"I am really getting tired of this" Safara complained.
It was hot midday and all the cubs sat at the base of Priderock waiting for their mothers to return from the hunt. Although they knew they wouldn't be able to eat on account of the hyenas.
"Tired of what?" Essian asked
"Of this heat! Those hyenas. Scar. I hate them all." She responded
" Your telling us." Messina and Kia said in unison.
"I hate this heat!! It's not good for my fur!" Kia whined.
"Yeah! And those hyenas smell so bad they are so messy and dirty. I can't stand dirty people!" Messina chimed in.
Essian rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Is that all?! Are those the best reasons you can come up with? Have you even noticed that there are barely anymore herds and not enough water? Your fur and being messy should be last things you should worry about."
"Well that's easy for you to say you're a boy. Us girls don't like living like this. You like this don't you?" Messina retorted.
"Speak for yourselves. Me and Taraja don't like the heat or hyenas either but that's the last thing we are worried about. We're worried more about our mothers and the pride." Safara spat back.
"Oh Shut up you tomboy!" Kia said
"don't tell me to shut up!" Safara spat back.
Then the cubs started to argue with each other until Amani and Diallo approached them.
"All ya'll shut up!" Diallo yelled above them. The cubs stopped their quibbling and listened.
"Complaining and fighting about everything won't help any." Amani added. Just then Kobe came running toward the base of pride rock. "Hey guys, we have visitors. And they don't look very friendly." The cubs got up and looked toward the north and saw a group on lionesses coming toward them. They turned around and saw their mothers coming toward them from behind. Each lioness grabbed their own cub and put them by their side. Sarabi moved to the front of them and stood solidly watching the intruders carefully. She wondered why the hyenas weren't doing anything. By now they should have noticed them and they weren't attacking or anything. The intruders reached the base of pride rock and stood in front of the lionesses. Their pride consisted of at least 26 lionesses, a majority of them being adolescents. That was 2 times as many lionesses then they had.
"Who are you?" Sarabi demanded
The lioness who stood in front answered, " My name is Raziya, and this is my daughter, Zalika." she said as she put her paw behind the cub's head. The cub looked just as unfriendly as her mother. Her smile wasn't a pretty one it was more of a menacing one.
"What is your purpose here?" Sarabi inquired .
Raziya didn't answer. Instead she moved her head to where she could see behind Sarabi and smiled. Sarabi looked behind her and saw Scar coming down from pride rock.
"Scar what's going on?" Sarabi asked sternly. Scar walked past her and approached Raziya and nuzzled her and she returned the gesture. He then looked at the group behind her and bowed his head and they bowed their heads in return.
"Will someone please tell us what is going on?" Sarabi demanded
Scar looked back at the pride and Said, " I want you to meet your new queen."
"What!!" the lionesses said in unison shocked. How could she just come in and decide she wanted to be queen. Sarabi was their queen, not her.
" Are you questioning my judgment?" he roared. Zaila stepped up and spoke, " how could you have a queen already. You never told us you had a mate. What about Sarabi?"
"What is it to you? And what about her?" Scar replied. Zaila was about to reply but Sarabi interrupted her, " No. I had my time with Mufasa. HE was my king. If I have to abdicate I will."
"But-"
" You will honor Raziya as your queen…and my daughter, Zalika as the heir to the throne." The cubs cringed. They didn't like the looks of this new princess. Safara approached Zalika and tried to introduce herself to the "princess" but Zalika just looked at her and then replied " I don't play with cubs." Safara stepped back and started mumbling to herself as she walked back. Scar laughed and found this cute and then nuzzled his daughter.
"From now on. Raziya and Zalika will sleep with me in the royal chamber. The hyenas will stay in the larger den and our new members will stay in the other den."
"What about us?" Sarabi inquired
" Sarabi, you and the others will sleep in the other smaller caverns."
"But we all can't fit in those little caverns." She protested while the others nodded in agreement.
" Would you rather sleep outside?" Raziya asked sarcastically.
The others gasped. How dare she talk back to Sarabi. Sarabi was angered by this but controlled herself.
"take it or leave it." scar said.
