A week passed and Zira became a trusted member of the pride. Everyone thought she was wonderful. She helped care for the young ones, chatted with the other lionesses and even hunted with them. Of course she was only showing her fake side, her true nature would be revealed when she felt ready which was about a week later.
It was early morning and the sun was barely up. All the lions were still asleep and would stay that way for quite a while, the perfect time for Zira to head back to the outlands to tell Scar of her plan. Silently she crept out of the cave and down pride rock toward Scar.
About an hour later she arrived in the outlands and found Scar in his cave just waking up. Zira slowly walked up to him, Scar saw her and smiled.
"Well I see you were accepted, do you have a plan?" asked Scar.
"Yes, we are going hunting today. I plan on disobeying Mufasa's orders on where to attack the wildebeest. Hopefully another wildebeest will be next to us when I disobey causing him to tell me what I did wrong and not see where he is going. Then hopefully the other wildebeest will run into him and trample him to death," said Zira.
"Sounds like an interesting plan, don't know if it will work but it is a good way of pretending that it was an accident," said Scar.
"That's what I was hoping, I will return afterwards to tell you if it was successful," said Zira.
"Good and if you fail I will give you one more try and if you fail that one my hyenas will find your throat," said Scar.
Zira showed no sign of worry after she heard his threat, she knew she would be successful and she knew she could do it. Then without a goodbye she ran back to Pride Rock causing Scar to watch her as she left. That was when a feeling came over Scar like no other, he realized how beautiful and evil this young lioness was, they could go together like peaches and cream and rule the pride lands with an evil paw.
Zira returned right on time when Mufasa and the rest of the pride awoke from their nights sleep. She pretended that she just got up and gave a big stretch and yawn. Sarafina smiled at her.
"Have a nice rest Zira?" she asked.
"Oh yes it was wonderful and that wonderful sleep gave me a nice appetite for a nice fat wildebeest," said Zira.
"Good because I am just as ready as you are," said Mufasa who then gave the biggest yawn any one had ever seen.
"Who's gonna watch over me today Dad?" asked Simba.
"Your mother decided to take the day off today and spend time with you and Nala," said Mufasa.
Simba smiled and turned his mother who just smiled back at him before giving her mate a lick on the cheek.
"Be careful out there, I hope you catch the big one," said Sarabi who then decided to lead Simba and Nala to the watering hole for a nice morning drink.
Mufasa then turned to his lionesses. "Let's go hunt," he said and ran down pride rock and into the savanna, Zira had an evil cunning smile the whole way.
They soon arrived at small heard of about ten wildebeest; all of them were grazing quietly and had not noticed any of the lion's presence. Mufasa sized up the situation.
"I say we should take two since they all are a little small and have not much meat," said Mufasa.
"I like that idea, which ones should we take?" asked Zira.
Mufasa looked at them all until he made his decision on attacking two that seemed to be the farthest away from the group.
"Okay me, Zira, Sarafina, and Tali take the one closest to us, the rest of you attack the other one," said Mufasa.
Everyone nodded in agreement and waited for Mufasa to make his move. Mufasa stood there for quite a while before finally leaping out of the grass and straight toward the wildebeest, the other three lioness's right behind him. The wildebeest saw the lions coming after them and began to run away before they became lion chow.
"Zira, attack the flank, Sarafina take the side, Tali take the nose whenever you get near enough" said Mufasa who then made a wide berth in trying to get the wildebeest he wanted to run the other way.
Zira quickly saw her chance a few seconds later as the wildebeest the others were attacking was about to run by. Zira ran toward the wildebeest that she was supposed to go after and went for the neck; of course Mufasa was not happy with this.
"Zira, I told you to go for the fl……woah," said Mufasa who turned around just in time to see a wildebeest speeding past a whisker away. "I was almost trampled there for a minute," he said but he let it pass and turned to Zira who had been able to kill the wildebeest after severing its neck.
"You disobeyed me," said Mufasa.
Zira looked at Mufasa stunned; she thought he would have been run over by now, so she quickly made a good excuse. "What do you mean I disobeyed you?" she asked.
