Sarafina smiled, as she watched her cub run off with Simba.
Sarabi sighed, and lied her head on her paws.
Sarafina heard this and looked at her best friend with concern.
"What's wrong, Sarabi?" Sarafina asked.
Sarabi put her eyes on Sarafina.
"Nothing, my friend." She replied.
Meanwhile in the Pridelands
Zazu the hornbill with blue feathers and an orange beak, was leading Nala, and Simba to the waterhole.
Nala looked up at Zazu to make sure he wasn't listening.
"So where are we really going?" Nala asked, whispering.
"An Elephant Graveyard." Simba replied.
"Wow!" Nala exclaimed.
Simba widened his eyes and glared at Nala.
"Shh! Zazu." Simba whispered angrily, pointing at Zazu.
"Oh, right." She said.
Nala looked at Zazu again, then turned her gaze to Simba.
"So, how are we going to ditch the dodo?" Nala asked.
Simba smiled, Nala knew he already had a plan in mind.
"Well, we could distract him, from us." Simba said.
Nala laughed, and nuzzled Simba.
He blinked, then smiled.
"Great idea, but how?" Nala asked.
"Oh, just look at the two of you. Little seeds of romance blossoming in the Savannah. Your parents will be thrilled... with your being betrothed and all." Zazu said while flying down in front of the two cubs.
"Be-what?" Simba asked.
"Betrothed. Intended. Affianced." Zazu replied.
Nala and Simba were confused, they have no idea what Zazu is talking about.
"Meaning?" Nala asked.
"One day, you two are going to be married." Zazu said, smiling.
Nala and Simba wrinkled their muzzles in disgust.
"Yuck!" Simba exclaimed.
"Ewww." Nala exclaimed.
"I can't marry her, she's my best friend." Simba said.
"Yeah, It'd be too weird." Nala agreed.
"Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but you two turtle-doves have no choice, It's a tradition..." Zazu said.
Simba mimics Zazu saying those words.
"Going back generations." Zazu finished.
"Well, when I'm king, that'll be the first thing to go." Simba said.
"Not so long as I'm around." Zazu said.
"Well, in that case, you're fired." Simba said, smiling.
"Hmmm... Nice try, but only the king can do that." Zazu said, poking Simba's muzzle.
"Well, he's the future king." Nala said.
Simba thumped Zazu's chest, "Yeah. So you have to do what I tell you." Simba said.
Zazu was getting upset.
"Not yet I don't. And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed." Zazu said angrily.
Simba smiled at Nala then at glared at Zazu.
"Not the way I see it." Simba said.
Simba jumps in front of Zazu and the whole place turns into many colors.
Simba begins to sing.
"I'm going to be a mighty king, so enemies beware!" Simba sang.
"Well, I've never seen a king of beasts, with quite so little hair." Zazu sang, while plucking one hair from Simba's head, Simba winced.
Simba puts his head through a bush, and it looks like the leaves are his mane.
"I'm gonna be the mane event, like no king was before."
Simba climbs a log, and puts his paw on his chest.
"I'm brushing up on looking down, I'm working on my Roar!"
Zazu was startled and fell backwards into a puddle.
Zazu gets on his feet.
"Thus far, a rather uninspiring thing." Zazu sang.
Zazu grabs a red thing and wipes his beak, the red thing was an ear of a red elephant, the red elephant swung its trunk and hit Zazu.
Zazu went flying into another puddle.
Nala and Simba run to Zazu.
"Oh, I just can't wait to be king!" Simba sang.
Nala is on the left of Zazu, and Simba is on the right.
"You've rather a long way to go, young master, if you think..." Zazu said.
"No one saying do this." Simba sang.
"Now when I said that-" Zazi said.
"No one saying be there." Nala sang.
Simba stuck out his tongue at Zazu.
"What I meant was-." Zazu said.
"No one saying stop that." Simba sang.
"What you don't realize-." Zazu said.
Nala made a face at Zazu.
"No one saying see here!" Nala and Simba sang together.
"Now see here!" Zazu yelled.
Nala jumped in the puddle and Zazu was dripping with water.
Simba ran and Nala followed.
Simba climbed on an ostrich, and Nala climbed a different ostrich.
"Free to run around all day." Nala and Simba sang.
"That's definitely out." Zazu said.
Zazu flew ahead of the cubs not looking in front of him.
"Free to do it all my way!" Simba sang.
"I think it's time that you and I arranged a heart-to-heart." Zazu sang.
WAM!
Zazu flew right into a rhino's rump.
Zazu fell to the ground, he was dizzy.
