Chapter 19: Act II Scene V: Remember
"Stop!" Rafiki ordered him. The lights were on and they were on and they were VERY close to the edge of the stage. "Look." He pointed at the ground offstage. Simba knelt down and looked offstage.
"No, that's not my father," Simba told him. "It's just my reflection."
"Look CLOSER," Rafiki encouraged. "See how your father lives on in you."
"Simba," a voice said. Simba looked up and on stage above them white lights formed the head of a lion.
"Father?" Simba questioned.
"Simba, you have forgotten me," Mufasa said. Simba shook his head.
"No, I didn't forget you," Simba responded. "How could I?"
"You have forgotten who you are so you have forgotten me," he told him. "Look inside yourself. You're more than what you have become. It's time for you to take your place in the circle of life."
"But I…," Simba began.
"Remember who you are," Mufasa said. "You are my son. The true king of Pride Rock. Remember." He started to fade.
"Father, Father!" Simba exclaimed. He stood back up. "Wait!"
"Remember," Mufasa said. He then disappeared. Rafiki laughed.
"What was THAT?" Rafiki said. "Oh! Would you look at that? Notice anything?" Simba turned to face him.
"Yeah, looks like the winds are changing," Simba answered.
"Change is good," Rafiki said.
"Yeah, but it's never easy," Simba told him. "I know I need to, but it also means to face my past. And I've been running from it for so long." Rafiki bonked him on the head with his stick. "Oww! What was that for?!"
"It doesn't matter. It's in the past," Rafiki answered. Simba was rubbing the spot.
"But it still hurts," Simba said.
"Oh, the past can hurt," Rafiki stated. "But the way I see it. You can either run from it OR learn from it." He tried again but Simba ducked. "You see! Now, what are you going to do?"
"First, I'm gonna take your stick," Simba responded. He grabbed it from Rafiki.
"No, no, no, no, not the stick!" Rafiki exclaimed. Simba then threw it behind him and began running off. Rafiki grabbed his staff and turned to see Simba. "Hey! Where are you going?"
"I'm going back!" Simba yelled before leaving stage.
"Good! Go! Get out of here!" Rafiki yelled back. "Yahoo!"
The lights went out briefly before showing Timon and Pumbaa sleeping. Nala walked on. She tapped Timon on the back.
"Timon, Timon," she said. She shook him a little. "Wake-up." Timon yawned, looked at her, and started screaming. Then Pumbaa started screaming. Timon fell off Pumbaa. "Woah! Woah! Guys, it's me." They stopped screaming.
"Don't do that!" Timon exclaimed. "Predators."
"Hey have either of you seen Simba?" Nala asked.
"No, I thought he was with you," Timon said.
"He was but now I can't find him," Nala told him. They heard laughter and looked up to see Rafiki in a tree.
"You won't find him here," Rafiki told them. "The king has returned."
"I don't believe it," Nala said. "He's gone back!" Timon and Pumbaa turned to look at her.
"Gone back where?" Timon asked. They turned back to where Rafiki was but he had vanished. "Oh, now where'd he go?"
"Simba's gone back to challenge to Scar," Nala told them. They looked back at her.
"Who?" Timon questioned.
"Scar," Nala responded.
"Who's got a scar?" Timon asked.
"No, it's his uncle," Nala corrected.
"You mean the monkey's his uncle?" Timon questioned.
"No," Nala repeated. "Simba's gone back to challenge his uncle to take his place as king."
"Oh!" Timon and Pumbaa said.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go help 'em," Pumbaa declared. He and Nala started to leave stage.
"Yeah…Wait, wait a minute," Timon said. He then ran after them. "Now Pumbaa let's talk about this!" The light turned off.
"How much longer until this is over?" Hawkgirl asked.
"Ten to fifteen minutes," Green Lantern answered. "Why?"
"Because we're kinda bored of this, dah!" The Leaguers looked up to see who was talking.
"Mxyzplk?" Superman questioned. "What are you doing here?"
"Being the writer's commentary," he told him. "Not that you know what that means. So this for the audience." He made a stack of notecards appear and a pair of reading glasses and started reading the notecards. "If you want me to use…Wait USE?!" He stops reading them. "DC Watchergirl, you need to rewrite that!"
"Mxyzplk! Don't make me erase you out the story," a female voice said.
"Fine! But I still think that this card needs to be rewritten," Mxyzplk complained.
"I heard that!" she told him.
"Okay! Okay! I'm moving on!" Mxyzplk said. "Well, anyways, if you want Mxy to fast forward through this and get to the fluff and other things, type A into the reviews. If you want me to continue this until the end, type in B in the reviews. Note that if I continue they'll be about two or three more chapters before we get that stuff. Please vote in the reviews and thanks for reading." He disappeared.
"Did that make sense to anyone else?" Flash asked. They shook their heads. "Good, cause for a second I thought it was just me."
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