Three Brothers
Character list
Howie- the annoying little
brother (Michael’s bro)
Michael- “the brains of the
outfit”
ALL BELOW ARE DISNEY
COPYWRIGHTED CHARICTERS
Simba- © Disney
Nala- © Disney
Serabi- © Disney
Mufasa- © Disney
Scar- © Disney
Timon- © Disney
Pumbaa- © Disney
Sarafina- © Disney
Shenzie- © Disney
Bonzai- © Disney
Ed- © Disney
CHAPTER 1- the beginning
Michael: (to Howie) I dug
these two rings up with my metal detector, look.
Howie: (to Michael) let’s put
them on, one each.
Michael nods and puts one on,
a perfect fit
Howie does the same, also a
perfect fit
Michael: (to Howie) hey it’s
late and I promised mom we’d be in bed by 11:00
Howie: (out loud) awwwww…….
Michael reaches for a video
tape and pops it in the vcr, then something falls out of his ring, it was a
piece of paper. Two barely legible words are wrote on it, “reality ring” on the
back, a warning, “do not break while in your alternate reality or you will be
locked in it forever” then a name “Captain Taylor of flight 19”
Michael: (astonished) oh my…
Howie: (asleep) *snore*
Michael fell asleep watching
the random movie he had put in
It was “The Lion King” As
soon as both boys were asleep they started dreaming, the reality rings fed off
the dreams and created the new reality, and little did the boys know: they were
in for the ride of their lives
CHAPTER 2- new beginnings
Sunrise on the Pridelands, a
lion’s roar is heard
This is the message it
conveys “come to pride rock to witness the birth of 3 lion cubs” so the animals
start moving, meerkats, water buffalo, giraffes, wildebeests, almost every
African animal gathers around the rock to see the birth of the new heirs
The king and queen preside
over the ceremony as the mandrill named Rafiki holds up the cubs one at a time,
the queen has named them, Simba, Michael, and Howie (the rings let them keep
their name)
And on that day everyone in
Africa is happy, except the newborns Michael and Howie who have developed a
telepathic bond from being in the same room when reality was changed. Howie was
(mad)
Howie: (in mind through bond)
you idiot!! What have you done to us?!?
Michael: (in mind through
bond) how the heck are you in my head???
Howie: (in mind through bond)
don’t change the subject, what have you done?
Michael: (honest/in mind)
must have something to do with that set of reality rings I found
Howie: (mad/in mind) REALITY
WHAT????!!!!!
A voice is then heard
Voice: you will now forget
everything about the previous reality you were in, except your names, your
bond, and your brotherhood not only with each other but with the other you were
born with
Howie: (question) Simba?
Voice: that is correct,
(voice suddenly very loud) I NOW TAKE WITH ME THE MEMORIES OF A PREVIOUS
LIFETIME (brief pause) and your TLK rings. (Laughter)
Both their previous lives
flash in front of them, and then are gone in an instant leaving them with
nothing but the memories acquired in the realm of the lion king.
Now begins their 2nd
life…
CHAPTER 3- TLK forever
A year has passed, Michael,
Howie and Simba are still very young but old enough to talk and walk by
themselves. we drop in very early in the morning
Simba charges into the den
Simba: (to his father) dad!
Dad! Come on dad we gotta go, get up!
Michael: (to Simba/half
asleep) Simba, seriously give it a rest, its super early (groans and rolls
over)
Simba: (trying to state a
point) I know, dad said he’d watch the sunrise with us.
Howie: (asleep) *snore*
Michael drowsily gets up and
stands over his brother (Howie)
Michael: (drowsy/to Howie)
hey! Sleeping beauty (nudges with left forepaw) wake up.
Howie: (half asleep/out loud)
huh…what’s tha...?
Michael: (awake but tired) I
said get up.
Howie: (to Michael) it’s
still dark out Michael, why did you wake me up?
Michael: (explanation) blame
Simba.
