˜"*°• There Will Be Time •°*"˜

{4} Double trouble.

The cubs race to freedom laughing happily. "All right! It worked!, We lost him." They both paused to take a breather.

Simba lifts his chin pridefully. "I am a genius"

Kovu starts to walk off, but pauses and looks back in disgust. "Hey, genius, it was our idea"

"Yeah, but I-" Simba gestures to himself with one paw." -pulled it off."

"With us!" Kovu grinned

"Oh, yeah?" Simba pounces on kovu, as Nala moved out of the way from the two.
They rolled on the ground. Kovu pins Simba on his back.

"Pinned ya"

"Hey, let me up!" Simba shoves kovu off. He starts to walk away, chin raised smugly. Simba smiles impishly, then pounces on him again. As they rolled down a steep embankment.

"Hey guys wait up!" Nala sprints after the two as they stopped rolling seein that kovu had pinned Simba on his back again.

"Pinned ya again, pri-" A nearby geyser erupts causing all three of them to gasp with a startle. As the steam clears, they notice a nearby ridge, over which an elephant skull is barely visible. Simba pads closer, a grin spreading across his face. Together, the cubs climb the ridge to view the skull. "This is it. We made it"

They jump up on one of the skull's tusks and overlook the Elephant Graveyard. They exchange awed looks. "Whao!" The three starts to approach the skull.

"I wonder if its brains are still in there." Hearing the question Simba grins deviously.

"There's only one way to know. Come on." Simba walks toward the skull '"Let's go check it out."

Zazu flits in front of Simba, blocking his path."Wrong!" Zazu shoos Simba away from the skull. "The only checking out you will do will be to check out of here."

Simba reluctantly walks away. "Awww, man!"

Zazu wrings his wings nervously. "We're way beyond the boundary of the Pride Lands."

Simba ducks down to Zazu's level. "Look! Banana Beak is scared." He snickered.

"It's Mister Banana Beak to you, fuzzy. And right now, we are all in very real danger."Zazu looks around nervously while Simba strides past him.

"Danger? Ha! I walk on the wild side." Simba pauses in front of the skull, crouching low. "I laugh in the face of danger."

Simba rears back his head dramatically. "Ha, ha, ha, ha!" Suddenl laughter was heard from inside the skull. Simba's expression turns to horror. He races away from the skull and hides behind Nala, kovu and Zazu. Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed emerge from within the elephant skull and prowl toward the cubs, whom Zazu shields with his wings.

"Well, well, well, Banzai. What have we got here?"

" Hmm. I don't know, Shenzi. Uh, what do you think, Ed?" Banzai looks back at the other fellow Hyena that is named Ed as he laughs maniacally. "Yeah, just what I was thinking... A trio of trespassers!"

Banzai juts his head accusingly at Zazu, who continues to shield the three cubs with his wings. Zazu clasps his wings like they're hands. "And quite by accident, let me assure you" the cubs start to slink off. "A simple navigational error."

Zazu tries to follow them, but Shenzi steps on his tail, halting him. "Whoa, whoa. Wait, wait, wait. I know you. You're Mufasa's little stooge!"

Shenzi ducks down to Zazu's level. Zazu pulls his tail out from under Shenzi's paw. "I, madam, am the king's majordomo"

Banzai and Ed circle Simba, Nala and kovu. "And that would make you...?"

Simba puffed up his chest a little. "The future king!" Shenzi joins Banzai and Ed in circling the three cubs.