The Lion King: Bleeding Paws

by TheLegendaryBlackDragonKnight

Retribution is the name for this hyena who is rescued from living a life in the gorge, and taken to her clan to become what his father and mother wanted him to become. As soon as memories of what led Jeyluxhal into being who he is today returns to his mind, he's out for blood and to give some hell to what the pride in the Outlands had done that night. The C.O.L means little to him

10. Jeyluxhal Tales

(A/N: The next chapter focuses on Jeyluxhal in a series of events that are innocently enough him experiencing various things in life, such as the time that some cheetah cubs climbed on him with their mother watching, him encountering a karen that's spitting accusations at him, Zira sending her sons Nuka and Kovu to intercept him only for the latter to defend him because her son is throwing derogatory shade, and finally a time that Tabari looked like he's ready to start dating again only to come back home to find that it ain't love he found but betrayal because Najira was true to him; the last one doesn't seem it would be true to how I've written a fatherly hyena like him but for that one moment there I can tell you, he had come to learn that he could love another and still mourn his former mate but that idea is thrown down the shitter when his date reveals her true colors. Nevertheless there's only one woman for him and that's not to say that she was helpless at the time of her death, she fought them off as best as she could but... tearing her apart in pieces was awful; it's even worse when he sees her death from a different point of view. Let's begin with our first chronicle here today shall we?)

LOST INNOCENCE

Afternoon in the Pride Lands as the sun was going down but it was a time like this Jeyluxhal was out wandering, he wasn't wearing his clothing that he wore when he was with Timon in the cave and eventually Pumbaa but he was still walking upright and hunched over though it was not as much previously. One thing about him is that he didn't pay attention to whoever's territory he was approaching nor walking in at this time, he's merely going about his way and such the hyena came upon a mother cheetah with quite the couple of cubs for whom no such predator would dare come close; this is due to looking very light above and very dark below with that spiky mane resembling that of a honey badger which is a dangerous animal, believe him everyone's scared of a honey badger and yet he proved Bunga isn't so brave as the others that talk so highly about him. All because he was just so angry, it's like... holy damn hot shit; let this be a warning to the mute who snapped the loudest which is justified because they're all making fun of and made him the main antagonist so they can spread the tiresome hyenas are bad bullshit. Even Fuli was thrown off and Ono looked startled just like how when he saw both Kion and Bunga were coming his way, Beshte was really concerned about his health; there's nothing to say about Kion as he looked away from it all so he didn't see Jeyluxhal

The mother cheetah was watching fiercely as one wrong step that's made will have her take whatever it will to protect her children, she looked at Jeyluxhal closely as he sat down; paid no mind to her as he was fiddling with dried tall grass. She got up and moved over to another spot to view the hyena better before settling back down, she kept a good look on her cubs as well. Before long it was here that one of them spotted him who was now deciding to lay from his back with both legs extended outward with a space in between for his primordial pouch, a good room for it to breathe as he didn't question the appendage but went with the flow that it's there; no reason to go ahead and ask the purpose for that saggy belly of his, it doesn't hurt him and it's been acknowledged by Shenzi when he was young. Even his friends knew it was there but said nothing of it, they liked poking fun at it every now and then

One of the cubs walked over from the left and stared at him with curiosity, a second one was on his right while the first one reared down like it was trying to be ferocious; it even came close to his left hind paw with a third one appearing who was in the middle from his view. Unlikely as it was something astonishing, that cub climbed from atop his primordial pouch and over to his face standing on his chest and stomach respectively; Jeyluxhal had made no attempt stroking nor petting them as he let them nibble him harmlessly. While few remained to their mother who saw no reaction to her cubs when this gentleman was paying no mind, a several few began to play near him while some of the cubs close to the hyena began nibbling his calf and ear as well as his large black nose; he let a huffing breath out but wasn't annoyed by this cub behavior. He was a pup once and he looked back on that innocence he had

He was there when Kuplinka showed him old friends of his own and met new friends that all became close with one another, except he only ever became a loner that didn't talk nor did he socialize with one another as much as he did when he was a pup once. He daydreamed back on that day when he was a pup, when Najira was alive and well as was his father; one of the cubs stood over him as his eyes were there but the silvery pupils in his brown irises were elsewhere at the time...

...

If Mwindaji is not some foolishly blind garlic loving drunkard who enjoys getting up in the full on early morning to spew his lies all to save his tail in between them thin legs, then he is not at all true to the insults of the jerk like Dahlimu the Zebra spewed at him; threatening with an stampede of his hooves to trample his bones to kill a thin leather skin winged mammal which was him. What this meant was that he's not a liar to save his leather ass, no he's better than a drunkard that Dahlimu called him; now his dead ass has been shat out his ass and turned into fertilizer that the earth doesn't want on her surface. How the two of them met went a little something like this: it was a raining dodger to malibu and anakiwa to a bright turquoise and an bay of many blue color that fell upon the Serengeti, with even more salmon and flamingo as well as a lemonade to crepe and a blush pink color thrown into the mix; the lush and soaked dew dripping tall grass fields that had at least one acacia tree for each it's own leaning over to the offward right side. Once again it's not the Pride Lands if it doesn't have that sunrise in the red dawn that mellowed out into a cool morning like this, emitting a golden shining stripe on the horizontal plane slashing across the left and the right sides respectively for a short bit. His jackal friend who nicknamed him T. for short was bringing him to the morning person of a bat, while he was walking next to him

He was displaying for the first time, that was rare with his friends but common with Shenzi's Clan, his insomniac behavior where he had a tsunami of slobber that's been leaking out from the lips of his mouth; his eyes are slightly open with horizontal slits for him to look out of and his rumbling vocals were coming out from his mouth, sporting that white pupil and the silver-colored sclera cataract look with him stumbling in his steps a little along with the slow trudge that kept up at the jackal's pace

"Nearly there T, nearly there; you're gonna love this batty friend of mine, drowsy eyes. His name's Mwindaji and he ain't lettin' no bully like Dhalimu trample his leather wings like it's some stampede of zebras like him panicking and running, he's awesome. He can fly really high like a martial eagle but with night vision, he can tell where you are in caves by shouting at the walls, he can resist diseases and he can do so much more than what I can tell ya'. You just have to see him!" The jackal was really excited about bringing his friend to meet his bat friend who was bound to be here at the time they arrive. He met him two days after he was born, and after this he was hoping to also introduce him to Zuberi too since he's the muscle of his friends and for a reason; death rolling combined with adapting whatever's thrown at him in a mashindano and if his opponent's not playing fair with a clean fight, then he's gonna be playin' dirty just like them

The two friends eventually reached Mwindaji's tree where Jeyluxhal leaned up against a small fallen log and slumped down with his gelatinous underbelly swaying to the sides in between his two legs, his friend Kuplinka on the otherhand stopped in his tracks as the told the hyena who had his paws crossed side-to-side on his chest and his head tilted down all while resting on his back: "We're there"

He looked up slightly but didn't respond due to his drowsiness as his right hindpaw thumped a little on the ground

"Here: one step for the lions, but a giant step for us" Kuplinka walked over to the tree and had called out for his batty friend, with no response in return which had him climb on up the trunk in order to poke his black snout through to sniff against his body. However, Mwindaji could not be found inside as that means one thing: he's gotten up to enjoy the sunrise; just before it could fully come up to brighten everything else too much

The hyena pup didn't stay long enough for his friend to come on down and look elsewhere as he wandered off to explore of this land ahead of him, walking over to a field of flowers which had smelled like fruit; with a flicker and rapid bouncing of his black snout that was like a bunny as if he were Thumper, he leaned down with his eyes closed since he's still sleepy. Slowly scanning his face all across the field in a right to left cone-of-vision that led to him exiting north from the field, coming into contact with a peach colored rose bush that had no thorns but rather peaches growing all over the shrubbery. Lured in by the colorful and flavorful trance of the juice that he tasted from the unseen punctures on it's fuzzy surface, his black snout met in contact with that of a bat's snout that had him open his eyes again still with that previous look but he's no longer sleepy as much as he was before. Both of whom did not break contact with each other's snouts just before standing up slowly as the bat extended it's wings out in order to yawn, and with the hyena pup doing the same too without blowing him off since his lips were sealed so it came out the nose; sounding like a booming startup sound from a Mac computer with an added ominous choir as if he discovered a evil treasure that's now thankfully powerless because it's power was exhausted to stop a villain he wasn't aware about. The hyena pup lightly dug his tongue into the bat's snout which made him rear back with a smiling "bah" and with a small sputtering spit as his tongue slipped in between his fangs when the hyena lapped over his eye, leaping over his face and climbing over his head in order to get onto the back of his neck; leading the hyena back to his tree where he was about to fly on up as he watched him do so

But the bat who was the one known as Mwindaji found Kuplinka was here too, having climbed up to his tree searching for him. "T, you awake yet? I think I'm close to findin' him'' At least he knows his nickname

The hyena returned to his spot with Mwindaji climbing back onto his stomach above his pouch in the same position, sleepin' off the disoriented morning grog effect as the bat laid down both leather skinned wings on top of his ribs; nothing than a little more rest can't help. Kuplinka on the other hand slid down the trunk and saw both his pals resting together, with the hyena who was back then known as Tajiuva stirring before getting up; Mwindaji held onto his chest before hanging from his stomach and swinging underneath, releasing his grip to flap both wings as he then dropped down onto his back. Letting out the same yawn this hyena did as he shook himself like he was getting a shivery feeling all over his body, standing upright with his wings crossed and his eyes closed

Mwindaji was like every bat out there in the Pride Lands as his body was a dark coffeehouse to taupe and chocolate brown color, with the chest fur being a ivory to ghost white color in that instance as his half-teardrop shaped inner ribbed ears were a tango to congo and a coral to new york pink; his snout had a peanut brown ring that marked his black oval shaped nostrils, another thing black was his L-letter shaped clawtips on his wings and his eyemarks were in a wood to tortilla brown color too that surrounded both eyes he could see clearly out of. However, unlike other bats he was capable of standing upright; just not as much as Hodari could, that's not what was gonna stop him from perching from a tree branch as if he were a feathered avian. Nothing would stop him from doing so even if he has to hold onto his hyena pup's outer ear to balance himself, mostly he just sat on his knees and knew the faces he made so he could speak out for the others who see him as incoherent; not through speaking like a translator but saying it as if he were his eyes in addition to his tongue. Ironically enough, yet this hyena hates translators, interpreters and sign language; all three of them he has his own reasons for: the first is that they would lie about what he's really saying, the second is they're treating him like a dumbass who actually has a speech disorder and the third is that to him sign language is dissing him; he does not need some jackass spelling out hieroglyphics to the crowd who find him incoherent because of his lack of a tongue for speech, he can advocate for himself. Mwindaji understands him in a greater number of more ways than one, and he's not gonna be saying this hyena's words like he talks in a third-person perspective; he's telling them like he's saying them directly from his view and putting himself in his eyes to see the world how he sees it to be. Finally, it may look like he was wearing rimless John Lennon glasses for his eyes but that was far from what the real eye can see; it was only a mind illusion

"Would you look at this, and here I was about to ask again if you were awake yet" Kuplinka hopped over with his tail wagging from side to side

Mwindaji looked down at the hyena who stood on all four legs, his head bouncing slightly and looking around from side to side as well as looking straight ahead which was another trait of his along with his facial expressions; giving him a hidden smirk as he asked him

"T, whose he talkin' bout naw?" He pretended to see him as incoherent about where he was all this time

Tajiuva responded only with a perked up look that then deflated, he didn't exactly know how to respond to that question

"Exactly as I thought too, I was sleepin' with yah the entire way here to the tree remember?"

The hyena perked up again and nodded, lost on what the jackal was goin' on about. Speaking of whom Kuplinka only laughed it off as he began the introductions with each other

"This here's Tajiuva but even that's a mouthful, stick to T. will you? He don't talk none and his dad said he never tried; too shy to even spare a word" The jackal had his arm placed around his neck with a paw fiddling with his cheek and black nose which Mwindaji looked at, the hyena pup responding with a tongue stroking his own that again had him let out a "bah" with a sputter of a spit and a chuckle

"That's not gonna be the last time he'll be doin' that, I'm tellin' you there" Mwindaji reared back as he started to sniff his chest and underside, with the bat covering himself with his wings as he hopped on back to his snout; shaking himself after that shuddering cold feeling ran through his blood

The three went on to enjoy the rest of the morning as Mwindaji met his father Tabari who took a liking to him as with Zuberi and Fahari too, not much to say for Luthando but he still liked him because for a monitor lizard that was the same kind as Kenge; he knows that paralysis venom is being put to good use with every bite even if it might be temporary. And that ain't the last of his memories where he met his friends, next one's Zuberi whom was the next one he met

...

Lake Matope, large muddy lake with an acacia tree looming over and several rocks nearby on the outskirts of the water as a mashindano between crocodiles were held but this time it's a confrontation. A crocodile stood over Dhalimu and shook his head at the sight beneath him, letting a smuggish exhale exit out of his snout with that smirk drawn on his face

"Ah so close but yet so far, frustrating isn't it? There it is..." Pointing to the solid hard core mace that was a hoof on a bar, the zebra reaching out to grab it and bash him across the face. "That little old mace of yours, so close. If only you could stretch those untrimmed hooves just a little further... if only I weren't in your way"

"GAH! My guts, damn you Zuberi- spare me and I won't trample you or that garlic smellin' nasty buttock fartin' breath spewing drunkard as hard as I'm gonna kill that jackal!" Dhalimu shouted

"Are you still trying to play that silly little intimidation game with me? You should know, I'm not doin' all the fightin' just to show off; it's bullies like you who need to be lectured on ambushing a crocodile like little old me for one. And your insults are as hurtful as your sensitive ego, little dong" That was the final straw as the zebra threw the crocodile off, turning the tables on him but the crocodile held off his frontal hooves as the two now stood on their hindlegs

Dhalimu's back hooves trembled as he slid while Zuberi leaned forward, snapping his jaws at his snout as the zebra shouted with a side yelp; he pushed him down until the scaled reptile was in a position that no crocodile like him should be in: leaning over backwards as he held Dhalimu's front legs back in a power struggle not to be pounded down hard by two solid hard hooves. It's already enough that he can't get him into a death roll by biting down on him just right to secure his grip, but now the zebra was startin' to overpower him; at least that is before Tajiuva came in rushing with a pounce that distracted him when his claws dug into his back, allowing Zuberi to spin to the ground and smack him across with his tail that felt like being hit with an bludgeoning flanged mace. The zebra recovered and bashed him in the snout with his back hooves just like a donkey, leaving him to cover his snout to stop the throbbing pain

"Give up, Dhalimu; you've lost!" Zuberi bellowed out as he stood in front of his only exit

Dhalimu's response was incomprehensible whinnies and three frontal hoof stomps, which he then rushed forward and the crocodile snapped his jaws on his neck; bringing him down to a crumpled position that then had him perform a death roll as a scare tactic. That was enough to send him galloping away like all the other zebras who panicked and ran, Zuberi spat a bullet to the ground and snorted before he softened up; looking at the direction where that distracting pup went. "Kuplinka tipped him off where I would be, Mwindaji said he'd met someone new; a special someone-"

Tajiuva was laid up against a leaning savannah tree close to water, too focused on his throbbing nose that he was holding to stop the pain from overtaking the rest of his snout. Zuberi crept up close from underneath the surface of the pond before sinking back down, leaving only a ripple behind with a few bubbles that rose and broke from the top of the water; lunging out forward to get a reaction out of the hyena which wasn't much. Just a twitch of his ear and a nod

"-whose not much of a talker himself. Isn't that right, Tajiuva?" The upper half of his scaly body roofed over the hyena's back and lowered himself to his ear to ask him. "Dhalimu isn't laying a hoof on you for as long as I'm 'round here, and neither is he gonna be laying on that jackal who has something of mine. Nothing personal bud"

That seemed to do the trick as Tajiuva stood up with his back still being kept against the tree's body, holding his nose even as the hyena coughed a little but he's not falling ill; he's resilient as for what he's seen. Acting as the right distraction he needed to throw that zebra off, and in the nick of time too

"You've encountered Dhalimu as well? He hates about everyone here and he doesn't follow his mother's rules either, doesn't take her seriously; it might've been just one pounce on his back and you were ready for more until he kicked you in the nose like that, but I have a offer for you: How are you up for teaching bullies like him hard deserving lectures about treating others like you, me, and my friends fair respect? I'm looking to whoop some zebra ass and death roll him for the next meal if he crosses the line too far"

The hyena pup released his grip on the black nose that felt like it was throbbing and the young crocodile could see it was bruising

"I don't need your answer, I need your help if the four of us are gonna be fending him off as well as his lackeys that I'm sure he's got. If he's gonna resort to deceiving me, then he's not gonna be sitting like a dog for a week; what with how sharp my teeth will dig into him and jaw strength I boast about. Showboating like that isn't my style, you're the one whose begging for his your ass to be kicked just like that. Nevertheless, like I said I don't need your answer; I need your help to put him down until he starts showing kindness and even if violence doesn't help, understand all of this: he attacked first''

The hyena pup didn't seem to understand Dhalimu's reasons for this bullying but knowing that he was given that name, the reasoning was made clear to him; he acts like a tyrant to the herd he sees as weak because they all panic and run. He doesn't on the other hand, if only that were true for a zebra that hid behind the barriers of his own lackeys that he did have; he didn't know it yet. Tajiuva gave the crocodile his nod so that he could learn how to lecture that bully on how kindness works 'round here in the Backlands

"You've made the smart move there, name's Zuberi; Mwindaji mentioned a special someone of whom doesn't like taking his time to say something but rather show it to them, and it looks like I've found just the hyena for that description" Now assured that this crocodile was the second of Kuplinka's two old friends even if he didn't mention the jackal's name, Tajiuva was eager to learn more of what he had to offer; even walking around to study his appearance

Zuberi wasn't any large crocodile with bright onion green scales with a light sheen to lizard green colored underbelly, no he was more than what the crocodile floats led by Makuu and Kiburi were in fact; he was the muscle of Jeyluxhal's friends but he also knows the signs of cheating before a mashindino between two float leaders begin as the original is either too old to continue leading on or he is unfit to lead the float, alerting the other crocodiles and calling out the one that planned to cheat in the first place. Nevertheless, his traits sport some awful similarities to Makuu given a bulky built body like him; yet he was not to a point of being a fatty and in terms of looking slim he was a little below Kiburi but nowhere near fat in the slightest. Large sharp alligator based teeth is no different from the others who lead or are apart of a float in the Pride Lands, dark scales which ran down from his back to his tail as that too had patterns emerging from underneath; there were even three dark seaweed to pine green colored stripes underneath the chin of his long snout. On the surrounding rims of both eyes that had a daffodil yellow sclera with a marmalade orange tint were dark heineken cup green colored stripes that were in between thin and thick, although leaning slightly over to the thinner side. Some of the lesser traits to notice about him is his Arabic writing that he applied on his arms which of course cuffed around his biceps, his left arm read "سوبك" which translated to the name of the one who rules the largest river that ran through the eastern side of Africa, Sobek and his right arm read "إله النيل" which translated to God of the Nile. However, he's not the only crocodile whose giving off unmistakable vibes and feelings in the hyena's blood that he comes from Egypt; but he was far different from a crocodile himself. He had several dark avocado green scales running down his back and onto his tail which felt like being smacked by the meaty arms of a silverback mountain gorilla as well as light kelly green spots running along his back too, with small black claws and with an long snout that had burgundy red irises and to say that he say he was the muscle of the group is not putting enough effort into describing him. As he grew up, he started to become longer and sleeker with large sharpened teeth; lighter kelly green striped patterns emerging from under his tail and with two small dark pine tree to turtle and waiouru green with an added yellow metal olive colored stripes underneath his chin. Those same stripes were present on the back of his head as well as the side of his ribs, his horizontally ribbed underbelly was a pear to lime and a chartreuse green color though the hyena can't stop himself from rubbing it which had the croc emit a low cooing like bellow in his vocal chords that was zipping and crackling in the inner walls of his throat; nothing like a good 'ol belly rub can soothe even the savage of beasts but that's a special thing about him when he's not looking to leave someone beaten to the floor on a bloody pulp for the offenses committed by bullies. His death rolls and jaw strength is what had every one of them minus Dhalimu be frightened and run off, he could drag that zebra into the water and his fate would be sealed if he was worth the effort of being eaten alive by him; and he's not for how much of a dickwad he was. Finally, now as though he sports awfully similar traits to that of Makuu and Kiburi; he's not arrogant like him as he did say showboating was the way to go for begging to get their asses kicked, but he was looking forward to seeing more of what this hyena was capable of (A/N: He is voiced by Arif Zahir, the new Cleveland Brown)

"You and I know that you're gonna be showing me what you're capable of as the years go by, it won't be long or be that much to be impressing me; the float leaders might say otherwise but they are full of pride, snap 'em back to their sight like how our jaws can snap anyone disturbing our hibernation in the dry season in half. Now tell me something, have you ever heard of the Traditional Crocodile Initiation Spar before from Mwindaji?"

The hyena pup perked up with interest drawn on his face as Zuberi snickered with his eyes all narrowed as he told him

"Determines if a crocodile's worthy of being in a specific float, and it's usually one like my own kind wishing to join the float; all you have to do is engage in combat with a current member of whom's chosen at the discretion of the leader. Should they be defeated, you're one of them as I have just the techniques for you to learn if you ever want to join a float; even if that float lives in that rocky, canyon like place outside the Pride Lands. Are you feeling up enough to begin?"

Taijuva nodded, curious on what he had to offer to him. Zuberi closed his eyes and tilted his head down as he chuckled

"All the more eager, all the less words to spare; nothing to say, cutting directly to the chase. Do you ever say something as basic as a greeting? It makes me wonder..." The crocodile then took him up on his back and walked away from the tree

Needless to say, the techniques that Zuberi had were limited but he's willing to teach him if he's ever looking to join a float weather it'd be here or in the Outlands; it doesn't matter either way. He and Mwindaji were two of Kuplinka's old friends, but this next one was someone that the jackal started to harbor feelings for hence he's the one whose telling him about this encounter

...

"T, have you ever met a girl who thought of you as a hero?" Kuplinka asked one day when the two were laying down near the cliff's edge

Tajiuva remembered when he met a girl, it was a lion and she might've been enamored by how cute he was for a hyena; the poor cub might've had a crush on him. The last time she saw him was when he wanted to leave, seeing no further interest in playing with a friendly lion like her; she even licked his cheek before running off on her own. He turned to face him as he began to talk about how he met this genet

"It wasn't too long ago but I saw this genet she called herself being mistreated by some jerks, I wasn't about to let them have their fun..."

The skies were looking bright and innocent enough, it was an intense game of Baobab Ball going on around the field and who was the opponent? Himself as Tajiuva wasn't the type for playing all these games like these, he did at one point spot him using his paws to paint something onto a rock but he couldn't tell what it is; and he was rather quieter than usual about the vision that he was going for

After one of his kicks sent the baobab ball flying across towards a tree that rebounded off, the jackal was suddenly alerted at the sound of distress as there were three animals and a genet of whom they're tormenting themselves; the first animal was a gorilla who was straining to tear something out of the genet's paw while it planted a foot on her back, the second animal was a gazelle who was pinning her ear to the ground and the third was a giraffe who did nothing but laughed at the fun they were making for themselves. The genet could easily be seen with tears streaming down her face as she was having her arm twisted and about to be slammed on when Kuplinka shouted at them

"Hey!" The jackal called them out. "Cut the crap with her!" That seemed to have gotten their attention, although their expressions were now targeting him; the genet being tormented still had her eyes closed, her one eye however opened a little but her pained expression had not changed. The bright and innocent skies started to darken with looming clouds coming over

Kuplinka didn't change his expression even as the three rushed over to slam him to the ground on his stomach, kicking him over to his side as he covered himself from the attacks of the three bullies. The gorilla pounded on him nonstop, the gazelle continued to headbutt his back in the hopes he wouldn't stop feeling that after it stopped and the giraffe was stomping on his body; burrow kicking him in the face where his nose continued to endure the assault of bruising. The gorilla elbow dropped on the jackal's back, the gazelle bit his arm while pinning his face toward the dirt and twisted it to the point of enacting a hard on indian burn; the giraffe kicked him in the stomach continuously as the darkened skies started rain from above the looming clouds

It was only after the gorilla bit into his collarbone and started rearing back that Kuplinka started to shout, enough for the gazelle to charge into his stomach with his horns and the giraffe began to tug on his ear with it's teeth. All at once the three assaulted him one last time by stomping, punching and kicking him in as the jackal was left behind in the rain to lay on his side. He's done everything by the book: spotted the situation, called out the bullies and he expected that they would leave her alone; he thought he'd scared them off but the things the book told him were lies. These bullies targeted him instead and by then, the genet he was standing up for was gone once they came to attack her defender. If only that were the case as a leaf was roofed over him to shield the rain, he didn't look up to see who did so and assumed that it was one of his friends who witnessed the whole assault. It was not, that genet who was named Fahari that did this out of kindness for what he did for her

Fahari is not the only animal who shared similar traits but it was most common with her, being the adventurous of the friends that Tajiuva had made; she had the curiosity, the fun-loving and quite the soft to cheerful outlook that Kuplinka loved her for. Not much to say about her looks as she had macaroon to beige tan fur with a water to fondant white underbelly that went up to the back of her black and white ringed stripe tail, both limbs were dipped in a espresso to cedar and wood brown color too; her spots as well as the ringed stripes were a crow to soot black as well. Both her shoulders down to her biceps had three horizontal stripes that curved upward to the upper right side, and with two back stripes that slanted downwards to the lower right side towards her spots; the first one at the front splitting off to the sides and going up towards the back of her neck and the one at the back going down to the start of her ringed tail. She had an water to fondant white mouth with a black stripe around as it bridged over to ring around her eyes, forming a rectangular edge on the top as both ends were tipped off with a upper curving tip that had two on both sides even; her sclera was a parmesan tan and flax yellow color as her pupils were a caramel to tawny brown color, some parts around her eye had white markings as well. The center of the forehead was a downwards arrow tipped rectangular shaped stripe. Finally, she was not only the love interest to Kuplinka but she didn't stand for bullies and joined in the confrontations when calling for her to intervene; not willing to let the same thing happening to the jackal happen to her friends either (A/N: She is voiced by Haley Williams of Paramore)

She leaned down to his face, uncovering his arms and even trying to get him to stand up; only doing so when he held onto his stomach but didn't look up to face her. "You've taken a beating, all that for me... I can stand for myself; but I owe you more than what you did here"

Kuplinka didn't say anything to her, he just wanted to lie down before she handed him what she held that the bullies were trying to rip out from her paw as they tortured her; acting as a gift to repay him. This was a small slab that she found near the bubbling mud pits which was out there close to the Elephant Graveyard's borders where hyenas roamed, it was nothing of the special kind but the jackal couldn't care less as he stroked her back in return

"Are you hurt too?" He finally spoke after awhile

"You are, I'm not" She replied to him

"I'll be fine but thanks, it's nice to meet a new friend who can talk" Kuplinka looked away and behind him, unsure if the bullies would return for revenge

"What do you mean?" Her curiosity rose, a new friend who can talk; doesn't all new friends they meet talk?

