Prologue

Hello everybody, I am super excited to say that I'm finally here to give you all the long overdue prologue chapter for the Story of Our Exile, showing why the hyenas were banished in my fanfiction Lion King story universe and to show the character of Bloody Mary that I've talked so much about in my other Lion King fanfics. Now, before you read ahead I must warn you there are SPOILERS down below about what happens in the Scarred Pride since this prologue takes place in the Pride Lands sometime after the events of The Scarred Pride, so if you don't want spoilers for that story, please read the Scarred Pride first and come back here later, but for any who are ready to read, enjoy the prologue chapter.

Deep in the heart of Tanzania, Africa, there was land known as the Pride Lands. The lands were ruled by a large pride of lions that had been there for nearly eight generations. The black blanket of nighttime was draped over the land, but the soft glow of twilight soon came with the sun just rising from below the horizon. Ever so slowly, morning light began pulling back the remaining darkness. The light soon washed over two lions, one male, one female, who were sleeping in the shade of a tree somewhere in the middle of the savannah.

Sensing the morning light on her face, the lioness' blue eyes, which were violet during her cubhood, cracked open before immediately snapping shut again from the blinding light. The lioness cursed before working on getting her eyes use to the light until she could fully open them again. When she did, she yawned and smacked her lips together before standing up to stretch out her tired limbs. The lioness looked around, confused at first that she was laying down in the savannah before remembering last night. She and her mate had come out to do some stargazing and had lost track of time and fell asleep.

The lioness took a deep breath before looking towards her still asleep mate, Kopa. He was a large stocky yellow lion with bite marks and scars all over his body, face, legs, belly, and neck, which were hidden under his brown mane, all of which he had gotten as a cub from the lioness' own mother, Zira. Zira was an enemy of Kopa's father, Simba, because many years ago he came back from exile and defeated his evil uncle, a lion named Taka, but was better known Scar. So, out of revenge, Zira attacked Kopa, who was nearly a year old and nearly killed him and threw him in the river, which caused a long war between her and her pride known as the Outlanders against the Pride Landers. That war was however stopped by Kopa's sister, Kiara, who was born not long after, and the lioness' younger brother Kovu, and Zira fell in a raging river and supposedly drowned to death.

Kopa then came back to the Pride Lands over a year later after having been separated from his friend by a new enemy that the lioness along with the rest of the royal family had also recently encountered known as the Scarred Pride. A pride of scarred lions and hyenas lead by none other than Simba's uncle, Scar, who had survived being mauled by his hyenas after they left him to die as the fire during the battle of Pride Rock was starting to block off their means of escape. Scar had somehow survived and fled the Pride Lands, physically and mentally broken. However, after meeting a young teenage rogue, he began to form a new pride with the insane goal of world domination. The lioness didn't like to think about the Scarred Pride since they had lost some members during the war with them, two of them being the mother and younger brother of the Pride Lands' current queen, Nala, who nearly died from by getting her throat slit by that same teenage rogue that Scar had met when he first formed the Scarred Pride.

The lioness shook her head to get rid of those thoughts. She put a smile on her face and began to shake her mate awake.

"Kopa, wake up!" the lioness ordered.

Kopa's eyes, the left one being milky white, shot open, startled by the sudden awakening.

"Ah! Vitani, where are we?" he asked frantically as she straightened himself up and looked around.

"We fell asleep while stargazing." Vitani said bluntly with a smile of amusement on her face.

Kopa cupped his face in one paw, rubbing his eyes.

"Ugh. I don't even remember falling asleep out here." Kopa groaned.

"At least it didn't rain." Vitani said.

"Well, it's still the dry season. So, the chances of being rained on if you fall asleep in the savannah are very unlikely." Kopa said.

"Only until next month when the short rainy season starts." Vitani pointed out. "Now come on, let's go home. Everyone, especially Siri is probably worried about us."

"Yeah, it's milk time." Kopa said.

"Than get your lazy butt up already." Vitani joked.

Kopa got up and stretched his limbs out before he and Vitani headed for home. When they got there, the hunting party lead by Nala and Kiara were just leaving. Kiara's daughter and youngest child, Talia, a lioness with light auburn/brown fur, freckled muzzle, peach colored stripe like Zira's, and one emerald green and reddish-brown eye was with them. She was still a little too young to hunt, but she was brought along to watch and observe how a hunting party worked together. The party offered Vitani a position in, but she declined, saying she needed to worry about Siri right now; she also added that she might go on a solo hunt later.

