The Circle Of Life PartVI The Lion,The Hyena and the Gazelle

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This is Part VI of The Circle Of Life series thanks for all the support so far.
And if you’re reading this.
Yes, this is as good as part III The Truth

Hope you enjoy.
Warning
Contains some very emotional scenes and has some scenes of violence which might upset, be cautious!

Chapter I The Pazzi Conspiracy

It was dark. The cave was cold and had a sort of forbidding presence around it. Inside the cave were a number of animals gathered in a circle.
There was a hyena, with an intelligent aura around him.
There was a gazelle. His horns now smeared in crimson paint. The life force of someone who had got in his way.
A lioness, old but still strong, brutal and intellectual.
There was another lion. He looked a lot like Simba but less well built and a less muscular face. He was pious but followed his faith in a sinful way. Not knowing he was a puppet of a higher evil.
He had a cross round his neck which was held with zebra hair. The token of the time he had nearly caught a fast politician.
But at the top of the circle was the most evil of them all.
His mane was stained with his sin. As if his mane had been blackened by the acts he committed.
But still his fur was golden. Proud of his activities. His golden fur and his black mane made him seem like a fallen angel.
Suddenly the lion started to speak.
“I’m glad you all decided to attend. Zira, Judas de Pazzi, Savonarola. The animals nodded as their name was called. Then the lion turned on the hyena and smiled.
“Banzai.” He said
Banzai ignored the taunt.
“Bid my time.” He thought.
“Now.” The lion continued.
“The plan has come into formation though I am still keeping my plan with Savonarola.”
“Why Msalti.” Cried Zira in anger. “Do you not think we’ll get the job done?”
Savonarola started to play with the coconut, the ace in the hole for Msalti. He kept rolling it back and forth like a cricket ball.
“I want to make sure.” He said sternly. “I want to make sure there is no chance in the very unlikely circumstance that we fail which you clearly didn’t show when you invaded the pride lands.”
Zira looked angry but knew he was right.
“Now let me go thought the plan again which was nicely thought out by Judas de Pazzi.” Judas smiled.
Savonarola stared at him.
“Doesn’t think I’d get it right did you I’ll show you.” He thought.
“I will be giving Simba the potion made by the witch doctor. While I’m doing this yet again thanks to Judas’s political arrangement Kiara, Kovu, Vitani and Zazu will be going on a diplomatic mission, then Zira will take the target.”
Zira smiled. She wanted revenge on her foolish, disrespectful children.
But Banzai had concerns.
“Why haven’t you told us who the witch doctor is?”
Msalti answered quickly in a sly voice as if he was talking to a cub.
“Because I might not be able to trust you Banzai, repeat why again I might not be able to trust you.”
Banzai replied in an angry but calm voice.
“Because you killed my son.”
“Good, let’s continue.”
Banzai felt like crying over his son.
He had been married to Shenzi when the empire was beginning, but Shenzi died in child birth and while his son had been playing Msalti had killed him so he could control Banzai.
But Banzai didn’t let it show.
“After this Banzai shall lead the remaining hyena military forces into the pride lands, as I remember to fight an old friend of yours.”
Banzai smiled.
Mheetu and Banzai fighting against each other once again.
Now Judas had concerns about his own plan.
“But what about Karma.” He said, he hated Karma de Medici and wanted to kill him, hate burned in his eyes. “We should kill him, and how are you going to get the potion to Simba. Mheetu knows who you are.”
Msalti smiled.
“There is corruption everywhere Judas, even in Simba’s rank, they’ll be someone who will give Simba the potion in exchange for a slab of meat, as for Karma, we will deal with him later, and then I will give you the pleasure of killing him.”
Judas smiled again.
“Now ready yourselves, tomorrow Simba’s pride will be destroyed.”
Everyone cheered.
But Banzai wasn’t in it.
He respected Simba and even some what, liked him.

