It was afternoon, a week after the famed "Battle of Pride Rock." The hyena named Shenzi scoured the desert oasis for food. Banzai had been there earlier, and according to him, there was an entire colony of meerkats just waiting to be eaten that lived here. But Shenzi was just having no luck.

As she walked through the jungle, she remembered everything that had happened a week ago. Besides the fact that she, Banzai, and Ed, along with the other hyenas had eaten their former monarch by the end of the night, there was one thing that she couldn't get out of her head.

Right before the hyenas had...consumed...Scar, she, Banzai, and Ed had been chasing a certain meerkat and warthog. They had put on quite a good show, she had to admit, with an especially impressive freestyle. But it hadn't mattered to the three predators, because they were about to become their food. But then the meerkat did something that confused and disturbed Shenzi: he proposed to her. And she just couldn't figure out why.

She knew that he was trying to stall for time (and it had worked, the hyenas fell down a hole minutes later) but why did he choose to propose marriage? Out of all the things he could've done, he decided to carry out the plan that would make her the most uncomfortable. But that wasn't even the strangest part. What really confused her was that , ever since that night, she had no desire to eat that particular meerkat, and she just wanted to figure out why. If she could, maybe everything else would make sense-like why she didn't feel romantic towards Banzai anymore. All she knew about that was, it had started the night that Scar died.

Suddenly, something moved in the bushes a few feet to her right. Shenzi go down low and began to stalk whatever it was. As she followed it through the grass, she recognized it as a meerkat-so Banzai hadn't been lying after all. As she got closer and closer to her prey, the meerkat turned around to face her-and Shenzi realized that it was the same one that had proposed marriage to her during the battle.