As the hunting part continued off, Kiara informed Vitani and Kopa that Siri was with Dalia and the sunning rocks with some of the other pride members. The two thanked them and went searching for Dalia and Siri. More than half of the pride was at the sunning rock, which would make it difficult to find who someone was looking for, but it was pretty easy to spot one hyena in the middle of over twenty lionesses. Near the back of the sunning lionesses, Kopa and Vitani spotted a grey plump hyena with a large red nose, a heart shaped spot on her right shoulder, and hyena's mane that was all fuzzy and frizzy, which turned into hair on her head that had three separate lock-like bangs that hung over her closed star blue eyes. She was laying on her side while next to her a cub with dark peach colored fur and brown mane tuft was pulling at a fold of skin on her thick neck.

The hyena smiled as the cub did so, not the slightest bit bothered by it's childish mischief.

"Good old Dalia." Siri said, smiling at the hyena with his son.

When Zira threw Kopa in the river after she thought she killed him, he drifted for a few days, drifting in and out of consciousness. Dalia, who lucky for a currently unconscious Kopa, was a friendly hyena and pulled him out of the river and treated his wounds the best she could. When Kopa woke up, he couldn't remember a thing about his life beyond the days of floating in the river or even his name, leaving his past a mysterious blur. So, at the time, she named him Siri since it meant mystery. Kopa hated it at first since he thought it sounded girly, but it grew on him even though he never admitted it to Dalia.

Kopa however did get his memory back during the fight with Zira, who had survived the raging river she fell into at the end of the Pride Lander-Outlander War only to be found by Scarred Pride recruiters lead by a white lion named Wraith. Wraith was the teenage rogue Scar met when he first formed the Scarred Pride and was the Scarred Pride's second-in-command before he killed Scar when he was about to execute Kiara as a way to punish Simba for all the trouble, he and the Pride Lands had caused the Scarred Pride. When the Pride Landers came back to the Pride Lands and Kopa and Vitani eventually married after getting over some relation problems had a son who they named Siri to honor everything Dalia had done for Kopa. Dalia had also basically been made part of the pride and royal family, which a hyena could only dream of. To this day still, when Dalia walked around, some pride member would randomly give the elderly hyena a friendly nuzzle and thank her for saving Kopa from certain death and for raising him to be the lion he was today.

Vitani even developed a mother-daughter relationship with Dalia, that neither were ever able to with their own mothers. Kopa and Vitani walked towards the hyena and cub. Siri, sensing his parents, looked towards them with eyes that were violet like his mother's when she was still a cub. A smile spread across the nearly three-month-old cub's freckled muzzle and began to run towards his parents.

"Hay their Big Ears the second." Kopa greeted his son, referencing Siri's abnormally large ears he had like his mother.

Vitani shouldered Kopa's ribs, getting the reference.

"My ears are not that big." Vitani argued, denying the truth.

"Hay now you two. No fighting in front of our little Siri here. It's going to be a bad influence on him." Dalia said, her eyes still closed.

"Then tell Kopa to admit my ears are not big." Vitani said.

Dalia yawned before speaking.

"Sorry honey, but your ears do seem to be bigger than everyone else's to me." Dalia said.

"You're taking his side?" Vitani said. shocked.

The elderly hyena smiled and nodded.

"Yep. They're even bigger than an elephant's ears, I'd say." Dalia teased as she yawned again.

That caused Kopa to laugh hysterically.

"Yeah Vitani." Kopa began to join in. "I even bet all the elephant herds gather around to make fun of how big your ears are."

While Kopa was laughing and Dalia trying to hold back her chuckling, Vitani just scoffed in defeat, she'd get them back for this in someway later after she took care of Siri. She gently grabbed the cub by his scruff and jumped on the rock to lay as he sucked for milk. Kopa joined them on the rock and ran a paw through Dalia's fuzzy hair.

"He say anything while we were out last night?" Kopa asked.

