You promised!" "Okay okay. I'm up I'm up." "yeah!" Mufasa let out a loud yawn that woke up the rest of the pride and walked outside to catch up with Simba.
He met up with him on the ledge of pride rock. "Look Simba everything you see is our kingdom. A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun, One day Simba, the sun will set on my time here and rise with you as the new king." " And this will all be mine" "Everything." "Everything the light touches. What about that Shadowy place?" Simba asked gazing off into the distance. " That's beyond our borders. You must never go there." "But I thought a king could do whatever he wants." "Well there's more to being king then getting your way all the time." "There's more?". Mufasa walked down pride rock chuckling. "Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king you need to understand that balance from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope." " But dad don't we eat the antelope?" "Yes Simba but let me explain. When we die our bodies become the grass and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the Great Circle of Life" " Good morning Sire. I'm just checking in with the morning report" Zazu greeted "Fire away" "Well the buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot" The morning report. How Simba hated this part of the day. As usual Zazu would come and tell Mufasa all the gossip that was going around in the pridelands. You know, if Zazu were a girl it would seem so much more normal. But oh well. Then Simba saw a little cricket hopping around in the grass. 'Well this ought to keep me busy for a while' he thought. So he started pouncing around trying to capture it "What are you doing son?" "Pouncing" "Why don't you let an old pro show you how it's done. Zazu could you turn around for a minute" " Yes sire" " Stay low to the ground " " Okay stay low to the ground, Right? Yeah" " what's going on?" Zazu asked. " A pouncing lesson." "oh very good pouncing. POUNCING!! Oh no sire you can't be serious." Zazu pleaded. Mufasa moved his finger in a circle telling Zazu to turn around. " oh this is so humiliating " "and don't make a sound." "what are you telling him Mufasa? Mufasa? Simba? AAHHH" Simba lunged at Zazu and knocked him flat on the ground. "That's very good. Now this time..." " Sire hyena's in the pridelands." " Zazu take Simba home" Mufasa commanded." Awww dad can't I come." Simba whined. " No son" " Man I never get to go anywhere." " Oh young master. One day you will be king then you can chase those slobbering mangy stupid poachers from dawn until dusk."
Zazu left Simba at the base of pride rock and flew off to see if Mufasa needed help. Simba climbed up pride rock in search of his uncle Scar. He couldn't wait to tell him about all the stuff he learned. He finally found him loitering around pride rock. "Hey uncle Scar guess what." "I despise guessing games" Scar whined to himself. Scar didn't like hanging around the rest of the pride. The only time he really ever talked to the others was when they were eating. "I'm gonna be king of pride rock. My dad just showed me the whole kingdom and I'm gonna rule it all." Simba said proudly. " Yes well forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back you know." Scar said sarcastically as he flopped down lazily. "Uncle Scar, when I'm king, what'll that makes you." " A monkey's uncle." "Your so weird." " You have known idea. So your father showed you the whole kingdom did he?" "Everything" " he didn't show you what's beyond that rise at the northern border?" " Well no he said I couldn't go there." "And he is absolutely right. Far too dangerous only the bravest lions go there." "Well I'm brave. What's out there?" " I'm sorry Simba. I just can't tell you." "Why not?" " Simba, Simba. I'm just looking out for the well being of my favorite nephew." "Yeah right. I'm your only nephew." "All the more reason for me to be protective. An elephant graveyard in no place for a young prince. OOPPPS!" " An elephant graveyard!! WOW!!" exclaimed the young prince. " Oh dear I've said to much. Well I suppose you would have found out sooner or later. You being so clever and all. Oh but just do me one favor. Promise me you'll never visit that dreadful place." Scar asked pleadingly. " No problem." Simba replied with a smirk. " Now there's a good lad. You run along now and have fun. But remember. It's our little secret. Scar called after him knowing Simba wasn't going to comply with his orders. But that's exactly what he wanted.
