I'm back at this fanfic deal! Man, I love writing these! Anyhow, this a sequel to two of my stories, 'Scars of Redemption, and 'One Last Try.' The events of both shall be explored further here. But if you didn't read any of them, it doesn't matter, because anything relevant shall be explained here.

If you see this: ()()()()()()()() it means the POV is changing. Don't worry, I'll say to whose POV it's changing to. Fun facts: Shenzi's name means pagan or uncouth, Banzai's name means brash, Ed's name means…. Well…. Ed, Macho's name (pronounced Maco, don't pronounce the ch sound) means vigilant or loyal, and Nafasi's name means chance. All these are in swahili.

Well, on with the fanfic! And please, do leave this humble author a review.

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Banzai's POV

Banzai ran over the newly made ravine, searching up and down it.

"Shenzi!" He shouted desperately, his voice sore from yelling. As with before, there was no response.

He, Fahama, and Ed had been searching the site of the earthquake for Shenzi for hours. When the fog had cleared up, their job became easier but nonetheless they found no sign of her, not even a body. It was as if she had disappeared, or…. Worse.

Banzai had instinctively jumped over the geyser, leaving Shenzi by herself. And he hadn't even realized it until it was much too late. If anything happened to her, it was all his fault!

Banzai cursed himself, and cursed his stupidity. How could he have done such a brainless thing? Why had he done it? Now Shenzi was gone, and they couldn't find her!

"Banzai! Found anything!" Shouted Fahama, as she approached Banzai. Banzai frowned worriedly.

"No, nothing. Not even her scent." He replied.

"Blast it! Well, we'll just have to keep looking." Replied Fahama.

"But we've been searching the same spots for hours! She isn't here!" Complained Banzai, trying to distract himself from the guilt.

"Maybe not, but if we stop looking, what kind of clan members are we?" Replied Fahama.

"No! I wasn't suggesting we stop looking. I would never suggest that. But the thing is…. I think we need to start looking in other areas." Said Banzai.

"You think she stumbled away?" Asked Fahama.

"All I'm saying is that we need to go check the outlying parts of the earthquake, and search for her scent there." Said Banzai. Fahama nodded.

"You know what Banzai? That's actually a pretty good idea. Go tell Ed." Responded Fahama. Banzai grunted in reply.

"Okay."

"Oh, and Banzai?" Said Fahama.

"What?" He asked.

"Listen… I'm sure wherever she is, she's fine." She said reassuringly.

"Yeah…. I hope so." Banzai looked at the ravine and whispered to himself. "I'm sure she's fine."

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Scar's POV

"Shenzi!?" Exclaimed Scar in surprise, hardly believing his own eyes.

"Sca- Scar!" Shouted Shenzi, her eyes wide. Scar stood there, frozen, trying to sort his thoughts out.

Shenzi was standing here, right in front of him.

Shenzi, his childhood friend from all those years ago, the one that had promised never to leave his side, the one that had promised to help him. Shenzi, the hyena who had had defended him from his father, Ahadi, when he tried to kill him.

But this wasn't that Shenzi.

No, the Shenzi he knew now had tried to kill him.

To maul him.

To leave him amongst the fires, to burn to death.

This wasn't the Shenzi that had promised to help him. This was the Shenzi whom had ordered her own clan to kill him over a simple misunderstanding. This Shenzi had almost succeeded at sending him to a fiery grave.

Scar could feel his old hatred bubbling up. All the old feelings, the hate, his jealousy, and his abhorrence against his brother. Maybe he had tried to let them go, but now, he wasn't going to suppress it.

"Scar! What the…. How are you still alive!" Exclaimed Shenzi, as she backed away.

"Shenzi! It's been so long since we've seen each other! Can you recall the last time we spoke?" Said Scar, dropping his voice to a sinister growl.

"What! You're not…. That was years ago!" Replied Shenzi.

"Well, if your memory is hazy, it hardly matters. I can remember it well enough." Said Scar, his voice smooth and honeyed, concealing his own intentions. He smiled, seeing Shenzi widen her eyes in fear at his statement.

