Author's Notes: (sigh) Ok, its bad enough that I have school, studying, chores and the other Fanfictions to do that keep me from updating once a week but now I'm grounded from the computer and videos games for the next two weeks. I'm not even supposed to be typing this because I'm on the computer. But I found ways to type without getting caught so updating will be slower then normal for now...(sigh)...anyway here the next chapter.
Chapter Eleven: Shocked and Threaten
Shenzi sigh as she looked inside her mother's cave, cold and empty, very empty. She sigh then yawned, she woke up to early again because of her trouble sleeping. And for once it wasn't from Ed's snoring or Banzai kicking her when he's dreaming, it was the fact that she been so worry about her mother.
(Two months and she still hasn't returned) she thought as she walked back to the skull.
Two months had come and gone and things still hasn't changed. Info and her friends are still bugging her, Zacuru wouldn't leave her alone, and Nuacka was tying to see if they can have the wedding early then her third birthday. But that's not the only thing bothering her.
(Today the day) she thought
The cub name Simba was old enough to walk and talk and today is the day that Scar put his plan in to action. Just thinking about it made her sick. She can't fail this plan, not only Scar was depending on her but that whole clan is. It was times like this she wished her mother hasn't left.
She stopped by her skull and look inside and smiled. Her boys were sleeping soundly, Banzai was kicking in his dream and Ed was snoring and drooling.
(I shouldn't disturbed them, Banzai usually grouchy when he doesn't get any sleep) she thought and left them alone.
She snuck in to the pride lands, its been real easy sneaking in since the King and the Queen was busy taking care of the little cub. She walked through the tall grass and made it to the nearest water hole. She licked her lips from her great thirst and lower her head to get a drink of water. She suddenly jumped up when she heard the grass moving behind her.
"Banzai? Ed?" She startled "momma?"
Zacuru pop his head out of the tall grass and chuckled "boy, you shouldn't seen the look on your face when your frighten" he smiled "its quite cute"
"What are you doing here" she growled
"Chill out Shenzi, I just saw you looking inside your mother's cave and left so I followed you"
"Why did you followed me then"
"I just wanted to talk for a little bit and without your friends always around you"
"Whatever" she said looking up at the sky watching the sun rose and spread across the land. It was about the same time Mufasa was telling Simba about the "circle of life" thing.
"Beautiful sunrise isn't it" Zacuru asked sitting next to her.
"It surely is" she said scooting away from him, hoping he didn't noticed but he did.
(Just be nice to her, talking always help. Just don't brag or say mean things about her friends and you'll see she open up to you) Zacuru remembered what Secret told him. He was glad he hired those annoying little know-it-all stalkers to spy on Shenzi and her friends.
"Why do you avoid me" he asked
Shenzi found this strange why he would asked a weird question "what do you mean"
"I'm just saying, we're about to get marry pretty soon and all I ever wanted to do is get to know you better."
"Zacuru, I known you all my life, how can you not know me"
"Your always busy with you mor-..I mean with you friends" he said
"So, is it wrong to have a life to have fun when times are bad like right now"
"That's true but I wish you would talk to me once in awhile especially when we're going to be husband and wife soon"
"I still have ten months of freedom left, are you counting down the days til we get marry" she asked
"No" he said
"And don't you find this unfair what our mothers are putting us through, didn't it piss you off when they told you about this betrothed thing"
"well actually to tell you the truth I knew about this the minute you were born"
Shenzi just stared at him, she wanted to hit him and scream about why everything was kept a secret from her but instead she growled and started to walk away.
"Hey wait up" he said following her as they went deeper in to the pride lands.
"I can't believe this" she said then look at him straight in the eyes "and you didn't stop this, what's wrong with you"
"look, at first I didn't want to go through with this then I started using this to annoy your brotherbecause I didn't care about it. I thought when I got older I would find a way out of this because I didn't want to marry someone I didn't love. And believe me you not my typeand I think you are too much of a tomboy for me"
"Exactly, I don't like you either so I thing we should go to your mother and tell her the wedding is off" she said cheerfully as she started to walk away
"But I was wrong" he said causing Shenzi to stop and look at him again.
Unknowing to them, a small gopher popped out of the ground and spotted them talking. He needed to report this to Zazu who will tell the King. He took off underground and tried to find Zazu.
