As the rain began to fall in the outlands, Scar stood inside his cave thinking about the cuckoo he had met that day. He noticed that the cuckoo seemed smarter than Zazu which was probably a good thing; hopefully he would not be as snoopy as the deceased hornbill. Scar then grumbled to himself, that evil jackal only did half the job he was supposed to and now he still had Simba and Mufasa to worry about; did it really have to be this difficult to be king?
He had to think of something cunning, something easy to get rid of the two once and for all but what would he do? He had already tried hyenas, a wildebeest stampede, and an assassin jackal. All plans failed making him become more impatient.
The evil lion then gave a huge sigh and yawned, he was tired from a long day of trying to hunt in the outlands, succeeding in only catching a measly rabbit. Perhaps tomorrow he would be lucky and perhaps tomorrow things would get better.
Scar would have slept for much longer that morning if it was not for the trio who came barging in the cave.
"Hey boss we have a problem," said Banzai.
"It better be a big problem or you three will be quite sorry for waking me up this morning," said Scar.
"Oh it is big, you see, Banzai was showing us how he could chop bones in half by just snapping down on them with his teeth, Ed wanted to try it and as you can see, the bone is now stuck in his mouth," said Shenzi.
Scar looked over at Ed who stood there whimpering with a bone stuck in his mouth. The bone was not very big but it was keeping his mouth open due to the fact that it was lying on the top and bottom jaw, his tongue was trying to push the bone away but it was not working.
"Why am I the one who has to fix this problem," said Scar who just felt sleep was more important than getting a bone out of one of his minion's mouth.
"Because we tried and so did a few other hyenas and we thought that you could help," said Banzai.
Scar sighed and then gave the three an angry stare. "Alright then if I help you then will you promise to leave me alone for the rest of the day?" asked Scar.
"Oh yes we promise," said Shenzi.
Ed tried to talk but all that came out was a sad whimper.
Scar just rolled his eyes and told Ed to sit a few inches in front of him. Ed did so and sat there wondering what Scar would do. Scar circled the dimwitted hyena for a minute before making up his mind about what to do.
"Alright now whatever I do Ed, don't move," said Scar.
Ed then saw Scar raise his paw as if to swipe and began to shake in fear. Scar then swung his paw at the bone. It hit the bone and the bone went flying out of Ed's mouth, along with a few teeth. The bone landed a few feet nearby and Ed rubbed his swollen jaw.
Ed laughed at Scar and then stared at Shenzi and Banzai for an interpretation.
"He said thanks and he lost a few teeth in that swipe but he said they were worthless anyway," said Banzai.
"Oh good, now leave me alone, I need to think," said Scar.
"Yes sir," said Shenzi who then ran off.
Banzai and Ed soon followed, Scar watched them go and then picked up the bone and chewed on it for a while so he could think.
By the afternoon Scar was tired of lazing around in his cave and decided to go for a walk through the outlands. He looked around for anything that could help him become king but everything seemed to be too hard to handle or was just in the wrong spot to do it.
While Scar was walking he suddenly smelled and familiar scent, it was the scent of an injured animal. Quietly the evil lion followed the trail until he came across an injured antelope that had strayed from its herd a few hours ago. Scar smiled, he was hungry and this was the best time for a hunt.
Silently he stalked his prey, hiding behind rocks or old termite hills before he knew he could attack. When Scar felt he was at the right spot, he charged. The antelope saw him running after it and tried its hardest to run. Scar soon got closer to the creature, he could taste sweet victory in the air and was just about to trip it when a lioness suddenly bolted out in front of him and attacked the antelope.
Scar came to a quick halt and stared at the lioness who had now knocked down the antelope and was proceeding with killing it by strangulation. Scar then growled and ran over to her in anger.
"Hey that's my antelope," he said angrily.
"Hey I found it first and besides I bet you had your share of food yesterday, I haven't had anything in five days," said the lioness who then began to eat the antelope.
Scar was quite furious with this lioness and wanted to give her a piece of his mind until an idea popped in his head, what if this lioness could help him in ruling Mufasa's kingdom, he decided to try.
"So are you looking for a new pride?" asked Scar.
"Yes of course I am, I was kicked out of my original for being too demanding to the queen, she said I acted more like a queen than she did and that there could not be more than one queen in the pride so we got into a fight but she was able to kick my butt as soon as the fight stared so I finally left, I never liked the place any way," said the lioness who continued to eat.
