A/N: Hi Guys! I'm still here to give out another chapter of the story. My days off are kind of boring especially when you spend two hours doing laundry downstairs. How long I will be able to update like this, I am not sure so if I go missing for a while don't worry, I am just busy, it will probably happen starting September 19th when I start my class since I do have to write a few reports. But any way I would like to thank everyone for the reviews and to Soulbound for putting this story in her C2 list even though it is not completed which I am extremely confused about. So Soulbound if you read this can you please review. Any way on with the story.
I could have turned my back and flew away that very instant, never to be in the clutches of Scar again, the life of a wanted bird. But that was the coward's way out and a life where you had to watch your back every second wondering if someone was following you to bring you back home and suffer even worse consequences.
No I decided to face my fears and enter that dark cave where Scar and Zira spent most of their days pampering themselves and plotting other evil activities. As I flew toward the cave, I could hear voices of encouragement from the lionesses, each telling me to "be brave" or "thanks for trying."
I then perched myself on a nearby rock and was instantly grabbed by Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed who I knew were keeping me from escaping, but I was not going to escape I was going to remain firm and calm, ready to answer any of Scar's questions.
For a moment, Scar circled me with his hate filled eyes, his face showed no emotion, just a blank stare that I came to hate over the years. Zira stood behind him waiting to see what kind of punishment I would receive.
The punishment came quick and sudden. First I saw Scar raise his from paw with a face full of fury and hate and then strike down at me. The force was so strong that it knocked me out of the three hyenas grasps and caused me to fly across the room where I hit my head against a wall.
I groaned in pain and sat up and touched the spot on my chest where Scar had struck and felt a warm watery feeling but it was not water, it was blood. One of Scar's claws had done its job on me, it hurt but after noticing how slowly the blood was flowing I knew it was not life threatening. I looked up at Scar with fear and surprise as he loomed above me.
"How dare you try to destroy your king, after all I have done for you," said Scar with a horrible growl.
I swallowed hard, I did not like the way his anger seemed to be rising, but I knew I had to remain strong. "What have you ever done for me, all you have ever done was try to eat me and call me a snoop, in fact you deserve to be thrown off a cliff," I said angrily.
Suddenly Scar gave a deafening roar that shook the walls of the cave. I ducked as some rocks fell down to earth from the top of the ceiling; luckily all of them missed me. But I was not prepared for what was coming next, when all was silent, I looked up at Scar and in the blink of an eye, he slapped me as hard as he could against my face, this time, I lost consciousness.
I don't know how long I had been in the state of unconsciousness but I knew it must have been at least a day because I did wake up for at least a few seconds before blacking out again, and that time I remember that it was dark like at night in the cave, and I could hear soft breathing coming from the lionesses who slept nearby, yet I did not try to look for them. Instead I closed my eyes again and let my world return when it was ready.
I remember after closing them again that I found myself in a beautiful place full of green grass and trees full of fruit. At first I thought I had died from Scar's suddenly attacks but Kalifa was there and I knew she was not dead. I quickly flew to her and she just stood on a nearby branch waiting for me.
"Kalifa are we dead?" I asked.
Kalifa just chuckled and stroked the back of my head. "No you silly, we are both sill alive and kicking, this is only a hallucination that you are experiencing from what Scar did to you, don't worry you will be fine in a few hours," she said.
I gave a deep sigh, too bad my dreams could not change the real world. I then looked back at my sister and suddenly noticed that someone different was standing beside me, it was my grandfather.
"Hello Zazu," he said.
I gasped and stared at him in the face. "But I thought you were dead?" I said.
"I am but that can't keep me from seeing you in your dreams now can it?" he asked
"No, it's always good to see someone in your dreams," I said.
Grandpa nodded for a second and then looked sadly at me. "Now listen, even though your life is going to get quite hard, don't loose hope because hope will find you," he said.
"What kind of hope would that be, you saw what Scar did to Tahir and his other two members, no one can fight him because he cheats," I said.
"Oh you'll be surprised, it will be from someone you will not expect, I will not tell you who because it might change everything, just keep your hopes up and everything will be fine," said grandpa.
"But I still don't understand…" I said as I looked up at grandpa but when that happened, he simply vanished and left me alone on that single tree trunk. It felt lonely to be there and I wanted someone there to stand beside me.
