I'm not even finished with this story, guys, and I'm getting really excited about writing the sequel to this! Whoops! Spoiler alert! Yes, there will be a sequel to this story, and yes, it will be based off of The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride.

Bit for now, let's just finish this story.

Chapter 4 – He's Alive

High over a dry and barren desert land, way far out of the Mixel lands, the afternoon sun was scorching the desert grounds, but it was ironically also exhausting a fiery Infernite, Mixel—the Infernite was the young Prince Flain.

The said prince was laid sprawled out on one side, looking practically half-dead. And he even started to attract buzzards to try and eat him since he looked dead enough.

But Lady Luck was smiling down on Flain, as a screaming rescue came sprinting through just when the birds were about to pick on him, and they sent the birds flying away; kicking and punching at them.

"Go on! Get outta here, ya stupid birdzzzz!" the shortest of the duo, a yellow Electroid who had only one eye, walked up right, had a long tail with a electrically charged tip, and a bigger lower jaw.

With this Electroid was a black, yellow and grey Cragster who was also cycloptic; the Cragster had a bit of a flat circle body with long legs, a pair of black horns atop his head, big feet and more or less little arms.

And the two started laughing when the birds were gone.

"Ah! Bowling for Buzzards! Other than snail slurpin', what'zzz funner that this, Seismo?" the Electroid asked his friend Seismo with a smile and in an energetic and raspy tone, and his electrical type created a tic for him to electrocute his own self when stating 's' sometimes.

But he was confused when he noticed he didn't answer his question, "Seismo?"

The Electroid turned to see the Cragster staring down at Flain's motionless body with concern.

"Um, Teslo, you better come look at this…I think it still alive," Seismo pointed out in a very guttural and caveman-like tone.

"Eww…alrighty, what do we got here?" Teslo stated with disgust at having to check out a dead corpse, but he reluctantly approached and leant down to look at the still-alive lad, but he suddenly panicked and dashed behind Seismo when he noticed Flain's little flame on his head, "GEEZ, IT AN INFERNITE! LET'S GO, SEISMO!"

But Seismo was much taller and stronger than his little Electroid buddy, so as much as Teslo tried to pull him away by pulling on his arm, Seismo didn't move and suddenly snatched his hand from Teslo's grip.

"Aw, c'mon, Teslo. Look at him; he so cute and all alone…can we keep him?"

"Seismo, are you NUTZZZZ?! Infernites BURN things, including Mixels like us!" Teslo screamed into Seismo's face while pulling him close by grabbing his horns, but Seismo once again pulled himself away.

"Why would Infernite do that in purpose? We all Mixels here, after all. And he just so little."

"He's gonna get bigger."

"Maybe he be on our side?"

"What?! That's so zzztupid…'maybe he'll be on our side'…" Teslo mocked while turning away and crossing his arms, but then he suddenly perked up and smiled, "wait a minute! What if he's on our side? Man, I'm a geniuzzz!"

"So we keep him?" Seismo asked with excitement as he went to pick up little Flain in his arms.

"Pbht! Of course we are, but let's get this kid out of thizzz heat."

With that, the two took Flain to the outskirts of a jungle, where they found some shade to put Flain in, and they found a little puddle of water and splashed it in his face; the young Infernite soon woke slowly.

"Ugh…where am I…?"

"You ok, Kid?" Teslo asked, ignoring Flain's question.

"You nearly died," Seismo pointed out with worry.

"Yeah, but I came in and saved ya," Teslo pointed out, but he lied about that when Seismo did most of the saving and carrying, so the Cragster growled at his friend, "ok, zzzo Seismo helped too…a little."

"What your name?" Seismo questioned.

"Flain."

"Flain, huh? I like it," Teslo said with a smile.

"Well…thanks for your help," Flain began groggily as he slowly stood on his feet and just started walking back out into the desert.

"Hey, where ya goin'?" Teslo questioned.

"No where," Flain sadly replied while not even looking back.

"You got home?" asked Seismo.

"No."

