Author's note: Well, I got some good news, due to good behavior, my punishment ended early. I'm free!
Anyway, in this chapter, Nuacka finally tell us about Zacuru's father not to mention something that happen to her when she was young and why she hates outsiders so much.
Chapter Thirteen: Nuacka's Grudge: A Wound From The Past
Shentana knew who that lion was but didn't know what the hell he was doing in their land. Even though it was dark she still manage to stop her son nearby laughing along with the other hyenas. She calmly walked over to Shezen who had his back turned. The others stopped her approaching him and froze.
"Shenzen" one of the males tried to say.
"What?" he asked then noticed that his friends went pale, very pale "what's wrong with you guys, it look like you seen a ghost"
Another male lifted his paw and pointed to something behind him. Shenzen turned around and scream at the top of his lungs when he saw his mother staring at him with a cold look. His scream echo throughout the area causing all the hyenas and Scar to stop and look to see what was going on.
"Mom! Your back...so soon" Shenzen said
A few of the hyenas gasped, others shouted Shantana and some were whispering.
Scar quitely jump down the pile of rocks and went of to Shenzi Banzai and Ed. "Who's that hyena" he asked
Shenzi was too pale to move, she just stood there with wide eyes knowing she going to be in so much trouble if everyone blame this on her.
"That's our leader" One hyena said who was sitting next to him.
"Leader, I thought Nuacka was the leader" he asked
"No, she second in command" another one said
"And why are you so afraid of her" he asked Shenzi
"She her mom" Banzai said
Shentana looked around, every single hyena was here "ok" she said calmly "I want all of you to get back to your cave before I count to ten!" she shouted "one..-
In a flash all the hyenas ran past her and out of the cave as she continue to count.
"This is bad, this is bad" Shenzi said then grabbed Banzai by the shoulders "what are we going to do"
"Hide" Banzai said
"Good point" Shenzi said
They were about to run away till Nuacka block them from leaving "where are you three going"
"Shenzen what going on here" Shentana asked as the last few hyenas left the area and went back to their caves.
"Its all Shenzi fault, she the one who made a deal with the lion" he said "I had nothing to do with this, so please don't blame this on me"
"Calm down Shenzen, just go, I'll talk to you back in the cave" she said
Shenzen nodded and ran off "and tell Gossip that this isn't to right time to spy"
Shenzen grabbed Gossip, who was peeking behind the cave, by the arm and push her to walk away.
"Oh come on, I can't help but spread rumors" Gossip voice echo in the cave.
Shentana turned around and looked up to see Scar sitting down in front of her. Scar was surprised that she didn't flinch from his appearance.
"Taka, didn't your brother tell you that lions are not allowed to be here" she said
Scar stayed calm "So, form the way it looks, you clan, friends and even your own daughter didn't tell you what was going on"
"No I was gone for two months" she said., she didn't trust him "I think you should leave so I can have a talk with my family"
"Whatever you say, Matriarch, if I knew you were the real leader I wouldn't wasting my time with the second in command" He grinned then walked past her and out of sight.
Shentana waited till he was gone then turned around to see Shenzi arguing with Nuacka while Banzai and Ed stayed quite. "Oh Shenzi"
"You are not going to blame this whole thing on me" Shenzi shouted at Nuacka till she heard her mother calling.
"Shenzi get over here right now"
"Back me up guys, please" she whispered.
"Don't worry, we'll right behind you" Banzai said
They walked over to Shentana then noticed the poor shape she was in. Her fur was dirty and it look like she didn't eat in days not to mention the scratches that were still healing from what ever she was in.
"Hi mom, we missed you" Shenzi said smiling but frown when her mother wasn't smiling.
"Now are you guys going to tell me what going on or do I have to stoop so low to asked the gossip's girls since they never tell a lie" she said
"Forgive me mom, remembered that lion we attack when we were teens, well about a few months ago even before you left, he found us and threaten to kill us if we didn't help him out with his own problems"
"How should we know he and his friends are complete nutcases, he told us that if we help him become king of Pride rock, he would spare our lives." Banzai added.
