I don't own the Lion King
Scar looked up when he felt his paws making contact with the lush green grass. He arrived before sunset, just like his father had intended. He didn't even want to return to the Pride Lands anymore but he had to if he didn't want to rise any suspicion about his disappearance and about why he always left home. He turned his head to the left when he heard the grass rustle. The lionesses were not supposed to hunt during this time. He approached the section of the grass.
As he was approaching, the grass remained still. He raised his paw to look but when his paw touched the grass, something large leaped out of the grass and pinned him to the ground. Scar shut his eyes as his back made contact with the ground. His eyes opened and on top of him, he saw two red feminine eyes. "Get off of me!" Scar growled as he pushed the lioness off of him. He got up on his paws and looked up and down at the lioness. She had a lean beige colored body, red almond shaped eyes, and a dark stripe that went down from the top of her head. Scar also noticed that she had the nose of an Out Lander. Outlanders were not supposed to even step foot into the Pride Lands. His father had made that law clear before he was even born. "Who are you Out lander?" he growled at her.
"That does not concern you," the lioness growled.
"Hunting for food I believe?" Scar asked as he raised one eyebrow at her.
The lioness let out a defeated sigh. She bowed her head at him. "One of my father's loyal lionesses died today because of malnutrition. Our food is scarce in the Out lands thanks to your king!" she growled as she bought her face closer to his. Her eyes opened wide when she noticed Scar's nose. His nose looked exactly like an Out lander's nose would. She hadn't seen him before.
Scar remained calm. He knew how it felt like to be isolated. He felt like his father had gone far enough with this law. Why couldn't the Out landers eat like they did? They were lions, not wildebeests. When he became king himself, he was going to change that rule. He was going to create his own pride and allow the Out landers to join him. Especially this tough lioness. His slowly formed into a smile as he got up from the ground. He circled around the lioness. "Allow me to make the introduction," Scar said, "my name is Scar," he bowed to her.
The lioness looked at him in surprise. She thought that he was going to attack her but this was something else. "Zira," she simply answered.
Scar raised his head and looked at her. "Zira," he said, trying out her name. "And an Out lander. I must say that you are one tough lioness," he continued to circle around her.
Zira kept her blood-colored eyes on him. Why was he being nice all of a sudden? Weren't all Pride Landers supposed to hate the Out Landers? She didn't trust him so she kept her caution. "It would be nice if you stopped walking around me," she asked.
Scar stopped in front of her. "I'm just surveying you," he shrugged. "I noticed a lot of muscles in your body. You are tough as I said before."
"Thanks?" she reluctantly said, not even sure how to reply to that comment.
"So, you said you were hunting for food?" Scar asked her.
"Yes," Zira answered, "and I would have gotten that antelope if you hadn't interfered with my concentration," she snapped.
"Well pardon me," Scar said as he smoothed his mane, "but the proper way to hunt is to not make any sounds." He turned his head to the right and saw a gazelle grazing. "Allow me to show you the proper technique," he said as he turned his back on her and stalked over to the grass. Zira lowered her body to the ground and followed him. Scar raised his head from the ground and caught a good look at the gazelle. "Watch and learn," he said as he walked deeper and deeper into the grass.
Zira sent him a glare. She knew that she can hunt better than he could but she let him do it for her. It was less work for her to do. Her head shot up and she saw Scar flying out of the grass. His paws wrapped around the gazelle's neck. The prey cried as it shook his head. Scar's paws unwrapped themselves and he dove into the ground. Zira noticed the gazelle running towards her direction so she lunged forward, with her arms in front of her. The gazelle tried to swerve to another direction but Zira grabbed its neck and sunk her teeth into its neck. The gazelle plummeted to the ground as Zira quickly drained the life out of its body.
Scar shook the grass and dirt from his fur as he ran towards Zira. "Looks like you got your prey," he smiled to her.
"Yeah," Zira said as she let go of the gazelle's neck. She licked the blood off her lips and looked at Scar. "Thank you for the help."
"It was my pleasure," he said, "I think that we should have the same rights. No matter how different we are."
"Well you certainly are not like these idiots out here and their idiot king," Zira said as she made a face at the Pride Lands.
I'm not Scar thought. "The king is my father," he told her.
Zira's smile faltered when he said that. Now she felt as if she had spoken too much. "I-I-I-" she stuttered but Scar raised his paw in the air to stop her talking.
"No need to apologize," Scar told her, "he is an idiot."
"I wasn't going to apologize," Zira shook her head, "I was just shocked to hear that from such a lion that would help me catch my prey."
"Well we are one of a kind," Scar said making Zira smiled.
In the distance of the Pride Lands, a cream-colored lioness who was on patrol, watched closely as she saw Scar conversing with Zira. She turned her back and leaped away from them, to go and warn Ahadi of what she had just witnessed.
She ran back to Pride Rock and looked up and the cliff where she saw the pride, the king, queen, the two princes, and two other lionesses. She leaped from rock to rock as she finally made her way on top of the rock. "Your Majesty!" she breathed as she tried to catch her breath.
Ahadi looked up at the breathless lioness. "Ahh Adila," Ahadi welcomed her, "your just in time for the preparations."
The lioness, Adila, was about to open her mouth again but Ahadi beat her to it. The king turned around and looked at all the lionesses before him. "Sarafina agreed to marry, my son, Amar!" he roared to them as the lioness let out an appreciative roar in return.
Uru beamed at Amar and Sarafina as Mufasa and Sarabi looked at one another and smiled. Amar turned his head and looked into Sarafina's eyes. The cream lioness bought her head close to his cheek and tenderly nuzzled him. "The wedding ceremony will take place tomorrow in thee afternoon!" Ahadi announced to the pride. He turned and looked at Amar and Sarafina as they smiled to him.
