ok heres the next chapter thanks to Kiara32 for reviewing

and now for somthing completly diffrent... sorry, had to say that

Chapter 8 - leaving the wilderness

It was early when Shargra woke he looked around to see what woke him - this was instantly obvious; there was only one lion who would do that.

"Shanika get off! You're too big to do that anymore! I don't want a teenage lioness using me as a cushion!" he shouted trying to push her off him but she was too heavy to move.

"Shanika wake up!" he shouted.

Shanika opened half an eye and said in a muffled voice "Shanika is not available at the moment, please leave a message after the tone. BEEEP!"

"Shanika stop being stupid and get off!" he shouted, he'd known Shanika for his entire life and she was even less mature than she was the day she was born. Come to think of it, the few years they had spent in this cave, whilst it might have had a positive affect on both their heaths, she had only got more insane. Indeed, Shanika, a lot younger than him, barely remembered their old home.

"Shanika, if you don't get off now you will never get food again!" he warned warily, well aware he could never do that to her.

At this Shanika shot up "I'm sorry Shargra! I'm sorry! Please don't do that to me! I'll do anything! Anything!" she begged, breaking into desperate sobs.

"Okay Shanika, let's go get breakfast ok?" Shargra said trying to calm her down. Of course, it didn't work. 'Breakfast' was one of the few words that Shanika adored, the others being 'lunch', 'elevenses', 'tea', 'dinner' 'supper' and 'food'.

Shanika didn't need an answer to this she just ran to the entrance of the cave and out into the Savannah, bounding around in joyful leaps. Her food craziness did nothing to fatten her up, Shargra thought as he grumpily got to his feet. Lucky so and so.

He trotted to the end of the cave and…

"You're stuck again, aren't you?" asked Shanika, running up.

"No!"

"Then what are you doing? Admiring the view? Scratching your butt on the cave wall? Or, god forbid…EXERCISING?"

"That is quite enough of the weight jokes thank you Shanika!" he yelled, "Here, pull me out."

Shanika grabbed his outstretched paw in her teeth and pulled, as he came out of the gap with a 'pop'!

"Well, looks like it's time to move on." he said, scratching his chin with his paw in a thoughtful manner.

The lioness gasped. "Moving? Oh, let me get a few things!" And she darted back inside.

"You're a lion, how many things can you have?" Shargra called after her.

She ran back out with a shiny rock in between her teeth, dropped it, ran back in the cave, and ran back out again with another rock until she had a pile of about five feet high.

"I didn't know you had that many shiny rocks!" he said, surprised.

"Well, you never asked, did you?" she replied over her shoulder, darting back in. "And now my most prized possession…"

There was a long pause. "Shanika, that's a leaf."

"Exactly!" she said triumphantly.

Shargra sighed. "Leave it all there and come on."

They started to move off. "I still don't get why we have to leave."

"Because we've outgrown the cave, the waterhole is drying up and you are driving me insane! Neither of us have seen another lion, no, make that another creature -"

"Except Fluffy!"

"-Except Fluffy - and you don't even remember what our old home looked like any more! We need other company."

"Oh. Do I really drive you insane?" she asked, tears welling up in her eyes.

"YES!" Shargra shouted, taking it for another playful question.

"Oh." Shanika wiped the tears from her eyes and walked along behind him, as they headed towards the big rock, and 'civilization'.

"Are we there yet?" Shanika asked.

"Don't start that again, you do that everywhere we go!" he answered

"Oh, why are we going this way?" she asked.

"Because we saw lions at the big pointy rock didn't we?"

"Oh yeah, when do we eat?"

"Go feed yourself to a hyena!" he shouted, resisting the urge to launch himself at her and strangle her.

"Oh…okay." She said, wandering off sadly.

Shargra looked over to her, and realised the consequences of using sarcasm on Shanika. "Hey! Don't get upset you fool, I was being sarcastic! Fool of a lioness!" he said, in a desperate attempt to cheer her up.

"Oh, okay." And they started walking again.

"What's the air velocity of a laden swallow?" Shanika asked.

"Hmm…? Oh, European or African?" mused Shargra in reply.

"African. Carrying a coconut."

"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"

"Not at all, they could be carried on a creeper."

"What, under the dorsal feathers?"

Hey guys? That's copywrited.

"Who are you?" asked Shargra, looking wildly around.

I'm the author. And I'm the beta! Hi!

"Oh. Will you go away now, you're scaring Shanika." The lioness in question was quivering under a rock.

Well fine then! Yeah, don't go expecting any help from us! You can narrate your own story! Don't be rude to my characters! Well they were rude to me!

"Um, hello? We're kind of having our lives wasted here."

(in unison) Oh. Sorry.

"That's fine. Come on Shanika, I think I see a lion and a smaller lion sitting on the rock."

Shanika squinted ahead. "Oh yeah! Cool!"

Of course, the lions on the rock were blissfully unaware of the dramatic bombshell that was about to hit them…and the war with Scar would be pretty bad too.

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