"Ah, he's a hyena and a shy one at that; he can't tell you anything about himself, because he can't say anything as much as a single word is what my dad said to me when we first met each other at the watering hole" His ears fell back when he told her about Tajiuva

"He's-?" She was about to start

"A mute, never tried to talk himself but I couldn't care less; he's a charmer to two of my other friends: a bat named Mwindaji who can fly really high, and a crocodile named Zuberi who can lay down a smackdown on those bullies just like me. I would introduce you to him but I haven't seen him for two days now, he stays really close to his father and his mother; never leaves his mom or dad's side whenever he's around. But you'll like him, I can tell you that" He explained

"I like you already, don't I?" She came a little closer

"Yeah, I did stop them did I? His name's Tajiuva, if I get the chance I'll tell you where to find him" He jumped at the opportunity

"I live nearby in fact, why not bring him here if you see him again; I'd like to get to know him" She pointed her paw over to the direction of where her tree she lived in was

"I have one last thing to say about him to you: his face does the talking for him, Mwindaji can act as the voice he never had" Kuplinka informed her

"Thanks, I didn't catch your name" She remembered the icing on the cake, neither of them had introduced each other

"Kuplinka... I tend to bleed a lot" Kuplinka knew that was no coincidence that his name meant bleed in Swahili

"Fahari, that's what they call me" The now named genet Fahari bid him a goodbye and so did the jackal to her as the two left, he looked back on her and felt like his body's inner frame is falling into a freefall like motion; something that made his skin drain into a cold, snow white color without impacting on solid earth

He's looking forward to her meeting all of his friends, as the rain stopped once his mood had improved as the clouds started to fade away. At the end of how she met him, he confided in his hyena friend

"Now that you're here, I think she would like you and the others" Kuplinka stated as he stood up with Mwindaji having joined in during his story to him, knowing what he was expected to do when she came over

Soon, the three friends climbed down the cliff's edge that the two were laying on top of and Kuplinka led the hyena over to the spot where he first met Fahari; directing him over toward the spot that she told him where the tree that she climbed and lived in was given that she's a genet after all. He was just about to look around for her when she called his name. "Kuplinka, you came!" She was atop of a branch laying down like a leopard did and walked on down to meet with him

"I did tell ya' didn't I, Fahari? As promised: I found Tajiuva and here he is, but so is Mwindaji" The jackal presented to her as the hyena nodded as part of his greeting

"Whatever Kuplinka's been saying about fighting off those bullies of yours, I'm gonna let you off with a opinion of mine: everything he said about what I just said right now is true, they've just wet themselves when we were comin' to find you" Mwindaji told her, with Kuplinka coming in to interject with a notice to tell her

"When I said he talks for him, I didn't say he would be translating his speech; he does better than that; he likes to pretend he's him to talk"

"Never heard of anyone pretending to be someone they're translating for. All in all though, it's nice to meet you Tajiuva" She swept her tail to the side before coiling it around her leg

"Mwindaji would be the name for me here, no reason to be afraid of bats like me; I ain't bitin' no one if they're not doing anything against us, even then I'm feeling fine. No illnesses on me I can tell you" He stood upright and introduced himself

"That's good to hear, and what of Zuberi that you mentioned; have you told him about me?" She remembered that Kuplinka talked about him, being a crocodile and a strong one at that

"Not gonna be a problem, I'll spread the word and it's nice to meet you too as well" Mwindaji told her, using the expression of the hyena to tell the genet as he began to flap in the air and fly off to inform the crocodile himself about their newest friend

Kuplinka, after Mwindaji flew off suggested a race with his hyena friend to beat him to Zuberi and the two were off as Fahari joined in for herself. One more friend to go as he was the most recent one he's met before... no, he shouldn't delve into that time anymore. Nevertheless, it's here that he meets what is perhaps a venomous friend who paralyzed Dhalimu after biting him on the leg; the zebra had been weary of him and Zuberi the most due to the former's venom to the latter's jaws that could snap him in half

...

The gorilla, gazelle and giraffe that tormented Fahari before walked near the lakeside that was Mapema Rock where a monitor lizard named Luthando was laying on his stomach; apparently soaking in the rays of the sun. Out of frustration because Kuplinka had yet once more spoiled all three of their fun, the gorilla pounded the grass and took what he believed was a tree branch before he slammed it against the rock, throwing it to the ground; pouting with a snarl from him. However, he's actually taken hold of Luthando's tail and what he did just now; the monitor lizard stood up with his eyes flashing with a plethora of colors before he turned to face the gorilla that did this

"HEY!" That seemed to have gotten his attention because as soon he turned around, the gorilla proceeded to get smacked and sent flying up against the tree with his tail. Before he could even recover, he bit down hard on the gorilla's neck and paralyzed him; the gazelle and giraffe came to his rescue but the monitor lizard tackled the latter to the ground. "Don't you use me like I'm some kind of tree branch again, you hearin' me?!"

"It's not our fault, that jackal ruined our fun when all we wanted to play with his girl"

"WHAT?" He shouted

"Pop his neck off, I'm tired of hearin' this bullshit!" The gazelle egged him on, though he was frightened off when he was given a death glare as the monitor lizard returned back to shout at the giraffe

"You don't lay a hoof on his woman, who is he? What's his name?" He demanded answers

"I'm not tellin' you his name" The giraffe refused

"Then I'll snap your tongue out and pop your head off with my teeth!" He threatened to rip his head off his long neck

"A'right, a'right it's uh... Kuplinka. I ain't sayin' no more 'cause I ain't tellin' you where he is, only that hyena knows where he is and I last saw him in the Backlands dicking around" The monitor lizard grabbed him by the jaws and threw him to the side

"I 'oughta wet your fur and spill your stomach anyhow!" The violent monitor lizard wasn't having anymore of this and bit down on his long neck paralyzing him, turning to face the gazelle who galloped away; abandoning the others as he spat in his direction, man did he hate bustas like him and this jackal was one himself. "I'm goin' find this busta myself and file a complaint I lost a good dream I was havin' that time, I had everything in there but now it's gone away" Someone was being pouty today, jesus

Luthando had the qualities of the African rock monitor and the near slimmer build of his body to that of a Nile monitor, however he sported no relations to Zuberi's country of origin as that's all but something uninvolved with him; what he did sport on the other hand is the white-throated stripes which were a little faded but still present on his leather skin. The tail of a water monitor and all the more bulk of a komodo dragon which wasn't as much as to say Kenge for example, it wouldn't matter either way as he's long just as he's a sleek reptile whose scales were but a light olive for his underbelly; one that he was protective of from the baboons who would climb over him, it was ticklish that's why as he shuddered without making a sound whenever someone did that from head to tail. He had some dark and swampy green colored scaly stripes that gone to his back and covered both his claws to his legs, inverting the colors as towards the top from his own body; the stripes were outlined with a pale canary to medallion golden yellow colored line as well as bearing orange eyes as his sharp claws were a black color, only a few muddy brown colored spots were present on him. Known to have fangs with the upper row exposed when his mouth was closed as he usually stood silent, but not as much as Tajiuva had for as long as he lived for to this day. His paralysis venom was temporary but ultimately enough to bite down on any bully who tried to start a fight with those closest to him. You know Tajiuva wonders why he looked forward to trying to reconnect with his friends and he was the reason, at the second time that he encountered them which was when he refused to see them and ran to the Marsh Forest; this monitor lizard wasted no time in bitching to him about how he didn't show himself for the past several seasons that went on. He's bitter but he didn't hate the hyena, he was only angry and started to lose his patience when those dry and wet seasons didn't loosen his tongue up in the slightest. Nevertheless, if there's one thing he enjoyed for himself it was that he's an Norse fanatic and when it came to classifying him out of the whole circle of friends; he was the berserker to Zuberi's muscle as he never failed to intimidate others with the more direct way and approach at gaining information. Finally, even though he didn't spite the hyena that didn't stop the monitor lizard from being the first to snap at his rear ended ass when he's gotten that temperamental like a real berserker would (A/N: He is voiced by Faizon Love, also known as Sean "Sweet" Johnson from San Andreas)

Soon and surely enough though, Luthando had indeed discovered the giraffe was telling the truth as he found the jackal and the hyena that was mentioned to be living in the Backlands. He could only hear the former though as the latter wasn't making one sound at all throughout this whole time, he doesn't play those kinds of games with him and it's not the hyena he's after; it's that jackal that he feels is in his rights to make him explain what was happening. When he looked again at them, he saw that the two weren't alone as there's a bat on the hyena's neck; apparently the two were playing that baobab ball game with the fruit of the same name that was acting as the ball itself. The hyena wasn't playing but the jackal and the bat were, it looks to him at least. Maybe he could chip a word in with him, give his friend the message

Slithering over to his side, he tapped his shoulder once but the hyena's response was merely a nod and his left ear twitching downward giving him the signal that he was listening; but the monitor lizard believed otherwise as he tapped him again, same response which he's getting annoyed now as he pointed out to him. "You're pissin' me off now, hyena!" His voice isn't all that quiet as the hyena finally turned to face him

His expression told him that he was listening to what he had to hear, but he's one of the first that didn't understand what he's saying since he didn't talk directly

"That silent enforcer type ain't gonna' work on me and you know that, it did work on that gorilla who was using me by the tail and my head as a hammer with his fool ass giraffe and gazelle that was with him; I paralyzed him enough to make sure he's not using me again just because he's mad and all that. In fact that's what I'm here talkin' to you who ain't even sayin' a single word to me all this time, speak up you fool so I can give that jackal a message for him!" Luthando demanded as his impatience was getting past the tone of his voice

Tajiuva only stood there with a expression that asked him to tell the message to his ear so he can relay it to Kuplinka

"So you're looking to hear a sneak peak, then let me make it as clear to that fool as possible" Luthando came over to speak into his ear, giving him the complaint he wanted that jackal to hear from him. "Give it to him straight and up front, I want that busta to know what it feels to have your dream be interrupted because some gorilla is grabbing you by the tail and thinks you're a hammer"

Tajiuva gave a short nod albeit it was slow and with that he walked off from this monitor lizard who wanted to file a complaint, calling his friend a busta in the process. He'd better understand what he's saying and not manage to misinterpret it as something else, even though he misinterpreted his speech disorder as trying to be a silent enforcer himself. Hah, what irony

The baobab ball was swiped out of Mwindaji's talons by Kuplinka's leaping jaws that snapped onto it as quickly as he could, landing back to the ground as steadily as he could. Turning back to run from the bat as fast as he could as he was ready to chase him, Tajiuva was walking over to talk to him. "Got somethin' to say?" Mwindaji was the only one who could speak since he's not the one who has the baobab ball obstructing his ability to talk properly

His expression to Kuplinka was as simple as a complaint coming from a monitor lizard calling him a busta, Mwindaji knew what one was and even made a comment as soon as Kuplinka's starting to drop the ball from his mouth

"What could little 'ol Kuplinka do to ruin the lizard's dreams?" Mwindaji landed onto Tajiuva's neck where he always sat on

"Aren't I 'bout to find out myself" Oh boy, was he in a heap of getting the earful from this little old lizard that came all this way here just to complain

Tajiuva led the way with Luthando having a change in plans in the process, looks like it's this hyena that would rather have him deal with things directly than simply give him his word; so he'd better have the best excuse he's got for having those three interrupt his nap. Once they arrived, the jackal started to speak

"You have somethin' to complain about?"

"Yeah, I do have something to complain 'bout: those bustas who know your name just ruined a perfect dream I was havin' when one of them grabbed me by the tail and used me as a tree branch, said they only wanted to play with your girl 'til you ruined their fun. Only that hyena knows where he is they said, last saw him in the Backlands dicking 'round" He recalled what they told him and more when he threatened them, Kuplinka immediately recognized who it was he was talking about

"Were they a gorilla, gazelle and giraffe that did all that?" Mwindaji got suspicious

"What do you think?" The monitor lizard snapped back with a response

"Do you know what they did to that girl you've just mentioned? That genet did not belong to them as a friend, they were beating her down; what they did to you however was lie about it and try to shift the buck onto Kuplinka" The bat gestured to the jackal

"You could've told me directly" His ears lowered as he turned his head away

"This hyena would only listen to you, and I had to talk in his ear to make him get the message since he won't spit a word out for one" Luthando pointed out as the pup, who was laying on his back against a rock, twitched his right hind paw in front of himself; his left arm went over the back and his right arm was fumbling with his black snout

"Tajiuva doesn't talk, everyone knows that and Mwindaji speaks for him; damn..." He never thought he'd meet someone who can't understand his expressions, having to point out his bat friend who was flapping his leather wings in mid-air

"Then I'll really snap his tongue out since he ain't got use for it, and I'll break their kneecaps for making me have to come over here just to be told I was wrong!" The monitor lizard turned his back

"Nah man, you ain't goin' nowhere without us because those three hurt me too when I stood up for Fahari; and especially Dhalimu who threatened to stampede on Mwindaji's skeleton and at least Zuberi threw him down, sending that zebra runnin' off to his mother. Good old Zuberi, I love that crocodile" Kuplinka stopped him from leaving

"Then holler at his reptilian ass so he could wet their fur when I have 'em paralyzed, they're not lying in my face and thinking they can walk free with it!" Luthando demanded before he went on ahead to deal with those three

Mwindaji flew ahead to tell Zuberi about the monitor lizard they were just talking to telling him to "holler at his ass" so he could put the same bullies assaulting Fahari to a beaten mess, and in the meantime the other two Tajiuva and Kuplinka followed the monitor lizard who had remained ahead of them when he sought after the three that were scared off. At this point in time as the three entered the Pride Lands, Luthando started to cool down and his voice was a little more quieter; he felt like it was time for him to start talking after reaching this halfway point. Breathing out through his snout and letting out a huff out of his throat, he began to talk to the two

"I ain't holding nothing against you two, I can get tense like that back there 'cause I'm always beefing with bustas like them; even when I'm not feeling up to the mood and I just want to sleep it off" Luthando muttered

"It's down under now, anyone who's willing to put a inward dent on Dhalimu's lil' dong is a friend of mine and Tajiuva's the first I'd ask to lead the way; he don't need a tongue to bark his orders at me, I know what he's gonna be sayin' judging by his expressions he'll be givin' toward everyone he sees. You'll come to understand him soon, even when the years pass by and none of us had contact for awhile" Kuplinka stroked the back of his hyena friend's red shaded mane, with Tajiuva shaking like he has a chill running down his spine

"I yelled at them not to lay a hoof on your woman before I left them bitten and crawling their ways back home, even I don't harass them unless it's those entitled lionesses or another one of a different kind that act the same way. They're in their rights to act like the spoiled daughters their fathers and mothers raised 'em to be, and I'm in my rights to refuse them help of any kind for the way they're acting" He pointed out as he continued to walk ahead of the two

Kuplinka's upper half of his face flared up when the monitor lizard mentioned he told the trio not to lay a hoof on his woman, the same woman whom he became friends with; giddiness is already present without even saying a word. He even started to giggle at the prospect of her being his girl worth fighting for, she can hold her own yes but if he's ever in trouble and was beginning to lose his morale; she'll be there to remind him

"Heheheh, I got to know her better in a short amount of time and I even started to have a crush on her; makes me wonder if she ever found out about that part" The jackal revealed, feeling all tingly inside whenever he thinks of Fahari

"Just don't keep her dying to know too long and don't let any faker steal her away like she's a piece of property to be owned and sold off 'n shit, I ain't about to let the jackal be going on without a backbone and be submissive to his mate; act like they're leading the clan. You ain't a male hyena like him, and neither is she 'cause their lives as males suck" The monitor lizard was spittin' truth but the jackal ain't taking it from him

"That's a low blow and you know it, if I were one I'd wouldn't mind; their lives don't suck as much as being a lion cub who's always at the risk of being eaten by one of them. Dad told me what they do to cubs like 'em, Tajiuva's not gonna let himself be harassed by a full grown lion when he's starvin' for one of them after he's all grown up; his dad said his mother's blood runs in him" Kuplinka held a paw around his neck, nodding at everything he said; it doesn't matter if male hyenas like him aren't being treated the way females are, he's not gonna be harassed by either kind. "Your name, I haven't even gotten to ask who you are; been too focused for the beat down on-"

"Luthando's the name, like I said I ain't always like this; and I'm holdin' nothing against your hyena buddy either for spitting out what I just said earlier. Pretending he's not even here, fool needs to speak up for once... damn"

After that chat, the three of them were as quiet as the nature around them; walking down in the savannah in search of the three that were going to pay for interruptin' his nap like that. It made him tired, made him have trouble in standing up but he's not about to pass out now; he merely just wants to deal with this shit and head on back to his spot near the lake and to be at least fair, it wasn't where he lived but somewhere where he always took his rests. It's hard to be awake for all this time, but even harder to decided on what to do once he wakes up; there doesn't seem to be much for him to keep himself busy here in the Pride Lands

The three reached the end where all three of Fahari's harassers were left unconscious on the grassy floor, having been trampled just about enough to make them groan in pain; something was wrong. Out of nowhere and without warning from the collapsed trio of animals, Dhalimu leapt out forward from behind the tree; tackling Kuplinka underneath his hooves as he raised them both in an attempt to trample on his bones. Tajiuva bit down on his neck, stopping him as the jackal broke free and tumbled over to the side; the hot temper zebra was in a frenzied state long enough for Mwindaji to return back to his friends with Zuberi getting into position, looking to snap his jaws on his neck and tear his head off. Dhalimu finally threw Tajiuva off of his back and burrow kicked him off up against the tree, slamming the side of his body against the hard solid bark before he then fell to the ground; the zebra scraped the ground while he faced the hyena

"Remember me, dirtbag?" Dhalimu turned behind to see Zuberi leaping forward onto him, his jaws snapping shut on his neck as he brought him down to the ground near the small lake; the zebra's desperate whinnies and neighs fell on deaf ears yet again when he was dragged in the water. Zuberi turned himself over to the left and the right in an attempt to death roll him, splashing the waters so much to the point that he was all wet when he let go of his neck; this striped equine's neck was hurting to the point where he couldn't breath through his snout

Mwindaji dived down to the zebra's neck and bit his fangs into his open wounds that were already bleeding out, lapping up the flow of it even as he did have a liquid based diet which explains the fact bats like him didn't have that many teeth compared to Zuberi; Dhalimu had swatted him away with his shoulder and bicep, which he dodged out of the way in mid air as he tried to hit the bat with his hoof. Until he was suddenly bitten in the legs by Kuplinka and Fahari, pulling him down to the ground just as he started to crawl up to the tree; laying on his side just as his strength had given out

"You busta, I knew it was you that laid a hoof on his girl" Luthando shouted in his face

"It doesn't matter if I did or not, who would fall in love with a jackal outside his mother?" Dhalimu spat in his face, the saliva shot hitting underneath his left narrowed eye

"Who?!" Luthando demanded

"The hyena's mother, who else do you think I mean? The day she dies like I want her to for yelling at me to leave her son alone is the happiest as I'll ever be" Dhalimu declared, Zuberi slammed his tail down on his stomach to make him cough

"Oh yeah, I'm tellin' Tabari about what you just said in front of his son that you harmed. Any last requests before he puts you back in the death roll?" Mwindaji angrily asked him

"Yeah, tell him in front of his face that even his clan hates him... if he had a clan for him to lead; oh wait, males can't lead!" That was the last mistake he makes before Luthando puts a dent in his small metal lil' dong

"Not unless there aren't any female hyenas around, get your facts straight stupid; damn..." Kuplinka irritatedly pointed out, annoyed at how dense this zebra was

"You were an asshole 'till the end, punk you dirty striped skin pig! Hey Dhalimu, before you gallop to the sunset; go drown your lungs in a lake of cow piss, you bulbous belly fat redneck loaded donkey. Bite him!" Zuberi insulted him one last time before calling Luthando to bite him with his paralysis inducing venomous fangs

Luthando was all the more ready as he proceeded to bite down on his stomach and paralyzed the zebra who attacked them, after all that Tajiuva came crawling out with one of his arms covering his stomach and hopping back into sight with a limp; having heard everything he declared as he wasn't present during that point. He needed time to recover, Mwindaji swooped down to his snout

"Don't listen to him, your mom's not gonna die today; not 'til the Pride Lands end and that day's far from now. I gotta' tell your dad about what he said alright, let him rip his lil' baby wiener off; tie it around his bleeding neck and make him choke on his intestines down inside his throat. No one talks that way about her, and I know you wouldn't do the same T. He's got this, brother; he's got this... understand?"

Tajiuva put a snout over his left shoulder where his wing was and nodded, Mwindaji soon left to inform his father about what Dhalimu had just said; wishing for his mother to die so he can be happy. In the meantime, he looked back at his friends and newcomer Luthando; nodding to them before he started to follow the bat back to the Backlands

"You goin' back to that nap now? You could use one yourself" Kuplinka turned to face him, pointing out that he could use one after what they did just now

"Nah, that zebra's already pumped some adrenaline to keep me awake. It's bustas like him that make me realize: I need to stop tiring myself out too much, just tryin' to do as much as I can before it's time for me to get back to my world. One where I don't have to start beefin' with perpetrators who're more busy jerkin' the gerkin like him for example'' Luthando shook his head and backed off, his voice was calm again and moreso now that his beef was done for

"You're not such a bad monitor lizard to be around, Luthando. Thanks" The jackal patted him on the back

"Anything you're going to do now?" Fahari asked him

"I saw you playing that baobab ball game when we met, up for a new game?" Luthando asked the jackal

"I'm gonna leave you in the dust" He lowered himself a little with a stance

"Not before I have you in the water and dragged you under the depths" Zuberi taunted

"If we're gonna have a clean match then I'm gonna play dirty" Fahari joined in

"Heheheheh, don't worry Fahari; we'll play fair with you, unless you got a plan to cheat" Kuplinka chuckled

"With the way you're laughing, I'm gonna go ahead and say you've got one up your sleeve. The game's on, Kuplinka!" Fahari raced ahead, followed by the rest of Tajiuva's friends as well as Luthando who joined his circle of friends

What's more to say? Nothing really, Mwindaji told his father and that was the end of it; he got fiercely protective of his mate and warned Dhalimu if he ever wished death on his family and tried insincerely to drop it in the form of apologizing for his behavior, he's not as sorry as he's going to be for the next time that he does this. Those were the times

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Back to reality, the cheetah cubs had fallen asleep on him though some were still awake in the sunset as they continued to nibble at his right thigh and even on his cheek near his eye; all the while as their mother watched on and not moved a single muscle, he remained silent. The cloudiness in his eyes are gone and he hadn't touched any of them, not wanting the cubs to be comfortable with the idea that all hyenas are the same just like him; it's not what their mother would want. Speaking of her she's not at all worried, her gaze was alert and observing but no less regal and relaxed; if anything was wrong she would be there in a second

Those that had fallen asleep not on him but on the ground returned to her, feeding on the breast milk being produced from her body while at least one of them was atop of her head in between her ears; it caused another hallucination to occur with the mother cheetah as well as her child. This time, she was swapped out with Najira while the cub was swapped out with his younger self; recoiling at the sight, it made him cover his eyes with his arm, wanting to block out the games his mind were playing in front of his two clear eyes. This did not go unnoticed by the mother cheetah however

What was he doing out here in the savannah? She stood up, grabbing the cub from her head before laying her child down with a double loving grooming lick on top of his head before she came over, a expression of curiosity having been drawn to her face

Jeyluxhal heard her steps but didn't see the motherly cheetah getting closer before her snout lowered to his right side, with the black nose touching near the edge of his black ringed eye as he stood up on all fours this time around; with rear end laying down as well and his front paws slanting inward. While she looked at him, his expression consisted of both ears lowered backwards with his tail being tucked; his head was slightly lowered and had the signature face he used to show but has become uncommon nowadays due to recent events. The mother cheetah leaned in with the hyena closing his eyes and his body leaning vertically upwards, his muscles contracting as they heightened with tension; the wet and black nose on her snout touching the rim of his black eye ringmark, before she let out a purring sound in her throat. That expression she gave to him was one that told the hyena that she understood what he was, a innocent pup underneath that mute shell he built over the years he grew up; giving him an look to his eyes that whatever he's searching for in his soul given the feelings he was emitting behind that stature, he'll find it and to trust her word that doesn't need to be spoken out loud

Soon enough when it was time for them to come back to their mother, he watched the cubs return as the mother cheetah reminded him of Najira encouraging him after a long day that was full of Dhalimu wanting to ruin it; coming back home to spend the rest of the time with her. He breathed a huff out of his snout and left the savannah, while the mother cheetah looked at him back as he disappeared from the dead tall grass

How innocent he must've been back then. But in Jeyluxhal's mind as he returned to his father…

Was he really innocent back then as a pup; even before he came to live with Shenzi and her clan?