'Wow an elephant graveyard. How cool! I'm sure Uncle Scar wouldn't mind if I just went to take a peek and besides it's not like he's gonna find out about it. Man I can't wait to tell Nala about it!' "Oh yeah I forgot" Simba thought out loud. He often forgot that Nala was gone. It had been three months and although he would play with the other cubs it still wasn't the same without Nala. Nala was fun to be around she was always cheerful and was always ready for an adventure. 'Nala would have loved this' he thought. ' Oh well, she said she would come visit me soon. But who do I take to the elephant graveyard'. Simba found his mother lying lazily on a rock under a tree with Mariatu and Diallo and Taraja, 2 of her 3 cubs. Maybe they'll go with me. But what do I tell mom?' " Hey Diallo!! Hey Taraja!!" " Hey Simba whatcha doin'?" Taraja replied. "Come on guys! I just heard about this cool place" "And where is this cool place?" Sarabi asked coolly. ' Man I knew she was going to ask that!' " Well it's around the waterhole." Simba said timidly. " The waterhole?? What are we going to do at the water hole?" Taraja asked. " Yeah." Diallo chimed in "We go there everyday what's so new about it today?" Simba flashed an innocent smile at his mother and turned to Diallo and Taraja and grabbed Diallo by the bottom nape of the neck and pulled him down. " I'll show you all when we get there." he said with his teeth grit. " Oh!" Diallo said with his eyes cast down obviously still not getting the message. And then he understood " Ooohh…Ooohh I get you now. Uh mom can me and Taraja go with Simba?" " Hmmm what do you think, Sarabi?" Mariatu asked. "Well…" "Please??" The three asked in unison. " It's Alright with me." "Alright!!" " As long as Zazu goes with you." The cubs stopped in their tracks " No not Zazu."
" Step lively. The sooner we get to the waterhole the sooner we can leave." Zazu shouted down to the cubs while he flew ahead. " So where are we really going?" Taraja asked. " An elephant graveyard." Simba whispered back " Really/ I thought you weren't allowed to go there. Your dad said you couldn't go there." Diallo interjected " Well what dad don't know won't hurt him. And besides we're just gonna take a peek." " Fine. One problem though how do we lose the leech."? Diallo said nodding his head up at the direction of Zazu. " Hey let's run into the Jungle we can lose him in there." Taraja whispered. "Good idea" The cubs padded quietly out of sight into the dense jungle with Zazu behind bumping into endless trees and vines in the dense jungle. Finally the cubs lost sight of him and they were free. " Alright it worked! We lost him" Simba exclaimed. "Alright wise guy which way to the graveyard?" " We're almost there. Now stop talking and start walking." they walked for a while and he land was becoming less familiar and still no sign of Zazu. " Great we're lost. Now what genius?" Diallo asked sarcastically. " I think I know my own kingdom, Diallo." Simba answered just as a-matter-of- factly.
" Why don't you just admit that we're lost and we can turn back? It's getting dark." Taraja pleaded. "We're not lost, now shut up and follow me." Simba retorted. "Who died and made you leader?" " I was born leader, dork!" " Oh yeah!" Diallo lunged at Simba and they tumbled down a small cliff and when they reached the bottom they continued Wrestling. " Come on guys cut it out!" Taraja yelled, "This isn't funny, one of you might get hurt!" " Shut Up!" they both yelled back at her but she had lost sight of them and could not see where they were. She couldn't go back and leave them down there, so she timidly started down the cliff to search for them. As she descended she could hear them grunting and fighting but she got a little careless and lost her balance and tumbled down. She tumbled down and when she finally came to a stop she collided with the wrestling forms of Simba and Diallo. " What are you doin down here?" Diallo exclaimed. Before she could answer a small geyser erupted right beside them. The three cubs righted themselves and as the steam cleared the form of an enormous figure of what appeared to be the skull of an elephant. " This is it we made it." Simba whispered quietly. The three padded quietly over to a ledge that hung over miles of bones littered everywhere. " Whoa!" the three said together in awe. " It's really creepy." Taraja stated. " Yeah, what did I tell ya? I know where I'M going. I believe you owe me an apology," he said directing his statement to Diallo. "I'm sorry." Diallo grumbled. "That'll do." " I wonder if its brains are still in there." Taraja said. " Well there's only one way to know. Come on lets go check it out!" " Wrong!!" Zazu exclaimed he had finally caught up with the cubs and was not in a good mood "The only checking you all will do will be to check out of here. We're way beyond the boundaries of the pridelands" " oh look banana beak is scared." Simba teased. "That's Mr. Banana Beak to you fuzzy. And right now we are all in very real danger." " Danger? Ha! I walk on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger. HA HA HA HA!" "HEHEHEHEHE!" From inside the elephant skull came an eerie cackle. Simba jumped away from the skull and ran behind Diallo. "Well well well Banzai, What have we got here?" The first hyena said. " Hmm I don't know Shenzi. What do you think, Ed?" Replied the second hyena. The third replied by laughing in a malicious way. " Well that's just what I was thinkin'