Chapter II A Drink For A Drink

Reth was bored. He had spent all the food he had on girls and drink and had nothing left.
Sometimes Reth envied his brother Zazu.
He had his mothers pride and a job and everything. But Reth never let it show.
Reth sat next to the savannah tree in the shade from the still hot autumn sun.
He then saw a lion.
Its mane was black but its fur was golden. And it was coming towards him.
“Bloody foreigners.” He thought.
But soon the lion was next to him and staring down on the pitiful hornbill.
“Why you look thirsty.” The lion said with fake sympathy. “Would you do something for me in exchange for a drink?”
Reth opened one of eyes.
This is interesting.
“Depends how much of the drink it is.”
The lion smiled.
“Got the fool.” He thought.
“Eight coconuts halves full of fermented fruit juice.”
Reth got up. He was very interested.
“And what do you want me to do.”
“Please take this coconut to King Simba to drink the milk from to show how my pride wants to engage in diplomatic negotiations.”
Reth was too blind with greed to listen.
“Fine I’ll go I’ll go.” Reth took the coconut out of the lions paw and began rolling it to Pride Rock.
Msalti smiled.
“I’ve done it.” He thought.

Reth eventually reached Pride Rock. He was thirsty by then and very tired.
“I better get those drinks with a seven beautiful hornbills.” He thought.
Simba was strolling down Pride Rock when he saw Reth. He soon rushed to his side.
“Are you okay Reth.”
Reth got his breath.
“Yes, some lion wanted you to have this coconut for some diplomatic rubbish or something.”
Simba was curious.
“A diplomatic gift, how wonderful.” He strolled back into Pride Rock.
In the distance Msalti started grinning.
“Oh not long now, I must get into the cave to prepare the spell.”

Nala was smiling at Simba.
“Really a diplomatic gift from another Pride.”
“Yes that's what I thought, we’ll it would be rude not to enjoy it.”
He cracked open the coconut with his claws then gestured to Nala.
“No thank you.” She said shaking her head. “I’m not thirsty.”
Simba shrugged and drank the milk.
It tasted odd. Kind of like there were sparks in it.
Suddenly Simba eyes started to go blank.
“I don’t feel good, I feel tired.” Then Simba collapsed.
Nala ran to his side in panic and grasped his head.
“Simba, what’s wrong, wake up. Simba wake up.”
But Simba wouldn’t wake up.
But Nala kept trying.
Simba was still breathing, he wasn’t dead. But he wouldn’t wake up either.

Chapter III Through The Looking Glass

Simba opened his eyes. He was awake but he wasn’t in Pride Rock. He was in somewhere dark. Occasionally he would see strange texts in a kind of gold.
Soon he started hearing voices saying random words. But a few stood out.
“Simba, Nala, Kiara and Kovu are gone. Where are you?” After this Simba closed his eyes and opened them again. He was in a white room.
Nothing was in it. It was just a sort of white space.
Then he saw a lion stepping towards him.
“Hello Simba.”
Simba stared at the lion. It was some sort of hybrid. A lion with a black mane but gold fur.
“Mheetu talked about you, you killed Tojo.”
“Yes I did, but not in this world, welcome Simba, to the empty space in your mind. You can’t kill me or anything but I can do something to you based on your decisions now.”
“What do you mean?” said Simba aggressively.
“Right now Zira is going to kidnap one of four of your friends. One is your daughter Kiara.” As he said the name a sort of hologram of Kiara appeared.
Simba started to look confused as he stared at her stomach. It was swollen and her milk production areas were swollen to.
“Yes.” The lion said. “She is pregnant, the child of Kovu, who may I add had sex with her while he was in exile.”
But Simba didn’t care, he respected Kovu and forgave him of his mistakes, and it wasn’t a mistake he loved Kiara not from his permission.
“Then it’s Kovu, then Vitani and your major domo Zazu. Now you must pick which one Zira has captured but I will warn you, if you get it wrong, you will wake up but insane for the rest of your life.”
Simba started to think. “Which one would she take, Kovu and Vitani had betrayed her and Zazu had warned of the outlander approach.” Simba thought furiously. “No she would choose Kiara, it was because of her Kovu betrayed her and because of her that Vitani turned on her, she would take Kiara.”
“Kiara.” Simba said with no doubt in his voice.
Msalti smiled, his ace in the hole had worked.
He had instructed Zira to take two. Now Simba would be mad forever and without his leadership the pride lands were doomed.
But the white world was splitting up.
Collapsing like brick work.
“No this isn’t possible, I won”
Simba smiled.
“Zira failed to take two, I win.”
“What noooooooo.”
The world collapsed and Simba woke up. To find his face underwater.
“Wake up.” Nala was wailing. Her eyes full of tears.
Simba forced himself out of her grip and hugged her.
“I’m awake Nala, I’m awake.”

