"Ugh," Nuka said as he strated to wake up and open his eyes. Only to see all the dead lion and hyena bodies around

"What happened?" Nuka said freaked out

"Huh! Your awake!" Shenzi said a look of relief on her face

She went over and hugged him

"We were so worried," she said

"What's going on?" Nuka said

"You don't remember?" Banzai said

"Remember what?" Nuka asked

"We were attacked," Shenzi said

"Attacked!" Nuka said shocked

"Yes," Baznai said "By...uh,"

"Rival lions!" Shenzi said "A bunch of male lions came and challenged your father for these lands. He told me Banzai and Ed to get you somewhere safe while he and my hyenas fought them."

"What happened? Where is my dad?" Nuka asked

Tears began to form in Shenzi eyes

"I'm sorry," Shenzi said

"No," Nuka said in disbelief "Mom?"

Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed gave sad nods of their heads

Nuka began crying into his hyena aunts fur

"Before you mother passed on," Shenzi said sad as well "She told me, to care of you. To raise up to become the great king you were meant to be."

Nukas crying continued, yet then he got angry

"Where'd those other lions go!"

"They escaped," Banzai said

Ed pointed out to the Outlands

"We should go after them! THEY NEED TO PAY!" Nuka was about to run off. Yet Shenzi stopped him

"Whoa nephew," Shenzi said "We're not sure if that was the whole pride that attacked us,"

Ed said something

"Ed's right, they might expect us to attack them." Banzai said "We might be running into a trap,"

"The best thing to do is stay here," Shenzi said "If they come back, we'll be ready,"

Shenzi nuzzled Nuka "I won't let anything happen to the new king of the Pridelands,"

The other hyenas around knelt before the new king Nuka

"New king?" Nuka said suprised "But I'm just..."

"Don't worry Nuka," Shenzi said "I'll teach you eveything about being a ruler. I am the hyenas queen after all,"

Just then the sound of thunder roared and it began to ran

Nuka climbed a top Priderock and did his best roar, which wasn't all that much of a roar. It sounded like when Simba first did his little roar when the hyena trio were about to hurt Nala and himself.

A few day went by and it looked like the rain was slowly helping the return to the beautiful paradice it once was. And that would mean more food again soon.

Yet for now it was still searching for scraps and conserving food.

Anyway Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed had managed to find a zebra in the Pridelands, and the trio thought it'd be a good chance to teach Nuka hunting

"Look," Banzai said "Zebra,"

My favorite," Shenzi said

Yet as they were about to pounce, they heard a whimpring

"Huh?" Nuka asked

He went to investigate the sound that was coming from some tall grass nearby. As he moved away the grass to get a look.

Nuka gasped at what he saw

"Shenzi, Banzai, Ed! Come look!"

The hyena trio so and saw what Nuka saw.

It was a sad little lion cub. This cub was sobbing over it's dead mother. She had died of starvation.

"What happened?" Nuka asked

The cub kept sobbing, not even aware Nuka and the hyenas were there.

At first Nuka thought this cub was part of the evil lion that killed his family. Yet then he remembered how sad he was when his own mom and dad died. Plus it was just a baby cub, no way it killed anyone.

In the end Nuka took him in.

The cubs told Nuka his name was Kovu. In the end Nuka became something of a big brother to Kovu.

And Nuka thought it felt good to have another lion around

The hyenas didn't think to much of it. It was only one more tiny lion. And a boy lion, no cubs later

Although the cub was so young it couldn't eat meat yet. Don't worry, Shenzi's maternal instincs kicked in.

"This feels so strange," Shenzi said as she produced milk for Kovu

Meanwhile, in the dessert beyond the Outlands, another certain lion with yellow fur and a red mane was comming to the Pridelands

Hey, just cause Nala didn't come dosen't mean Rafiki still couldn't give him that pep talk

What wil happen when Simba comes?

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