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THE RUDEST KAREN YOU KNOW

(A/N: This story here is where Chungu meets Jeyluxhal for the first time, in the first scene as our awful and obnoxious baby-whining rights entitled baboon named Inahaki by the animals is harassing our hyena through her many ways of being a bitch. Her name translates to exactly just that "Entitled" in Swahili but it's not her real name, it's a form of slang that describes this dominatrix wannabe who thinks she has control over others' lives; and of course it's Swahili as with other names in the films and television series shows that came and went as well. Anga's back in this mini-story too and you guessed it, she berates him for ignoring her help in trying to steer him on the right path; but not as much as she's gonna be berating this Karen for not leaving him alone which is where she's at her worst. Trying to play the victim card since that's what these inhuman creatures called "Karens" do, they don't have anything better to do than whine and bitch about their rights to others when they aren't being treated as someone whose higher than the social standards of the normal human being as these creatures are most certainly not; and then playing the victim when they get their asses exposed and caught in the act red handed. This is also where the animals actually stand up for him because they hate this baboon too, here she is committing evil acts like telling him that he can't read a children's book because he's an adult when he never felt like he grew up; she spits on him which is assault, coughs on him which is trying to get him ill like she claims that she is and more. There's a reason I didn't show Chungu before and that's because of his voice that I heard awhile back, it's harsh on the throat and smug with that rough surface from that inner wall where all of his vocal cords are; that's the best description I've been able to come up with, better than most if I can say so myself. Cheezi's voice on the otherhand sounds like Chris Tucker but a little lower, he ain't irritating in the slightest either. I didn't mention that in the first anthology involving the Lion Guard because of the lack of experience, and now you know as I can say it here. With that said, let's begin with a David Attenborough narration which goes on to describe these evil creatures and how they hurt everyone around them)

Great evil came not in the shape or form of predators, but of middle aged menopause rights-abusing creatures as a early morning had risen once again; the skies forming that raining blue that's fallen upon the serengeti, salmon to flamingo and lemonade to crepe with bluish pink elements thrown into the mix as the rising sun on the borders greeted the awakening animal species who made their home here in Africa. The red dawn mellowing out into this cool and breezy morning, something that was to be spoiled by the arrival of the creatures who created hell wherever they roared; shouting at authority figures seeking to disrupt the war threatening to destroy the days that haven't begun as of yet before it was too late to intervene, making a bigger jackass of themselves than the ones they seek to victimize. All of these traits came in to form the species with a lack of respect to territorial boundaries of other animals as a being, not of an animal but a devil called the dreaded Inahaki; the entitled who harass everyone that they came across. Demanding special treatment for they believe they're higher than all who are not to be treated the same in their eyes. What unfortunate implications await the hyena whose lack of voice put him at odds with the Inahaki? Who would dare intrude on his grounds he called his territory? Where will they refuse to leave him alone at next and how would this be a breaking point to where the animals will stand in his defense? Let us join our hero in times of these, where temptation to rip the head off this baboon that was about to assault him will begin to overflow his mind

Jeyluxhal was merely on his side, reading a book that was titled "The Trouble with Names" as one can assert that it was one of those Berenstain Bear books that are written by Stan and Jan Berenstain themselves; probably the last one before their final deaths took place in 2005 that was reserved for Stan, and 2012 reserved for Jan. What was this book about? Reading a title in which it says exactly that on the front cover, it dealt with name confusion as the family who is living in Bear Country within a tree; they weren't always living there of course but that time is when Brother Bear was the only child. In this book, a teacher insisted that their surname that is essentially their last name to be clear was written as "Berenstein" as many names ended in that suffix; this doesn't just happen in the book itself, oh no it happened in real life and boy it was bad because of something called the Mandela Effect. It's hard to remember all the things when someone is that young, and unfortunately he's fallen victim to it as well with how it's a misspelling compared to how it's actually spelled; he wondered if it were just another part of his madness taking over. As for what the former home of the family was, it happened to be a hillside cave halfway up the Great Bear Mountain at the far edge of the country; so of course they were living differently. Papa Bear was a lumberjack, Mama Bear tended to an vegetable garden by climbing down a ladder to a ledge on the mountain. It's squalid with the lack of the modern tech but comfortable for the three of them as evenings were spent knitting, reading and playing cards; the best part about this home? A charming view of Bear Country from the mountain as it was scenic as it was nice to see. One day, the time as come to move for he was running out of trees on the mountain side and the saplings hadn't grown yet; Mama Bear was on board too as her garden was too small with the thin rocky soil of her ledge makes it hard when it was coming down to the prospect of cultivating enough vegetables. Brother Bear was growing as well as she would like to make the garden bigger but, there are rocks in the way; now while he enjoys the view of the country and everything he does on the mountain side, how will he like living down there much less leaving behind his childhood home and animal friends that were made throughout the ages he born 'til now in this time? Outgrowing their cave is reason enough to explain and moving down to the valley was another as their family was sooner or later about to get bigger, even moving into an abandoned tree that became their iconic home after it was decorated. Granted mind you, he's reading these kinds of books because; just before he could explain, the book was snatched out of his paw while a rude baboon shouted at him with a harsh middle aged voice that was irritating to his ears

"HEY! I've been trying to get your attention for three minutes now!" She lied as she was not seen or heard doing any of that

Jeyluxhal growled which made the baboon slap him on the cheek hard enough to leave a red impact mark that burned up

"Don't you growl at me god dammit, you shouldn't be reading a children's book meant for oh what's the demographic again? That's right, it's for children and ONLY for children! Act like an adult, ACT YOUR OWN AGE GOD DAMMIT!" That seemed to have only made him snap his jaws at her, who the hell did this woman think she is by telling him that he can't read a children's book because he's an adult hyena?

Jeyluxhal's expression was that of a burning hatred for this baboon he's beginning to build, to a point where he would gladly bite into her neck and make this aggressive entitled harasser; an Inahaki no less cease to breathe from her lungs out into the open air where he then can in all due time fill his stomach using her body. She however took the bellowing snarl sounds he made as a challenge, coming up to his face as he stood his ground against her; not in mood for this as he turned his back on her to walk away

"HEY! Get back here right now god dammit, you aren't going anywhere 'til you apologize for not reading a book meant for children; not for age confused hyenas like all your kind are!"

The hyena only retaliated with a bellowing hiss followed up with a laugh of aggression, but the baboon known commonly as Inahaki simply ran up to him and proceeded to bite him on the shin; making him kneel as she ended this by spitting in his left eye which was making him rumble with a inner rage, but to his mercy there was a witness willing to call her out

"That's assault, lady!" A new voice called out as it's harsh on the vocal cords, and rough on the inner walls of his throat. This everyone was Chungu, the partner to Cheezi whose voice could only be described as akin to Chris Tucker which was something that Jeyluxhal took note of yet didn't mention it before previously up until now. His name translated to "bitter" and that's an name he wouldn't mind be called because he's never been so bitter other than the weeks of which came on through, in fact that's how he's always been feeling but sullen fits him more so what's there to compare both names to anyhow? Here's what he looks like:

Chungu was the muscle of Janja's Clan and the main trio including the leader himself, he was a large scorpion purplish fur and thunder purplish grey colored spotted hyena whose notable features included a notch on his right ear; with two of them on the left side which gave a hint that there's been some past scuffles from before. The difference between him and Janja was that his ears were round and smooth at the tips, rather than being pointed like his; being the most well built of the hyenas that the Guard have conflicted with as he's got a thick neck and a large round jaw to go with the package, as well as the perks included too. The fur on both of his cheeks were long, curving upward with long and thick woodsmoke black mane that's been spiking backwards; the same thing can be said for his forelegs and paws along with a nose of which is large like his stature. His cleft underbelly that's underneath his neck was a creamy to russett grey color with black rings around his light equator yellow sclerae for eyes, both were encircled with ship greyish blue fur with two patches of dark emperor grey fur that were both covering the areas around them. He's tough but submissive to Janja's orders, Jeyluxhal knew only Banzai would be how he dealt with not getting enough food, he would bitch around and about it; as with the rest of his clan he had no respect for the Circle and even if he doesn't do so himself, he doesn't really want everyone to know that he doesn't have to follow what they believe in compared to himself. He's not very bright and he relies on Janja to make decisions for him, not helping is the awful memory he's been having. He's more confident than Cheezi yes but he's no braver than Janja, at least he has an appreciation for his jokes since it's all too inevitable that he's gonna be chuckling. One more thing about him is that he's oblivious to an all too clear fact that the Lion Guard do not like Janja's Clan at all, but that's what makes him a charming lad right there; if only that were true he thought. Finally, he may've never met him before but he's actually a fan of him not only for helping Cheezi as he spoke to him about on what exactly he did to please Janja; but also for how he's not takin' anyone's shit

"Get a life, you fat piece of shit!" Inahaki turned her head to shout at the approaching chubby hyena while the one she was assaulting was taking his leave, retrieving the book he's reading in the process

"You can't spit on him like that!" Chungu shouted at her, the baboon was shaking intensively as the chub of a hyena continued on with his rant. "You're gettin' pissy with him because you read them in secret behind other animals' backs"

"Don't accuse me of hypocrisy you fucking motherfucker, I'm the winner of a Miss Pridelander competition who won in first place-"

"Yeah, you only won because you exploited yourself who was featured live on television in shows such as good 'ol Toddlers & Tiaras and Dance Moms as a bratty child; that's why. Your move Inahaki" He intercepted her arrogance with a dosage of the truth

"I am not Inahaki!" The baboon threw her arms down like a bratty child

"Then stop acting like one and leave!" He started to leave himself as the baboon shouted after him

"NO! I demand an apology from him because he hurt me!"

"Boo hoo, oh that's so unfair; my paws are even stained with blood from your bruises that I can't see on your skin, because he never hit you from what I've seen. That's awful!" Chungu sobbed sarcastically as he wept with his narrowed eyes, smearing them in hopes of drying the lack of tears with his paws

"GET BACK HERE THIS INSTANT!" The baboon screamed, but this hyena ain't hearin' no more of her shit and this ain't the only time she would harass Jeyluxhal. Speaking of which...

Chungu found him a little while later as he was kneeling to the ground, his leg hurting from that bite whose painful after effects had kicked in with a pulsating throb of shock running up. He approached him by walking as he looked at the book he was reading, which was ruined by the Inahaki that acted like she had control over what he can and cannot read based on appeal to audiences of a different age than him. Jeyluxhal covered his left eye with his left paw just as he supported himself with his right leg and his right paw, kneeling with his left leg as the shin bled out because of her canine teeth; not making a sound as his head was lowered with his mouth baring his fangs as usual with his signature expression that he was showing, albeit in a buried state as his eyes were showing a raised brow that showed uncertainty in his facial language that only he could speak through with expressions. The chubby hyena approached as the mute hyena lunged his left paw for a stick close to him

"I don't think you'll be needing that" Before he could grab it, a rock was thrown in front of his paw as he merely stood up with the chubby hyena placing one on his shoulder. "I'm only here to talk"

He lowered his head to let him understand that he was listening

"What was that book about that got her all riled up for?" Chungu asked him

Jeyluxhal gave him the same expression he was showing throughout the while, but what he was saying was different as he described that the Berenstain Bears book he was reading was about a substitute teacher insisting their surnames were spelled "Berestein" due to how lots of names ended with that suffix; this name confusion was the focus of the book which Mike, who filled in for his parents Stan and Jan by crediting them on the cover as with all books like this even if they're both dead, thought would be a good subject to talk about. It delved right into the memory issues caused by the mandela effect because how could they remember all of the things when they're that young themselves, there's no way they could do that without asking their parents that recorded their behavior on camera for home videos. The reason he's been reading it was because he never felt like he grew up, he had the body of an adult hyena but he didn't feel like he had the mind of one; no, he was still a pup who isn't growing into a fine young hyena like how Chungu was growing into one himself along with the others. Even Jasiri was becoming a fine matriarch of her clan, and already he was showing signs of wanting to forgive her for not knowing that the play was gonna be run by hyena hating racists; even as he showed evidence of him hiding his eyes behind his bangs

"I know how that feels, Cheezi has the same problem because some vultures are insisting his name ends with a Y but still; that Inahaki's gonna be back and pretend this never happened, you know she's gonna be doing illegal stuff to spite you right?" This chubby hyena may not be very bright but he knows what kind of things Inahakis do just to get back at someone who they target, seeing their actions as being in the right while the victim defending themselves are the ones to be scorned at

Jeyluxhal turned his body to face him as he overlaid both arms on his shoulders, standing on both legs in order to lick him at the top of his head and the cheek as a sign of appreciation for what he did for him. Though he kneeled at the pain shortly after because of the bitemark on his shin, that didn't stop him from nuzzling him on the side of his head with his snout just as he began to lick him again. "Cheezi also said you acted like his mom, grooming and treating him like he was your son; scratching behind his ears, scratching his back like a horse... would you mind showin' me what that's like?" He asked with his tail wagging, however seeing him look behind him and on both his left and right flanks made him understand that he wasn't in the mood

Disappointed, Chungu at least smiled at him with a easygoing farewell that he helped out a fellow hyena of whom he was a fan of because of his no-bullshit taking attitude he kept. He then left to chase some antelopes hopefully to get just one bite out of them, and his words were true because that Inahaki came back to harass him at a different place and a different time he was in the Pride Lands

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In this different place at a different time, he was grooming himself and sitting down with one of his legs extending; his tongue lapping against the fur from his inner thigh to his baggy shin, even to the top of his hind paw that curled inward. Moving onto his upper body, starting with his pectoral muscles before moving onto his belly making sure it was combed all good and all nicely spiked downwards; his primordial pouch used to guard his organs when he fights was swaying side to side as he moved his upper body around to reach some of those hard-to-lick areas. Before long, he got screamed at by the Inahaki who at this point he was beginning to believe that she's stalking him wherever he roams; this time it was about grooming himself in a public place

The baboon's entitled voice of menopause infection was taking a toll on his ears, and these listeners to this tale know it's that bad when even he of all animals can't stand her talking of some of the dumbest shit she can pull out of her monkey like ass. "Well ain't this about a bitch?! Have you got no self respect out here in the open? No one wants to see you licking your balls, and as a speaker for The Lord himself I am disgusted at how he allows you to continue your perverted act of wickedness in front of children!" The following from our hyena is a translation written in vocals

"OoooaaauurRRGGHH - DurrAAGGGHH!" Jeyluxhal threw both of his arms down and stood up, swatting at the baboon who stepped back from him as he flopped down on his stomach. He's never wanted to put up with a overzealous and fantastical religious preacher, much less that of a entitled baboon no less. He leapt for a rock that he soon grabbed and threw it at her, this was where he wished his father were here to put this bitch in her place because he hates the kind of religious fanatics who think they should shoehorn the bible into everything. With an regained sense of seeing things the way he sees them with his eyes, he stood up and pointed out that he's nowhere in public and she's intruding on a private place that he chose; all so he wouldn't have to deal with religious fanatic assholes trying to convert him to a religion which is going to get someone killed for one, and a religion he just doesn't care enough about for another but the first point should be reasonable enough as he sees it

"Jesus fucking christ, you can't take a joke for what it is and don't say 'thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor' because that's not what I did; it's not against The Lord's word to lie about being one of his son's followers. And don't say anything about Jesus hating prophets trying to force others to go to church or pray for his father when they don't want to, you're an atheist anyway whose gonna be burning in hell with his father whose a fat stinkin' drunk" For her information, proselytism is against the law in some countries and she can say what she will say; it's all bark and no bite

The hyena had enough of her preaching when it was clear she's lying about being a religious fanatic just to try and get into his skin underneath his fur, he's not dealing with this shit and took his leave as to continue bathing himself somewhere a little more secluded. Too bad the Inahaki has no restraint when it comes to harassing a hyena out here in the Pride Lands, and it shows when this happens next

At Makuu's watering hole in the Pride Lands, Inahaki the baboon proceeded to angrily call out to a uninterested float of crocodiles; what she doesn't know is that Zuberi was present too as he was hearing what kind of bullshit she would pull off on his hyena friend this time, and his reason for being at this watering hole? He told Maaku that there's a baboon refusing to leave him alone and he's lookin' to catch her in the act, with his permission he would like to hide in the waters underneath and lunge out at her. Some animals were also around grazing when it happened and once she started to shout at them, they could only lose stop to sigh in just how nasty this bitch was being right now. Here we go:

"Attention Pridelanders: Do not be deceived, our king Simba would have you believe that he loves his people just as he loves his family with the Circle of Life that his Lion Guard faithfully protect from evildoers. This is a deception, this is not love and he has proven it by allowing a PERVERTED HYENA to bathe himself close to a watering hole. He who has no respect for the children who've witnessed this disgusting act of wickedness, PRIDELANDERS HAVE A BETTER JUDGEMENT THAN HIM! PRIDELANDERS, GET YOUR CHILDREN AWAY-" Jeyluxhal was hearing her shouting and lying, targeting him as a pervert when there were no one around because he has the decency not to bathe himself in a public area like what she was accusing him of; the crocodiles in the float's patience expired as they began to shout at her for trespassing

"Take your overzealous ass and leave, I'm in no mood to deal with fanatic baboons!" Their leader, Makuu himself demanded as she was trespassing on their territory

"You can't force me to leave when I was called upon by God's-"

"You can't trespass, but did you think about that fact before you showed up here uninvited?" Makuu countered

Inahaki let out a screech of frustration and shoulder charged at the crocodile, even shoving against him twice to make him back off; that seemed to do the trick as Makuu narrowed his eyes against her

"Zuberi" He turned to face him, who snapped a ribcage in half with his jaws to prove his point about what he's going to do to her if she tried to shove him again. "Get the picture yet, or do I have to draw one myself for you to understand; hmm?"

"I hate crocodiles" She pouted. "All your kind belong in the Outlands, and if I get tattled on I will personally sue you myself!"

"You're not personally suing anyone, you menopause empowered Inahaki. You're gonna go back to your tree, threaten divorce for the tenth time in your husband's face while all twelve of your children are watching you scream at their father; bitch and moan how he never seems satisfied or even loves you anymore, cry about it in the shower and guilt trip others by playin' the victim card for your social justice neckbeard fucker circle of friends who are only friends with you because you're threatening them instead of letting them leave on their own matter of choice. That's what you're going to do in the end, and if you ever target my buddy again... no one will be on your side; now leave, you overgrown toddler" Zuberi's voice was lower and hissing with a rumbling throat as his vocals sounded like they're being scalped on the surface for each of them, and his expression told a more angrier tone to her than his words

That's when the baboon started to let the tears fall freely and run off throwing a tantrum all the while she was rampaging through the Pride Lands, what was her deal with Jeyluxhal? His lack of speech doesn't mean he can be pissed on by everyone since he can't talk, and for that he can't stand up or protest against them; that's not fair at all for others to trash talk him due to him not wanting to speak out about their fucking shit. How dumb does this entitled bitch have to be for harassing a hyena that doesn't want to let his tongue and vocal cords do all the work for his mouth to say something, just this once even?

Makuu turned to face him: "I'm not blaming your friend, Jeyluxhal his name is if I'm right, but you need to bring him to me the next time you see him. I need to talk with him alone, and I'm aware of him not talking through words; that's why I'm expecting Mwindaji to accompany and speak his words for him"

"I know, and thanks for giving me permission to enter your territory in case she showed up. First thing he did was tell me about it, he doesn't confide in his friends a whole lot but he just doesn't interact with others much; and I'm not condemning him for that. Some of us aren't so social"

"You think? Ono ain't wrong but neither is he right, some of us aren't so violent but we have our own reasons to be just that; him and I have a problem with idiots, and that Inahaki might be the dumbest of the fools we're putting up with. I can help no further, I must return to my float immediately" He turned his back and walked away

"I can understand that being the leader and such, kill her if she trespasses again" Zuberi faced him one last time before he set off on his own, Jeyluxhal hearing everything that came out of their mouths as he continued to lick himself; grooming his palm before slicking his mane back into a flat mullet just the way he liked it. About time he was seeing some justice for him

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It doesn't end there, nope there are plenty more where that came from and this third encounter is fucking disgusting. Outright blatant assault more so than spitting on him

In the Backlands where Jeyluxhal lived and therefore roamed freely, some animals were understandably wary of him due to his emotionally unstable aura that he was giving off; like in about one minute from now he would go from being quiet to flying off the handle, hurting someone in the process. His mood swings were as deadly as the snapping jaws of a croc and as unpredictable as a hippopotamus who looked like it was yawning, when it was really giving off a not-so-clear warning to back off in reality. Who could set him off and potentially put someone's life in danger for their incredibly irresponsible and selfish way of entertainment? We know someone who would do something like that. Can you guess?

"Excuse me *cough cough* excuse me I'm coming through *cough* I've got a bad fever..." The Inahaki returned as this time she wasn't being a shouty bitch, but instead pretending to be ill as she kept leaning forward to him in order to cough on the hyena

Jeyluxhal had never expressed a more painful face that consisted of his brows hooking down in between the nasal bridge of his snout, the sclera in his eyes beginning to overflow in a hot boiling red like blood, his fangs beginning to drip with saliva and his ears pointed backwards; he knew that voice too well to call it a coincidence that she would be here in his home where he grew up with his father in, at least as much as he could when his mother were here cause she wouldn't allow this shit to happen to her only son. His face translated to: "Not you, god- mother- you- son of a bitch... (daurghh!) DOGSHIT! DAMN IT ALL!"

He raised his head upward to the sky in order to let the tsunami of slobber from the fangs of his mouth spout to the air, hitting the ground as they splashed with a slimy slap to the earthly soil underneath where he stood. His throat making sounds of frustration as his eyes were all but nearly filling with liquid blood that was emitting hot steam, barking harshly and snarling with a open mouth to roar if he only could do so like how lions would; emphasizing each and every one of the words he tried to say if he had a voice to protest with. Some of the animals yelped at his frustration, some ran away, some were unable to move though were shaking and some of them wanted to see what the problem was albeit unwillingly approaching him against their wishes

"*cough cough* oh that's a nasty one *cough cough cough* my lungs are killing me" She was smiling through the whole time she harassed him through this low blow of hers

Jeyluxhal swatted at her to make the baboon leave, but she coughed harder on him for every time she did so

"Stop it!" The baboon coughed on him again with the ill intention of getting him sick. "*cough* I have a fever, you can't hit a girl who has a *cough cough* medical condition *cough cough* you're so cute to think you have the right to harm a girl *cough cough* like me"

Some of the animals swallowed their fears of Jeyluxhal's mood swings and confronted the baboon

"Stop coughing on him, do you want to make others sick?" A gazelle was the first to confront the Inahaki, she was having none of that fake coughing bullshit

"No no, I'm not coughing on him; *cough cough* he's been threatening to harm little old me when I was trying to be his friend for once *cough cough* I'm the victim here *cough*"

"See?! You just did it again!" An okapi shouted at her

"Well, I can't help it when you're loose with your own bacteria congested lungs coughing on other people" The Inahaki snidely commented

"You don't know him the way we do, lady. Get off his back, now" One of the leopards in the group pointed his claws at her

Jeyluxhal turned his back on her and walked off in a different direction while the animals had been telling her off for intentionally coughing on him while she has a illness she claims to be infected with. Try as the animals will, she WOULD NOT leave him alone, she followed him in the Pride Lands too and coughed on him EVEN WHEN the other animals told her to leave him be; not because they're friends with one another but because they're scared of how violently his mood swings are, which only served to strengthen her resolve to infect him with a fever even more

This time it would be him who would deal with her as she followed him from behind, trying to cough to make him sick until he stopped in his tracks. Slowly he turned around to face her as his glowering face was shown to her, baring his fangs as he leaned back on his hind paws and slammed his forehead against her head; throwing the baboon to the ground with such hard force and expressing his demand for her to outright leave him alone while he's at it. Spitting at her eye as he ran away soon after

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"I live here! It's illegal not to invite me in when your father invited me" Inahaki shouted at him from behind the barricade that the hyena set up inside his den, she found his home and he was getting no peace and quiet in a place where he's expected to achieve what he wanted since she's being a stalker by this point

Jeyluxhal had both of his arms wrapped around him tightly with his face buried in his chest as he lied down on the ground, his ears being tugged down so he wouldn't have to hear that evil woman's voice anymore. Her lying about his father inviting her inside was nothing more than an attempt to encroach on his turf

"Why don't you come out of there like a man, why don't you come out here and talk you rude fucking bastard?! Let me in before I call the Lion Guard and you get banished by them, because your daddy invited me in and this is illegal. You want me to call the Lion Guard, or do you want your daddy to find you dead? I have ways in, and you won't be breathing tomorrow. You got two seconds to let me in, you hear? You got two seconds- let me in" Inahaki was bordering on threatening to kill him

Leave me alone woman, is all he could think as he pushed himself up against the barricade he set up to block her off. The baboon banged against it as she was getting angrier and saltier by the minute

"Son, his beloved son? DEAD! You're not gonna fuck with me, because when you find yourself outside one day; you're gonna be FUCKED!"

No response

"Alright you know what I'm gonna do now? You're getting poisoned, and I've got just the thing; and just so you know: killing you is not breaking the Circle of Life, you don't do your share of keeping it in balance; you're not a human being and you're not a lion, so I can get away with poisoning you. So what you gonna do, what's it gonna be? You gonna let your daddy cry over spilled breast milk, or are you gonna stop being a rude motherfucker who won't talk and let me in; because your daddy invited-"

"Get the FUCK away from there!" Jeyluxhal slowly perked up, hearing the voice of his father Tabari as relief made his blood run cold and soon warmed back up as he continued to berate the Inahaki. "You're trespassing in my territory, get out or I will make sure you will never see the light of day again; and if you threaten my son, I'll break your fucking teeth and put them up where the sun don't shine and blow it out of your ass with a Ithanca 37 and you don't want that..."

She however resorted to shoving him which in return, he bit her on the tail and tore it off with a spurt of blood as a threat with his jaws as he put a paw on her back to apply force; tearing it with great strength of his mouth. The baboon screeched in curses and scampered off and out of sight, driving her out of the Backlands as he spat the baboon tail out and off to the side, approaching the barricaded door

"Jeyluxhal? It's only me, you can let me in now. I'm not gonna hurt you but I will hurt her if she harms you again" His father called out from behind

His son threw off the rocks, the still wet mud and the leaves that were used before he came running to Tabari; throwing his arms around him and burying his head into his chest. He hated that bitch so much but he didn't want to lose his shit again, that's why he hasn't been doing so immediately; he's trying so hard not to lose his patience with her and he doesn't know how much longer he can do this. His son heaved and quivered with each of his deep breaths that were taken, reaching up to his collarbone, shoulders and even his ears to ensure he was still there with him

"I know son, I know; but bear with me here, stay with me. If she harasses you again, kill her. I mean it: kill her because you gave that baboon enough chances to stop, and she refused; you hear me out? Alright, you have my word to leave"

Jeyluxhal look up to his father and nodded, holding onto him for a few more minutes before he felt ready to let go of his safety net and walk off to get something to eat

But that's not the end of it unfortunately, she's making a final assault on him and it's the worst she'll ever do to him as she's going full on entitled mode here

...

On a brand new morning, Jeyluxhal was feeding on a fat cape buffalo to sate his thin skin as his bones were looking a little softer than usual; drinking from a coconut that held breast milk from the buffalo's utter as this one was a female of course. The males don't have utters, but hey it was easy to make a mistake like this. Better make this quick, that baboon is gonna be back to harass him one more time and it would be the last time she does so before he kills her; he is through with her claims that he's a misogynist, an anti-semitic, he even began to hate being touched with the way she was shoving him back. He wanted to be left alone, not bothered by a Inahaki who wanted nothing more than to attack and torture him for being, as she says it, rude to her; in fact that was what brought her to him in the first place as he felt her palm slap against his back, curling into a fist as she started to pound hard on him

"Excuse, ME!" The hyena she has harassed time and time again showed no response. "HEY! I'm trying to get your attention, your eating habits are disgusting! I can see pieces of meat on that hideous spotted fur of yours, shave it off because it makes you look fat; in fact you're a fatter piece of shit than that fat one from that Outlands hyena clan. Shave it off, NOW!"

Jeyluxhal continued to chew and swallow that buffalo meat, hitting his stomach with a liquid splash that gurgled from the outside. Inahaki was furious and in fact, she tried to steal a large piece of meat from him which led to the hyena refusing to let go of it as she tried taking it out of his mouth

"Give it to me right now, you mangy bastard. You have been rude to me all day by not talking when you're supposed to. I don't care if it's a speech disorder, mutism or something else in fact; you're just as braindead, a murderer and a creep for reading children's books meant for a child ONLY. Not for age confused hyenas like you, a Playboy magazine reading jewish woman hating fuck. Stopping you from eating the inside organs and body meat of a buffalo is the first thing that's gonna be changing, starting with what you eat like this!"

The hyena only tightened his jaws on the meat he was devouring as the baboon strained her arms to the point where she could see the veins beginning to surface, Jeyluxhal knew lions of all predators were the ones who stole food from his kind the most but baboons like her had a wide selection available in her environment; yet the first thing she does is try to steal buffalo meat from him. You don't steal from Jeyluxhal, because there's no way he's gonna let go even if he's being smacked on the nose which is what this Inahaki was doing to him

"Let go, you flea ridden-" The hyena rammed his head forward against the baboon, who was thrown a distance; chewing the rest of the meat that there was and swallowing it in one gulp, although not without coughing a couple of times from the size of that chunk as it took a lot of energy to swallow that. He let out a breath of relief that it was over for him. The Inahaki was not accepting this, her wide angry eye twitching underneath as she dared to put her paws on him

"You need to learn some matters!" She slapped him hard across the cheek as that left an burning hand mark on him, he only retaliated with a growl and a expression that told her to get her paws off him. "Nah uh, not until you-" She was cut off when he put his paw to her face and ripped her tightening paw on his arm off, turning away as he began to walk off

His paw was taken forcibly as his shoulder was yanked backwards. "You're going to be banished for what you did to me!"