Howie: (complaining) Simba…
Michael: (quieting Howie)
quiet! He’s on a roll
Simba: (to his dad) you
promised.
Mufasa: (to Simba) alright,
alright... I’m up I’m up.
Michael: (to Simba) there!
Now we go watch the sunrise and come straight back here and get in a few more
hours of sleep
Simba: (contradicting) no.
after the sunrise you, I and Howie get to learn what it takes to be a king
Michael: (sarcasm) oh goody…
Simba: (logic) Michael, you
are the oldest of all three of us.
Michael: (logic) but with you
as the second oldest you would make a far better king than me.
Howie: (annoyed) look will
you two quit arguing and go look at the sunrise.
Michael: (question) your not
coming?
Howie: (answer) I am coming.
Mufasa who’s been waiting for
the cubs to stop talking pipes in.
Mufasa: (ushering tone) come
on then, let’s go.
Michael, Howie, and Simba:
(unison) ok
They climb to the very summit
of pride rock and look out just as the sun creeps over the horizon
Mufasa: (telling them to
look) look children, everything the light touches is our home
All: (astonished) whoa…
Mufasa: (continuing) a king’s
time as ruler, rises and falls like the sun. One day the sun will set on my
time here and will rise with one of you 3 as the new king
And everything you see will
belong to you.
Michael: (notices a region
the light doesn’t touch) what about that shadowy place?
Mufasa: (explanation) that’s
beyond our borders, you must never go there
Michael: (talking) but I
thought a king can do whatever he wants
Mufasa: (explanation) oh
trust me, there’s more to being king than getting your way all the time
Michael: (question/evil
looking smile) there’s MORE?
Later on the plains…
Mufasa: (talking) everything
you see exists together in a delicate balance as king you need to understand
that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the
leaping antelope…
Zazu: (flying down) good
morning sire.
Mufasa: (reply) good morning
Zazu.
Zazu: (regular voice)
checking in with the morning report.
Mufasa: (command) fire away.
(Start morning report song)
Zazu: (singing/British
accent) Chimps are going ape, giraffes remain above it all, elephants remember
though tis what I can’t recall, we haven’t paid the hornbills and the vultures
have a hunch, not everyone invited will be coming back from lunch…
Zazu: (annoying British
accent singing voice) this is the morning report, gives you the long and the
short, every grunt roar and snort. It’s not a tale I retort, it is the morning
report
(There is a brief pause in
the song where Zazu starts listing off all the problems in the Pridelands
During this pause Simba
pounces on Zazu knocking him to the ground, Simba picks up the song)
Simba: (singing) this is the
morning report
Michael: (joining) gives you
the long and the short
Howie: (joining) every grunt,
roar, and snort
Simba Michael and Howie:
(unison) it’s not a tale I retort, it’s the morning report (End of morning
report song)
A gopher appears next to Zazu
Gopher: (at attention) Zazu.
Sir, news from the underground.
Zazu: (alarmed) sire! Hyenas
in the Pridelands
Mufasa: (serious) Zazu take
my cubs home
Simba: (disappointed) awwwww
dad, cant we come?
Mufasa: (refusal) no son.
Mufasa runs to confront the
hyenas and the cubs walk home.
CHAPTER 4 – Uncle
Scar’s trick
That very same day we find
the cubs’ uncle Scar
Lazing around, the three pay
him a visit.
Howie: (to Scar) hey uncle
Scar guess what.
Scar: (bored tone) I despise
guessing games
Howie: (confident) im gonna
be king of pride rock
Simba and Michael: (shocked)
hey!
Howie: (retraction) I mean we
will be the kings
Scar: (sarcasm) oh goody…
Simba: (question) hey uncle
Scar, when we’re king, what’ll that make you?
Scar: (sarcasm) a monkey’s
uncle
Michael: (laughing) you’re so
weird.
Scar: (sarcasm) you have no
idea… (Brief pause) so, your father showed you the whole kingdom eh?
Simba: (confirmation)
everything.
