Author's Note: Thanks for the Reviews, and Happy New Year's Eve.
Anyway, I just have to say that I'm just have a few more chapters to go till the third part is finish.
I'm still working out the 4th part as we speak.
Here's the next Chapter. Enjoy.
Chapter Twenty: Reunited
Banzai watched in great confusion as the Monkey jumped down from the tree and landed next to Todei's grave. The monkey started to pray for the dead hyena "Rest in peace, you are forgiven for your crimes" he said
Banzai walked over to him "can I help you"
The Monkey said nothing and hit Banzai on the head with his staff. "Ow" Banzai shouted, and rubbed his head
"Silence, this is a burial" The Monkey said
Banzai hissed in pain as he waited for the monkey to finish his praying "He's a lucky one, your forgiveness saved him and now he can rest in peace"
"Can you tell me who you are?" Banzai said
Banzai got hit on the head again by the monkey's stick "Have you no respect for an elder"
Banzai rubbed his head again "geez, just inflict more pain on my why don't you, it's not like I almost got killed a few days ago" Banzai shouted
He got hit in the head again, hard enough for him to fall to the ground with his paws clutch onto his head. Tears from in his eyes from the pain "temper aren't we, your friend must've had a hard time with you when you were growing" The monkey said
Banzai got up, still rubbing his head and saw the monkey leaving "hey, wait"
He ran up and blocked the monkey from leaving "do you know me or something" he asked
"I know everything about you Banzai, and your trouble past"
"Oh man, it's bad enough I have three females spying on me, now a strange monkey" he said "what's next"
"That is the big question, Banzai, what is next" The monkey asked
"What do you mean?"
"What is your next choice?" the monkey asked again "you were walking then froze in your own fears"
"I did not, I stopped because I heard noises and I realize it was you" Banzai shouted then asked again "who are you and what are you doing here"
"I am Rafiki and I'm on a mission to bring back the king" he said
"Bring back the king, how is that possible, Scar is already in the pride lands"
"No not that King, the real King" Rafiki said
"I guess you weren't around when the stampede happened because that how the real king died"
He got hit on the head again "no temper one, the next king, the one you and your friends allow to get away"
(Simba, so he is a alive after all) Banzai thought "oh really and how do you know he alive"
Rafiki grabbed Banzai and pulled him close "the winds, themselves, told me that the King was alive and well" he said as he slowly waved his arm in front of them "that winds of the great king Mufasa himself"
"This is a little too close for comfort" Banzai said pushing Rafiki away from him. "That's great and all, but you haven't told me why you are here. I mean if you know about me and my past why aren't you mad or not trying to kill me"
"I should be mad, but even you have a spirit that is watching you and her daughter" Rafiki said
"Spirit? Her daughter? Are you talking about Shentana?" Banzai said
The old monkey nodded "yes, she's been with you, Shenzi and Ed to make sure you guys were safe. How else would you have survived the brutal attack by Alzon?"
"Pure luck" he said
"Wrong, you believed in the thing called light, when you believed in that Shentana's spirit grows and was able to protect you from the fatal wounds. She needed you to live so you can continue your job of watching over her daughter, now it up to you to make the next choice"
"What are my choices?" he asked
"You can go back to the pride lands and face the awaited danger I fear are about to happen or you can leave and leave this all behind you" He said
"Of course I'm going back, its just-" he couldn't finish
"The danger is the thing that holding you back"
Banzai didn't want to admit it, but he nodded "nearly dying like the way Todei and Shentana did can really makes you think if going back is really worth it"
"Is it?" Rafiki asked
Banzai thought, a picture of Shenzi appeared in his mind, then one of him with her and Ed, then just all the memories of the event they went through, both good and bad "I say it is, as long as I'm with her, I don't care what happens to me"
"Then what are you waiting for, get going" Rafiki said, shooing him all.
"Why are you helping a hyena like me anyway, even after all I did?" Banzai asked
"I see betrayal coming soon which will lead to Scar's defeat" he said
Banzai raised an eyebrow and tried to think what he means, when he was going to ask Rafiki about that the monkey was already gone. He was stunned and looked around, but there was no sign of the monkey anywhere "did I just dreamed that up or something" he asked himself.