"So would you rather be a queen than a royal subject?" asked Scar.
"Of course I would, I hate being at the bottom," said the lioness.
Scar smiled, this lioness was a lucky find who seemed to be a good candidate for helping to rule a kingdom.
"Well I am trying to assassinate my brother who rules the pride lands past this area so I can become king. Perhaps you can help me assassinate him by joining the pride, letting them get to know you and before they even know it, you kill the king and his worthless hairball of a son," said Scar.
"Hmm sounds like an interesting plan, so once I kill them, I get to be your queen?" asked the lioness.
"Yes and we shall have as many cubs as we want," said Scar.
The lioness began to laugh a very evil laugh, she was quite glad to have visited the area while searching for a home.
"I will do it, by the way, they call me Zira," said the lioness.
"And they call me Scar," said Scar.
"It's been a wonderful pleasure meeting you, when do you want me to join?" asked Zira.
"Whenever you feel the need to," said Scar.
"Then I will leave now and I will return to give you news on when it will happen," said Zira.
"Good, don't disappoint me," said Scar.
"Oh I won't, not with the idea of becoming queen," said Zira who then silently walked out of the outlands and into the pride lands.
Scar smirked, he liked this lioness a lot, he knew she would make a good queen and a lovely wife, and he knew that this plan would go perfectly.
Zira slowly snuck into the pride lands, the sun would be setting in a few hours so she had to hurry up and get to pride rock and introduce herself.
After wandering for a few minutes a bright green bird flew a few inches above her head.
"Excuse me, are you a member of the pride because I have never seen you before," said Ban'ai.
Zira pretended to be weak and sick so she could easily get into the pride. "No I am not but I have been traveling for weeks after a famine killed most of the old pride, it was terrible, I almost died before coming here, please take me to your king because I would really like to join him," said Zira.
Ban'ai stared at her for a moment, she sounded sincere about everything. "Well I guess that would be okay, follow me then," said Ban'ai.
Zira smirked; now all she had to do was meet the king.
About an hour later, Zira arrived at Pride Rock where Mufasa immediately saw her and ran down to greet her.
"May I help you?" asked Mufasa who showed no concern but looked very serious.
Zira decided to be sick again. "I have been traveling far and wide, my pride was slowly dying from a famine so I knew I had to get out, please take me in for I am getting to weak to continue my journey and I am starving," said Zira.
Mufasa showed some pity in his eyes and looked the evil lioness over before deciding what to do. "Okay you may join us, Sarafina, get this lioness some food before she faints from exhaustion," he said.
Zira smiled as she watched Sarafina run out into the grass to find some food. Zira was then brought up to pride rock where she was greeted by all the other lionesses.
"Welcome to the pride, you will love it here, I don't think you told us your name yet," said Sarabi.
"Oh it is Zira, and you are?" asked Zira.
"Sarabi and this is my son Simba," said Sarabi who showed Zira Simba who had been hiding behind her.
"Why hello there young prince, my you look like you will be a wonderful king," said Zira in a sarcastic baby talk tone.
"Yeah I can't wait to be just like my dad too," said Simba.
"Well then you are going to have to be careful out there in the grasslands though you know how young cubs can be very curious," said Zira.
"Yeah I know," said Simba who then was distracted by a butterfly.
Zira smiled, she knew that the young cub would be easy to dispose of, but the king would be difficult, she had to think of a good plan for that one.
Zira then pretended to faint a little and was then escorted by some lionesses into the cave where she then lay down and was soon given a nice fat rabbit from Sarafina.
"Thank you I think I will love it here, you seem to be a much better king than the last one who never really cared about his pride," said Zira still sarcastically.
"Why thank you, now get some rest, you need to build up your strength so you can help our pride flourish," said Mufasa.
"Oh I will, don't worry, in a few days, I will be one of your best lionesses in the whole pride," said Zira who then rolled over on the other side and smirked at the fact that Mufasa was actually buying everything. Scar was going to be proud of her.
Mufasa smiled at her and then went to lay in his sleeping spot with Sarabi and Simba, little did they all know that their troubles were soon to begin.
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A/N: Yay I finally finished this chapter!!! Sorry it took so long I was studying for my finals which are finally over, and sorry if it is short oris not as good as the other chapters. And I am surprised I only received one review for the last chapter, I hope everyone saw it. Any way the next chapter will be up soon, maybe even possibly this week, I just have to see what I will be doing. Any way have a nice week everyone.