Dalia shook her head. Siri was good at walking and running now, but the cub had yet to utter a single word yet. Cubs began to talk at three months old, and that was exactly two weeks away for Siri, but there was the chance Siri could begin talking early. The three sat there in boring silence, except for the sound of Siri's sucking.

"So, any plans today." Dalia asked as she rolled onto her back and yawned.

"I don't know. It's really hot out because of the dry season and there's no swimming aloud." Kopa said.

"We could take our ladha kidogo kutibu out for a stroll in the savannah." Dalia said, looking towards Siri.

"Sure, it gives us something to do other than just lazing around while I'm not giving Siri his milk. I could even go on that solo hunt I mentioned for us." Vitani agreed.

"Oh, could we come?" a voice asked from behind them.

The three looked to see Nuka, Kovu and Vitani's older brother standing behind them, who had supposedly died during the Pride Lander-Outlander War when some logs fell on him during a failed ambush of Simba that Kovu was at first blamed for. A short time after Kopa came to the Pride Lands as Siri, Kovu along with his son Taka II and Bluu, a lioness cub who was a friend of Taka II's were kidnapped by a Scarred Pride recruiting group that Nuka was a part of. From the story Nuka had told Kovu, some logs fell into the right places that saved him from getting fatally crushed but was hit hard on the head and he dramatically thought he was dying when he was instead just losing consciousness. He was part of the Scarred Pride for a while and tried to impress Zira like always. However, after Scar was killed by Wraith, Zira used Nuka as a scapegoat, blaming everything on him and said some other things that hurt Nuka to his core, causing him to change sides.

He was accepted into the Pride Lands despite his past and grew close to Vitani, even Kovu like he never had before. Oh, and one other thing happened with him as well.

"Nuka wait for us you, big lug." came the voice of Zuri, one of Kiara's best friends.

Zuri came walking over to the others while carrying a cub by it's scruff. The cub had tawny-orange fur like Zuri, but it was darker thanks to Nuka's brown fur, a grey furred underbelly, and grey spots on her ears, red eyes, black Pride Lander nose, a small tuft of fur on her head, and the fur on her cheek were scruffy while the rest of fur over her body was all smooth. The cub's name was Safi, which meant clean, and she was Zuri and Nuka's daughter, who was born just a month and one week after Siri. During Kopa's fight with Zira, Vitani along with Kiara, Kion, and Zuri came in to help, so did Nuka later. Nuka and Zuri had saved each other from Zira, and Zuri looked after him during their time in the Scarred Pride.

When they came back to the Pride Lands, Nuka and Zuri spent more time with each other and eventually got into a relationship, which was weird since Zuri was a beautiful lioness and Nuka was an ugly lion, but they actually turned out to be a perfect couple. Nuka shared the same care for his outer looks like Zuri did since he never had it to begin with, and Nuka liked to roll around in flowers to make sure he didn't smell bad like he used to. Thanks to Zuri months later, Nuka had more smooth and shiny fur and mane that was still small, but growing slowly thicker, but he was still a little scruffy in a few areas. It made Kopa happy to see them together, considering the fact that Zuri was in love with him when he was still known as Siri, before she eventually accepted that he was in love with Vitani.

"Hi Zuri." Kopa greeted her.

"Hi Kopa, I hope Nuka and I aren't interrupting anything between you and your two girls and son." Zuri laughed through her teeth.

"Oh, it's no bother at all dear." Dalia answered.

"Yeah, we were just thinking of taking a walk through the savannah with Siri, and maybe I could go on a solo hunt." Vitani said.

"Yeah, we heard. You still didn't answer my question though, could me, Zuri, and Safi come. I could help, and I've been practicing my hunting skills." Nuka pushed.

"Well, I guess we could, but only if Siri and Safi approve." Kopa said.

Zuri got the message and sat Safi down, next to Siri. Siri, sensing the cub next to him stop sucking and looked towards the younger cub. The cub laughed in delight at seeing his younger cousin and batted a paw at her. Safi laughed and returned the gesture, only a little rougher and made Siri fall against his mother's belly. The adult lions and hyena laughed at the cub's antics.

"Well, I guess that settles it than." Dalia observed.

