Author's note: (sigh) Sorry, it taking me long, my computer is still have problems. And sorry if the last chapter was a bit sloppy that was my fault.
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Chapter Four: A Moment Between Siblings
Alone again in the darkness Shenzi found herself in. She stood there with her eyes shut tight because she didn't want to see anymore images of her mother covered in blood.
"Disaster and danger will soon fill the land and it will be all your fault"
Shenzi heard a voice echoing in the dark place and it wasn't her mothers. She shivered from the voice and slowly opened her eyes to see only the dark empty place.
"The choices you'll make will be your downfall" the voice said
"Who are you" She shouted
"You will lose those you love" the voice said "and it will be all your fault"
"Leave me alone" Shenzi shouted
"All Your Fault" it said and started to laugh "you will lose the ones you love and it will be all your fault"
"Shut up, stop saying that"
"All your fault, they will die just like your mother and it will be all your fault!"
"Shut up!" Shenzi shouted as she covered her ears and closed her eyes again but she can still hear the voice repeating those words and it was getting louder and louder by the second. "All your fault, all your fault, ALL YOUR FAULT!"
"Stop it, stop it, I'm not listening"
"And when they're gone, you'll be next!" the voice laughed " open your eyes and see what will happen to you"
Shenzi open her eyes and stared at her arms. Cuts started to appear all over her arms as well as her body with blood pouring out.
"All your fault, all your fault, all your fault!" the voice said over and over again as her body was being cut all over.
"ALL YOUR FAULT!" it said and begin to laugh. Shenzi screamed.
"Shenzi, Shenzi Wake up!"
Shenzi stopped screaming and opened her eyes to see Banzai, Ed and the new roommate of the skull Todei looking at her. She quickly stood up, breathing rabidly and checked her arms to see any cuts. None.
"Are you alright" Todei asked
Shenzi took two deep breaths and nodded "yeah, it was just a dream"
Banzai sigh and shook her head knowing she wasn't going to say anymore. "Are you sure"
"Yes Banzai, I'm sure now lets go back to sleep" she said
"Ok, see you guys tomorrow" Todei said climbing up the skull's trunk and entering the eye socket.
"Shenzi, I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night just to you scream bloody murder and not telling us about these nightmares you been having" Banzai said
"I said I'm fine, and if you want a good night sleep, sleep in the pride lands" Shenzi said
"Me and Ed would but we rather stay here with you so you won't wake up alone" Banzai said and Ed nodded
"Then lets go back to sleep please" She said lying down again followed by her friends.
"Fine, good night Shenzi" Banzai said
"Good night boys" Shenzi said pretenting to sleep, she flinch when she heard that voice (All your fault)
The Next Day
"So do you know what wrong with him" Zacuru asked
Info waved her paw in front of Shenzen's face and got no response from him. He just sat there
"I would have say he still traumatize from seeing Shentana dead or think it his fault she died in the first place" she said "I thought you said he was recovering"
"He was but yesterday he just shut down again and I think its getting worst" he said
"It probably is because he hasn't blink since I got here" Info said "if you want I can slap him til he snapped out of it"
"No I tried that already and more but he didn't move and make a sound. And it came to a point where I had to shove food down his mouth so he eat" he said "and that not the worst part"
"What the worst part" she asked
"When I mention Shenzi to him, he doesn't make any smart remark and actually been calling her sister"
"No way, something is wrong with him" Info said
"And since you always bragged about being so smart maybe you know something that will help him"
"Well I would wait til he snaps out of it again then asked him what bothering him because I have a feeling this isn't about his mother."
Suddenly Shenzen stood up and started walking away "Shenzen, Shenzen where are you going" Zacuru asked
"Leave me alone" he said "and don't' follow me"
Info and Zacuru sat there shocked and confused "well whatever you said snap him out of it" Info said
"Then I would recommend that you gather up your friends and follow him" Zacuru said "and make sure he doesn't kill himself"
Info rolled her eyes "you better have a zebra ready when we get back" she said and took off.