"Your Majesty!" Adila yelled. She couldn't take it anymore.
Ahadi turned his cold eyes towards her. "What is it?" he asked.
"I saw an Out lander in the Pride Lands!" she said.
Ahadi's features changed. "Did you do anything?" he asked her.
"No," Adila shook her head, "it was with another lion."
"Where did you see them?" Ahadi asked.
"They were in the middle of the Pride Lands, next to that large tree over there," she said as she pointed her paw in front of her. Ahadi looked at noticed the landmark where Adila had seen the two lions.
"I'll take care of this," Ahadi said. He looked at Uru and motioned for him to follow her. Three lionesses, Amar, Sarafina, Mufasa, and Sarabi followed them.
"If only all lions were like you Scar," Zira giggled after talking for a while with him.
"Yes its a shame," Scar told her. Maybe this is the start of a wonderful friendship he thought as he continued to stare at Zira.
"How about you come with me and stay at the Pride Lands since you are not accepted here like we are?" Zira asked him. Scar had told her everything about his own life and she had told him about hers. He couldn't believe that he had so much in common with this lioness. They were both isolated, they both wanted to take their parents' place in the future, and they both had their psychodynamic perspective that they couldn't unleash yet.
"TAKA!" a voice bellowed within the distance.
Scar gasped as his head perked up. He saw the grass rustling. He whipped his head and looked at Zira with a frantic look. "You have to go!" he frantically said.
"Why?" Zira asked as Scar began to push her with his snout.
"My father is coming! If he sees you here-" he wasn't able to finish his sentence because Zira was already running away. He flinched when he saw three lionesses jumping in front of him and running after Zira. He got up on his paws and watched Zira running as quickly as her legs could carry her.
"Taka!" Ahadi yelled, making Scar cringe. Scar looked up but when he did, a large paw swiped under his chin. The force of the hit made Scar collapse to the ground.
Amar and Mufasa were shocked when they saw this. "Ahadi!" Uru growled at him.
"Stay out of this Uru!" Ahadi shot back at his mate, "he is not my son!" he spat as he looked down at Scar who was trying to get up from the ground.
Scar looked up as he saw his father approaching him. He walked backwards as his father approached him. "How can you do this?" Ahadi growled at him. "You are never home and now you become acquainted with an Out lander?!" he roared at him.
"So what?" Scar managed to yell back at him, "it's not like you care about me and what I do!" he said, not feeling one bit apologetic about his words.
"I care about my pride and my family!" Ahadi told him.
"You just said that I'm not your son," Scar reminded him, "and you're treating me this way because you have never considered me as part of the family!" he yelled.
"Now that's not true!" Ahadi refused to accept Scar's words.
"Is too!" Scar argued, "I am nothing to you! I am not important to you! They are the ones that you pay the most attention to!" he pointed his paw at Mufasa and Amar. "I am only your extra, isolated, abandoned, child that you don't even care enough about!" Scar yelled as he stomped his paw to the ground.
"STOP!" Ahadi yelled as he hit Scar once more.
Scar stumbled backwards but regained his balance. He slowly looked up at him. "A child that you can abuse!" he roared. He turned his back on his father and ran away from his family as quickly as he could.
"Taka!" Uru yelled, "Taka wait!" she yelled as she got up from the ground and went after him. Ahadi jumped in front of her and blocked her path. "Ahadi what are you doing? Let me go!"
"No," he said with a grave look on his face, "let him go."
"Ahadi," Uru was going to protest but the king stopped her.
"He doesn't want to come back anymore. I don't want him to come back," he finished.
Uru slowly shook her head. "Ahadi what's gotten into you?" her eyebrows knitted together.
"I never want him to show his face here again!" Ahadi finished, "and don't you think of going after him or you'll never step foot here again."
Uru's jaw dropped. "Are you threatening me?" she shouted as she walked up to him.
"That's an order Uru," Ahadi told her.
Uru slowly shook her head at him. "Who are you?" she managed to say.
"I am the king of the Pride Lands if you haven't already noticed," Ahadi said as he walked around her, "and I am trying to keep peace here."
"Well you're not doing a very good job at it," Uru said.
Ahadi stopped walking and turned his head to look at his mate. He turned around and marched up to her. "What did you just say Uru?"
Amar immediately grabbed Mufasa's paw as if he was a cub. He didn't want his parents fighting in front of them. He peeked over at Sarafina and Sarabi and noticed that they were both shocked to see Uru and Ahadi in this state.
"Do you want me to throw you out of here?" Ahadi yelled at her.
Uru raised her paw and slapped Ahadi across the face. Ahadi's head snapped to the left. He looked up at her and Uru noticed that he didn't have that enraged look in his face. He was more surprised and shocked at what she had done but Uru continued with her emotions. "You cannot throw me out Ahadi," she said, "this is my home too." She turned her back on him and walked back to the four young lions that were gawking at the two adults. "Come," she said without looking at them.
Amar looked from his mother and then at his father. He couldn't believe what he saw. His father had liquid in his eyes. This was something that he had never seen his father doing. He felt that his mother was right. Ahadi didn't have the right to kick his brother out like that. He got up from the ground and followed his brother, Sarabi, and Sarafina. He suddenly looked over his shoulder to see if his father was tagging behind. He wasn't. He was just standing there. Amar turned around and continued to follow his mother.
Ahadi suddenly looked up at his family. He bowed his head to the ground. The burn in his cheek was beginning to subside but he was still hurt at what he had done to his family. He had broken them apart.
It's my fault...