I don't own the Lion King
After Ahadi's burial, the Pride Landers walked back to Pride Rock. Now that Ahadi was gone, they needed Amar to take his father's place as king. Amar felt a little rushed at this sudden choice. He knew that he should be happy that he was finally going to be a king but he would have liked to have had his father by his side for some assistance. "Oh what am I going to do?" Amar whined at Mufasa when they were in the den. "I cannot rule the Pride Lands."
No way Mufasa sarcastically thought. "Well considering that you are not a full adult yet, you may not know what to do. However, there is nothing to worry about. Mother will help you out and so would the lessons that father taught you before he was killed."
"But I wanted to this by myself," Amar said.
"Okay," Mufasa said, "you can do that but the whole African jungle will blame you for pinning them to the ground."
Amar made a face and scoffed at his brother. "Can't you take me more seriously?" he snapped as he stomped his paw to the ground. "So what if I like to pin others to the ground? That's my way of being playful."
Mufasa was surprised at his brother's outburst. "I didn't mean for you to get offended," he said, "but you have to know that ruling the kingdom is not fun and games."
"I KNOW!" Amar yelled in an exasperated voice, "I know! That's why the hyenas are never going to enter the Pride Lands and I'm going to unbanish my brother."
"'Unbanish?'" Mufasa cocked an an eyebrow at the word. "You mean you will overrule his sentence."
"Do you want to be king?" Amar spat.
Gladly Mufasa thought. "I can't because I am not the oldest."
Amar rolled his eyes and placed a paw on his head. "Then kill me so you can become king!" he yelled and walked away from Mufasa.
He was overreacting. Sometimes Amar had the tendency of being a drama queen...make that a drama king...but he had to accept the fact that he needed more work and training to be the king like his father was. One thing that Mufasa knew was that while Ahadi was training both of them for the near future, Amar hadn't been paying attention at all and he didn't want to admit that. The lion had a mind of his own and what he said had to go his way. Although, what Amar had said about getting killed surprised Mufasa. He didn't expect such a sentence from him. "We'll see how things go dear brother," Mufasa said.
Yes Scar thought as he ran deeper and deeper into the hyena's territory. His father was dead, his brother was about to crowned as king, and no one suspected that it was actually Scar that had done this but the hyenas. Things were beginning to go smoothly for once. He wished that Amar had kept his promise to return him back to the Pride Lands. All he had to do in the meantime was to sneak the three hyenas into the Pride Lands without being noticed to carry out his plan.
In the hyena territory, the oldest matriarch raised her head as a familiar scent made its way to her nostrils. She squinted into the distance and saw the familiar black maned lions stalking his way towards their territory. She jumped off the rock that she was perched on and welcomed Scar back. "How did everything go?" she asked him.
"The plan is in motion," Scar told her. "They found my father's body, they buried him, and my older brother is set to be the next king. However, there is one problem that stands in the way."
"What problem may that be?" she asked him.
"My brother is enraged over the fact that the hyenas killed my father," Scar told her.
"We didn't kill him," she said, "you did."
"Don't worry dear, as long as I am here I will help you get back into the Pride Lands. However, I need three specific hyenas to help me with my plan," he told her.
The hyena looked around the territory. There were many hyenas that he could use. "Feel free to pick them out," she said as she walked away from him.
Scar scanned over the clan until he found a hyena with three bangs dangling from her head, another one with his tongue slipping out of his mouth, and another male hyena that was running after them. Perfect he thought. Those would be the three hyenas that would help him carry out his plan. When that plan would be accomplished, he would have another obstacle standing in the way. That obstacle would be...Mufasa.
The African sun gradually began to set as the lionesses and the two lions walked back into the den for a goodnight's rest. Uru looked over at the rock where she and Ahadi shared together while they slept. Seeing that there was no point in slumbering on the rock, she turned her head and looked at Amar and Sarafina that walked in. "Would you like to sleep on that rock as the new king and queen?"
Amar turned his head and looked at Sarafina for approval. "Uh," Sarafina nervously said as she felt heat rise up to her cheeks. She felt a soft paw on her back and saw that it was Sarabi giving her an assuring look which meant for her to go for it.
"It's alright if you don't want to," Uru gently told her as if Sarafina was her own daughter.
"Thank you my queen," she said with a light bow of her head. She looked over at the disappointed Amar, "I'm sorry but I don't feel ready to sleep there where your mother and father had slept."
"That's fine," Amar said as he waved his paw in the air. He walked away from her and curled over into a corner away from the rest of the pride.
Sarafina felt bad for rejecting his offer like that but she didn't want to be rushed into doing something that she wasn't ready for. Mufasa put his paw on her shoulder and said, "don't worry about it Sarafina," he said to her in a soft voice, "he'll get over it. He just isn't used of people saying no to him."
Sarafina looked over back at Amar that was pretending to be asleep. She walked over to him and nudged his shoulder with her nose. Amar's ears perked up and he turned around and looked at her. "I apologize for turning down your offer, Amar, but I don't want to intrude into your parent's resting place when we are not even betrothed yet."
"I understand," Amar told her, "but would you like to cuddle with me anyway?" he asked her with hope in his eyes.
Sarafina gave him a small smile. "Move over," she gentle said and he did. She lied down and pushed her body closer to his where the heat traveled the both of them. Amar reluctantly pushed his nose under her chin. When Sarafina felt him doing that, she liked it but it looked like he was moving a little too fast to make love with her. She softly put her paw on his nose and gently pushed him away.
"Too fast?" he asked her.
"A little bit," she answered.
"Is it alright?" he asked as he flung his arm around her shoulders and pulled her closer to him.
"That one is fine," she smiled. She put her nose closer with his and gave him a small nuzzle.
Amar returned her affection with a small lick to the cheek. The lion and the lioness lightly nudged their foreheads together and slowly drifted off into sleep.