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Thankee time

Sunrise19: I'm glad you love this story, shows that I am doing something good. I don't know if he will ever see Duka again, but I will think about it and see what happens.

MorpheusDreamer: Yay! Foreshadowing is fun. Glad you liked the aardvark. Thanks for reviewing.

Maran Zelde: Thanks for the review. But I do feel discouraged about school because I'm actually taking the same math class right now for the second time; yeah math and I are not friends. So you've been whitewater rafting too. Where did you go?

Pichooi: I'm glad you liked the aardvark as well. And Zazu's adventure into the pridelands is coming soon; he just has one more stop along the way.

Gryfffinrose: Glad you and Sasha liked that chapter, hope you two like this one as well.

Now on with the story.

I awoke the next morning ready to head out and it was a good thing too because Duka pecked me enough times to get me out of his home. He was kind enough though to give me the directions to the pride lands, but was not kind enough to offer me some seeds that he had stored in a branch next to his home. It really did not matter any way since I found some berries that were even better than stale seeds.

Once my hunger was satisfied I continued my journey, this time I knew where I was going and I could not wait to get there. The week that it took to get there was quite uneventful. When I was hungry, I ate. When I was thirsty, I drank from the waterholes. And when I was tired, I slept. That was mostly my entire trip right there. Of course I did have an encounter with a bunch of wildebeests who had suddenly arrived at a watering hole that I was drinking at. They just came out of no where and nearly stepped on me a few times. (Once I became a majordomo I found that they are the rudest animals in Africa but more on that later.)

I finally found the pridelands a few hours before sunset on my seventh day journeying to my new home. I could not see much since the sun was going down but what I could see was quite spectacular. The atmosphere faded to a beautiful orange, there was not a cloud in the sky and most of the animals were slowly walking to safe places to rest for the night.

I sighed happily, this was definitely going to be a lovely home and Duka was right about how beautiful it was. I could see the huge rock that Duka was talking about too; it just appeared out of nowhere. I cannot even describe to you how odd it looked against the flat landscape.

Once I was done admiring my home I decided to find a nice spot to rest for the night. Of course being young and not knowing much about danger, I decided to spend the night in some dark rocky area thinking that it would be an interesting place to wake up to in the morning. The sun would probably give the rocks and distinctive color making it a nice wake up call in the morning.

Of course I found that I was truly wrong about what I had thought for when I woke up, I found myself staring face to face with three creatures I had never seen before. I would soon learn that they were hyenas, the scavengers of the land.

"Well, well what have we here?" said the female hyena as soon as I opened my eyes.

I instantly jumped up in fear, ready to fly but found I could not for one of the hyenas had his paw on my tail feathers.

"It looks like a blue bird who wandered away from a wonderful day," said one of the male hyenas.

The other male hyena who had his paw on my tail feathers just laughed like an idiot. I soon later found that he really was an idiot, in fact they all were. Their names were Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed, the leaders of the entire hyena clan in the area.

"Oh dear, I am sorry for being here, I did not know this was your area, so if you would kindly let go of my tail feathers I can be out of your way," I said nervously, hoping that they would spare me.

"Ha did you hear that Banzai, he wants us to let him go," said Shenzi.

"Hmmm I don't think that would be a good idea, what do you think Ed?" asked Banzai.

Ed again laughed and licked his lips happily.

"Yeah that's a good idea Ed, we should have him for breakfast," said Shenzi.

"No please don't, I'm only a young chick who just left the nest and wants to live a happy life. I don't want to be eaten, besides I'm probably nothing but bones," I said as I shook with fright.

Shenzi then poked me in the stomach with her paw and then growled under her breath. "Yeah your right about that, I can't even get full if I was the only one who ate you, but we are not letting you go that easily," she said.

"So you're not going to eat me?" I asked.

"No I think it would be better if we had a little fun with you," said Banzai.

"Oh Ed are you thinking what I'm thinking?" asked Shenzi.

Ed then laughed happily and clapped his paws, it was going to be something I knew I would not enjoy but they would.

"Time for a little visit with the Birdy Boiler," said Shenzi who then grabbed me by my tail feathers and carried me away.

"Oh dear what's the Birdy Boiler?" I asked nervously.

"Oh you'll see," said Banzai with an evil grin.

All three of them laughed as we moved through the rocks. I knew it was going to be bad when the place became darker and darker and the sound of steam could be heard throughout the rock walls.

Finally they brought me to a hollow area where geysers sprang up into the air and hissed loudly before coming back down in a pool of hot bubbles.

"Oh I like this one right here," said Banzai happily as he stood over one geyser as it shot off barely missing his face.

"Oh perfect," said Shenzi with clenched teeth.

Shenzi then let me go, I tried to fly away but Banzai grabbed me by my wings and pretended I was a puppet by walking me over to the geyser.

"Once there was a stupid hatchling named Dummy and he saw a geyser so he walked over to see it," said Banzai as he walked me closer to the dangerous looking geyser.

Just as it was about to explode, Banzai yanked me as hard as he could away from it and started to laugh.

"Oh dear that was close, maybe I can do that again," said Banzai while the other two laughed happily.

I don't know why they found it so funny, I was scared to death and I wanted to fly away from them, but there was no way out, I was most likely doomed.

For a few minutes they continued the walking over to the geyser and just missing me by inches joke, until Banzai did something unexpected.

"Hmm I wonder what would happen if I sat in this hot water," he said as he quickly lifted me in the air and set me down into the Birdie Boiler.

It was definitely not a pleasant experience, the water was very hot and made me sweat the instant I landed in there or maybe I should say even more. Suddenly the geyser shot up and I was instantly lifted high into the air and out of their sight.

It happened so fast that I did not know what to do and afew seconds later I found myself in a big mud puddle before I suddenly passed out.

A/N: Well there's chapter eight, sorry it was so short, some of the chapters might end up like that from time to time. I thought it was a good idea to bring in the Birdie Boiler since in the movie I remember Zazu saying "Oh no not the birdie boiler!" Which showed that it happened to him once before. Well I hope you liked it and please review. Chapter 9 will be here soon and you will meet some familiar characters so don't miss it.