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Lions and Hyenas

"Yet out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise. To greet the dawning of a new era; In which lion and hyena, comes together, in a great and glorious future!"

-Scar's Ascension to the throne.

TLK: Plans

Flashback

3 years ago

"I'm sorry to hear that, Minato. Your Clan have my condolences," Mufasa says.

Minato nods.

"The other piece of news, was that, Lady Tsunade, requested that I come here to inform you of Lord Kurama's chosen successor."

"The successor has already been named?"

"Yes. And he wishes to talk with you about some future plans, for the benefit of the Pridelands and our Clan."

"And who is the successor?"

Minato sits down, and looks Mufasa in the eye.

Mufasa looks back, then his eyes widened.

"I, Lord Minato, of the Outlands Hyena Clan, wishes to have a word with his majesty, King Mufasa."

Flashback Ends

The Graveyard

Kinyongo looked at himself in the water. He turned his head to the right, to see the three scars on his face. He glared, and growled at the sight of them.

"D-Daddy?" a quiet voice gained his attention, and he looked down and to his right, "a-are you a-all right?" asked a shy and timid, female hyena pup.

The pup was no older than the Prideland Clan's Heir. She was rather thin, mostly due to not enough food to get. She had a bit of blue growing into her fur along her neck, and had the prettiest pearl white eyes you have ever seen.

Before he could say anything to the young female, Shenzi comes walking into the cave.

"There you are, Kinyongo. Come on, we need to meet up with Banzai and Ed," she tells the bearded hyena, then looks down and spot the pup. "Well, hello, Hinata, sweety. Why aren't you outside playing with your friends, dear?" she asks, smiling at the little pup.

The hyena pup named, Hinata looked up at Shenzi, and ran to her, smiling.

"Mommy, I-I saw D-Daddy come home, and came to s-see him. H-he is hurt on h-his cheek and-"

"Oh, Hinata," Shenzi chuckled and patted her daughter on the head with affeaction. "Daddy just got into a bit of a fight with the mean lion from the Pridelands, that's all. He'll be fine. Now, run along, and stay close to the den my little 'bright sun'. We'll be back a little after dinner time."

"O-OK. See y-you later. See y-you when you get back, D-Daddy," and the small pup runs off, out of the cave to find her friends.

Kinyongo watched her go, then turns to Shenzi, frowning at her. "You noticed?" he asks.

Shenzi nods. "Yeah. She's getting blue in her fur," she starts to smile. "Just like my mom used to have. Those pretty white eyes of hers, she gets from your mother, dear."

Kinyongo gets up, and walks beside Shenzi as they leave the cave. As they walk, Shenzi takes a few licks at his scarred cheek. To clean it up some, so it won't get infected. He cringes at the stinging sensation, but he doesn't move away from her.

"Do you sometimes regret turning down Minato's offer in betrothing our pup with his?" he asks out of the blue.

Shenzi stops licking his cheek to think for a moment. "Hmm, sometimes. In all honesty, it probably would have been better if we did. Then, we all would have been living in the Western Pridelands and the Outlands," she says after some thought.

"But then, we would be living under their rules. I don't believe I could have taken to their religious beliefs of 'The Circle of Life', and all of that nonsense," Kinyongo responded.

"Ha ha ha, yeah I hear ya on that, dear. 'Only take what is needed, and never take more than that'. Yep, that's one of the many reason's I didn't join our two clans," she says. "Besides, the blonde pup hangs out with the Prideland Prince. I don't think I would want our pup to be around someone li-"

Shenzi stops and sees Kinyongo growling. She blinks in confusion, then in understanding. He's still angry that Mufasa's brat had scratched him.

She looks at the wounds, and re-evaluated that the wounds were actually deeper than at first glance, and will scar. She looks at his face, and sees that he is completely in his own world, with a hateful look on his face.

'He's probably thinking of that cub. Sighs, well, there's nothing that can be done right now,' she thinks, before giving her mate a shoulder bump to get his attention.

He snaps out of it, and looks back at his mate. She gestures him to move forward. They continue on their way to meet with their other two cohorts.

"Man that lousy Mufasa. I won't be able to sit for a week," Banzai complained, looking at the scratches on his butt.

Ed started laughing.

"It's not funny, Ed," Banzai looks at Ed, with narrow eyes.

Ed tries to cover his mouth, then just bust out laughing at Banzai's misfortune.

"Hey, shut up!"

