Ok, I wanted to make a Scar survives and in a struggle to redeeming himself story. And I've gotten this idea on YouTube a while back. As I already said this will be a "Scar survives and tries to redeem himself, and he becomes secret 'friends' with a certain golden Prince. Little knowing this Prince can redeem him. And I kinda wanted to have Scar to have an chance to redeem himself and get a second chance.

I'm working on this while I am working on "Kion Difficult Life" because I had this idea for a while, but watching the Youtube video that inspired me push me into making this story.

Also, in most of my stories, I make Kopa the heir and actually exist, but for the sake of this one Kiara will actually be the heir and the 'true' first-born, and I may or may not make Kion's leader of the Lion Guard, considering he is going to aid in Scar's fall.

Flames surrounded him.

Him.

The dark brown-coated lion with emerald green eyes and a black crooked nose; King Scar, the tyrant and murderer in many eyes... originally he was Prince Taka, an innocent cub, and once... long ago... wielded an powerful roar and leader of the Lion Guard. But he have been cast to the side and downgraded and lost his power, due to destroying his guard when he wanted them to assist him to take down his brother.

And in doing so, he have lost his roar and the mark of the guard and were utterly defenseless and grown weaker and were... as Scar had said... he's at the shallow end of the gene pool. But yet he had brains and that is his only resourceful weapon he still had yet.

Noticing his allies; the ones who have assisted him in taking the Pride Lands, the hyenas, leaded by the hyena matriarch, Shenzi. She had her mate and brother, Banzai and Ed, standing beside her.

"Ah, my friends," the brown-coated lion said with a smile. They will be able to take back Pride Rock and now will make the traitors suffer! They had a good number over them and Scar will be able to take back his throne...

"Friends?" the female one laughed silently, as an 'slight' murderous look came in her eyes. "I thought you said we were the enemies," she turned to her mate, who laughed with her.

"Yeah, that's what I heard," he added.

"Ed..." Shenzi and Banzai turned and reverted their eyes towards the third of them, the one Scar had always thought as weak-minded and the one who isn't as normal. But he laughed and it was the same as it normally was, but darker, different, intimidating.

"No. L-L-L-Le-Le-Le-Le-Let me explain. No. You don't understand. No! I didn't mean for... No, No! Look, I m sorry I called you... No!NOO!" the brown-coated lion tried his best to former words, but his fate was already decided as fire consume them all and burn his body, but hyenas on top managed to cover for a bit, but still he was getting burn.

He wanted to scream, but yet nothing came from his mouth, he wanted to run but his legs and mind prevented him from doing so, he wanted to... live... he wanted to get out of this, but how? There was just too many of them, as fire consume some of their bodies and even managed to burn some of Scar's fresh and inner muscles.

As the fire consume even more of the hyenas bodies, the remaining hyenas that happen to survive the fire ran off an second later.

Scar was shock to even still felt the living, but he did felt it. A lot of it. A bunch of fire marks burning his body both big and small, his bones actually ached a lot, and given the past wounds he had gotten from his battle.

Battle!

Scar knew he won't survive without medical aid immediately, even if... it may not be enough, and even it is enough the brown-coated lion may always carries the wounds as it serve as a past accident.

Scar's eyes travel upward, trying to get an sense of what was going on. But yet his vision were clouded, but he did managed to make out one figure. On top of Pride Rock, a strong golden lion roar out to somewhere. That was the last thing he had saw until his world fade to black.

An old mandrill watched with excitement and hope; for years they had to suffer under Scar's region and now the tyrant is gone and the true king has return to take his place and rule in a fair manner. And while it may take a while for things to rebuild he will aid and assist and tries to call the herds back so things can be rebuild at last.

"Ah, Mufasa, everything is back to normal and your son have won," he spoke with such wisdom and kindness to seemingly no where. "I bet you are extremely proud of him," he smiled when he said this part.