"You were a traitor! You deserved what you got!" Snarled Shenzi, recovering and forcing herself to hide her fear. Well, she hadn't changed.

"I deserved what I got? Did I? Shenzi, you're supposed to be the smart one! Clearly, I was simply trying to get my blasted nephew off my back! Why, I'm surprised you didn't infer that by yourself!" Sneered Scar, keeping his voice silken.

"You sold us out!" She growled.

"And you tried to eat me alive. We can't all be perfect, really." Reasoned Scar.

"Oh yeah! Well if you come any closer, you'll get a repeat of that!" Yelled Shenzi.

"Tut tut tut. Shenzi, I am a lion. And you are a hyena. There's only one of you this time, you can't possibly win." Sneered Scar. "And you don't really seem like you are doing too well either. What happened to your leg? Was that a lion's doing? Zira, perhaps?" Taunted Scar.

"It was Simba." Repled Shenzi, scowling.

"My nephew again? My, he keeps popping up in this conversation! But he hardly matters right now, what matters is that after all these years, we meet again. And I'm not exactly in a good mood. I couldn't tell you why, but something sour happened recently. I need something to take my mind of things. And a little revenge is the perfect way to do it." Said Scar, with a twisted smile on his face.

He could now see Shenzi start to turn white from fear. However, other than that she was doing a very good job of hiding it. Like the trained Matriarch she was.

"I meant it Scar! If you come closer I will tear your throat out!" Yelled Shenzi, as she took even more steps back, doing her best to get away from her enemy.

"Will you? Will you really attack?" Taunted Scar, as he swung one of his forelegs forward inches away from Shenzi's muzzle.

She didn't even flinch.

Puzzled, Scar silently swung again, but Shenzi didn't even react with so much as a defensive growl. In fact, she hardly moved, other that turning her ears back and forth, seemingly in an effort to take in sound. Scar looked at Shenzi's eyes, and saw that they were milky white.

"Shenzi, are you… blind?" Asked Scar menacingly, his twisted smile becoming a grin. He saw Shenzi inhale sharply, her composure nearly lost. Good, she was breaking.

"No!" Came the blatant reply.

"My, the years certainly haven't been treating you well have they? Blind and cripple, how do you manage?" He said, sneering. "And on the topic of how you've been, you don't look very well fed either. Your ribs are practically poking out of your own skin! Why, the sight of such a decrepit creature almost moves me to pity!" Scar paused. "Almost, but not quite."

As if she sensed Scar's intentions, Shenzi made an attempt to run. Before she moved but a few steps, Scar jumped onto her, and flipped himself over onto his back, with his claws buried into Shenzi's shoulders. With a surprised yip from Shenzi, he flung her sideways across the sand, and she skidded into the cave.

Before she could properly recover, Scar jumped onto her, pinning her belly up on the cave floor. Trying to retaliate, Shenzi raised her forelegs and dug her own claws into Scar's forelegs. With a growl, Scar shook them off, leaving little droplets of blood flowing down his own legs. Then, to stop the repetition of such an accident, seized Shenzi's right foreleg, and pushed down hard.

Crack!

"Fuck! You broke my… You broke my leg!" Exclaimed Shenzi panickingly, as she let out a cry of pain.

"My dear, there's worse in store." Whispered Scar, as again he dug his claws into her shoulders.

"Get the fuck off me!" She yelled, as Shenzi tried to writhe underneath Scar's grasp. However, Scar kept her still, his own strength much greater than a hyena's.

"Now if you keep still for this, it's going to hurt less." Said Scar.

"No! What are you doing?!" Shouted Shenzi, starting to panick. With a wicked sneer across his face, Scar started to drag his claws down Shenzi's side. Shenzi screamed from pain, as Scar cut her all the way down, staring from her shoulder, and ending at the hip. Blood gushed forward from the wound, staining the ground a dark red.

"God! Stop! Please stop!" Pleaded Shenzi, with her eyes screwed shut from pain. She kept writhing, unable to stop the pain or to nullify it.

