Simba and Nala ran onto a hill that was far away from where the singing took place. "Alright!" Simba shouted happily, still grinning.
"We lost him!" Nala said, who was also grinning.
"I..am a genius." Simba said, puffing his chest with pride as he grinned a toothy smile.
Nala rolled her eyes and snorted. "Hey genius it was my idea."
"Yeah, but I pulled it off."
"With me!"
"Oh yeah?" Simba said. His grin growing even wider, he jumped on top of Nala and tried to tackle her, but she slipped out from underneath him so fast that he didn't see it coming, and she pinned him to the ground, standing on his chest with her paws.
"Pinned ya." Nala said while laughing.
"Let me up!" Simba said, while trying to get out from underneath her. Nala walked away from Simba with a smug look on her face, walking kind of sassy with her tail swaying to and fro. Simba glared at her, thinking that he was stronger than her and that he would be able to pounce on her like he did Zazu. Suddenly grinning again, he jumped after Nala and pounced on her, trying to tackle her again, and the two rolled down the hill and flew over the ledge.
Nala again ended up on top of him again and grinned. "Pinned ya again!" Suddenly a geyser exploded next to them and Nala screeched, jumped off Simba and hid behind him in fear and surprise. Together, the two cubs looked around. Simba walked over to a ledge and looked over it, and he couldn't help but feel like he had been here before. Nala followed him and sat her paws over the same ledge and looked over it.
"Whoa…" they said in awe. The area was covered in dead animal skeletons. There were also mountains in every area that towered over them, and none of them looked climbable. It was creepy. He smiled and looked at Nala, who shuddered at the scenery before her.
"It's so creepy" Nala said.
"Yeah. Isn't it great?" Simba asked, and he hopped over the ledge and landed on the other side, with Nala following him closely behind. She kept looking over her shoulders, as if expecting someone to jump at her out of nowhere and pounce on her.
"We could get in big trouble." Nala said.
"I know," Simba replied jokingly. He and Nala began to explore the place, walking and stepping over many piles of bones. The two cubs approached the head of an elephant that was ten times larger than a normal elephant head.
Nala looked up at the huge elephant skull. "I wonder if it's brains are in there." She asked.
Simba looked up at her. "There's only one way to know. C'mon, let's check it out," he said walking over to it. Just then, a loud 'ahem' was heard from behind them. They jumped with fright and cowered into a corner until Simba recognized that it was Captain Panaka. "Oh... captain, sir... what brings you out here?" He grinned, wondering if he's in trouble or not by now.
"You are in serious trouble, young prince!" Panaka said, looking angry.
Simba cleared his throat and looked at the ground while Nala remained. At least his father wasn't here "Well... we... we just wanted to see what was out here."
"You can tell your father that when we get home, he's going to have a long talk with you."
Simba looked at Nala and felt embarrassed being scared. So he narrowed his eyes and smirked "Hey look! The captain is scared!" he said, chuckling.
"Don't you dare get smug with me, Simba. Right now we're all in very grave danger!"
Simba moved towards the skull and stood in front of it. "Danger? Hah! I walk on the wild-side," Simba said as he closed his eyes. "I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha ha." Simba's laughs started to echo through out the elephant graveyard, and his laughs soon turned into the cackles of hyenas. Three hyenas emerged from the skull as Simba gasped and ran back to Panaka and Nala, hiding behind them in alarm, surprise, and fear.
Shenzi, who was apparently the leader of the hyena pack, "Well well well. What do we have here Banzai?" asked the female with a sly grin on her face.
"Hmmm… I don't know Shenzi. Uh, what do you think Ed?" Banzai looked back at Ed and Ed just laughed that crazy laugh of his. Banzai later replied with, "Yeah, just what I was thinking. A trio of trespassers!"
Panaka stood at the hyenas and said, "We didn't mean to intrude. These cubs and I were leaving."
The female giggled. "So soon? Don't you know it's rude to the host to leave in the middle of a party? Especially when the entrees just got served..." The three hyenas chuckled menacingly and began to try and circle around them.
Simba stepped forward, trying to be brave.: "You'd better not come closer! This is the future king and his bodyguard you're dealing with!"
Shenzi smiled a sly grin as she continued to circle Simba. She grinned and asked, "Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?"
Simba snorted, his eyes still narrowed as he looked at the female hyena. "Puhh, you can't do anything to me."
"I'm afraid they can," interrupted Panaka, as he kneiled down to talk to Simba. "We are on their land." he got up and looked at the hyenas. "If you'll excuse us, we'll be going home." he then turned to leave with the cubs following him.
Shenzi stepped in front of them. "What's the hurry? We'd looove you to stick around for dinner." She said, but meaning something else behind those words. However, although he was very young, Simba knew exactly what she meant, and he kept getting bad vibes from her—he tried to run away, but the female hyena was blocking his escape. He frowned.
Banzai nodded, licking his lips at the thought of food. It's been such a long time ever since he last had a good meal, and looking at those lions. "Yeaaaah! We could have whatever's... "lion" around! Get it? Lion around!" he said, and then he started laughing.
