Chapter 2: Uncle Scar
"Simba?"
"Yes, Siagi?"
"Well.. Who's the Uncle Scar I keep hearing about so much?"
"Hah! Uncle Scar.. Come on! I'll show him to you."
The two padded over to the darker side of the Pride rock, only to find it empty. "Eh... I think he's gone to one of his daily walks.. He keeps disappearing like that!" Simba said as he sighed. Siagi sighed along with him and turned around, only to leap backwards and utter a scream. A dark, evil-looking lion was standing in his pathway, glaring down at him. A pinkish scar covered his left eye. "That's the rascal Siagi, I've been hearing about so much?"
Simba grinned and poked Siagi. "That's uncle Scar!"
"Woah.." Siagi exclaimed. "He's... dark."
Scar snorted and dropped down. Laying on his side, Simba climbed onto his ribs. "Well, he got the genetics of the other side of the family, Dad said! .. Besides. Your dark too! So is Mother!"
"Well... Yeah. Hi Uncle Scar! Didya know that Simba's going to be the king some day?"
Scar growled out of disgust. "I know very well, little nephew. No need to remind me."
"I don't like him" Siagi whispered to Simba. "Let's go play in the gorge! I told Tojo we'd meet him there!" Simba nodded and patted Scar's back goodbye. "We'll be back later!"
"How pleasent.." Scar snorted and then got up. As soon as the cubs were gone, he grinned widely. "The gorge, eh? I'll have to go set up a few plans.." He too took off, but in an entirely different direction. The dark lion was heading towards the Elephant Graveyard.
"Wait up, Guys!" Siagi called as she was trying to keep up with Nala, Chumvi, Kula and Simba. "I'm not as big as you guys are! It takes me time to get there!"
"That's your problem, Bro! Come on now!" They said, soon ending up in the gorge. "That truly is a majestical place.." Nala said as she looked around. "Not a living soul around.."
"If you don't count that lizard-thingie here.." Kula said as she pushed it off it's rock. "Hehe.."
"Kula!" Nala called out as she helped the lizard back on. "Stop being so mean!"
She rolled her eyes. "Sorry!"
The cubs didn't find much more to do, than look around and be in awe of how gorgeous the gorge really was and how majestic it all seemed.. Almost like Pride-Rock.
Scar, meanwhile, found much more to do. He entered the lands of the Hyenas, bringin along a zebra-haunch to the hyenas. "I don't think you reall deserve this.. I practically giftwrapped those cubs for you!" He said, as he dropped the meat to the hyenas. "And you couldn't even dispose of them."
"Well ya know, it wasn't exactly as they was alone, Scar!" Shenzi noted, as she was gulping down the meat.
"Yeah, what are we supposed to do? Kill Mufasa?" Banzai added, getting his fair share of the meat. Ed didn't even care to look at the lion and kept tearing at it.
"Precisely." Scar added as he climbed down. "Now.. Are you the right guys to use for the job?"
Shenzi blinked in confusion, then widened her eyes. "You mean the job of killing off the king of the pridelands! Are you nuts! He's Mufasa! Everyone respects him! He's.."
Scar smacked the hyena and snarled. "You'll do as I say, or bad things are going to happen." He snarled as he growled at the female hyena. "Now get up and join the other pea-brains!"
Shenzi rose from the ground, rubbing her hurt cheek and sitting beside Ed, who was sitting beside Banzai. Both looked at her with concern written all over their faces. Scar growled. "Now pay attention!" He got their gazes settled on him and he grinned. "You won't have to do much. All I'm asking for you to do is scare off the herd of wildebeests, who are currently residing above the gorge. But only when you see my signal. Got it?"
All three nodded. Shenzi had a question. "When's that gonna happen?" Scar smiled and pinched her cheek, "In a few weeks my dear." She pulled away and had a look of utter hate upon her face as she glared at the lion. 'Never trust a lion!' Her mother had once said. And she intended on sticking to that.
"Say, Scar?" Banzai asked, paws trembling slightly. When he recieved the lion's attention, he continued with a cough. "Say.. What are we going to get out of this deal? When you become king?"
Scar knew one of them would ask that question. "You're my lackeys, You'll get free grub and are allowed to stay IN the pridelands."
Banzai and Ed's faces lit up with excitement, Shenzi was aware that the lion was lying. He would make a lousy king.