"So you can't talk whatsoever" Todei asked Ed
Ed nodded "he wasn't always like that" Banzai said "believe it or not, he use to be a chatterbox"
"So what happen to his voice?" he asked
"Well, he had a near death experience when we were young and hasn't gotten his voice back ever since"
"Damn Banzai, you sure have strange hyenas in this clan, first those three females with odd names, a male who can't talk and a wild guess here but not really a smart one right" he asked "That Nuacka leader looks not all there and Shenzi with those nightmares"
Banzai looked behind him to see Shenzi taking another nap in the grass "you need to take it easy on her the last couple of months been very difficult on her. She lost her mother two weeks ago and hasn't been the same"
"I thought Nuacka was her mother since she the leader of the clan"
"No, Nuacka was second in commend and will take over after our leaderuntil Shenzi third birthday" Banzai explained
"Oh, so who that coming by" Todei pointed.
The three males turned there head to see Shenzen standing there.
"Her brother" Banzai said "hi Shenzen"
"Hey Banzai, Ed, new guy" he said
Banzai and Ed's jaw dropped "did you just called us by our names"
"Where Shenzi" he asked
"Sleeping why" Banzai asked
"Wake her up I need to talk to her" he said
"Ed why don't you go wake up Shenzi" Banzai said
Ed nodded and walked over to the to where Shenzi was to wake her up. Todei felt like the air was getting thick because Banzai and Shenzen were just staring at each other.
"What is so important that you have to wake me up Ed" Shenzi said as Ed dragged her to Shenzen. Shenzi rubbed her eyes and look to see her brother "Shenzen?" she said a bit stunned then sigh "whatever I, Banzai or Ed did, we're sorry"
Shenzen sigh "I need to talk to you"
"I said I was sorry, for whatever I or my friends did" Shenzi said
"Shenzi, just need to talk to you" he said trying not to lose his patience
Shenzi looked at him for a awkward moment "just to talk, your not going to yell at me or tell me that I ruin your like"
He shook his head "but I want to talk to you alone"
"Ok...I'll see you guys later" Shenzi said to her friends and Todei.
"Bye, we'll be hunting for lunch later" Banzai said
Shenzi nodded and followed her brother.
"What with her brother" Todei asked
"Well Shenzi and Shenzen relationship has always been rocking ever since she was born" Banzai said "it like rain, cold, dark and gloomy and to a point that Shenzen actually told her he hates her"
"He must have a reason why, like me, my sister got us kicked out of our own clan" he said
"He never gave us a reason and it just got worst when me and Ed came to live with them" Banzai sigh "he sort a, somewhat, kinda our step-brother since Shenzi's mom basically raise us"
Ed nodded at Todei "this place gets weirder and weirder every minute" he said "but I still like it here"
"Shut up, and lets get something to eat" Banzai said, whatever Shenzen was up to, Banzai found a good way to eat a wildebeest instead of a zebra.
Shenzi sat down under a tree, it was another hot day, and stared at her brother who was looking at the sky thinking about something.
"Shenzen?" Shenzi called him
He sigh "I never told you how dad died, did I" he said turning around to look at her.
(Awkward question, just play along with it) her brain said "no, mom did , she said he was taken away by humans"
"Yeah, she just told you what I told her, did you forget that she was asleep when that happen"
"You lied to her didn't you?" she asked
"It wasn't the easiest thing to do, especially when I was a five month old pup..."
Flash Back
The young Shenzen press his head against his mother's large stomach.
"Can you feel your sister, Shenzen" Shentana asked
"A little but how do you know it a girl, not a boy" he asked
"I wouldn't mine having another boy" Hadzazi said smiling
"No, it has to be a girl, who else is going to take over the clan when I'm gone" Shentana said
"Why can't I take over the clan, I am the oldest" Shenzen asked
"Because only females are allowed to rule the clan" she said
"But you should be lucky, my boy, that a lot of stress off of your shoulder" Hadzazi laughed as he ruffled Shenzen's hair a bit
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, aren't you going to teach me to fight" Shenzen said
"Yes, told you that before we came out here" Hadzazi said
He followed his father out in to the open fields, he likes these kinda days where it just him and his parents, alone and far away from the clan.
