by KingKovu44 » January 26th, 2011, 10:03 pm
"NO!!!" Simba shouted as he watched Mufasa fall and disappear from view. Finally, the stampede ended. Simba made his way down the cliff into the gorge and began to look for his father. "Dad?" he shouted. There was no response. Simba called out again, with the same result. Suddenly, a stray wildebeest ran past the dead tree he had been on. Suddenly, he saw a lion's corpse on the ground. It was his father. He went over to it. "Dad? Dad, you gotta get up. Dad, we gotta go home," Simba said. When Mufasa didn't respond, the cub began to realize what had happened. He called for help, and then began to cry. He got under Mufasa's paw. In so much distress was he that he didn't notice Scar and Zira behind him. Scar then spoke. "Simba, what have you done?" he asked. Simba looked at his uncle. “There were wildebeests and he tried to save me... it was an accident, I... I didn't mean for it to happen,” the cub said through his tears. Scar pulled him close. “Of course, of course you didn't. No one...ever means for these things to happen...But the king is dead. And if it weren't for you, he'd still be alive,” he replied. Just then, Scar thought of something. "Oh! What will your mother think?" the murderer asked. “What am I going to do?” Simba asked. “Run away, Simba. Run... Run away and never return,” Scar replied. And so, Simba ran off. However, Scar’s statements just didn’t feel right. How could he have caused his father’s death? It was in that moment, as he was climbing out of the gorge, that he decided that he would run back to Pride Rock and tell his mother everything. Back in the gorge, the hyenas had arrived and had seen him run off. “Do you want us to go and kill him?” Shenzi asked. “No. Forget him. Let him die of exposure,” Scar replied. He then turned to Zira. "And now, Zira, your future. As my first act as king, I declare you my queen," he stated.