Msalti was catapulted against the wall. He gingerly got up; magic could be painful if it back fired.
Msalti looked up and smiled.
“Still,” he thought. “They can’t stop us, it’s too late.”

Chapter IV The Butterfly Lion

Kovu work up. His head hurt. His vision was blurred. He could see two lines of terrain. One was golden, the other was brown.
“I fell asleep on the border, at least Kiara is here.”
Then Kovu really woke up.
His head spun around in as he looked around in panic.
“Forget it she’s not here.” Kovu looked round to see a lioness.
She was a white lion, she had beautiful blue eyes. Like the sea.
But Kovu didn’t have time to stare in amazement; he stared around at the unconscious bodies around him.
Kiara wasn’t there, Zazu was starting wake up and Vitani was not fully awake but she had her head on her paws trying to get her thoughts to work in her throbbing head.
“Who are you and what happened.” Kovu asked, his head still hurting, but not as much as his throbbing heart.
“My name is Zaraz, you were attacked by an outsider, and she was old and fought with a lot of hatred.”
Immediately Kovu knew who it was.
“She came with four hyenas that dragged of the pride Lander, she tried to get the other two to take you as well but I came here just in time and fought her off.”
Kovu got up on his feet.
Fighting the urge to vomit and lose balance.
“Thank you for your help do you know were they went.”
“They went south, I’m not totally sure where.”
“Then I must go.” Kovu tried to walk but fell on the floor.
“Not in this state, you stay here and recover until help comes.”
“But the scent will be gone by then.”
Then Zaraz got on the floor and stared into Kovu’s eyes.
Kovu stared at hers.
They were so beautiful; they glistened and sparkled as the sun went across the sea.
“I will find them trust me.” Kovu felt odd, he felt as if he loved Zaraz. But he didn’t he just could feel a loving bonding friendship between Zaraz.
Kovu nodded and lay back. Zaraz would lick him and snuggle next to him to comfort him. She didn’t love him but wanted to comfort Kovu as if she was Kiara. She would leave from time to time to check the others.
Zazu was the least injured and was able to walk much sooner then the others.
Mostly because Zira had hit Vitani and Kovu with such hatred.
Zaraz was soon lying next to Vitani.
“Are you ok.” She said.
Vitani started crying.
“I’m not in that much in pain but I’ve let my brother down, I let them take Kiara.”
“Shush shush shush shush, its not your fault, she came by surprise, there was no way you could of fought her.”
Vitani nodded and smiled.
Zaraz licked her.
Vitani thought she was the kind of mother she had never had.

Soon Kopa and Nala arrived.
News of the attack had spread over the pride lands like wildfire.
Kopa went straight to Vitani and hugged her.
Glad that she was alright.
Nala stared at Zaraz.
The oceans connecting as they stared.
Then Nala stared at Kopa and Vitani.
Nala and Vitani had been rivals because she had believed that Kopa was dead and believed it had been Vitani’s fault and had learned to hate her.
But knowing she didn’t changed everything. Soon she asked.
“Where’s Kiara?”

Chapter V Welcome To Hell

Kiara woke up. She was in a cave and she couldn’t see.
She tried to move her legs but she couldn’t.
They were tied with something. It appeared to be rope. Zira must have got into Robert’s bag.
Suddenly there was light. There was a weak part of the cave and someone had hit it letting in the precious sun light. Kiara’s head was swimming.
She was woken up by a slap to the face.
She moved her head to the middle again, squinting she faced her captor.
“Hello Kiara.” Zira said.
Kiara looked up at her.
Zira still had cuts and bruises from her travel down the river. And it had not helped her sanity.
“Well if are little queen is on her own, you’re a courtesan Kiara a stupid courtesan.”
Kiara was then hit again.
“What do you want Zira.” She said.
“I want you to experience the pain I’ve felt over the past years because of you and your father.” Then she had a brutal smile as she smiled at Kiara’s stomach.
“Well I see your expecting a child, the child of my unloyal son Kovu. That’s good.”
She then hit Kiara with force in the stomach.
Kiara howled in pain.
And Zira loved it. She loved every bit of her sadistic pleasure.
She pounced on Kiara and had her on her back; she then repeatedly slapped Kiara’s stomach occasionally with her sick humour saying
“Keep breathing,” or “Good girl.”
When she finally let go Kiara was writhing in pain and crying.
“Oh the baby’s crying is she? Oh shut up.” Zira then got some leaves in the corner and tied them around her mouth so she couldn't talk.
Then as the sun left the hole and darkness came, Zira walked to the mouth of the room which was apart of a large cave.
“Good night.” She said in a fake voice.
She then rolled the large rock in front of the cave mouth while Kiara was softly crying.
She didn’t sleep and just stared at the hole in the roof and cried.
“I miss Kovu were is he, why is she doing this to me, the baby’s kicking.”
She felt so sad, lonely and in pain.
Then from the hole in the roof fire flies came through flickered near Kiara to comfort her.
To cheer her up they seemed to go in her paws reach and let her see if she could catch them.
When she eventually cried her self to sleep, Zira too went to sleep. Instead of listening to Kiara’s sobs.
And so ended Kiara’s first day in hell.