A'coupla' trespassers" the second hyena, Banzai, replied. " And quite by accident, let me assure you a simple navigational error." Zazu added nervously. The female hyena, Shenzi, put her paw on Zazu's tail and stopped him." Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Wait, wait wait…I know you your Mufasa's little stooge." " I Madame am the Kings major Domo." " And that would make you…?" " The future king." Simba replied proudly. "Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?" Shenzi asked circling the three cubs. Diallo and Taraja were to scare to help and were shaking the whole time. Simba scoffed. " You can't do anything to me." " Uh well technically they can. We are on their land." " But Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbering, mangy, stupid poachers." Zazu was waving his feathers in front of Simba and grumbled nervously " Exnay on the upid-stay." " Hey who you calling upid-stay" Banzai shouted. " Zazu began hurrying the cubs along. " My my my look at the sun it's time to go." "We're sorry we'd love you to stick around for dinner" "yeah we can have whatever's lion around." " "Wait wait. I got one I got one!! We can each have a cub sandwich. What ya think?" Ed started jumping around pointing in the opposite direction. " Hey did we order this dinner to go?" " No. Why?" " BECAUSE THERE IT GOES!!" Banzai said as the three cubs and Zazu dashed away. The three hyenas followed the cubs and got a hold of Zazu but that went unnoticed by the three frightened cubs. " Did we lose them?" Taraja asked. " Simba if we get out here I am going to kick your butt." Diallo added. " I think we lost them but…where's Zazu?"
" Now the little major domo bird, hippity hopped all the way to the birdie boiler."
"Oh no not the birdie boiler" Zazu erupted out of the geyser and the three hyenas laughed hysterically. " Hey why don't you pick on someone your own size?" Simba yelled out to them. "Like you?" " Ooppps" The hyenas once again tore off after the three cubs and cut them off every chance they got. At an attempt to get away the cubs climbed up a " hill of bones" and Taraja lagged behind. " Help!" Simba and Diallo who were ahead saw that the hyenas were getting to close to her. They ran back down and while Diallo grabbed her paw and pulled her along Simba Scratched the hyena that was threatening them on the nose which stalled them a little bit. Finally they reached a dead end. There was nowhere left to run. Simba and Diallo would have to try to fight. " Here Kitty Kitty."
He met up with him on the ledge of pride rock. "Look Simba everything you see is our kingdom. A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun, One day Simba, the sun will set on my time here and rise with you as the new king." " And this will all be mine" "Everything." "Everything the light touches. What about that Shadowy place?" Simba asked gazing off into the distance. " That's beyond our borders. You must never go there." "But I thought a king could do whatever he wants." "Well there's more to being king then getting your way all the time." "There's more?". Mufasa walked down pride rock chuckling. "Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king you need to understand that balance from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope." " But dad don't we eat the antelope?" "Yes Simba but let me explain. When we die our bodies become the grass and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the Great Circle of Life" " Good morning Sire. I'm just checking in with the morning report" Zazu greeted "Fire away" "Well the buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot" The morning report. How Simba hated this part of the day. As usual Zazu would come and tell Mufasa all the gossip that was going around in the pridelands. You know, if Zazu were a girl it would seem so much more normal. But oh well. Then Simba saw a little cricket hopping around in the grass. 'Well this ought to keep me busy for a while' he thought. So he started pouncing around trying to capture it "What are you doing son?" "Pouncing" "Why don't you let an old pro show you how it's done. Zazu could you turn around for a minute" " Yes sire" " Stay low to the ground " " Okay stay low to the ground, Right? Yeah" " what's going on?" Zazu asked. " A pouncing lesson." "oh very good pouncing. POUNCING!! Oh no sire you can't be serious." Zazu pleaded. Mufasa moved his finger in a circle telling Zazu to turn around. " oh this is so humiliating " "and don't make a sound." "what are you telling him Mufasa? Mufasa? Simba? AAHHH" Simba lunged at Zazu and knocked him flat on the ground. "That's very good. Now this time..." " Sire hyena's in the pridelands." " Zazu take Simba home" Mufasa commanded." Awww dad can't I come." Simba whined. " No son" " Man I never get to go anywhere." " Oh young master. One day you will be king then you can chase those slobbering mangy stupid poachers from dawn until dusk."
