Authors note: Hey there, still grounded but I'm happy to say school is finally over for me...yet I can't be on my computer or play video games so what's so happy about it. (Sigh)
I'm right now going through a stage of insanity, its like that Stephen King's book "The Shining" and on one of the Simpson's Halloween Special Quote: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy or when Homer said no beer and T.V makes homer go crazy. Well my quote is No computer and videos games makes Bianca go insane.
It a nightmare, the first week wasn't so hard because I was too tired and very stress out form School Exams to do anything but the second week is driving me NUTS, this is MY summer vacation and I can't even watch T.V. till next Monday (6/6/05). (Sobbing) I'm losing it, I have to confess to that when I could have sworn my computer, gamecube and T.V. were laughing at me. Well, during my days of being grounded I trying to figure out why my mom grounded me in the first place...(Sigh)...lets just make this short, sorry for the wait here the next chapter.
Chapter Twelve: Shentana Returns
Shenzi nearly tripped on her own paws and piles of bones as she ran for her life to get away for the King. She saw the skull near by and slowed down a bit only to be tackle by Banzai and Ed who didn't have time to slow down. Shenzi crawled out from under them and got back on to her on her feet.
"Quick get in to the skull" she said
Banzai and Ed ran in as Shenzi looked around to see if the King was following them then went inside as well. Ed collapsed to the floor and Banzai lean back on the wall to catch his breath ignoring the pain and wounds form the terrible beating.
Shenzi hissed in pain as she tried to sit down "what's the worst that could happen he said" she said mocking what Banzai said earlier.
Banzai growled, he wasn't in the mood for Shenzi stubbornness, he turned his head ready to start an argument when he saw a dropped of blood hitting the floor nest to Shenzi. He looked up at her who was still trying to catch her breath and saw her cheek scratched with little drops of blood running down and dropping to the floor.
"Shenzi! What happen to your cheek" he said walking towards her.
"Oh this, its nothing, the damn cub got me when I was about to attack his little girlfriend" she said calmly like it was no big deal.
"It bleeding" he said
"Please Banzai, after what happen, we're going to get a much serious beating by Scar, Zira or that psycho thing she calls her older brother." she said wiping the blood off her cheek but it only smeared it.
Ed looked up at her with watery eyes, he whole left side of his body hurt when the King smacked him with his mighty paw. He whined and let his tongue rolled out of his mouth. He was tired.
Banzai slowly leaned back on the wall and took a deep breath then exhale "where did we go wrong" he asked
That was a good question, how did the king know about the cubs coming down in to the graveyard. Only them, Scar, Zira and Alzon knew about this. Then it hit her "the bird, it was that stupid bird" she said
"What do you mean" he asked
"When we did the birdie-boiler on him-
"Oh man that was the funniest thing I ever seen in months" Banzai said laughing
"Anyway, that was the only chance the bird had to escape and the only one that can tell the king-
Suddenly a large paw swung in and grabbed her by the neck then dragged her out of the skull.
"Shenzi!" Banzai yelled till he saw the blank eyes lion named Alzon peer in to the skull and grabbed Ed by the leg and Banzai by the neck as well and dragged them out of the skull.
Banzai looked at the lion, he eyes were blank and full of insanity to him as Alzon growled with drool running down his jaw.
"You worthless, stupid, disgusting thing, we gave a one simple job and you screw it up anyway!" Zira yelled right in Shenzi's face as she beginning to lose her air. "I don't see why Scar wanted you as his henchmen"
"I gave him that scar" Shenzi struggled to say.
Zira gasped and dropped her to the floor. "Your that female who did this to him"
"Yes, and that's why we became his henchmen to pay him pay him back for what we, I, did to him"
Zira growled and swung his paw to the nearest think bone and broke it in to two. If she was in charged she would had her brother kill them in a slow painful death, yet, Scar wanted them to live for his next plan.
"Put them down Alzon" she said
Alzon growled and leased his grip on the boys leaving small blood red marks on Banzai's neck and on Ed's leg, they crawled away and sat next to Shenzi.
"Scar wants to see you, he heard about what happen so he going to tell you his new plan, got it" she said and they nodded "good, you have to meet him in the largest cave west of the graveyard"
They nodded again and turned around to leave, Shenzi looked back fearing that it was a tricked and that they would just attack them and kill them instantly. But they didn't
"It funny how as crazy and very disturbing as they are they seem to have a better brother/sister bond then you and Shenzen" Banzai whispered
Shenzi just gave him a very cold look and he shut up.
Alzon snorted and looked at his sister "sister, why won't you let me kill" he said, his voice was cold and expressionless
"Patience brother, you'll get your chance, watch you'll see, you'll kill the thing that means the most dearest to the female" Zira said
They chuckled and went back to their pride. "If mom and dad were still alive, they would be proud, don't you think" Zira said
Alzon just smirked.
