Author's Note: I'm sorry for the wait, see my mom wasn't very happy with the "D" I got in my English Class so she took away a lot of my computer time so I can concentrate better on my work. In other words updating is going to be a little slower then normal.

Which stinks since I have just a couple of chapters left to go.

(Sigh) Anyway, enjoy the next chapter.

Chapter Twenty-two: Zacuru and Tunnels.

Scar backed away as the lion ran over to Sarabi "Mufasa, no, you're dead"

"What's going on" Silet whispered

The female trio were moving along with the crowd as they walked up the rock to get a better look. "I don't know, just follow the crowd and watch out for Zacuru, he could be anywhere around here" Info said

Gossip looked up at the sky and noticed dark clouds and the sound of thunder covering up the evening sun. "I think it better that we leave"

"We will as soon as we find out who this other lion is"

Shenzi watched as the lion talked to Sarabi then gave her a nuzzle. "Simba?" Scar said then smiled "Simba, it's so nice to see you . . . Alive!" He looked up and stared at the trio, not caring or knowing what they have been through. The Trio gulped and walked away from the edge letting the other hyenas take their spots.

"This is going to be the death penalty if Scar catches us" Banzai said, as they walked away from the clan til they were alone.

"Well look on the bright side" Shenzi said

"And that is" Banzai asked

"Letting Nala go was the best plan I ever had" Shenzi said

The two other males nodded "should we just get on with our plan to get the clan out of here"

He noticed Shenzi turned completely white as she stared at something behind them. They turned around and nearly jumped out of their skin when they saw Zacuru blocking their only path to get off the rock. He was covered in blood but all Shenzi was staring at was the wound on his shoulder she inflicted on him that other night.

She started to shake a little when that memory of that horrible night started coming back. She shook her head to get rid of the thoughts and started to growl.

"What a matter my dear, did you see the new 'make-over' I gave your brother" he asked, slowly walking over to them.

"You are so going to pay for hurting my brother" Shenzi growled.

"Oh no, I'm saving you for last because I want a rematch with him" Zacuru shouted as he stared at Banzai. "Losing a match is never forgivable, but tying is much worst"

He growled as the lightning flashed behind him then the dark dead land turned bright orange with smoke and the sound of fire filled the air. Zacuru started to laughed showing his bloodstained teeth as he continues to advance over to the Trio.

Shenzi growled, but stopped when she heard Scar shouting "I KILLED MUFASA!"

Then that when the clan jumped off the edge to fight and Zacuru attacked Banzai at the same time.

"Banzai!" Shenzi shouted

Banzai was slammed to the floor but he presses his paw on Zacuru's neck to keep him from biting "Go, get the clan out of here" he shouted

"But, what about you, I'm not going to leave you again"

"I'll be fine" He said

Shenzi bit her lip "come on Ed" she said

Ed nodded and they took off, Zacuru growled from the hatred and jealously he had about the relationship between her and her male friend. Too distracted by that he couldn't react quickly enough when Banzai head-butted him in the face.

Shenzi and Ed ran to the edge of the cliff again and were shocked to see all the hyenas and lioness fighting one another and by the way it was looking, the clan was losing.

Shenzi gulped "Ed, are you brave enough to get into that fight" she asked

Ed was about to say no when he heard a familiar scream from a female hyena "Silet!" he said and jumped off the cliff. Stunned from Ed's action, Shenzi jumped off as well and tried to find the alphas to tell them to get out of here.

The smoke from the fire made it hard to breathe and the heat was unbearable, but that didn't seem to stop the lioness and the hyenas from fighting. And for some reason she thought she saw a meerket, a warthog and some weird monkey with a stick fighting in this battle as well.

"Ed, Ed! Where are you?" She shouted

A lioness tried to attack her, but other hyenas jumped on the lioness back and started biting and scratching. The fight was getting out of control, blood was being drawn and for some reason Scar wasn't anywhere in sight.

Silet lost her friends in the messy crowd and tried to find a place to find to get away but with all the movement and dodging she was being pulled into the fight. The hyenas were getting beaten, tossed and in a few times she saw some lying on the floor . . . not moving.

"INFO, GOSSIP, WHERE ARE YOU!" She shouted but it was muffled by the noise.

She was pushed and shoved to the point she fell to the floor, but she quickly got up before getting stepped on only to crash into a lioness. The lioness turned around and roars at the young female, believing Silet was going to attack her and raised her paw to strike when Info bit the lioness in the leg.