"Oh, I get it; you're an outcast," Teslo said with a smile as he and Seismo stepped in front of Flain with smiles, "that's great, zzzo are we!"

"Yeah? How could your past be as bad as mine?" Flain asked sadly.

"You know how Electroids live high up in the mountains to get close enough to electrical stormzzzz?" Teslo began.

"Yeah," Flain replied with wonder.

"Well, I'm an Electroid with an intenzzzze phobia of heights."

"And I keep crushing everyone and everything under big feet," Seismo added while stomping one of his giant feet to the ground, nearly sending Teslo and Flain flying a few feet up.

"As I said: your past isn't as bad as mine," Flain sighed while plopping down onto his backside.

"Hey Kid, here advice that friend Teslo always tell me: you gotta put behind in past…I think?" Seismo said reassuringly while sitting down on his knees next to Flain, but he wasn't making sense.

"No, no, no! Lie down before you hurt yourself; it's ya gotta put your past behind ya. When the world turns itzzz back on ya, you face what you've done, right?" Teslo asked.

"Right," Flain sighed.

"Wrong!" Teslo snapped as he pressed a finger in Flain's face, "if the world turns its back on you, you turn YOUR back on the world."

"Well, that's not what I was taught," Flain wondered aloud.

"That because you never met us," Seismo happily pointed out as he stood up, and took Flain's hand and stood the kid back up on his feet.

"What do you mean?" Flain questioned.

"Kid, we got ourzzzelves this motto," Teslo began.

"What's a 'motto'?" Flain asked with confusion.

"Nothing, what's a motto with you?" Teslo joked, and he and Seismo started laughing their heads off.

"No, look Kid, our motto is 'Hakuna Matata'," Teslo started after calming down.

"Hakuna what?"

"'Hakuna Matata. It mean 'no worries'," Seismo corrected Flain.

"Follow us, Flain; we gotta show ya somethin' awezzzzome," Teslo said as he wrapped an arm over Flain's shoulders, and he and Seismo started to lead Flain into the jungle outskirts ahead of them.

But when they were about a few good yards in, Flain looked out to see a vast and beautiful jungle, with mountains, waterfalls, brooks, everything a jungle could have.

"Whoa…you guys LIVE here?" Flain asked with amazement.

"We live wherever we want out here," Teslo replied.

"Yup! Home where rump rests!" Seismo happily added.

After that, they continued their stroll, and Seismo suddenly let out a loud belch.

"I starving!"

"Yeah! I'm so hungry, I could eat a giant lava rock," Flain said with a smile, but that made Teslo stop in his tracks with a frown.

"Uh…we're fresh out of lava rocks."

"Any magma soup?"

"Nuh-uh."

"Pop-lava-rock candy?"

"Negative. Listen, Flain, if you're gonna live with us, ya gotta eat like uzzz too," Teslo pointed out, and then he perked up when he saw a bug, moss-covered log, "ah! Here's a good spot to dig for some grub. Seismo, could you uh…?"

Seismo happily did the honors of using his strength, and lifted one end of the thick log up with ease, revealing thousands of bugs of various kinds.

"Eww, you guys EAT this stuff? I don't even know what that is," Flain said with disgust.

"It's a grub. What's it look like?" Teslo asked sarcastically as he pulled out a fat grub worm from the ground slurped it down with delight, only grossing Flain out even more, "ya know, it tastezzz just like chicken."

"Slimy, yet stratifying," Seismo added with a smile after slurping up a giant, slimy and long worm from its hole.

"These bugs are rare delicacies, Kid. They're as good as you can get eatery-wizzzze…ooh, the little blue-filled kind!" Teslo stated as he went along the rest of the log with a giant leaf, and it acted as a plate as the Electroid started searching through holes in the logs and pulled out all kinds of bugs.

"Just try one, Flain," Teslo said as he brought the leaf plate of bugs up to the Infernite and nearly shoved it into his face.

Flain didn't really say anything, as he reluctantly picked out a fat grub worm too, and he stared at it with disgust before slurping it down like a gummy worm without even chewing it.

