Grazing out in the Pride Lands, some gerenuk antelopes were grazing on the grass and eating leaves from trees since they are a very flexible type of animal. Not only that, but there was a reason a gerenuk was called a: "giraffe gazelle" because of their unusually long necks to get the leaves from the tree branches.
Yes, everyone was going peacefully for these creatures, but then, a grey figure swooped down in a couple as fast as lightning. A female voice was heard laughing, and it was Mpishi, the bad harrier hawk that wanted to eat her own way.
"Ooh! So much gerenuk to feed off!" She said with delight. "Which one should I eat first?" The gerenuk all screamed and began to run for their dear lives. "They always run." Then she attacked and tried looking for a perfect meal for herself to eat.
"Run!" Said a female. "She's gonna eat us!"
Mpishi then found a little baby gerenuk that looked helpless and vulnerable, ripe for the picking. She licked her lips in a lustful way and swooped down to grab with her sharp talons. Before she could touch him, something bumped into her.
Almost crashing to the ground, Mpishi looked at what hit her right side, and it was Ono, the Lion Guard's keenest of sight. "Leave these Gerenuk alone, Mpishi!" he shouted valiantly. "Or suffer the consequences!"
"Ugh. Just what I needed. Ono of the lion guard." Mpishi sounded the opposite of thrilled or pleased when she met this bird again.
"And I'm not alone."
"Leave then alone, Mpishi!" Kion called from below. "Stand down, or prepare to fight!"
"That's right!" Said Bunga. "We're gonna clip your wings and pluck your feathers out one at a time!"
Mpishi began to laugh out loud at the honey badger's petty insult, and she said: "you just try it, Bunga. Just try it!" She swooped down again and sliced Bunga with her talons.
"Gah! Good thing I have tough skin." He looked at where she clawed him, which was on the left side of his torso. No blood was coming out of it, thanks to his very tough hide.
"Ooh. Did that hurt?" Asked Mpishi in a mocking tone of voice. "I meant for it to go all the way down to the dermis!"
"Well joke's on you, Mpishi!" Said the young honey badger. "I am tough as a rock!"
"Alright Mpishi, stop trying to hunt these gerenuk right now, or pay the price!" Kion continued. "Which is it going to be?"
"No one, and I mean no one tells me what to eat or not eat!" The harrier hawk replied. "I eat what I want, and I want some Gerenuk for lunch!"
"It's not in the circle of life!" Said Fuli. "Why won't you understand that?"
"Because that is a load of elephant dung! The Circle of Life is all nonsense!"
"Nonsense?" Said Beshte. "Have you not heard about what Scar did to the Pride Lands when he was king?"
"Bah! I wasn't in the Pride Lands during the time. To be fair, when many animals moved in the Back Lands during his reign, it seemed like a a buffet for me." She licked her lips again.
"Just leave the Pride Lands now!" Kion ordered.
"You want me out? You'll have to fight me!"
She saw Ono charge at her again, but this time, she dodged and clawed at his left wing with her talons. "Ha! Missed me that time, stupid egret!"
"Gah. I am not out of the game yet."
She tried to bite at Lion's face with her beak after she pinned him down, but the cube dodged over and other again by twitching and tilting his head a few times, and he ultimately kicked the harrier hawk off of him. Finally, having enough of her hubris, Kion used the Roar of the Elders on her with a strong, staggering wind almost making her fall.
Ultimately, realizing that she cannot win, Mpishi ultimately fled for her dear life back to the Back Lands. So once again, the day is saved, thanks to the Lion Guard. The gerenuk went up to the kids to thank them for saving their hides.
Meanwhile, Mpishi flew off in shame and saw Makucha sitting on that very tree before when he first met the harrier hawk. "Whoa, you don't look so good, Mpishi." Said the leopard. "Another run-in with the Lion Guard?"
"Yep. Pretty much. Gah! I really hate those kids. I just wanna slice their eyes out with my talons."
"Heh. That goes double for me and my lethal claws." He sliced at the bark of the trees leaving three scratch marks on the bark.
"Excuse me," said a voice. They looked down and it was a fierce-looking honey badger, Hefir to he exact. "I couldn't help but notice you talking about the Lion Guard."
Makucha and Mpishi looked suspicious about that honey badger. "Maybex what's it-" then he recognized that honey badger. "Wait, you're Harif."
"The Harif?" The harrier hawk gasped surprisingly. "I've heard about you. You are one of the most cruel and sadistic animals in the Pride Lands."
"Yeah, guilty as charge, girly." Then Draak and Tuma went next to him. "These are my friends: Draak and Tuma."
"Hey." Said the hippo.
"What's happening?" Asked the gorilla. "We heard you hate the Lion Guard as much as we do and we are always looking for some new friends."
"Beshte and his father kicked me out of my pod." Said Draak.
"And I was exiled from my family when I wanted to challenge Sokwe to be the leader of it. But, the Lion Guard ruined everything for me."
Both Makucha and Mpishi looked intrigued and interested hearing these stories. "Is that right?" Saidnthe Harrier hawk. "Well, those kids always ruin everything for me by not letting me choose what I want to eat. Carrion is hardly a meal, and I want to eat live animals."
"Same here." Said Makucha. "I just wanna go my own way and eat what I want but they say it's the circle of life. What a load of dark meat!"
"Well-said, leopard." Said Draak.
"Name's Makucha."
"And I'm Mpishi."
"Well, how would you like to he apart of our group?" Said Harif. "The Lion's Bane. Together, we will be an unstoppable team and we can do whatever we want. The Lion Guard will never know what will hit them."
Bith Makucha and Mpishi smiled evily. They really liked where this is going and they have just about had it with the new Lion Guard meddling in their affairs. "I think you got yourself some new friends, Harif." Said Mpishi.
"Anyone who is an enemy of the Lion Guard is a friend of mine." Makucha added.
Boy, this did not look so good. Five enemies of the Pride Lands coming together as one group. Still, would they be any match for Kion's mighty roar? It not? For now, they decided not to attack the whole Pride Lands, and plan to attack another day.