"Oh wait, wait, wait. I got one, I got one. Make mine a "cub" sandwich. Whatcha think?" Shenzi said, causing all three of them to laugh with howling laughter.
Suddenly Panaka pulled out a laser pistol and shouted, "Run!" he then shot at the hyena's feet as the cubs escaped, not looking back at what was going on.
The hyenas pounced on Panaka, knocking him down, then began to chase Simba and Nala.
The cubs ran through the mazes of bones, hoping to escape the hyena's before they were lunch meat. After they were a few yards away from the sight where the Hyena's where, they stopped to catch their breath, taking notice of their surroundings.
Nala screamed as the hyenas jumped up over the cliff after them and started chasing them across the bony hills and mountains. Running up the head of the giant elephant skull, Simba flipped through the air and started sliding down the spine of the elephant's back—he blinked in surprise when Nala landed in his lap as they slid faster and faster down the twisted spine.
They landed in a pile of bones and continued running, climbing up the mountain of bones, rib cages and broken skulls. Simba started climbing up a rocky slope, moving a little bit faster than Nala, but stopped when he suddenly heard Nala scream. He looked down and saw that Nala, although her claws were extracted, was slipping towards Shenzi.
Gathering up all the courage he could muster, Simba narrowed his eyes and ran back down
toward the bottom of the bone mountain, and before Shenzi could do anything to his best-friend,
Simba swiped his claws across Shenzi's face, causing her to pull her head back and enabling Nala to make her escape.
Shenzi growled as her face bled, and she narrowed her eyes at Simba. The cubs jumped over the mountain of bones and they ran through a nearby cave. They continued running until they reached a dead end. With a gasp, Simba turned around as Nala hid behind him, her tail curled protectively around her waste as she watched the hyena's approached them in horror.
"Here kitty kitty." Banzai taunted
Simba didn't back away—he stood his ground. He wasn't going to show his fear, he was going to be brave like his father. Closing his eyes, he tried to roar, but at first it came out as a tiny squeak. When he tried to roar a second time, the scream turned into a little meow. The back of his throat felt scratchy, and he decided to stop, looking up at the hyena's with wide, terrified eyes.
Shenzi laughed at him. "Hah hah hah! That was it? Do it again, c'mon, kill me!" Shenzi said teasingly.
Simba arched his back and let out another roar, and this time, his 'meow' of a roar was so loud that it echoed throughout the cave. Amazingly, though, it sounded more like a adult's roar then it did a cub roar. Startled, the hyena's looked around the cave, hoping that it wasn't the cub's roar.
"Huh?" The hyenas said all-together, sounding more than a little confused. When another roar echoed through-out the cave, Mufasa jumped through the air and landed on top of the hyenas, scratching them and slicing their backs up with his sharp and deadly claws.
Captain Panaka ran up to the cubs and shielded them with his body. "Stay behind me!" he shouted.
Mufasa pinned the hyenas to the ground and held them together with his sharp claws and pressure that he put on his paws.
"Oh please! Please please!"
"Ow ow ow!"
"Silence!" Mufasa roared.
"We're gonna shut up right now! Stop being so tempermental!" Banzai said.
"Calm down! Look, we're sorry…" Shenzi said.
"If you ever come near my son again…" Mufasa growled, narrowing his eyes as he looked down at the three hyena's that he had pinned underneath him.
"Oh this is... this is your son?" Shenzi exclaimed in a mock surprise. She turned to look at Banzai with a fake expression of surprise and shock.
"Did you know that?" Shenzi asked.
"I sure didn't know.." Banzi replied, "did you?"
"No! Of course not!"
The two hyenas turned to Ed. "Ed?"
Ed nodded, tongue hanging out the corner of his mouth.
Mufasa roared, causing the hyena's to shrink under his piercing stare and huddle against each other in fear. "Heh..Toodles!" Banzai exclaimed. The three hyenas ran for their lives, yipping and howling in both fear and terror. They left behind a cloud of smoke that faded into the distance and the dark night. Captain Panaka walked up next to Mufasa, watching the hyenas flee
Simba stepped up toward his father, his head lowered and eyes downcast. "Dad I-"
Mufasa turned to him. "You deliberately disobeyed me."
"But dad..I-I'm sorry…" Simba tried to apologize. He knew that he was in trouble, even before Mufasa had said anything: he couldn't help but wonder what his father was going to do to him when they got home. With a long sigh, Simba lowered his head and followed after his father, with Nala behind him, who also had her head lowered.
Mufasa growled. "Let's go home."
The cubs followed Mufasa and Panaka silently, until Nala spoke up and looked at Simba. "I thought you were very brave." She said quietly, but Simba didn't say anything. As they walked out of the cave, neither cubs noticed the shadow that was flickering on the walls. Scar was standing on his ledge that stood many feet above them, and, as he looked down at the scene below him, he watched the scene angrily with his dark green eyes narrowed.