Ed continues to laugh. Banzai looses his temper, then attacks Ed. The two are rolling around on the ground barking, biting and fighting each other.

Shenzi and Kinyongo were on a ledge nearby, turned and looked annoyed at the two.

"Will you knock it off!" Shenzi yells at them.

They come out of their fight, with Ed biting his own leg.

"Well, he started it," Banzai blames Ed, pointing the hyena.

"Look at you guys. No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain," Shenzi states, as she and her mate come walking down the ledge to join the other two.

"Man I hate dangling," Banzai says, drool dangling out his mouth.

"Yeah? You know, if it weren't for those lions, we'd be runnin' the joint," Shenzi complains, then sits down.

"Oh, don't get me started. Lions. Think they own everything around here," Kinyongo, sits between Banzai and Ed.

"You said it, Kinyongo. Man I hate lions," Banzai declares.

"So pushy," Shenzi adds.

"And hairy," Banzai states.

"And stinky," Shenzi smirks, and walks around to sit beside her mate.

Banzai, Shenzi, and Kinyongo all smirk at each other.

"And man are they," Kinyongo starts.

"U-U-U-UGLY!" all three said together, backs to backs, and then laughs.

"Oh?" a voice startled them, and they look up to a high ledge to see a black-maned lion, laying down looking at them. "Surely, we lions are not all that bad."

The four hyenas breathe a sigh of relief.

"Oh, Scar. It's just you," Kinyongo says.

"We were afraid it was someone important," Shenzi states.

"Yeah, you know, like Mufasa," Banzai clarifies.

"Yeah," Shenzi agrees.

"I see," Scar frowns at that.

"Now, that's power," Banzai states.

"Tell me about it. I just hear that name, and I shudder," Shenzi speaks.

"Mufasa!" Banzai says, Kinyongo looking and grins.

"Ooh! Do it again," she grins.

"Mufasa!" Kinyongo does it this time.

"Ooooh!"

"Mufasa!" Banzai says.

"Mufasa!" Kinyongo speaks.

"Mufasa!" Banzai and Kinyongo sings.

Ed falls on his back giggling at how Shenzi lays on the ground, holding herself, laughing as well.

"Ooh, it tingles me," Shenzi remarks.

Scar looks upon them, frowning some more, before he rubs his temple.

"I'm surrounded by idiots." Scar says.

Ed starts to scratch under his chin with his hind leg. Shenzi turns around to bite at an itch on her back, and Kinyongo lays down looking at Scar.

"Now, you, Scar, I mean, you're one of us. I mean, you're our pal," Banzai says.

"Like Mufasa is to Minato's clan," Kinyongo states.

Scar rolls his eyes at the comparison. "Charmed."

"Oh, I like that. He's not king, but he's still so proper," Shenzi smiles.

Kinyongo and Banzai nodding in agreement.

"Yeah, hey, did you bring us anything to eat, Scar, old buddy, old pal? Huh? Did ya, did ya, did ya?" Banzai asked, smiling up at Scar.

Scar frowned at them with a squinted eye.

"I don't think you really deserve this," he holds out a zebra leg. The four hyenas were sitting up right, in begging positions, salivating at the mouths at the leg Scar held up. "I practically gift-wrapped those cubs and pup for you, and you couldn't even dispose of them," he drops the leg.

The leg fell to their feet, and the four started eating it.

"Yeah, nice present by the way," Kinyongo says sarcastically, with his mouth full.

"Well, ya know... it wasn't exactly like they were alone, Scar," Shenzi spoke, her mouth full too.

"Yeah, what are we suppose to do..." Banzai speaks, mouth full, then he swallows. "Kill Mufasa?" he asks.

At first Scar didn't say anything, but then a devilish smile appeared on his muzzle.

"Precisely."

The hyenas looks up at him in confusion.

The mated hyenas return to their cave, and Hinata came to greet them. There was still some Zebra meat left, so Kinyongo gave it to their slightly thin pup. As she ate what remained of the zebra leg, her parents laid down for some much needed sleep.

When she was done, padded over to her parents, and Shenzi pulled her pup into a warm embrace and licked her muzzle clean of zebra bits. With that done, all said goodnight and went to sleep.

Before sleep could fully claim the male hyena, Kinyongo hoped that Scar's plan will work. He hopes that they'll be able to get rid of the King and the Prince. However, if in the event that the young Prince survives, he'll personally, and gladly finish the job.

And thus he fell to sleep, dreaming of his teeth tearing Simba to shreds, for scarring him.