And though he thought he would probably throw it back up, Flain's eyes went wide and he smiled when he realized it was actually really good.

"Slimy…yet satisfying," Flain stated with a smile, "w-what was that phrase of yours again?"

Disney Mania's 'Hakuna Matata' starts to play.

"Hakuna Matata—what a wonderful phrase?" Teslo started in a sing-song voice.

"Hakuna Matata—ain't no passin' craaaze!" Seismo happily joined in, and he and Teslo started to dance around the jungle while the music picked up, and Flain became interested as they explained their phrase in song. And the Infernite soon joined.

"It means no worries—for the rest of your daaaays!"

"Yeah, sing it, Kid!" Teslo called, and the trio started singing together in perfect harmony, and danced around together too.

And as many, many years passed by, they continued singing that happy tune. And not only that, but little Flain wasn't little anymore; he was now a strong young man.

"It means no worries—for the rest of your daaaays!" Flain sang that one verse that he sang when he was a child in his laid-back voice that he gained after maturing, and Seismo and Teslo joined in with him in happy singing as well.

"It's our problem free—philosophy! Hakuna Matata! Hakuna Matata! Hakuna Matata!"

"Hakuuuuuna Matataaaa!" Teslo sang out on his own.

But then the three boys went on repeating their favorite phrase, like they always have for years.

Though, as happy as it was out in that jungle for those inseparable Mixels, things weren't as happy-fun times back in the land of Mixels…in fact, awhile after Nyx became in charge, things seemed colorless and dead, like the Nixel lands, but just as sad since this land was once full of life.

But now, every Mixel had seemed to be hit drastically by Nyx's depressing rule, and they've all literally lost the color in themselves.

As of right now, King Nyx was lounging back in the giant king-sized bed of his brother's room of his castle, and next to the bed, poor Globert was put in a metal-barred cage.

"No body knows…the trouble I've seen…nooobody knows…my sorrow…" Globert sang sadly since Nyx requested a song, but Globert just wasn't in the mood…he also just really didn't like Nyx.

"Oh, Globert, do lighten up, will you? Sing something a little more…bouncy," Nyx whined as he obviously didn't like Globert's first song choice.

But the Glowkie advisor only rolled his eyes before choosing his next song, and started singing with a sneer.

"It's a small word after all-!"

"No! No! ANYTHING but that!" Nyx snapped.

"I've got a lovely bunch of coconapples! Dee-dee-lee-dee-dee! There they are, all standing in a row! Bug ones, small ones! Some as big as your head!" Globert regretfully sang, and Nyx like it enough to join in…but then Globert started grumbling.

"Oh, I NEVER had to do this for Ignitus…"

"WHAT?! What did you say?!" Nyx snapped as he went down and glared at the Glowie in the cage, and Globert was definitely scared.

"What? Did I say something? Who said anything?" Globert asked hysterically.

"You know the law, you one-eyed bat: Never, EVER mention that name in my presence. I am the KING!"

"Yes, yes, Sire! You ARE the king! I-I was only stating that name to…illustrate the differences in your…royal managerial approaches."

"HEY BOSS!"

"Oh, what is it?" Nyx sighed as he turned away from the cage and to his stupid trio of top Nixels.

"We got a bone ta pick with you!" Nixai shouted angrily.

"Let me handle this," Nixei stated softly, "Nyx, there's no food OR water."

"Yeah! It's dinner time, and we ain't got no stinkin' food!" Nixai angrily added.

"It's the MIXELS job to do the grocery shopping, not mine," Nyx grumbled.

"But they won't even grow the food anymore," Nixai pointed out with worry.

"Oh…e-eat Globert, then," Nyx sighed.

"What?! No! You wouldn't want to eat ME! I'm all dry and stringy!" Globert protested out of utter fear.

"Oh-ho-ho-ho! Globert, don't be ridiculous. All you need is a little A-1," Nyx laughed.