Zazu left Simba at the base of pride rock and flew off to see if Mufasa needed help. Simba climbed up pride rock in search of his uncle Scar. He couldn't wait to tell him about all the stuff he learned. He finally found him loitering around pride rock. "Hey uncle Scar guess what." "I despise guessing games" Scar whined to himself. Scar didn't like hanging around the rest of the pride. The only time he really ever talked to the others was when they were eating. "I'm gonna be king of pride rock. My dad just showed me the whole kingdom and I'm gonna rule it all." Simba said proudly. " Yes well forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back you know." Scar said sarcastically as he flopped down lazily. "Uncle Scar, when I'm king, what'll that makes you." " A monkey's uncle." "Your so weird." " You have known idea. So your father showed you the whole kingdom did he?" "Everything" " he didn't show you what's beyond that rise at the northern border?" " Well no he said I couldn't go there." "And he is absolutely right. Far too dangerous only the bravest lions go there." "Well I'm brave. What's out there?" " I'm sorry Simba. I just can't tell you." "Why not?" " Simba, Simba. I'm just looking out for the well being of my favorite nephew." "Yeah right. I'm your only nephew." "All the more reason for me to be protective. An elephant graveyard in no place for a young prince. OOPPPS!" " An elephant graveyard!! WOW!!" exclaimed the young prince. " Oh dear I've said to much. Well I suppose you would have found out sooner or later. You being so clever and all. Oh but just do me one favor. Promise me you'll never visit that dreadful place." Scar asked pleadingly. " No problem." Simba replied with a smirk. " Now there's a good lad. You run along now and have fun. But remember. It's our little secret. Scar called after him knowing Simba wasn't going to comply with his orders. But that's exactly what he wanted.
'Wow an elephant graveyard. How cool! I'm sure Uncle Scar wouldn't mind if I just went to take a peek and besides it's not like he's gonna find out about it. Man I can't wait to tell Nala about it!' "Oh yeah I forgot" Simba thought out loud. He often forgot that Nala was gone. It had been three months and although he would play with the other cubs it still wasn't the same without Nala. Nala was fun to be around she was always cheerful and was always ready for an adventure. 'Nala would have loved this' he thought. ' Oh well, she said she would come visit me soon. But who do I take to the elephant graveyard'. Simba found his mother lying lazily on a rock under a tree with Mariatu and Diallo and Taraja, 2 of her 3 cubs. Maybe they'll go with me. But what do I tell mom?' " Hey Diallo!! Hey Taraja!!" " Hey Simba whatcha doin'?" Taraja replied. "Come on guys! I just heard about this cool place" "And where is this cool place?" Sarabi asked coolly. ' Man I knew she was going to ask that!' " Well it's around the waterhole." Simba said timidly. " The waterhole?? What are we going to do at the water hole?" Taraja asked. " Yeah." Diallo chimed in "We go there everyday what's so new about it today?" Simba flashed an innocent smile at his mother and turned to Diallo and Taraja and grabbed Diallo by the bottom nape of the neck and pulled him down. " I'll show you all when we get there." he said with his teeth grit. " Oh!" Diallo said with his eyes cast down obviously still not getting the message. And then he understood " Ooohh…Ooohh I get you now. Uh mom can me and Taraja go with Simba?" " Hmmm what do you think, Sarabi?" Mariatu asked. "Well…" "Please??" The three asked in unison. " It's Alright with me." "Alright!!" " As long as Zazu goes with you." The cubs stopped in their tracks " No not Zazu."
" Step lively. The sooner we get to the waterhole the sooner we can leave." Zazu shouted down to the cubs while he flew ahead. " So where are we really going?" Taraja asked. " An elephant graveyard." Simba whispered back " Really/ I thought you weren't allowed to go there. Your dad said you couldn't go there." Diallo interjected " Well what dad don't know won't hurt him. And besides we're just gonna take a peek." " Fine. One problem though how do we lose the leech."? Diallo said nodding his head up at the direction of Zazu. " Hey let's run into the Jungle we can lose him in there." Taraja whispered. "Good idea" The cubs padded quietly out of sight into the dense jungle with Zazu behind bumping into endless trees and vines in the dense jungle. Finally the cubs lost sight of him and they were free. " Alright it worked! We lost him" Simba exclaimed. "Alright wise guy which way to the graveyard?" " We're almost there. Now stop talking and start walking." they walked for a while and he land was becoming less familiar and still no sign of Zazu. " Great we're lost. Now what genius?" Diallo asked sarcastically. " I think I know my own kingdom, Diallo." Simba answered just as a-matter-of- factly.
