Chapter Four: Scarred
Taka took a few sips of water then looked at his reflection.
(Why am I here) He questioned himself about that everyday since he was told Mufasa was going to be the next king of Pride Rock
He sigh, if his "all-perfect" brother was the next king then what's his purpose in life. (Your just there, to fill up space) His brain said
(you're the forgotten child of this family, Mufasa is perfect, he strong, smart, and everybody in the Pride Lands loves him, that why Mufasa is going to be the next king and when he does everybody will forget about poor little Taka, be tossed away like a rotten corpse)
"Shut Up, I'm not just empty space, the animals like me too...Right?" Taka asked his head and got no answer
"Maybe I should just run away and go live with Zira and the other outsider, they seem to expect me of who I am"
(Yeah, its not like your parents and "all-perfect" Mufasa would care but the reason you never left is because your too use of living the easy life, plenty of food, water and a beautiful home and what does Zira have..)
"Nothing" Taka said
How he wished he could get Zira and her pride to live here but his father didn't want another pride living in his land. The reason he let those hyenas live here is because they were hyenas, no big threat.
He sigh again and looked at his reflection again "why was I born different"
(Such sadness in you, huh Taka, if you don't want to be a nothing think what you can do to become a somebody, think of a way to bring Zira here, become the king and get rid of your brother once and for all) his twisted mine said
"That would be nice but something like that is going to take a lot of planning" he said then it hit him "wait, what am I thinking, do I really hate my brother so much that I was to kill him"
He waited til his brain respond but got no answer
"I guess that would be a yes and no answer" He said
His stomach growled, he was hungry and in a bitter mood. He took one last drink of water then walked back to the dead animal he left.
Shenzi waited till her friends ate every last piece of meat off the bones of the wildebeest. She was hungry but slowly losing her appetite, no many how many times they ate she could never get use to those slobbering noises Banzai and Ed make when they eat with their mouths open.
"Aren't you hungry Shenzi" Banzai asked. Shenzi looked at him, his face was covered in blood and Ed was trying to break a leg bone.
"No, I told already I only eat zebra, now hurry up before the animal who kill this comes back"
"Your still worry about that, he probably long gone by now" Banzai said "now come on, have so food"
"No" she said getting a bit annoyed from his whining.
Banzai smirked, he loves it when she in a bad mood because he was the one causing it. He sat next to her "you need to lighten up" he said then smacking her in the back. Shenzi was caught off guard and fell over, crashing in to the bones of the dead animal.
Ed started to laugh, nearly choking on small of the meat while bits of it was spitting out of his mouth. Banzai tried to hold back his laugher but couldn't and burst out just like Ed. Shenzi stood up, she wipe the blood off her face. She felt sick now, the taste was in her mouth, it was so salty she begin to spit it out. Now she was pissed
"You..stupid bastard" she growled and tackle Banzai to the floor but still didn't make him shut up and made Ed laugher worse.
"Stop laughing" she shouted as Banzai rolled over to escaped her grip and sat up.
"But you should've seen your face when you fell." He laughed harder
Shenzi growled again and got in to her tackling position again.
"Oh, you want to fight" Banzai playfully teasing her.
"And I'm not in the mood to fight fair either" she said then grabbed Ed and swung him to Banzai. She heard them crashing in to each other then saw them falling to the floor. Banzai tried to get Ed off of him but saw Shenzi leaping towards them screaming "hyena pile"
She body slam on top of them, and the boys felt all their air punched out of them. Shenzi begin to laughed till she was toss off by her friends. As soon as she got up she was rammed on both side of her by Banzai and Ed making her growled in pain
"Now its personal" she said as she tackle Ed to the floor followed by Banzai giving her a head butt and soon they were fighting.
It didn't take long for Banzai to realize Shenzi wasn't playing around when she punch him right in his already bruise belly. He let out a painful scream and try to run.
"After him, its his turn for the pink belly" Shenzi said to Ed, who was grinning wickedly.
Banzai's stomach was throbbing in pain as he ran towards the tall grass, hoping to hide from the pissed off female.
"Why are you running Banzai, you started it" he heard Shenzi shouting
He turned around only to be pounce by Ed and was slammed to the floor.
"I'm not the enemy Ed, Shenzi is" Banzai said
He froze when he heard Ed snorting and ready to spit a loogie at him. "No, not that again, get off of me" Banzai kicked Ed off and crashed in to Shenzi.
Shenzi hiss when Ed's head hit hers, she rubbed her pounding head then was nearly pinned by Banzai. "Face it Banzai you can never defeat me in a fight"
"I'll see about that" Banzai said
The trio stared at each other for a minute waiting to see who will make the first move.
Taka didn't realize how far he had walked from the water hole or didn't know how close he was to his food. He was too much in deep thought.
(I wish Zira and my other friends were here, maybe they could help me with my problems) he thought.
(Is being the King that important that you are willing to kill your brother for) he thought again. He grin and that was his answer. He felt the insanity beginning to grow inside him.
His grin turn in to a jaw dropping when he spotted his food eaten up and all that was left was the skin and bones.
"What the? My food" he said in shocked "who ate my food"
He heard laugher and growling and looked straight ahead at the tall grass. He was three hyenas fighting with each other, he could smell their scent on his food and they had blood stains all over their mouth and neck.
"Those little scums" he said to himself.