Jeyluxhal, past the point of being through with the Inahaki, stood his ground and refused to budge one bit

"Get out of here now" Jeyluxhal's ears were about to burst from her increasing pitch in voice, somehow even worse than Coumba's extremely irritating voice from the infamous Netflix movie "Cuties" which is a film that you do NOT want to watch; it's a exploitation and a plot meant to sexualize underaged eleven year old girls and what's worse? There are entitled assholes saying you have to watch the child porno and are defending it when it's not a movie to begin with, it's a child porno and a bad porno at that

She yanked harder on his arm. "Get out of here NOW!" She was beginning to sharply get louder and louder with each act of refusal from the hyena she was terrorizing. "GET OUT! GET OUT HERE NOW!" But no matter the ounce of strength she strains herself with, he would not move in the direction she wants him to; not even when she started to scratch his body with her claws

Gliding through the clouds in the skyways, one martial eagle that we're all too familiar dived below underneath as she narrowed her maya and olympic blue eyes that shined a mauve to a bright lilac along with a heliotrope to a medium orchid and a electric purple that had a kind of violetta red as well as a carnation to a nadeshinko pink for the brightness; what did she see to her deflation as she turned into layers of chubby squishy blubber like skin that rippled when a human finger pokes it like a bellybutton? She saw that hyena again and this time he's being assaulted by a baboon who was already slamming her clenched fist against his thigh, wanting to bruise it enough 'til it turns black and blue so she can bite into it and let the blood spurt out so he can kneel in pain

"That fruit pelting..." She dived down, aiming directly for the baboon who was now bashing her head against Jeyluxhal's side in an attempt to harm him; causing her more head trauma than it was to the hyena. But the Inahaki saw the martial eagle coming for her and dragged a portion of the mute animal's spotted yet scarred fur upwards, when her talons would extend and open to take the baboon off of him; she would claw the flap of skin she was holding and made him bleed

Needless to say, Anga not only did just that due to being unable to stop her momentum but her beak's sharp tip hooked into his skin a little bit which sent a small shock of pain; however the martial eagle started to swipe her talons to maul at the baboon who covered herself, he took the opportunity to throw her off his back and preformed a donkey burrow kick that sent the entitled bitch slamming her back up against a tree. Hissing at her in response and letting out a snarling grunt, the Inahaki didn't relent and leapt at him; with the hyena punching along the side of her cheek that grazed with a heated scrape, now the two were locked with both of their arms being held against one another and digging each of their claws into their skin

"You're going to be banished for what you did to me!" Inahaki grunted. "You there, help me get this fucking stupid braindead poacher off me!" She turned to face Anga who hovered off the ground to watch this confrontation

"Help. You?" She was not believing this. "Why do you think I attacked you in the first place, huh? Because you were harming him, that's what; I saw what you did from up there in the sky"

"He hurt me in the den that he stole from me" Inahaki lied, claiming that Jeyluxhal's den was hers before he stole her territory. No, Anga is not buyin' this shit; no one is in fact and she stood by refusing to help her

The mute hyena mocked her with his expressions, saying that he did alright and his faces had indicated that he was being sarcastic. "Let go of me!" Inahaki grunted with gritted canine teeth, his next expression was that of refusal after she's been harassing him all day yesterday and today; getting desparate, she decided to kick him in the stomach and started to stomp her feet repeatedly on his stomach like it was a flight of stairs

Jeyluxhal growled, oh so now she wants to start kicking?! "Yes!" Inahaki responded, seeing the expression on his face turn ever so hostile. She wants to start kicking after she harassed him by coughing and threatening to kill him at his own den?! He taunted her to start kicking when she tried to bite his nose. "You hurt me in my own den, I own that den and you stole it from me!"

She refused to leave him alone, she can't do that and now she's kicking him was his response. When she reiterated that he hurt her by shoving her up against the wall and taking her arm, he sarcastically replied in his own language that he sure did and he's willing to do it again if she doesn't leave him alone like she hasn't been doing for two days straight now. Out of options but full of pressure, she slammed a kick to his upper left side of his chest where his left upper ribs would be and attempted to claw his face underneath his right eye. Oh really?! He's gonna take her down for that now, and he was in his rights too as he looped her over to the side where her back was and threw her to the ground where she was still standing on her knees; the two were scrambling on the ground as he shouted with a bark for her to stop it, he shouted louder with "NOW!" being added to his contempting hatred for this entitled baboon when she let out a gutteral prolonged growl. You know, he had to bark at her to stop it three times now and his tone of voice was really angry

When she tried to hit him again, he brought her up by both arms and threw her to the ground before emphasizing his order for her to stop. Adding to his order that she needs to leave him be, she's not gonna be stalking him like this for the rest of his days so she can lie that he don't like women and that he's an anti-semitic; that part had Anga raised a brow at what exactly he just said. Of all the things that this baboon, which she already guessed was a nasty Inahaki, in the words that she shits out of her throat to badmouth him; she went with the mysogyny and anti-semitic allegations excuse. How desparate is this crazy baboon? Jesus, and why hasn't he reported her already? Speaking of which Jeyluxhal was now pinning her to the ground

"Let him go..!" She was sounding more desparate by the hour, turning to face Anga who again refused to help her; as the hyena barked to shoot down all of her attempts to ask someone to help her. When she decided to ask nicely to her, the martial eagle's response?

"You attacked him first" She reiterated herself on why she's not intervening

"NOOOO! LET ME GO!" Inahaki shrieked on the verge of tears as Jeyluxhal was content in having no intention on releasing her, struggling to squirm her way out of his grasp as he had stopped every chance that presented itself to her to break free. Her voice was even starting to break. "He won't let me walk out of here!" Trembling and quaking as she broke down in a pathetic meltdown. "Let me GOOOaah!" The hyena only smacked her across the cheek, with another indivitual crossing by this scene of uncooperativeness

"Thisss is why I don't bother with entitled four year old tantrum throwing toddlerss like her..." Ushari hissed in Jeyluxhal's ear as he slithered by, with the hyena giving him a look that expressed envy for him; hey even though he gets pounced on by Bunga which makes living a life in his scales feel like pure hell, he can bite into Inahakis like this one and deal with them quickly. But then again, what the hell does he know? Not the half of it, that's for sure

"You assaulted me!" Inahaki's irratiting voice still trembled, while Jeyluxhal only increased his grip on her; having an expression that told her that she's been stalking him for two days now and he has no reason to let her go knowing full well that she's gonna play the victim all so she can get the animals to rally against him. He's having none of that shit today. NONE, OF, IT. PERIOD. "That doesn't fucking matter!" Yeah, it does matter because she threatened to kill him and said that he's not a human being or a lion so she can get away with killing him. "Let GO OF ME!"

That's it, no he's done with this shit. Jeyluxhal threw her off upwards as she landed on her back and turned his away from her; but that's not gonna be enough, is it? NO, she decided to chase after him with the intention of attacking him but breaking down when she gets caught by witnesses. Jesus christ, who does things like these?! Fuck man

The Inahaki was now making shit up as she started to shout at him about his role in the Circle that he couldn't care less about other than now, as he sarcastically asked what the problem is and she responded in the most ear piercing shrieking way possible

"The problem is that you do not- FUCK THESE FUCKING ANIMALS! GET AWAY!" She started to approach him but stopped when he hissed at her not to touch him

Anga followed, not wanting this to end violently but with Jeyluxhal, it begins violently anyhow so what's the point in trying to end this peacefully? Because they're the ones who started this shit, not him

When the hyena was lost on what the problem was yet his expression of being done with this entitled bitch didn't change, a giraffe walked up to lower her neck and head to kindly explain to him. "You need to leav-"

"LEAVE!" Inahaki shouted, rudely cutting the giraffe off with Jeyluxhal sharply barking at her to shut up, barking twice for her to do so in fact

"Shut up, both of you!" Enter player three who is a elephant, earning a snarl from Jeyluxhal as he's got better things to do then to continue this argument. "LEAVE!" Inahaki shouted again when the hyena started to explain his situation in his own language

"Can you tell me what your name is and what you're-?" The elephant asked, Jeyluxhal however refused to tell him; with the baboon cutting in once again

"GET YOUR FUCKING FACE AWAY FROM ME! He won't leave me alone...!" How many times can she play the victim card until everyone's had enough of her shit? Way too many because everyone doesn't want hear out both sides of the tale

"My name is Mshauri (consultant), what is your name?" Mshauri, the elephant from before told him and demanded an answer from the hyena who then cited that he doesn't give a shit what his name is; in his own language of course. He doesn't have to give his name, and when he started to express what he said again; the Inahaki snapped as Mshauri started to approach. "You son of a bitch!"

She tried to shove Mshauri back before moving onto Jeyluxhal, charging at him like a irate bull to throw him off; the second time trying to throw him to the ground on his back which he retained his balance and doing so again as she tried to kick him in the stomach and shove him back a couple of times. Her voice had reached the absolute limit of how high she could shriek, but yet her voice wasn't lost to her old age. "GET OFF OF ME! LEAVE! LEAVE US ALONE!"

So now, he's gonna call the Lion Guard on her is what he's saying after she just laid a paw on him when she told him not to touch him. "Get out of here! Leave her alone!" Mshauri started shouting at him too but the hyena, no he stood his ground and told him off stating that Kion and the Guard are getting involved right now; only then did the Inahaki scream and started to charge at Jeyluxhal with claws swiping furiously to attack him. Only for him to lunge his paw at her to strike at the baboon's heart which led to him tackling her to the ground, tumbling about along the ground before the Inahaki seemingly had him pinned down; her speech is now limited to shrill cries and shrieks as he then gave off his final expression to her before he killed the baboon, and it was when she bragged about how she was gonna bury him in pieces that she was gonna rip him into. The translation was this: "Well there's one thing you didn't count on: Baridi is gonna be ripped to pieces, but I'M NOT! HO YEAAAAAH!" He let out a shout at the devil when he kicked her off with his other leg chokeholding her around the neck

When she landed, he slammed his hindpaw against her monkey like ass and took both of her legs before he crunched them both; crippling her with a leopard arriving on the scene. Taking her by the now-broken legs he threw her body over to the animal who then caught her with a secure grip with it's maw, the hyena telling it that she's all hers before spitting on the ground; leaving the Pride Lands

The following events would be alerted to the Lion Guard, Kion in particular would be on the lookout for when Jeyluxhal would appear as even though he's never met him; he would be quite interested to know what the deal was concerning the skirmish he was in. For now, Jey walked back to the Backlands when Anga, who has kept true to her reason for why she came to see him, landed on a nearby rock with him taking a seat as his bangs were covering his face yet again; though she could see more of it and that expression was fresh off of contempt. Hey even though she doesn't talk much, she's gotta spare a couple of words to carry the argument that's about to be held

Anga's expression was the same as when she first met the Lion Guard, just after Beshte had spoken saying that she was the right bird for the job along with Bunga attempting to entice her saying if he didn't mention before that it was a job for the guard, and before Ono decided to talk to her bird-to-bird he calls it; though she looked more disappointed than unamused at the scene, and it was the tone of voice that was making it clear for him to hear

"You were advised to see Rafiki, and you ignored what I was trying to do for you"

Jeyluxhal lowered and shook his head, no no no no no she wasn't doing anything for him; refusing to help that Inahaki was one thing that he appreciated but that's not the point. He had to ask what kind of shit was she trying to do, her response would come off as something that's just hard to comment on

"Saving you from yourself" She answered bluntly

The hyena turned his head from her, he's not hearing this right now. Anga figured out that he had no intention on seeing Rafiki, she even talked to the mandrill who said that he never showed up at his baobab tree; no instead he would only confide in his father, rarely does he do so with his friends but even then he's disappointed that he's not coming. He even went to express that he expected her to swipe her talons and peck at him for ignoring her words to see him, to which she shifted her wings and huffed one out through the nostrils of her beak

"If that had done any good..." She continued. "You're somehow looking even worse then when we last met and talked, I know things change overtime, what with you getting into fights with those fruit pelters-"

Jeyluxhal let out an audible snarl, his expression stating that he didn't start that fight as his eyes were narrowed and his fangs were visibly showing; rumbling in his inner throat as if he had a inner flap that allowed him to create vibrations in the water, which meant that he was horny given that it was a mating call for crocodiles. Hissing on the otherhand is territorial, that much he can point out as he spent time with Zuberi a lot to tell the difference

"What did you even do to her?" She inquired and leaned forward with her unchanging expression, the exception being her right eye narrowing

Jeyluxhal's face could only be described as mildly irritated as his brows along with his eyes that were narrowed and his lips hooking downward, letting off a laugh of frustration as this time he was hunched over with both paws on his thighs. He did not want to have to explain this bullshit to her because the Inahaki's actions made it clear from the beginning that she's getting bent out of shape over nothing. He went on to explain that he was reading a child's book series, namely The Berenstain Bears with one book that dealt with the problems that concerned insisting someone's name is spelled like how it's usually spelled and not the way how it's actually spelled. Enter the bitch who started it all, Chungu intervened when she had the audacity to spit at him; the chubby hyena drove her off but warned him that she's gonna be back to spite him. And spite him she did when she came to harass him again when he was grooming himself in a secluded place all while pretending that she was a religious fanatic, his friend Zuberi and Makuu drove her off when she started to rant that he was a pervert who did that in front of children when he was nowhere near any of them. She tried to cough on him at one point pretending to be ill and trying to get him sick, she would NOT LEAVE HIM ALONE in spite of the others telling her to fuck off; she tried to break into his den and threatened to kill him saying that he's not a lion or a human being so she can get away with it 'cause in her own words, it's not against the law and it doesn't break the Circle of Life that he doesn't give two fucks about but he doesn't shoehorn his opinion on others. No, he keeps to himself and he lets the others follow it in their way while he does so by living freely; his father was the one who tore her tail off when she shoved him after he told her to get out because she's trespassing. Anga examined the expressions and concluded that everything she did to him was because she's a horrible sociopath, just like Amy from Cuties

"Reading a children's book..." Her expression was that of dull surprise that only Batman could pull off, or at least Michael Cane's Alfred seeing how unsurprised she was looking. "And you can't read it because you're not a pup anymore... we're you trying act young again?"

Jeyluxhal crossed his paws and turned his lowered head to the side, bearing his fangs once more but not out of anger; out of shame as she could hear a near inaudible whimper which was rumbling in his throat. What he's essentially saying to her is that he doesn't feel like he grew up, he's only a early teen and he's already finding himself having to defuse situations and conflicts that weren't his fault. The offenders did that on their own volition and he's the one who has to give them consequences because they're gonna suffer no, and he emphasizes with force, no consequences for their actions; getting off the hook just like that. Now, Anga's here to call him out on and berate him for being cynical because no one outside his friends take his mutism, his mentality or how he feels at all seriously. He's come to the conclusion that he is never going to learn, he's talking to a martial eagle whose cold, hostile and unfriendly altogether; seeing that expression on his face saying all that in front of her upfront and directly, and turning away to walk off to his den where he wanted to confide to his father made her respond with something that she learned from the mandrill

"I know about her..." She leaned forward as Jeyluxhal slowed his walk, both of his ears drooping backwards as it looked like she struck a chord in him; letting out a rumble in his throat that she could hear. Her reason for bringing this up? She's not the cold, hostile or unfriendly martial eagle that he's been getting his impression from on her; she only plays the tough gal and is really shy in reality, proven by Hadithi of course. "From what Rafiki told me, she sounded like a good mother... "

The hyena's bangs and sides of his mullet were drooping, squinting with his head lowered as he confirmed that Najira was a good mother; she was better than that in the world seen all in the eyes of others. His voiceless vocal cords letting out near inaudible whimpers, after these years and months her murder is fresh; never aging and becoming stagnant, this lack of progression for this fact meant nothing was changing. Baridi wanted to strip his father's happiness and in doing so to extend his reach, his own too as the lion got just exactly what he wanted; and what he wanted now was to plunge his claws directly into his cold-to-the-touch, foul and tainted blood pumping heart. He turned to face Anga and his expression told her that she can leave, he has no further business here but if she wanted to know more about his mother; seek out his father in the Backlands, he already figured out that she grew up here just as he did here once even if he was raised mostly in the Elephant Graveyard

Knowing that he had no further interest in continuing this and so, Anga bid her farewell and took off; with Jeyluxhal walking back to his den in a sullen victory. He won nothing, and he's gained nothing in return. That concludes the advent of the Inahaki, persistent as they are as aggressive and troublesome creatures; they attack the most innocent of animals who want nothing more than to mind the business that matters the most to them

But fear not for they will not bother Jeyluxhal again, and make a fool of him they will not as the baboon will serve as a sign to beware the silence of a hyena who was left motherless by the treachery of a banished lion

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THE GOOD LION

(A/N: Alright before I start, I had to remove a segment amounting to four now which happens to be called "Rhinolithic Pain" that focused around Jeyluxhal trying to rip a bloody, hardened, solid and prickly rhinolith out of his black nose that was causing him trouble in breathing; the main reason is because this chapter is already as long as it is thanks to the Inahaki's persistent refusal to let go of her harassment. Disappointing I know but as you can tell by the title of this segment, a fan favorite character who is Kiara's friend and later future queen by his side; or in this case as I like to call her "Miss Not-Appearing-in-This Story" because as you can tell I don't even like how she acts like an arrogant brat stereotype, and I've heard that she bullies Kion as well but at least Kiara doesn't put up with Tiifu and Zuri's fur-emergency along with Nala. My portrayal of Kovu, as there's no reason to go any further with not saying his name comes out across as disrespectful to his mother Zira behind her back; agreeing with everything Jeyluxhal comes out with his mouth regarding his deep hatred for her, hell he even plays along with his plans that he's gonna execute her when she is his prisoner, he's also sarcastic as well such as say if Nuka fell off a cliff and bashed his head knocking him out then his response would be that it's too bad he missed the pool that was three feet in front of him. Overall, the way I portray the lion who relents to his mother due to being submissive and fearful; do not forget that he tends to question their bloodthirsty tendencies too for that matter. He's not pulling punches when it comes to insulting his own mother or his brother because here, Nuka is a douchebag as you're about to see in this shorter chronicle of the hyena we know and grow attached to so we can see him earn the happy ending that he deserves. All I have to say is that this is gonna feel like a Dhar Mann video but this idea actually came from a similar channel which is called Vid Chronicles, along with another video for the last one for this chapter here. The name is of course referring to Kovu as Jeyluxhal is developing a negative opinion on lions, he's coming to him so he could show that there are indeed good lions and he's one of them for instance. But now let's cut the shit, and let's go the action you've been waiting for)

What lied beyond the evergreen Pride Lands and the shadows of the Elephant Graveyard? In the distance from the tall grass surrounding blue ponds, small acacia blackwood trees and the grey rocks that were scattered around these familiar lands was a heavily eroded badlands that were called the Outlands. Few trees, plants and vegetation grew her with little war and even minimal creatures called this place their home; there are peculiar stunted trees dotting these badlands and scattered boulders. The threshold seems vaguely better with a real, if not to be explained, crocodile invested water source with a noticeably purple sky with some trees and some plants too. The most noticeable feature was the limitless bold jack-o orange as well as a merigold yellow colored daylight sky with noticeable shades of red as the sun sets, there is termite mounds that were distorted as if it were done by reality and internally vast seeming as if they're really dead mountains behind the illusion to the eyes of the exiled souls; there's many pathways with knolls and places for somewhat uncomfortable resting. Through all the various holes that the termites have burrowed into, all kinds of color from both the skies and the sun will pop through as a lioness can burrow her way to the top; knocking over a couple of rocks to stand at the top of the mound. But that's one district of the Outlands, there's something of a barren wasteland which stands among canyons and stony caverns that had a dark and dim atmosphere of which courtesy on the frequent ash grey clouds; at the heart lies an active volcano which was surrounded by geysers not unlike the geyser district of the Elephant Graveyard as well as the rivers of lava that come in several. What served as a neutral ground is Broken Rock, a site that Scar murdered his Guard there using the Roar of the Elders when they refused to aid him; the rock splitting in two to earn the name as this district is not like Zira's territory, it's desolate as it is nearly an everyday war for food and entering the Pride Lands to have what they cannot to live free. The site lies in an area of desolation where it's surrounded on all sides by cliffs that are jagged. What business does Jeyluxhal have here in these lands?

He came into the Outlands in search of Janja, knowing full well that he's heard of him at one point or another from either Cheezi or Chungu as they would've blabbered their mouths and told the boss about him; one way or another he would be waiting to meet with him. He's got a good idea on thinking how he treats his cronies, but what he doesn't know is that a lioness he assaulted witnessed unseen by him that he was trespassing here in her territories; but it's out of her knowledge on the reason as to why he was doing this as it didn't concern her, what mattered to her the most was that he leaves these lands and if not he will be brought over to her directly so she can kill the hyena that attacked Scar. Yes, she was there when he and their king fought each other but in her mind; the hyena provoked him first and he was trying to, for as much as this mute snake in the grass was being stubborn, put him in his place fairly and he didn't want to listen so he had no choice but to humiliate him in front of the lionesses. That's how it happened and to be honest, he deserved to be brought forth and thrown to their paws lying in blood and drooling in his own exhausted self

Jeyluxhal huffed with a thick and hot puff cloud exhaling through his nose before he went to get a move on, it's only a matter of time before Zira appears in his face to drive him out; what she doesn't know is that he's not here for her, he's here for Janja and she's not gonna stop the son of Tabari from doing what he's come here for. Well, she has something to say about that; and soon as he was out of sight, so was she. Do you think this is going to end well for him? Oh boy, let's see what happens next

Okay, so Jeyluxhal's making his way downtown in the canyon and walked down hoping he'll go running smack into Janja or either Cheezi and Chungu run into him first where they'll lead the hyena to their boss himself. He wasn't bothering no one else, he wasn't interrupting anyone's routines, he wasn't getting into trouble; it's trouble that finds him first and it always comes at it's worst. When he walked into the more familiar part of the Outlands which was as brought-up before a barren wasteland with a rather dark and dim atmosphere, he was none the wiser; the frequency ash grey clouds truly made his tan fur stand out as well with his red tinted and black mother inherited mane that reflected on the edges, his scars that he kept to remind the hyena of his foster life with Shenzi's Clan were as distinctive as ever. The sun that peaked on to shine on his aubergine to a temptress along with an mahogany to a rosewood and maroon red tinted mane was covered a couple of times by the clouds above, but nothing so bad so far in this district of canyons and stony rock caverns; leaping down a ledge and landing on all four paws, he stopped to look at his surroundings and while this was happening Zira sent out both her sons. She wanted to send out her youngest son alone but knowing that he's been strongly defiant behind her back and aware he has no intention on following through with her orders, she sent her oldest son to accompany him soon after he left on his way to meet with who this hyena was. At least that's what he remembers being told since he wasn't listening to her

Where was Jeyluxhal now? In the same place where Janja, Cheezi and Chungu were chasing Dogo before the Lion Guard stopped the three along with the former's temporary cronies of who were named Nne and Tano; the same place where they first met the jackal pup who was actually apart of Reirei's Pack to be exact. He was just coming out of the canyon when both of the lions that Zira sent to stop and chase him out of these lands appeared, Kovu and Nuka are their names but both siblings were different from one another. In fact it's the latter who was the one that caught his attention by letting off a warning growl, making him slow to a walk as his facial expression turned hostile at that moment; translating to: "Are you fucking kidding me? Damn you, Zira!"

He did not come here looking for Zira so he could plug both her and Baridi together, he came here for Janja; but no that's considered something that concerns her enough to send her cubs to drive him out. Yes, he's aware of the reason as to why he heard one of them growling; he'd refused to look at them until the oldest one who looked dirty smacked the back of the head. Once he made him turn to face him and bark in response, that's when he saw the duo of lions with one looking like he doesn't want to be here and the other being the dirty lookin' jackass; who walked up front to start talking in his face

"Think you can just ignore me and shrug that off, don't you?" Nuka started on a brown but sour note with directly getting up in his face, full of arrogance and attention whore like behavior as he was ignored by Zira which wasn't his problem; yet he thinks he knows better than this hyena who is smarter than what a lot of animals think because he doesn't say anything. "Don't you got some balls to come and walk in here like you own some turf here in the Outlands, I'm gonna say this right now: you're trespassing in my mom and brother's territory, why don't you pretend to be a tree and leave?"

"How funny, that'll knock Robin Williams out of his pants and make him shit himself in laughter, who taught you that one. Zazu?" Kovu made a snide comment, being disinterested and sarcastic but also defiant and even hostile to his brother

"Gee, too bad there isn't a birdie boiler around here, maybe I can put this hyena ignoring me and that banana beak freak into it and send them flying off... hopefully I can hear this one say something for once" Nuka shot back at his brother, and as the two were having it off, Jeyluxhal studied their appearances

You know sometimes Kovu wonders why in the hell he has to be brothers with Nuka, he's not his biological sibling and he too knows that he's not Scar's son; yet Zira insists that he's next in line for the throne over him. When he was an adolescent he's skinny and underfed, unkempt fur with scraggly whiskers and a short ungroomed night rider brownish black mane; his fur on the otherhand was a pine cone purplish grey, with his muzzle where his hooked black nose is being an americano grey and his paws to underbelly being a pale del rio light purplish grey. It was mostly brown though for his fur to be exact and it only had that grey tint, same thing for his cream tinted muzzle, underbelly and paws too. As to be expected he's got dark eye rims, a short black goatee with tufts of black fur on his elbows and tulip tree yellow sclera bearing an burnt umber red for his eyes; even as an adult when he became larger and more muscular, he was no less thin and weakly built compared to his brother. Yes, his mane grew longer but it is just as scraggly and unkempt as it was; his hooked black nose and unsheathed claws were all-the-more present given that he's an Outlander. He's bombastic, he's highstrung, he's volatile and in Kovu's words he's a tightass bully but more on that later. Unlike his siblings who were the more long suffering and the scheming variety, he jumped into situations headfirst and he displays almost manic enthusiasm for his mother's plots like this one which is to drive him out all because he justifiably assaulted her for blatant racism towards his kind. Considerably he's neurotic but he could lose his temper at a moment's notice, even if the issue was as trivial as itchy fur; skewered priorities, go figure right? This excitable nature is what gets him right into trouble such as accidently trapping himself in a ring of fire while setting the dry season of the Pride Lands ablaze; even so he's as fierce as a fighter and he took orders well. Aggressive and persistent as he wouldn't shy away from attacking larger opponents like Simba, even if it kills him; guess what? It did just that, but it's not like Zira cared about him because oh no that's all too soft for her and softness is not what she shows. In spite of being the oldest of the cubs, it all boils down to him being absolutely irresponsible who neglects his duties; Kovu ain't lying when he said that he's a bully in every way of the word, as he likes to do that to the younger siblings of his either by making disparaging comments about, laughing at or outright abusing them. Though he longed for Zira's attention since she didn't care about him even in death, he doesn't share her enthusiasm for Kovu's position as Scar's chosen one and only went with her plans to put him on the throne of Pride Rock; just so they wouldn't have to be living in an god forsaken termite infested district of the Outlands. Because of her favoritism which was in no way any better than that of Ahadi's favoritism for Mufasa over Taka, Nuka resents his brother and he wished he were the chosen one over him. Constantly time and time again he vied for his mother's attention, deliberately trying to sabotage Kovu to make his brother look all ever more incompetent and unfavorable; Zira ignored him continually which only frustrated him further and made him try his hardest to capture her attention. He even went to climb up an unstable pile of logs to attack Simba for her, all that for his mother's love he didn't deserve; and that's what led to his demise. When it came to the subject of Jeyluxhal however, he was such an attention whore that he would resort to using Zira's hatred of him for his benefit and even then; that wouldn't do shit to earn his mother's attention for him, not even when he for all his intents and purposes tried to throw derogatory shade at him. Finally, everything that's been said about Zira not loving him even when he killed himself in the name of his mother's love came from Jeyluxhal himself; not out of jealousy that Zira lives while his had to be killed at the paws of a lion who wouldn't leave his father alone, it's because he's a frail built, small-brained, malicious-!