" Why don't you just admit that we're lost and we can turn back? It's getting dark." Taraja pleaded. "We're not lost, now shut up and follow me." Simba retorted. "Who died and made you leader?" " I was born leader, dork!" " Oh yeah!" Diallo lunged at Simba and they tumbled down a small cliff and when they reached the bottom they continued Wrestling. " Come on guys cut it out!" Taraja yelled, "This isn't funny, one of you might get hurt!" " Shut Up!" they both yelled back at her but she had lost sight of them and could not see where they were. She couldn't go back and leave them down there, so she timidly started down the cliff to search for them. As she descended she could hear them grunting and fighting but she got a little careless and lost her balance and tumbled down. She tumbled down and when she finally came to a stop she collided with the wrestling forms of Simba and Diallo. " What are you doin down here?" Diallo exclaimed. Before she could answer a small geyser erupted right beside them. The three cubs righted themselves and as the steam cleared the form of an enormous figure of what appeared to be the skull of an elephant. " This is it we made it." Simba whispered quietly. The three padded quietly over to a ledge that hung over miles of bones littered everywhere. " Whoa!" the three said together in awe. " It's really creepy." Taraja stated. " Yeah, what did I tell ya? I know where I'M going. I believe you owe me an apology," he said directing his statement to Diallo. "I'm sorry." Diallo grumbled. "That'll do." " I wonder if its brains are still in there." Taraja said. " Well there's only one way to know. Come on lets go check it out!" " Wrong!!" Zazu exclaimed he had finally caught up with the cubs and was not in a good mood "The only checking you all will do will be to check out of here. We're way beyond the boundaries of the pridelands" " oh look banana beak is scared." Simba teased. "That's Mr. Banana Beak to you fuzzy. And right now we are all in very real danger." " Danger? Ha! I walk on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger. HA HA HA HA!" "HEHEHEHEHE!" From inside the elephant skull came an eerie cackle. Simba jumped away from the skull and ran behind Diallo. "Well well well Banzai, What have we got here?" The first hyena said. " Hmm I don't know Shenzi. What do you think, Ed?" Replied the second hyena. The third replied by laughing in a malicious way. " Well that's just what I was thinkin'
A'coupla' trespassers" the second hyena, Banzai, replied. " And quite by accident, let me assure you a simple navigational error." Zazu added nervously. The female hyena, Shenzi, put her paw on Zazu's tail and stopped him." Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Wait, wait wait…I know you your Mufasa's little stooge." " I Madame am the Kings major Domo." " And that would make you…?" " The future king." Simba replied proudly. "Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?" Shenzi asked circling the three cubs. Diallo and Taraja were to scare to help and were shaking the whole time. Simba scoffed. " You can't do anything to me." " Uh well technically they can. We are on their land." " But Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbering, mangy, stupid poachers." Zazu was waving his feathers in front of Simba and grumbled nervously " Exnay on the upid-stay." " Hey who you calling upid-stay" Banzai shouted. " Zazu began hurrying the cubs along. " My my my look at the sun it's time to go." "We're sorry we'd love you to stick around for dinner" "yeah we can have whatever's lion around." " "Wait wait. I got one I got one!! We can each have a cub sandwich. What ya think?" Ed started jumping around pointing in the opposite direction. " Hey did we order this dinner to go?" " No. Why?" " BECAUSE THERE IT GOES!!" Banzai said as the three cubs and Zazu dashed away. The three hyenas followed the cubs and got a hold of Zazu but that went unnoticed by the three frightened cubs. " Did we lose them?" Taraja asked. " Simba if we get out here I am going to kick your butt." Diallo added. " I think we lost them but…where's Zazu?"
" Now the little major domo bird, hippity hopped all the way to the birdie boiler."
"Oh no not the birdie boiler" Zazu erupted out of the geyser and the three hyenas laughed hysterically. " Hey why don't you pick on someone your own size?" Simba yelled out to them. "Like you?" " Ooppps" The hyenas once again tore off after the three cubs and cut them off every chance they got. At an attempt to get away the cubs climbed up a " hill of bones" and Taraja lagged behind. " Help!" Simba and Diallo who were ahead saw that the hyenas were getting to close to her. They ran back down and while Diallo grabbed her paw and pulled her along Simba Scratched the hyena that was threatening them on the nose which stalled them a little bit. Finally they reached a dead end. There was nowhere left to run. Simba and Diallo would have to try to fight. " Here Kitty Kitty."