"What do you mean your wrong" she asked
"When I watched you growing up you surely blossom from a tomboy brat to a very beautiful young female." he said "and I grew to love that personality of yours and those lovely eyes and smile"
"Zacuru, what are you exactly trying to tell me"
"I grew to love you, I love you Shenzi" he said plain and simple
The world seem to crash right in front of Shenzi's eyes, she wasn't expecting this, anything but this. Zacuru lift one of her paws with his causing Shenzi to shake in nervousness.
"You can't be serious" she said
"But I'm am" he said giving her paw a light kiss "I truly love you for what you are"
Shenzi chuckled nervously and pull her paw away from his "Zacuru, you can't fall in love with me"
"Why not" he asked
"Well for one thing your seven months older then me and I always thought of you as my other yet much smarter brother like Banzai and Ed. Plus, I don't think I can marry a male who use to babysit me when I was a pup and is my brother's best friend. I seen how Shenzen looks when you tell him about it and it not pretty" she explain
Zacuru rolled his eyes and put on a weak, disappointing smile "I can't change you mine on how you feel about me and this wedding thing"
"I'm afraid not" she said plain and simple
Before Zacuru could speak they heard the sounds of a lion's roar coming closer and closer by the second.
"Shit, it's the king" Shenzi said running off to the elephant graveyard.
"Wait up" Zacuru said running as well.
Shenzi jumped in to the graveyard with Zacuru crashing down on her.
"Get off of me" She shouted as she kick him off because he landed badly on her leg.
She got up hearing a her bones in her leg making a cracking noise causing her to hiss in pain. For some reason something was telling her Zacuru did that on purpose.
"You ok" he asked
"I would be better if you didn't land on me" she growled at him.
"Well then" he said fixing up his mane "now that is over we can finish talking" he said
"I feel like talking anymore Zacuru I'm going to find a spot and take a nap"
"Too late" he said looking at whatever was behind her.
Shenzi turned around and nearly jumped out of her fur when Scar walked out of the shadows.
"Scar! What are you doing here" she asked
Scar looked over at Zacuru this was the first time they seen each other face to face "who this your talking to" he asked in he low cold voice
"Him, no one" Shenzi said "what's up"
"Today is the day my friend, I set the trap and the little hairball will be here soon, but right now I need you to come with me" he said
"Ok, let me go wake up my friends then you can lead us"
Scar continue looking at Zacuru with an unpleasant face. Zacuru got the message "I'll see you later Shenzi" he said walking off.
"Boy am I glad you showed up" Shenzi said as they started walking to her skull where Banzai and Ed were sleeping at.
"I thought you will be mad for barging in on you and your boyfriend" he said with a smirk
"He not my boyfriend! He's my..." she growled "fiancé"
"You don't seem to happy about it"
"It's a arranged marriage that the only way to get out of is to kill yourself" she said "he such an idiot, all of the females has a crush on him because he the head male in the clan and he can have any female but no I'm the one who gets stuck with him" she complained
Scar just continue to grin, he can grant her that wish if she mess this up.
"So where are we going" she asked
"I want you to meet someone that's all" he said
"INFO!" Zacuru shouted "GOSSIP! SECRET!"
Zacuru wondered all over the graveyard and inside each of the hyenas caves.
"Where are those annoying little stalkers" he whispered to himself "INFO!"
"Who ever shouted SHUT UP! Some of us are trying to sleep!" a male hyena shouted form his cave as he pop his head out.
"Have you seen Info" Zacuru asked calmly
"I think she and the other two went to get some food" he said
"Thanks" Zacuru said the sigh angrily knowing he had to walk back to the pride lands.
He raced back in to the pride lands but stopped to catch his breath. He looked around then suddenly he heard singing and it was close by so he followed it.
"What is it with lions and singing, even I would never figure it out" Info said
"Ten bones says the bird gets crushed" Gossip said to Secret
"I say the female lion gets crushed first" Secret said
"And I say they all get crushed" Info said
"DEAL!" the three said all at once. Then continue watching the two small cubs, the bird and the animals singing and dancing.
Info was just about to relax when she heard her name. "INFO!"
The three females flinched then turned around to see Zacuru coming by.
