A/N: Hello there. Dhaifu lost it, didn't he? I guess that happens when you get that kind of power... Just makes you go mad.

sherrylonglegs: No, Tishio's dead. His throat got burned all the way through.

Mr. Blender: Oh, he has underlying issues. You'll see in this chapter.

Chapter 2: Wildfire

Life in the Pridelands had returned to normal since Simba defeated Kivuli, the Lord of Darkness. Simba had managed to foil his plan to plunge the world into darkness before taking over the universe. Nobody had any recollection of what happened. The only ones that knew what had truly gone on were Simba and his friends. It had been about a month since Kivuli's plan, everything had been peaceful.

"...And that's why I have a grandfather that's an antelope." Haiba had finished telling one of his crazy stories to Kora and Mheetu.

"I will never be able to unhear that..." Kora said as he stood up from where he was sitting, turning to walk where the others were by the water hole, "Come on, you two."

The three cubs walked over to Simba, Nala, Tora, and Sora. They were all relaxing by the edge of the water hole, sunning their fur.

"Relaxing?" Mheetu asked as they approached.

"Yeah," Tora said as she stood up and stretched, "It's been nice not being in danger for a month, almost unreal."

"Yep." Simba said, "Even when we've left Pride Rock, nothing has tried to kill us."

"Though it does seem unusually hot today..." Nala spoke up.

Sora had been standing there, silent. The others looked over to him and saw he was sniffing the air.

"What is it?" Simba asked.

"Smoke..." Sora answered, lowering his head, "Something's burning... Badly."

"Let's go check it out." Simba told them, standing up.

"Won't your parents deal with it?" Kora asked.

"Not likely." Simba told him, "They had some business to take care of outside the Pridelands. Something about two rival prides. So, I guess that leaves it up to us."

They all began in the direction of the smell. They didn't expect it to be much, as brush fires were quite common in the area, but Sora had said otherwise. Once they were away from the water hole, they looked across the vast open fields in front of them. Off in the distance, a black cloud of smoke was clearly visible.

"I think we found it." Haiba said, "Either that or it's a pack of warthogs."

"Let's hurry," Simba told them, "it doesn't look good."

As Simba and his friends got closer, a fire came into view. It got bigger and bigger as they approached. They didn't expect the blaze to be this fierce. They stopped when the heat started to singe their fur.

"Woah!" Simba said as he backed off, "That's intense heat."

"What could have started this?" Nala asked, "The wildfires around here never get this big!"

"I don't know..." Simba said, shielding the heat with a paw, "There has to be some cause of it..."

"Oh..." they heard a voice in front of them say, "There is a cause... Me."

"Huh?" Simba said as he and the others looked up. They didn't see anything, just the flames blazing in front of them. "Who was that?"

"Oops," the voice said, "Pardon me..."

As they watched the fire in front of them, they saw a cub emerge from the flames. He walked straight through them, there wasn't a single hair burned off of his body. Whoever this cub was, he was far from normal.

"Who are you?" Simba asked as he looked curiously at the cub.

"Me?" the cub said, "My name is Dhaifu... But that is a name for the weak... I now go by Wildfire."

"Wildfire?" Haiba asked, "That's a hot name. Maybe we could get together and go into meltdown? What do you say?"

"Not now, Haiba!" Simba said before turning his attion back to Wildfire, "How did you do this!?"

Wildfire grinned at him, "Like this..." He lifted a paw and Simba and his friends watched as the bottom of it began glowing orange. Wildfire place his paw on a patch of dead grass, and they all watched as it ignited almost instantly.

"Are you crazy!?" Nala yelled, "Why would you be doing this!?"

"Why?" Wildfire asked, "Because for once, I'm the one that's in power... I'm the one that is superior. I've been tormented by others my whole life... Bullied, I was even beaten to the brink of death once..." He paused, "But they've all paid for their actions... With their lives. That's what they all get for disrespecting me."

"Surely not everyone hated you." Haiba said, "Your parents, your friends?"

"Hah!" Wildfire laughed, "My parents didn't care for me. Everytime I messed up, even the tiniest bit, they'd hurt me... They couldn't have cared any less about me. They knew about the bullying, about how I had nearly died. They didn't care." He took a minute to catch his breath, "I only had one friend... I killed him by mistake. He's the only one I'd bring back if I could."

"You're nuts!" Simba yelled, "You're nothing but a ruthless killer!"

Wildfire just smiled at him. "Yeah... I suppose I am." He glared at the group in front of him, "And you and your home are next..."

"We haven't done anything to you!" Simba shouted, "Now, get out of here before you really get hurt."

"You are in no position to tell me what to do." He walked right up in front of Simba and placed a paw on his head, "What do we say I fry your brain?"

Simba jumped back before Wildfire was able to burn him.

"Let's get out of here!" Simba exclaimed as they all started running back to the water hole. Simba looked back at Wildfire as they ran. Wildfire was ginning evilly at them the entire time. He saw both of Wildfire's paws start glowing bright orange. He clapped the two paws together, creating a bright flash of fire and a small explosion. When it cleared, Wildfire was gone, but the blaze he had created remained.

Why this cub wanted to kill them, they didn't know. The only thing they did know was that he was deadly and was on a path of destruction.

"We need to stop him." Simba said as they kept running, "He's crazy."

"How?" Kora said, "He set's things on fire!"

"I'm not so sure..." Haiba said, "I like his fiery attitude... He would be a hot date."

"Enough." Tora said, "Just keep running before he finds us... He really wants to kill us, and I'm sure it won't be long before he finds us again."

A/N: Wildfire is indeed out of his mind, I guess his past is partly to blame, as well as his power... And Haiba wants to go into meltdown with him, yeah, expect corny fire jokes... Sorry.