Sarabi did not address him. Instead she turned around and motioned for the other lionesses to follow her up to he other caverns. Zalika was going to like it here. Cubs to tease and they couldn't do anything about it. She decided to take this advantage and take somewhat of an "initiation". Kobe who was the smallest of the cubs was sitting down terrified through the whole confrontation lagged behind a little and didn't notice that the others had got up. As Kobe followed Amani, waited for him to catch up. Zalika padded behind him and extended her claws and caught Kobe by his tail. Kobe yelped in pain as she sank her claws into his tail. Amani heard Kobe yelp and ran back.
" Why don't you pick on someone your own size?".
While Kobe scrambled away Amani stayed behind and continued to growl at Zalika. This angered Scar. No one was going to fight with his daughter. He got in front of Zalika and roared as he swiped at Amani, grazing a part of his left cheek.. But for some reason Amani was not phased by the small injury. He stayed snarling even though he wasn't snarling at her any more. Scar tried to attack Amani but as he lunged at him he was knocked out of the way by a strong paw. When he looked up he saw that it was Zaila who was growling angrily trying to protect her son. This angered Scar even more and as he got up he swiped Zaila across the face which sent her slamming to the ground. This made Amani even angrier then before. While the other lionesses ran over to Zaila to help her up, Amani with all his strength attacked Scar. Although he put all his own young strength into the skirmish, and that scar wasn't the best built lion in the world, he still couldn't take on Scar. Scar eventually got the upper hand and defeated Amani. Amani accepted defeat and before Scar could attack again he ran out toward the gorge, while his mother watched helplessly as her son ran away knowing that if he returned scar would kill him. After it was over the lionesses took Zaila to the other caverns to comfort her while the newcomers watched with unfeeling eyes and made their way into the den. Scar watched Amani run away and called shenzi, Banzai and Ed to his side.
"I want you to follow him. Take some more hyenas with you. He's going to the gorge and he knows better then to come back. Chase him out as you did Simba and then kill him far away from the pridelands."
The hyenas rallied a few others and fallowed Amani. Sure enough Amani went to the gorge. He went to say goodbye to Simba and Mufasa. He knew he couldn't go back. If he did he would be killed if not by scar then by the hyenas. But he didn't want to leave everybody else there. The cubs, his mother, the lionesses, it all hurt to think about them being under Scar's rule. then he remembered what Sarafina told him
"If you ever need anything come find us. Head out east and passed the hills. You should find us there.".
'That's it!! he thought. he could go find Sarafina and Nala and stay with them for a while. When got older he would come back and challenge Scar. He knew he was no Mufasa but any king was better then Scar. That's what he would do. He was just about turn around and get out of the gorge when he heard some growling behind him. He looked behind him and saw 8 hyenas coming toward him. He knew he couldn't take them all on so to stall them he swiped at one of the hyenas and knocked him down and backpedaled a little to get a head start. But this did not stall the rest as he thought it would. Instead they started to chase after him and the down hyena got up and followed. They couldn't chase him out through the same way they had Simba because the path Simba had took had crevices where he was small enough to escape. Amani was bigger and scar had told them to kill him away from the pridelands. So they chased him out of the gorge first so instead of having him go through the walls of the gorge to get to the desert, they would chase him up and out of the gorge and into the desert by the mainland. As he was running Amani notice that he had never been this far before as the more he ran the further he got. Another thing: he was going the wrong way: he was going west not east, and from what he knew all that was to the west was nothing but desert. But he couldn't afford to turn back now. The hyenas were still chasing him and Scar would for sure have hyenas scattered throughout the pridelands making sure he didn't come back. The hyenas were starting to pull back a little. The first one to do so were Shenzi, Banzai, and ed. They had chased him far enough to where if he ran any further he would be dead in the middle of nowhere. The others stopped and asked why they had stopped, " I am not following him out all the way out there! You guys can go ahead and die out there for all I care. But I prefer to stay here and live." Shenzi said.
"Well you won't be alive much longer if Scar finds out we didn't get rid of the punk." one of the other hyenas added. Banzai intervened "The keyword there is "if". IF he finds out. Besides you honestly think he will survive out there. A lion can't make out there with no meat. He'll die anyway." " You better be right, if your not your on your own with him." "Trust us this will work." Watching from afar Rafiki watched as Amani ran away. He put his hand to his head. Ever since Scar had become king Rafiki hadn't been to pride rock. He wanted nothing to do with Scar he knew his intentions were not good. And now the next closest thing they had to a challenge for Scar was leaving. And now things would be harder with more pride members to care for.