He knew his father told him and his brother to stay away from them but no one eats Taka's food and gets away with it. He growl and raced towards them. Banzai was too busy pinning Ed down to the ground while Shenzi was tickling him, that was torture to Ed and the land was filled with his laugher. His high pitch laugher blocked out the young lion roar as he set his target on the female who had her back turn. Ed spotted the lion through his watery eyes and begin to chock on his laugher as he pointed at the lion. Banzai looked up and shouted "Shenzi! Watch out!"
Shenzi ducked when she saw a large paw with its claws out swing above her, missing her by an inch.
"Holy Shit" Banzai shouted
Shenzi nearly fell on top of Ed, stepped allover him by accident to get away. Ed looked up to see the lion's teeth as he lifted his paw again. Shenzi and Banzai grabbed whole of him before the he was struck my the lion. They literally dragged Ed on his back for a few feet till he was able to stumble on to his own feet.
"What his problem" Banzai said
"You stupid little scumbags, do you actually think you can eat my food and get away with it" the lion roared
The hyenas ran in to the field of tall grass and laid low. They could hear the lion looking around in the tall grass. Once they were far enough from him Shenzi slapped Banzai in the back of his head.
"Ow, what was that for"
"I told you not to eat that food, but noooo, you wouldn't listen to me" Shenzi said trying not to raise her voice. Banzai sigh the only time she hits him like that it means that he really done something stupid. Ed went pale and started to whin.
"Shit he coming closer" Shenzi said
They stayed low to the ground as they heard the lion pacing through the grass and with their luck the lion was blocking their only way back to the clan.
"What do we do" Banzai asked
"I don't know, we can't fight him, he too big" Shenzi whispered
"We can call for help" Banzai said
Ed started to tapping Shenzi's shoulders but she ignored him "and blow our cover"
Ed tapped her shoulder again "then what, your smart think of something" Banzai said
Before Shenzi could think of anything, Ed pushed her to move and she crashed in to Banzai. She was about to yell at him til she saw that Taka had found them.
"Quick, use the plan we always do to get away from Shenzen" Shenzi said
The three parted and went in to three different directions deeper in to the forest.
"You can't escape from me, I can see you" Taka said
The lion was tall enough to see the grass moving in three lines. He follow the one in the middle. Banzai, quietly ran through the tall grass, he could hear Shenzi and Ed running another direction but not knowing he was in the middle. The next thing he knew, he heard a loud roar then feeling the wind being punched out if him when Taka tackle him.
Shenzi managed to get out of the tall grass and heard Banzai screaming. "Banzai?"
Banzai was struck in the face and tumble out of the tall grass. He felt his bones being crushed when the lion pounce on him, and worst of all the lion was hot on his trail. He tried to get up but was pinned down by the lion. Taka open his mouth ready to bite Banzai in the throat instead he roared in pain when Ed leaped on to his back, digging his claws and teeth in to the lion's flesh.
"Ed?" This was the first time he saw anger in Ed's blanked eyes. As Ed was keeping the lion busy by biting on his flesh, Banzai manage to walked away from the lion's grip.
"Where's Shenzi" Banzai asked himself looking around.
Taka grabbed whole of Ed with his teeth and tear him off on his back and tossed him to the ground. Taka's back begin to bleed and saw Ed spitting out blood soaked fur. Banzai ran up to him as quick as he can but his body hurt so bad it was hard to move. The lion laughed and slowly march over to them "I'm going to enjoy this, I, Taka, would be to first to kill a hyena" he laugh again.
Banzia didn't know what to do, Ed clung himself to Banzai and begin to shake.
"Hey, you big stupid idiot, over here"
They all pause and turned their heads to see Shenzi calmly waving at them with a huge smiled. She was standing next to a tree. "Leave those morons alone and fight a real hyena"
The lion growl and turned to face her. "Shenzi, can't you lighten up on the insults a bit" Banzai said.
"I'll let you live girl if you leave right now" Taka said
"Aw, look at the lion, all tall and mighty yet whining like a little baby over food" Shenzi said teasing him "boo woo"
"She dead" Taka said to himself and ran towards her
"Shenzi are you nuts, get out of here" Banzai shouted when Shenzi didn't move from her spot.
"Shut up Banzai" She said
Shenzi grinned as the lion came closer and closer " come on, you ugly excuse for a lion, I can run faster then that."
"Your pushing your luck girl, I'm making this killing nice and slow" he shouted
(Come on, just a few mare feet) Shenzi thought
"Shenzi!" Banzai shouted
"Die!" the lion leaped towards her.
With a grinned, Shenzi leap away from the tree. Unaware that she was holding down a long thin tree branch. The branch swung up and struck the lion in his left eye. The tip on the branch stabbed his pupil and scratch the flesh on top. Banzai and Ed jaw dropped when they saw his eye spraying a red mist of blood.
"My eye, you stupid bitch, what have you done to my eye!" he cupped his eye and fell hard on his back and struggle in pain.
Shenzi stood there speechless "I can't believe that worked" she said as the boys ran past her to get away.
"That great Shenzi but we got to go" Banzai said pulling her to run.
Shenzi ran followed Ed away from the lion. Banzai looked back at the yound lion who was still struggling in pain as blood poured out trough his paw and ran down his arm.
"Man, that lion is going to be scarred for life" he said then ran off to hide with his friends...