I like to move it move it, she likes to move it move it. I like to……..move it. Oh God I must get that Madagascar song out of my head.
SunRise19: I am now officially jealous of you. The Lion King on Broadway is the top Broadway production I have wanted to see. That and Cats, but Cats is gone any way thanks for the review and Happy Birthday, I hope it's wonderful. Hope you like this chapter.
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Simba11: Cute song, I like it. Thanks for the review and I hope you like this chapter as well.
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Now time for a new chapter.
Never in my life did I feel as scared as I was at the moment I figured out where Simba and Nala were headed to. And yes it was even scarier than that time in the storm with my brothers and sister. I knew that if I did not stop them, their lives would be in jeopardy and I would never forgive myself since I was the one responsible.
In case you are wondering, the elephant graveyard is a place in the outlands where many elephants go to die. It is a mystery why they do so since the elephants in the pride lands are very quiet about their culture. Any way I had been there before quite a few times with Mufasa and even though he was there with me, I still felt terribly unsafe for who knows what would be lurking in some cracks near a jaw bone or a tusk and take Mufasa by surprise.
I flew as fast as I could to catch up to the two cubs but by the time I found them, they were already in the elephant graveyard and Simba was leading Nala toward a rather large elephant skull.
"There's only one way to know, come on lets go check it out," I could hear Simba say as I flew in front of his face.
"Wrong, the only checking out you will do is to check out of here," I said as I pushed him back, urging him to go back to the pride lands.
"Aw Man," sighed Simba who was now acting like I ruined his whole day.
"We're way beyond the boundary of the pride lands," I said worriedly as I looked around at the dust filled graveyard.
"Little Banana Beak is scared," said Simba with a grin.
"It's Mr. Banana Beak to you Fuzzy and right now we are all in very real danger," I made it clearly obvious this time that they should not be fooling around, I could sense hyena presence and I was not liking it.
"Danger hah! I walk on the wild side, I laugh in the face of danger. Ha Ha Ha Ha!" Simba cried out happily. I knew he was showing off for Nala just to show her how brave he was.
Suddenly the sound I didn't want to hear revealed itself in the elephant skull behind us. Hyena laughter. I was surprised that Simba ran behind me at the sound of their voices since I thought he would try to be even braver and scare them away. I was happy he didn't do that though and I stood in front of both Simba and Nala as the three hyenas I did not want to see appeared, my wings spread ready to sacrifice my life for them. It was better that way; a new king is hard to come by.
"Well, well, well Banzai what have we got here," said Shenzi.
"Hmm I don't know Shenzi, what do you think Ed?" asked Banzai.
Ed of course just gave his comical laugh as all three of them got closer to us, revealing their razor sharp teeth and their dripping tongues.
"Just what I was thinking a trio of trespassers," said Banzai.
"And quite by accident let me assure you, a simple navigational error," I said as I tried to turn around and make a run for it with Simba and Nala but was quickly stopped by Shenzi who put her paw on my tail feathers.
"Whoa, whoa wait I know you, your Mufasa's little stooge," said Shenzi with evilness in her eyes.
"I madam am the kings majordomo," I said matter of factly to her. But she just growled and backed me up against Simba and Nala who were being circled by Banzai and Ed.
"And that would make you?" asked Banzai to Simba who still remained strong but I could tell he had a look of worry in his eyes.
"The future king," said Simba angrily.
"Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?" asked Shenzi.
"Bah you can't do anything to me," said Simba, I guess he knew his dad would pummel them if they did. I of course had to tell him the truth.
"Uh technically they can we are on their land," I said. The next thing Simba said was totally shocking and I knew that the hyenas would get mad when they heard it.
"But Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbery, mangy, stupid poachers," he said while I tried to shush him but of course that did not work.
"Ixnay on the oopidstay," I said under my breath, of course it was loud enough for the hyenas to hear.
"Hey who you calling an oopidstay," said Banzai angrily.
I knew we tried their patience and I knew we had to get away before anything else happened so I quickly pushed Simba and Nala away from the hyenas.
"Oh my my look at the sun, its time to go," I said to the hyenas but Shenzi quickly jumped in front of us.