The ostrich that Nala is on lowered its head, and Nala hung on to it's neck.
"Kings don't need advice from little hornbills for a start." Nala sang.
"If this is where the monarchy is headed count me out!" Zazu said.
"Out of service, out of Africa, I wouldn't hang about." Zazu said.
"This cub is getting wildly out of wing." Zazu said.
"Oh, I just can't wait to be king!" Simba sang.
"Everybody look left." Simba sang, a herd of animals tramples Zazu.
"Everybody look right." Nala sang, the herd of animals trample Zazu again.
Simba hops up a ladder of giraffe heads.
"Every where you look I'm..." Simba sang.
Simba and Nala roll down a giraffe neck and land on its stomach.
The two cubs held out one paw in the air.
"Standing in the spotlight!" Nala and Simba sang.
Zazu is stuck between two animal butts.
Zazu pushes them away as strong as he can.
"Not yet!" Zazu exclaimed.
The two animal butts crush Zazu.
"Let every creature go for broke and sing, let's hear it in the herd and on the wing, It's gonna be King Simba's finest fling." Nala, Simba and the other animals sang.
A pyramid of many animals form, and Nala and Simba are on the very top.
"Oh, I just can't wait to be king." Simba sang.
"Oh, he just can't wait to be king." Nala sang.
"Oh, I just can't wait..." Simba sings.
"Just can't wait." Nala sings.
"To be king!" Nala and Simba sing.
The pyramid of animals crumbles, and Nala and Simba go flying to the ground.
Simba hits the ground first, but he isn't hurt, Nala falls on top of him.
Nala gets of Simba, and the two cubs run away.
Nala looked back at a rhino, she sees a meerkat and a warthog, walking away from the rhino.
"Hey, Simba, look a meerkat and a warthog." Nala said.
Simba turned around and he did not see a meerkat, or a warthog.
"Yeah, right. Let's go." Simba said.
Nala and Simba ran again.
Nala began laughing, Simba joined her.
"All right, it worked!" Simba exclaimed.
"We lost him." Nala said.
"I am a genius." Simba said, arrogantly.
"Hey, genius, it was my idea." Nala said.
"Yeah, but I pulled it off." Simba said.
"With me!" Nala exclaimed.
Simba got into pouncing position.
"Oh yeah?" Simba said.
Simba growls playfully, and jumps on Nala, they wrestle, and Nala pins Simba on the ground.
He widened his eyes in shock, he had no idea Nala could do that.
"Pinned ya." Nala said.
"How did you do that?" Simba asked.
"I learned." Nala replied.
"Let me up." Simba said, annoyed.
Nala turned away smiling, Simba glares at her, then jumps on her again, they both tussle, and roll off a small cliff, the atmosphere grew darker around them, they did not even notice.
Nala pinned Simba again, he grunts.
"Pinned ya again." Nala said, with triumph.
Playing with Tojo, payed off.
A geyser nearby makes a loud noise, ejecting steam.
The two cubs gasp.
Nala and Simba see a craggy vale filled with skeletons of elephants.
Nala stares at the eerie place in awe.
"This is it, we made it." Simba said, smiling.
Nala and Simba walk to ledge, and put their two front paws on the ledge to see over it.
There is gray mist everywhere, and piles of bones everywhere.
Nala and Simba look at each other.
"Whoa!" the two cubs say.
"It's really creepy." Nala said.
"Yeah... Isn't it great?" Simba said.
"We could get in big trouble." Nala said.
"I know, huh." Simba said.
Nala gets off the ledge, and sees an elephant skull.
"I wonder if its brains are still in there?" Nala said.
Simba walks toward the skull.
"There is only one way to know, come on, let's go check it out." Simba said.
Simba continues walking to the skull.
Zazu flew in front of Simba, "Wrong!" Zazu said.
"The only checking out you will be doing is checking out of here." Zazu said.
Zazu rushed Simba to start moving.
"Aww, man." Simba said angrily.
"We're way beyond the boundary of the Pridelands." Zazu said, looking in every direction.
"Look Nala. Banana Beak is scared." Simba said.
Zazu pokes Simba in the nose, "That's Mr. Banana Beak to you, fuzzy." Zazu said angrily.
"And right now, we are all in very real danger." Zazu added.
Simba walked to the mouth of the skull, "Danger? Hah! I walk on the wild side, I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha ha!" Simba said, then laughing.
In the middle of Simba's laughing, inside the skull came evil laughter.
Simba gasped in horror.
He ran over to Nala and Zazu.
Nala saw two hyenas coming out of the eyes of the skull, and one came out of the mouth.
Nala gasped.
To Be continued...