Scar sighed at the sight of his 'top hyena agents': Shenzi, Banzai and Ed. Sometimes - no, every time - he found himself wondering why he even bothered to use them as slaves who would do whatever he told them to.

The trouble was, they always managed to fail at whatever Scar would ask them to do. They couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat. Hyenas were the most appalling servants you could ever hope to have.

The only reason Scar even bothered to use them was because they tended to look up to him as some kind of leader. They were lost causes. They were worthless, pointless creatures, who never had any food and were always too busy cracking utterly awful jokes that had the power to make an actual comedian cry blood. And a lot of it, too.

As usual, Shenzi, Banzai and Ed were arguing over the latest inanimate object that they thought qualified as food. Their stupidity made Scar want to cringe. A lot. This time they were fighting over a pathetic-looking stick that they wished to eat.

But Scar knew they were his only hope of getting some kind of reward out of today. That certain reward being pure entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less. It was acts of cruelty like ruining someone's friendship with someone else that made Scar want to get up in the morning. Was it cruel, evil, horrible? Yes. But that didn't exactly stop Scar.

Scar wandered over to the three inept hyenas, who were still arguing over who got to eat the stick.

"It's not your stick!" Shenzi shouted at Banzai, pulling it away from him. "It's my stick!"

"I saw it first!" Banzai countered, trying to pull it away from her.

"You didn't see anything first!" she argued. "I'm the boss around here! Isn't that right, Ed?"

Ed just laughed maniacally and nodded, being the stupidest of all the hyenas in the Outlands. No one exactly knew why Ed was so unintelligent, but every time Scar looked at him he just thought that he shouldn't have dropped that rock off the wrong cliff. He didn't mean it. He was just aiming for Mufasa, that's all…

"I think you'll find I'm the boss around here," said Scar to the hyenas angrily.

Shenzi and Banzai immediately turned their attention to Scar, surprised by his unexpected visit.

Shenzi laughed nervously. "Oh… It's you, Scar. What are you doing here?"

"I have a job for you," he replied, smiling evilly.

In her mind, Shenzi groaned. She never liked that smile. It was Scar's evil smile that told her he was about to ask them to do something that they would most likely fail miserably at.

But, not wanting to face Scar's evil wrath - because it absolutely terrified her - she smiled acceptingly. "Sure," she said happily, although really she was dreading whatever Scar wanted them to do for him today.

"So, what is it?" Banzai asked casually.

Scar gabbed the hyena by the throat. "I ask the questions around here!" he boomed. "If you just waited instead of demanding it like the blabbermouth you are I would have explained already."

"My bad," he said, smiling nervously.

Scar smiled back, before throwing him to the ground. "Now, before I was rudely interrupted," he said, glaring at Banzai, "I was going to say that my little job I have for you today is very cruel indeed."

Shenzi chuckled evilly. She liked cruel things. It was in her nature. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all. "What kind of cruel things? Do you want us to kill someone? Can we eat them afterwards?"

Scar smiled and shook his head. "No, no, no. Better."

"Better than killing?" said Banzai. "I can't believe you didn't let us eat those outsider lions from the other day. They looked so tasty, too. Instead you made us skin them alive and hide their skulls away."

"Are you questioning my judgement?" Scar demanded, angrily and loudly.

Banzai's mouth snapped shut. "No."

"Good. Those lions were just target practice for when I want you to start murdering people I know. And I think the skulls make a nice decoration for my home. It scares people away. So, here's what I want you to do: Simba's got himself a new friend, you see."

"Yeah," said Shenzi, nodding and smiling evilly. This sounded good so far!

"And they seem ever so close to each other," he continued.

"Yeah," Banzai said, starting to enjoy this. Whatever Scar wanted them to do sounded very good indeed! To them, at least.

"And since they're so close, I want you to…"

Shenzi and Banzai were up in Scar's face now, awaiting the horrid command from him.

"To break them up," he finished with an evil chuckle.

Shenzi and Banzai's jaws dropped in surprise. Ed just laughed manically, same as always. Did Scar, the cruellest lion in the world, just ask them to break up the friendship of two cubs?

"Seriously?" said Shenzi, raising an eyebrow in utter shock. Out of all the things he could have asked them to do, this was the one she least expected.

Scar narrowed his eyes. "When am I ever not serious? I want their friendship wrecked, ruined, dead. How clearer can I possibly be?"

"But it sounds so stupid," she blurted out, without even realising what she had just said. Oh, now he was going to be mad…

"What?" Scar exclaimed loudly, enraged.

Shenzi smiled nervously. "I was just… kidding."

Banzai laughed. "Yeah, get a grip, Scar." Scar grabbed Banzai by the throat again. "Good grip," he choked out.

"The plan is perfect, you idiots!" he shouted, throwing Banzai to the ground, although much harder than last time. "Think about it! Once we break up their friendship, Simba's irritating self-confidence will be shattered into a million pieces! I know how he deals with rejection, and he doesn't get it that often. It destroys him. And it makes him all the more easier to kill in the near future. Now do you understand, you pathetic mutts?"

"Well, I guess…" Shenzi replied, before Scar glared at her furiously. "I mean… Yes, I perfectly understand. No problems with me."

"Yeah, and after that, can you get us some food? Huh, Scar, huh?" Banzai asked hopefully.

Scar frowned. "Maybe," he replied. "If you manage to succeed. But be warned, if you don't…" He smiled cruelly. "The ramifications will be severe."

He ushered them off. "Now off you three go, into the Pride Lands, and go wreck that friendship."

The three hyenas wandered off, heading toward the Pride Lands.

"Oh, and don't forget," said Scar, causing them to turn around. "I'll be watching you."

Shenzi and Banzai looked at each other and gulped nervously. They didn't like the sound of that…