"Wh- HEY!" The lion slapped him from underneath the chin before clutching his face. "So you're gonna take a peak at my manhood now? Mom always knew you were a weirdo, but she didn't tell me you were a shithead up the creep without a paddle who liked to look up other lionesses' imaginary skirts, you're lucky Vitani isn't here with us because I don't want her to have all the fun with beating you to a bloody pulp; thinkin' you can get away with that. Not gonna happen, so get lost you skirt chaser" The tightass bully of a lion started to shove the hyena's face away from him

Jeyluxhal peeled away Nuka's paw from his face, but not before he unsheathed his claws so he could attempt to dig them into his black nose and scratch the inner walls of his nasal tube hard enough for the hyena to bleed. He held him back as Nuka could see the tension building in him but failed to realize he jumped to the conclusion he was trying to peak at the lower half of his body, accusing him of being a upskirter who targets lionesses particularly; all doing this without concrete solid evidence of having him act like one towards any of them at Pride Rock

"You stay away from my sister and my termite of a brother over there, who's SUPPOSED to be HELPING ME drive this creepy bastard who ASSAULTED OUR MOM WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT out of our TERRITORY!" Nuka emphasized and shouted at his brother Kovu while threatening this hyena who twisted his paw with an audible but small crunch on his index finger. "Ough! You obese fucking prick!"

"That's enough, Nuka; cut that shit out!" Kovu shouted at him, not wanting to get into a brawl with his brother and a mute hyena who could kick both their asses all without saying a single word

"Bite my ass!" Nuka shouted back before returning his attention to Jeyluxhal, cracking his finger back into place; this silence he was responding with was starting to get under his skin, it didn't feel right. "Say something!" He slapped him across the face, leaving a visible red paw imprint

Too bad Jeyluxhal isn't listening because for one, he was looking at him from all sides which is just him studying his appearance and two; he was studying this lion's disinterested sibling who stood nearby, not doing much but snarling under his breath

Kovu, at least when he was a cub was a large if not broad and stocky lad, but nowadays he's larger and he was more powerfully built as his fur was a cumin to a copper canyon and to an espresso brown color; his underbelly to paws were a shingle fawn to a tussock tan color, his mane being a cedar to tamarind and a coffee bean dark brown color which gave it a blackish look but the brown shades still stood through and through all the way together. Given he's a lion himself his sclera was an anzac to a copper and desert to a di serria yellow color, both of his eyes were a clover and mallard to a deep forest with a bilbao as well as a screamin' along with a bright greenish yellowish lima and house green color that proves that he's curious as well as very passionate in relationships with a creative outlook on life; large amounts of love for a youthful invigorating color that brings vibrancy and compassion wherever people whose got eyes like these are said to have. He had fur tufts on his elbow joints along with an hooked nose on his snout and unsheathed claws. His personality goes two different ways because for when he was a cub, he's as aggressive as he was crude seeing how his first reaction was snarl at the first friend he made as a challenge and the only game he understood was play fighting. Considerably he's arrogant and egotistical, he loved to show off his independence and survival skills but for as much as so; he's heroic in determination to save her from crocodiles, even he showed willingness to make friends with her in spite of the enmity between the prides; and even though his brother was an asshole he doesn't hesitate to stand up for him in the face of his mother's rage. Though displaying bravado in his interactions with his friend, this wasn't a same circumstance when it came to his mother Zira as he's submissive and fearful; though he won't let that stop him from dissing or badmouthing her behind her back or even in earshot, it's fine if she gets angry because he wants her to know he's hurting her feelings. Questioning her bloodthirsty tendencies but giving in if she rebuked him harshly, he remains open to the idea of meeting others outside the Outlands as he's calm when meeting Kion and he doesn't hold hyenas like Jasiri in contempt either; neither does he hold Jeyluxhal in contempt even as he was told by his mother that he tried to kill her, his own mother but he don't care as he would rather be a rogue lion than be associated with this bitch who is the farthest thing from a mother she could ever be. After falling in love with Kiara who was the friend mentioned, he became kinder and more temperate in nature. No matter how much his soft side was beaten down by Zira who molded him into a cold blooded killer, no matter how much arrogance that he retained, no matter how much scorn he continued to show in his interactions with all the other lions going as far as to mock his friend for subpar hunting skills; no matter how matter his subtle and slick attempts to kill Simba as he proved to be a good actor by lying to Simba's pride into believing he changed for the better, he too had his mother fooled because he did change for the better. Caving into his softer side as he embraced mischief and laughter again when meeting her again as a young adult, the dark side of him would occasionally slip in for the only images he could pinpoint in the stars were violent pictures; that didn't mean he can't considerably soften and openly show affection for her. His feelings for Kiara are stronger and will not be overpowered by his pride's initial drive to avenge Scar, he's gentle and respectful as he will always be willing to do the right thing even if it meant betraying his former pride; disappointing those he loved. He continued to love his family even if he betrayed them and even though Zira refused to reconcile with Simba's Pride, he still mourned her death... or at least he pretended to because he missed his biological father more than her for how she had blamed him for Nuka's death when it was his own damn fault. Finally, remember what was said in Chapter 3: Tyranny on Pride Rock? That friendship which ended up in bigger flames in more ways than one didn't mean his friendship with Jeyluxhal, it meant Zira's plans she had in store were falling apart and that's not the only factor; the readers know what the other is given his relationship with Kiara

Kovu noticed the hyena, Jeyluxhal if he wasn't mistaken, studying him and unlike his attention whore-momma's boy of a brother; he showed off what he had to show and once he had every feature of him identified, he merely sat down and waited for his brother to leave. Jeyluxhal had nodded to him as if he knew what he was doing, he looked away in a shy-attitude kind of way to be honest; not sure how to respond. But once Nuka saw Jeyluxhal lick his nose like a cat, whose to say that he wasn't gonna keep going ballistic on him?

"Oh son of a tit... I wasn't good enough for you to look at, now you're takin' a hard good look at my brother and make lovey-dovey eyes at his smaller-than-his-brain penis-"

"That's real bold coming out of the mouth of a lion whose brain is smoother than his penis, and this hyena we were ordered to harass and chase out" Kovu interrupted to fire his shot at Nuka's attempt at a insult being hurled towards this hyena who was trying to move past him

"What's next; you're gonna start gettin' all horny like-" He was cut off again but this time by the hyena letting out a crocodile sounding hiss, with the lion finishing his insult. "-Like a cub killer on a field day, going around attacking pregnant lionesses and trying to kill their unborn children like our mom; because that's what you did!"

"Careful..." Kovu warned with his tone of voice being on the edge, not afraid of Jeyluxhal in the slightest but knowing what he's going to do; even his narrowing expression was turning more hostile. A rock was thrown at him, grazing next to his face as this lion hissed in response; there was no need to say who it was that did that

"Fuck off back to mom with you, I'm only looking out for our pride, that's all; while you tagged along 'cause mom wanted you, the heir to Scar, to do the job and me to take over because YOU have no intention to do so. Mr. Uppity Ass over here ain't gonna take no for an answer and he's not leaving our territory like he's supposed to. Now, I'd like to know from you Mr. Uppity Ass-Quiet Hyena: where you goin' by the way, eh redskin?"

"Really, redskin? You don't know where he comes from. And if he was a Native American, and depending on which nation he's apart of like Chinook, Apache, Lakota, you know the federally recognized tribes, he'll floor your ass to the dirt in a matter of seconds for calling him that. Hell, maybe he'll even blow your ass out with his blanket gun that he created with his Ferguson rifle" Kovu huffed, though Nuka shot him a glare briefly before returning to the hyena, although that didn't stop him from thinking to himself. "I don't get why many people think they didn't have access to firearms or cotton back then, they're just groups and bands made of people that each have their culture and traditions for their own. Same thing for us, both lion prides and his hyena clans alike" (A/N: If you're a Native American reading this, don't let that get under your skin too much)

"That's right. My mom, her name is Zira if you've forgot that, knows about you, in her days from living in Pride Rock in Scar's reign. You, you ever think back about those times, huh?, eh? Do you think about all the hurtful things you did? You- you think about how you tried to... tried to bash her brains in with a rib bone, and cut her stomach open while she was pregnant; eat her unborn cubs? Huh? You know, murder a lioness who was PREGNANT by the way? Eh? EH?" Nuka got up in his face and increasingly got shaky with his tone of voice, even his sadistic smile was turning into a frown that started to show how much he held him accountable for that; ignoring the fact that she started that shit first

Jeyluxhal was in no mood to talk about what he did to her in that time in Scar's reign and had started to walk past him, but the lion began pushing him away with his arm and paw; all while the hyena started swatting at him to make him stop. Nuka even began backing up in his path in front of him, refusing to either move or stop pushing him away

"Does- does that annoy you, huh? Huh, does that make you angry? Eh, huh? Huh? You want- huh? You wanna- you wanna take a rib bone out of my kill that you have no right to eat, and stab me in the gut with it? Huh? Huh? Am I annoying you? Am I annoying YOU? HUH?" Nuka increased his mocking tone of voice as he continued to get in his way

"Nuka that's crossing the fucking line, get out of his way" Kovu knew where to draw the line and his brother stepped over that line in a short amount of time

"You tried to kill our mom who was pregnant with us, you ever knew that, you spotted skinned motherfucker? Where'd you get the scars on your fur, huh? Fighting with our mom right after you attacked her while she was near the point of going into labor? Yeah, I'ma keep bringing it up because you could've killed my brother, you could've even killed my sister; you ever think of that too, huh? While I'm at it, you're gonna leave. You can't trespass here, it's our turf"

"Nuka..." Here comes the countdown

"You- you want some of this lion's balls don't you now, huh? Yeah?! YEAH?! Yeah, well fuck you, you're not gettin' any of mine. Look around and tell me if you see any broads. No, there aren't any and Vitani don't count as one. So stop fighting me, you walk away right now mister uppity ass hyena, you dirty minded horny sex obsessed pimp lustin' for your own male kind tryin' be like strippers in a daycare for lion cubs only. Cause even if we squashed the meat, I ain't gonna be touchin' your hand" Nuka started spitting homophobic insults, jumping to conclusions that he was a homosexual and began hurling slurs to potentially hurt his feelings enough to make him attack, even insulting DMX's Where the Hood At? with that reference; hopefully this would be enough to garner his mom's attention for once

"NUKA" If his brother don't stop right now, he's gonna have to step in and take it from here. He put his paw up against his lower jaw to push him and even force Jeyluxhal back, intending on dragging him out while threatening the hyena with death if he comes back once he did the job

"You walk away, right now hyena. I'm not jokin' round, because I'm gonna be chokin' your pipe 'til you're turnin' black and blue entirely. I'm not the monster here, you are. You are a redneck, white bread, outsider-in-your-own territory and clan, hungry for chicken cock right out of the hen's white feathered slit where her cluck is poonhound. I'm gonna use your head as a bowling ball for me to bowl for those buzzards like those two do, I'ma throw you out of here myself and if that ain't gonna be enough, I'ma have to kill you, feast on your body, shit it out and smother your mom Shenzi's fuckin' grandpa piss smellin' fac-"

"NUKA!" Kovu shouted at his brother sharply, now he was seeing red and mad as a black bear who was the more aggressive cousin of the grizzly; but there are animals more dangerous for which make their home in the Rockies in Colorado, the black bear wouldn't stand a chance

"WHAT?!" He turned to face him, Jeyluxhal slugged him in the throat with a jab and a shot to his liver by chopping him on the side; throwing him to the ground before he threw a kick to his manhood, only for him to clutch it tightly in his paw as payback for those insults of his. Squeezing his manhood with pauses in between like a pulsating heart making an pumping and throbbing beat every couple of seconds, each time getting harder and harder until he let go which seemed to give him relief as seen by Nuka huffing out to the side though didn't change his expression. He would be writhing in pain again when Jeyluxhal landed a nasty shot toward his liver again, and then when he let go of the hyena who got up from the ground; he slammed his knee in that exact same spot with an audible scream of pain along with a gushing sound as he stepped off

Kovu, to be honest was amused with the entire scene of Jeyluxhal harming his brother, didn't say a word to either him or Nuka as he instead dragged him away from the hyena; who walked over to a rock nearby to lean on as the two lions were a good distance away from him. This time it would be the former who was about to have a talk with him

"The fuck is wrong with you? He was minding his business here" Kovu started off this argument between him and his brother

"And I bet this business of his means attacking our mom, which is something he's proud of and I can see it in his-" Nuka was cut off at the end when Kovu, by all intentions, cut him off after he said that Zira was their mother

"WHAT?! Your and Vitani's mom, not our mom. I think he did more harm to your brain than you think, don't get shit confused Nuka" For anyone who didn't know, Kovu was a orphan and was adopted by her; he was not her son

"She was pregnant with all three of us Kovu, and if he bashed her brains in then- wait, why are you even taking his side?! You know what he did!" Kovu shook his head and looked away

"If she provoked him, then he has a right to retaliate. You and Vitani's mom had no reason to stop him, he wasn't entering our turf, he wasn't even looking for her, he hadn't done nothing to us; you're the one who kept barging up into his face and kept jumping to conclusions that he's looking to have sex with Zira's daughter. He wouldn't even like her anyhow"

"Would you have one of his kind strut in here, not say a word and-"

"Are you fucking serious right now; his kind, Nuka? What do you mean his kind? Is that why Zira has no qualms about provoking him? The fact that he's a hyena? A rebellious one who doesn't take orders from Scar? Hmm? All I see is a hyena whose looking for someone, and being a mute isn't a reason to start assaulting him. I could care less about him attacking Zira, she made fun of him for being what he was born as and he was in his rights to respond the way he did because he couldn't call her out"

"What if he's gonna kill you, or me; or even perhaps later down in the season he plans to kill our mom huh? Not gonna feel so fucking full of yourself then, eh?!"

"Nuka, would you attack him if he was a lion and born as of Zira's children like you and Vitani; or are you such a xenophobe towards hyenas that every one of them makes no difference to the one you're harassing? You're a prick, you know that? I didn't come to torment and torture him, I came down to handle this situation my own way; but Zira didn't like that idea did she? No, she sent you because I've been acting defiant behind her back; and I don't care if I had been, she's not my mother anyways. She's only a delusional bitch who thinks she knows better than Simba and insists Scar was always meant to be king, not him, not the son of Mufasa. But I'm not going to give up my title as Scar's heir, you'll never have the satisfaction you wanted, not even when you die. So answer me this: is him being a hyena the reason why you and her like to talk shit, all because he gave her a head bruise that isn't worth treating; is that it? Hmm? It's bad lions like you that're making him develop a negative opinion on us as a whole. I ain't gonna ask again: is him being a hyena the reason Zira likes to shit on him constantly? I know what she does when she asks to be alone, and I ain't telling you what she does behind both your backs either..."

Having nothing to say to him, Nuka got up in his face. "Don't get in my way" Turning his back on him

"And don't expect me to come home with a meal for you and Zira, asshole..." Kovu spat at his back

Nuka returned to Jeyluxhal and started to shout at him. "Get on the ground, now!" Taking him to slam the lower half of his snout to the ground with a thrusting throw, hoping that'll knock out the hyena who tumbled out of the way before he could sit on his back and bite away at the back of his neck. Jeyluxhal threw a kick across his face and held him in a headlock, dragging him over to a wall with his arm around his neck; though the former then grabbed onto his right backplate in order to throw him up against the wall, and the hyena reversed this process to instead thrust his face first into the rocky wall. Taking him by the neck with his paw and smothering his face on the surface, as he kicked his legs down and stopped on the lower side of his back to keep him down and up against the wall. Not done there, he decided to bite into his skin behind where his biceps were and dig his fangs deep; unsheathing his claws and digging his claws into his back as he then began to swipe them both down rapidly, creating a number of scratches and gashes as such. Before long, Nuka threw him off and turned around to pounce on him; but Jeyluxhal had flipped him overhead to the other side before clawing at his shoulder, only then did he stop as the lion dropped to one knee with the force of that scratch

Seeing the blood running down the clawed scratches on his back and his shoulder along with his slipped hindpaw scratch on his underbelly, he was satisfied as the hyena came over to slap his ass hard to make him run out of here; sending him back to Zira right away. He let out a huff and a spit rocket towards a rock behind him, grumbling afterwards as he cooled down; Kovu on the otherhand witnessed everything that happened before he stood up and decided to turn back, facing the way he came but not leaving. He's got a couple things to say and things to ask for this individual who wanted no part of his brother or their mother

"You hurt too bad there?" Kovu asked the hyena

Jeyluxhal's expression seemed solemn as his mouth was slightly open like his signature face he didn't show as much, he had one leg extended out from the side and was licking any wounds of which were inflicted on him by that lion. He understood and brought up something that made him look up

"I know you overheard what I told Nuka back there. You think you understand what it means to live with a brother like that but you don't" Kovu had his back turned from the hyena

Jeyluxhal didn't seem to take that too hard, no instead he merely looked at his surroundings. The lion turned to face him

"Why don't you say anything?"

That expression turned to a frown, his head facing away from Kovu as he sat down with his hind leg back to it's usual place as he looked down on the floor; seeing his left paw and leg hind leg with his black spots on his tan fur. He didn't respond, only letting out quiet huffs that went out of the nostril holes through his nose; his belly rising and deflating while his primordial pouch, as it was apart of his underbelly, jiggle from either one side or the other every three or four in the seconds that passed. He seemed to be embarrassed, but it also looked like he understood that he was pretending not to be associated with Nuka or Zira

"You don't know everything, what Zira's planning for me" Kovu turned his head away from him

Jeyluxhal shook his head, letting out a low hum and a breath out of his nose. At least he knew he knew the truth now, but that's not stopping him from wanting to be friends with this lion as anyone who hated Zira was a friend of his. He gave that bitemark to Nuka so that Zira will know what's coming to her

"The truth..." He muttered under his breath, what did he know that he himself doesn't? He'll tell him what the truth about him is. "The truth... I have a thing for the king's daughter. Simba, you know him and everyone else do; so does... that bitch, Zira, my mother if I can call that monster that title she has no right to call herself. Sometimes, I find myself walking outside my territory and daydream about something I'd like to know: whatever happened to those two lions Ujasiri (courage) and Furaha (happiness). I wasn't always a orphan taken in by Zira, but I know she's responsible one way or another for whatever happened to those two I consider to be my parents"

Walking up to him, Jeyluxhal decided to tell him in his own way that he had parents of his own; but he fell victim to being one of the many types of motherless child archetypes. He had everything for himself and he wanted nothing to change, he witnessed her being torn to shreds and her blood stained his paws. He has friends too but, not only has he been the leader of the group but he's always been that one kid who does things alone by himself; he likes to think he's part cheetah for how much they enjoy being alone. Nowadays, he's readjusted himself to the life he had as a pup though he's changed since that night; the pup called Tajiuva died with his mother, Jeyluxhal was who he is now. This scarred fur spotted hyena that stands before him, and even he too had been concerned for his future; he wanted every opportunity to kill Baridi for himself, he'll even go as far as to attempt to kill him while he sleeps. He thought about something else though he can't bring himself to tell him, there'll be nothing left for him after he kills that lion; banishment won't solve anything. He could-

Kovu stopped him there, he's heard everything he wanted him to know. But, this lion wasn't without understanding him. He didn't need to say anything either to tell how he feels. "That dog, Goofy if I'm right and that's his name, even Goofy would be a- no, I'm not telling you what I'm actually feeling. Goofy IS better than she is, ever has been and ever will be period and that's not me bragging or boasting, I'd rather be raised a clumsy yet clever father figure than a psychotic bitch who knows full well what she's teaching her children and not thinking about the consequences to killing Simba. That's right, she's that stupid to think he killed him, but hey, don't worry, I'm a book of secrets and I've kept a few to my own"

Jeyluxhal understood and thanked him for everything he said about him, there shouldn't be a reason to assume he was deaf along with himself being a mute. How can Kovu disagree with him on that?

"The nerve of some of our own kind. I know what I've done, I made mom angry by defying that bitch. Her wrath's gonna be raining upon me soon, but I don't care what punishment I'll get by that blabbermouth of a brother. I only wish, you out of the animals I've met, could've had a better upbringing than me, but at least you had a mother who didn't raise you to be a heir to a king no one liked; she wouldn't have stood for it, no doubt she would've joined with the queen regent Sarabi and helped Simba together, had things gone another way. Still, whatever happens to me; you shouldn't have to be worried, Zira can't do shit to me and I'm gonna assure Kiara the same thing. I will see her again, hopefully it'll be sooner than ever and if she beats down on this soft side; Kiara will be there to remind me what I am"

Jeyluxhal looked up to him, stroking his dark brown mane before turning back. He's decided not to go through with his original intentions on seeing Janja, deciding that he can wait for him and put a end to any misconceptions that Cheezi and Chungu got wrong about him. Leaving the area behind, Kovu looked back on the hyena and reflected on the story he was told

"He's a son to a murdered parent too... no doubt that lion is after his father and him as well, be careful there buddy"

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A PAPA WOLF TO HIS SON

(A/N: Not even Tabari is safe from wanting to find new love after the loss of his old one, if she were old that is. In this final segment, he's been dating again though he warned her about his son; something that she doesn't take seriously in secret. She even calls him a creep under her breath, which is a term used only by shallow women like her who describe men they don't find physically attractive according to the good old Urban Dictionary; and Jeyluxhal in her book fits that description not for how young he is, disregarding that even though he looks like an adult hyena, he's not really grown up as he doesn't feel like he did which is underage harassment if I am not wrong, but because of how he supposedly cut himself regarding those scars of his which is incorrect on her part. Concluding on assumptions because he can't talk or express himself in any vocal sort of way, Nuka took advantage of his speech disorder before so who's to say that it isn't going to happen again with her as well? I'm not going to go too much into overdetailedness but I will bring up that Najira will be seen again here when Tabari talks about some things that his son never knew of her, the two hyenas really wanted to start fresh and even set him down to get their demons off of their chest that are tugging at their guts. Then again, I may not even be able to show her again since the first chapter. I will tell you this segment is about a serious issue and I might've portrayed it incorrectly. Here is the final segment of this chapter and get ready because it might be the longest one of this already long chapter, enjoy if you can because it isn't going to end with everyone happy)

Tabari was breathing lowly in between the huffs of his black nose and deep bellowing sniffs that sounded like a savage beast was sleeping, waiting for the slayer to enter it's lair and kill them before it kills the beast itself. That's when he began to talk

"You know, as I grew up and... developed my undying love for Tajiuva in the same way I do for you, I assumed there were certain things that, we all of us as hyenas that agree upon, the most fundamental of which is that we had to protect at all cost: our children, our babies. We had to protect those who are precious to us, and who couldn't protect themselves. We've surely had to agree on all of that, and yet, here we are faced again; with a huge population that thinks that there's more important things, to our way of living, to our philosophy, than making sure our babies are safe. What a heartbreaking thing to come to terms with"

Jeyluxhal's mourning for the loss of his mother and the departure of the hyena matriarch Shenzi have been shown in the times he had tended to his mind, but one should not mistake his father to be cold and aloof towards his mate either; for there is more to Najira than it had been made out to be. She was more than a mother but that's all Jeyluxhal had ever known her for, and it's what he's come to portray her as. On this day, Tabari had set him down to talk to him, believing in his suspicions that he thought he didn't love her anymore; prior to that, his son had come to see him talking to the painting he drew as a pup when he still had a family which is what he had been hearing right now. Tabari focused his eyes on the top of the painting of his son briefly as he tilted his head up completely, slightly turning to the side before he fully turned to find the hyena that his son had become at the entryway; his expression looking uncomfortable and even anxious

"I was looking to talk to you, come inside"

Jeyluxhal had his head hanging down a little as he came in, sitting opposite from him, though his father approached to put his head back up with his paw slowly so he could tell his son what he had to say. Even his tone of voice was uncertain but when he talked about his love for Najira, he was sure of his words with every letter that formed every sentence on his tongue

"There was so little you've gotten to know about her and if Baridi had not found me, she and I would've told you what we really were behind the parents you see us as. Before she was a wife and a mother, Najira was a woman of the arts, someone who can paint the winds and give them color just as the woman you know as Pocahontas was showing the John Smith that we prefer to know than the one we have known in the centuries that came before us; someone who wanted to show that there was more than what could be seen with the eyes of a native of her territory, and a foreigner to the other for what they call theirs. The matriarch that I saw before my eyes was not an illusion to torment me, she was there and we had first met on the morning before the dawn; Najira was... and always had been the one I sought to be with. The blaze of the dunes were keeping track of me, they were less hot on my paws than the heat of the sun that came in the wee hours of that time. On that day I was filling up on a Bactrian camel before I got attacked by an lioness, her cat claws were slicing away at me 'til I slit her throat; something angered her to the point where I had no choice but to kill her right then and there. I didn't collapse as you'd expect right away, but she said that I should've like any other would. In her perspective, she'd been out to gather the bones of her kills back to her den when she heard it too, the sounds of the lioness clawing away 'til her throat was slit"

Jeyluxhal looked like he was visibly, but not vocally, gasping with that silent heave of air rushing into his mouth; appearing concerned with beads of cold sweat that streamed down his fur. He wondered though as that was something that can't be ignored by him, who set that lioness off? Tabari lowered his head and wiped the cold sweat off his son's fur with his snout

"That angered lioness is not whom you should be concerned about, I have been attacked by a slew of predators before and none of them live to tell the tale to their comrades in blood and experience nor history tied to their relations with one another. Najira found me bleeding, and still feasting on that camel with an appetite that hasn't been sated yet; I knew what she was all but here for. And being that the female of us were larger than males also like us, the camel was hers anyhow, she could use something to fill her up, help keep her strength up. What she was not however is a matriarch who treated her male comrades like shit, and as I mentioned before when we met again on that night when Simba became king; we were pups and I was a resilient one, but we surprise even ourselves don't we?" His son nodded in response

And Tabari couldn't agree more with Jeyluxhal's response, emitting an anguished tone with a low voice as he couldn't seem to continue with his story of how they met

"No matter what comes forth our way to block off whatever opportunities we have here, this family is our clan, and you'll be the greatest among all hyenas who lived in our time, just high above those stars in the darkest night. That's one trait I learned from her on the day you were born. And I was the one who was betrayed by him, not the other way around. I was talking to Kujali (caring), your best friends' father, when you two first met and were playing at the hole. I didn't want you to be raised the same way like with Mufasa and Taka, being favorited for the first born and treating your second born as garbage; someone who desires to be wanted, that name might've been the most malicious thing Ahadi, let alone a king of Pride Rock, could do to a second born, much less a middle child between the oldest whose accomplishments take the father's ears and the youngest whose looks takes the mother's eyes. Seeing you as a pup, reminds me everytime of what I said to myself: We sacrificed a former life not worth bringing up ever again, because we've learned to bury the remains into the sands of time, and I want to raise you better than Ahadi ever did to Taka; or perhaps I should refer to him as Scar from this point onward. I think too much, and I'd do whatever it took to keep you and Najira out of the paws of everyone who tried to start a fight between me and her. I'm loyal to myself, I've always have been..."

