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I'm gonna be the mane event like no king was before

I'm brushing up I'm looking down I'm working on my roar

Oh I just can't wait to be king!

Simba (a.k.a Jonathan Taylor Thomas): I just can't wait to be king.

A few weeks went by and young Simba became quite a frisky little fellow. He never wanted to stop playing and was a great friend with Nala. A good thing too since they were betrothed though they did not know that yet.

I remembered one morning though when Simba was more frisky than usual. I knew why too, Mufasa had taken him to the top of Pride Rock and told him all there was to know about being king. Mufasa then took him for a nice long walk through the pride lands, mainly to discuss the circle of life whatever else there was for a lion to know.

I decided to meet up with them a little while later, just to show Simba how the morning report worked. He had always questioned about it, but he had never really seen me tell Mufasa what was happening that day. I thought it was the perfect time for it and flew in front of them and sat on a rock.

"Good morning sire," I remember saying as I caught up with them.

"Good morning Zazu," said Mufasa who sounded quite proud by his paternal teachings.

"Checking in with the morning report," I said.

"Well then fire away," said Mufasa.

I was glad he said this and went ahead and told him everything I heard including that the leopards were in a bit of a spot and that the elephants just could not forget about that problem with what the wildebeests had done, which was muddy up their favorite part of the water hole.

I wasn't really paying attention to what was happening in front of me, but I guess Simba had found something to pounce on which caused Mufasa to be distracted and pay more attention to Simba rather than my ramblings.

So when Mufasa told me to turn around, I had no idea why and did not bother to ask since he was the king and I had to do his bidding. Of course I continued to ramble on since that day was particularly busy around the waterhole. But I still could hear murmuring behind me so I stopped what I was doing and asked what was happening.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"A pouncing lesson," said Mufasa proudly.

"Oh very good pouncing," I said until I realized that it was me that Simba would be pouncing on so I got a little startled by this. "Pouncing! Oh no sire you can't be serious," I said as I turned to face him. He of course just smirked and motioned with his paw for me to turn the other way again. I just whimpered. "This is so humiliating." I said loudly making sure he knew that.

I don't think he was listening though and I could hear him whisper to Simba which I did not like at all. "What are you telling him Mufasa?" I asked. But when I turned to take a peek, the two were gone, hiding of course somewhere in the bushes. "Simba?" I asked meekly.

Suddenly Simba jumped out of nowhere and landed right on top of me causing me to black out for a moment. I could hear Mufasa laughing in the background at Simba's little prank, I of course felt that my pride had been beaten and just before I could stand up and retaliate against them, I felt something hit me in the back of the head.

"Zazu, sir, news from the underground." It was Gopher, my underground spy. Well not really spy more like helper or something, any way.

"Yes what is it?" I asked.

"My scouts have seen hyenas roaming the southern part of the pride lands," he said.

"Oh dear," I said. Roaming or hunting, that was not good; it was against the law for them to leave the outlands. I had joined Mufasa before on one hyena expedition and it was not a pretty sight, Mufasa actually killed one because he was being so rude. That still did not teach them to stay away and usually invaded about twice a month. I quickly thanked Gopher before jumping up to tell Mufasa.

"Sire hyena's in the pride lands," I said worriedly.

The happiness in Mufasa's face quickly melted away as he began a run to apprehend them.

"Zazu take Simba home," he said as he ran off.

"Aw Dad can't I come?" asked Simba

"No son," said Mufasa. And before Simba could argue further, he was gone.

Simba just pouted and started walking back by himself. "I never get to go any where," he whined.

"Oh young master one day you will be king, then you will chase those slobbery, mangy, stupid poachers from dawn until dusk," I said.

"And I bet it will be with Dad too, he will need the help any way. I know one lion can do damage, but two, oh boy you hyena's better watch out," said Simba who growled and showed his claws while acting like there was a hyena in front of him.