"It's far too late for that! About three years late! I asked for mercy too, but you gave none. I'm just returning the favor!" Laughed Scar, savoring her suffering.

"No! Please stop! Please!" Screamed Shenzi. However, Scar was not done. He took his right paw, and put it on Shenzi's throat, pushing down, depriving her of air. With the foreleg she had left, Shenzi tried to move the paw, but to no avail.

With her oxygen flow diminished greatly, she started wheezing. She desperately tried to get the needed air, and Scar let up on the pressure to just barely allow the needed amount in. After all, if he choked her to death right now, it would end too soon, before he'd had his fun. Blood still dripped from her opened side, pooling beneath her and staining her back with her own blood.

Scar then took his other paw, and set it on her chest. With a laugh, he pushed down here too.

Snap!

Shenzi let out another frantic gasp of pain, with one of her ribs broken.

Snap!

Another rib cracked, another amusing sound.

Snap!

Scar was really enjoying this, putting all of his hatred into the act. All those long years, leading up to his revenge. Then, he got off her, waiting to see what she would do.

Shenzi was still wheezing despite Scar having removed his paw. But despite all of her injuries, she slowly got up, managing the feat with only two working legs and a broken one. Scar watched her force her broken leg back into place as best she could, wheezing and gasping from pain.

She tried to stumble away, slowly making her way forward. But Scar could hear the broken bones grinding against eachother, and he most certainly heard her cry out from pain. Nonetheless, her tenacity was something to be admired. That, or how desperate she was to get away.

Scar moved alongside her, and swung the back of his paw hard against her head. Shenzi was thrown sideways into the cave wall, hitting it with a painful thud.

Her eye now blackened, Shenzi curled up into a ball, crying incoherently with tears streaming down her face. Scar approached her slowly, savoring her cries. He grabbed her by the neck and roughly forced her back onto her back, with Shenzi screaming all the way.

He placed his paw with his claws extended next to her head, grinning. Shenzi realized what he meant to do.

"Oh god…. Scar…. Please….. Anything but that." She pleaded quietly, as more and more tears dripped down from her eyes. The words were choked, as she had trouble breathing.

"Anything?" Said Scar.

"Just don't….. Please don't!" Sobbed Shenzi.

"Well, I don't know. Being blind must be hard enough for you, but I could make it much harder, if you lost your hearing. I imagine you use sound, mostly, to get around?"

Shenzi nodded submissively, as she gasped for air and whimpered.

"Very well then, you'll keep your hearing. In that case, how about I run my claws back down through your side? Or maybe I'll break your jaw? Puncture one of your lungs?" Suggested Scar. With each of his statements, Shenzi started to cry harder, and harder.

She was very clearly in a lot of pain.

Good.

Scar chuckled to himself, and dug his claws back into her. She screamed, and shouted words that were so jumbled by her pain, that Scar couldn't even understand her.

"Scar! What are you doing!?" Exclaimed a voice from the mouth of the cave. Scar turned, snarling, not at all amused that he was interrupted. A small orange lioness stood there, with a horrified expression on her face. Scar frowned, unsure of who she was or where she came from.

"Who the hell are you?" Demanded Scar. Then, realization flooded into the lionesses expression.

"Listen Scar, that's not you. Snap out of it! Think about me, think about the cubs. Don't let this part of you take control." Said the lioness pleadingly.

Scar frowned, unsure of what the lioness was talking about. And who the hell was the lioness? Frustrated at his lack of knowing, Scar tried to think. Clearly, the lioness knew him. She had referred to him by his name.

So who was the lioness? Huh….

Nafasi! That was it!

As this thought entered his mind, he felt his hatred leave. Recognition also came, as his jealousy left. The clouded feeling disappeared, and suddenly he was unsure of what was going on.

Scar looked down at his own paws, which were covered in blood. Horrified he looked over at Shenzi, who was curled up in a pool of her own blood, crying incoherently and gasping from pain.

Oh god.

What had he done?

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There's the next chapter. As for Shenzi, well…. Three broken ribs, a broken leg, a black eye, maybe a concussion, a large cut on all along her side, and possibly some lung injuries.

Ouch.

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