"Well if it ain't my little brother," said a voice behind me.
I turned around and saw Azizi standing there and he looked the same after all these years, he had the same face, the same coloring, and yet his personality had changed, he was much kinder and gentler; it must have been because it was only a dream.
"Azizi, are you still alive?" I asked.
"Yes I am, yet I am very far away from home with a happy family and prosperous kingdom. I wish you were here to see how beautiful it is, you would probably want to live here with us. As a matter of fact, would you like to join us?" he asked.
I sighed and looked down at my feet and then looked back at my brother. "I'm sorry Azizi, but my place is here, grandpa said life will change for me soon and I want to be there to see it," I said.
Suddenly Azizi grabbed me and shook me violently; it was like he had turned into a demon. "Then wake up!" he cried aloud.
I opened my eyes with a start and stood up fast. But I instantly fell back down because I now felt a horrible pain in my head from where Scar had hit me. I rubbed it for a minute as I looked down at my chest where Scar had also hit. The blood had now dried and had turned my white feathers into a rust color; it was going to take a while to wash off.
I then noticed something else, I was still in the same place where I had lost consciousness, but now there was a rib cage over me. I knew Scar had done this, I guess he thought I was going to run away and never return. I then looked outside of the rib cage, and there I saw Scar sitting there, watching me and waiting for me to stir.
"Oh good I did not kill you, yet," said Scar when he noticed I was looking at him.
I said nothing while Scar paced back and forth; he seemed to like doing that.
"Why did you try to have me killed?" he asked with an icy voice.
I was silent for a moment, still rubbing my sore head, even though he spoke with a soft voice it still felt as if he was yelling. I finally answered before he could yell for me to answer him. "Because you have ruined this kingdom, there is nothing left for us and we are all dying of hunger, you don't bother to do anything but let the hyenas take over," I said with a soft voice, I did not want to raise my voice because my head was making me feel quite dizzy and that it felt like a thousand elephants were pounding it.
"Are you sure its not because we are in a drought, droughts can do that you?" said Scar in a matter of fact voice.
"They can't make the land like this, it's your fault Scar, the land is now dead because of you," I said hoping that it would change his attitude, it didn't.
"How dare you speak of such disrespect to your king," Scar growled as he put his muzzle between the ribs displaying his sharp, pearly white teeth, luckily he could not reach me.
"You're no king, your nothing but a rat, an overlarge rat," I said making sure I said rat with the most hated voice.
Scar growled. "If you weren't in that cage I would kill you this instant," he said.
"Well then go ahead, you can plainly see that we are not allies," I said.
"No I'd rather have you become my jester, from now on for the rest of your life you are to live in that cage. You will only go out when I let you and when you do go out you will be accompanied by a vulture named Nassor, if you try to escape he has my permission to kill you. Also you are now my entertainment, you are responsible to make me laugh and to make a fool out of yourself when I say so is that understood?" Scar asked.
"Yes your majesty," I said sarcastically.
"Good, now if you will excuse me I have a meeting with the lionesses over your fate," said Scar who then slunk away from my cage and out of the cave.
I leaned against the wall and watched him go. I could not believe that Scar was now going to do this to me, live a lonely life inside a cave for the rest of my life. But then I remembered what my grandfather said, things will change for the better soon, how long soon was I did not know but I hoped it would be quick, I would rather have Nassor the vulture kill me than entertain Scar for the rest of my life.
I sighed and rubbed my head again, it still hurt quite badly, I knew it would be a while before it stopped throbbing and hopefully Scar would not want entertainment any time soon, I would not be up for that. Finally I decided to lie down and let my sleep heal my aching head so I would not have to deal with the pain forever.
As I drifted off to sleep, I thought about who it would be to save us, and if he or she did, would he or she be our next leader of the pride lands.
A/N: oh dear really short chapter, sorry about that. I plan to make the next chapter longer and more interesting. In fact the next chapter will be the last time Scar is really king, then Simba returns, horray everyone probably says. And I hope that last sentence sounded okay, it sounded kinda stupid but I did not know what else to say. Well any way I will have the next chapter up whenever I get the chance, it could be in a few days or it could be in a few weeks, I have no idea but hopefully you will find out soon. Well please review and I will see you in the next chapter.