"Man, things were much better than this with Ignitus," Nixai grumbled to his friends, but Nyx heard him.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"

"I said Ign-ouch!" Nixai was about to reply, but Nixei bumped his shoulder really hard, and he sheepishly corrected himself, "i-ignition?"

"Good. Now, get out," Nyx growled.

"Yeah, but…we're still hungry," Nixai pointed out just before they left the room, but Nyx wasn't going to here their complaining.

"OUT!"

The Nixels then sprinted out while whining like dogs.

A beautiful night sky filled with millions of shining stars blanketed over the land, and Teslo, Seismo and Flain weren't going to miss this night. So after they gorged themselves a buggy dinner, they went out into a grassy clearing and laid down in the soft, tall grass.

But the peace and quiet was soon disrupted when a sudden belch sounded and it echoed throughout the valley.

"Whoa, nice one, Flain," Teslo commented with a smirk.

"Thanks."

"Oh, my tummy…I ate like big Cragster," Seismo grumbled while rubbing his stuffed stomach.

"Seismo—you ARE a big Cragster," Flain pointed out with a grin.

"Oh."

But with that, they boys just forgot Seismo's ignorance, and they all let out a long and relaxed sigh.

"Hey, Teslo?" Seismo suddenly questioned, breaking the silence.

"Yes?"

"Ever wonder what little shiny things in sky are?"

"Seismo, I don't wonder, I know…they're firefliezzz, that got stuck up in that…big, blue-ish, black thing…"

"You guys couldn't be more off," Flain softly laughed.

"Yeah, an just what do YOU think they are, Buddy Boy?" Teslo asked while sounding a little offended.

"Oh, I don't really wanna talk about it," Flain sighed sadly.

"Oh no, c'mon! ya can't leave uzzz like this!" Teslo whined.

"Pleeeeaaaase!" Seismo begged.

"Well…ok…a long, long time ago…someone once told me that kings of the past are up there, looking down on us."

"Zzo ya mean…there's a bunch a' royal dead guys watchin' us?" Teslo asked slowly, but a few seconds later, he and Seismo started bursting out laughing, and Flain didn't want to look stupid, so he started chuckling.

"What…what IDIOT told ya that?!" Teslo huffed between laughs.

"Y-yeah…pretty dumb, huh?" Flain chuckled…but then he remembered where he heard that, and he didn't want to look helpless in front of the guys, so he suddenly got up from his spot and walked off.

Teslo and Seismo sat up and stopped laughing and watched with confusion as their buddy walked away.

"Wazzz it somethin' I said?" Teslo questioned, and Seismo shrugged.

Meanwhile, the poor Infernite wandered off to the edge of a grassy cliff edge on the outside of his jungle home, and he looked up and stared into the stars. Soon though, he sighed sadly and plopped down onto his stomach onto the edge, and that caused the grasses and flowers he fell onto to send numerous little seeds and pollen particles to go flying through the air.

And that breeze of pollen and seeds was carried off by the wind through the entire night; by morning, the gust randomly reached the land of the magical, purple Wiztastics Mixels.

And it was almost like the breeze flew there on purpose because as it flew over the land of magicians, a black wand with a white tip suddenly shot up and started swirling around it.

The wand actually belonged to Magnifo; the same Wiztastic that presented Flain on her birth day, and he turned over half the gust of seeds into purple sparkles.

While he had it in his wand's grip, he rushed down from his tent's balcony and down into his tent for a home. He then ran into the living room, and up to a table with a giant crystal orb; his crystal orb. The orb was a part of his magic; it helped him see things in the past and the present, and it helped predict the future.

Once Magnifo had himself seated by the table, he took the seeds-turned-sparkles and jerked his wand to throw the sparkles into the ball. The orb soon started reacting by glowing a bright white color, and Magnifo examined it closely.

But his observing soon paid off when he saw something he NEVER expected to see, and he looked up from the orb with a huge smile.

"He's alive."

Some of you may be wondering 'Where is Pyp?' Don't worry, she'll appear again soon enough. Just you wait.

Until the next chapter, I'm TRikiD, bye-bye!