He shrugged and looked at the direction where the pride lands were at. "Shenzi, I'm coming"
Zacuru stared at his mother's bloody body for what it seems like hours. He was just walking around, trying to find Shenzi, when he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the unpleasant seen of his mother, dead with a pool of blood around her.
He just stared at her, right into her eyes with the feeling something inside of him snapped. He can smell her scent, the scent of the one who murdered his mother and the scent of three females he knew so well.
He looked at his wound on his shoulder, the one she gave him that other night when she didn't want to be touch. That just filled his anger and the urge to kill even more. He spotted the dragged marks in the dirt and decided to follow that and the scent, hoping he would find her and finish the job his mother was trying to do.
He started walking with rage building deep inside and just ready to attack the first thing he sees. Zacuru heard voices and footsteps coming by so he stopped to see who it was.
"I can't believe she would just disappear like that" Shenzen said "She always does this and never tells me where she was going"
"Don't worry we'll find her" Balean said
"I hope so, just have a bad feeling something bad happened-"
He didn't finish his sentence when he saw Zacuru blocking their path and staring at them with blank white eyes.
"Zacuru, you scared me there for a minute" Balean said, but was still getting an uneasy feeling about the male.
"Zacuru, is something wrong" Shenzen asked
An idea clicked inside Zacuru's head when he remembered what his mother said (a brilliant mind attacks neither body nor soul, they attack the heart). And what's better then attacking Shenzi was killing the last bit of family she had left in the world.
Shenzen grew uneasy when Zacuru started to growl and started to advance toward them.
"Zacuru, what wrong with you" Balean said, hiding behind Shenzen.
"Balean, get out of here" Shenzen whispered
"What? I'm not leaving you" she said
"Please, I'll be fine, now go" He said
Balean frowned, but nodded and ran off. Shenzen stared at his friend "Zacuru, what going on and why are you looking at me like that"
Zacuru grinned and attacks. A cry a pain echoed throughout the lands.
Shenzi walked for what it seems like hours after that dream she had about her talking to her mother. She was still losing blood from her wounds Nuacka inflicted on her and was getting a little light headed.
Another hour went by and Shenzi begins to wondered why she was walking away from the pride lands and through the desert.
(Someone is waiting for you)
(Whose waiting for me, everyone I know is gone) she thought.
Each step she took, more drops of blood fell down, and soak into the dirt. Her vision started to get blurry.
(And now they're playing tricks on me) she thought when she saw something black running over to her direction. It was coming closer and closer til it stopped was shouting at her but her mind couldn't make out the words.
Banzai couldn't believe his eyes when he spotted Shenzi just a few meters away. Even in the moon light, he couldn't see how badly shape she was in, but she was there, it was really her.
He called out for her "Shenzi," Then ran over to her.
Shenzi shook her head and tried to focus on the black thing that was running up to her "Shenzi!"
She concentrated to clear her vision and her eyes widened when she saw Banzai standing right in front of her. His smiled fainted "Shenzi, oh my god, what happened to you"
"Banzai?" was the only thing she said before closing her eyes and falling against him. She then blacked out due to blood loss.
"Shenzi, Shenzi, wake up" Banzai said while keeping her from falling to the ground.
She was cut all over and most of her fur was soaked in blood. Banzai could feel her breathing, but it was very weak. He manages to scoop her up onto his back then headed back to the river he was at. "Don't worry Shenzi, I'm here with you" he said
Ed crawled up the small tunnel again to see if Alzon has given up on killing him and went home. His eyes were red from the dirt and his throat still felt like it was on fire. He held back his cough and peeked outside the hole.
He couldn't see anything so he walked out a bit more and nearly jumped when he saw Alzon a few meters away. He calmed down when he saw that the lion was asleep so he took another few steps out of the tunnel. Alzon snorted in his sleep and shifted into another position. Ed sighed in relief and started walking away as quick and quietly as he can. He held his breath to keep himself from coughing til he was far away from the lion.
A smile formed across his face when he thought he was going to escape, but he stepped on a twig and saw two glowing eyes staring at him.
