Chapter Six: Scar's Deal

Many months have come and gone, the sun begin to rise for another day. Shenzi stirred in her sleep as she begin to wake up after another cold day in the graveyard. She yawned and wanted to get up but Banzai was leaning against her side. She slowly got up letting Banzai hit the floor. He made a weird snorting sound before going back to sleep. She turned to her right to see Ed, lying on his back, snoring real loudly with his tongue and drool hanging out of his mouth. She quietly walked out on the skull and stared at the border of the graveyard, beyond that was the pride lands.

She sigh "Another boring, normal day in hell" she muttered to herself as she walked over to the border and climbed up and out of the ditch.

Shenzi was one of those hyenas that wakes up real early in the morning. The sky was filled with blue, red, orange, and yellow colors. The grass was cool and moist and when she tool a deep breath and exhale it made a light fog in front of her. She looked around to see if any lions were out here. When she saw the coast was clear, she continue on her way to the nearest water hole.

"What a life" Shenzi said to herself, she felt uneasy because she was beginning to sound like her brother. "I went from having a wild adventure childhood to a boring paradise teen years now I'm a young adult living in a land full of bones" she sigh again

She finally made it to the water hole, it funny how hyenas risked their lives to come out here just to get some water. She took a few gulfs then stared at her reflection like she always dose ever since she was a pup. She was now a young adult, in three weeks she will be turning two years old, yes, she spent almost a year in a half in that graveyard. She was tall, built, with soft fur and according to her friends and mother she was very beautiful.

She continue to looked at her reflection as memories begin to flooded back in to her mine about what happen during the last year and a half.

Another day without sleep for a certain lion as he walked down from the pride rock and walked around in the moist land. He couldn't stand these days now, his all too perfect brother was now king and has a cub coming soon.

(Just a another two months Taka, and your going to be a uncle) His brain said

"Shut up and thats not my name anymore" he said out loud then growled as he remember what happen the day he nearly lost his eye.

"Damn those hyenas, damn them all" he said

Flashback

"Taka, what happen to your eye" Zira asked

Taka sigh, his eye was swollen shut, badly bruised with black and purple color. He needed to talk to someone about his situation so he snuck out of the pride lands, took in a short cut through the graveyard so he wouldn't be seen by the hyenas. As weak as they were, he was only one young lion and there were hundreds of them. After crossing the graveyard, he made it to the outlands, his second home to him.

"I was just getting a drink of water five days ago after hunting and when I got back I saw three hyenas eating my food" Taka said "Then I attacked them and nearly killed two of them then some female wanted to fight me, so I ran after her but she didn't move an inch away from the tree she was sitting under. When I was about to strike she jumped and the next thing I knew a tree branch hit me in the eye and I saw red" Taka slammed his paw on the floor from the anger and embarrassment he faced from his family afterwards.

"Oh, so that explains why there are so many hyenas in the outlands" Zira said

"Yup, my father kicked them out of our land afterwards so its not that bad to lose an eye" he said knowing he might lose his eyesight when his wound heals.

"Dammit Taka! What the hell were you thinking!" Zira said

"Why are you yelling at me" Taka asked, man did his eye still hurt, it was throbbing like hell.

"Thanks to you, those disgusting things are eating up all the food in the outlands, and its all ready bad enough because there hardly any food here anyway"

"What do you want me to do" he asked

"I don't know, I always told me you were thinking of a plan to become king and get me and my pride out of here. We can live in pride rock and let the hyenas keep this dump."

" stop whining Zira, I told you I'm going to get you out of here and I promised that"

End of flashback.

Shenzi yawned "I must've woken up too early even for me" she said to herself.

She heard something moving in the grass, animals in the land were beginning to wake up, she licked her lips, she gone almost a week without food, oh how she missed the taste of a zebra.

(Ha, I'll even eat a wildebeest to end this hunger pain) she thought since she was so picky when it comes to food.

Food was on her mind every minute of the day for the last year. The first month living in the graveyard was the toughest. They visit the outlands but that place was as bad as the graveyard, no grass, trees and very little food and water. And plus there was another pride living there and they wouldn't allowed them to come near them. So once in a while they sneak around stealing there food and getting away with it even through the meat tasted old but the unlucky ones gets their throat bit til they die.

She shivered from the thought of that since Ed and Banzai even her nearly got caught and killed once in a while. She found herself starving all the time and when she dose eat, the food was so bad she finds herself sick and throwing it up. Her mother finally got an idea about the crisis. Since then a small group would sneak out in to the pride lands, one hyena keeps watch while the others killed a animal and drag it back to the graveyard. The plan been working ever since.

Her stomach growled and she laughed "it felt like I'm back in the desert and all that missing is Ed's singing.

The laugher died down when she looked at her reflection one more time, there was something else that was bothering her. Is the fact that she almost two and old enough to take over the clan real soon. Her freedom to do anything, to wondered off, to explore and get in trouble will be gone when she becomes the Matriarch. Worst of all something inside keeps telling her that her mother, Shenzen, and the whole clan was hiding something form her.

Taka walked through the tall grass, taking a quick look at the dark graveyard. He suddenly heard someone yawn and stopped dead in his tracks. Through his one good eye, he looked through the tall grass and spotted a young hyena just staring at the water. He stood still when the hyena turned around and something he remember hit him like a rock.

(Hey, you big stupid idiot!)

( Aw, look at the lion, all tall and mighty yet whining like a little baby over food, boo who)

(come on, you ugly excuse for a lion, I can run faster then that)

Taka remember her, it was that same female who gave him that injury, the part of the branch cutting his eye still wouldn't leave his mine. He knew that was her, he couldn't forget that weird hairstyle she had. He begin to grin as she came closer to him.

