Written by Saila-Maija Sutela
saila@sutela.net
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All charecters in this fictional Lionking based story are (c) Disney.
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In Zimbabwe, in the morning of 16th August in unknown year Taka the lion was borned. He was named after a Swashilian word meant "rubbish". Giving birth was long, painful hard and bloody process, one of the difficultest that a feemale lion can have. They actually say that Uru, the mother got never entirely over that shock and fear what she was experiencing. But nevertheless, she still spent some happy moments with her cub during her short life. At the first years of little Taka's life weren't quite happy. He never had any close realtionship with his father Ahadi. "My father was very strick and he raised me and my brother in old and traditional way. We were a royal family and now I maybe can understand why he needed to be so strick and maybe cruel to me, but as a cub I just hated him for everything; especially that discipline what he had above me," Taka lately said. He also hated his older brother Prince Mufasa for being the first in everything. "Once he was going to be a king and I knew it so damn well that I couldn't even sleep in the same cave with him. I hated him so much because I lived all my cubhood under his shadow," Taka remarked. But that was more than a half true: Mufasa was the father's favourite cub and Ahadi actually treated Taka like his name: as a piece of rubbish. When Mufasa was taughed how to hunt and be a rightful king Taka was still fighting with his own personal promblems; feeling misunderstood and abandonmented. " I couldn't live like that in my family anymore; I wasn't a wanted cub, I was an accident and I felt like I couldn't ever be loved in the same way than Mufasa, that gave me a feeling that I needed to escape" Taka told. So he left his home and finally after couple days of wandering in the desert he met three hyenas; Banzai, Shenzi and Ed. "They made me a really big impression, they showed me a whole new lifestyle. They knew how to have fun in vulgarian way and I felt like I'd be in home there. Hyenas weren't smart; but they were very reliable and passionate and I had never seen so much energy or wildness or anything like that before," Taka remembered happily. After he returned home he stardet to meet the hyenas regulary in their home: The Elephant's Graveyard. When Taka was middle of his teenhood their family seddled in Pride Lands, so Ahadi would take his place as a king of that quiet piece of land. Ahadi made his work well; first he and his son Mufasa killed all the newborn cubs of the native lionesses' so they wouldn't have any future resists in Ahadi's way of become a leader or new land and pride. The small native pride of lionesses accepted Ahadi as their new king without any larger refusals. Just couple months later Taka's and Mufasa's mother the queen Uru dies because of a tropical disease. "That broke my heart, mother was the only lion who ever said that I was special and I was going to something one day. She supported me as an only animal in the world, " Taka said. He was totally feeling emotinally as a looser and was about to commit a suicide when the love of his life saved him: "I was all the time depressed and then I met Sarabi; she just walked to the waterhole one mornign and I fell in love with her and just when I first saw her I.... well, that's it. That was very simple, " Taka laughed. Lions had a passionate realtionship for couple mohts but their happiness didn't last long: Ahadi stole Sarabi from Taka and gave the lioness to Mufasa as a queen. That naturally made Taka very disappointment and heartbroken. " I was suprised when Ahadi came to my parents' home and talked with them. I didn't realize what was going on and then suddenly I was standing next to Prince Mufasa and I was going to be a next queen. It happened so fast I never got chance to kiss Taka goodbye. I just buried him in my heart and pretended like he was dead or something," young Sarabi told. But some days later after her wedding with Mufasa she saw Taka on the waterhole. "He was angry but he still loved me that was for sure. He tried to mate with me once again but I told it was wrong and I slapped him and we fought." Sarabi said. Her paw's stroke gave Taka a scar what woudn't never leave away. The scar what he had would be there as long as he lived.

