Chapter 18: Revelation

By now, Simba and Nala had made their way to the courtyard in front of the Palace (this was the courtyard where all the people gathered to see the presentation of each new prince. Simba was home and yet nothing was as it seemed, once familiar images were now strange and alien to him. The courtyard was enormous (the size of three football pitches) and surrounded on all sides by walls about ten feet high, there were voices coming from inside. Simba and Nala decided it would be best if they entered from different sides so Nala went off to find a way to enter from the west side while Simba was left to get over the east side of the wall. He removed a small, but strong, grappling hook from his belt, removed his trench coat and threw the hook over the wall and used it to climb and then perched himself on the top of the wall and watched the scene below: Scar was at one end of the courtyard and, lined in front of him were rows of cannibal foot soldiers. Standing next to Scar were three cannibals who were pretty high in the army, judging by their clothes; one was female the other two were males and one male had a blank stare in his eyes, Simba recognized them as the three nincompoops he had encountered as a boy.

Scar stood at one end of the courtyard and lining both sides were the faithful cannibal army and in front of him were the 50 or so, people who detested Scar and all he stood for he had called them there for a reason, he stepped forward and ordered Sarabi to step forward. She pushed her way out of the crowd and, with her head held high, walked up to Scar , "Yes, Scar?" she asked in a tone which suggested that this was not the first time she had been called before him.

"It has come to my attention," said Scar, ignoring her tone, "That you are the head of the, so-called, resistance who are responsible for the attempts at dethroning me."

"I don't know what you're talking about, Scar," said Sarabi.

"No," said Scar, "Of course you don't."

He called for Sarafina to step up; Sarabi looked back and gave a light nod. Sarafina stepped up and walked up to stand next to Sarabi, but Scar grabbed her, drew a pistol and aimed it at her head, "Now Sarabi, I will not ask again, are you or are you not leading the resistance? And don't try lying again or I will have to add an extra hole to dear Sarafina's head."

"You win Scar," said Sarabi with fear as she saw Scar ready to kill Sarafina, "I am leading them.

"Good girl," said Scar and he let Sarafina go and Sarabi went over to comfort her, "As punishment," said Scar to Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, "Execute Sarafina."

"You can't do that," said Sarabi in shock.

Suddenly she ran up to Scar and was about to hit him over the head when he grabbed her arm and brought his face so close to hers, that their lips were almost touching,

"I wish you could have seen the look on Mufasa's face when I shot him and let him fall from that window," said Scar.

Sarabi's eyes widened and began to fill with tears. She looked Scar in his eyes (the eyes she once could find so much comfort in, now all she saw was cruelty and insanity) and said in a whisper, "You sick, twisted bastard."

"Is that any way to speak to your King?" asked Scar, smiling.

"If you were half the King, Mufasa was, you…" but Sarabi never finished for Scar had hit her over the face.

"I'M TEN TIMES THE KING MUFASA WAS."

"Scar," they all heard someone call and every one looked up to the wall to see a young man standing at the top.