Chapter VI Mheetu’s Plan

Everyone seemed to be in Pride Rock.
They just lay their in the cave.
The shock of it had them just lying there and staring.
Finally Mpenzi decided to speak.
“I have been running for years so I think I should make it up to you by standing with you in these dark times.”
Sarafina looked at him and smiled.
“He truly is sorry.” She thought.
Encouraged by his father Mheetu decided he should say something.
“Banzai will close in on us with an army in a day, we have to do something.”
Simba stared at Mheetu.
“With what army, Mheetu.”
Suddenly Mheetu stood up and walked over to Simba.
“Give me the authority, the food and the time and I’ll get you your army.”
“How much time.” He said curiously.
“A day.”
“Go then.” Mheetu bowed then left.
“What about Kiara.” Kovu said defiant. “Why have we not sent a search party after her?”
“We have Kovu, it was Zaraz idea to find her, and she’s leading the search.” Nala said.
Her eyes were red, she had been crying about it all day.
Tears sprang to his eyes.
“I need to take a walk.” He then quickly left. Nala was about to go with him but Simba stopped her.
“He needs time alone, and we need time alone.”
Nala then lay on Simba and wet his coat of fur with her silent tears.
“We’ll find her.” He said.

Chapter VII Forever Autumn

Kovu started crying as he walked. He watched the new comers who had fled from other countries to escape the cold settle in the trees.
He then found the point he was looking for.
It was a pond, the pond he had found he was one with Kiara and the place they had embraced their love.
He found the exact were they had mated. He smiled as he remembered their love.
His memory replaying every single detail.
Autumn would be his favourite season. It was the season he had learned to love Kiara. He strolled down to the battle field that had decided to end the hatred between the two prides.
He then stared down at the dam.
If only Zira had died in the flood.
He knew it was a sick thought.
Wishing his mothers death. But he couldn’t stop the feeling. Because of her this was happening. Because of her she was not here.Kovu shivered in the winds. He had never felt the cold before. Now he knew why. He had always been around people he had loved. Now he was on his own.
“Why do I feel the cold?”
“Because you’re not here.” He said finally. Lying on the ground.
In a cave to the south of the outlands. Kiara was feeling the same way.

As Kovu lay there he saw a bright light. He couldn’t see for a few seconds as it blinded him. When he opened his eyes again he saw a lamb.
Its fleece was as white as snow, whiter then it could ever be. And its eyes were glowing with a divine white light.
“Follow me.” The lamb said.
Kovu hypnotised followed the lamb, even as the day kissed goodnight to the moon Kovu never got tired.
When they finally reached the outside of a cave Kovu, exhausted from sudden fatigue collapsed and the lamb disappeared.

Chapter VIII Under African Skies

Zaraz was relentlessly continuing the search. Night was falling and her friends were getting tired.
Even Zaraz was sad. She looked up the sky.
“Please guide me great kings and queens, you gave me the gift to talk to you, please help us.”
Zaraz could talk to the people in the sky.
Before she had become a drifter her mother had said while she was pregnant with her and her brother that a lamb had come to her and said that they would have a gift from God that would help the Pride Lands.
Zaraz hadn’t seen her brother in weeks.
They’d seen each other last by a waterhole at night. Under the beautiful African skies.
He had blood on him. Her brother was a killer. But if there was a good way to kill it was.
He killed people who caused harm to others. He was called Shahidi, after Ahadi’s father.
He had said the Kings had given him work in the Pride Lands. Zaraz had been shocked but he assured her it wasn’t any of the royal family. He then left as soon as he had come.
Zaraz missed him, but continued her search for Kiara.
One of the lions she was with called Richard spotted something.
“Look.” He said “The tree is bending and pointing the way.”
Everyone looked and saw this was true. The tree was bending south.
“Go.” Zaraz cried. “We can get there by midnight.”
And so the searchers ran in search of Kiara.

