Chapter 12

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Bender's Boneyard!

*Simba's POV*

Uncle Scar was right about this place. There are so many amazing skeletons and old battle scars around here. Nala and I have just jumped down from our observation place. I know we could get in trouble for being here, but hey, what's an adventure without a little risk?

"I wonder if its brain is still in there." Nala sounded pretty excited but at the same time, a little scared. We were looking at the skull of a dead elephant and I was itching to look inside.

"I don't know. Let's go check it out!" I moved to walk into the skull, only to be blocked by a very familiar figure. Crap!

"WRONG! The only checking out you two will be doing is to check out of here." Momo, Kings I hate this fun sucking lemur. He kills me with how boring he is.

"Aw man." I was literally hoping I could get the chance like Uncle Scar did and prove I was a brave lion and worthy bender like him. Hmm, maybe I will anyway and if we can lose him again Momo.

"We're way beyond the boundaries of the Pride Lands!" I could hear the obvious fear in his voice, and I decided to be the teasing little cub I am and taunt him.

"AWW! Looks like Cotton Ball is scared."

"That's Mr. Cotton Ball to you Prince Fuzzy! Now if you will follow me, we are in very real danger." I got a bigger smirk on face as I heard Momo say 'danger'. My favorite word.

"Danger? Ha! Danger should fear me. I am the white flaming Avatar and future King of the Pride Lands. I walk on the wild side, and give Danger a bath with my water." I pull some water from a small puddle and then thrust it at the skull.

"If not that, then I give it a serious hot foot or make it run with my flames and rocks." Raising a rock into the air, I simultaneously shot a flame at it up. I then shot it upwards into the sky.

"I laugh with the winds in the face of Danger. HAHAHA" As I laughed, my laugh was carried by the winds I brought forth to make my laugh sound like it came from multiple directions at once. But then I heard a laugh come from behind even creepier than my own and backed up next to Nala and Momo, who put his wings protectively in front of us. I looked and saw the forms of three creepy hyenas with wicked smiles on their faces. OK, I know I might've seemed brave before, but as I saw the obvious female of the group, I felt the cold grip of fear squeeze my heart.

"Well, well, well, Banzai. What have we got here?" She asked the one next to her who was just as creepy looking, but nowhere near as terrifying as she was.

"I don't know Shenzi. Uh… what do you think, Ed?" I looked at the last Hyena who only answered with an insane laugh. Is something wrong with that one? Shenzi and her pack mates began circling us and I really hoped we would be able to get out of this.

"Yeah, just what I was thinking. A trio of trespassers." He bared his yellow teeth at us, and I knew this was going to be tricky. Maybe Uncle Scar is right, and we should not have come here.

"It was an accident, I assure you. A mere navigational error." Momo sounds so scared, yet so calm. He must be trying to remain regal in his tone and try to get us out of this. But the look of recognition on Shenzi's face as she looked at Momo made me realize that was not happening.

"Wait. I know you. You're Mufasa's little stooge?" Momo ruffled his fur, obviously offended. I chuckled as I wished that I had thought up such an insult as the hyena had given.

"I, Madam am the King's Majordomo." As he stated his position, the hyena matriarch, as my dad had called the title, looked at me and I saw another look of realization on her face and I starting to get a sense why.

"Then that would make you…" She looked at me and I knew I had to answer her.

"The future king. And the avatar" I said this with false pride and hoped she would not see through me and would back away with fear of my second title. No such luck as I saw her smile at me again.

"Avatar huh? You don't look like much." OK. I might be scared but how dare this filthy feline mutt insult me?

"Hey! I am twice the bender you are. Plus, I am your future king so Watch it!"

"Do you know what we do to kings who leave their kingdoms?" Her smile was back and I was starting to get annoyed. She really likes to bluff doesn't she?

"Puh. You can't do anything to me." I raised a rock nearby with one paw and shot a flame out of the other to show I was not intimidated.

"Uhh... Technically, they can. We are on their land." Is Momo seriously siding with them? These freaks have no lands and besides…

"But Momo, you told me they're nothing but slobbering mangy stupid poachers." I laughed as I thought of that moment.