Jeyluxhal couldn't look away from his father, he felt uneasy hearing his voice and how much he voiced his thoughts on him when he was just a pup

"Banagi and Baasho were comrades I never-" He stopped himself for a moment and went on to say this, as his son heard those names before from him but scarcely as he always muttered threats directed towards those two hyenas. "For as much as I want to say that Baridi poisoned them, those two were always in on his plan that he had for the Pride Lands. I never regretted exiling them to the desert and there's no chance of them being the ones behind all of this, an old lion like him thinks of me as not loyal to the clan I once lived and hunted together with"

This is where Tabari started to become pessimistic and indifferent to Baridi's intentions to tell him to think twice before leaving him and his clan for dead in the dust

"What measure is there to loyalty towards a clan I was never apart of and wasn't in the first place? Baridi thought that doing me a favor by showing how wrong it was to desert them, by killing the one that I wanted to be with. I am not a weak Backlander of Africa, he doesn't have a concern on the consequences of what he's done, never had. He thinks of me as a traitor that, until he discovers the truth that I have a son, he respects and claims that I turned my back on not just the clan but his pride that I used to prowl with; until I rejected them, their hospitality and spat in his eye before leaving them for dead. Having children would only make him lose whatever respect he amounted and accumulated for me, he can take back every amount and blow it out of his ass. What I told you about how we first met, our first battle is true as that's a detail you shouldn't forget; we never got more acquainted up until the two of our clans fought a rival pride and stood amongst the dead lions we slew in our way, gathered around us both in a ring of slain wildcats. I did leave to take care of a threat and properly introduced myself, seeing that we didn't have the chance to do so before; both of us hated being apart of each other's clans we didn't belong to, and when she was exiled by being left for dead she joined me. That's what Najira told you, every word from her was true and every story about me and herself happened, as you've come to know on that night"

His mouth sealed itself for a few more short moments, pausing in between with his breaths as he had more to say to him; this time it regarded what Rafiki had told him on that night, the ascension of the true king Simba of Pride Rock. He came closer to his son and placed a paw on his back plate behind his shoulder

"Rafiki told you that Baridi and his pride were exiled by Ahadi before he died, and had openly defied Mufasa. What I say is to be believed as Sarabi knows it too: Baridi had something in his mind, he was planning something against the king and it right before I left his allies to die; it is punishment enough as I thought, and it was the one thing that was saving them from an ass beating they deserved. Sacrifices have been made, but we found a new home here behind in the Pride Lands; and that Outlander who was exiled for treachery against Mufasa is so scared of me that he decided not to show his face again for years. Now, he's on the move again, but where is the question that only he knows the answer to; including Pazia, a flamingo if one is willing to know what he is. I must warn you of Pazia, Jeyluxhal: he is a expert in lying and he's well known for his poisonous and viperous lies that will manipulate your dreams, bend them to his will and alter them to create a world you do not wish to live in. He knows what you are without and he will grant you that, only to take back parts of the things you love. A paradise without people is not worth setting foot in, it's what my father said to me when I was told of what liars will do to hurt others when they're first lured in by forbidden knowledge and if it's something that's forbidden, it's something that's desired by us because we don't know what they're planning firsthand to make sure they never follow up on their empty words. You will fall victim to Pazia's poison, but you will not let your rage for his actions bend your mind and force you to kneel to his forked tongue that spits in your face; anything he does binds you to servitude as your master who gives out the orders you must follow willingly and knowingly without questioning him, because he knows what he is doing and a thrall is what he needs. He is only as powerful as his mental manipulation of dreams makes him and he's used words of poets, oracles and elders to twist them to fit his language for the animals who believe his empty promises; because they feel they can never live and make the best of whatever there be changes in their lives out of the fear they won't be themselves remembered by those who love them for the way they are"

Jeyluxhal listened closely to the warning he imposed on his son before him, how Pazia is one of Baridi's most lethal killer in the form of exaggerated promises of a paradise without worry; only to harass them through extortion of servitude to exploit through the greatest and of the highest decree. And if he's been on with Baridi since the beginning, he will not live with him either because he will kill everyone on that lion's payroll. He means it, no one should be with his mother's killer. He may be an angry, confused and cynical early teenage hyena, but every act of wickedness he's done began with innocence and ignorance; the theatrical play that was based on the Lion Guard themselves, how could he believe Jasiri was aware of the play being a message to hate hyenas like him? He hated the fact that he has to ask forgiveness from her and moreso that the actors on stage were the real hyenas they preached about, they are just that in metaphorical name only. They're the advocates of inspiring negative people in others' lives. The ones who constantly lie and the ones who enjoy shoving people's faces down in an unflushed shitter to smell the fumes of excrement that overflows from a poisoned chalice of hiding the inner enemies among real friends that are accused of jealousy, when it's a warning that's being ignored in favor of what the actual enemies within are hiding behind their words of false comfort and security. The ones who want to steal whatever positive vibes they have, when the day hasn't even begun. The ones who are jealous because they're entitled to more than what they were given fairly because no one is above one another and especially not the females who are more believed than males as victims of sexual assault and harassment, and the ones who fuel the flames burning with passionate sociopathic of belief they can get away with their actions because they're female or this race who can be black, indigenous which is native, hispanic, or a indian, middle eastern, equatorial, asian or even islamic and muslim; it only shows just how faithful to the friend they spent more time with than a stranger truly is, if they believe them over their friend and care more about their feelings than the well being of the ones that should be cared about. The five little girls from Cuties and the defenders of that child porno are examples that he cannot stop using, because that's exactly what's been done and what happened when that pornographic movie was released by a director who is a black muslim woman that exploited real children to justify herself and normalize that fucking illegal shit. What does Jeyluxhal think about all of that? You want his opinion? He thinks we are all living in a South Park episode where everything that goes wrong is nothing new, it's a common occurrence that happens from time to time and we should let it be normalized; since fighting something that hurts more people like children only garners infamy from the public for jumping on a hate train that has no course set for anywhere but wanting to attack a person for the shit the critics call revolutionary, when it is a crime that is being committed before a live and deadbrain audience before their eyes on the silver screen

"With everything said, I have to tell you that I am meeting with someone, a mistress whom I tell you now that she will not be the next Kukuza. I have spoken with her for a time as I did to Najira, as you've just saw now before I asked you to take a seat and hear me out. And I know the last time this happened with you in her clan, I couldn't be with you without revealing I'd live as you would've only seen a maddened hyena rather than a father who kept his distance and silence to let you live with a new mother you've grown attached to; more than that, you came to develop feelings for and come to understand overtime. I have not forsaken Najira, I am only getting to know this new one and if I can, ease the burden of this loneliness; Sarabi is not the lioness that did this in Scar's reign but... only she can march on with that loyalty to an mate she lost, because some animals were born evil and Taka was not one of those lions. I'm not sheltering you from the truth, Ahadi favorited Mufasa over him and he's let him fuel that act of jealousy that led to the lion that we fear if he returns as a ghost to torture Simba. That's on the former king that started everything and on Scar for the events that led to his exile, he fell into that abyss a long time ago; he couldn't be saved but you can from going down in that path, Baridi wants you to envelop yourself in that act of madness that he's leading you down without knowing I'm your father and without lifting a finger of his paw once. He will never be granted that mercy or that chance to turn your back on the Pride Lands as a whole because of his actions in Ahadi's reign, he did this to himself and he is not open to reason, neither he or Pazia are. I know you understand what I seek a new partner, she is coming here to our den in the Backlands soon, you have my leave to go"

Jeyluxhal was unsure and opened his mouth as if to say something, raising his paw when his father turned back but visualized Najira on his left raising her paw to him with concern; with that expression that told him not to say anymore. The hyena nodded to her, it didn't matter, he didn't talk to anyone and made it clear that he couldn't do so; he wasn't even going to say anything either way. He's got a lot on his plate, and he felt like he's got a burden on both his shoulders; what is the measure of one sentence for this moment in time amount to all of the troubles that he's facing before him? He shook his head and started to leave the den, turning back to look at his father one last time before he left for good; heading out to visit a tree; but not just any tree here in the Backlands. It was Fahari's tree where she made her home, and a comfortable one at that given she was a genet that not many people know of the animal that roamed here

Walking down the tan dirt pathway with grass bordering the edges of the sides, boulders and trees that grew on the soil shattered the monotony of the scenery. Zebras led by their golden mistress of their herd roamed with others craning down to eat the grass that grew under their hooves, shifting the dirt with them in order to get some of the longer ones that all of them is able to reach without straining the veins on their necks in general. The leopards in their own respective territories were sharpening their claws against the bark of the trees, while others were asleep with one arm dangling on one side. Jeyluxhal took a detour and found a cushion substitute to shift that leopard's head to lean up against for better comfort, returning back to his route afterwards with the wildcat getting more comfortable with itself; breathing out as a bit of hot gas blew out of it's nostrils

The hyena even walked by some lions who watched him, these prides here were the ones of whom they had no problems with his species being here and he learned a little bit from them about how to walk and pounce like them as they were willing to teach the former pup turned early teenage hyena. One of the cubs ran up to him and wrapped both paws over his back, it's this action that emitted a mid-audible startled brush of air escaping his mouth with both eyes closed in that second; the cub licked one of his scars before running off. Leaning his ear down a little to listen in to the little one tell the parents that the young cub was trying to make him feel better by kissing his wounds, saying that it looked like it hurt him. He had no business to approach the cub's parents and continued to move on, and to be honest; he'd wish that all of his scars and bitemarks were hurting him, because what he had to tell Fahari wasn't an happy story to say. It's one that was meant to teach a lesson that evil doesn't discriminate between man and woman, this evil he was talking about is not just any form of assault and harassment as it's worse than physical that involves flesh that burns and bones that break; it's borders are on a thin line thread of being considered... there's no point in implying it isn't there? It was a unwanted sexual advance being brought onto him, and if anti-vaxxers consider him taking an flu shot is rape then they're dead wrong like The Notorious B.I.G and Eminem song; no, even more wrong than that. This was physical and it was horrible, but no one took it seriously and it wasn't because of the attempted sexual advances combined with assault and harassment, it was because he was a male and the one who did it to him was a female, that's why

That's why he's gotta' talk to Fahari, she understood him and she knew what he was talking about. As a woman, she too knows that the one who harassed him was committing a crime; and she doesn't have to be a woman to know that she's breaking the law against harassing someone. She doesn't have to be a man to harass someone whose a female either, it is not exclusive to only men who harass women because they do they same shit to them and they get off the hook because of their gender; the law doesn't play favorites to the boys or girls, it's there to enforce against this behavior, not encourage one side to commit it and play the victim card if the tables have turned on them. A social justice warrior and misandrist woman can only play the victim card as many times as they chose with the right timing, before they know they're in deep shit because they're proving that they're not as innocent as they liked to make themselves appear as

Fahari's Tree was in near him as he laid down on top of a rock with his upper body and both arms crossed, the rock was tall enough for him to kneel down on his knees and lean forward even if it's a little bit. She left the tree branch and started to climb down when she spotted him. "Ah, Jey! Kuplinka's not here, I-" She continued to descend and walk towards him

His expression was solemn but clear, he knows Kuplinka wasn't with her; he was looking for her in particular. He had something to ask from her and from the expression he was holding in front of her, this one delved into a memory from his time in Shenzi's Clan

"You can ask me anything, it's all good, it's all fine" She assured him

Jeyluxhal nodded and turned back to facing the ground, his next expression turning to that of slight hostility mixed with that of bitterness. His face translated to what he asked and it may have been serious: "Tell me Fahari, have you ever met someone who said that only women can be sexually assaulted and harassed?"

"Have you?" Fahari was visibly shaken by this question, seeing it as rightfully sexist with his next couple of expressions keeping that same look from before and becoming more bitterly solemn

"I was told that men can't be sexually assaulted and harassed, been told that it didn't make sense because men are supposed to enjoy being harassed by women, (Jeylxuhal's face had distorted and twisted into a openly hostile and slithering expression when he brought the next fact up) that fucking bitch made fun of me for not wanting to give into her demands as she threatened me as well. She was openly demanding to have sex with me without taking no for an answer and that whore knew what she was doing, she's aware of her own actions. I've been told that because I'm a man, I should enjoy it and only women and girls can all be victims of sexual harassment; said that men being harassed is funny and I should take a joke. She assaulted me after coercing me several times and threatened to kill herself if I refused and reject her advances (Jeyluxhal's mouth is foaming from his congealed slobber which was spilling out into cascaded streams that dripped off his collarbone and onto the rock directly in a puddle. It's almost as if he was becoming feral or nearing the transition) saying that she'll go to a cliff and throw herself off, and her blood is on my paws after she kills herself, all because I rejected her which also makes me gay because I don't want to have sex with her" Jeyluxhal was audibly growling and snarling like a crocodile, which Fahari could hear the more that he explained in his own way

Now it was her turn to growl and respond in a hostile tone. "If you shouldn't rape women, then you shouldn't rape men either" She was more than offended, she was mad but kept a cool paw on the situation he was telling her. "Jeyluxhal, when I was with your dad, he told me that you were harassed by the matriarch. Is this true? Did she do this?"

Jeyluxhal turned to face her with his next expression that told her the truth in his way that he always told his friends. "Fahari, Shenzi was the one who was trying to protect me, there was a other hyena who tried to fight her for the position of leading her clan that she had no right to lead"

"You're kidding" Jeyluxhal grabbed a piece of food off his chest and spat it off covered in his thick slobber that congealed into a bubble that splashed a distance off from where he laid, it sounded like he was opening a beer bottle with his mouth and spitting the cap off, and at the same time Fahari approached and moved to his right side before taking a seat next to him as she settled down and she started to ask; her voice was full of concern. "What happened Jey? Tell me"

The hyena began to explain with this opening statement, setting the tone for what he went through all without speaking, but Fahari didn't need his voice to know what he was saying; the actions and movements spoke for him as well as the gestures that he was presenting as if he was painting the scene before his eyes for her to see

"It was late dry season, and this bitch came to the Elephant Graveyard seeking one thing and one thing alone: take leadership from Shenzi, so she can put a end to her vendetta that she's got on her for beating her mother"

(Flashback)

The following flashback is narrated by Jeyluxhal in the form of words that are written using Fahari as the writer and his dialogue was written in italics to distinguish what is shown and being spoken between him and everyone else

It was rumored that the Inahaki whom I named Danguro (whore) was banished from her clan, being told that she was no longer welcomed here in the Elephant Graveyard, the same thing is what happened with Kerchak and Tublat in the jungles south of the Pride Lands; where it's said the Lord of the Apes, a man named Tarzan lived and where he was a child at the time. Kerchak only told him off saying that he's the one who protects the family, he shouldn't have interfered and had I listened to his words if Shenzi were ever the one to say that to my face; I don't think I would've done so if I had the voice to tell her that I am not going to stand by her orders so I can see her die. Not again, not like... mom and that bastard... or like with Danguro at the time. I'm not strong enough to see my mom die again, and that bitch did to me, I made her pay, or so I thought. She found her own way back to the Elephant Graveyard as we surrounded her, we haven't forgotten her mother

True to his expressions that told Fahari what he felt and his fears that were coursing through his veins, Shenzi's Clan surrounded her with hostility as Danguro who bore a olive yellowish brown color to her mane that was arrogant as with her attitude; she loved to taunt Shenzi out of them the most because she stole what belonged to her mother. Jeyluxhal walked with her as she approached with Banzai, Ed and the others who came ready to stand at her side; both of her comrades Banzai and Ed flanked her left and right. She was breathing through her black snout. The misandristic bitch returned, and oh how her grudge towards her was greater than before but this time; she was going to go too far with how she treated her male comrades as she even dares to lay a paw on Ed

"Hello, Shenzi... remember me? It's high time that the clan needs a new ruler" Danguro stood eye to eye with her at a respectable distance as Jeyluxhal raised his back if she took a further step toward the one he cared about

"We have nothing to talk about" Shenzi snarled

"Don't we? Look at them, we all trusted you didn't we? From the day you defeated my mom, we thought you were gonig to protect us and offer a better life than this. You had us meet a lion and made us believe we were going to live like kings if we follow what he says. You are always his favorite weren't you? Because these males can't do jack shit without a leader that can point them in the right direction, and it looks like you've got a young blood with you; I'd like to hear what he says about you" Danguro took notice of Jeyluxhal who stood defiantly at her side, close to her spotted fur and stroking himself softly with the comfort of his mother; but never showing signs of abandoning her to this hyena's lying words

"Get away from him before I-" Shenzi remained silent before warning her, though she was interrupted by her again when she continued to approach her adopted son

"By the great kings... could this be real?" She eyed his scars and bitemarks, before taking real notice at his paws which traveled up to his body; leading her to chuckle with a lick of her lips. A warning snarl was heard but not from Jeyluxhal, rather from his adoptive mother who knew what she intended to do to her. She made no secret of it either. "Great queens of the past... you are a thick hyena, and a tough one my friend, a lesser male would be dead by now"

She was talking about the top of my stomach down to my thighs and all the way up to my ass, she was a fucking creep and Shenzi knew it too. She made no secret of her hatred for males in front of my mom's clan either, she thought of us as inferior because we were boys and that it's fair to judge us because of our gender. The fucking skank took a interest in me but I didn't call her that immediately, it was after she threw Shenzi out and forced her way into a leader that she never was and she will never be one. Had I known her lust for me as part of her plan out of what I did next, I would've bit her in the neck and let her bleed to death

She started to advance forward as Jeyluxhal snarled at her with his lips sealed and a face that was unwavering in spite of his nervousness

But if I had an opinion, I had to be determined because opinion comes before bravery and once she laid her paw below the belt; no one approaches and lays their paw on me, male or not. I'm all for smacking the bitch in the face and that's what I did, and she expected my mom to yell at me that I assaulted her; no, she is getting no respite for what she did to me. And no mercy once she stole my mom's well-deserved position as matriarch of the clan named after her, no mercy from me and no mercy from her

Without warning, she increased her speed and he was backing up before reaching out her paw whose claws were unsheathed to grab at what Jeyluxhal considered below-the-belt, with the hyena trying to swipe at her for trying to touch him. She continued her advances, before taking him by the lower belt and clutching him with her claws digging in; Shenzi of course stepped in to throw her off, but she only elbowed her in the nose and grabbed him again to which this time it was harder. Squeezing her grip on him only to see him squint a little but not changing his expression all that much, and this time he gave her a good smack across the face that actually sent her down to the ground; leaving a red pawprint that's as clear to see and as visible to the others as it can be seen

Hitting that bitch was the greatest surge of adrenaline I've ever felt, and what came next was Shenzi telling her off with that threatening undertone if she ever tried to make sexual advances on me again. I felt empowered to stand up to a female of my own kind, I felt like a Sexysaurus Rex and I proved that I was the Alpha of the wolf pack. I can't even take myself seriously with what I thought of myself, heheheheh... I don't give a shit if I was nowhere near what I thought of myself; I am not going to step down and betray my loyalty to her while she's threatened by a rogue hyena who insists she knows better than us males that can inherit the statuses of their mothers. And I sat back to watch her lay into the bitch who slowly got back up

Shenzi stood in front of Jeyluxhal who only lowered himself to guard his lower beltline from further harm by Danguro who, exactly as the hyena in the present time was narrating without a single spoken word from his lips, did as was stated earlier from the ground. The matriarch is not playing around with her

"Really?! You're gonna start grabbing at his manhood and squeezing 'em like a stress ball, and I knew you were a entitled, dirty fightin', mommy milker inflatin', bean-flickin' (this one was directed to her vagina no matter what species of animal she is, hyena or not), man hating like they can't do shit without us women, testicle bustin', cock-trampling, cat callin', shit for brain slut shamer! But up until now, I never took you for a underage ball-grabbing pedophile... and just for that, I'm gonna have to throw you out and you're not going to wake up again when I do"

But that feeling I felt before didn't last for long, it would only lead to a exchange of insults and counter insults that led to nowhere, eventually it led to a fight that didn't last long either

"Are you threatening me? Look at where you're still living in. You're even more miserable in the Elephant Graveyard than ever before, a lack of food and a lack of water even because the river nearby is slowing down. We're working for the lions and they treat us like shit, no praise and in the end Scar isn't leading us anywhere, no, he's off setting up traps that take forever to execute. Tell me, what good did you do to the clan, eh?"

"You're a fucking plunger, you know that, like to bring up old shit. I've always tried to do my best!"

"Now you've failed all this time and proven that you're incapable of leading us somewhere to a better life than this hellhole... and now is high time to put an end to that" Danguro began to extend her claws

Jeyluxhal stood upright and started to step forward with defiance, his loyalty standing still as a giant soldier of stone in the Duel Monsters card game. He let out a drawn out crocodile hiss and made his expression known to her that told Danguro: "Back down now before I kill-"

Danguro slapped him across the face with a hard paw imprint visible on his left side face. "Is that how you show respect to your soon-to-be matriarch? Out of the all the males I've dealt with, you are the rudest bastard I've ever seen approach and harass me like that. You hear? When I am through with this whore, you are going to show me the proper respect... or I will steal whatever you hunt for yourself and you will never get a bite out of me"

"I told you to get away from him!" Shenzi shoulder rammed her away after she slapped him, with Jeyluxhal being held back by Banzai and Ed; not wanting him to interfere with this fight between the two of the females who were about to engage in combat. "For once show some damn restraint! You're not throwing yourself into the fray for her" Banzai angrily grunted at him in a hushed but strained tone

"Oh, look at him Shenzi, this is an embarrassment. He thinks his heart is yours to have and the other way around for him to treasure. If he really cared about you, he wouldn't have acted up earlier but oh wait a minute, he does care for you... and he still acts up like a spoiled child. Is it true? You adopted him as your son and now he's fallin' in love with you in return? Then allow me to tell you what I think to him: YOU WILL NEVER HAVE HER, YOU HEAR? SHE DOESN'T LOVE YOU, SHE DOESN'T WANT YOU!" The mute hyena was struggling harder and all he wanted to do was strangle her to death

"Damn, now are you yelling at me or shittin' at me, hon?! God damn, where's your pacifier?" The amount of restraint it took for Jeyluxhal not to express the n-word towards her was slim, and the trio knew it as he had the right to say it; but didn't want to be seen as a edgelord for laughs or be mistaken for a racist because of people not knowing what nationality he really is, that and he didn't want to be seen as another one of those fools who like to use it for each and every convo they have between one another

"I don't sugarcoat shit, I'm not Willy Wonka and I know-"

"No, you're not, but you tried to grab at his willy and try to treat him like he's your sex toy from Adam and Eve" She countered Danguro's attempted roast

"You're damn right that I did, and I'll do it again bitch!"

"If I wanted a bitch, I would have bought a dog. Oh wait! I am a bitch, but I'm not yours to throw up against the wall and kicked in the stomach 'til I'm dead... no, it's because I'm a woman that you're not insulting me like the sexist you are. I boss others, I don't harass or demand sex from them like what you made clear earlier"

Danguro was running out of patience and I was running out of alternatives to calling her what I've been refusing to call others that every African American would call someone. She took her by the collarbone and bit her in the neck to gain the upperhand before they fought, I'm not going into detail how it actually happened because this week today is already long as it is. But she did lunge out to her, and she was thrown towards the ground with a stomp on her nose; even being spat in the eye for no other reason than to show how much she was thought highly of herself and lowly of others. Especially males like me, and she will not stop hammering in that fact that she hates male hyenas even when we all have had enough and could easily grasp the concept that she's a misandrist. She will shoehorn her misandrist views and inject them into every topic that doesn't concern her, she won't ever stop until we bow down to her paws and admit we are not the dominant one; this was failing to come into the realization the females of the clans have plenty of roles that don't include leadership, and some of them weren't meant to be leaders. Danguro was the prime example of the latter for how much hatred was in her heart

Now it was Banzai's turn to step into the fray. "Agh! You obese fucking jenny!" Even Ed wasn't laughin' either, he's been silent on the entire situation at hand

Jeyluxhal raised his head a little bit as it was lowered the entire time he stopped struggling, his expression was of concern for the way Shenzi was getting back up and seeing blood that was dripping from her neck. Before it turned to fury back at the offender, the way she left gashes on her neck like that was uncalled for

"It's over, Shenzi" Danguro stated. "Don't bother getting up and defending yourself, it doesn't have to be this way"

"You can't do that! You wounded her first, that ain't fair!" Banzai continued defending his friend as even though he thought more of his stomach than Scar's plans, he really can't live in a world without her

Danguro only turned to growl at him with a murderous expression and ran up to lean over him like a goddess whose been angered, but she was no goddess or angel. She was a she-devil

"Since when do males open their mouths?! Get back to your place, you fat fuck!"

