Chapter 5: Let my people go!
After going back through the desert to Scar's Kingdom, Kovu the messenger of god and his wife Kiara came to Mamlaka's palace where emissaries from all four corners of Africa came to present their gifts and tributes to king Mamlaka, who now has a cub, a son to be his heir. The ambassadors around the throne room were looking at Kovu and his wife Kiara, no one has ever seen an ambassador so rugged, ragged and seems like someone who is a friend to the Pharaoh or even a relative to their powerful overlord. "Kovu is it really...?" Mamlaka took a closer look at Kovu as the two lion began to recognise each other, espically Mamlaka, who hasn't seen his brother Kovu for a long time after Kovu's sudden exile from the kingdom. "Kovu! It is you!" Mamlaka ran down to Kovu and embrace his brother, "Malaka!" Kovu and Malaka gave each other a brotherly embrace, soon the older grey lion notice Kovu's red scarf and a tree branch that Kovu was bringing with him. "Well look at you what have you turned into?" The hyenas priests were not happy at all when they saw Kovu return to the kingdom. As this mean that they may have to face more pranks and immature harrassment from Kovu so they decided to find a way to throw Kovu away from the kingdom forever. "Uhm, Your majesty, we have evidence to convict this lion of crimes against our kingdom so he must be sentence to death." High Priest Shenzi said as she tries to hold up her confidence before the Pharaoh.
"Be still when Pharaoh speak." Mamlaka cut into Shenzi's conviction of Kovu as the king began to make his declaration. "I am the morning and evening star. It shall be as i say, i pardon all crimes against our kingdom by this lion. For he is after all our brother prince Kovu. The prince of Africa!" Kovu smile for a brief moment at his brother for pardoning all of Kovu's misbehaviours in the past. But there was an urgent mission Kovu is bearring and he must inform his brother of it. "Mamlaka, in my heart you are my brother. But there is a mission i must inform you. The god of the slaves came to me in the desert and he wants to come back to you. He commands you to let the slaves go." Mamlaka was surprise and a little bit of confuse at Kovu's words, he doesn't know if what his brother said were true but before Mamlaka can go on and said anything else, Kovu demonstrates, before the eyes of countless people presence there, the power of his god. Kovu threw down the tree branch before Mamlaka, and it became a serpent, a cobra hissing at Mamlaka as everyone else including Kiara gasp, they couldn't believe it how Kovu can do that. "Very well Kovu i'll play along. Shenzi, Banzai, Ed give this snake charmer our answer." Mamlaka step back and let his priests to show Kovu the power of a mighty empire.
The hyenas threw own their staffs in front of Kovu and the staffs became three cobras each one was a black one, meaning they are highly posionous compare to Kovu's white cobra. The snakes were hissing and threatening each other and it seems that Mamlaka's cobra were not only outnumbered but also out-poisoned Kovu's cobra but to everyone's suprises, Kovu's cobra not only subdude its opponents but devoured all three of its rivals with ease. "Look! Kovu's cobra is swallowing all the Pharaoh's cobras!" a hyena general said in fear as he witness Kovu's powerful serpent defeated its enemies and return to its master's paws as a tree branch once again. "Now you have seen the power of the lord. I shall ask you once again brother, let my people go. Or the almighty lord shall smite you down with all of his wonders." Mamlaka can not believe that his authority has been challenged, he was humiliated and not only that but it seems that his closest friend, his brother Kovu, has betrayed him and join the slaves. "The slaves are mine Kovu. And like my father before me, i shall not be a weak link in my family's dynasty. Your magic trick, i may not know where did you learn it. But i know one thing that remains constant, i will not let your people go Kovu, their lives and belongings are mind. Tell your people from this day forward, they shall make bricks without water, you can make water for them instead. Now leave along with your miracles."
Kovu was disappointed to hear Mamlaka said such cruel and cold words at Kovu while he was trying to do what is good for both of them. Kovu and Kiara left the palace, knowing that they can not stay at the royal place any longer, there is only one place they can turn to, the slaves. Kovu's birth family, and he knows just where do they resides. At the construction site that they were passing by, the slaves were looking at Kovu with flaming hatreds in their eyes, they have just received words from their task masters that their work load has been doubled. "It's Kovu." A monkey said as he threw a ball of mud at Kovu in the eye, causes Kovu to fell down into a mud pit. "Kovu! No!" Kiara ran down to the mud pit to help her husband up when a scuffy male lion came to spill his discontent with Kovu. "So how does it feel to get stuck to ground you little termite?" It was Nuka, he wasn't very happy to see his brother at all. "I didn't mean to cause you more pain." Kovu whimpered to Nuka, his older brother didn't want to listen to Kovu's reasoning, because Nuka and the slaves have spent too many years praying for their savior to come and deliver them to the promise land, but here they received a doubled work load.
"Didn't mean to cause more pain? Since when did god care about us? In fact since when did you care about slaves? Was it when you finally figure it out that you were one of us?" Kiara look at Nuka a "Shame on you" expression, "Don't listen to him." Kiara convinced Kovu not to listen, but Kovu decided to listen anyway, to face it like a man. "No he's right. Everything wasn't like what i wish to see.", Nuka heard Kovu's words and he uttered it again for his amusement. "What you wish to see? Ah, now that make a lot of sense!" as the lion chuckled at he brother's words, his tomboy sister suddenly causes him to shrugged. "Nuka, you should be ashamed for what you said." She jump down to the mud pit and pick up Kovu.
"Kovu listen to me. I've praid for you to come and save us for a long time. God save you from the river and he didn't leave you at the desert to die. He sent you back here to deliver us. I know you can deliver us. It is what you were borned to do. Our mother don't want to see her precious hope to be destroy or her hope to be extinguish." Kovu heard her sister's motivation, he then stand up from the mud pit and pick up his tree branch and went to the river, behind him were slaves, lions of his pride follow him as they came to the river, they saw Mamlaka was on a ship, sailing down stream with servants to entertain the king. "Mamlaka! Let my people go!" Kovu strongly roared out to his brother who gave a blind eye and a deaf ear to his brothers words. "I will not hear anymore of his futile mission, bring him to me." He ordered the hyenas to apprehend Kovu and bring him forth to the Pharaoh, but then God came to Kovu in the dark cloud in the sky, "Take this tree branch in your paws Kovu." The lord commanded and Kovu act, he dipped his tree branch into the water as he drink it, soon the river began to turn red, it was blood!
"Father, it's blood!" Mamlaka's son tell his father in horror as the hyenas were terrified and swam in fear to back to the boat. "Shenzi, Banzai, Ed explain this to me!" Mamlaka roared at his priests in anger, as the hyenas attemp to cure the river problem, nothing they do can help reverse the power of God. They pour sacred water to purified the river but even their sacred water turns to blood. "In three days, every water in this kingdom shall ran red as blood. Fill up your water and stock pile your food! As the punishment of the lord on this land shall break Pharaoh's will!" Kovu cried out to his people, as a prophet, the people listen to him, they all have seen what Kovu has done, and everything was like what he said. They all filled up their water supplies and stock pile their food like Kovu instructed, as the plagues soon came to turn a powerful empire into ashes and shatter the might of the Pharaoh a god in mortal's form shall be defeated by the god of the slaves.