Cherry's Adventures of the Lion King: chapter 7

Scar was wandering around and kicked a bone out of place.

"Hey, Uncle Scar, guess what?" Simba smiled to his paternal uncle.

Scar rolled his eyes, deeply scowling. "I despise guessing games..."

"I'm going to be king of Pride Rock." Simba smield rather smugly.

"It's true." Atticus said.

"Oh, goody." Scar sarcastically praised.

"His dad just showed us the whole kingdom." Patch smiled.

"And I'm gonna rule it all," Simba smirked greedily with a light chuckle. "Heheh,..."

"Yes, well, forgive me for not leaping for joy..." Scar muttered, flopping on the side slightly.

"Hey, Uncle Scar, when I'm king, what will that make you?" Simba asked.

"A monkey's uncle..." Scar muttered.

"Heheh, you're so weird." Dot giggled.

You have no idea..." Scar smiled rather strangely, then stood up on all fours. "So, your father showed you the whole kingdom, did he, Simba?"

"Everything." Simba nodded.

"He didn't show you what's beyond the rise of that northern border?" Scar prompted.

"Well... No..." Simba said as he remembered in disappointment. "He said I can't go there. Neither of us can." he then added, referring to his new friends.

"Yeah and where it's so unfair, if he was there when I fought off those three hyenas, he would have totally agreed in letting us go." Atticus said.

"You fought three hyenas?" Scar asked.

"Yeah, I'm a lot stronger than I look." Atticus smiled smugly, he didn't mean to brag, but it was true.

"Trust us, you don't wanna mess with my brother." Darla added with a smile.

"So I see..." Scar glanced to Atticus. "Perhaps Simba, this friend of yours could protect you since it's far too dangerous and only the bravest lions go to the northern border."

"Well, I'm brave," Simba stood tall. "What's out there?"

"No, I'm sorry, Simba, I just can't tell any of you." Scar replied coolly.

"But why can't you tell us?" Atticus asked.

"Oh, I'm just looking out for the well-being of my favorite nephew." Scar said, ruffling the top of Simba's head.

"Yeah, right," Simba chuckled. "I'm your only nephew."

"All the more reason for me to be protective," Scar smiled. "An elephant graveyard is no place for a prince.. Oops!"

"An elephant what!?" Cherry got excited for some reason. "Whoa!"

"Cool." Atticus smiled out of excitement, even if the elephant graveyard sounded like a frightening place to anyone.

Simba even smiled excitedly. Mo was more curious than excited like the others.

"Oh, dear, I've said too much!" Scar put his paw to his head like he was in dismay.

"The elephant graveyard sounds exciting." Patch smiled.

"Well, I'd suppose you'd have have figured it out sooner or later..." Scar saiid as he pulled Simba forward. "Oh, all of you, just do me a favor, promise me you'll never visit that dreadful place."

"Aw..." Cherry pouted.

"Promise me?" Scar repeated.

Simba thought about it a moment before answering. "No problem."

"Yeah, we won't tell a living soul." Atticus said with one paw behind his back.

"There's a good bunch of cubs," Scar smiled and let them go free. "You all run along now and have fun... And remember, it's our little secret."

"Come on, guys, let's go see Nala." Simba said to his new friends before wandering off with his new friends.

"You got it, Simba, let's go see your girlfriend." Patch teased.

"She's not my girlfriend." Simba frowned.

"Whatever you say." Patch said.

"She's just my friend, it's not like I'm gonna grow up and marry her..." Simba rolled his golden eyes, then looked to Atticus and Mo. "You two maybe..."

"Uhhh...." Atticus and Mo looked to each other bashfully, unsure of how to respond to that.

Simba took his friends to where the other lionesses were and he found his best friend with her mother. "Hey, Nala."

"Hey, Simba and the gang..." Nala greeted with a small smile as she was clutched in her mother's paws.

"Come on, we just heard about this great place." Simba invited.

"Guys, I'm kinda in the middle of a bath..." Nala said behind her clenched teeth.

"And it's time for yours." Sarabi, Lucky, and Forte smirked.

The others tried to get away, but they were being licked instantly.

"MOM!" Simba groaned in embarrassment as his mother licked the top of his head.

Sarabi merely smiled in response.

"LUCKY!" Patch groaned in embarrassment as his father figure licked the top of his head. "Lucky, you're messing up my mane!"

Lucky patted him on the head.

Cherry got herself free, glaring up at Forte. "Nobody gave you the right to do that!"

"I just want to make sure my little friend and her friends are okay." Forte said to her.

Cherry scoffed at him. "You are so weird..."

"Anyway, we're clean, can we go now?" Mo groaned.

"So, where are we going?" Nala asked as her mother flipped her on her back. "Better not be anyplace dumb..."

"Don't worry, it's not dumb, it's really cool." Atticus smiled.

"So, where is this 'really cool' place?" Sarabi asked with a smirk.

"Oh, umm... That water hole place..." Darla made up.

The others saw where this was going and agreed, though Nala did not know, so she thought that was stupid.

"The water hole!?" Nala scoffed. "What's so great about the water hole?"

"We'll show you when we get there." Atticus and Simba, telling her through the their teeth.

"Oh..." Nala sensed an idea, then looked to her mother. "Mom, can I go with them?"

"Hmm... What do you all think?" Sarafina asked her fellow 'parents'.

"Well..." Lucky drawled out.

"Please..." Simba and Nala forced grins.

"It's all right with us." Forte agreed.

This made the cubs cheer in excitement about to go.

"As long as Zazu goes with you." Sarabi told them then.

"Nah, not Zazu!" Simba groaned to that.

"Don't worry, Simba, I've got a plan for us to lose Zazu." Atticus whispered.

"Oh?" Simba asked.