"I told you to go for the flank, and that I would go for the neck," said Mufasa.
"Oh dear I must have misheard you, I thought you told me neck, I am very sorry," said Zira in a sarcastic tone.
Mufasa sneered at her and then growled. "Don't let it happen again," he said as he started to eat the remains of the kill.
Zira sneered back at him too, her plan was now dead and she had to think of a new one and hopefully she would come up with one by tomorrow morning.
When the early morning finally did arrive, Zira ran off again back to the outlands to tell Scar that she failed. Scar knew right away that she did because she had the look of anger on her face.
"Didn't work did it?" asked Scar.
"No, he looked before he crossed, and actually did blame me for it," said Zira in an angry voice.
"Well you still have one more try, do you have a good plan?" asked Scar.
"Yes I thought about the idea of killing him in the night, you know quietly sneaking up on him and biting the life out of his neck," said Zira.
"That sounds a lot better than your first idea, too bad you did not think of it sooner," said Scar.
Zira ignored him and continued to talk. "I will do it tonight and if I'm lucky I'll kill the cub as well, and by morning you will be king and I queen," said Zira.
Scar smiled at her, she would make a wonderful queen.
"Well then I wish you luck and don't fail me this time," said Scar.
Zira nodded and then ran as fast as she could back to Pride Rock before everyone else woke up.
To Zira, the day felt like it would never end, she had the rotten luck of having to train Simba and Nala how to hunt for mice. She would have tried to kill Simba while teaching them and making it look like an accident but Sarabi was with her and had used Zira as her assistant.
When the sun finally set, and Mufasa gave a huge yawn which usually meant bedtime for him and the pride, Zira smiled happily, her plan was about to commence.
It wasn't until an hour though when Zira felt the time was right. She stayed awake listening to the members of the pride slowly fall asleep. A few snored and barely showed any signs of life. Zira smiled when she noticed this and slowly got up to stalk Mufasa.
She was lucky enough to have a nice trail toward the king without bumping into any one or making too much noise. Slowly she crept and by the time she got close enough she could taste victory in her paw. Just as she was about to pounce though, a loud squawk echoed through the room.
"Your Majesty, look out!" It was Ban'ai's voice who had done it and Mufasa awoke just in time to see Zira leaping toward him.
Mufasa jumped up and kicked the female lion against the wall of the cave. Zira landed in a heap, she was not killed though but was stunned for a second.
"What in heavens name were you trying to do?" asked Mufasa in a big, booming, and angry voice.
It took a minute for Zira to think of an excuse and of course being a little lightheaded from the run in with the wall made her think of a stupid reason.
"Oh I'm sorry, I must have been sleepwalking and thought you were some sort of prey, I've been known to do that from time to time, I'm very sorry," said Zira.
Mufasa was about to say something when he was interrupted by Ban'ai.
"You are such a bloody liar," said the bird.
"Ban'ai how could you say that, she was sincere about it and everything," said Mufasa.
"Ha! You think she's sincere so everyone will like her. But you have not seen her true nature, but I have," said Ban'ai.
"Ban'ai what are you saying?" asked Mufasa who by now had awoken the entire pride who was now listening intently.
"I saw her this morning leaving the jolly cave so I quietly followed. Turns out that she's working for that blasted Scar, that run in you almost had with the wildebeest yesterday was something she tried to do. And tonight she was hoping to choke the bloody life out of you and Simba so Scar could be King and she could be Queen," said Ban'ai.
Zira roared and jumped as high as she could reach to get to the bird, but of course Ban'ai was too high up for her.
"You bastard how dare you eavesdrop on me, you should be glad you are up there or I would have your head," said Zira.
"Well I am the advisor, and I never trusted you since you bally came to this pride. I knew there was something bloody wrong with you the moment I laid eyes on you. You woke me this morning after stepping on a rock, no lioness gets up early like that unless something is truly wrong with them and something is definitely truly wrong with you," said Ban'ai.