"Shenzi if this was going on why didn't you tell me" Shentana wanted to know
"Because he wanted us to kill the king and his new born cub" Shenzi said
"And you didn't right" She said
The trio looked around, ashamed and Shentana noticed the bruises, scratches and the blood smeared across Shenzi's cheek. "WHAT WERE YOU THREE THINKING!" She holler "why would you kill a small cub, and not just any cub but the King's club!. I thought I raise you three better then that and you are so damn lucky you didn't get your head bitten off for this. This is probably the most stupidest, immature, irresponsible thing you ever done Shenzi!"
"I said I was sorry mom, and trust me we wanted to tell you but we thought we can get this over with without you knowing it"
"Yeah, plus, no offense we thought the plan was going to work even Nuacka thought it was a good idea" Banzai said then covered his mouth. Shentana's eyes widen "Nuacka knew about this too"
They all turned Nuacka, who knew she had to explain her side of the story she growled to herself (That stupid outsider is going to pay for this)
"Nuacka, you actually let this situation get this far" she said
"Uh.." Nuacka didn't know what to say
"Nuacka I put you in charge knowing you would look out for the clan not go along with this thing"
"What other choice did I had Shentana, he said he was going to get us out of here"
"I don't care what he offer, killing the King's cub is unbelievably stupid even for you"
"At least I was trying to do something about this, we been in this place for nearly two years and you haven't done anything about it expect run off for two months"
"I keep telling you I was looking for another place to stay, at least I told you not hide it behind my back"
Shenzi, Banzai and Ed stood there watching the two females fighting and insulting one another. Shenzi found this a surprised, since when does her mom and Nuacka fight. She never saw them fought like this all her life.
"Why are you yelling at me in the first place, it's your daughter and those to moron outsider fault were in this mess in the first place"
"My daughter and her FRIENDS were threaten by this lion they had no choice but to do what he saidand all you did was went along with it, what kind of leader are you" Shentana said
"I would have made a better one because when things go wrong I do something right away not wait for years to think of something"
"Nuacka your luck you're my friend, other wise I would have kick you out of this clan for poor leadership" Shentana said trying to calm down
Nuacka was shocked then grew very anger "I wouldn't be talking about poor leadership" she snapped then stormed off "you'll regret saying those things to me Shentana, This isn't over!"
Shentana sigh then look over at the trio "come on lets go back to the caves, I'm too tired to yell at you some more"
"We understand mom" Shenzi said
The trio helped the weak and tired leader back to the caves not caring where Nuacka went.
"Did you find out anything Gossip" Info said
They were sitting somewhere in the graveyard instead of going back to the caves like Shentana told them to.
"No, Shentana knew I was watching her so she told Shenzen to get me out of there" she said " but boy she really pissed off, I can still here her yelling at Shenzi when I was running over here"
"Who could blame her, we turned our back on our own leader for our self-fish needs" Secret said
"Who care about that, we don't' have anything to spread to the clan" Gossip said
Before Info could say something to her, they had something crashing and bones being broken.
"What was that" Secret asked
They quietly snuck over to where the noise was coming form and spotted Nuacka breaking anything she can get a hold of "That stupid, little, "who thinks she better then me" bitch, how dare she say those things to me"
She grabbed a bone with her mouth and bit it in half then spit out the small pieces "saying I have poor leadership, she wasn't supposed to be the leader in the first place"
She stopped dead in her tracks, letting hunted memories flowing back in to her mind. Terrible memories of her youth yet happy ones as well when she was with...him.
"What's wrong with her, she seem to be out of it" Secret whispered
"Quick get down, I see someone coming" Info said
Nuacka turned around to see Scar walking out of the fog, chuckling to himself.
"Do you always have to make a spooky entrance all the time, it getting really old" Nuacka snapped
"Dear Nuacka you look so angry about something'
"Duh, Shentana just got me upset" she said
"Upset wouldn't be the word I would use from all the noise and things you wereshouting"
Nuacka felt tears coming to her eyes so she looked away from the lion.
