AN: This Chapter is from Sarafina's POV, it felt like it would work with the story.
Chapter 15 Ni!
Four months ago...
The sun was shining down on the Pride Lands, and a subtle breeze rustled the brush. "Now you be careful the currents are deceptively powerful this time of year." Said a large male lion with a golden pelt, vibrant green eyes, and a mane darker than any shadow could ever hope to be. "Taka, remember to stay out of trouble."
"It's Scar now." he said under his breathe.
"No worries King Ahadi I'll keep him on the straight and narrow." Sarafina said causing Ahadi to wink at the two. The pair left Pride Rock as they walked to the waterhole. "So where are we going Ta... Scar."
"Upendi Falls." he said in an even tone.
"Don't sound too excited." Sarafina joked as she rubbed her tail against his side, causing Scar to laugh a little. "I thought Sarabi and Mufasa were coming too."
"Mufasa has official business to deal with, and Sarabi didn't want to be a third wheel." Scar said causing Sarafina to shrug.
When they arrived at the falls twilight was upon them, and it was a balmy 65 degrees. "Beautiful night isn't it." Scar said as he pulled her into an embrace. Sarafina slipped his grasp and dove into the crystal clear water, Scar ducked away from the incoming droplets. 'He needs a bath,' she thought as she dove under the surface, Scar rushed to the rivers edge as the bubbles quit rising to the surface. "Where did she go?"
"Here I am!" she shouted as she erupted from the river wrapping him in a boa-like grip dragging him into the water.
Scar scurried out of the crystalline liquid, "What the hell was that for?!" he shouted.
"You looked like you could use a bath." she joked, "What's the big deal it's just a little water."
"The medicine for my eye reacts badly with water, it could cause me to go blind!" Scar was now steaming.
"Isn't it a little short sighted to take me to a waterfall, if you can't get wet." Sarafina said feeling accomplished that she made her point. Sarafina had pulled herself out of the water and had begun to shake herself dry.
Scar had cooled down a little at the realization that he had made, "I am sorry."
"For w..." she was suddenly back in the river, "You asshole!" she shouted splashing him.
"Come on I will help you out." he stretched out his paw, she grabbed him and pulled herself out.
"So what are we suppose to do if we can't go swimming?" she asked.
"This!" he pulled the still dripping wet Sarafina till she was face to face and he kissed her gently. 'This feels so wrong!' she pushed him away. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing."
"Come on, you can tell me." he pushed.
"Nothing, I just don't feel too good right now." She said as her insides were doing flips. "I am just gonna head home."
"Do you w..."
"No!" she cut him off, "I just need to be alone right now."
Sarafina turned and ran home but she didn't go straight home, she ran till the dewy grass turned to stone, "Where the hell am I?" She looked around and noticed a large bleached skull that seemed to have been there the beginning of time. She approached the opening between the two tusks, "Hello?" She heard her voice echo. 'Do I really sound like that?' A strong aroma of a fresh kill wafted up from underneath the skull, her belly began to growl. 'I am so stupid, I can't believe that I am doing this.'
She descended down into the ever tightening cavern, but as the cavern got tighter the smell of a fresh kill got stronger and stronger, the ground beneath her feet warped and she fell through into a massive cave that opened up to the Outlands, "Wow."
"Hey bad kitty! You guys aren't suppose to be here!" a raspy male voice began shouting from behind her. She did a 180 so she was facing the voice, and instead of one creature she was face to face with about twenty hyenas with three leading the clan.
"Hush Banzai, there is only one of her and twenty of us." The female said. She was larger than the rest of her clan but she was definitely female. 'Hyenas are matriarchal right?' "Ed!" she shouted "Go get her."
Sarafina turned tail and she ran straight to the opening at the other side of the cave. 'I gotta get home then Ahadi and Mufasa could help me out, but Ed is chasing me away from Pride Rock.' She was running at top speed, and soon she was into the Outlands with the hyena called Ed in hot pursuit. the rocks were angular and sharp she knew that she and the hyena chasing her couldn't run on this stuff for too long. 'This is either gonna work or I am a dead lioness.'
She stopped on a dime and Ed tried to do the same, but he kept sliding on the rocks causing him to skid. 'Now!' Sarafina lept right at the sliding hyena and used his dumbfounded face as a springboard and she was free of the razor-like rocks.
Sarafina ran back towards the cave and she began to scale the shear wall of the cave to the top so she could get back home. "Banzi! Go get her me and the rest of the clan will head her off at the mammoth skull!" The matriarch shouted.
Banzi was faster than Ed, but she was better at climbing than any hyena could hope of being, the terrain was difficult but, her claws were adept at finding or making a purchase. She reached the top of the cave and Banzai was only a about a fourth of the way up the cave face, then she noticed that she had two hyenas bearing down on her from opposite sides. 'I gotta split them.' She hit a gear most lions didn't have she was running at a new speed even some cheetahs would be jealous of. They adjusted their angle to head her off, she was cut off then she did the unexpected. She jumped over the first one who lunged at her and it missed and it landed face in the dirt. Hyena number two backed up a bit so it could just bite when Sarafina landed. "Oh Shit!"