"Info!" Silet shouted

The lioness turned around and tried to hit Info when Gossip rushed in and bit her in the arm, soon other hyenas joined in. Silet found this an opportunity to run when another lioness ran up to helpthe other and didn't care if she ran over the hyena or not.

"Silet, you idiot, get out of way" Info shouted.

Silet was frozen stiff from fear that she couldn't move, but when the lioness was just two feet away from running her over she was pushed out of the way. Silet fit the ground and heard her friends shouting out her name. She opened her eyes and couldn't believe who just saved her "Ed?" she said, stunned

Ed smiled and helped her get up as Info and Gossip ran over to them "Ed, what the hell, where did you come from" Info said, speechlessly "I thought you were dead"

Shenzi ran up to them and the female trio was shocked "Shenzi? Wait, what's going on here" Gossip asked

"No time, we need to get the clan out of here before this whole place is cover in flames" Shenzi said

"Well, what do you want us to do, we're too busy trying to stay alive" Info said

"If you really want to live, then you will do whatever I say" she shouted

"Ok, ok, what do you want us to do" Gossip asked

"I know this will sound dangerous but I need you three to go out there and tell the others to forget about the fight and head back to the graveyard"

The females were unsure about it but they nodded "thank you, once we get everybody, we're leaving this place" Shenzi said

"Right, don't worry, we'll tell as many as we can" Info said

"What are you going to do?" Gossip asked

"I'm going to go find Scar and settle this once and for all" she said "come on Ed"

Ed nodded and looked at Silet, who was still shocked to see him alive. She smiled "you're alive" she said, tearing up a bit.

Ed cleared his throat and ignored the soreness in his throat "I love you"

Silet was stunned "did you . . . just . . . speak" she asked, and he nodded. She fainted.

Info and Gossip's jaws dropped til Info shook out of it and grabbed the nearest hyena "you, take Secret and run back to the graveyard, that Shenzi's orders"

The female nodded and bent down so Gossip could place Silet on her back "be careful, now go"

The female ran as quickly as she can without dropping the pass out female and headed back to the graveyard. Info and Gossip ran off to tell the others and Ed went to find Shenzi again.

Banzai was back into a corner and stared at Zacuru's evil eyes, who grinned, knowing that one more move, Banzai would be dead and gone. "What's a matter Banzai, getting scared knowing your life is about to end"

"No, more like creep out by the way you look" he said "that nasty wound on your shoulder is getting infected and everybody knows how vain you are"

Zacuru growled "Yes, this is what happens when Shenzi is force to do something"

Banzai was confused about what Zacuru was talking about "but with you gone, for good, nothing will keep me from getting to her" Zacuru grinned and tackled Banzai to the ground.

Banzai held back with all his strength so he couldn't be pushed off the edge. He looked at the bottom, the whole ground at the bottom was covered in flames and burned twigs, death was written in the fire if he fell. He pushed Zacuru off of him but Zacuru charged toward him again, but Banzai lean over to the left and Zacuru nearly fell off the edge.

Zacuru turned around and grabbed hold of Banzai by his chest with his teeth as his back paws fell of the edge. Banzai dug his claws into the rock as he slowly started to slide toward the edge.

"Let me go" Banzai shouted

Zacuru grabbed hold of his arms and tried to pull in off the edge "I'm not going to die unless someone comes with me" he laughed "if it not you, then Shenzi will be the one"

Banzai tried to pull back but he was slipping, soon he found himself at the edge with Zacuru just hanging onto Banzai's arms with dear life. Zacuru pulled Banzai even more "Stop it Zacuru, it not worth it" Banzai shouted

"I don't care, as long as you're going to die, I don't care" He shouted

Banzai hated him, but didn't want him to die like this, but when it his life on the line here as well he had no choice. Banzai bit Zacuru's arm so hard that he felt his teeth touching the bone so he would let him go. Zacuru screaming in pain and was lifted up by his arm by Banzai. Blood oozed down Zacuru's arm as Banzai closed his eyes and release his jaw.

Zacuru screams as he fell down the rock and disappeared in the flames at the bottom. Banzai stared at the bottom of the ground and couldn't believe he just did that to a fellow hyena even if it was Zacuru.

"Banzai!"

He turned around to see Shenzi running up to him and looked around "where's Zacuru" she asked

Banzai frowned "he's gone"

Shenzi looked at the bottom where the fire seems to be getting bigger and bigger, she gave Banzai a nuzzled "come on, lets go find Scar" she said, and he nodded.

The fight between the lioness and the hyenas were dying down as the word went out to the hyenas to forget about the fight and head back to the Graveyard as quick as they can. Some didn't care if they had to run through some flames it was better then being torn apart by lioness.