"It seem to me that your suffering from the same thing I'm going through, being the second in command instead of the leader or is this a different kinda grudge you have on your best friend" Scar said circling around her hoping she would snap.
"His name was Curu" she said and looked up to Scar with angry watery eyes.
"He was the love of my life, we grew up with each other along with Shentana. He was the top Alpha male of the clan like Shentana was in the females. I was second but Curu loved me anyway. The only flaw in our relationship was Curu was betrothed to Shentana and neither of us wanted that. So Curu and I thought, if Shentana was gone then I would have taken over as the next Matriarch and then I would be the one marrying Curu"
"It didn't work out as you expected" Scar said
"I lead Shentana in to a thick forest hoping she would get lost, then Curu would come out and kill her then we would then make it look like a terrible accident. I hid behind a bush watching Shentana being attacked by Curu. But before he could make the final blow out of nowhere a dirty male outsider came out and tried to protect her." She slammed her paw on the ground "That male killed him and instead of killing the outsider the clan welcome him with open arms for saying for saving the future Matriarch."
She remembered, how could she forget. She watch as Shentana married the outsider name Hadzazi, all happy. While she stood there alone, already bearing Curu's pup. She had to bite her lip hard to let this event past. She knew if they found out about the plan she and Curu made she would be kicked out of the clan and that wouldn't be good for her unborn pup. As the years went by watching Shentana happy family growing and pretending to be her best friend, a sense of madness and insanity was growing in her...waiting til the day she would finally snapped.
"It all her fault why my life is so miserable, watching her being so happy with the outsider and her pups not knowing or caring what happen to Curu. And now this, just when things get bad she decide to run off to find new land for us to stay at"
"What!" Scar growled
Nuacka forgot, Scar didn't know what Shentana was planning and she know that he still need them for his plans. She grinned "of course she was planning to get us out of here when she gets better after her long journey but before she did that she told me that tomorrow she going to tell the king about this little plan yours"
"Oh really, and you and I don't want that, right" Scar said
She nodded " And you and I both know how to silence her...for good"
Scar smirked "I can see why you hate outsiders so much"
"And why stop there, there two outsiders in this clan that need to be eliminate as well"
"Who" Scar asked
"Who else are we talking about those two outsiders that hang around with Shenzi"
"Oh no not those two" Scar said
"Why not!" she said
"As a pain they are, Shenzi would know right away who kill them and I don't want to be attack by hundreds of those hyenas."
He had a point not to mention Shentana grew a mother/son bond with them and she go in rage if one of her pups gets hurt.
"Ok I have another plan"
"What did you have a mind" he asked
"Lets get out of here, if they catch us we're dead" Secret said she was getting very frighten.
Info move away but knocked over a few bones, dust flew in the air and in to Gossip's nose. She sneezed.
"Who's there" Scar shouted.
The three females tried to run but Scar leaped out and blocked them form leaving.
"I know you, your those know-it-all stalkers I talked to one time" Scar said
Nuacka watched as one by one, the females were tossed and slammed in to the ground next to her. They struggled to lift their heads so they can see Nuacaka.
"It seems your spying is getting a little sloppy don't you think" Nuacka said
"But we're not traitors like you" Info said
"Yeah and as soon as we get away, we're telling Shentana- Gossip screamed when Scar slammed his nails deep in to her back.
"Gossip! Let her go" Secret shouted
"Listen to me, you little annoying stalkers, if you tell anyone about this and I will know, I'll tear 9out those precious voice boxes of your so you'll never tell information, gossips or secrets AGAIN" Nuacka said
"We're not afraid of your threats"
"Then how about I kill one of you to show how serious we are" Scar said digging his nails deeper in to Gossip's back. She held back her screaming but felt a warm flow of blood running down your back.
"Ok, ok we won't tell anyone" Info said "now let us go"
"And don't worry girls, Shentana it just a hyena that would ruin everything anyway, once she gone everything would be much better off" she grinned
At that very moment Nuacka's mind was filling up with the madness and insanity that been buried deep inside her for so long...she would never be the same again.