Banzai and I were never on the best of terms but even we respected each other, I just met him on a bad day and it was all just pup behavior from the both of us. I defended him not at my own peril, but he was more of a father figure at the time than Baridi will ever be if he knew I was the son of his most hated person he called a traitor when he was the one who turned his back on him first

Jeyluxhal sped towards the front of Banzai and stood his ground as the other hyena was now behind his back. His expression telling her off with this translation: "That ain't fair, you bit her in the neck so you can get the advantage over our true leader. She's more than a matriarch than you will never live up to or ever will be, whore! To Banzai, she's a friend. To Ed, she never calls him stupid like you most definitely would. And to me, I have nothing that I can say about her that resonates with me; but eternity without her would be nothing but a empty world where her blood is on your hands if you take away not just the position that she will not lose to someone like you, but the ones that matter to me more than they do to a whore like you"

Danguro scowled at his expression that showed true loyalty to the matriarch who was about to lose her spot as the one that hyenas look towards, and unable to accept this from an male no less which was one thing but a mute one which boiled her blood; she assaulted him with by hitting him below the belt and the worst thing about all this? This wasn't the last time she did it to him as she also followed it up with a blow to his stomach and held his face in her paw

"I am in command now after this fight, and you are going to accept my demands; but I trust you know what those are. And for the record, to me, no means yes and you are going to do me many favors; and if you refuse... I am going to tell everyone what you did to me and you know exactly that I mean" Danguro threatened while increasing pressure on his face before bitch slapping her across his face and kicking him away in the chest to send him flying back, tumbling across the ground and spinning upright to land smack into a tusk bone belonging to that of a dead elephant. Falling to the floor but not knocked out cold as his snout was bloody and actual blood was leaking out of his snout, spilling onto the ground into a increasingly big puddle that formed. Banzai was huffing through his nose and grunting before he raised his paw seemingly to attack her, for what she did to Jeyluxhal

I meant every word I said to that penis and testicle-groping little sex craving and man hating slut, an eternity without Shenzi whom I saw as a friend too isn't worth setting paw in. You know that as well as I do, but I don't like showing it in front of her; she has expectations of her own that I can't live up to, and this wasn't some unrequited love. I really cared for her, more than anyone outside the clan would know and they knew it too but said nothing of it so that she didn't end up taking it like it was a joke to use against me. It was one of the reasons why I was better off not telling her upfront whenever we were alone, but all she had to do was take a good hard look through me and back to know what I was thinking to know the truth, she saved me from that gorge after all. I'm sure there were other ways to repay her without turning myself into someone who did her favors without her needing to lift a paw or ask me, but you who I am; a hyena who acts at hand on what's on his mind, and what I did for her was only so she didn't throw me out of the clan like matriarchs would do to some hyenas. And for that, I accidentally created a rumor that she threatened to chase me out

"Don't worry Banzai, yeah I'm wounded but I'm still kick this bitch's ass, just as I kicked her mother's... and Jeyluxhal; I know you're awake and breathing. She's going to have to find a new clan for her own, because I'm not giving up mine and you're apart of that too; you've always been" Shenzi told them both, she was going to be alright and besides; she had help from the shadows because what her adopted didn't know was that Tabari had been watching the confrontation, unable to step in to help his biological son but at the same time wanting to keep himself out of the events that followed until he was prepared for the information he has been gathering

Let the battle between the two hyenas begin, but furthermore, let Jeyluxhal's mute narration describe the details not of the fight but of what came down up until the moment he snapped

Fahari, you don't need me to explain the details of what came down in the fight between her and Danguro or even break away from this mutisim to know and in this case, I can't. All I can tell you in the fight that broke out was that she tried to hit her below the belt and in the true fashion I know the matriarch for, she had her comeback

"This isn't bar fight, be a real woman and fight like one" She knew how to hide her pain for even if she weren't a male that Danguro loved to harass, even females are not immune to how painful being hit below the belt would feel

It was doomed from the beginning, she was in no condition to fight but she would never have given up or submitted to this one who held a grudge for what she did to her mother. Her end came in a few minutes as this imposter took over my adopted mother's place she has no right to have for herself, and already she had begun her abuse of authority and power that should never have been used to fuel her misandristic beliefs. Fahari, do you know what the name "Danguro" means? Why I have given that name to her when none of the hyenas called her that at one point? I'll tell you, "Danguro" means "whore", because that's I called her when I refused to show respect or even show up in the Elephant Graveyard as I wanted to get away from her as far as possible. I was ready to abandon the family I made with Shenzi's Clan, I was ready to go back to being alone, without a mother, without a father. She caught onto me, I couldn't escape her forever as I was only there when she wasn't home; she knew this fact and so she set up a trap of her own. She waited for hours and waited for me to come back when the coast was clear, only to yell at me when I walked down a canyon in the Elephant Graveyard. She never called me by name, nor did she believe in consent as it was never about attractive looks in spite of being below or above another's age, it's about security that was both financial and emotional; the latter was what allowed others to live together under the protection of their home. She told me she doesn't need consent, and you know what's about to happen next

"You, redmane, come back here at once! You've been avoiding me so you can go and do Scar fuckin' knows what!" Danguro shouted at the hyena who walked away from her, stopping as soon as he heard her demanding voice

Jeyluxhal turned back to face her with half of his face shown and his expression made clear to the bitch as clear as possible: "My business is my business. Unless you're a thong, get out of my ass"

"Don't talk... hrrrmm... don't talk back to me, redmane, you smart ass"

She didn't need to see his next expression while he turned his back on her and walked off, what he was saying on his face was this. "If you're going to be a smart ass, you have to be smart. You however are not, you're just an ass"

I don't give a fuck what set her off because it's true, she has to be smart to be a smart ass. She ran up to me in order to pounce and pin me down from my back, she was about to assault me and with dominatrix prostitutes; they understood and agreed to your terms because you did the same to their pleasures in spite of the pain you would endure from a woman. What she's doing is forcing me to comply against my will, making sexual advances on me when I told her that she doesn't have the power to change what the meaning of no means. Her response was to trademark the word "No" so she can be entitled to harass males like me and anyone who told her no didn't matter, because it meant yes to her and only she had the right to attack me as she pleased while I got fucked in the mouth with her advances that she openly pushed on me. She didn't believe in my age, she believed that matriarchs can assault uninterested males and get away with it because of her gender. Do not forget what she threatened if I refused to agree with her unwanted advances: she was going to tell everyone that I had my way with her while she was defenseless, and you haven't forgotten that she threatened to kill herself by walking off to a cliff and throwing herself off so that her blood is on my paws. She was like Shanon of CreepShow Art who stalked Emily Artful for eight years with the former's husband and latter's ex-boyfriend Anthony, because she would never relent in tormenting or torturing me; and making comparison to her is rich because Shanon is an artist, something Danguro is not because she cannot draw for the fuck of everything of it

At another time, Jeyluxhal was in his spot when the imposter of a matriarch arrived to harass him some more. To make a long tale short, he struggled and fought back while she didn't stop and continued to relentlessly try to make his life pure hell. But this wasn't all she did though as Jeyluxhal was elbowing, kicking, throwing off, trying to break free and slapping her away from him; she did more than harass him like this as he was yelling for the others to get this skank off him with the way she was manhandling him like a sex toy, not a living breathing being who had feelings too. The hyenas of the others restrained her while he escaped, he's not even safe at his usual spot too. Nowhere is safe for him, and he's taken up to reciting a German phrase "Niemand Bleibt Hier" which translates to "Nobody Stays Here"

It may've been a reference to the 2017 missing Sebastián Álvarez from Chile who wrote a blog about fat chilean women, was into the dark and occult such as having some Nazi memorabilia along with references to the Vril, owned a doll named Fabiola Orsic and had some strange happenings whenever he sees "88"; but one thing is extremely clear. Jeyluxhal was referring to not just himself but the clan entirely, because nobody stayed when Danguro was around and since he wasn't safe where he made himself at home; he was beginning to want to go back home where he was born, with both his biological parents alive and ensuring that everything was alright. But no, he can't even have that for himself either because Baridi murdered his mom and his dad is nowhere to be found; he wouldn't have given up so easily, it's not what he was told about him by his mother, he withstood anything that was thrown at his face and threw it right back. He has pride for his dad when no one else would for their fathers who were either trying too hard to be all hip with the cool cats or otherwise, when they should be disciplining them at youth and be their friend when they're at adulthood; or so the Arabic proverb stated: "Discipline your son when he is young, and be his friend when he's grown". So many animals take that to heart backwards by befriending them when they're young and discipline their children by cutting them out of their lives for bad behavior, his dad is different and so was his grandfather who raised his dad before him

Where was Shenzi in all of this?

She was disposed of and left for dead by Danguro, who seemingly killed her and the inner rage from within boiled my blood. The way she disrespected her body like that, and had I known that my dad was... he was doing what any husband would've done for their wives no matter what the relationship was between him and her. Something that Danguro would never understand. Every bit of her attractive and vain beauty could be removed with a kleenex, and one day I started to experience the same feelings that Kukuza would give me even after I killed that cunt who tried to have sex with my dad for him to bring her children that would ruin what remained of my relationship to mom. You are hearing this tale from a son who absolutely fucking hates siblings, and a paranoid one who thought everywhere he went believed she was near so she could torture me more. I had no privacy to myself, I didn't want contact with other animals, I began to think she and her shared the same genes, confirmation followed suit, countless lines of birth certificate officials claiming I was her son, not my mom's son in every sentence and in every block of paragraphs. I was shaking, I can't buckle this under stress and I was under the weather, I was sweating and I was angry

I thought only of my inner demons that clouded my mind and the floodgates opened when I tried to suppress those feelings that backfired on me. Hallucinations from repressed trauma, nasty shit, I could feel the shifting in my bones that made me lose the abilities of what I learned and it's as if I was going back into relying on primal instincts into a feral state that stripped me of whatever made me who I am. I was like a beast who is under the command of masters that I cannot see, my will is out of my reach and I was trapped in this feral side of mine. I know, it's all in my head, I'm not built to handle the build up of these feelings. What I felt on that night, the stress of her trying to take over me and my dad's lives, anxiety for feeling like there was no escape from that oppressive she-beast, embarassment for how I'm letting an abusive woman like that whore Danguro have her way with me because I'm a male and I'm supposed to enjoy getting harassed, rage I have at both of them for what they were doing to me and dad, the frustration because of Danguro's blackmailing and Kukuza's demands I allow her to be the mother that I needed more than my mom was, the agony... that I can't stand up to Danguro under her threat of defamation with everyone choosing to believe her over me because she's a woman and I'm a man because ONLY FEMALES CAN BE RAPED, MALES CANNOT BE RAPED! MALES ARE THE ONES WHO DO THE RAPING, FEMALES ARE ALWAYS INNOCENT OF- FUCK YOU!

(Flashback Interrupted)

Jeyluxhal was blowing out hot gas from getting bent out of shape over the circumstances of which led to this traumatizing experience, Fahari was ready to hold onto him as a friend and a woman of comfort that he needed; to talk about with her and to hold onto if he started to let the memories poison him. Without further delay, he continued with his expressions as per the norm with a unstable hyena such as him

(Flashback Continued)

I have never met a more sexist woman I was forced to deal with, a pedophile in the public eye. One day I had enough of her and it was on this day that Shenzi was to make her return as she got her strength back thanks to my dad, and I can never thank him enough for that act of ensuring that she is in command. I loved her, but even I'm beginning to think it's only because she had rescued me from living in that gorge; because of what she's done, not because of the common things she has like her personality, how she understands my need for retribution to that lion who took that which I had loved like a child would. And on that day, I was exhausted and I was hungry but every kill was taken from me like it was a society of survival-of-the-fittest, this was terrorism. I was ready to walk on the wild side and turn into this feral animal who had nothing more to live for, the power and adrenaline in me; blood was running hot and I intended to kill her. And I did, but there was one thing I knew too late: she was aware of my murderous plot and had a decoy in case she was being targeted by me eventually, it was her mother of course because she was a cold stoned liar

Jeyluxhal was constructing a statue of his adopted mother to remember her by at his spot, it's something that he did before with one of the hyenas as he gathered some some mud, a lot of bones for which he substituted for sticks, some fallen leaves for the guts to stuff in, vines for lashing the joints along with the structure of the statue and of course natural fruits that were used for bringing her to life; being held in coconut bowls and turtle shells whose owners had long since crumbled to dust, as the shells themselves were fused to their spinal cords like it's molten aluminum fusing with the spinal cord of a scientist who can control four octopus arms from his back. Though because the inhibitor chip at the top was destroyed, the four arms of a octopus were in control and can influence the mind of the scientist who sought to continue a dream that was meant for the good of mankind; using the power of the sun itself in the palm of his hands, a shame his wife had been killed by shards of glass due to the magnetic energy spike in the public experiment demonstration. In the end, the scientist sacrificed his dream and himself; he did not die as a monster as his final words were spoken, but a man who had great ambitions that weren't perfect like he had invisioned it months and weeks before. The statue that resembled his adopted mother had every distinguishing feature set into place

Her five prominent bangs over her face along with her mane, the lack of a dark grey stubble, dark beladden patches around her eyes like heavily applied eye shadow, even her thick lips like she was wearing black lipstick. She was not without her facial expression that displayed the notorious sass and snark only she can show even to him, because she was being a leader that her clan needed; his mother Najira would do the same but rarely with him around since he would be off in the hunting grounds getting whatever they needed to keep their strength up. She was always looking for what's best for her clan, and he was only trying to show her in his way how much she mattered to him just as Banzai and Ed do for her; his intentions should never be twisted into that of being a underaged poonhound. He needed a woman's comfort, she provided to him and he was returning the favor by showing how much he cared; that all he was doing. He wasn't trying to be overly peachy or overly patronizing like he's some kind of noble savage stereotype that Native Americans hate, because they themselves no matter what nation their tribes are apart of are not flawless sues and stus; he isn't either. He's never been one for words with the way he was making this statue of her

But there's something else that wasn't being brought up. Jeyluxhal had not eaten anything, at all. Not a bite, not a bone, nothing had been sent down to his stomach and digested. Nothing. He didn't have didily dick or donkey dick from the morning to here at this time, his breathing is vocal and he was seeing diamond shaped flickering lights around his line of sight; burping of course but coming out wet. If this was the issue, that's just begging the question: why, is he, the hyena who gave Shenzi his kills, not out there hunting? Banzai knows the obvious of all reasons why he's not giving his kills to Danguro, but both his and Jeyluxhal's reasons both involve her. And he's gonna tell you: everytime he goes out to hunt something, Danguro is a shadow waiting to steal his food that he earned rightfully and indulge herself

She was that entitled of a undeserving matriarch to steal what he risks detection by Zazu out there in the Pride Lands who is bound to tell Mufasa about what he's doing and leaves him to get fucked in the mouth. And from this hunger, there comes madness that's making him feel so crazed with his body rumbling, he was exhausted as not only that but he was drooling out more to the point of sucking on Ed's ear like a kitten just so he can keep himself alive, as he's one that he would say should he need a break from building this; he really believed that she was dead. His huffs were rattling out of his throat and even then the clouds of his breath are bumpy like a rocky road made up of all kinds of uneven shit. And yes he would be caressing Ed's body while he nibbled on his ear, it's only pup behavior because he never felt like he's grown up

He was setting up the last of her features of his martriach when food stealing, selfish, bitchy, shit-kickin', stinky-horse-manure-smellin' little whore, her came to start some shit with him. Danguro came intruding on his spot and seeing what he was doing, she started to approach in a hostile matter as did she always do with him

"Just when I thought you couldn't be any more stupid. You're making a tribute to her, after all the hell I went through to get rid of that bitch of a failed leader. After what I proved to all you brainless males.

Jeyluxhal didn't play 'round with her as he turned to face her with a expression of hostile and malicious intent, his face translating to: "I'm sorry, what language are you speaking? It sounds like bullshit. Shenzi is better than you, she was better than a matriarch and you stopped bein' both a leader and a hyena after you threw her out to die, SHE was our leader and you aren't. I am taking over this clan now, so get out of my spot... or I will piss on your unconcious body as well after I-"

Danguro growled and threw him away up toward the wall before she proceeded to destroy the statue that he was working on, before putting a paw on his liver and leaning down to his ear to tell him

"Clean that up" It was a demand for a mess she caused herself

Jeyluxhal grunted in refusal

"Clean, up, that mess, YOU MADE" The whore emphasized more sternly and was entitled to a point to where she was calling it a mess that this mute hyena made

Speak of the devil, he further snarled in refusal and started to try and shake her off

"CLEAN IT UP!"

Jeyluxhal threw her off completely but Danguro pinned him up toward the wall with both of her paws on him, grabbing his ass with her claws while he tried to elbow her off in the nose; trying to take him at his manhood while he fought her off as that distracted her from doing so but led to the false matriarch try and stop him from moving with her other arm. He refused to let this skank have her way with him again, backslapping her in the face and even trying to hit her in the rib with his elbow to break away; she had the audacity to cover his mouth and stop him from screaming out for help to get this whore off him. She held him at his throat with her arm and grabbed at his manhood like the first time the two met, while he was shaking side to side violently and still screaming under her paw. Tumbling from one side and other until she pinned him down, standing over him like Nala would to Simba playfully as cubs but just like a fucking creep that Danguro was; he kicked her in the stomach to get her off him, before long he turned the tables on her with him elbowing the top of her head and sending her running away

Though, not before she heard him bark out with a loud and vocal slobber coated, hissing-like harsh southern english borderline london accent styled scottish cry of anger that sounds like he was calling Boris a wanker like the time Gordon Ramsay in a Hell's Kitchen episode, where he ramsayed him for mocking him behind his back after judging the raw pizza made by a chef named Melissa who was also responsible for dumping mountains of capellini in the bin. But for Jeyluxhal, he was shouting something else that was incoherent to her but made clear for Banzai and Ed who were coming. There's no sugarcoating this insult, he was angry enough to use the n-word and that what his bark sounded like he was saying in spite of his disorder

His facial expression didn't hide the fact either as it also expressed the same thing, so there was no need to describe what the translation was: "NIGGER!"

At that point in time when I lost all sense of refusing to use that word, it makes no difference now if I called her a nigger, she pushed me too far for me to care

Jeyluxhal stood raised and burning with foam running out of his mouth, his face was turning red and his ears were reared back as his fangs were bared; incensed with his back raised up, his claws unsheathed and his paws ready to tear into her retreating form. He was too angry, too done with her shit to let her reign stand that he was ready to execute his plan to kill her; he was laughing with agitation and he was panting like a cat. That's it, he's not waiting, he's going to kill her

Before Banzai could leap onto him, Ed beat him to it but slipped off when Jeyluxhal slid off to the side when running after the matriarch. He wanted her dead and he wanted it to be done now, he's through biding his time to kill her when she isn't looking

It didn't matter anymore, she harassed me for the last time and when I made it to her spot as she laid there vulnerable, I was hungrier than I could ever be. She stole my meals, and now I'm making her into one

Without a second thought as he giggled like a madman and huffed angrily, he leapt at what he believed to be Danguro as he bit into her back with her bloodcurdling screaming being of the only sound she made; this hyena smashed her face to the ground plenty of times so he's capable of drawing blood out from her mouth, her fangs and her nose. Lunginig his mouth at her eye as he tore it off and ripped away her left ear, the next thing he did was slam her body down to the ground before he raised her head by her crainal cap to land a shot to her jugular artery; hitting her again on the forehead afterwards. Placing one leg down on her back while his other was firmly on the ground, he pulled back her head slowly while slightly twisting his movements from one side to the other wavily; only for him to put his hindpaw further down along her back and start pulling hard enough to tear her head off. Her skin underneath all of that fur was tearing into bigger holes made from puddy, the membrane of her throat being exposed and blood seeping through her neck as he then yanked hard to rip it off completely with him shouting with a gutteral roar. The high pressured blood became a bloodspout that fountained out of the stump of her neck and greased him in the bitch's vital fluids, he never felt more empowered when he did the impossible. With her head in his paws, he threw it away and let it spill into a thick puddle

And now with her body in his paws, he feasted 'til there were bones and halfway through his course of a much needed meal until the shouting voice of... no. No! NO!

"What HAVE YOU DONE?!" The real Danguro was behind him, distressed and angry

Jeyluxhal hissed at her with his previous expression and snarled while she repeated herself

"What HAVE YOU DONE TO MY MOM?!"

I told you before she was paranoid and that she was a cold stoned liar, but none of that had mattered. I felt like I became the very thing that I swore to kill: a murderer of mothers, Baridi took mine and I took Danguro's. But I'm too angry and ignorant to know what I had done, I slew her just as that lion did to my mom. The situation prevented me from realizing it, since I repressed my memories of that night and it wasn't until my dad told me the truth; I have no regrets, only disappointment that my feast was interrupted. I never felt more empowered by turning into this feral animal before than the first time, but I told you before didn't I? This feeling was not going to last long

Jeyluxhal's expression was pure rage and it translated to: "You have no command over me anymore, Danguro, YOU BROUGHT THIS TO YOURSELF!"

"Why...?!" She hissed, his next expression was clear to see and the translation stated that he was doing this because he hated her

"Sexually harassing me wasn't funny, assaulting me was no gut-buster for Ed, your blackmail threats of defaming me by lying that I raped you-! Nigga, I will KICK YOUR ASS RIGHT HERE and RIGHT NOW!" His only breaths being short huffs that are cut short and trying to fight back the tears for the things she'd done to him

The only thing that Danguro could do was scream in anger and rush in to attack him, and he was ready to defend himself, but not ready for the sudden reappearance of, you guessed it, Shenzi who leapt into action

Seeing her again was a heartmelting sight for me to see, I couldn't stop myself from breaking down under the tension and the stress that this bitch gave me. The satisfaction was worth it, the way she broke her bones, ripped pieces of her flesh off and tore her ear away like I did to her mother... I was angry and I was confused. I couldn't turn away from her when she faced me but I was happy that she took back her place as the true matriarch, I can't say anything... I'm at a loss for words, If I ever had any to spare. I'm free from the whore's tyranny, forever

Her expression was fuming but cold and her voice was even more cold but commanding, as she looked down on Danguro. "You are no longer welcomed here at the graveyard, get out and never return; or I will kill you right where you're standing and end everything"

Danguro, the whore who abused her authority, weakly stood back up and tried to launch a spit at her eye but failed as her strength was considerably less than what she was before as understandably; Shenzi wasn't bitten in the neck this time so it was a fair fight and she had the will to act compared to this bitch who thought she can overthrow her. She was rattling in her breathing and looking down on her deep wound where Shenzi's fangs dug deep into her liver, the puncture wounds were gushing out along with some holes being punched into her lower intestines as well. She was shaking visibly but still had the gall to tell her off

"When I find out who saved you from that beating you deserved... this isn't over. You're next, and so is-" Before she could finish and Shenzi already knew what she was going to say, a rock was smashed against her brain by a unusually silent Ed, whom she abused harshly too, before she kicked her in the ass to get her dizzy harlot self out of the Elephant Graveyard. She knows Danguro isn't going to get very far with that wound to her liver

Ed, the hyena who was always laughing his ass off and keeping the score, was also shaking as he slowly stopped and lowered his ears before giggling under his breath; slinking down into a relieved position with his legs outstretched. Even he was breathing out with relaxation, as it gave Shenzi the idea that Danguro was extremely abusive to him; sniffing a near faint odor on him as well. "Yes, she hit him hard in the bladder; and started berating him for it" Banzai told her, confirming that it was a piss stain odor; though he was still grateful that she came back

The same cannot be said for Jeyluxhal as he was out of his feral stance but ashamed, lingering with anger and confusion as he can't stop himself from suppressing that muffled howling and choking sob for anguish; his rabid dog-like growling combined with sniveling rage. She's gone for good, but she has a memory as long as the day she saw her mother beaten in a battle over dominance; she was never meant to be a matriarch, the Circle of Life was never kind towards the entitled. And she was a entitled child who never grew up, something he himself felt like; the similarities scared him, he was terrified but Danguro was not a reflection of what he was if he grew a poisoned ego from a Inahaki like her. Shenzi slowly walked to him as he growled even in her presence, that bitch unjustly tortured him and for what? Because he was loyal to his adoptive mother? Because he was a male? Because he was a underaged male that would give the right to do what? Not have her way with him, she was a bitch in a hyena's skin; and she doesn't have to be a matriarch or hyena, she never was to both ways anyway, to insist a female like her knows better than him to harass a vulnerable and unstable boy like him. All she did was prove that female pedophiles are no more toxic than a male pedophile, she had only proved how little everyone knew about playing the victim card and saw the world as an board game like Monopoly; but every space for the male players was the Go to Jail card and every space for the female players was favoriting their genders by giving them the good shit. Shenzi stopped in front of him, standing upright while he was lowered at her paws, refusing to see her eye to eye

Danguro was more than a bully, more than a pedophile and more than a fucking creep who is a entitled Inahaki. Her use of blackmail, her use of threats and her use of the victimhood card told me that she was a deadass social justice cunt who was no warrior of justice for the social clan of hyenas Shenzi ruled. How many more lives must social justice warriors like her ruin and smear and defame the innocent before we say enough is enough? There is a saying in China, that tells you that the snake should never be fed, it's an ungrateful beast that will sink both it's fangs into you no matter how much you do for it. The Egyptian Cobra, Ushari is nowhere near that description and I know he's listening to this story I tell you; and he is watching us in some hidden place, translating my facial expressions I've always used over my tongue but he doesn't need to know the reason as to why I speak with my face rather than with my mouth. He knows why and he agrees with why I communicate like this. Danguro was a little girl in a hyena's skin, a spoiled and entitled slutty whore who believed everything is owed to her and will resort to the likes of breaking the law that's supposed to protect them, children, from grown adults who will take advantage of them when they haven't learned how to grow up like a real kid would

She softly laid a paw on his face with her thumb waving the side by his right eye back so she could scrape away the tear that turned into a stream, leaving only small droplets right on top of the surface. The only thing he could do was reach up and take her by the ear with his paw, stroking his paw on her inner skin; even scratching behind it

"Yeah, I'm real alright. She's not coming back and if she does, we'll kill her. I'm in command now" Shenzi pulled no bullshit with him, making it clear that Danguro is as good as dead and she's back in action

Jeyluxhal only let out a deep sigh like a dog but was hoarse and gravelly like that of a horse, ready to relax and lay down it's tired old bones for another day in the comfort of the stables. He took two minutes of laying before he finally stood up slowly and quietly to face her, with him looking at the carrion of Danguro's mom who lied dead with her raw meat ready for the taking. Giving her a low hum that it was all hers

"Finish what you started, there's juicier prey for us to hunt out there than cunts like her. I'll be fine, and I've got to check in with my two friends here, see what damage that whore did. You know where to find me, and for the record I already knew about that statue you tried to build of me; my nose is a little bigger than that. But I get it, you were interrupted by her, it's no problem for you unless it ain't worth the things you made it from"

Jeyluxhal nodded and started to head back to his spot, where he cleared it all from his broken and destroyed statue that he was building with the intent to give him comfort. A reminder to him that she was always the boss, and Danguro was always the kid who abused all the make-belief rules of the game; that comes to mind about what he thought

Children are entitled, every kid met under the age of five feel like they are Simba. They act like they're born into a legacy and one day they too will get to become a king for their people, they think of themselves as invincible, to get away with everything. I know, if I was hungry I would not use manners, if I wanted something I'd got it in my paws. The rules they believe that they are a exception to is the same: feeding the ungrateful snake that will bite you, no matter how much you do for it as there's no such thing as kindness that exists in them. I'm cynical alright, the animals of the Pride Lands are more selfishly motivated than what they're saying they are; and they're not to be trusted because they're lying about what their true intentions really are underneath the stated and implied lying. They cared more about their feelings than the way that I felt because that play they gave a standing ovation was a blatant attack on me and Jasiri, Dhalimu knew what he was doing and he sought to meddle with an actual play based on the Lion Guard's adventures so he can get back at me for coming to the rescue of his bullying; even to this day that we're not children anymore. Shenzi spoke to Banzai and Ed about what happened next, while she later came to me to check up on how I was

Banzai told her everything with Ed backing him up and confirming what he told her. How she was especially nasty to Jey to the point of trying to blackmail him into having sex with her as well as threatening to tell everyone that he raped her while she was trying to get him off her by fighting back if he refused. "Doesn't believe in evidence because it's all up her ass and up shit's creek, just like how you know her"

"That's typical for Danguro, now you know to say 'whore' in Swahili so you're welcome. And tell me, I can't be the only one who smells like someone pissed themselves; come on, she's not that eye-gouging-pee-your-pants level of threatening or scary" The odor was becoming more distinct in the air as she looked around

"She punched Ed in the bladder, remember?" Banzai stated bluntly, reminding her before adding on with a hint of embarrassment with his lowered ears; he didn't like to bring this one up but she was smarter than this, she knew that there's more that he was hiding. Jeyluxhal had faced enough of Danguro's harassment, but how can he lie to Shenzi after she kicked her ass and drove her off for good? Well, here it goes. "And one more thing: she tripled her steroid power on Sir Mute of the Round Table himself for kneeing her in the gut, for trying to block him and cut him off from headin' to the can real quick; wanted me not to tell you, if it was possible that you were still somehow alive"

"That one I believe and it's not like he did it on purpose either, he did step in to tell her to get lost and stood by me the whole time so why wouldn't she? But now, tell me for real, what did he say to her after she ruined his little project of his?"