About half an hour later, the four lions were eating from a single animal carcass while Dalia was sticking her head in the nearby river, catching fish. When Zuri asked the elderly hyena why she wouldn't rather eat something from a regular prey animal, Dalia said that she liked the taste of fish better, but still told the others to save her some of the carcass if she felt like any later. Siri and Safi had tried to eat some meat from the carcass but were unable to due to their still developing teeth, so they were left to suck at their mother's bellies. When Dalia ate her fill of fish, she walked over to the others. She leaned against Kopa's mane, placed her paws on her belly and sighed.

"You know, we really need to get out like this more often." Dalia said.

"When the rainy season comes and we get cooler temperatures next month, for sure." Kopa agreed.

"Oh, what's the matter, can't take a little hot and dry air?" Vitani asked.

Everyone looked towards her.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Zuri asked.

"Two words doll face." Vitani replied.

Vitani held up one claw at a time as she said the next two words.

"Out, lands." Vitani explained.

Kopa, Dalia, and Zuri looked at each other, not getting what Vitani saying like Nuka was. Nuka saw this and began to explain what Vitani meant.

"She's basically calling you all wusses, because thanks to us living in the Outlands for years, we can take on the heat of the Pride Lands' dry season better since it's not like the Outlands'. The hot temperature here during the dry season is basically cold to us." Nuka explained.

"Oh, how lovely." Dalia sarcastically replied.

"Now hay, I can take of the dry season's heat just as well as you Vitani." Zuri defended herself.

Vitani looked towards Zuri with her infamous mocking smirk.

"Ha! Yeah right, Siri can handle the dry season's heat better than you, and he's still a cub, not able to talk or eat meat yet, and as an added bonus, he's got Outlander blood in his veins." Vitani boasted.

"Duh, so does mine." Zuri said, gently shaking Nuka's head.

"Yeah, but I'm the strong Outlander and he's the weak one." Vitani stated.

"Hay!" Nuka protested.

"Take it as a complement, because if the Pride Lands ever go into war again, you'll feel relieved to know the enemy likes to go after the strongest first." Vitani sarcastically explained.

"So, me being weak is a good thing?" Nuka asked.

"Oh, just ignore her Nuka." Zuri laughed.

Everyone laughed at the whole conversation, except Nuka, who was still confused about Vitani's statement. Everyone now started to stand up.

"Hay, should we drag the rest of this carcass back to Pride Rock?" Nuka asked.

"Nah, just leave it for some other predator to find and scavenge on to make their day easier." Dalia said.

The group began to walk aimlessly through the savannah. While they walked, Siri and Safi ran around them, batting paws at each other.

"So, what do you think we should do now?" Kopa asked.

"Oh, I got an idea, let' go see how Aunt Shenzi and Uncles Banzai and Ed are doing." Nuka excitedly suggested.

"Yeah, we haven't talked with them in a few days, and I'm sure they'd love to see Siri." Vitani agreed.

The group turned around and began in the direction of where Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed lived in the Pride Lands. After the end of Scar's reign, Shenzi and her clan went into hiding back in the elephant graveyard. The entire clan had stuck so close to the shadows that everyone thought they had left of the Pride Lands. They had only come out at night to attack herds while they slept to get food and water. Also, during the end of the war between the Pride Landers and Outlanders, they had found Nuka, who was still trapped under the logs that everyone thought had killed him.

They had carefully dug Nuka out and brought him to the elephant graveyard, where he woke up days later and learned of the outcome of the war. With Nuka having nowhere to go, Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed took him in since they raised him as cub during Scar's reign more than Zira ever did and saw him as the son they never knew they wanted. They stayed in the graveyard for a few months before deciding it was time to set off and find better lands, but soon after they left, they ran into a group of Scarred Pride recruiters led by Wraith. Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed were even with Nuka when they kidnapped Kovu, Taka II, and Bluu. During the first battle with the Scarred Pride in the Scarred Lands, Taka II and Bluu ran away from the battle and ran into Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed.

The two friends had gotten separated and Taka II was caught by the three hyenas. They would have eaten him had Timon and Pumbaa not come to his rescue. The three used the environment and things they found in the abandoned human camp that was in the Scarred Lands to harm Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed, but Taka II ended up getting separated from Timon and Pumbaa as well. The three hyenas had cornered him and Shenzi gave the cub a scar across one of his eyes, identical to Scar and his father, Kovu's. They would have torn his limbs off had Jasiri not arrived in time with Timon and Pumbaa.

