Author's Notes: Sorry for the wait, I was on vacation. I would've updated as soon as I got home but due to an accident that happen near my house the power went out for a day then it took another day to get the cable back on.
Thanks for the review and extra thanks for pointing out a few of my mistakes. Hey what normal human would make mistakes, it's a good way to learn form them. Like me and my grammar (my worst subjects have always been English and Science. I'm more of a math geek).
Here's the next chapter...enjoy!
Chapter Fifteen: Another Lie
The cloudy morning turned in to a dark, windy evening with rain pouring down on the pride lands. Deep in the graveyard, hyenas gather around a spot where their leader was buried with a bone use as a grave stone. The hyenas looked down at the ground with tears mixed with cold rain pouring down their cheeks.
Zacuru sigh as he wiped his wet hair out of his eyes, he looked around and noticed something odd. His mother, Shenzen, the morons and the stalkers weren't here, not to mention Shenzi. He walked to find any one of them and spotted Banzai and Ed talking to Balean who was crying herself from what had happen.
"He hasn't move at all" Banzai asked
Balean shook her head "no, not even a inch"
"Who could blame him, after what he saw, he just in a state of shocked right now" Banzai said
Balean looked inside the cave to see Shenzen curled up in a little ball facing away from the outside world.
"I think he over doing it" Zacuru said as he walked over to them.
"Over doing it, Zacuru we literally had to dragged him back to the graveyard because he was too shocked to move" Balean said
"Not to mention Shenzi" Banzai said and Ed nodded
"Well Shenzi fainted, Shenzen was just standing there."
"Is this all you came here to do, to pick on Shenzen after his mother die" Balean said
"No, I'm here to see why the leader's own family isn't at her funeral" he said
"I'm going but not without Shenzen" Balean said "now go away and bother someone else"
"Ok, geez, you don't have to yell"
"She has too it pouring out here" Banzai yelled
Zacuru gave him a cold look "at least tell me Shenzi is alright"
"I don't know I haven't check on her yet" Banzai said
"Where is she" he asked
"We put here in Shentana's cave and Nuacka should be in another cave next to Shentana's" Banzai said
"I better go check on Shenzi to see if she alright" Zacuru said
"That's our job, why don't you check on your mother, she is in pretty bad shape herself" Banzai said
Zacuru watched as Banzai and Ed walked off to Shentana's cave. He growled but went to see how his mother was doing and to get some answers about what happen that morning.
Nuacka hissed in pain, she was covered head to toe in cuts, bites, scratches and both dry and moist blood. What hurt worst was the wound that Shentana inflicted on her. Her right eye was swollen shut and her whole right side was puffy and badly bruised with four cut slash across it.
(You traitor!) Shentana yelled at her then smack her across the face with her claws.
She growled (That little bitch) knowing its going to leave a scar.
But that wasn't the thing that was bothering her.
"That bastard Scar, he'll pay for what her did to me" she said to herself as she remember what happen just a few hours ago.
She smiled as she stared down the bloody corpse as Scar walked up to her.
"We need to make this look like an attack" Scar said "something my brother would do"
"Sure whatever" Nuacka said still staring down at the dead body.
"And if we want it to look like the my brother did this, it would be odd it the matriarch died but you escaped without a scratch"
"What do you mean" she said turning her head only to attack by the insane lion Alzon. She was beaten to a bloody pulp and left near the body. She open up her good eye and watched as the three lions took off. She was in so much pain to leave but Scar was right when she thought about it. She had to be thankful, he let her live but left her to suffer. She waited for an hour til she saw Shenzen who saw his mother then froze.
She hissed in pain, these wounds were deep and still fresh. She looked outside it was still raining and she knew all the hyenas were at the funeral.
(Oh well, a little pain would go away but Shentana is gone for good) her brain said (but what comes after this)
Nuacka smiled and closed her eyes to go to sleep (the wedding)
"Mom?" Zacuru looked inside the cave
She opened her good eye and stared at her son "What is it" she asked quite annoyed
"I just wanted to see if you were alright and needed something" he asked
"I don't need anything I just want to sleep" she said
"Oh ok, I understand" he said.
He was about to leave but "are you sure your alright" he asked again
"Yes, why do you keep asking" she said
"Well, this morning you seem different" he asked "And when you were unconscious you kept muttering a name called Curu"
"I'm fine son, just very sore and cut all over. Now will you let me rest" she said raising her voice
Zacuru nodded and exit the cave and in to the pouring rain.
Ed shivered as he and Banzai walked over to Shentana's cave to check on Shenzi. Its been raining all day and was very cold. They looked inside the cave and sigh in relief to see her awake but she just laid there deep in thought.
"Shenzi?" Banzai said
Shenzi's eyes looked at them then she turned around to stared at the wall "go away"
Banzai sigh but walked in anyway followed by Ed. Ed shook his body to dry up a bit and sat down. Even he wasn't in his jolly mood, his large blank eyes were red and puffy. Shentana had always been a mother to him since his real one was taken away form him when he was a pup. And she accepted him even though he was raise by humans.
Banzai felt the same way about Shentana, he'll never forget all the kindness he got from her when he was growing up. But Shenzi, who lost her father now mother must be feeling worst then all of them. He walked over to her and laid down next to her.