"I think you know the answer, but I'ma tell ya' anyway. He called her a-"

"Nigger, full on hard 'R' and everything?" Ed burst into laughter at the sound of hearing that word, but that's to be expected of him and nodded with lingering giggles coming from his vocal cords to confirm what he was saying

"Yes, in that moment right there it made no difference now; neither did eating her mother alive. Too bad he beat me to the punch, I was ready to snap too and kill her myself" Banzai admitted, a little jealous of him but knowing that no one should starve anyone on purpose maliciously and she should've saw that coming

"Don't ever push him over the edge like that again, even Scar's gonna be scared of a old mute but cold blooded son like mine. Talk about being a good boy. Where is he anyway?" She snickered and asked

"She really got to him, he's off somewhere if not at his spot" He scratched behind his ear

"I'll find him" She turned away and started to walk before she heard him tell her

"Shenzi, before you go... It's good to see you again..." Banzai muttered solemnly when she did so, having felt concerned that she was gone for good as she turned to face him

"I never left" She replied walking off, her tone of voice was normal as she was feeling better now thanks to getting this off her chest

And find him she did, not at his usual spot but at her's instead where he was only standing in that one spot. On his expression that she didn't need to see to know what he was saying, the scene before him was clear. Danguro made a mess of things in more places than one, here he was ready to start cleaning up the mess she made of his adoptive mother's spot that she had. It was an hour when she came and cautiously walked back to lay down when she saw him, he was sitting there and right there in the present moment right now; his head was a little low, but he was about ready to leave as he turned around to begin walking. Not seeing her body or her paw on the lower right side of his vision, because he just wanted to leave, before she stopped and told him

"Jey, this wasn't the first time she did something like this, something to someone like you"

He turned to face her just as she did to him, his expression telling her that she didn't give him what's expected to be rape because she doesn't take no for an answer. Shenzi knows what he was expressing and stopped him there

"You don't need another animal's dick up your ass even after you told them to fuck off, and I know that's not what she did or what happened. She doesn't believe in boundaries and I don't believe in the meaning of no-means-yes like she does, that cunt knew full well what she was doing and you did what was right by trying to avoid her the best you could. Even fought back when she laid her paws on you, grabbing at your manhood to crush it like a stress ball, trying to do a lap dance on you by twerking which is unattractive for both sides already, flashing her tits like a stripper with a lack of respect for herself. Everything you did to her, and everything that you put on her, she was asking to be smacked in the face and for her mother to be eaten. You did what you thought was right and I'm not going to yell at you for that, stealing your kills was fucking rude and starving you doesn't get worse than trying to coerce you into doing this shit that you refused to do. Hear me out when I tell you this next... for me?" She didn't want to have to beg for him and she didn't sound like she was

Jeyluxhal cooperated and stood in front of her face to face, his expression with that lingering feeling of the aftermath from Danguro's final sexual assault and constant sexual harassment; and that relief that she returned, all of it was present as with his breakdown as it could all be seen with his eyes that were narrowed. She put her paws on his shoulders and told him as a mother, biological or adopted, would to their son

"I've always tried to do my best, strengthening my clan has always been the first thing right here on my mind. I protect everyone here as they do for themselves. This was never about pursuit of power, not like her and I am not a misandrist, Banzai and Ed are no exception as I'm makin' sure they're kept in line but I don't outright hate them because of they're males. Now I know I'm being obvious but I'm setting the standards straight and clear, I don't treat those two like shit while I laze about; that's what Scar's for and seeing you have no interest in meeting him properly, I'm not gonna be or get on your ass about it unlike that bitch and any boar around here. Yes, that's what we call any dumbass who decided that they liked her better than me; because I got my paws full with a bunch of masochists, not like they ever prefer her over me anyway. And I know, about how males who stay in their clans also inherit their mothers' status and become leader as well; how they're all subordinate to that clan's males and the ones who joined before them, just to prove how one sided that bitch is on her view about all of you because you aren't like her. Prejudiced is what she's always been. What happened with you and her with the two and all the others is nothing short of being traumatizing. But I want to tell you now that it's over"

She breathed one out and waited for a few more seconds before concluding with what she said to him next

"You are never going to be harmed by her again, and I meant what I said about killing her if it comes to the fact that she survived me biting into her liver; she's not coming back and she is going to die out there with the way she's bleeding like that. I owe my thanks to you standing your ground in front of her, and I'm just the same way with Banzai for calling her out; this was something different but it's all going to end the same. Me, him and Ed are going to head out; we haven't forgotten how to hunt on our own and I'm not forgetting what you did for me and the clan anytime soon. Like I said before, I'm not going to let you be sexually assaulted or be harassed the same way ever again; nor am I going to let the others get harmed the same way to the same degree you were. You understand?" Shenzi finished by asking him

Jeyluxhal nodded and curled his neck around her in silence with an atmosphere like that of Harry hugging Peter at the end where the two were at Norman's funeral, telling him that he's the only family he has after his father was taken from him with a chilling wind blowing with the leaves in the cemetery; before leaving on his own accord where she watched him go with that expression still cemented on his face. She eventually left to hunt with Banzai and Ed, as the second of the trio saw him walking to his spot and breathing deeply through his nose; he was just as bitter as he was but no less glad that she was back in command. Jeyluxhal had one thought on his mind and it was something that for the next week that followed, he's thought of:

What happens in the darkness with no witness always comes to light before a live audience, and what will happen the next time will have someone who knows who is telling the truth; while the other is lying and who to believe in. And that someone would be his father in the present day

This is where the tale comes to a end, I recovered, Shenzi retained her leadership, Banzai can no longer worry about her, Ed is back to his laughin' self, what more can I say? Except for one more thing at least...

(Flashback Ends)

Jeyluxhal shook his lowered head with his expression telling her: "Had I stood up earlier when the two fought, she might've been in hell instead of far off, doing the devil's work"

"You mean she's still after Shenzi?"

He turned to face her and expressed solemnly. "Her reign ended but her mission didn't, and her reign wasn't short enough like I wanted it to be"

He blew one out and shook his head his expression was now a calmer one as this time it was thankful to her. Which Fahari responded to him after hearing his tale that regarded what she was told by his father

"Jeyluxhal, right before we saw you again, your dad said he saw tears on your face when you bid Shenzi goodbye; said that you were crying. Is this true?"

Jeyluxhal turned away from her, the memory stagnant as the dusk of Najira's murder and she quickly regretted her question. Her ears lowering as she began to speak again

"Jey, I didn't mean-" His breathing was like a sleeping dog yawning without opening it's mouth, as it exhaled through the black nose of it's snout. "I didn't really mean that, it doesn't mean you're weak"

This time he didn't turn to face her, his head was lowered and facing the ground. He missed her badly, but he felt like he was becoming obsessive towards her and what choice did he at what time have? How can he be feeling something else that wasn't this? He guessed that it's not what matters now, he shook his head and his facial expression only consisted of his eyes narrowing as he told her right there in his usual way without a voice throughout all this time. His expression told her that she was better off leading her clan to better hunting grounds where she can hunt freely with her comrades in paws, and she told him that he's apart of her clan as the others are. Even if he doesn't live at the Elephant Graveyard with her or Pride Rock because of Simba anymore, only she had with his mom had that she showed him and that was a maternal love he brought out in her that Kukuza couldn't steal from his mom or the matriarch; but Kukuza isn't coming back and he doesn't want to see her again. All those feelings that led to him turning into that feral trance was because of her actions and poisonous true colors. He couldn't finish what he was expressing as he let his bangs fall on his face, releasing the skin on his face that allowed him to tell the genet what he was really saying without having to speak a single word at all

The hyena half turned to face her, the other half of him obscured by his bangs that shoned in it's dark red shades that felt like a dark maroon red colored putty that glossed; like it's a color option for the surface of a car. He knows that she was asking for whether it happened or not, his father didn't lie to him nor did he because what really happened on that rainy night; yeah, he was upset that he had to leave her on his own volition. Her clan was being taken to better hunting grounds and he had a father who was calling for him, he had someone to be raised by 'til the end comes when the sun falls below the horizon. He knows that crying didn't mean he was weak or spineless, he was a living being too like the rest of the other animals who came back one by one to the Pride Lands. His expression telling her all this, they had to follow their separate ways and depart for a better life she intended to give to the hyenas that follow with no questions being asked; he had a selfish and self-centered lion to kill, but so much more of that to be discovered

Fahari reached out to stroke his mane with her paw, before pulling him next to her as if she's hugging him; continuing to rub her paw down his back. "You pretty much are your mom, sure she would've told you that. It wasn't fair of that lion to take her like that out of holding some grudge against your dad, that was his choice to leave and he should've respected his choice to not take part in that attempt to overthrow Mufasa. It wasn't fair that foster mother wanted to marry your dad because he didn't love her, it wasn't fair for that honey badger to try and force you to cast away your concerns; he had no right to get into your business. But wasn't fair that you were harassed by that hyena Danguro, and I'm sure you've known for awhile that no one exercises restraint because you're a young one like all of us were once. You were right, and I think she would've killed you if she had gotten that chance; I'm glad you didn't give her that chance to try and kill someone like you at the time, or take further advantage of you because of you being a boy and her being a girl"

Jeyluxhal nodded, looking out to the fields before him

"You've changed though since she was killed, and that's nothing short of a tragedy. You have us back now, even if things are different. Mwindaji said that your dad was seeing a mistress, trying to find new love. If it turns out to be like last time, you have more power than what's being thought of you by others who think no answer means agreeing to harass this friend of mine with a heart that's more red than the sunsets in the Pride Lands or in the Outlands. You don't have to think or worry. You're the smartest one out of everyone if it comes to the same situation like what happened last time, you'll know what to do in the end. It's in your blood, it's always been with Dhalimu"

Her paw slid down to his face, stroking the black patches of his eyemarks with her thumb. Turning to face her slowly as she told him this

"He was a menace and you put him in his place, she did the same to that hyena too and she was no better than him either. Just as worse because Dhalimu didn't try to have his way with you. It's all over now, pedophiles don't discriminate between man or woman and that doesn't mean we can't be rapists, murderers, liars, thieves or people who try to marry you because they're entitled to have you in return by either their right or because no-means-yes like that Gaston jerk who got what he deserved. With me, you get none of that negative crap because we're just as evil as their male counterparts are. And I'm glad you told me about what happened between you and that whore, the two of you called her. What I really want to say is that, you being tormented by her is nothing short of traumatizing. Being sexually assaulted and harassed while threatening you with her branding you as the one in the wrong while she gets off the hook without consequences by playing the victim card based on you being a male which makes her think it's acceptable because it's not male-on-female abuse is absolutely awful; and both you and the victims of her reign of terror deserve nothing but the love and support of even parents who passed away for different reasons, especially from your mom the most, both the one who loved you and the one who raised you when that hyena returned to get up in her face to start some shit with a old grudge. Now, if I recall correctly and I hope that gash of a clawmark she left on my inner thigh down to my underbelly didn't affect my memory; Zira, I think her name is, was the worst of those kinds of people who don't let go of their grudges. No doubt that you dealt with her on more than one occasion right?" She asked at the end, telling him a couple of things such as how Dhalimu was a menace, how females weren't innocent like they play themselves up to be to get some other male victim in trouble with the law, how he deserved nothing but love and support for the things he experienced and much more

Jeyluxhal nodded though his expression was showing one of concern, his eyebrows slanting downward with narrowed eyes as well as a sealed lipped mouth to a number of canine sniffing and whines that had him lower his head down to her belly. Fahari flopped over a bit to expose her underbelly and revealed the clawmarks that ran down from the top of her inner thigh down to where the side of her tail would be from behind, it wasn't thick nor thin as it wasn't bleeding either but it was red; his raised his head to her as she held a paw to his face

"It'll heal, Kuplinka saw it too and it's no big deal. She thought she could send a warning for you to back off, by harming little old me. Jeyluxhal, before you go back home, I just want to say: you're still the shy and charming hyena that you are today as you were when we were kids, don't ever change that for me, for all of us" Fahari assured him and even told him of her opinion on him, saying that he's still the same hyena as he was when they were children back then in the past; asking for him to never change for all of his friends. She slowly scratched the right backplate of his back three times before speaking to him one last time. "You know where to find me if anymore problems like you told me come up again, if you're not comfortable with telling this to a boy or if you need the comfort a girl like me that is"

Jeyluxhal understood as he stood up before lowering his head down to her cheek to lap his tongue against it as a thanks for listening to him, even keeping him cool enough to continue talking about the backstory he had to share to her. With all of that being spoken and established, he stroked her back with his paw and walked away from her tree to head back to his den; feeling relieved with what he had to say. Fahari looked on at him walking back home, she even spoke under her breath about how much he needed a hug from his friends given how much hard times he's fallen onto; she even hoped that he would find some peace for once, and he would afterwards

Back at the burrow den, Tabari was with his mistress named Huenda (creep); she was not only a lioness but she was not whom she seemed to be as her true colors would be exposed when his son returned. Meanwhile, as it felt like he found new love after his old one was taken by a lion who called him out as a traitor; he was smiling and feeling more lively around Huenda, hell he was even chuckling as he told her

"I can't say that I'm not enjoying spending time with you" His voice ever so gruff and ever the more fatherly even in front of his mistress

"I'm glad you feel that way, 'cause I'm more excited to spend time with you too" She told him

"Really?" He asked

"Of course. What's wrong, you losing that spark of interest in me?"

Tabari sat down as he faced her with that grave undertone that can be seen even on his face. "It's been... a long time since I had a partner I could love again, and Najira was the only one I could feel like a true son of two hyena subspecies; a spotted like my father and a striped like my mother"

"Well, guess what? My heart's all yours, and even if I can't replace her; I can keep her alive as if she never was lost"

"I know" Tabari nuzzled her cheek and ear before the sounds of paw tapping were heard. "I'll be back, it's nothing bad and it's nothing serious either"

The fatherly hyena stood up and came to the exit of his and his son's den, speak of the devil he came around as he spoke to him as Huenda saw a glimpse of his son when he began to talk to him. She couldn't see much, but she could hear her lover's voice when he asked:

"You picked a bad time to come home, son"

His son understood and informed him that he was talking to Fahari, he wanted the comfort of a woman and felt like she understood what he felt back then. Tabari nodded before spoke to him again, with his son noting that even though he thought he could find new love; he didn't look so good

"I have company inside our den right now, you don't have to say anything to her"

Jeyluxhal turned and faced the entrance of their den, seeing the paw of a lioness which his father continued; shaking his head at this

"You don't have to say anything to her at all, I wanted to wait to introduce, you know that. It's been a long time since I had a partner and I thought... maybe Najira would've wanted for me to find a someone else to love. And I know what you're thinking, you don't have to look at her or believe that she's present with me here inside"

His son looked down and shook his head off to the side, breathing out through his nose as he didn't want this to be like the last time; that being what he told Fahari and his dad prior to his genet friend

"No way in hell am I gonna let the same thing happen to you again, I have to go back inside. I know where you'll be in the meantime" He assured him as a father would and Jeyluxhal gave his nod, not taking well to the news but being calmed for now that his father won't let him be taken advantage of again; this time he'll be around after hiding in the shadows for so long

Jeyluxhal left his father and stood by while he came back inside, Huenda came to ask him

"Who was that cutie?" She genuinely seemed interested and curious about their visitor

"That was my son" He explained

"You didn't tell me you had kids" That came as a surprise to the lioness

"I wanted to wait to introduce him to you, he was sexually assaulted and harassed by a male-hating false hyena matriarch before; and I wanted to introduce him to new people slowly at a pace. He's fine now, but he doesn't like to share his feelings; there are people out there who want to exploit them to their amusement and to get him angry"

"Well I don't bite" Huenda chuckled. "Plus, he looks like you"

"I know, but he's got his mother's mane and her fire. He was shy back when he was a pup and he didn't stray too far from either of us, didn't want to leave either of our sides when we had both went out or if one of us went out while the other stayed back. Overall, it's best to wait" He further explained his son to her, the lioness started rubbing his right backplate

"Well, I'm your girlfriend and if you can't trust me: why be with me?" She persuaded

"You aren't my first, but Najira won't be my last" He turned to face the entrance and called for his son, not using his name but rather simply calling him "son"

Jeyluxhal came inside to see his father, who properly introduced him to his mistress

"Jeyluxhal, this is Huenda, the mistress I've been seeing for awhile" He explained, as he nodded to her without a single word spoken

"Hey handsome" She replied in return and although she looked glad to see the son of her boyfriend's former mate, in secretly she scrunched her face in disgust; she insulted those scars underneath her breath. That's just rude. "Gross, looks like he got busy with some cats (judging his scars as cat scratches) and got hickeys from crocodiles (judging his bitemarks). Who would want to mate with him?"

"Jeyluxhal, I'm going to be heading out to hunt for some eland, I won't be long"

His son nodded to him, his father always came back and he was going to be outside tending to their den. Right before his dad left to hunt, he turned around to ask Huenda

"You want anything before I head out?" He wanted to make sure he also got something for her to eat

"I'd like a savannah hare, I'm in the mood for something sweet" She asked

"Sweeter other than me?" Tabari teased with a hint of jealousy in his tone, she only laughed in response

"Nothing sweeter than you, babe" She replied

"Hmm, you always know what to say. I'll be back, you just stay there with your unharmed self and help yourself to any smaller prey that comes scuttling near here" He offered

"Thanks babe" She spoke to him one last time before Tabari exited out of his den and went out into the fields

As she watched him leave and disappear out of her sight, a foreboding feeling was coming to this way and both father and son knew it. Something wrong was about to happen and if it did, he was coming home right now to witness what was going on. Huenda found herself admiring her claws as well as the childhood paintings of Tabari, Najira and Jeyluxhal; formerly known as Tajiuva who was taken from home as a pup and came back as a hyena known currently he was now as someone who was, admittedly, unstable with his emotions

She looked at the toys that were constructed with sticks and rocks, seeing childlike memories of a more uneventful life that he had for himself. She stretched out her paws at the front and paws at the back, sweeping away at her fur to make herself look cleaner with her claws being kept sharp with the piece of bark she found herself clawing

But soon, it couldn't have last forever as she got an idea in her head and it would be one that would lead to her downfall. She gathered up her courage and called for Jeyluxhal's name in a sing-song voice. "Jeyluxhal..."

Within minutes, the sounds of pits and pats of his paws were head outside as he walked over to her; responding to her calling for him

"How would you like some help with getting a girlfriend?"

Understandably, he was looking uneasy with her asking a question like that. His response was a expression that asked her to come again

"Of course gorgeous, who wouldn't want you to be their boyfriend? I want to help you with all your needs"

He breathed one out and shook his head, he was better off when his dad came back but he's not looking for a girlfriend. At least, he didn't think he would've wanted one

"Oh come on, I'll give you a treat for every test you pass, and then you just do a favor for me. It's that simple" She offered

He was not hearing this, he couldn't be hearing what she was offering him. He insisted that she shouldn't have to spend her time doing this for him, he had two arms and two legs for a reason; he didn't want to have to be held responsible for whatever happened to her in the process of something bad happening in the favors he might've done for her

"Come on now, it'll be our little secret between you and me" She persisted

His next expression simply told her with that narrowed brow calmness that adults who keep secrets cannot be trusted, that seemed to incite her into revealing her true colors

"You ungrateful mute little bastard, I offer you something in return for doing favors for me and here you are being insistent that you can do things on your own when you can't even say one word to me. You really want to know what I said back there? Your scars are a eye sore to me, and where did you get them anyway; having sex with a bunch of cats? Hickeys from some crocodiles you tried to mate with? What girl in the entire Pride Lands or in Africa would want you as their boyfriend, huh? Not even Queen Nala would want to ditch her king for you"

Jeyluxhal's expression told her that Nala didn't interest him, he's not even that interested in having a lioness for a girlfriend or a mate. That only incited her further given that she was one herself

"How dare you, I'm a lioness myself and you just said that to me. You're a poisonous viper, you hear? And I'm going to make sure you're-"

"That's enough!" Tabari shouted, having come back at the right time as he could hear the shouting from her inside his den and raced home with his kill in tow. It wasn't far from his spot anyhow. "What the hell is going on here?"

Oops, Jeyluxhal's sneer expression was eminent as he told his father that she tried to offer him anything he wanted in exchange for a couple of favors she wanted him to do. Knowing that they were more or less sexual based on the context that wasn't needed, he turned his scowling face on her and demanded she leave in a harsh matter; especially when told that she also wanted him to keep secrets from him

"Get out, Huenda!"

"Come on, baby. Really, you're going to believe him over me?" This bitch wasn't kidding him, she just asked that retorical question

"I overheard you yelling at him on my way back, and it wasn't far from our place either. You're a grown lioness trying to take advantage of my underaged son, he's no older than Simba who was born months after he was taken in; and even that lion is grown up"

Jeyluxhal's expression breathed one out while he shook his head, he just wanted to be left out of this mess that was started. The only good thing is that he wasn't being harassed nor assaulted physically, but he was being yelled at and berated mostly for his scars

"Jey, listen to me, this is not of your own doing. I'm the one who should be blamed here, I let her into our den and I'm the one who tried to move on; making you think I was trying to give up on your mother. You did nothing wrong, and I told you I wouldn't let this happen again" Tabari softly told his son before turning to shout at Huenda and berate her

The rageful voice of his father was enough to make him flinch with the way he was yelling at his mistress

"I told you he was traumatized by Najira's slaughter and sexually assaulted and harassed by a hyena who tried to take over the clan he spent most of his childhood in, and you add onto his pain by trying to make him betray me over you by keeping secrets?! You should be glad that I am not calling the Lion Guard on you for what you've tried to do here, because of Bunga who brought that Kukuza bitch here last time that they're only going to take your side; but even a shred of mercy from me is not going to save you"

Huenda started to feign regret and really, she's only saying this so he could feel sympathetic for her. "I'm sorry, I don't what came over me. I didn't mean what I said about his scars, and I was never trying to keep secrets from you. And seeing those scars on his body, on the body of a innocent hyena like Jeyluxhal, it just breaks my heart"

Tabari brushed off her feigned regret, never trying to keep secrets from except she did and it was clear that she was disgusted by his son's scars from the beginning; do not take his lack of a response for ignorance, he knew what she really said and how she made fun of them. That doesn't matter if she didn't like them, they're on his skin and his son likes them the way they are alongside his bitemarks

"I'm listing and branding you as a sex offender for what you tried to do" She was greatly enraged by this

"What?! You can't do that, you're ruin my life!" She protested

"Yeah, but what about my SON?!" His angry tone took over. "If I hadn't raced back home on time, you might've ruined his life FURTHER than Baridi did when he killed my wife! You ARE AN DISGUSTING, GROWN LIONESS trying to have your way with him, and you are under no right to do so. GET OUT! And don't call me babe...!"

Huenda couldn't win and she left without another word spoken, leaving the Backlands and if she commits suicide over this fact; he ain't going to apologize, that's all on her. Tabari angrily watched her leave and slammed the savannah hare he killed on the ground, heaving with an hot breath three times before he started to cool down and slow his breathing; showering in a cold undertone as he turned around to face his son, once standing tall now cowering before the rage of his father as it looked like he wanted to bury his frightened face into his chest

He approached and held his son's face up to him. "Close your heart to the trauma she tried to inflict onto you again, son. I know, my rage is just as frightening as yours is to your friends, let alone those outside the ones you've grown up with. Lashing out at you was the one mistake I will not let her try to attempt again"

He was stifling with the breathing of his nose and voiceless vocal cords from within his throat as he didn't want to suffer anymore of this. His dad had something to tell him though, and it's something he didn't know about his mother

"I never gave up on my love for her because I can't let her go or let her rest while Baridi is out there, trying to let ruin whatever life I made here a long time ago. And even if I told you that my mate braved my rage, she was terrified of me when I got angry too. But she kept an face of bravery that, again, only Sarabi could have when we lost Mufasa to Scar's act of tyranny. I am jealous of the Queen Regent just as much as you are of her for the same reason, we can't let go of our loved ones but she can hold up that face for as long as Scar's reign started and up to the day when we found each other again; ended. And not short enough his rule was" He bitterly told him at the end

Jeyluxhal nodded as his dad helped him to stand as he continued to talk. "I thought she was different from Danguro, and how people act is not a reflection of yourself; Shenzi would've told you this directly if she didn't want to be seen as soft in front of others. I know you miss her but I told you before..."

He put his paws on his shoulders to speak with him directly and upfront

"Do not mistake my silence for lack of grief or apathy towards my mate and your mother. She was a kind hyena who cared only for the two of us in the end, and she knew the reason why I was gone and couldn't be there to save her in time. He took that which I loved, what I saw in her that no other animal would see; she would've rather be killed that night than live here in the Backlands for a hundred years without knowing me, she will never leave both of us cause she lives in you"

Najira said to him on that night that he was never going to see his mother again, but he was never going to forget her; she wanted him to know her final words and her wish was for him to see her son live on and should he come across that lion who snatched her away from that little puppy to kitten sized paws that were red with her blood, she wanted him to let Baridi know what he's feeling the moment she sacrificed herself for him as a pup

"You are my greatest gift here I had ever gotten from her, and your happiness matters to me and your friends. Every step of the way for her wish to stop others from meeting her death in the same way with your own lover, you know where I will stand. And you were the smartest one in this situation, she was a sex offender and I was angry at her; but all you had to do was look me in the eye so I can know and understand what she tried to do you"

Tabari was right, Jeyluxhal was the smartest one here in this situation, silence was golden as speaking was silver. Those who are smarter spoke less, he never said a word and preferred to set aside his ears to believe what he's seeing rather than what he's hearing to misjudge what context there was; listening with his two ears that he was given for a reason rather than using his singular mouth that every animal had. He kept to his own and even though Bunga had an good intention for him which was not to sweat the small stuff and live life to it's fullest, bad communication combined with attempting to interfere with his life is what brought him to a hate filled concoction of nose biting and intellect insulting

"I love you, son. And I think we should blow off some steam, by getting back into telling you about the major times with your mom and I. No real destination in mind, we're just gonna go and explore all across the borders, that's all"

Jeyluxhal walked out with him and expressed his love for his dad in return, not too sappy and not too overly exaggerated; it's just a simple four letter word for his father to hear from him, even if he can't outright say it

"I intend to keep that promise never to let anyone hurt you again, nor will I ever let Pazia get into your heart to turn you away from me to the brink of self destruction. You have my will to act on that. If any of your friends come to ask, we'll tell them the truth"

In the end, his dad told the truth to any of his friends who came up to him and took their long walk to explore all across the borders of their land; explaining the situation that occurred right before the two started to head towards an area, a playground to be exact so his son can be an normal hyena for once

But there would be no peace, for as a elephant began to stalk them both from behind

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Holy shit this was a long ass chapter, the next one isn't going to be so long and you have my word for that, let me tell you

Oh and by the way, there's going to be some changes to Jeyluxhal's appearance or more like some additions to him being added in the next chapter to show how he really looks using some fan art of Shenzi that I saw on the internet. Nothing sexual, it shows the different colors that were being used for whatever part of her was being displayed. Including the darker shadows of her fur, lips, mane, socks, underbelly, paws and eyeshadows as well as the sclera of her eyes

That and I think I might have a official appearance for Najira, seeing that I never wrote one for her. Don't worry, it'll all be simple since I was going for a more lighter scheme than Tabari and Jeyluxhal using fan art of striped hyena OCs which are a light creamy and tannish color; but she'll still retain the darker shading of her mate and son

Overall, I hope you enjoyed the four segments of the tenth chapter called "Jeyluxhal Tales". There's more where that will come in the future in the meantime, so review when you can and see you all next time