There you go, chapter 7 for the readers. Thanks for the last reviews, they're nice to read. I'm glad you all like the story still. Here be the next chapter -I know it's very long, butplease R&R as always. Atrice
Part 7 – Claws
Scar of course remembered Zira when she was young. The annoying little sister to the two lionesses he had around him already. He could never really figure her out. He knew she looked up to him, but still he didn't trust her. Scar remembered how Zira helped destroy a lot of things for him, and somehow he knew why; she wanted to get closer to the throne herself.
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He had been resting on the shadow side of Pride Rock, with the pretty lioness Sarabi by his side. She lay with her head on his stomach, and they had been talking about how it was to live here.
"Sarafina tells me you're staying here. That you won't leave, like Aloku did." She said and he nodded.
"How could I leave you?" he said with a smile, letting a paw glide down her back. If Sarabi could have blushed, she would have done so. But she looked up again.
"You must promise me one thing though… you know you won't be king, as long as your father and brother are alive. If you hurt any of them…" she said and sat up. Scar sighed.
"Why must you always begin that subject?" he jumped up and paced back and forward, the relaxed part of the day seemed to be over.
"Because I want to be sure… Scar, I like to be with you – but I could never forgive a lion, who didn't care for his pride and family." She tried to explain. He stopped and looked at her, with those deep green eyes, one covered by a scar.
"Well, I like to be with you too… so you know the answer." He said without promising anything, and she nodded with a smile – wanting him to speak the truth, although she knew he had a darker side of the soul too. A darker side she did not like at all, which lay behind the scar. The lion sat down next to Sarabi again, and she nested her head against his untidy black mane. But Scar looked up again, he heard something. Someone came their way.
"Sarabiiii!" a voice called, the voice of a cub. Soon a little lion appeared around the corner, her pelt a bit darker than Sarabis and much more messy. She stopped when she saw them sitting close.
"Zira! What are you doing here?" Sarabi moved away from her lover. Zira stood still, put one paw in front of the rest to look more noble.
"Well, the king wants to see you both. And I knew I would find Scar, if I found you… have you been doing strange things?" Zira said with a grin.
"We have been talking, like lions do. Scar, are you coming?" Sarabi asked, and he followed them away from his preferred shadowy place.
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King Ahadi stood in his chamber, waiting for the two young lions. Scar had trouble keeping his pride here, since Ahadi never made him feel good. But he didn't want to loose Sarabis faith in him. The king did not greet them, no, he simply began to speak.
"I hear you two have become good friends?" Ahadi asked them.
"We have… is something wrong with that?" Sarabi was the first of them to speak.
"Actually, there is… Sarabi, why are you seeing Scar? What about Mufasa?" the king said and Scar looked at the lioness, whose eyes suddenly looked down.
"What… about Mufasa?" Sarabi quietly asked.
"Mufasa wants you to be his queen – didn't he tell you?" king Ahadi said, almost ignoring his other son, whose heart just broke.
"He suggested it… but he never said…" she began.
"Well, that's how it is. So Scar, if you will please keep away from your brothers mate… everyone will be fine." Ahadi said with a smile, thinking what he did was good. Scar only nodded, as a lump in his throat grew.
"I'll stay away from her – for good!" he ran out of the cave, down on the savannah, away from Pride Rock. But he stopped before long, looking back at it. Was it true, what he just heard? That Sarabi had also been seeing Mufasa… Scar growled, anger filling his insides.
"Hey Scar… what's wrong?" a familiar voice then said, and Zira appeared from the high grasses that surrounded him.
"Sarabi is going to marry Mufasa! Not me… how did he find out? Nobody but you… you! Zira, you told him, you told the king we were together!" Scar ran after Zira who sprinted back towards the huge rock, followed by a now very mad lion. He finally had the cub up against the rock where she couldn't escape, ready to finish her off.
"Please… I didn't think it would be bad… I'm sorry…" she whispered, scared and seemed about to cry. That part, Scar couldn't take, and he moved away from the little lioness, who quickly moved too, so she could get away.
"You have no idea, what you've started!" Scar said and tried to hit her with his claws, but Zira ran when she saw what he tried. From that day, Scar didn't hide his claws.