"Where have you three been, I been looking all over for you" he said
"Well, we were going to find some food" Info said
"But then we saw the King's cub, a girl cub and that bird walking to the water hole we were going to" Gossip said
"So we hid behind a rock waiting for them to leave" Secret added
"But out of no where the weird-ass cub starts singing so we been stuck here waiting for them to stop and making bet on which on would get crushed by one of those animals" Info ended
"Why are they singing" Zacuru said
Gossip shrugged "beats us but form what I heard their heading towards the graveyard"
"Well that's why I'm here my friends, Shenzi and her morons friends are getting ready to kill those cubs"
"We knew that already" Info said
"How did you know, nobody told you" he said
"How do we know girls?" Info said
"We just know" Gossip and Secret said
(Stackers, I swear) he thought "then what are you three waiting for go spy on her and tell me the details" he said
Info rolled her eyes "fine but you're the one who has to stay here and catch us our food"
"I will not I have important things to do"
"Then I guess we can just go to our cave and not spy on Shenzi" Gossip said
Zacuru growled "just get going"
"See ya, then" Info said
"Bye" Gossip said
Secret just smiled as they ran back to the graveyard. Zacuru sigh and rested on the rock, he couldn't help but laughed when the tower of animals collapsed to the floor.
Banzai yawned "where's he taking us" he whispered to Shenzi
"He said he wanted us to meet someone and I don't want to asked any question" Shenzi whispered back
Ed dragged behind him, he was still a little tired to kill anyone right now. Shenzi went pale when she saw two adult lions waiting for them.
"You guys I want you to meet my dearest friend Zira" Scar said
Zira was a very skinny female with a wicket grin that gave Shenzi chills.
"Hey don't we see you in the outlands" Banzai asked
"Yes, I been living there all my life" she said
"And this is her older brother Alzon" Scar said
The trio looked up at the lion, he had the same color fur and mane as Scar but his body was like stone, scars all over his face and pearl white pupils in his eyes. They went pale the lion just had an anger look in his eyes and he was breathing heavily. His claws were drawn out and his sharp teeth were showing.
"My brother doesn't talk much and the only thing he loves to do is to fight and kill" Zira said grinning as Alzon growled. "And you can see by his scars, he been in a lot of fight and never lost a single one."
"Now listen closely you three, my brother would be worrying where his little cub is at so while you guys do your jobs, Zira and Alzon will distract him for a while got it" Scar said
"Got it" Shenzi and Banzai said as ed smiled nervously and nodded.
"Good, they should be here any time now" Scar said leaving
Zira looked at the hyenas with a awful look "screw this up and you'll find yourself being picked out of Alzon's teeth" she said
The trio stood still as they left then took a deep breath.
"Is it me or is it the fact that if we failed this task we'll be lion food to that Alzon guy" Banzai asked
"This is not a good time to joke around Banzai this is serious" Shenzi said
"I know, I know but its good to joke around just to cheer up a bit"
"No its not, we are going to be beaten to death by those very disturbed lions if we fail them and you want to all cheery about it" she said
"Sorry" he said
Shenzi sigh "I know you are, I'm just under a lot of pressure right now"
"Well, lets go back to the skull and wait for the cubs there" she said
"Come on guys I found some great seats" Gossip whispered
"I don't see why we have to spy on them, it seem rude" Secret said
"Oh shut up Secret, you know what we do when we made this little trio of ours" Info said "we spy, spread rumors, and we get things from hyenas who want valuable Information, gossips or secrets"
"Stop it Info, you know as well as I know why she doesn't want us to spy on Shenzi and her little group" Gossip teased causing Secret to blush.
"It you two stop it then maybe we can get our job done" Info said peaking from behind the pile of bones to see the view of the back of the skull and the border line of the graveyard and Shenzi and Baznai talking.
"Nervous" Banzai asked as he and Ed started to crawled in to the eye socket of the skull. They thought it would be neat to scare the little cubs a bit before sending them to an early grave.
"A little" she said as she heard the sounds of laugher coming closer.
"Come on, what's the worst that can happen" Banzai said smiling...
If you're wondering how the chapter fit with the title, it easy. Shenzi was Shocked about Zacuru confessing about being in love with her. Then when Zira Threaten them about if they screw up their job she'll let her insane brother Alzon kill them with his bear claws. Sorry for the long wait, I'll update faster when school is out. See you then.