The thing after that was is that Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed changed sides to help the Pride Landers, former Outlanders, and the Scarred Pride resistance pride fight the Scarred Landers. The reason being because of Shenzi and Banzai's daughter, their long-lost daughter who they thought had been dead for years, Jasiri. When Zira was banished after supposedly killing Kopa, she somehow found out that Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed were still in the graveyard and decided to attack and kill them for failing to protect Scar. Jasiri was a few months old at the time and was lost in the struggle. An Outlander, who was a friend of Kovu, Vitani, and Nuka's, had taken pity on the hyenas since she didn't agree with the attack.

The lioness, thinking the clan wasn't going to come back, took her to the clan that Jasiri had thought was her biological family for years. It was very tense at first, but Simba with a little persuasion had decided to forgive Shenzi and her clan for all the things they've done and give them one last chance and live in the Pride Lands so they could bond with Jasiri and make up for lost time. Jasiri hadn't accepted them at first, but eventually warmed up to them with Kion's support giving her the courage she needed to face them. They were now a happy family and clan together, along with the clan Jasiri grew up with for most of her puphood. When they got near the den, they saw Jasiri sparring with her parents and Ed, who acted like an uncle towards her, while Kion, Madoa, Tunu, and Wema were watching.

Jasiri was a great fighter, arguably the best in the Pride Lands, but still, she was no match for the combined efforts of both her parents and surrogate uncle. Shenzi and Banzai were both able to pin her down easily.

"Ha, got you!" Banzai shouted in victory.

"Oh, I let you three win." Jasiri argued.

The three hyenas got up and all rubbed their snouts together. Ed than came up to Jasiri and licked her cheek.

"Hay, that tickles." Jasiri laughed.

"Sorry, we just love to hear that giggle of yours." Shenzi said.

"Oh, don't worry about it." Jasiri said, giving one of said giggles.

Back with the others, Siri took a step forward, but the cub slipped on a small rock. The cub was sent rolling and stopped when it rolled into Banzai's leg. Banzai jolted slightly before looking down to see what hit him. Siri gasped when he saw the old hyena's frowning face, which was soon replaced with a greeting smile.

"Well, look who we have here guys." Banzai said, taking the cub up and cradling him in one of his forelegs, "It's Prince Siri."

Kion leaned in to see his nephew along with Jasiri's family.

"Hay Siri, what are you doing all the way out here?" Kion asked the cub.

"Over here." Kopa shouted down to his youngest sibling.

The group looked to see Kopa and the others walking towards them. Banzai set Siri down, who immediately went back to playing with Safi.

"What are you all doing out here?" Kion asked.

"Yeah, it's so hot that I don't want to move, which I don't know why I'm moving than." Banzai said.

"Me and Kopa fell asleep star gazing last night, came back to Pride Rock to get Siri and Dalia, and went on a small hunting trip for ourselves and Zuri and Nuka." Vitani explained.

"Oh, is there anything of the carcass left, the clan can use it if you don't mind, since it's too hot to hunt anyway?" Banzai asked.

"Yeah, it's by the gorge" Zuri answered.

"Alright, come on Ed." Banzai said, running off.

Ed began laughing as he followed Banzai.

"Hay boys, wait for me!" Shenzi shouted at them.

Jasiri, Kion, Madoa, Tunu, and Wema joined running after them.

"Oh, don't tell me, we're going to walk all the way back, aren't we?" Nuka groaned.

"Well, we came to see them, so might as well help them." Kopa said.

"You all go help them, I'll stay here and make sure Siri and Safi don't cause any trouble." Dalia offered.

"Just don't eat them." Kopa joked, rubbing paw through Dalia's hair.

Kopa, Vitani, Zuri, and Nuka all ran after Jasiri's family and Kion. As they did so, Siri was currently trying to climb onto Dalia back. Dalia smiled at the young cub and grabbed him and placed him on his back in front of her. The cub smiled up at her, showing his tiny and still developing teeth to his adoptive hyena grandmother.

"You've got some impressive little chompers there little one, but I bet they're not as impressive as mine." Dalia said.