"You guys go ahead and practice fighting, I'm just going to take a little nap under these bushes" Shentana said. Just walking made her exhausted.
'Ok dear" Hadzazi said "now let see how much you have improve since our last lesson"
"I'll show you, just don't go easy on me again like that last time" Shenzen said
"I won't" he said laughing.
Shenzen growled and charged at Hadzazi at full speed. His father smirked and calmly y took a step to the right letting Shenzen crashing to the ground. "You should keep your eyes on your opponent at all time, son"
"Dad, why do I have to do this, the clan doesn't fightme because I'm the leader's son" he asked
"Well for one thing to make you strong and maybe to keep other males away from Balean"
Shenzen gave his father a cold stare "I'll continue if we dropped the subject" he asked but noticed that Hadzazi was looking at something. "Shenzen come over here"
Shenzen rasied an eyebrow but ran over to him then turned around to see a green jeep parking just a few meters away from them.
"Dad, what are those things" he asked when he saw two human standing up on the jeep pointing guns at them.
"Quickly go wake up your mother and get her out of here" he said
"But dad what about-"
Before he could finished, he heard a loud "BANG" then his father collapsing to the floor.
"DAD! Dad, get up" Shenzen shouted then spotted a inch size hole in his father's chest with blood pouring out and on to the grass.
Hadzazi started taking deep breaths "Shenzen get out of here, there coming"
"I'm not leaving without you" he said
"Don't argue with me and go" Hadzazi said as his brething begin to slow down "take care of your mother and sister"
"Dad, please" he said trying not to cry, he a male and males don't cry.
"Go" Hadzazi whispered and with a heavy heart Shenzen took off as the human gotten closer to his father. Shenzen didn't know why these thing didn't come after him but he ran in to the bushes to see her waking up from the noise.
"Shenzen what's going on" Shentana asked
"Dad, being taken away by these things" he said
"What" Shentana slowly stood up and peaked through the bushes and saw Hadzazi being pick up by humans and taken back to the jeep.
"Hadzazi!" Shentana shouted then sat there in disbelief, due to her condition she couldn't go after him.
"Is he dead" his mother asked him
Shenzen who was still stunned from what happen lied "no, he still alive"
A tear ran down her eye then tried to put on a smile "don't worry son, he strong and he'll find a way to get back home" she said
"Mom really believe that you know" Shenzi said looking at the ground.
"Of course she does, because I lied to her, I couldn't tell her the truth, dad was one of the strongest, smartest, bravest hyena I knew and you don't know what it like to lose both parents who were murdered" He said then sigh "and then a week later when you were born, mother just forgot that he ever exist, paying all her attention to you and forgetting about father and what I went through to a point where she completely ignored me"
(I get it) Shenzi thought when she figured out why he was always so bitter towards her and practically disown her as a sibling when she was born. He blame her for being ignored his whole life by their mother but he was wrong about the other thing.
"Mom never forgot about dad, she talks about him all the time when I was pup and I was young and a handful for mom, so I guess she didn't have time for you" she said "ok maybe I did got all the attention but don't thinkonly your life wasthat crappy, do you ever stop and think how I felt, about never knowing my father, being trained to become a leader, growing up knowing my only brother, my flesh and blood, telling me that he hated me when I was born, I can go on"
Shenzen just sat there not wanting to look at her. "I'm sorry for telling you that your whole life, I hate things you do but I don't hate you. I just having a rough life"
"If it makes you feel better I'm sorry for all the trouble I put you through" Shenzi said as he sat down next to him.
Shenzen sigh and smiled "it time for me to do whatdad asked me to do"
"And what that" she asked
"I need to start acting like a brother and take care of my sister, and not just because I was force to but because I care about you" he said "you're only family I have left Shenzi, and I don't want to wake up to find you dead as well"
Shenzi gave her brother a hug, which surprised him a bit "if we look out for one another then we can make through anything. how did think my friends and i got this far without being killed" she said.
Shenzen nodded, understanding what she meant "just one thing"
"What" she asked
"Do I have be to nice to your friends"
"Yes, they grow on you after a while"
"I guess little sister aren't that bad" he said hugging her back...