"Ix-nay on the oopid-stay..." Momo was trying to be cautious, but then the male, Banzai, I think came up with an angry expression on his face.

"Who you callin' "oopid-stay?!" I got afraid when I saw the fur on his back start to have tiny flames dance on them and saw fire on the tips of his claws. OH CRAP! They are fire benders! My least favorite bender, other than Dad, Kopa and Uncle Scar of course.

"My, my, my, look at the sun." Momo starts to try and hasten me and Nala away and I actually followed his lead for once. "It's time to go!" Unfortunately, our way out was blocked as the hyenas jumped in front of us with watery mouths.

"What's the hurry? We'd love you to stick around for dinner. Heck, I'll even boiling some water." She stuck her paw up and shot a flame at a pool which somehow began to bubble. How hot was that flame?

"Yeaaaah! We could have whatever's ... lion around! Get it? Lion around!" Normally I am one for puns, but not when I am the subject of them and the one saying them wants to eat me.

"Oh wait, wait, wait. I got one, I got one. Make mine a cub sandwich. Whatcha think?" Again, not a fan of delectable cub puns.

"Hey Banzai. How about some KFC?" I looked at her with wide eyes and yet was confused. KFC?

"What's KFC, Shenzi?" I gulped and I heard Nala gulp beside me despite being quiet for so long.

"KFC. Kenya Fried Cub. Take your pick. Golden brown with a hint of red or the creamy desert first. They then began laughing and we immediately took off running while they were distracted. We finally stopped when we thought we were far enough away when I noticed we were missing someone.

"Hey! Where's Momo?" I then heard a scream and I already knew where our flying friend was and went to rescue him.

*Momo's POV*

Kings, I hate babysitting! I was assigned to just escort the cubs to the waterhole and then come back and yet here I am in the Bender's Boneyard being tortured by three flaming hyenas.

"The little Majordomo lemur hippity-hopped all the way to the lemur-boiler." I am being moved around by my wings, like a puppet by the hyena Banzai and then thrust into one of the steam vents and at my base it feels only lukewarm. Thank goodness.

"Now to light the fuse!" I saw the hyena matriarch manifest a flame in her paw when the manic Ed thrust his head into the ground. Is he trying to play ostrich? I then felt the heat under my tail and I knew immediately what was going on. He was breathing fire into the ground and it was now trying to get out through.

"Oh no... Not the lemur boiler!" The pressure must have become too much because the next thing I knew, I was sent sky high! And my tail is on Fire! "Aaaaaaaa...!" As I went flying, I recalled that Simba and Nala were still in the Boneyard. Alone. Eventually I began to slow down in the air enough to take control of my flight path. I immediately flapped my wings as hard as I could and went to find the one who could help. "I have to find Mufasa!"

*Shenzi's POV*

Me and my pack mates are filled with hysterics at the results of our patented lemur launcher prank. Man I love that! I immediately caught a scent from above. Oh! The cubs came back! Time to feast!

"Hey! Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?" So the young prince thinks he can take on a hyena huh? We'll see.

"Like ... you?" I saw the confidence on his face slip away as he saw me eye him and start to move forward.

I heard the telltale 'Oops' escape the prince's throat and then I snapped at them. From there, my pack mates and I began chasing the cubs through our home. As we continued to chase them, several juts of earth went flying at us from the bone piles which we merely incinerated to ashes with our flame auras. So the cub really is the Avatar. I remember seeing him shoot a flame earlier, but I did not know he could bend earth. This will definitely be a satisfying hunt. The next moment my thoughts were interrupted by a blast of air which whooshed past my head. The cub is just bending wildly and not bothering to aim. Oooh this should be fun. And given his skills, we may be able to have his friend for dessert. We managed to corner them by a hill until they both used their elemental skills to start scaling the cliff of bones. The boy was using his earth abilities to scale it with his paws but the girl was trying to use her water talents and made it halfway up before her water collapsed and she began sliding back down. That girl does not realize that here, unlike in the luxurious Pride Lands, water is scarce and thus this happens. Bad for her, good for me!