"Tis' is not good." Rafiki said to himself. " But Somting' tells me... he'll be back."
"Tired of what?" Essian asked
"Of this heat! Those hyenas. Scar. I hate them all." She responded
" Your telling us." Messina and Kia said in unison.
"I hate this heat!! It's not good for my fur!" Kia whined.
"Yeah! And those hyenas smell so bad they are so messy and dirty. I can't stand dirty people!" Messina chimed in.
Essian rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Is that all?! Are those the best reasons you can come up with? Have you even noticed that there are barely anymore herds and not enough water? Your fur and being messy should be last things you should worry about."
"Well that's easy for you to say you're a boy. Us girls don't like living like this. You like this don't you?" Messina retorted.
"Speak for yourselves. Me and Taraja don't like the heat or hyenas either but that's the last thing we are worried about. We're worried more about our mothers and the pride." Safara spat back.
"Oh Shut up you tomboy!" Kia said
"don't tell me to shut up!" Safara spat back.
Then the cubs started to argue with each other until Amani and Diallo approached them.
"All ya'll shut up!" Diallo yelled above them. The cubs stopped their quibbling and listened.
"Complaining and fighting about everything won't help any." Amani added. Just then Kobe came running toward the base of pride rock. "Hey guys, we have visitors. And they don't look very friendly." The cubs got up and looked toward the north and saw a group on lionesses coming toward them. They turned around and saw their mothers coming toward them from behind. Each lioness grabbed their own cub and put them by their side. Sarabi moved to the front of them and stood solidly watching the intruders carefully. She wondered why the hyenas weren't doing anything. By now they should have noticed them and they weren't attacking or anything. The intruders reached the base of pride rock and stood in front of the lionesses. Their pride consisted of at least 26 lionesses, a majority of them being adolescents. That was 2 times as many lionesses then they had.
"Who are you?" Sarabi demanded
The lioness who stood in front answered, " My name is Raziya, and this is my daughter, Zalika." she said as she put her paw behind the cub's head. The cub looked just as unfriendly as her mother. Her smile wasn't a pretty one it was more of a menacing one.
"What is your purpose here?" Sarabi inquired .
Raziya didn't answer. Instead she moved her head to where she could see behind Sarabi and smiled. Sarabi looked behind her and saw Scar coming down from pride rock.
"Scar what's going on?" Sarabi asked sternly. Scar walked past her and approached Raziya and nuzzled her and she returned the gesture. He then looked at the group behind her and bowed his head and they bowed their heads in return.
"Will someone please tell us what is going on?" Sarabi demanded
Scar looked back at the pride and Said, " I want you to meet your new queen."
"What!!" the lionesses said in unison shocked. How could she just come in and decide she wanted to be queen. Sarabi was their queen, not her.
" Are you questioning my judgment?" he roared. Zaila stepped up and spoke, " how could you have a queen already. You never told us you had a mate. What about Sarabi?"
"What is it to you? And what about her?" Scar replied. Zaila was about to reply but Sarabi interrupted her, " No. I had my time with Mufasa. HE was my king. If I have to abdicate I will."
"But-"
" You will honor Raziya as your queen…and my daughter, Zalika as the heir to the throne." The cubs cringed. They didn't like the looks of this new princess. Safara approached Zalika and tried to introduce herself to the "princess" but Zalika just looked at her and then replied " I don't play with cubs." Safara stepped back and started mumbling to herself as she walked back. Scar laughed and found this cute and then nuzzled his daughter.
"From now on. Raziya and Zalika will sleep with me in the royal chamber. The hyenas will stay in the larger den and our new members will stay in the other den."
"What about us?" Sarabi inquired
" Sarabi, you and the others will sleep in the other smaller caverns."
"But we all can't fit in those little caverns." She protested while the others nodded in agreement.
" Would you rather sleep outside?" Raziya asked sarcastically.
The others gasped. How dare she talk back to Sarabi. Sarabi was angered by this but controlled herself.
"take it or leave it." scar said.
Sarabi did not address him. Instead she turned around and motioned for the other lionesses to follow her up to he other caverns. Zalika was going to like it here. Cubs to tease and they couldn't do anything about it. She decided to take this advantage and take somewhat of an "initiation". Kobe who was the smallest of the cubs was sitting down terrified through the whole confrontation lagged behind a little and didn't notice that the others had got up. As Kobe followed Amani, waited for him to catch up. Zalika padded behind him and extended her claws and caught Kobe by his tail. Kobe yelped in pain as she sank her claws into his tail. Amani heard Kobe yelp and ran back.