The elderly hyena smiled down at the cub, showing all her bone crush teeth to the cub. The cub stood up and batted Dalia's nose with his paw. Dalia couldn't help but giggle.

"You're a brave little cub." Dalia said proudly.

The carcass was still near the gorge when everyone got there.

"Alright, it's a zebra. Good prey pick Vitani." Banzai said, walking up to his lioness surrogate niece.

"Kiss or hug me and I'll tare off your eyebrows." Vitani warned.

While everyone else was gathering the carcass, Kopa and Vitani noticed Shenzi walking towards the gorge.

"Where's she going?" Vitani wondered out loud.

Vitani and Kopa began walking off before turning to look back at the others.

"Go on, the others and I can take care of this." Kion said.

"Hay, let me and Jasiri come with you two also." Banzai said.

The four walked off to follow Shenzi. When they got to the gorge, they saw her go down the slope that led into it. Kopa took a look down into the gorge before following Shenzi.

"This place gives me the creeps." Kopa stated.

"Well, considering what happened here when your dad was still a cub, why wouldn't it?" Jasiri asked.

"Yeah, why wouldn't it." Banzai said with a hint of regret in what he had helped Scar do here ten years ago.

Jasiri rubbed her head against his cheek, knowing that the regret he had gained was genuine, even if he wasn't a big fan of Mufasa back then. When they all got to the bottom of the gorge, they saw Shenzi pacing and looking around. Eventually, she walked over to a certain rock, the rock that Scar had told Simba to wait of ten years ago as he got Mufasa for Simba's 'to die for' surprise. However, she wasn't thinking of those events, she was thinking about another event that happened involving this rock and it involved the large, long dried up blood stain that had permanently stained the rock.

"Hay, Aunt Shenzi, what are you doing down here?" Vitani asked as she and the others came up to her.

Shenzi looked at them blankly before looking back at the rock and dried up blood strain. The others finally noticed the blood stain.

"Still covered in his blood." Shenzi said.

"Who's blood?" Vitani asked.

"My great grandfather, Cletus'." Shenzi replied.

"Your great grandfather?" Kopa questioned.

"Yes, the mate to my great grandmother, Mary, or Bloody Mary as she's more commonly known." Shenzi said.

"Bloody Mary, I know that name. Kiara talked about her when I first met her." Jasiri said.

"That she started the rebellion because her mate was killed?" Shenzi questioned.

"Yeah." Jasiri replied.

"Well, this was the place where Cletus was executed for killing the crowned prince of the Pride Lands, the older brother to Princess Uru." Shenzi said.

"Yeah, I've seen paintings of it in the Lion Guard's lair at Pride Rock." Jasiri said.

"Really, can you show them to me after we drag that zebra carcass back to the clan?" Shenzi asked.

"Sure, I'll show all of you if you want." Jasiri offered the others.

"Alright, it'll be interesting to see them." Kopa agreed.

"I've never been told the story, so I could go for it." Vitani also agreed.

"Alright than, let's help the others and head to Pride Rock." Jasiri said, taking the lead.

They all went back up to the others and helped them drag what was left of the animal carcass back to the den. When they got back, they saw that Madoa's mate, Baruti had joined Dalia in watching Siri and Safi, who were now playing with Madoa and Baruti's two-month-old daughter, Uzanzai. Uzanzai was the first generation of hyena pups to be born in the Pride Lands ever since Jasiri and her adoptive clan were let into the Pride Lands, and her name could be translated to generation's first. Dalia and Baruti noticed the others had come back and got up to greet them.

"Well, that was quick." Dalia commented.

Vitanti bent down to nuzzle both Dalia and Siri.

"Well, we were able to get back quick since it wasn't a full catch and eleven to drag it." Vitani replied.

"Anything special happen while you were out shopping?" Baruti asked as he and Madoa pressed their heads together.

"Shenzi, Jasiri, Banzai, Kopa, and Vitani took a walk into the gorge." Tunu answered.

"What for?" Baruti asked, not knowing why anybody would want to walk the grounds of the gorge after what happened there.

"A bit of reflection and a bit of seeing a historical site." Shenzi said.

"What kind of historical site?" Dalia asked while Siri was tugging on her tail.

"The spark of rebellion, the hyena rebellion led by Bloody Mary." Shenzi said.