"Oh those hyena's won't stand a chance when you grow up, I'll bet that you will have them running all the way to the end of Africa," I said, it was more of humoring him than telling the truth. I knew the hyenas would run from him but not as far as I said.

"Yeah that would be so awesome; I gotta tell Uncle Scar about this," he said. And before I could even say another word he ran as fast as he could to the back of Pride Rock to tell Scar all about being king. I predicted that Scar was going to be more than thrilled to hear that.

Once I made sure Simba returned to Pride Rock safely, I decided to clean my nest since there was nothing else planned for me to do today and that my nest was very cluttered. There were berry seeds in one corner, shells of some insects in another, and just a lot of old grass that needed to be switched with new grass.

My cleaning of the house only lasted for a half an hour however before I heard Sarabi's voice calling me from below. I quickly poked my head out of the tree and called back to her.

"Yes Madam, what can I do for you?" I asked.

"Simba wants to take Nala to the waterhole, will you go with them?" asked Sarabi.

I sighed, I wanted to finish my work but I knew if I did not take Simba or Nala to the waterhole, Simba would be pestering everyone all day to take him so I knew I had no other choice.

"Yes I will Madam; will the other cubs join them?" I asked, that was always important to know since they were known to appear out of nowhere.

"No just Simba and Nala, Amari and the others are playing in the caves and you know how they will stay there until they get bored," said Sarabi.

"I know what you mean," I said as I flew down in front of the two cubs who looked quite upset that I was taking them to the waterhole. They have been like that lately, always thinking that they did not need someone to watch over them, just like Kamau was.

Without a word I began to lead them toward the waterhole, hoping it would be a quick one since I wanted to finish my house cleaning.

"Step lively, the sooner we get to the waterhole, the sooner we can leave," I told them.

They seemed to ignore my statement and began whispering to each other, I of course thought they were just secretly telling stories, but I would soon find out that I was very much mistaken. Still I was glad they were chatting like this, it showed that they were good friends and possible mates, I decided to make this known and flew down to them.

"Oh just look at you two little seeds of romance blossoming in the savanna, your parents will be thrilled, since you are being betrothed and all," I said proudly.

"Be-what?" asked Simba with a confused look on his face.

"Betrothed, intended, affianced," I said. I knew I should have never have used those words, they were still quite young to know those and gave a very puzzled look.

"Meaning?" asked Nala sounding a little annoyed.

"One day you two are getting married," I said straight out.

As soon as the word married came out of my beak, both Simba and Nala gave a disgusted look, something that all young animals did at the thought of romance.

"I can't marry her, she's my friend," said Simba.

"Yeah it'll be so weird," said Nala.

I crossed my wings and gave them the all important grown up look. "Well sorry to bust your bubbles but you two turtle doves have no choice, it's a tradition going back generations," I said. I knew about this because Mufasa told me how he married Sarabi which was the same was his father Ahadi had married Uru and how all his grandparents did the same.

"Well when I'm king that'll be the first thing to go," said Simba acting as if he already was one.

"Not so long as I'm around," I said hoping to get his spirits down.

"Well in that case you're fired," said Simba. Kids today, they think they can do everything.

"Oh nice try but only the king can do that," I said as I tapped Simba lightly on the nose.

"Well he's the future king," said Nala.

"Yeah so you have to do what I tell ya," said Simba who then pushed me in the stomach with my paw. I remained firm.

"Not yet I don't and with an attitude like that I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed," I said.

"Hah, not the way I see it," said Simba who then pounced in front of me and gave a big and evil grin. "I'm gonna be a mighty king so enemies beware."

As he said that, he backed me up into a log which then caused me to get my rump stuck in a knothole. I quickly wiggled my way out of it and returned his statement.

"Well I've never seen a king or beast with quite so little hair," I said as I pulled a piece of hair off Simba's head. Simba gave a slight flinch before jumping between a bush that made him look like he had a mane.

"I'm gonna me the main event that no king was before, I'm brushing up I'm looking down, I'm working on my roar," said Simba.