Chapter IX Recruitment

Mheetu set up animals wherever he could.
His plan was genius. He would have an army in hours.
His plan was simple. Male lions were kicked out of prides all the time. Mheetu ordered people to promise them food and shelter in exchange for Military service. He got these lions to met Mheetu and get them into position. Then after Banzai was defeated he could arrange them into a police force. Karma de Medici though had other ideas.
As the army assembled Karma complained to Mheetu.
“How we supposed to feed them, we can’t manage the amount of dead animals that get eaten, the amount of wildebeest hunted to feed this lot.”
“We need this army Karma, we can talk politics later but first we need an army.”
Karma couldn’t argue and left.
“Yes.” He thought. “We will talk politics later and you will see the error of your ways Mheetu.”
Banzai watched in amazement of the army. It was beautiful to him. The discipline, the speed of the army’s deployment, and how clever Mheetu’s plan was.
He gestured to the hyena next to him.
“Go to there base, arrange for us to meet in the valley. That is were we will fight.”
The hyena nodded and left.
Banzai smirked.
“I can’t wait for are battle Mheetu.” He thought.
Mheetu and Banzai both saw the Beauty underneath Military skill.

Chapter X Zaraz The Ladder

Zaraz got to the cave. And saw Kovu sleeping next to it.
Puzzled Zaraz woke him up.
“What are you doing here?” She hissed though she was pleased to see him.
“I followed a lamb here.”
Zaraz got even more puzzled.
“What lamb?”
“A lamb.” Kovu said. “Told me to follow it and even though it took hours I never got tired, when I got here I collapsed and the lamb disappeared.”
Zaraz smiled. “Looks like the lamb guides more then just me.”
Before they could speak they heard a muffled voice.
“Where’s it coming from.” Richard said.
The lions looked around and saw a hole in the cave.
Zaraz let Kovu stand on her back and fell on her face when Kovu jumped and shouted.
“It’s Kiara.”
Zaraz after getting up and scolding the giggling lions prepared everyone.
“I think only Zira is in there but still be careful.”
Slowly they stepped towards the cave and walked inside.

Chapter XI A Mother Son….. Thing

Richard was attacked when he got inside by a hyena but he slapped it off him like a mosquito.
The other hyenas were taken out very quickly.
Zira was woken up by the racket. And wasn’t very pleased to see Kovu staring at her.
“Hello mother.” He growled.
“Hello son.” She said.

The lions kept Zira under guard while Kovu opened Kiara’s cave. Love gave him the strength to roll the boulder in less then a second.
Kiara tried to call out in joy but the leaves stopped her. Kovu ran to her and hugged her.
He licked her wounds and cut her harsh bindings. He would question how Zira got Robert’s rope later.
They hugged and cried for what seemed like an eternity in relief.
Zaraz smiled, Zira was less happy.
“Putana.” She muttered.
When the lovers had finished the lions picked up the unconscious hyenas and prepared their long trek home.
Zira had other ideas though.
“You won’t win, I am Scar’s martyr, I will escape you and kill every single one of you.”
Kiara finally broke.
“Shut up for god sake you’ve said enough.” She ran up to Zira and hit her hard in the face.
The other lions stared in amazement. Kovu was the first to recoil and smiled and winked.
“I guess that’s another I have to carry.” Grumbled Richard as he put Zira on his back.
They began there long journey home with the two lover frolicking and playing.
Zaraz hadn’t felt so happy in months.

