What Lies Beneath

Chapter 1: Welcome to the Pride

*Tap-tap* "Saka, wake up." A soft, intimidating deep voice spoke. Saka swiftly opened his eyes and looked up at the mysterious, dark figure only to realize seconds later, its just his buddy Alcuthe. Saka then just rolled his eyes in slight annoyance and placed his head on his paws and groaned. "Hey!" Alcuthe began. "I said get your fat butt up you lazyena." He finished and smiled evilly, proud of his own terrible joke. Saka just sighed, got up, stretched and said in a tired grumpy manner "Alright, let's get going... and your jokes still suck." Alcuthe chuckled lightly at that.

We both headed out the mouth of the random cave we stayed at overnight. Saka and Alcuthe strolled through the gloomy, silent maze-like place known as the too hyenas don't have any specific place to live, they are just trying to find the right place that they could call home.

"Saka, look up ahead!" Alcuthe suddenly shouted, breaking the long silence, which scared Saka half to death. Saka then looked in the distance and notice sudden grasslands.

"Is that grass?" Saka asked, even though the answer was quite obvious.

"Yes...yes it is." Alcuthe replied. "Maybe there's food and water there." He finished contentedly. Both Saka and Alcuthe just starred for a few seconds.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go." Saka stated cheerfully and the two dashed off to, what seems to be, the exit of the outlands. Right when they reached the opening, they immediately slowed too a stop and gazed around. There were many trees, watering holes, and a vast number of animals, especially zebra, zebra is Sakas favorite. Saka and Alcuthe looked at each other and Alcuthe grinned in an evil, happy manner.

"Hungry?" Alcuthe asked with a watery mouth looking at the herds.

"Let's eat." Saka replied and licked his lips hungrily.

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In the distance, not so far from where Saka and Alcuthe eventually got their kill, were four Hyenas near a Nice cave that had a nice little pond out in the front with flowers surrounding it and lily pads placed at random in the pond. Wema and Tunu, Jasiri and Madoa's little brother and sister, were playing around outside while Jasiri and Madoa watched and chatted. Madoa smelled something strange and looked behind her and in the distance, she saw two unknown hyenas eating a zebra in an open area. Madoa patted on Jasiri's shoulder and Jasiri faced Madoa.

"Yea?" Jasiri asked puzzled.

"If we are the only four hyenas welcomed and in the pridelands... Who are those two?" Madoa said lightly and pointed in the direction of the two strangers. Jasiri starred at them and got worried.

"Maybe they're part of Janjas clan." Jasiri suggested and looked at Wema and Tunu. "You two, go inside." She ordered and the two cubs looked at Jasiri with a slightly sad face.

"But why? We wanna play more?" Wema asked in an upset tone. With that, Jasiri got a slightly strict face.

"I said go inside." Jasiri demanded once more and the two nodded and ran inside. Jasiri then faced Madoa. "What do we do?" She asked and Madoa looked at her and thought for a few seconds.

"I think we should go get Simba and the Lionesses and confront the two. I honestly don't think they're part of Janjas crew... Unless those two are new members and don't know the rules." Madoa replied. Jasiri nodded and ran as quick as she could to pride rock to gather the lions.

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The only sound that was heard where Saka and Alcuthe were located was the sound of them munching down on the zebras carcass. Their snouts were covered in blood, and they ate like savages because they hadn't had a meal like this for days. The two didn't speak to each other much, other than offering the other a certain body part that the other enjoyed more. After a few minutes of violently ripping into the dead animals flesh, Saka heard something that began to crescendo towards them. Saka looked up and his heart nearly stopped as he saw a lion about ten feet away from behind Alcuthe and it was running at full speed.