Suddenly, air blew on the old mandrill, as he begin to head down Pride Rock. He had to begin his quest immediately for things to be back to normal. It will be hard and difficult, but he will do some convincing that the true king is back.

More air blew on him.

"What?" he asked nothing in particular, but the winds carried up, and the old mandrill try to push it back, however, he wasn't strong enough to do so... he managed to muttered one shaky word. "Redemption."

A brown-coated lion lay on a middle of... nowhere. His surroundings weren't visible, he was just laying in the middle of no where, alone, his body abandoned... forgotten.

'Taka! Wake up!'

A voice he had never thought he would have heard again echoed through his head and the brown-coated lion look to see an empty abyss, but soon a form of two golden lions came up to him.

'Mufasa. Ahadi...'

A snarl form on his face by the sight of his father who robbed half of his cubhood. All the brown-coated lion was granted the role as leader of the Lion Guard, but that was it, and he was rubbed in the face and cast to the side and were treated really badly by him and he always favor the golden boy and his precious prince.

His eyes narrowed, 'How are you two even here?' He held anger and hatred for the both of them; Ahadi, for casting him and abusing him throughout his childhood and left even a scar for life when the first time it nearly got heal. But the second time it was scarred for life.

'Relax, Taka, for once in your life, listen...' the first high golden lion with amber-red eyes said sternly yet there was an edge of concern and softness in it.

'No! This is a lion who have harm me and wronged me!' the brown-coated lion snarled. 'And I don't even know how you are here now!'

'I'm not really here, but I am apart of you and he is too, even if you want to denied it.'

'Taka, listen to me... give me an chance,' the other golden lion with emerald green eyes, matching Scar and also having an jet-black mane that matches the brown-coated lion. They were similar in some ways than others. But Scar have a dark brown-coated body while Ahadi have a mixture of brown and golden. 'I know throughout your cubhood, I done nothing but hurt you, and half of the reason you have turned was because of me. But we have decided to spare you from the dungeons with the evil spirits who would have surely taken your body and mind and influence it.'

'I did too when I didn't help you get your scar healed, and I'm so sorry.' Mufasa apologized, narrowing his eyes slightly... not at Scar, but rather Ahadi, who wrinced by the glares that his first-born and second-born were giving him.

'Sorry!' Scar snapped, his voice rising like never before. 'That's all you two can say after years of pain and neglect! Well, guess what Ahadi I am more than a King then you two ever were!'

'Yes, you are more than I was,' Ahadi admitted, his eyes casting downwind at the still glares he was receiving, but yet he had noticed Mufasa's glare calmed slightly, but Scar's glare deepen. 'And I wanted you to do be different from this. I want you to be a better lion. It was my idea to give you an second chance to live.'

'Second chance?' Scar asked, his anger replaced by confusion.

'Yes, you will be able to live again and have an chance to redeem yourself, for we have seen what would happen if you're send... down.' Mufasa whispered the last part with a shaky sigh. 'You would still rise, but only for some time, for you will be defeated again.'

'But why are you telling me this?' the dark brown-coated lion wondered.

'Because there is an chance. The one who have defeated you in that very time can be the one that can save you,' the golden one explained.'Who is this one?' he asked, knowing to look out for... if he even wanted redeemption.

'That question will be revealed in due time,' Ahadi declared, with a small smile, having know his soon deep down in his soul wanted redeemption and a chance to get out of this violent life-time and an chance.

'I'm not sure if I believe you two,' Scar snapped, his voice uncertainly.What if they just want to laugh at him from above? What if they wanted him to suffer an violent life again?

'You must believe them, Taka,' another kind and wise voice spoke up from the shadows and slowly came into Scar's view. Scar was taken aback and collapsed to his knees by the lioness who stood infront of him.

She had brown-coated fur, but amber-red eyes lioness, that matched Mufasa. This was the lioness who have raised him in an kind manner. This was the lioness who have aided into him growing up until the very minute she died. This was his mother! The very Queen Uru.

