The Lion King - Untold 2

Circle Of Life

The sun began to rise with its rays shining over a magnificent place called the Pridelands. All the animals that live in these lands make their way to where their King and Queen live at Pride Rock.
The animals reach Pride Rock to see their  King, Mufasa standing at the edge of it. Rafiki, a wise mandrill makes his way to the top where he meets with Mufasa and gives him a hug.
Mufasa leads the way to inside his cave where all the lionesses lay.

Mufasa's POV

One particularly beautiful lioness catches my eye as I walk into the cave. That lioness would be my beautiful wife and Queen of the Pridelands, Sarabi.

A week ago, Sarabi had our first cub.
I walk over to where she is laying down and head bud her lovingly. She opens up her arms where I see our son, who we named Simba, snuggling into her chest.

Rafiki makes his way towards us to bless him. He rattles his stick which has fruits attached to it above Simba's forehead. My son plays with the rattle, trying to reach for it. Rafiki then cracks open one of the fruits and puts some of its nectar on his thumb. He then strokes it across Simba's forehead then sprinkles some dust on it. Simba sneezes, and Sarabi and I giggle together at how cute it was when he sneezed.

Simba finally opened his eyes for the first time this morning which are coloured moroon.
Rafiki picks up Simba and shows him to all the Pridelanders. All the animals jumped with excitement as they saw and met their future King, Simba.

A few hours after that was over I saw my brother, Scar walk past Pride Rock to his den where he was living. I didn't see him at the ceremony today, and neither did Sarabi. I decided to go straighten things out with him and find out why he didn't come.

When I get there I notice that he has Zazu in his mouth.

"Scar! Drop him!" I yell at my brother.

Zazu pokes his orange beak out of Scars mouth.
"Impeccable timing your majesty." Says Zazu.

Scar spits out Zazu who is now covered in his slobber and I make my way down into his cave.

"Whyyyyyy...if it isn't my big brother, descending from long height to mingle with the commoners." Says Scar.

"Sarabi and I didn't see you at the presentation of Simba!"

"That was today? Ohhh I feel simply awful." He says as he scratches his claws against the rock wall which makes a screeching sound.
"Must have slipped my mind."

"Yes well as slippery as your mind is, as the Kings brother you should have been first in line!" Says Zazu.

Scar clenches his teeth together at Zazu who then hides behind my front left paw. "Well I was first in line." Says Scar as he lowers his head to where Zazu is hiding. "Until the little hair ball was born."

I lower my head to his and look into Scars eyes sternly. "That hair ball is my son, and your future King!"

"Oh I shall practice my curtsy." He says sarcastically then begins to walk away.

"Don't turn your back on ME Scar!" I yell.

"Oh no Mufasa, perhaps you shouldn't turn your back on me."

I run to stop him from leaving our conversation with a loud roar. "Is that a challenge?!"

"Temper, temper. I wouldn't dream of challenging you."

"Pitty, why not?" Asks Zazu.

"Well as far as brains go, I got the lions share. But when it comes to bruit strength, I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the dream pool." Scar says then leaves the cave.

Zazu sighs. "There's one in every family sire, TWO in mine actually. And they always manage to ruin special occasions." He flys up and sits in my shoulder.

"What am I going to do with him?" I ask Zazu.

"He'd make a very handsome throw rug." Zazu joked.

"Zazu."

"And just think, every time he gets dirty you can take him out and beat him."

I laugh as we make our way back to Pride Rock.

The day went by rather quickly after that. I watched the sun begin to make its way down and the moon beginning to rise. I've been sitting with Sarabi and Simba for most of the day who have both been sleeping. I saw Zazu fly towards me into the cave.

"Hello Sire!" Says Zazu who is flying down towards me.

"Hello Zazu." I greet.

"I have a rather special report to announce."

"And why would that be?"

"Well it turns out that Sarafina has had her cub three days ago."

"Aww I wish I didn't miss it!" says Sarabi. "She's my best friend!" She looks over at Zazu. "Did you get to find out if it was a boy or girl?" She says excitedly.

"No sorry, I didn't actually get to see it."

"Hmm...maybe I'll just have to see her tomorrow." Said Sarabi.

"Sarabi! You can't get up and leave to find Sarafina! You need to stay here and rest. I'll go find out for you tomorrow morning."

"It's okay...there is no need for any of you to visit her because she said that she is going to come back home as soon as the sun rises tomorrow." Said Zazu. "Now...I really must be getting back to my family before dark." With that, Zazu gets up and flys away.