Here's chapter 23 and please review. Lion King belongs to Disney.

Simba and Scar continued battling.

"I didn't expect to see you alive Simba. My hyena allies were supposed to kill you." Scar sneered.

"You expected wrong. I'm going to kill you for all the things you did to me, Nala, Chumvi and Kula!" Simba roared angrily.

"I don't think so," Scar laughed evilly. "After I kill you, I can assure you Nala will be next."

Simba knew he had to find Nala, but he couldn't leave without killing Scar. He leapt on Scar and pinned him down.

"I will never let you hurt her again." Simba growled, his face mere centimetres away from his uncle's.

Scar threw Simba off. "You're mother and sister will be dead soon, and you, Nala and your father will be joining them shortly after." Scar snickered.

"Why would you do such a thing to your own brother, to the lands your own father ruled?" Simba asked.

"Isn't it obvious? I deserve to be king as well. My father could have let me and Mufasa rule side by side as brothers. But he didn't. He favored Mufasa over me. Now he will pay." Scar growled, advancing on Simba, and pounced on him, pinning him down.

Scar raised his paw to kill him, but at the last second, Simba threw him off, and took a swipe at his throat. Scar fell on his side, but he wasn't dead yet as Simba approached him.

"Please," Scar choked out.

Simba was angrier than he had ever been in his life, yet sympathy for his uncle washed through him. They were family. Scar had let jealousy taken over him and it had destroyed him.

"I'll take you out of your pain and misery." Simba said softly, and slashed his throat killing him.

"Simba!" came Tojo's voice. Simba looked to see Alex and Tojo running through the flames, toward him. They stopped when they saw the bodies on the ground.

"Is he?" Alex asked, motioning toward Mufasa, fearing that his uncle was dead.

"No, he just passed out. That thing," Simba answered, jerking his head toward Scar, "is dead."

"Let's go to the river." Tojo said. "We can carry Mufasa."

Simba's body ached, and his skin was burning from the fire, and his throat was choked from the ash. He wanted to agree with Tojo,but he had to make sure Nala was alright. He knew she was smart enough not to go to the river, because the Pride would kill her.

"I have to go find Nala," Simba panted. "Get my father to the river, and make sure my mother and sister are alright." Before Tojo and Alex could reply, he ran away to find Nala.

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Kula and Gurile were battling.

"Do you really thing you're going to win Kula?" Gurile taunted. "What's the point when your parents and family hate you?"

"I'm going to make sure you pay for everything you did to us," Kula growled, breathing heavily from the ash and smoke. Without a warning she pinned Gurile down, but Gurile threw Kula off, and she crashed into a burning tree.

Pain seared through her back, and she was too winded to get up.

"I'm sorry." Kula thought as Gurile approached her to slash her throat. Kula closed her eyes and waited for the end.

She heard an angry roar, and Chumvi leapt out of the flames, and knocked Gurile down, and slashed her throat. Once he made sure Gurile was dead, he went to Kula.

"Can you get up?" he asked, while nuzzling and licking her. "I thought you died." he murmured in his ear.

"I'm fine." Kula said, and very slowly and painfully got up.

"I killed a bunch of Scar's lioness allies. I ran into Tojo and Alex and they told me that his male companions are dead. Let's get Simba and Nala and get out of jobs done." Chumvi said.

Nala Kula thought. She was pregnant and what if something happened to her cub?

"Okay, let's go" Kula said, taking it slow.

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Tojo and Alex arrived at the river, carrying a still unconscious Mufasa. The entire Pride and Rafiki were already there.

"What happened?" Sarabi cried, as she ran over to her mate, Ajjali at her heels.

"It was Scar. He out the Pridelands on fire and tried to kill Mufasa to take the throne. Mufasa's still alive, he just passed out." Tojo replied, he wanted to say more, and explain how Simba saved him, but his first priority was his family.

"Tojo!" Shani reached him with tears streaming down her face.

Tojo reached out and embraced his younger sister.

"I thought you were burned to death!" Shani managed to choke out through her tears.

"It's alright Shani. You don't have to cry. I'm okay." Tojo whispered.

"It's not that." Shani gasped, nearly hysterical. "Shinda's dead! She got crushed by a burning tree."

"No!" Tojo gasped, the horror of the news sinking in his head. Shinda was dead. He closed his eyes.

"No. No. Why was it Shinda?" Tojo thought, as tears formed in his eyes.

"Where's Shinda?" Alex asked, approaching him.

"She's dead." Shani sobbed. "She got crushed by a burning tree."

"What?" Alex cried. "I don't believe you!"

"I saw it myself!" Shani wailed. "Mom thought Tojo was here and then when he wasn't, she tried to look for him. Uncle Runju and Hariku stopped her, saying it was no use. Shinda got made, and started yelling at her. Mom wouldn't let her go and look for you two. She went anyway, and Mom went after her, but she was too late. Burning trees fell on her!" Shani cried. By this time, she had collapsed on the floor crying.