'Mom!' Scar exclaimed, feeling an great urge to run over and nuzzle against her and hold her, but he restrained and held back from doing just that to keep his strong appearance. 'How?'

He didn't knew how but his entire family was standing here. Though for Scar, he didn't had an chance, for his mother responded. 'The Kings and Queens from the past.'

'Hmmmmm, about saving me?' the brown-coated lion questioned, his eyes narrowing, as he turned from his brown-coated mother, to the remaining males of his family.

'Oh yes, we want you to live in the shadows for a while and meet the son of my son and earn redemption by making sure the same fate don't happen to him, and at the end of all this, when you finally join us, you will have all the crimes off.' Mufasa announced.

'And if I don't accept this?' Scar asked.

Mufasa wasn't the one who had responded, instead it was his mother, who had closed eyes and regretful look. 'Then you will have to be send with the evil spirits of the past and be the wretched of history, I'm afraid.'

Scar thought about this for a second; it was either redemption lion and having an chance to do things right and been the lion he should have been had he had not been abused, neglected and bitten by that strange cobra. Or be send to hell and be forgotten and the witch of his history and an monster and just seen as evil.

'You three do know... I can just ask for redeemption and when I'm send down there, I can just restart an plan,' Scar stammered... forcing an smile.

'Oh no, Taka, you are mistaken,' Ahadi spoke up. 'You will just be dammed if you try and plus your allies have abandoned you.'

'I don't need them!' Scar shot back.

'Taka,' Uru scolded like she used to done when he done something wrong yet it was softly. 'Don't continued down this path. We all know that your soul don't want this.'

Taka knew he was trapped in a choice and no matter what both choices will lead to pain and suffering. His mother was right. Deep down, he didn't want to continue down this path, but it was the only way for him to truly be a King and run his bloodline deep into the bone. Taka was rising in Scar and is slowly pushing back his anger emotions and slowly become the lion he was meant to be. However, was all of this necessarily? His family have came back to him in his 'death' and offering him an chance to live again. Maybe... there was only way to find out. 'I choose to try redeemption and I won't make any regretful choice that gets me damned.'

'Good, now...' Ahadi beginned, as the three ghost lions slowly begin disappearing as a white light cover them and Scar's vision. Ancient chants were heard and Scar fallen to the ground fast, and begin snoring.

A brown-coated lion woke up from his endless sleep. His head ached and his wounds affected him. What he had notice was some of his wounds seemed to be healed or at least not as big, while others just hurted so bad or big enough.

He felt an itching pain on his neck and he just had to scratch it, but yet he wasn't able to move long enough for him to do it, for the brown-coated lion felt pain that stopped him from doing that.

Where was he?

"Ah, Taka, it been some time," a high voice said, placing a paw on the brown-coated lion's shoulder. "Simba have defeated you mere weeks ago. And now he and Nala is aiding in rebuilding. 'Den, I'm sure dey are going to have a cub which is going to take some time. Though I don't know why yer father and brother would spare you after all you have done."

"Where am I?" he demanded the old mandrill and his basical savior that aided in his family to save him. He was still shock at how it been weeks when it felt like days... not even that... hours. His head hurted so bad, and he wished he could stop it. Still, his body did ached and bones were hurting so bad. He had thought he will die after the fire and plus the hyenas, but miraculously he survived

"You're in the Pride Lands. Ting' rebuild quite fast with de help of some of the herds. Food and water is more frequently now. But de wounds of you and de hyenas are still scarring some part of de Lands even if you're defeated der will always be de scars."

Scar found himself wrincing at that. "How am I'm going to eat and drink if I need to stay here to survive?"

"You'll go into hiding, there's an secret pathway dat I have to keep yer safe. You will live der for a while."

"Why did you save my broken body?" the brown-coated lion demanded, wondering why. Back when he was a small cub, he had heard stories from his mother about the great Kings and Queens come to serve people a second chance, but Scar... no not Scar... Taka never really believed in it.