Mufasa stared in awe at Zira, he could not believe that someone he trusted tried to kill him and thanks to Ban'ai, had saved his life.
"Zira you caused me to make a fool of myself and invite you into the pride, now you must pay for it," said Mufasa.
"You are actually going to believe that damn bird, how do you know that he is not making up a fib?" asked Zira.
"Because I trust Ban'ai, he has never steered me wrong once, and the penalty for trying to kill the king is either death or banishment. And since I do not want two creatures thinking about killing me your sentence will be death," said Mufasa.
Zira growled. "You're going to try and have to catch me first," she said as she started to run but was then blocked by Sarafina.
"Get out of the way," said Zira angrily before swiping Sarafina with her claws. Sarafina backed away in pain as Zira then ran past her. Mufasa ran as fast as he could to catch up to her.
Of course he was more used to jumping down Pride Rock without tripping which Zira did a few times and when she reached the bottom she was about to sprint out of there when Mufasa grabbed her by the back leg and knocked her to the ground.
Zira turned to see Mufasa now looming over her with anger in his eyes. "You should have thought twice before joining that evil brother of mine, now you will pay for your life," said Mufasa who was about to grab Zira by the neck when she took a swipe at him with her claws.
Mufasa growled in pain but the sudden swipe the Zira made did not slow him down as she jumped up. Instead he grabbed her by the ear hoping to get her closer to him so he could break her neck. Instead though, Zira decided to try and run in hopes of getting him to let go, it worked but she lost a chunk of her ear in the process. The evil lioness did not care though. She knew she had to run back to Scar and that was all that really mattered.
It turned out thought that Mufasa was much faster than her and tripped her for a second time. This time he was successful and attacked her. Zira cried out in pain as Mufasa tore her up. She could feel the pain of a ripped open shoulder and the hot pain of her neck being opened. After about five minutes, Zira lost consciousness and Mufasa stood over her panting from the attack he made.
"No one can defeat the great Mufasa, no one," said Mufasa before limping back to the pride.
When he arrived back the pride nudged him happily at the fact that another evil scheme by Scar had ended and that maybe Scar would realize that his plans would never work.
"Wow Dad, that was even cooler than the jackal you killed," said Simba happily.
Mufasa just smiled at his son and turned to Ban'ai who had watched the whole thing and was now shocked by what happened. "I thank you Ban'ai and I am glad you did not trust her, if I ever can, I hope to repay you one day," said Mufasa.
"You are very welcome sah, although I did not think that what you just did would be that gruesome wot," said Ban'ai.
"That is how a king's life is. Well the problem is over everyone, get some sleep now another new day will be upon us soon," said Mufasa who then went back over to lay in his spot. Simba and Sarabi joined him while the others found a nice spot nearby and fell asleep so they could be ready for a new day.
An hour later, back out in the savanna, Zira woke in a world of pain. Her neck, shoulder, ear, side, and hind leg were bleeding badly and she knew that she could not try anything again. She had to get back to Scar and tell him what happened, hopefully he would forgive her for what happened and maybe together they would work something out.
Zira then tried to get up and immediately coughed up blood. It exhausted her so badly that she fell back to the ground. She lay there for a few more seconds before trying to get up again. This time she was successful and took ten steps before collapsing again.
She tried to get up again and took a few more steps before falling down again. Zira knew that this was going to be a long night but she also knew that she should not give up. She had to keep going, for Scar to become king and for her to become queen. Oh how much she hoped to survive this and get back at Mufasa for trying to kill her. For if she ever recovered, she would find a way to make Mufasa pay dearly for what he did.
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A/N: Yay I'm done with that chapter and I am sorry if the first half of it sucked, it just doesn't sound as good to me. Well any I hope you still liked it and please review I was surprised to find that I got a total of eight reviews the most I have ever gotten for one chapter. Thank you everyone. Any way also after reading what Kiara32 wrote I almost felt like hitting my head on the keyboards a few times. I can't believe I forgot those important details, stupid me. Well since I will most likely not update until next week I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, have a great holiday and I will see you next week with an all new chapter.