The chase was on again.
(Shenzi . . . Shenzi . . . Shenzi, wake up)
Shenzi moans in her sleep (five more minutes mother)
"Shenzi?" Banzai called
He was only walking for twenty minutes when he felt Shenzi moving a bit on top of his back. He laid down and gently let her roll off of him. "Shenzi, can you hear me"
She started to open her eyes and looked up to see Banzai sighing in relief then smiling. "Banzai?" With Banzai's help, she sat up and started at him for a while.
"Banzai, is it really you" she asked
He nodded, but she backed away a bit "no, no, they told me you were dead, I must be dreaming" She said
"You are not dreaming, I'm alive" he said
Shenzi continued to stare at him then lifted her arm and bit it. She hissed in pain and it made her realize she wasn't dreaming. Tear formed in her eyes "you're alive, you're really alive"
"Yes" he said
Ignoring her injuries, she embraced him and held onto him for dear life "I thought you were dead, I thought you were dead when you didn't come back to me" She said
"I'm sorry, but I'm here now" he said hugging her tighter.
She hissed in pain so he pulled away and stared at her "what happened to you"
Shenzi sighs "I got into a fight with Nuacka"
"Is she?"
"Yes, she's dead, but it was sad how she went"
"Why"
"When we were fighting, she didn't seem like herself, but after the final blow she looked like her old self and she smiled.
"Do you know why she was like that?"
She nodded "she blamed me for things that happen between her and my mom even before my brother was born."
"What happened back then?" he asked
"Kinda what happened to me and you, repeated history" She said
Banzai gave her a confused face "what do you mean"
"My father was an outsider lackey, my mother was betrothed to this male that was in love with Nuacka. Nuacka didn't want my mom marrying to the male so she thought up a plan, but it failed. The male is dead, she was carrying his pup and couldn't bear to see my mom live a happy life with the outsider that killed her one and only love"
Banzai was stunned "well that explain why your mother didn't want to talk about her past"
"And why Zacuru never knew his father"
He noticed Shenzi was shaking from remembering about the past and the fight "that fight was something I'll never forget" She said. All the blood, the look in Nuacka's blank eyes and the fact she was use to knock the skull that been her home nearly all her life.
Banzai gave her a warm nuzzle then started to lick the dried blood of her cheek. Shenzi smiled and closed her eyes to enjoy the pleasure of knowing Banzai wasn't dead and was right here with her.
"I know a place you can rest and clean up a bit" Banzai said
"Really" she asked
"Yeah, I been hiding out there with Todei, waiting for my wounds to heal up" he said
"Todei was with you, where is he now?" She asked
Banzai frowned and looked away and that was enough to tell Shenzi he was dead as well. "I'm sorry" she said
"Its ok, I really don't know how to feel since he was the one who set me up to be killed"
"So I heard, Secret told me everything" She said "Banzai, a lot of stuff happened when you were gone, Secret's meltdown, Ed's disappearance, Nuacka's death . . . (Zacuru trying to rape me) . . . a lot of things" Shenzi didn't want to tell him about the last thing.
"Ed's disappearance, what do you mean, what happened to him"
"Nuacka wanted to get rid of all the outsiders lackeys"
"Alzon went after him too?" Banzai asked
She nodded "He may be alive or death I don't know. This is all my fault, if I wasn't moping and kept my eye on him, he would still be here"
"It not your fault Shenzi, Ed is out there, he not those type that would give up without a fight"
Shenzi continues to frown and was about to say something when they heard a roar echoing. "What was that?"
"More like, what is that?" Banzai pointed
They turned their heads to the east and spotted two pairs of glowing eyes running around like one was chasing the other. Then they heard a grunting sound of pain follow by another roar.
"Wait, I recognize that grunting sound anywhere" Shenzi said
Shenzi and Banzai stared at each other "ED!" They both shouted and ran over to where the commotion was taking place.
A large paw smack down on Ed's back and he was slammed into the dirt. He could feel the claws burying into his flesh when he was turned over to face the insane lion.
Alzon grinned "Funny, this is the same way Shentana died"
Ed's eyes grew wide as the claws were brought out and were swung toward his face. Ed closed his eyes, ready to take the hit when he heard Alzon roaring and letting him go.