"What's the hurry we'd love to stay with you around for dinner," said Shenzi.
"Yeah we could have whatever's…..lion around," said Banzai who then laughed at his stupid joke.
Luckily their stupid jokes got them distracted enough for us to run for it. But they did not get distracted for long as I heard Banzai yelling that we had escaped. I did not fly away for long because a few seconds later I felt a paw grab me by my tail feathers. I knew I was trapped.
"Well it looks like we got the majordumbo," said Banzai.
"Ha ha, good one because if I was him I would be smart enough to keep my beak out of everyone's business," said Shenzi.
I gulped; I hated to know what they would do to me, especially since their hatred had grown for me ever since I became Mufasa's advisor. I did not like the sound of Ed's laughing either when he made his joke.
"Yeah your right Ed, a trip to the birdie boiler does sound good," said Banzai.
I shivered with fright as Shenzi carried me towards the nearest birdie boiler, it was a different one from the last one and this one seemed to be a much tighter squeeze.
Banzai quickly grabbed me out of Shenzi's mouth and pretended to do that puppet show with me again.
"The little majordomo birdie hippety hopped all the way to the birdie boiler," he said as he dunked me in.
"Oh know not the birdie boiler!" I cried as I felt the hot bubbles start to lift me out and before I even knew it, I was flying through the air yet again and this time I was lucky enough to land on something soft. Mufasa.
Mufasa jumped with a start and then turned around to see me on his back; I gave him a dazed and confused look causing him to smile.
"Zazu what happened, bad day house cleaning?" asked Mufasa with a chuckle.
I quickly shook myself back to reality and gave Mufasa a serious look. "Mufasa come quick, I was baby sitting Simba and Nala and they disobeyed me, and they went into the elephant graveyard, now they are being attacked by hyenas," I said in a very fast paced way, yet Mufasa understood it and was running as fast as he could toward the graveyard even before I said hyenas.
I had never seen Mufasa run so fast in all my life, I actually had to hold onto his mane just to keep up with him. It was a good thing his son was valuable to him or Simba would not have a chance.
We arrived just in time too; Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed had them cornered under an elephant rib bone. Simba was again trying to be brave for Nala but his roars came out as pitiful squeaks. Luckily Mufasa's roar caused all three to look startled before being swiped by Mufasa who like a mad dog slashed, bit and clawed at the three unmercifully for trying to kill the cubs.
A few minutes later, Mufasa stood above them growling angrily as they whimpered at him.
"Silence!" he roared hoping to get them to stop with their stupid talking.
"Oh we'll shut up right now," said Banzai obviously not getting the point.
"If you ever come near my son again…." Said Mufasa.
But of course he could not finish his sentence as the three began to argue that they had no idea Simba was his son. Yeah right and I'm Walt Disney.
Of course Ed did not seem to get the point with Shenzi and Banzai's statement that they did not know that Simba was Mufasa's son and just nodded dumbly when they asked him what he thought. Mufasa roared with rage and that was enough to send the hyenas running as fast as they could away from the angry king.
Once they disappeared I flew up to Mufasa and nodded at his good way of handling those brutes. He just gave me an angry scowl that caused me to cringe in fright. I knew it was my fault for not watching them carefully and I knew we were going to have a talk about it sooner or later.
I then saw Simba and Nala run up to Mufasa in safety and Simba looked very guilty about what happened. "Dad I…" he started.
"You deliberately disobeyed me," said Mufasa with anger in his voice.
"I'm sorry," said Simba shyly.
"Let's go home," said Mufasa who then began to walk as fast as he could back to the pride lands.
I followed behind him while Simba and Nala took up the rear, both looking like they had lost a game with the other cubs.
"I thought you were very brave," Nala whispered to Simba. A statement that Mufasa did not catch but I did.
The late evening sun began to sink down the horizon, creating a pink and purple color that absolutely looked stunning. Of course no one could stop and enjoy it, not with Mufasa's anger that I sensed would explode any minute.
I looked back at Simba and Nala, both of their heads hung low in shame and both kept silent about the situation. They knew they had done something wrong.
