Love and Hate

Resurrection

"If you want me out of your head," Scar smirks. "Then I need a body." 

"How do I get one of those?" Kion asks, incredulous. 

"Theon's an ancient ritual that is able to resurrect me," Scar explains. "But I will need three things: one, the skull of Mufasa; two, the staff of Rafiki; and three, your blood." 

Kion and Vita look at each other and share a silent look of assent: If this is what it takes for Scar to stop tormenting Kion, so be it. 

"Alright," Kion says. "We'll get those things for you." He turns to Vita. "Vita, can you and your jackals steal Rafiki's staff. If you want, I can assign some hyenas to help you." 

Vita shakes her head. "We got this." 

Kion nods to Scar. "We'll be back soon." 

Scar chuckles. "Oh, I know you will." 

Vita heads back out to everyone gathered there. The meeting kinda was abandoned after Kion and her left, so everyone's just mingling and talking together. Some of them eye Vita with apprehension or dislike and grumble, but most turn to see what she has to say. 

"Alright," Vita says. "Me and Kion need some things. Jackals, come with me. We're stealing Rafiki's staff. Kion's getting something else. We'll meet back here later today. Got it? Let's move!"

Vita howls, and her jackals follow her out of the meeting place, running towards the Outlands-Pridelands border. Vita looks at her jackals as they jump the border. 

"Okay, so Rafiki's tree is over there. I need a couple of y'all to cause a distract which will make Rafiki leave his tree so I can steal his staff. The rest of you, keep watch." 

The jackals nod, and a couple start running off towards the herd of zebras nearby. They start to chase them. 

"Panic and run, panic and run!" The zebras yell, whinnying. The jackals growl and give chase. 

Rafiki hears the noises and leaps out of his tree, yelling and running towards the jackals. Vita smirks, and quickly climbs the tree. 

The tree is big inside, and piled with gourds and other fruits. Rafiki's staff is lying left to a tree limb. She grabs it and jumps down. 

She nods to her guards, who howl. The jackals chase the zebras a bit more before leaving, back to the Outlands. 

Vita pushes through the crowd of mercenaries to get to Scar's volcano. She drops the staff at Scar's feet. She looks around. 

"Where's Kion?" she asks. 

"Still out," replies Scar. "He, of course, had the much harder job of retrieving Mufasa's skull from the Royal Cave." 

Night. Kion slinks through the underbrush at the base of Pride Rock. His main goal - other than getting the skull, obviously - is not to be seen. He looks around quickly, before darting up the steps to the top of Pride Rock. Everyone is asleep inside the Royal Cave. He skulks inside, and steps over and around the sleeping lionesses. Simba and Nala lying on the Royal Rock together. Kion looks at them in disgust before turning his attention to the other couple lying right below them: Kiara and Kovu. 

He growls quietly, before his eyes widen and he sees a skull sitting on a small ledge near the Royal Rock. He steps over Kiara and Nala, and jumps softly over Simba. He reaches up and grasps the skull with his jaws. He hears a rustle and he turns back. 

"Kion?" asks Simba, groggily confused. "Is that you?" 

Kion bolts, all pretense of silence and stealth gone. 

Simba awakes entirely. "Kion! Kion!" 

His shouts awake the other lions, who sleepily sit up then gasp when they see Kion. Some try to stop him, but end up tripping on each other and falling back down. 

Kion is out the entrance before anyone can follow him. 

Simba rallies everyone, and rushes after Kion. "Kion! Kion!" 

Rafiki comes up. "Your Majesty, my staff was stolen! My, my, was that Kion?! By Askari! And what was that in his hands?" 

"My father's skull, Simba replies, panting. "But what could he possibly want with it?" 

Rafiki's eyes widen. "The skull of Mufasa and the staff of the Mandrill Elder? No, no, no." 

"What is it, Rafiki," Kiara asks. 

Rafiki sighs. "If Kion has taken my staff and Mufasa's skull, it can only mean one thing: he is attempting a dangerous ritual to resurrect Scar." 

Everyone gasps. "No!" Nala says. "Kion would never do that!" 

"I'm afraid, my queen," says Rafiki gravely. "Kion is too far gone to realize the dangers of what he is about to do." 

Kion returns to the volcano. The jackals and hyenas move aside for him. He goes into the volcano, and drops the skull at the feet of Scar, next to the staff. 

"Well done, my apprentice," Scar smirks. "Now, complete the ritual." 

Kion nods, braces himself, and slits his arm with his claw. He hisses in pain, as the blood drips onto the skull and the staff. 

Scar grows brighter and brighter, and Kion and Vita must look away. 

Finally, the brightness fades. 

"Hello, Kion," says a very real voice next to him. "I am Scar."

(AN: KNOW THAT SCAR HAS RETURNED, VOTE FOR HIM TO FIGHT WITH KION AGAINST SIMBA! COMMENT AND FOLLOW IF YOU WANT THE STORY TO KEEP GOING! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED ME SO FAR!)