"Will you move Banzai your soaking wet" she said
He scoot over a bit "we need to go to the funeral"
"I'm not going"
"But this is your mother's funeral"
"I said I'm not going and if your going to continue to bothering me I want you to leave"
"I rather be here with you" Banzai said and Ed whin to agreed with him
"Fine whatever, just don't talk" she said
"Ok" he said
They stayed silent till they all fell asleep.
Else where Scar, Zira and Alzon were talking while seeking shelter form the rain inside a dark deep cave.
Scar grinned "this is going better then I thought"
Zira would have smile but she was disgusted by the stench of fresh blood that covered Alzon's mouth and paws. She turned to look at him, licking his paws to clean himself up. Thanks to the rain the blood ran down his chin and chest.
"Idiot, go wash yourself in the rain, that stench is annoying me" she shouted
Alzon smirked "your just jealous because I did all the killing"
"No, I'm just mad because that smell is making me sick"
Alzon walked out of the cave and sat down, letting the rain wash away the blood.
"Stupid idiot of a brother" Zira said
"Calm down my friend, he just enjoying his killings that all, and might I say what he did to her even I was stunned"
"He like over killed, he can't help it" Zira said "so what next on your plan, my pride is waiting to enter to pride lands"
"Tomorrow I have take the little hairball down to the gorge but before I do that I need to talk to Shenzi, with her mother gone and that mental nutcase Nuacka on my side no one can stop me"
The next day
Shenzi woke up from a what she hope it was a bad dream with a pounding headache. She slowly got up and glance over at the boys, sleeping and snoring as usual.
"What happen" she said to herself as she exit the cave and looked around. It was wet, muddy and had the smell of fresh fallen rain. She rubbed her head and tried to remember what happen yesterday.
Then it hit her "Mother" she whispered to herself
She remembered, seeing her mother tore up then left for dead, then she felt dizzy then everything went black. Then she woke up and found herself in her mother's cave with her friends. She took a walk around the graveyard for a ten minutes then stopped right in front of her mother's grave.
She slowly stepped over the the grave and stared at it. She felt numb with a mixture of anger, guilt, and questions but not sadness.
"Why did you leave me mother" she said "was it my fault"
Tears begin to form in her eyes and she blinked letting them stroll down her cheek then to the ground. She should have gone with her but no she wanted to sleep more. It she wasn't so selfish her mother would still be a live.
"It was my fault" she said closing her eyes while lowering her head for a moment of silence.
"It wasn't your fault" a cold voice said behind her.
Shenzi nearly jumped but turned around to see Scar approaching her.
"Oh, it's only you Scar" she said wiping her tears away
"I never thought you would be those types that cry" he said "but anyway are you ready for my next plan to kill Mufasa"
Shenzi growled "My mom just died and not in a peaceful way but in a brutal attack and all you can think about is your damn play to kill your damn brother"
"That's good your angry and your should be since I know who killed your mother" he said
Shenzi's eyes widen "but I guess you want to be alone so I'll be off" he said walking away.
"Hey wait a minute" she said jumping in front of him.
"After what me and my friends went through to help you with your plan, you can at least tell me who kill my mother"
"He knows"
They turned around to see Banzai and half-asleep Ed looking at them with a confused face.
"Yes, I do know, why do you think I came down here" Scar said
"Who did it! Tell me!" Shenzi shouted
"Shenzi calm down, you don't want to wake up the whole clan" Banzai said
"Don't tell me to calm down Banzai, I'm pissed off" She shouted
"Save your angry my friend, you'll need it for your next mission, especially when it was Mufasa who killed your mother"
"He killed my mother" Shenzi said
"How would you know anyway" Banzai asked
"And why would he do that" Shenzi asked
"I'm sure you know the penalty of entering the Pride Rock, right"
"Yeah, if you get caught, they..kill...you" Shenzi couldn't finish her words
"My brother is an early bird like your mother, he return about home with blood on his paws saying how he caught two hyenas drinking out of his water hole" Scar lied
Shenzi lower her head, something telling her that he was lying but why would Scar lie to her after what she done for him.
"Now that I got your attention, I want you to listen carefully since this plan takes perfect timing"
Banzai and Ed looked at Shenzi, with tears in her eyes again, she nodded
Unaware to the trio and Scar behind a boken down skull, Secret heard the whole thing including the plan. She bit her lips and ran off to the cave she shared with her friends.
Since Gossip was still recovering from her wound on her back, Secret took over her job.
(I never thought her job was so dangerous) she thought
She made it back to the cave to see Info wide awake and Gossip this in pain.
"How your back, Gossip" Secret said putting on a sweet smiled.
Gossip gave her a look "it still hurts but that not the point what did you find out"
"Well one thing, I hate your job and another thing, Scar is making Shenzi and her friends to start a stampede today at noon to kill both the King and his son" she said "and he told them that Mufasa was the one who killed Shentana"
"What, Scar told her that" Info said
"Yes, and this is happening at noon that just a few hours away"
"From the tone in your voice, you sound like you want us to do something about this" Gossip said
"We already let Shentana die, why should we sit here and let a innocent cub die as well"
"Because if we told the truth then we'll be just like Shentana after that Alzon guy find us" Info said
"I know but this is wrong" Secret said
"Secret, we have no choice this is between life and death here" Info said "and for the sake of our lives we have to keep this a secret that no one should ever find out"
Secret sigh and nodded (it going to be another bad day) she thought...