Zazu!" I was then startled by Mufasa's angry voice calling me over. I flew in front of him and looked up at him nervously.
"Yes Sire?" I asked in a scared voice.
"Take Nala home, I've got to teach my son a lesson," he said which caused Simba to duck into the grass in fear while Nala watched him worriedly.
I flew over to them and put my wing on Simba's shoulders. "Come Nala, Simba…..good luck," I said before flying off with Nala trailing behind me.
We walked together back to Pride Rock in silence for the first half until I heard Nala's small voice call to me, I looked down at her.
"I'm really sorry about today, if we would have known about those hyenas we would have never strayed far," she said with tears in her eyes.
I flew down and stood in front of her, my eyes level with hers. It was the first time I had noticed they were green, a beautiful color that was rare in lion eyes.
"It's okay, I was a young one once and I always wanted to go on an adventure, one thing I've learned about getting into trouble is that it teaches you to become smarter about what is in store for the future," I said while she stood there crying, I wiped a tear from her eye with my wing.
"Oh Zazu, I was never as scared as I was while trying to escape those hyenas, I knew we should have listened to you but Simba is just so hard not to follow," said Nala.
"Like I said before its okay, you are young; you're not supposed to listen to your elders all the time. Besides much worse things could have happened that being reprimanded by your mother tonight," I said.
Nala said nothing but quickly wiped her eyes and began walking back with me beside her. While we headed back I told her about my adventure in the horrible thunderstorm that took Sule's life. Of course it was not as dangerous as the hyena incident but it seemed to keep Nala from feeling bad while she was all ears listening to my story.
We finally arrived at Pride Rock just as it became dark. Sarabi and Sarafina were both watching and waiting for their cubs to come home and when Sarafina saw Nala coming toward her, she jumped for joy and ran to great her, Sarabi was close behind.
"Oh Nala I was so worried about you, where have you been?" she asked.
"And for that matter where's Simba?" asked Sarabi worriedly.
"He is having a talk at the moment with Mufasa about their little outing today," I said.
"Outing?" asked Sarafina who then gave Nala a questionable look.
"Oh mom we didn't know any better, we thought the elephant graveyard would be awesome to visit," said Nala.
Sarafina and Sarabi both looked at Nala in shock, they both knew about the elephant graveyard and both of them knew of its danger.
"Well young lady I must say that I am very surprised that you would even do such a thing, though because I am so glad you are safe and sound, you will not be punished, you have been through enough to deal with my wrath," said Sarafina.
Nala just nodded while she was lead back into the cave. Sarabi stood there looking at me, looking as if she wanted to hear the whole story.
"Madam I can tell you want to hear the whole story," I said.
"I do and don't skip anything," said Sarabi.
I nodded and began to tell her everything that happened from Simba's little shenanigan about how he wanted to be king to Mufasa rescuing them from the hyenas jaws. Of course Sarabi gave very worried looks whenever I told her how the hyenas tried to hurt them.
By the time I finished telling her what happened, Mufasa returned with Simba who looked as if he had not even received any punishment at all but looked proud, Mufasa must have given him another lecture about being a king.
"So did he learn his lesson about exploring through unfamiliar territory?" asked Sarabi as she checked Simba to make sure he was not hurt, something all mothers like to do.
"Oh yes, I believe I straightened him out nicely," said Mufasa.
Sarabi gave a big sigh and then put her face up against Mufasa's. "Thank you so much for bringing him back to me, if we lost him, I don't know what I would have done," she said.
Mufasa returned a cuddle and rubbed up against her before looking back into Sarabi's eyes.
"I know we would have tried again, it would not have been easy seeing Simba gone but somebody needs to take my place one day," said Mufasa.
"I agree and Scar does not seem up to par, have you seen the way he acts lately, ever since Simba was born, I think he's been jealous," said Sarabi.
"That's my brother for you, but as you know, he's always been jealous of everything, even you having me for a mate," said Mufasa.
"Uhgh I remember how he used to follow me around and try to get me to love him, I even told him once that you cannot force love but I think he still does not understand that," said Sarabi who then began to rub up against Mufasa again, who also returned his love to her. It was truly a sweet sight. Made me wish I had a mate of my own.