" Why don't you pick on someone your own size?".
While Kobe scrambled away Amani stayed behind and continued to growl at Zalika. This angered Scar. No one was going to fight with his daughter. He got in front of Zalika and roared as he swiped at Amani, grazing a part of his left cheek.. But for some reason Amani was not phased by the small injury. He stayed snarling even though he wasn't snarling at her any more. Scar tried to attack Amani but as he lunged at him he was knocked out of the way by a strong paw. When he looked up he saw that it was Zaila who was growling angrily trying to protect her son. This angered Scar even more and as he got up he swiped Zaila across the face which sent her slamming to the ground. This made Amani even angrier then before. While the other lionesses ran over to Zaila to help her up, Amani with all his strength attacked Scar. Although he put all his own young strength into the skirmish, and that scar wasn't the best built lion in the world, he still couldn't take on Scar. Scar eventually got the upper hand and defeated Amani. Amani accepted defeat and before Scar could attack again he ran out toward the gorge, while his mother watched helplessly as her son ran away knowing that if he returned scar would kill him. After it was over the lionesses took Zaila to the other caverns to comfort her while the newcomers watched with unfeeling eyes and made their way into the den. Scar watched Amani run away and called shenzi, Banzai and Ed to his side.
"I want you to follow him. Take some more hyenas with you. He's going to the gorge and he knows better then to come back. Chase him out as you did Simba and then kill him far away from the pridelands."
The hyenas rallied a few others and fallowed Amani. Sure enough Amani went to the gorge. He went to say goodbye to Simba and Mufasa. He knew he couldn't go back. If he did he would be killed if not by scar then by the hyenas. But he didn't want to leave everybody else there. The cubs, his mother, the lionesses, it all hurt to think about them being under Scar's rule. then he remembered what Sarafina told him
"If you ever need anything come find us. Head out east and passed the hills. You should find us there.".
'That's it!! he thought. he could go find Sarafina and Nala and stay with them for a while. When got older he would come back and challenge Scar. He knew he was no Mufasa but any king was better then Scar. That's what he would do. He was just about turn around and get out of the gorge when he heard some growling behind him. He looked behind him and saw 8 hyenas coming toward him. He knew he couldn't take them all on so to stall them he swiped at one of the hyenas and knocked him down and backpedaled a little to get a head start. But this did not stall the rest as he thought it would. Instead they started to chase after him and the down hyena got up and followed. They couldn't chase him out through the same way they had Simba because the path Simba had took had crevices where he was small enough to escape. Amani was bigger and scar had told them to kill him away from the pridelands. So they chased him out of the gorge first so instead of having him go through the walls of the gorge to get to the desert, they would chase him up and out of the gorge and into the desert by the mainland. As he was running Amani notice that he had never been this far before as the more he ran the further he got. Another thing: he was going the wrong way: he was going west not east, and from what he knew all that was to the west was nothing but desert. But he couldn't afford to turn back now. The hyenas were still chasing him and Scar would for sure have hyenas scattered throughout the pridelands making sure he didn't come back. The hyenas were starting to pull back a little. The first one to do so were Shenzi, Banzai, and ed. They had chased him far enough to where if he ran any further he would be dead in the middle of nowhere. The others stopped and asked why they had stopped, " I am not following him out all the way out there! You guys can go ahead and die out there for all I care. But I prefer to stay here and live." Shenzi said.
"Well you won't be alive much longer if Scar finds out we didn't get rid of the punk." one of the other hyenas added. Banzai intervened "The keyword there is "if". IF he finds out. Besides you honestly think he will survive out there. A lion can't make out there with no meat. He'll die anyway." " You better be right, if your not your on your own with him." "Trust us this will work." Watching from afar Rafiki watched as Amani ran away. He put his hand to his head. Ever since Scar had become king Rafiki hadn't been to pride rock. He wanted nothing to do with Scar he knew his intentions were not good. And now the next closest thing they had to a challenge for Scar was leaving. And now things would be harder with more pride members to care for.
"Tis' is not good." Rafiki said to himself. " But Somting' tells me... he'll be back."