"Yeah... You're gonna love it." Atticus chuckled.

Zazu came by eventually to fly the cubs over to the water hole. "Step lively," he told the children. "The sooner we get to the water hole, the sooner we can leave."

"So where are we really going?" Nala asked quietly.

"An elephant graveyard." Patch whispered back.

"Wow!" Nala cheered.

Dot shushed her.

"Zazu..." Simba reminded.

"Right..." Nala remembered, then whispered back. "So, how are we gonna ditch the dodo?"

"Easy, all we have to do is..." Atticus whispered before he began to whisper the whole entire plan to all of them while Zazu flew above.

"Oh, just look at this," Zazu smiled as he decided fly down as Simba, Nala, Atticus, and Mo seemed to be getting rather close. "Little seeds of romance blossoming in the savannah. Your parents will be thrilled what with you being betrothed and all."

"Be-What?" Simba asked.

"Betrothed," Zazu repeated, then used other words to show what he meant. "Intended... Affianced..."

"Ohh, he's saying that one day, the four of us will be getting married." Atticus said before blushing as soon as he understood what the hornbill meant.

"Yuck!" Simba winced.

"Eww." Nala added.

"I can't marry her, she's my friend." Simba said then.

"Yeah, I don't know about Atticus and Mo, but for us, it'd be so weird." Nala added in agreement.

"Well, sorry to bust your bubble, but you two turtledoves don't have a choice, this is a tradition, going back generations." Zazu told them while Simba, Atticus, and Patch were mimicking him.

"Well, when I'm king, that'll be first to go." Simba smiled smugly.

"Not so long as I'm around." Zazu retorted.

"Well, in that case you're fired." Simba smirked again.

"Hmm... Nice try, but only the king can do that." Zazu poked the cub in his nose.

"Well, he is the future king." Atticus told the hornbill.

"Yeah," Simba then shoved Zazu slightly. "So you have to do what I tell you."

"Not yet, I don't!" Zazu glared at the cub. "And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed."

"Ha! Not the way I see it." Simba smirked.

"Me neither." Patch smiled.

"Oh, boy, this is gonna be messy, isn't it?" Cherry slightly rolled her eyes.

"Yes, yes, it is." Mo, Dot, and Darla nodded.

"Oh, boy..." Cherry sighed. "Only Atticus."

Simba stormed toward the blue hornbill. "I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware!"

"Well, I've never seen a king or beast with quite so little hair." Zazu retorted, plucking a hair off of Simba's head where his mane would be.

"I'm gonna be the main event like no king was before," Simba smiled as he popped his head through a pile of leave in a branch to make it look like he had a mane before shaking it off and going straight back to Zazu. "I'm brushing up on looking down, I'm working on my 'ROAR'!"

Zazu flopped into the mud, then wandered blindly, wiping himself with an elephant's ear without noticing it. "Thus far, a rather uninspiring thing."

The elephant glared and struck Zazu across the Savanna, feeling insulted and he passed the water like a skipping stone.

"Oh, I just can't wait to be king!" Simba grinned.

Atticus and Nala decided to add themselves into the song.

"You've rather a long way to go, young master, if you think....." Zazu started before getting interrupted.

"No one say do this." Atticus sang.

"Now, when I said that I--" Zazu tried to explain.

"No one say 'be there'." Mo added.

"What I meant was!" Zazu continued.

"No one say stop that!" Simba added in.

"Look, what you don't realize--" Zazu tried again.

"No one saying 'see here'!" Atticus, Mo, Patch, Simba, and Nala sang in unison before running off.

"NOW SEE HERE!" Zazu yelled out.

"Free to run around all day!" Dot and Darla sang.

"Well, that's definitely out." Zazu scolded, trying to catch up as the cubs were riding on ostriches.

"Free to do it all my way!" Simba added.

Zazu began to catch up with them as he flew past many trees and then was finally in front of the cubs. "I think it's time that you and I arranged the heart to heart." he told Simba before crashing into a rhinocereses's butt.

"Kings don't need advice from little hornbills for a start." Mo retorted.

Zazu flew to a branch that was heading backwards to a waterfall. "If this is where the monarchy is headed, count me out!" he folded his wings. "Out of service, out of Africa, I wouldn't hang about!" he then fell before flying to go after the cubs. "These children are certainly getting out of wing!"

"Oh, I just can't wait to be king!" Simba sang as he went down between zebras with his friends who faced them.

Zazu stormed after, but the zebras turned their backs to him, which made him flinch slightly.

'This is so much fun.' Patch thought to himself.

The cubs were passing by a stomping elephant, being very careful not to get stomped on by the large feet. Zazu was flying ahead of the passing elephants to look for the children, he was a little worried about them now since they could be squished if they weren't too careful.

"Everybody, look left!" Atticus sang, causing a herd of animals to stampede over Zazu.

Zazu screamed as he was quite literally stepped on.

"Everybody look right!" Mo added.

The animals went the other way.

"Everywhere you look," Simba slid down a giraffe's neck. "I'm standing in the spotlight!"

"NOT YET!" Zazu snapped before the animals he stood beside squashed him.

Atticus began to whisper to a hippo, who passed it on to a giraffe, who passed it on to a monkey. Zazu straightened himself out before the monkeys flung the poor bird in the air and started to treat him for fleas, much to his mild annoyance. Hippos, anteaters, giraffes, and more started to form a pyramid with the cubs as Simba sang about not being able to wait about becoming king. And where it was all going great, but then the pyramid began to feel like it was about to fall. The animals were in distress.

"Guys, this way!" Cherry whispered to the others so they could get out of the way before they could get seriously hurt.

All of the cubs then ran off before all of the animals could pile on top of them. Unfortunately, Zazu was not so lucky and a rhino had fallen on top of him as the other animals scurried away.