"Ed, you idiot, get out of there" He heard Shenzi shouting.
He opened his eyes to see Banzai on top of Alzon and biting him in the shoulder. Next thing he knew he was grabbed by the back of his neck and dragged away from the lion. Shenzi let him go for him to get up "are you ok Ed" Shenzi asked
Ed nodded, very stunned to see Shenzi and Banzai here. "Good, let finish this creep off once and for all"
Ed took a deep breath and nodded then they both headed over to Alzon. Shenzi bit him in the leg, hoping it would trip him while Ed bit him on the side. Alzon roared and rolled over, nearly crushing Banzai and Shenzi and causing Ed to land right on Alzon's stomach. Ed jumped off and stood next to Banzai and Shenzi, who hissed when some of her wounds were reopen.
Alzon got up, bleeding from the spots they bit and laughed "it going to take a lot more to defeat me. I would give up since one of you is already badly bleeding"
He stared at the female; the shadows in the moonlight showed the drops of blood falling to the floor. He grinned and took a step forward over to the trio and continued to glare at Shenzi "That fear on your face was the same fear I saw before I slaughtered your mother"
Shenzi started growled, she was getting sick and tire of everyone telling her how bad her mother's death was. She stared into the murderer's blank eyes as he took another step forward.
"She was so scared and the way Scar, my sister, and Nuacka laughed made it even sweeter."
The males started to growl along with Shenzi, but that only made the lion smirked even more "I don't why you males are growling"
"Because you killed the one, whoever cared about me, you killed-" Banzai said
"My . . . mother" Someone side in a low, dried up voice.
Shenzi and Banzai's eyes widened and turned their heads to stare at Ed, who started coughing again "wait a minute did you just speak" Banzai shouted til he was interrupted by Alzon roaring.
The trio dodged the lion from hitting them with went in different directions. Banzai looked back and saw that Alzon main target was Shenzi, since she was still badly injured. "Leave her alone"
Banzai jumped up onto Alzon again and bit him hard on his back. Alzon screamed in pain and swung around to get Banzai off, but he had a tight grip. Ed bit him in the arm causing Alzon to step on his paw the wrong way. Shenzi heard a loud cracking noise and she knew Alzon broke his wrist.
Alzon lifted his paw that had Ed on it and swung it down, slamming the hyena hard on the floor. Shenzi took that shot and rushed it while Alzon was distracted and bit him hard in his neck.
Alzon roared and rolled over again to get Banzai and Ed off of him. Banzai fell off, but not before tearing off a large piece of flesh.
The lion screamed in pain and shook his head repeatedly to free himself from Shenzi's grip. The males grabbed hold of the lion's arms before he could hit Shenzi. Alzon spun around, rolled over and literally slammed his body down on the dirt, but Shenzi still wouldn't let him go.
Blood was seeping into her mouth, she felt like she was going to vomit from the salty taste, but she still held on. Alzon slammed himself against a rock, causing Ed to bite deeper into his arm and hearing more cracking noises coming out from his arm. Ed let go and jumped up and bit Alzon on the side of his neck to help Shenzi choke him to death.
Alzon continues to roar but it was cut off when Banzai bit him in the next as well. Alzon stood on his back legs, literally lifting the trio off the floor which would be his wrong doing. The weight cause Shenzi to fall, tearing off flesh from his neck, and hitting the floor with a loud thump.
She heard blood spraying and the mist hitting her face before hearing the lion hitting the floor. She ran over to her friends to see if they were all right. The trio stared down at the lion that had blood oozing out of his neck.
They back away when the body started to twitch before stopping all together.
Shenzi started spitting out some blood to get rid of the awful taste "you guys ok" she asked
"Yeah, just give me a minute to collect my thoughts" Banzai said
"Are you ok Ed?" Shenzi asked
Ed nodded, a little shaky, but he was ok.
They sat there for a minute to calm down a bit before Ed started laughing and for some reason Shenzi joined in then Banzai did. They laughed and laughed because they couldn't believe what just happened til all three fainted from exhaustion . . .