"Everybody started to call me Scar, because of this lil' mark across my eye. I liked that name and it matches with my personality as well I think. So I kept it.... and at least it didn't mean `rubbish«!!!" Taka said about his scar. So now on he would be called as Scar and that would be perfectly fine with him. One thing still crashed his world during his late teenhood: The news that Sarabi and Mufasa were accepting a cub! Scar became mad and jealous; he spend his days by shouthing to his brother and his father. The family friends told lately that "he could kill somebody!". When the little "hairball" finally borned in 4th of May Scar was furious. He's obsession to be a king was now even bigger: "I coudn't accept that there was somebody who would make my plans to be a king even more difficult: before there had been just Mufasa and then me after him, but now there was some cub between us," Scar told. Somedays after little cub was borned Ahadi dies. "Scar reacted at the same way to his father's death and to his nephew's birth: he just wasn't interested," told Sarafina, the close friend of the royal family. Scar started to be obsessed with Simba, the newborn cub, Scar decided that Simba needed to be killed. "He first made a plan in the middle of October I remember. It was very incredible how he used his brains and talents; he was so close to be genious and so close to be a totally madman," Shenzi, one of the good hyena friend of Scar told. Scar's plan was to get Simba to go to the Elephant's Graveyard what was the home of the hyenas. Scar had commanded hyenas to kill the cub as soon as they saw him. "It was the perfect way to get rid of Simba. I didn't literally hate him, he was a nice cub but far too selfish to ever be a good king. So because of that too I needed to make a 'favour' to Pridelands... also I had personals promblems with Simba, he's terrible egoistic behaivor would drive me crazy sooner or later," Scar lately said. Scar was also too jealous to let anyone on his way to be a king.

But unfortunately Mufasa saved the cub from hyenas, and Scar needed to make another plan. The plan where Mufasa and Simba would be both killed. "It was a bright morinig he went to bottom the great canyon with Simba. He said the cub that Mufasa had a suprise for his son and told Simba to wait in the canyon while Scar would go to Pridelands to get Mufasa. Scar left Simba down in the canyon and told usto scare the big pack of antilops who were pasturing on the field just above the canyon. At the same time when the antiloops where running towards little Simba Scar finally found Mufasa and told him that Simba would be in terrible danger. Mufasa rushed down the canyon and saved his cub from the antiloops but at the same he fell back to bottom of the canyon again. When he tried to save himself by climbing of a rocky wall Scar dropped him off and he fell back among the antiloops who crushed him and he died. Later Scar told Simba that the death of Mufasa was the cub's fault and hound him out the Pridelands," One of the hyenas, Banzai explained.

"And so started Scar's period of power. He let all us hyenas to go Pridelands. There were thousands of hyenas and he, like, let us do whatever we wanted to. So we just ate and ate and we hunted just for joy... it was the months for real fun!!" Banzai reminisced. "He treated me like a slave. I had been a queen and now I was just a widowed lioness who had lost her son and husband and who was now treated as some kind of... whore... I was very very shocked, he did what ever he wanted to do... I couldn't believe that we had once be lovers. I was also appalled for what he did with the younger lionesses, some of them were allmost like cubs and... well needless to say, he trated every lioness like a slave! He was so cruel like a devil himself, " Sarabi told. Then some months later young lioness Nala who had also been under Scar's strick tyranny left the Pridelands because she had a feeling deep down in her heart that there would be someone to save their pack. "I couldn't live like that, Scar used us and kept us as slaves and we didn't have any food or water because the hyenas were destroied everything. I felt that there would be some way to get out and I escaped," Nala told. She was long time away but then she finally came back with Simba, the young prince who Scar had once be so cruel to. "Simba was bigger, older and stronger. I couldn't believe my eyes; I was so sure that he was dead, that hyenas were killed them in the desert like I told them. But now he was standing there angry and he wanted his 'rightful' place as a king back," Scar told. Scar blamed him for the death of Mufasa and finally tried to kill Simba as a murderer of his own father. Suddenly Simba got powers from someting and he bounged over Scar and insisted him to tell the thruth about Mufasa.

"Well, what else I could do !? Of course I admited that I had killed Mufasa instead of Simba and then that fight began...." Scar reminisced. Everybody were fighting together: hyenas and lionesses and Simba and Scar. Simba hounded Scar to the cliff and finally dribbled him to the ground. "Scar was standing there on that cliff and he begged me for letting him go. He said that it was the hyenas' fault and their ideas where made him kill my father Mufasa. Hyenas of course heard this and they were so furious. They knew that it was Scar's idea and Scar had made them to kill. Then I let my uncle go he attacked me again and I threw him off my back and fell to the ground. I thought he would die," Simba described the situation. But Scar didn't die to the hit of the ground, the hyenas killed him. They were furios for his words and lieing. So they ripped off his hot flesh and skin and let him suffer and slowly face his burning death. That was end of his life. "I think he'd rather be hatefuly remembered than peacefuly forgotten...," Sarabi once said.