Rafiki's paw twitched ever so slightly, "Because de Kings and Queens both agreed der still a role for you in de Circle of Life, 'dey believed you can still be save, even after all you have done. Well, your father and Mufasa have always been so forgiving..."

Taka glared at the old mandrill. "Forgiving?" Taka snapped, finding his voice rise. "Maybe Mufasa..." the brown-coated lion was surprisingly able to calm his anger but his eyes were still glaring. "But Ahadi was never forgiving! When I was young... when I made an mistake... Ahadi always blamed me!"

"Yes, but yer father deep down loved you... as did yer brother, but you were too blinded by resentment and anger and power you didn't see it 'den." Rafiki said with a seemingly disapproving shake of his head.

"Oh, I did see it," Taka countered his words, as his emerald green eyes lighten and his claws slightly unsheathed. "Ahadi always loved Mufasa more then me."

The old mandrill didn't replied, he instead trotted over and put up a fruit, and place some chemicals and water into it. He begin to shake it, as Taka tried to see what he was doing.

Minutes later, the old mandrill returned to the brown-coated lion's side with the bowl. "Eat, drink, it will restore your strength for you to atleast move." Rafiki said.

Taka wasn't sure at first. What if it was some sort of poison, and Rafiki wanted to finish what Simba... and mainly the hyenas did... weeks ago? But why would the old mandrill save him just to kill him?

Beginning to eat it, he swallowed some. "Yuck!" he spat, sticking his tongue out, and his face became one of disgust. "What the hell did you put in there?!"

"Chemicals, it may hurt and taste bad, but it can relax de bone and chill de mind, and something tells me you need a lot of dat," Rafiki laughed at the last part.

Taka growled loud enough for Rafiki to hear, and that stopped the laughter, yet it wasn't the growl that stopped him, but rather, the fear of angering the brown-coated lion and he may not be able to redeem himself and may start another war to Pride Rock and cause damage yet again. "I want some good food," Taka declared.

"I'm afraid dat de Pride don't have enough resources to hunt big food yet, so you will have to eat small for now, but fear not I have some mouse and I know how much you enjoy dat," Rafiki smirked, before grabbing another bowl and walking over. "But still you must eat and drink dat," the old mandrill was of course referring to the 'food/drink' that was laid out infront of him.

"Ok, fine," Taka grumbled. "Only to get back to my little energy I had left." the brown-coated lion snarled, then with that beginning to eat and drink both good and bad for him. The mouse were usually good, but with those chemicals Taka didn't want nothing to eat.

Taka knew he would have to remain hidden if he wants to recover... and live... and manage to actually find his redeemption. Surely, Simba wouldn't help him find his redeemption. Neither would Nala or anyone else in the Pride. Taka knew he had done much horrible things in his life, like stealing cubs away from their family and kill them or raised them to be killer.

One being two cubs. A peach cub with purple eyes, raised to be a killer and hunting lioness named Vitani. A brown-coated cub with neon green eyes named Kovu, his chosen heir to grow up and be King under Zira's teachings no doubt. Taka knew that he had killed their family, so he must find a way to get them back into the Pride Lands, now feeling that determination. Taka has to do some thinking and nabbed Kovu and Vitani away from their "mom" and get them back into the Pride Lands without being seen. He knows to add redeemption within himself he must save them. But Taka will just wait in the shadows, and eventually think of an plan and possibly meet the one who shall help him in his redeemption.

A/N How do you guys think I did with trying to aid in Scar/Taka's survival and redeemption? I have so much plan for Taka at the moment. And I think this story may even be longer then "Two Cubs, Raised Together" because familyship and build-ups are to come and not only for Taka.

And I'm going to try my hardest with the spelling, but there may be a few grammar mistakes throughout this story. Also, since I'm an big fan of Scar/Taka, I would expand on his past from my perspective and why he "truly" turn evil from MY point of view.