The Hyena was blind sided by a small blur of tan and brown fur, Sarafina landed hard on the stony surface as she felt her shoulder pop as it began to burn. The hyena let loose a blood chilling squeal till there was a disgusting snap heard. Sarafina turned her attention to the motionless hyena as there was another blur of motion and another snap could be heard. 'I gotta get the hell out of here.' Sarafina tried to stand and run again but as she put weight on her bad leg, she collapsed to the ground. "Sarafina what's wrong?" The blur said as he rushed to her side.
"My shoulder is out." She said keeping her eyes clenched shut.
"That's an easy fix." The male blur grabbed Sarafina's bad arm and twisted it and POP! An excruciating pain overtook her body but quickly faded.
"Thank you, but who are you?" she asked as she opened her eyes, to be met by a small dirty lion with a tan pelt with a hint of gold and a dark brown mane. He was eye to eye with her, 'He sure looks familiar.'
"Don't tell me you don't recognize me." The male looked heartbroken, "Oh well it has only been about nine months since you last saw me."
"Oh my god! Ni, it's you!" she shouted embracing her long time friend. "You look the same since the last time I saw you!"
"Well you look like hell." He joked, inciting a quick jab to the shoulder.
"I am sorry for cutting this reunion short." Banzai said huffing at the cliffs edge.
Ni growled only to have Sarafina pull on his tail, "This way, come on!" Ni followed Sarafina, "We need to get to the Pridelands that is our only chance to escape.
The mammoth skull was quickly approaching, "There if we can just..." There was dozens of hyenas surrounding them. "Damn it, Ni any ideas."
"Fight our way out." He said as he began to snarl. 'I could have thought of that.'
Ni was the first to strike and he was really powerful, he bowled over three hyenas and dispatched a fourth before the rest of the hyenas surrounded him. Sarafina was lucky she only had to worry about the trio of hyenas that greeted her in the cave. She quickly jumped on top of Ed knowing his feet won't appreciate the extra weight, Ed collapsed quickly as his pads bleed profusely. Banzai was the next to attack her, he tackled Sarafina off Ed, before she could finish the job. Sarafina noticed how Banzai's legs were shaking, she swiped at his legs causing him to collapse and she quickly followed that up with a sharp kick to the sternum. The Matriarch was the last to attack she launched herself into Sarafina's bad shoulder, and her shoulder began to burn. Sarafina shrieked then there was that all too familiar blur, Ni buried his shoulder into the females muzzle. "Get that bastard." The female hyena ordered and before Ni could follow up his attack he was group tackled by what was left of the clan.
"Get out of here!" He shouted from the bottom of the pile. 'Not on your life.' Sarafina started slashing away at the mountain of hyenas till she could see Ni's filthy fur, 'There he is.' She grabbed on to what was showing and pulled him free of the pile. Ni was completely limp, and he was bleeding uncontrollably, but he was still breathing. 'I gotta get him out of here or he is gonna die.'
"Who's next!" She shouted half of the hyenas were covered from head to toe in bites and claw marks and none of them seemed all too eager to deal with an angry Sarafina. The matriarch walked to the front of what was left of her clan.
"We clearly underestimated you, we don't want too much bloodshed. I know when to back out so goodbye." She said turning and leading what was left of her clan away from the scene of carnage.
Sarafina hefted Ni's unconscious form on to her back, 'To Rafiki's tree.' "You sure are heavy for how small you are." Sarafina ran as fast as she could to the old baobab tree that Rafiki claimed as his home. It was near midnight "Ni stay with me!" She pleaded, Sarafina could no longer feel his breathing. "Rafiki!" She roared.
He must have heard her because he was waiting at the base of the tree leaning against his staff, "This is not good," he said as he saw that Sarafina was covered in Ni's dried out blood. "Jelani get down here, Rafiki will need extra help on this one!"
He shouted up the tree, another mandrill fell from the massive tree landing on his back. "Umpf, what do you want cuz." The other mandrill was younger than Rafiki but he reeked of fermented fruit, Sarafina coughed and he turned to see the two lions covered from head to toe in dried blood, "That is definitely not good." Jelani said as his face went white and his eyes rolled into the back of his head, "Get him up the tree, we don't have time to spare."
Sarafina quickly scaled the tree and collapsed under the weight she had been carrying across the Pridelands. Jelani still looking like a ghost dragged Ni's limp form over near the medicine and quickly poured a powder over Ni's body causing him to squirm and moan in pain. "Quit it! You're hurting him!" she screamed at the oblivious mandrill.
Rafiki quickly jumped in front of Sarafina with his palms up, "Calm down that powder is only cauterizing the wounds." He said trying to soothe Sarafina. "He is the best healer in Africa, he will take care of him but Rafiki needs to treat you too."
Sarafina laid down and Rafiki quickly poured some of the powder that Jelani was using of her wounds as well. She shivered as the powder burned every inch of her body eventually causing her to pass out. When she woke up the moon was out, "What happened?"
"Good you're awake." Rafiki said rushing over to her side as he offered her a leaf bowl with water in it. "Drink this you have been out for at least a whole day."
"A whole day?"
"Yeah. Ni is quite a character he wouldn't leave your side till I had to break out the powder again." Rafiki said chuckling, "He is waiting for you at the bottom of the tree."
AN: How do you guys think this chapter was, I think it might have been my best chapter yet. Let me know how you liked the way Scar and Sarafina's relationship crumbled, but anyway rate and review this will be my last chapter for a few days I will be on a camping trip, and let me know if you liked me bouncing around the POV cause I have an idea for a few miore chapters like this.