(Why worry about something that just might be all in your head) Shenzi's brain said

"You right" she tried to smile "I guess I'll just forget about it and go wake up my fri-oof' Before Shenzi could finish her sentence she bumped in to something fuzzy. She looked up and nearly swallow her tongue when she realized that she bumped in to a lion. Her eyes focused on his left eye that had a scar on it. Her jaw dropped causing the lion to grin and took a few steps back.

"Shit" she whispered to herself over and over again.

It cause him to grin even more and he chuckled "by the look of your face I say you remembered me" he said

Shenzi swallow a lump in her throat and nodded as she took a few more steps away from him.

(Shit, it him, that lion, dammit Shenzi you had to struck him in the eye didn't you) her brain yelled at her

(Shut up! This isn't the time) Shenzi thought

(Well, what are you waiting for stupid, RUN!)

Shenzi sped off as quick as she can, she heard the lion roaring then the sound of him chasing after her.

(If I make it to the graveyard I'll be home free) she thought

Over the months, she learned that the lions from pride rock doesn't trespass in their land probably thinking its not worth killing a hyena in some crappy place. She was suddenly tripped by the lion's mighty paw and she fell to the grass. Not bothered looking back at the lion, she scramble on to her feet before she was hit and continue running to the graveyard.

(There it is, I see it!) She smiled

She picked up his pace and manage to outrun the lion, she jumped down in to the graveyard and fell in to a awkward position on the floor then it went quiet. She open her eyes and struggled to get up. She stretch out her neck, hearing cracking noises then looked around to see that she made it to the graveyard.

"Whew, that was a close one" she chuckled "what a stupid lion, it too bad he has to stay on his own side"

Shenzi noticed that she was just a few yards away from her skull, the thing she called her home for the last year and a half. She sigh and begin to walk over there.

"Guys, guys are you awake" she shouted.

When she made it to the skull, a giant paw swoop down and grabbed her by the throat. She made a loud gagging noise that echo in the skull waking up Banzai and Ed.

"What was that" Banzai asked Ed

Ed flipped over on to his belly when they heard something hitting the side of the skull causing it to shake. They quickly got up and ran out of the skull and froze to deaf when they saw a giant lion holding Shenzi in the air by the neck.

"Oh god, it him" Banzai shouted and Ed went pale

Shenzi continue to gag as the lion squeeze his grip around her neck a little tighter.

"I have waited a long time to do this" he said with a grin, a grin that brought a chill down Banzai and Ed's spine.

Banzai was about to make a move to attack but the lion noticed it "don't move, if you take another step I'll kill you and the stupid" he said

Banzai bit his lips hard as he watch his beat friend being choke to death, the clan was to far away to get help and Shenzi was turning blue.

"Please let her go" he begged, he never like begging but this was serious.

"Fool, I'm being nice by sparing your and the stupid one lives and here you are still bothering me" he said

"Please, please let her go, she, me, he, WE are sorry for what we did" he said nearly bowing down.

The lion looked at him and tighten his grip on Shenzi's neck, her eyes begin to turn a little red and she let out another, weaker gag.

Ed bowed down as well as Banzai continue "if you want to kill some one kill us, we ate your food, she very picky, she doesn't eat wildebeest, begging you"

Taka shook his head "does this female mean that much to you"

Banzai and Ed simply nodded "please, we'll do anything, just let her go" he can feel tears coming to his eyes and tried hard not to show it.

"Anything" Taka grinned and dropped Shenzi to the floor. She barely hard the energy to move, she just laid there coughing a bit.

"Shenzi are you alright" Banzai said as he and Ed helped her up, she nodded since her throat felt so hot and raspy.

She continue coughing and her vision was blurry. She looked over at Taka, who waited for her to stop coughing.

"You said you'll do anything right" he said again

The hyenas looked at him believing the lion could fell the fear they had.

"What do you want from us" Banzai asked

"Well, since you caught me a good mood, I have a deal we can discussed"

"Deal?" Shenzi struggle to say but continue to cough

"Yes, cooperate with me and I'll see to it that your out of this place for good, since it was all you fault" he said

"Hey, it not our fault, you're the one who attack us then tattletale on our butts that cause us to be kicked out and hated by our clan" Banzai shouted

Shenzi smack her paw over Banzai's mouth and kept it there so he can shut up. "What do you have in mine" she struggled to say, her voice was very sore now.

"I have a brother, who's king and ready to have a cub in a couple of months, and ever since I was little I hated him because he the favorite of family and everybody loved him and called him perfect"

"I told you he was loco" Banzai mumbled under Shenzi's paw and Ed was about to laugh till Shenzi covered his mouth as well. "Hey your not the only one with a misfit brother" Shenzi said

"In short, I want him and his cub dead, with them gone I'll will be king"

Banzai pulled Shenzi's paw away "you can't be serious, I mean sure we have a step-brother who hates us for all eternity but he never has those ideas to kill us"

"If I become king, I'll allowed you guys and your clan back in to the pride lands and all I'm asking in return is to help me with my plans. Also we can put the past behind us and I'll forget how I got this thing on my blind eye"

Shenzi felt nervous, she didn't like where this was going but if it means so save her from begin killed and get her clan out of here. Her thoughts were interrupted when they heard other hyenas walking to this direction.

"Think about it, why don't you, I'll keep in touch" Taka said, turning around and begin to leave. "By the way"

The trio jumped from his voice as he turned to look at them "what are your names"

Shenzi swallow, this was a bad idea but she couldn't stop herself "I'm Shenzi, and these are my friends Banzai and Ed"

He nodded then grinned "you can call me Scar" he said then disappeared in to the fog.

The trio stood there, to scared to move, to talk or to do anything. Not realizing what plans Scar had for them and the fact things were about to get much worst.