Unknowing to them as they left Info and Secret pop out behind a pile of bones.
"That Alzon guy gives me the creeps" Secret side shivering.
"No kidding" Info said "but, I can't help but laugh, Shenzi so beaten up by the king"
Secret watched as her friend fell back laughing then saw Gossip running up.
"So what did you tell Scar" Secret asked
"I told him everything, Its good to have a great memory like mine" she bragged.
"Quit bragging how did he take it" Info said
"Not so well but when I was running back over here I bumped in to our friend Sayo and I told her and she told two of her friends and so on and so on and so on"
"So what your trying to say is that the whole clan knows about Shenzi and her friends getting eat up by the king" Secret said
"Yes and man, Nuacka is so pissed" she laughed
Info join in with the laugher but Secret just rolled her eyes.
"Ok, come you guys, it not that funny" Secret said
"Oh stop whining Secret, you really need to lighten up" Info said
"What's there to lighten up to, we join forces with so whacko who wants to kill his brother and nephew and we doing this right behind Shentana's back"
"Stop worrying will ya, Shentana gone right now and by the time she gets back we'll be back the pride lands" Gossip said
"Gossip right, now let's get going, I do not want to miss the look on Shenzi's face when the whole clan knows about her fight with the King" Info said
The two females laughed but Secret didn't, she had a bad feeling about this whole thing, a really bad feeling.
A smiled formed across her face as she could the Pride Lands and the graveyard just ten miles away. The sun was setting and the desert was getting cold enough that she should rest for the night but something told her she needed to get there tonight. She found a rock and lay do to take a small rest. The last to months weren't easy on her.
(But it was worth it) the tired leader Shentana said as she begin to groom herself. Her fur was messy by dirt, mud, sweat and blood that only remind her of her quest to find a new land to live.
After escaping the outlands Shentana found herself in the endless miles of the desert. After days in the desert with little water and no food, she didn't find anything so she headed south. Weak and very hungry she found a small little grass land that had a water hole and trees but no animals. Or so she thought.
Flashback
"There got to be food around here" she said to herself as she sat down to rest next to the water hole. She looked at her reflection, she grow very thin and was a mess. She looked around the small grassland, it was calm and peaceful but there was no food around.
She sigh in disappointment, she been looking for days and days with no luck. "I have to keep searching, Shenzi, Shenzen are all counting on me"
She thought she was alone then suddenly she heard a low growling noise behind her. She turned around to find a pack of cheetahs popping out behind the trees and rocks. She quickly got up and slowly tried to walk around the water hole without taking her eyes off on the pride of tigers.
"We found ourselves a trespasser guys" one cheetah said as they slowly a pouched her growling.
"Good, we haven't eaten in days" another cheetah said
Shentana started to shiver in fear this was the first time she seen a carnivore eat another. She started to run as fast as she can hearing the tiger coming after her. She ran through the grassland then found herself in a thick forest with the cheetahs to chasing her.
"I can't out run them forever" she said to herself
she hid behind a tree to catch her breath for a bit, overhearing the conversations of the cheetah.
"I saw her coming this way"
"No, she went that way"
"Who cares whoever finds her just kill her and share with the pride"
Shentana swallow a huge lump in her throat and started to sweat. She slowly peak behind the tree only to duck when a huge paw flying towards her but only hitting the tree. She tried to run only to be tackle by the cheetah then both of them rolled around in the grass, biting, scratching, and hitting each other. Shentana kicked the cheetah in the jaw causing it to get off of her. She got up and limp away form the cheetah. She heard a river near by, just behind the trees. Shentana exit the forest to find a large rabid river moving at a strong fast pace.
She hissed in pain "I have to cross the river, its my only way to escape"
Shentana heard the cheetah coming closer, she took a deep breath then dive in to the river. She use all her strength to cross to the other side ignoring the fact that the water around her was turning red by her blood. She rammed in to a rock but mange to hold on to it. She looked up to see the pride of cheetah watching her hoping she would drown. She release herself from the rock and dived under the water. She swam for a few feet till she felt she hit the other side of the river. She popped her head out of the water and dragged her injured body out of the water then collapsed to the floor.
She awoke the next day, covered in dry blood and mud. She struggled to get up causing some of her wounds to open up a bit. She looked around and sigh in relief that she made across the river and away from the tigers. After resting for an hour, she decided to follow the river seeing where it lead her. After two days at a slow pace later Shentana found herself on a cliff listening to the sounds of the waterfall. She looked down at the fall, it was a least a fifty foot drop like the one Shenzi told her about when she was a pup. On the side of the river she was on the bottom land was cover in thick trees.
"How am I going to get down there?" she said then saw that the cliff was just a pile of large rocks. She can easily get down it she was very careful.