Chapter XII Mheetu The Lion Heart

The animals lined up in there formations. Mheetu had positioned all his strong lions in the middle and positioned lions he nicknamed “bee throwers” at the left and right flank. The lions played with the bee hives they held in their paws. They had caked themselves in mud to protect themselves from the bees.
Mheetu stood at the back of his army. He was about to go to the front when he was confronted.
It was Kopa.
“Mheetu I want to fight, I understand why you interrogated me and I forgive you.”
Mheetu smiled. He knew they had a strong friendship. It felt odd calling him a nephew.
“Fight with me then.” Mheetu called and walked with him to the middle.
Simba, Mpenzi, Sarafina, Sarabi and Nala all planned to fight.
Though Sarabi was old, her determination made her as strong as any of the other ones.

Banzai looked at his opposition. They were much better organized. Banzai shrugged.
“Numbers would help and if I lose its not my fault it’s that stupid Ed who insisted they should be trained from teens not childhood.”But Banzai didn’t necessarily want to win the battle.
He wanted to beat Mheetu.
He walked to the front of his troops. His army made Mheetu’s look life a tadpole but Banzai knew this tadpole could bite.
“Ready.” Banzai shouted. He looked at Mheetu in the distance and nodded.
Everyone was anticipating to run like an Olympic sprint.
Mheetu nodded back.
“Charge.” He screamed and then hyenas and the lions charged at each other.
Each baying for blood.
The lions then suddenly stopped to let the other ones throw their bees.
After a few of the hyenas fell, riving in pain the lions completely charged at them.
When the bee throwers ran out of hives Mheetu cried to them.
“Fight them; kill them with whatever you can find.”

The battle grew incredibly fierce. Mheetu had been knocked down. As he got up he stared round him.
Everywhere there was fighting. To his right he could see Simba and Nala teaming up on five hyenas. To his left he saw Sarafina, Mpenzi and Sarabi beating back twice as many.
But when Mheetu looked forward he saw Banzai.
He beating down a lion and was about to kill him. To his horror he saw it was Kopa.
In rage he ran at Banzai.
Banzai was standing over Kopa. Kopa was tired and beaten. Banzai was laughing his victim.
“It’s time for me to finish the job I planned to finish years ago.” He was to kill him when Mheetu gripped him.
Kopa too tired to help lay there and watched. And it was a sort of flash back.
Mheetu was standing on his hind legs and so was Banzai trying to dig each others paws into each others faces.
Seeing there was no winning. They threw each other off.
Tired they walked round in a circle like a kind of dance. Banzai nodded and Mheetu charged at him. Banzai countered this and got him on the floor but Mheetu kicked him off.
Just when Mheetu was going to charge again a hyena that was running from a lion knocked Mheetu over. Laughing Banzai ran over to him.
“So you thought you could win, well fortuna has saved me. I have won.”
Before he could kill Mheetu, Simba seeing the situation ran over and pounced on Banzai and pinned him down.
Simba put his foot on his Banzai’s throat. Silence was approaching as the battle around them died.
The defeated hyenas and the victorious lions all stared at them, hypnotised like parents at their children’s plays.
Simba broke the silence.
“Should I kill him?”
Mheetu looked at Banzai.
He looked in his eyes and he saw something. He saw good, he saw that Banzai was a good person but he himself had been a puppet of fate.
Before Mheetu could speak Simba let his foot of his throat.
“Go.” He said. “Come back when you’ve changed.”
Banzai got up and stared at Simba and even questioned him.
“But I’m your enemy, I threatened you’re kingdom. You defeated me you have the right to kill me.”
“And I choose not to take it. Go.”
Banzai look puzzled. He grew very confused.
“Simba isn’t good, why would he let me live, I’ve been trying to defeat him for years and he was actually good.”
Banzai soon ran from the valley.
Simba looked at the quivering hyenas.
“Keep them here. I will decide what to do with the them; I forbid any of you from killing them.”
The soldiers looked disappointed. The hyenas were thankful for Simba’s chivalry. One hyena, a pious hyena who had eavesdropped on Robert’s bible readings went up to Simba. He bowed.
“My name is Salviati and I thank you for letting me live.”
Simba smiled.
“A king must be kind as he is strong, go to your relatives here and sleep with them for the night, your new home is being decided.”
Salviati left happy and went back to the hyenas who congratulated him on his bravely.
On top of the valley Karma de Medici was angry.
“How are we supposed to feed the soldiers and the hyenas?” He thought.

