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Chapter 15 –scar's tyranny
Time had passed since Scar had taken over Pride Rock, joy of joys, Shargra had FINALLY started to grow a mane. Shanika had barely stopped whimpering all day, since she had learnt that Scar (or that HORRIBLE Brown git as she called him) wanted to see her in his cave. ('HIS cave? How dare he call it HIS cave?' she had screamed.
It had been several hours since she had disappeared now, and Shargra was beginning to get worried that Shanika was in serious trouble – she was still annoying to Scar, shouted rude words at him, and both she and Shargra were well known for having preferred Mufasa as king – because lions had a nasty habit of 'disappearing' when Scar was annoyed with them.
In short, Scar's rule was a tyranny, and Shargra was just debating whether to charge into Scar's cave and demand they release his friend when a very angry looking Shanika appeared at the caves entrance and stormed in.
"Shanika, thank god! I was really worried about you!"
Shanika just growled and went to lie down.
"Didn't go well then huh?" Shargra asked.
"He. Put. Me. On. The. Hunt."
"Oh." The hunt, once something all young lionesses aspired to, was now the ultimate degradation – and all the lionesses were on it now, even the ex-queen. Still, Shanika being still of tender years, it was a surprise in itself that she was on it, and she did not look pleased.
"How could he put me on the hunt! I mean ME! Shanika, the almighty lioness of doom! Ruler of the world! Goddess of all lions! The- ".
"Shanika, Shanika, enough with that that, what happened?" Shargra interrupted. Something else had obviously happened to upset her, because there were tears prickling in her eyes.
"Well, we were nearing lunch, it hadn't seen us then… it doesn't matter what happened, but I was blamed for it." she growled, looking away.
"What happened Shanika?" Shargra asked again, gently.
"Well, it was like I said… we had almost got close enough when one of those hyenas bounded up to us and scared it away." she said.
"How could they blame you for that?"
"Well… it sort of ran up to me, and I yelled out his name… it was, erm, Fluffy Two" she whispered.
"Oh, I told you to get rid of him Shanika!" Shargra moaned exasperatedly.
"I did! He must be in the pack that GIT brought here! D'you know what he said? He said it was all my fault and I was a stupid lioness and even Fluffy Two was cleverer than me…'cept he said Ed…and he's going to make me stand out in the rain! I'm damned if I'll stand in the rain! I AM SHANIKA! GODDESS OF WORLDS! HE SHOULD WORSHIP-"
"You see why you shouldn't have pets Shanika? They get you in trouble, don't they?" Shargra explained.
At this point the rest of the Pride entered the cave giving Shanika dirty looks. As they stalked away Shargra could distinctly hear them muttering things like "Stupid lioness," "Getting us in trouble," "She's useless," and "Needs to keep her 'boyfriend' away from the hunt!"
Lucky Shanika didn't hear this, Shargra thought, otherwise she would have gone mad and he would never hear the end of it. Hoping to get Shanika out of harm's way he mumbled "Come on Shanika, let's go somewhere and find some food."
With this Shanika perked up a bit,(although she was heard to mutter sarcastically "Food? HA! I laugh at your puny offerings, for there is no food left, and I…did you say FOOD? FOOD!") and followed him out of the cave, growling.
It was raining in the pridelands which was bad for two reasons: one was that lions, like other cats, weren't big fans of water, and as Shanika kept trying to walk underneath Shargra he couldn't walk properly, her being the same size as him; and the other reason was that the author's laptop was getting wet and threatening to shut down and end the world because it couldn't be written, and the beta was too busy dancing in the rain to be bothered.
"Stop complaining about it and get on with it, will you!" Shargra shouted angrily, "We don't like it in the rain either!"
"Who are you talking to?" Shanika asked, giving Shargra confused looks.
"No one," he said hurriedly, giving angry glances at the sky, "let's get going."
"Shargra…" whimpered Shanika.
"Yes, that's me. It was me two seconds ago two. Good to know I'm still me. What?"
"We're not allowed out of the cave until the git says so."
"Since when have you cared about rules, Shanika?"
"Yeah, but I'm in trouble already…I don't want to get in any more…I'm scared…"
"I promise, we won't get caught. It'll upset Scar!"
She grinned. "Okay."
With that the two lions started walking, Shanika kicking at rocks she came across and Shargra thinking to himself.
"I bet you made it rain."
"Shanika…"
"Oh, so it's your fault it's raining? I am NEVER talking to you again!" she shouted.
Shargra rolled his eyes as she stormed off. "Five, four, three, two, one…"
"Are we nearl- "
"I told you to NEVER SAY THAT AGAIN! Oh, just shut up, you're so annoying!" Shargra groaned.
"DON'T SHOUT AT ME!" Shanika said sounding hurt.
"I'm sorry Shanika, but you do go on sometimes." Shargra said apologetically.
"That's ok, the Holy Shanika forgives you," Shanika grinned, sounding pleased with herself. Shargra just rolled his eyes and said nothing.
"YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT!"
Suddenly both the lions froze as they recognised the tones of a hyena. They were out of bounds. They'd been caught.
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