It took her about half a hour to get down from the cliff do to her wounds by the tiger. She enter the thick forest and walked through it with ease then exit out to find a lrage beautiful land . She eyes shine when she saw miles of grasslands, trees, a large water hole that was connected to a much smaller river. The cliff had many caves in it, which was a nice place to sleep in and very far away she saw herds, many herds.
"I found it, I found our new home" Shentana said before falling to the floor from exhaustion.
Flashback over.
Shentana smiled at the fact that the land was too far away. She rested till she was well enough to return back home yet even returning was hard on her as well.
(Yet you made it home, now lets get going) her brain said to herself. She nodded, got on her feet and continue her way home.
"Shenzi do you get the feeling their laughing at us" Banzai asked
Shenzi growled at Banzai stupid question as they walk by some of the clan who were staring, whispering and laughing at them as they past by.
"Gee, I wonder who could have spread this around" she said as she and her friends spotted her brother, Zacuru and the stalkers talking and for the first time she saw her own brother laughing. They turned around holding back their laugher.
"Man, I heard you got pounded by the King" Shenzen said laughing even harder.
The trio blushed from embarrassment "just think the tough, strong Shenzi can't even kill a couple of cubs and a stupid bird" Info said
"Shut up Info, when was it the last time you tried to defeat a full grown lion" Banzai said
"Well, I'm not that dumb to fight a lion that's suicide" Info said and Gossip nodded
"Shenzi what happen to your cheek" Secret asked
Everybody stared at her cheek, it was smeared with dry blood, Shenzi place her paw on it "oh this, the cub just scratch me when I was about to kill the girl cub"
"Humph, why didn't Banzai and Ed help you" Zacuru asked not even looking at her.
"We were but she was a faster runner" Banzai said
"You don't need to explain what happen to him Banzai, no doubt, Gossip already told every one about this, I'm sure" Shenzi said
Gossip only grinned "but I would recommended to use a better excuse then "oh this is your son" when you tried to explain the whole thing to the king"
"Lets go boys, Scar waiting for else" Shenzi said storming off with the boys following her.
"And next time don't asked Ed if he knew it was the King's son, he so stupid he can't even lie" Info shouted
Ed flinched from her remark "just ignore her Ed" Banzai said
Ed just sigh and looked back to see them all laughing at him but he caught Secret's eyes and she just gave him a small smile.
After they were gone, Zacuru shook his head as he watch Shenzen still laughing from the whole thing.
"For god's sake Shenzen breathe" he shouted
"Come on Zacuru, let him enjoy this finest hour" Info said
"Yeah, it not every day something like this happens" Gossip said
"Shenzen please it wasn't that funny" Secret said
Shenzen stop laughing " what do you mean it wasn't that funny, man I wish I was you so I can see with my own eyes of my bratty little sister getting the pounding she needed for months"
"Dude, that harsh, this is your sister we're talking about" she said
"Well isn't it like you to be all soft, if you knew what its like to have a sibling you'll understand"
"Ok, chill out, you don't have to yell at her" Info said
"She right Shenzen, I wouldn't be laughing about this" Zacuru said
"And why not" he asked
"Well think about it, if Shenzi gotten beat up by a lion, you think she weak right"
"Pretty much" Shenzen said
"Who wouldn't" Info added
"Well then, if she can you my friend and you too Info, then that means you guys are weaker"
"I never thought about it that way" Gossip said and Secret giggle a bit.
"Ok that's not funny" Shenzen said
"And what the hell are you guys laughing at" Info snapped at Gossip and Secret who shut up and looked away.
"Hey guys, do you here something" Zacuru said
They and the whole clan stopped and listen. The ground begin to shake and they heard someone...singing.
"Oh no, not more singing, I still got that other stupid song stuck in my head" Info growled
"I know that but why is the ground shaking" Secret asked
"Well, lets go see what this whole thing about"
They jumped and turned around to see Nuacka walking past them "this better be important to wake me up from my sleep"
The hyenas looked at each other then followed their leader in to the cave, ignoring the ground shaking underneath them "what is it with singing today" Gossip said
Shentana jump in to the bottom of the dark graveyard after spending the whole day walking. She actually missed this dump of dirt and bones. She smiled, fixed up her mane and walked over to the caves to greet her pups and clan.
"Shenzi, Shenzen I"m home" she said as she peak in to the cave only to find it empty. She found this odd then check the other caves to find them empty as well.
"That's strange, where my clan"
She nearly fell when the ground started to shake again. Then not far away she saw a smoke and a glowing red light and she could have sworn she heard singing and laughing. She followed it.
She enter the cave that was the closet to the red glow and where the ground was shaking harder. She was only half way there when she heard the whole clan laughing then everything went pitch black. She exit the other side of the cave and in the light of the moon she found her clan and a lion laughing. Something told her that the whole clan had betrayed her trust...