Memories of Shinda flashed by in his head, and Tojo began to sob. Alex was also crying. Since his mother had left the Pride, Alex loved Shinda more than anyone else.

Tama, Moraan, Safi, Kareena, Shari and all their other friends approached them, all of them in tears as they mourned for Shinda.

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Rain fell on the Pridelands, as if it was glad that Scar was dead. Simba had finally managed to track Nala down.

"Nala!" Simba called, running over to her. It was still smoky from the fire; even thought heavy, cool rain was falling.

"You're alright."Nala murmured in disbelief as she buried her face into his mane. She was limping, burnt, and covered in scars, but she was alright.

"You should have turned back!" Simba exclaimed. "What if something had happened to you?" Simba pulled her in as close as possible. His eyes were burning from the fire and smoke.

"Nothing happened to me or our cub." Nala said.

"Let's just get out. We're finished here." Simba said. Nala nodded and followed him. On the way back out, they bumped into Kula and Chumvi and they walked out of the Pridelands.

They had walked an about a hundred metres away from the Pridelands, when they heard an evil voice.

"Not so fast. We're not finished yet."

Nala and her companions turned around to see six huge males approaching them, including the ones that had attacked her and Simba earlier.

"I thought they were dead." Chumvi gasped.

"Don't underestimate the power of Scar." the biggest one snickered. "You may have killed him, but we will still make sure he succeeds in killing you."

Without a warning, the males lunged at them. Nala tried to fight back but there were too big and they outnumbered them. She couldn't run either. She was already weak from the fire. One of the males knocked her to the ground. She saw Simba trying to make his way to her but he was being blocked. One of the males gave her a hit to her stomach and one to her head. She was already covered in blood. She had to get up, for her child's sake, but she didn't have the energy. She felt her receiving one more blow and then she passed out.

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The Pride had arrived at Priderock. The entire Pridelands were ruined, but thank fully, nothing had happened to Priderock. Sarafina's body ached. Shinda was dead, and her heart was aching for her niece. Kudeka had regained her consciousness and walked back to Priderock with them.

Rafiki was attending to everyone's burns and injuries with the leave herbs he had.

"Sarafina," Runju approached her. "Mufasa wants to speak with us."

Sarafina nodded and followed her mate outside, where Chumvi's parents Ishan and Penda, Kula's parents Rojo and Sarina and Mufasa and Sarabi were waiting.

Mufasa's voice was pained as he spoke. "When Scar tried to kill me, he told me that he was the one that were responsible for those murders and attacks and that he famed Simba, Nala, Kula and Chumvi. The last thing I remember before passing out was Simba attacking Scar."

That was all Mufasa managed to get out before tears formed in his eyes.

Sarafina stood in shock trying to absorb the news.

"Nala wasn't responsible for those crimes and I blamed her. Now she's dead."

Immense pain, more painful than anything she had ever known hit her, and she began to sob for her daughter.

"Send Zazu out to see if they can find them. Or we can go and find them." Rojo said, his voice shaking with tears.

"I did." Mufasa choked out."He came back and found nothing. I sent him again and he's still not back."

"If he didn't find anything again, I'm going and looking for them." Runju said, but he was also crying. Sarafina sobbed into his mane.

"I killed my own innocent daughter." Sarafina thought, as her sobs grew more painful.

"What's going on?" came a voice. Sarafina turned around to see most of the Pride watching them.

Tojo looked at them and seemed to be able to know what was wrong.

"You finally realized that Simba, Nala, Kula and Chumvi weren't responsible for those crimes." he said, narrowing his emerald green eyes.

Mufasa nodded, and explained the whole story to the Pride through his tears.

"Nala saved me." Hofu said coming to his parents with tears in his eyes. "I was stuck in the fire and lioness was going to kill me. But Nala saved me, and killed the lioness, than took me back to the river."

Hofu's story only sent Sarafina into hysterics, as she cried harder for her daughter. She heard Mufasa asking the Pride to leave and then she passed out.

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Once they had taken Sarafina back into the den, Runju walked out and began to sob.

He had killed his own child. Pain flooded through his heart as he remembered his cruel comment to Nala, telling her he would be happy with life if she wasn't in it.

"How could I have been so cruel?" Runju thought as sobs wracked his body.

He heard Zazu flying in calling for Mufasa.

"I found their bodies." Zazu announced.

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Shinda limped back to Priderock. Her tail was burnt. The trees had nearly fallen on her, but she had managed to dodge it. But her back and gotten caught on fire, but she had managed to put it out. She knew her mother probably thought she was dead, and she had heard her calling for her. Shinda hadn't been able to answer her back. She had looked for Tojo and Alex until it had started raining. Then she had begun heading back to Priderock, hoping Alex and her brother were safe. She felt like she was about to collapse until she saw a familiar figure standing on Priderock by himself.

"Alex!" she called.