"Simba!" The lioness cub was obviously terrified as she tried to find a foothold to get her claws on, but finding none. I looked up and saw that the Prince had reached the top and had just turned around and I chuckled at seeing the horrified expression on his face as he saw his friend in despair. I wonder what he will look like when I eat her as I moved towards her with my mouth wide open. Dinner Time!

"Aaaaiee!" the little girl cub screamed. I love the sound of screaming in the evening. As she got closer, I moved in until I felt a scratching and burning hard sensation against my cheek. I looked and saw the boy had rushed back down and somehow used his fire and earth skills to coat his claws with flaming earth to make the slashes on my cheek even deeper. OOOh, now that cub is dead. I looked back with a growl and saw him scale the cliff again on an air sphere this time and the girl cub clinging to him. My pack mates and I focused our flames in our paws and shot ourselves up, scaled the cliff and then landed in a cave where we obviously had them cornered. We donned our red flame auras and proceeded forward.

"Here kitty, kitty, kitty." My mate Banzai always did like to taunt our prey. I had to admit it was endearing.

The male cub got defensive with us and tries to roar at us in a last ditch effort. He only produces a soft yowl. I could not help but laugh at the sound he thought to be intimidating.

"Oo-hoo… That was it? Hah. Do it again... come on." I saw the cub's eyes twitch and the next second his eyes and the red arrow on his head began to glow a ruby red color. I had heard about this. The Avatar what I have heard, this is cub opens his mouth to roar again and somehow he sounded like a full grown lion.

"Huh?!" We all were obviously confused, and was personally scared shitless. All of a sudden a circle of red flames appear around us and the glow on the cub died as realization came to his and my mind. It wasn't him who roared. The boys and I turned with our flames ready, only to be bowled over and slashed by the fiery claws of an angry Mufasa. Crap! In a matter of swings, the king had managed to pin all of us to the ground, and he looked furious. Great, now we are going to get hurt by this lion a second time tonight. What sucks is that even with our flame auras up, we can't do anything since Mufasa is standing right on our auras and not getting burned.

"Oh, Please, please. Uncle. Uncle." I hoped my pleading would allow him to spare us cause I really fear this king more than I hate him.

"Ow. Ow. Ow." Banzai was obviously in pain , with him unfortunately landing directly under the fiery lion king.

"Silence!" His roar was enough to cause all three of us to shut up and cringe at the words of this lion. Oh Boy!

"Oh, we're gonna shut up right now." Great idea Banzai. Start shutting up by telling you are going to shut up. What an idiot!

"Calm down. We're really sorry. We were just messing with the cubs." I hoped he would buy my lie and that we could get out of here quickly but my hopes were dashed as I saw the pure hatred in his eyes.

"If you ever come near my son again..." He had not finished his statement and he didn't need to because we knew from his reputation as a fire bender that he would seriously hurt us. Maybe I can get out of this with a more likely lie. He thinks we are dumb anyway, so how far fetched could it be.

"Oh this is ... this is your son?!" I added some mock surprise gestures and tones to milk my lie and make it more believable and from the look on Banzai's face he was about to help me build on the lie.

"Oh your son?"

"Did you know that?" I asked and started a false conversation to distract the king and make us more liable.

"No... Me? I-I-I didn't know it. No. Did you?"

"No! Of course not.!"

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"No." We both then gulped because we both knew that what Ed said would seal our fates. "Ed?"

I became panicked when Ed viciously shook his head yes in response to the question, and he roared loud and out came red and black flames that I swear could melt a diamond into water. I didn't even care at that moment how he accomplished such a feet, I just needed to get out of their.

"Toodles!" I said that and we launched ourselves as far away as possible. Along the way, I caught a lion's scent and saw flashes of Green and Black and I knew he had seen it all, along with the failure. He's here!

1) in your opinion, do you think Ed in the trio of hyenas is just an idiot or is hiding a surprising intelligence?

2) does the graveyard scene remind you of any scene in Avatar the last Airbender?