Chapter XIII Banzai’s Attempt

Banzai walked aimlessly around the top of the valley.
“Why had Simba let him live, it was his right to kill me.”
Banzai couldn’t take it. He couldn’t take that he had been fighting something that was good for years. He was being driven mad.
He stared into the valley. His madness was making it look like a black void. Of a world that couldn’t hold Banzai anymore.
“I’ll escape now from this world, from the world of Simba.” He shouted.
He stood at the edge of the valley and prepared for what he was going to do.
Mheetu, who had been searching for him, saw Banzai by the edge of the valley.
“No.” He screamed but it was too late. Banzai jumped of the edge into the valley below.

Chapter XIV Savonarola Frollo

Savonarola stared at Kiara as she walked back to the Outsider city of Zirarra with Zira in tow.
He hated her, she was evil, and she was sinful.
But still Savonarola felt something.
“No.” He thought. “It can’t be love.”
But it was. And he knew it. Kiara’s beauty had won his heart.
“Who cares.” Thought Savonarola greedily. “The potion won’t kill her, it will just kill the child of that stupid Kovu, then I’ll kill him and Kiara will be mine."
Savonarola was soon taken into madness by his wanting of Kiara.
He traded his piety for lust. As he played with the poisonous coconut.

Chapter XV Let’s Give Peace A Chance

Banzai woke up. His back was sore and something was sniffing him. He got up in shock when he realised it was a wildebeest.
Most animals hated wildebeest. They weren’t apart of any kingdom so they were the only animal that the carnivores were allowed to hunt and abided by no rules.
The pride lands hated them a bit more though due to Mufasa’s death.
“Don’t worry.” The wildebeest said. “Help is here.”
Suddenly he saw Karma de Medici standing over him.
“Come with me.” He said.
And Banzai followed.

At Pride Rock a festival was happening celebrating the victory and Karma to increase his popularity wanted to make himself look like Banzai’s supporter and that he’d always believed Banzai was good.
He arranged the animals into a row and made a sort of narrow road for Banzai to travel down.
As Banzai painfully walked down, Karma started to get the animals to sing.
As Banzai walked up the path he saw Mheetu standing next to Simba and Nala. When Banzai reached the end of the animal made road.
Banzai his eyes filled with tears and honour bowed to Simba who put his paw on his shoulder.
Banzai then got up to surprisingly be hugged by Mheetu.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do with this army.” He whispered in Banzai ear.
Banzai smiled.
Soon the Kingdom was taken in celebrations.
In the background Msalti turned his face in rage and walked away.
Dripping blood as he went.

Chapter XVI Tama Girl

Tama was in a cave. A cave which was an animal bar.
Animals would come here and trade fruit, meat and other things for fermented fruit juice. But Tama wasn’t here for a drink. He was here for revenge he had been planning for years. To get his lost love. Nala.
He gestured to the inn keeper. The inn was called Hakuna Matata.
And the inn keeper was a familiar meerkat.
“Where is the girl.” He said.
“She’s coming soon.” Timon said. “Why got to get somewhere.”
“No I’ve got all the time in the world.”
“And so will Nala very soon.” He thought

Musical Inspiration.
Chapter XV was inspired by John Lennon’s let’s give peace a chance.
Chapter XIV Was inspired by the song Hell Fire
Chapter XIII Was inspired by Javerts suicide from Les Miserables
Chapter XII Was inspired by the Beatles song Within you And Without you.
Chapter IX Was Inspired by the song The Beauty Underneath from Love Never Dies
Chapter VIII was inspired by the Song Under African Skies from the album Graceland
Chapter VII Was inspired by the Song Forever Autumn

Character basis
Msalti being honest is really just a really evil character I thought up though he does have some inspiration from the phantom of the Opera, Jack The Ripper and Wormtongue from Lord Of The Rings.
Banzai’s intelligent character came from an idea based on the character Sejanous from Spartan Total Warrior but I developed him more like Javert from Les Miserables but still keeping that Roman imperial character. He was also slightly based on Cesare Borgia which you can see from his battle with Mheetu.
Savonarola Arson is based on Girolomo Savonarola but is character develops into more like Head Judge Frollo from the Hunch Back of Notre Dame film.
Zaraz is based on a lion Role player of Facebook. Though her appearance is based more on Mheetu’s fabled white lion appearance.
Sorry this being so long.
Translations
Fortuna means fate
Portuana means courtesan.

Hope you enjoyed this.