"You know, we have not had time alone in a while," said Mufasa after a few minutes of each other cuddling.
"Your right we haven't and I think you deserve one after that successful rescue today," said Sarabi.
Mufasa just smiled and again cuddled up against Sarabi and before I even knew it, both were lying in the cool grass enjoying each others company. I knew it was best to leave them alone so I headed back to my nest.
But before I could even reach it, I saw two figures sitting together on a small hill near Pride Rock, I knew they were Simba and Nala and being the concerned baby sitter that I was I decided to spy on them.
"So what did your dad do to you after I left?" asked Nala.
"Nothing, he just told me that even king's get scared, and that being brave, doesn't mean I should go looking for trouble," said Simba.
"Wow, your father sounds very wise," said Nala.
"Yeah he even told me about those bright specks in the sky," said Simba.
"What are they any way?" asked Nala.
"Their great kings of the past looking down on us," said Simba.
I watched as the two stared fascinated at the stars for the longest time before Simba finally shook his head and turned to Nala.
"Looking up at the sky for a long time hurts," said Simba trying to straighten out his neck.
"Yeah it does, and you know I've been thinking," said Nala.
"About what?" asked Simba.
"About what Zazu said today," said Nala.
My heart suddenly beat a mile a minute, the cubs were actually thinking about something I had told them today, I found it surprising because usually the cubs ignored me because I always stuck my beak where it was not wanted, but I was the majordomo I had to know what was going on.
"Well he said a lot of things, which thing were you thinking of?" asked Simba.
"About us being betrothed," said Nala.
Simba stared at Nala in shock for a quick second before finally answering her.
"What about it?" asked Simba.
"After seeing how brave you were today, I know you will make a fine king when you grow older and you will need a princess to go with this whole Pride Rock of yours," said Nala.
"But I'm your friend Nala; we play together because we have so much in common, like how we both like to pull Zazu's feathers and that we don't like Amari around us that much," said Simba, I could tell he was still not getting the point.
"Oh don't you see Simba, we have so much in common that I'm sensing our friendship will one day become deeper," said Nala. For a young cub she sure knew a lot about the birds and the bees.
I then saw Simba stare into Nala in a different way, a way I had never seen him stare at her before. He smiled while she smiled back before giving him a quick lick on the cheek. Simba blushed slightly before he returned her kiss.
"We should make a promise that we should never love anyone else but each other," said Nala.
"I agree because I think you're very pretty and who knows how much more pretty you will look in the near future," said Simba who seemed to take his time trying to make those words come out.
"Don't be so shy Simba, we are future mates now, we can say whatever we want to each other," said Nala.
"What if I call you a big sissy in front of the other cubs, will you change our plans?" asked Simba.
"No I'll just know you are trying to be a show off," said Nala who then pounced on him and knocked Simba over. Simba just smiled for a minute before jumping up and tried to pin Nala, without much success.
Soon the two were chasing each other around Pride Rock before Simba finally collapsed in exhaustion at the foot of the rock and gave a big yawn.
"I'm tired now," said Simba.
"Well we did have a busy day, you got up early to hear about being king, then we tried to avoid Zazu and then we were cornered by those hyenas, no wonder you are tired," said Nala who then gave Simba a small punch in the shoulder before climbing back up Pride Rock.
"Hey can you carry me?" asked Simba with a grin.
Nala just giggled before running back up by herself to the cave, she was playing hard to get. Simba was about to jump up and go after her but was quickly scooped up by Sarabi.
"I'll be happy to carry you," she said.
"Thanks mom," said Simba with a yawn.
I watched as the family happily climbed up pride rock for a good nights rest, the last they would ever have together.
A/N: There's a nice long chapter for you all, I hope it was not too sappy or out of character or anything, I tried my best to keep it toned down a little on the sappiness. So as you all can see, Simba and Nala proclaimed their love before Simba "dies" kinda sad if you think about it. That's probably one of the reasons why Nala never had a mate; the other which is more understandable was because Scar was a big meanie head. Any way please review and tell me how I did. Also have a great weekend, I will see you all on wendsday.