When he said the word 'roar' he caused me to fall back into some mud where I came out sputtering and unable to see where I was going or what I was doing.

Thus far it's a rather uninspiring thing," I said as I wiped my face on what I thought was a leaf but it quickly turned out to be an elephant whose ear I just soiled. He gave me a piece of his mind by whacking me with his trunk sending me flying for a few seconds before I landed in a part of the water hole drenched from claw to beak. Luckily I landed near Simba and Nala and began to argue with them.

"You have a long way to go young master if you think…" I began but was soon interrupted by Simba.

"No one saying do this," he said.

No one saying be there," said Nala

"No one saying stop that," said Simba.

"No one saying see here," they both said as they mocked me by making faces at me before running off.

"Now see here!" I yelled back at them but they were gone and caused me to fly after them. I would have given up on them right there but it was my duty to watch them and I knew I would be in trouble if I didn't

"Free to run around all day, free to do it all my way," said Simba as I finally found them riding atop some ostriches. I flew beside him and started to give him a nice lecture.

"I think its time that you and I arranged a heart to heart…" of course I was so into what I was doing that I was not paying attention and flew strait into rhino rear. Not a pleasant thing to run into. Simba and Nala just laughed as they passed me.

"Kings don't need advice from little hornbills for a start," he said.

Once I got myself off the rhino I jumped on a log and called back to the bratty prince. "If this is where the monarchy is headed count me out, out of service, out of Africa, I wouldn't hang about," I said before I fell down a waterfall but quickly flew out of. "This child is getting wildly out of wing." I said angrily as I again began my search for him.

This time as I followed him through the waterhole, I realized that he had to be up to something because one second he was going through a tunnel of Zebra's, who mind you decided to moon me as I passed, what a lovely sight that was. Then I found him and Nala prancing around a herd of elephants, an easy way to get squashed.

I thought I had him until I suddenly found myself being trampled by an array of animals. I don't know how I managed to survive that. I received more dust in my mouth than I had ever wanted to receive and all because I had to watch Simba and Nala.

Then just as I dusted myself off a pair of monkeys grabbed me and held me still while they groomed me. Luckily I could see what was going on with Simba and Nala as they were thrown in the air by a group of giraffes and surprisingly enough, Tafari was part of it, I could not believe he would sink so low, I planned to have a talk with him once I got out of this mess.

Of course the next mess I was in I had no idea how I got into it in the first place. One minute I was being held by monkeys, the next I was in the middle of rhino rear yet again. But this time instead of being planted to his buttocks, I was holding it up, a feat that I have yet to understand how I even accomplished.

Of course I could not hold the position long and a few seconds later I was flattened by the rhino which I learned was a girl. But you all probably did not want to know that. Any way once everything was silent under there, I noticed that it was just as silent as it was outside, that worried me, I had to know where Simba and Nala went.

"I beg your pardon madam but get off! Simba? Nala?" I cried though I knew my cries were muffled from where I was. But luckily she heard me and jumped up.

"Oh dear I am so sorry about that, if I would have known that you were the one holding me up I would have ended that silly game with the prince," she said.

"Quite alright, quite alright," I said as I dusted myself off and made sure every bone in my body was still intact.

"My goodness that prince is a lively fellow isn't he," she said.

"Yes he is, now tell me did you see which way they went?" I asked.

"Yes I did see him, he went that way," she said as she pointed her horn towards a specific direction.

I looked to where she was pointing and at that instant I knew it was not good. Simba had run off with Nala toward the Elephant Graveyard.

A/N: Dun dun Dunnnnnn. Looks like the action is ready to start so hold on to your seat belts. Also was the flow okay on this chapter, I felt it was little off mainly because I was having trouble with it and everything. I hope you liked it any way. Oh yes and I highly recommend seeing "War of the Worlds" if you like Spielberg or disaster flicks because I saw that movie this weekend and it was awesome. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time, and I barely breathed because it was so intense. Any way please review and my next chapter will be up by Friday. Have a great week.