"The place where her great grandfather was executed." Banzai answered.

"Sounds… fun." Baruti said awkwardly.

"Yeah, and I'm going to show them the paintings of the rebellion at Pride Rock, you can come to if you want Baruti." Jasiri said.

"Sure, but what about Uzanzai, Siri, and Safi?" Baruti asked, "They're all still so young that they probably won't understand what were talking about with the rebellion and won't remember, but still."

"Oh, don't worry Baruti, I'll continue to watch them; you and the others just go and have fun looking at some paintings and doing some learning." Dalia said.

Baruti jokingly made an 'uck!' face and sound after Dalia said 'learning.' Madoa jokingly dragged Baruti by the ear as she followed everyone towards Pride Rock. Kopa looked back at Dalia as they walked.

"We'll see you later, and remember, don't eat them." Kopa warned.

Dalia took one of Siri's front legs and began to gently gnaw on it.

"Yum yum." Dalia jokingly said before licking her lips.

"Silly old hyena." Siri mumbled to himself.

Jasiri led everyone to Pride Rock, to the cave that served as the Lion Guard's lair. She parted some vines that hung over the entrance and gestured everyone inside. The air immediately became cooler now that they were out of the sun. When everyone entered the lair, they saw dozens of paintings on the wall, one of Kion and his Lion Guard, of Scar's and his Lion Guard, all the way back to Askari, son of King Kwanza, first lion king of the Pride Lands. Paintings of every single Lion Guard of the Pride Lands and their adventures weren't the only paintings though.

There were paintings that showed the Pride Lands history: King Kwanza and the hyena matriarch, Scar receiving his scar from a water buffalo, Scar's rise and fall, the banishment of the Outsiders and the unity between them, Jasiri's clan being welcomed into the Pride Lands, and more recently, the events that happened with the Scarred Pride. However, the painting everyone was focusing on was the hyena rebellion. Everyone saw paintings of King Mohatu, his daughter, Princess Uru, and her betrothed Ahadi facing dozens of hyenas being led by a single brown one with red marks on her face.

"That's the hyena rebellion." Kopa gasped.

"Yep, and that's my great grandmother." Shenzi said, looking at the brown furred hyena at the forefront.

"You know, I still can't believe you had a great grandmother." Nuka said dumbly.

"Everyone's got a great grandmother, ya dummy." Baruti said.

"Na uh, what about the first animals that ever lived, they could never have had great grandmothers since they were the first ever animals, or grandparents, or even parents." Nuka argued.

"Uh, if you two are done arguing, I think we would like Shenzi to start explaining the story since she knows the most about it." Kopa said.

"Gladly." Shenzi said.

Shenzi looked towards a painting that showed King Mohatu surrounded by his pride and a few hyenas while two lionesses held down a single hyena in front of him.

"Okay, so like I've said before, the rebellion began with the execution of my great grandfather, Cletus. He was executed for killing King Mohatu's son, Prince Cheza. Now, Cletus didn't work well or play nice with others. He was a deranged hyena full of pure savagery and carnage. He didn't treat any herds with respect and brutalized his kills instead of giving it a quick and as painless as possible death and Mary liked him that way." Shenzi explained.

"She did?" Zuri exclaimed.

"Oh yes. You see, the herds greatly feared Cletus for his brutal ways and always complained about it to Mohatu, asking him to do something about it. He talked to Cletus himself and Mary many times, but both refused to change anything. Mary was a 'I want everything, and I want it my way' type of hyena, and she wanted Cletus just the way he was." Shenzi said.

"So far, this is all sounding more like a Bloody Cletus than and Bloody Mary." Nuka commented.

"She's getting to that." Banzai whispered.

Nuka shut up and turned back to Shenzi.

"Now, on to the day that started the spark of rebellion." Shenzi said.

And that is the prologue everyone. Oh man, it felt so good to write Dalia's character again. Next chapter we'll meet Bloody Mary, Cleetus, Prince Cheza (Which means spark in Swahili according to Google translator by the way), and a few more OC's along with Uru, Ahadi, and Mohatu. Until the next chapter everybody, please leave a kind and respectful review and check out my other fanfics if you haven't yet, good night/day, happy beginning of Spring, and God bless.