"Info, we better leave too or else it would be impossible to run through the fire" Gossip said

"But what about Shenzi and her friends" she said

"Well, if she gets burned to a crisp then that would be one less hyena that knows are names" Gossip said

Info thought about it "good point"

The two females ran down the path that would lead them the pride lands. The smoke was thick and the path was blocks by a few flames. They closed their eyes and ran through the fire, biting their tongues from the pain and running off to the graveyard.

Simba spotted Scar running off around the rock, growling, Simba ran after Scar not knowing that the trio was behind them.

"Should we follow" Banzai asked

"Of course, I want to see Scar's defeat with my own eyes" she said

"Then lets go then" Banzai said

The Trio ran after Simba and noticed about a few others were following them as well. Maybe they wanted to see Scar's defeat or thought the Trio was going to go help Scar. Simba looked back and roared at the hyenas to stay away, the trio was about to say something when they heard a voice.

"Hey Pumbaa, what do you call a hyena with half a brain"

They look up and saw a meerkat and a warthog, who was chuckling "beats me, Timon, what"

"Gifted" Timon said and they both started laughing.

What made it worst Ed, started laughing til Banzai slapped him across the face "they're talking about us" he said

Shenzi didn't care about Scar that minute, she growled and walked forward "for your last meal, you're going to eat those words"

"How can you laughed at that joke Ed" Banzai asked

"I thought it was funny" Ed laughed again

Banzai just gave him a look then followed Shenzi who went after the meerkat and the warthog. They turned the corner of a rock and saw the meerkat talking to the ground.

(Why in the heck is he talking to the ground) Shenzi asked

She heard some muffles coming from the ground then the meerkat and the warthog back against the wall.

Balean woke up after taking a very small nap when she heard commotion outside the cave. She gasped when she noticed Shenzen was gone and ran out of the cave, ignoring the pain, and went to go find him. She stopped dead in her tracks when she noticed the cloudy night sky was glowing a bright orange color with thick black smoke and the smell of fire.

After a little entertainment from the meerkat and the warthog, it appeared that they ran out of ideas. Shenzi was still trying to figure out why or whom the meerkat was talking to in the ground. The meerkat started bitting his nails, but smiled when he got an idea to by him and the warthog some time.

"Wait, whoa, hold on for one second" The meerkat said to the Trio. Shenzi and the others stopped to see what the meerkat was up too.

"Timon, what are you doing" The warthog asked

What the meerkat did next scarred Shenzi for the rest of her life when he bends down on his and as her to become his bride. The warthog's jaw dropped as well as Shenzi and Banzai was so stunned, he didn't know how to react from that.

(What in the world just happen here) Shenzi thought, and was so thankful that Info and Gossip weren't here, no doubt they would use this to get back at her for knowing their real names. She shook her head "I don't think so" she said.

The insults and the hunger got the best of her and started walking toward the meerkat, who was still babbling about the proposal, maybe he was that desperate the die she thought.

"Shenzi Marie please, I know what you are thinking" Timon said, walking back over to the wall "we're too different, it will never work, I mean what with children would look like and all"

She couldn't believe what she was hearing, but did find it rather disturbing and funny at the same time. "That violates so many laws of nature" she said to the meerkat, but he was babbling on and on and on again.

Even Banzai was going along with the joke which made Shenzi smiled, but it faded when she saw another, fatter, meerkat popping out of the dirt. Timon gave her the signal and suddenly the ground started cracking and ran toward Shenzi and the others.

Shenzi screamed and started backing up along with the other hyenas that were behind her and her friends. They stopped when the cracks stopped and were worried if something was about to happen . . . but nothing did.

"Ready to eat guys?" Shenzi asked

Banzai and Ed smirked and they started walking back over to the meerkats and the warthog. Just when Shenzi thought the weird meerkat couldn't get anymore insane, he started running toward her, which was a shock "What!" Shenzi said

"Timon no!" the female meerkat shouted

Shenzi swoops down to grab him but the meerkat jumped down a small deep crack, Shenzi pulled up and shook off the dirt from her nose and mouth. "Lets get them" she heard Banzai saying

With her stomach growling from not eating anything for days, Shenzi was the first one to charge toward the remaining meerkats and the warthog, but as soon as she landed, the thin layer of dirt broke and sent her falling inside a large tunnel.

Shenzi started to slide down the tunnel while feeling the others slamming inside the tunnel and sliding down with her. She screamed as the light faded in the background and soon it was pitch black . . .