Scar: (question) did he show
you that rise on the northern border?
Simba: (answer) no, he said
we can’t go there…
Scar: (interrupting) and he’s
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT it’s far too dangerous, only the bravest lions go there
Howie: (probing) trust us
uncle Scar, if it’s one thing we have plenty of, it’s courage, so what’s out
there?
Scar: (stubborn) im sorry
Howie I just cant tell you…
Howie: (question) why not?
Scar: (answer) Howie, Howie
im only looking after the well being of my three favorite nephews.
Simba: (piping in) yeah right
were your only nephews
Scar: (trick) all the more
reason for me to be protective, now look, an elephant graveyard is nowhere for
you three to be (pause for effect) oops!
Michael: (astonished) an
elephant what? Whoa!
Scar: (mock surprise) oh dear
I’ve said too much, well I suppose you would’ve found out sooner or later, you
three being so clever and all (voice changes to mock concern) do me a big
favor, promise me you’ll never visit that dreadful place
Michael: (lying) no problem.
Scar: (mock relief) there’s
some good lads, now run along and have fun, and remember it’s our little
secret…
CHAPTER 5 – The
Elephant Graveyard
After hearing the news about
the elephant graveyard the three rushed to get their friend Nala who was
currently getting a lion-style bath
Michael: (to Nala) hey Nala.
Nala: (to the three) hey
Michael, Howie, and Simba.
Howie: (whispering) come on!
We just heard about this great place.
Nala: (to Howie) Howie, im
kinda In the middle of a bath.
On the word “bath” Howie
cringes
Serabi: (to Howie) and it’s
time for yours
Serabi gets Howie in the
getting a bath position and starts licking, starting with the cub’s pathetic
excuse for a mane
Howie: (complaining) mom, mom
you’re messing up my mane.
Howie manages to squirm free
and fixes his “mane” (small patch of fur on his head not enough to be called a
mane)
Howie: (rushing) ok im clean,
can we go now?
Nala: (question) so where are
we going? It better not be anyplace dumb.
Michael: (recovery statement)
no, it’s really cool
Serabi: (curious) so where is
this “really cool place”
Simba: (lie/answer) around
the water hole…
Nala: (interrupting) the
water hole?!? What’s so great about the water hole, all it does is give you
water.
Simba: (angry whisper) we’ll
show you WHEN WE GET THERE…
Nala: (realizing they aren’t
going to the water hole) oh… uh, mom can I go?
Sarafina: (smiling) hmmm… I
dunno what do you think Serabi?
Serabi: (building suspense)
well…
Simba, Nala, Michael and Howie:
(together) pleeeaaaasssseeeee???????
Serabi: (letting them go)
it’s alright with me…
All cubs: (together) yeah!!!
Alright!!
Serabi: (shooting their hopes
down) as long as Zazu goes with you.
Simba: (disappointed) awwwww…
not Zazu…
Later on…
They are walking to the water
hole with Zazu overhead
Zazu: (British accent) step
lightly, the sooner we reach the water hole the sooner we can leave…
Nala: (whispering) so where
are we really going??
Michael: (whispering/answer)
an elephant graveyard
Nala: (really loud) WOW!!
Simba: (quieting tone)
shhhhhhh!!!!!
Nala: (whisper) so how do we
ditch the bird?
They whisper something
incoherent to each other on how to get rid of Zazu…
CHAPTER 6 – To be king,
challenges await…
Well let’s make a long story
short and say: they got rid of Zazu
Nala: (running with the
others) I think we lost him.
Michael: (ego) I am a genius
Simba: (retort) hey genius it
was my idea
Howie: (adding in) but I
pulled it off.
Nala: (raised tone) with me.
Michael: (changing the
subject) hey! We’re here.
(A steam vent lets loose some
hot air
In front of them is a massive
bull elephant skull)
Nala: (wonder) I wonder if
its brains are still in there
Howie: (mischievous tone)
there’s only one way to know, come on lets go check it out…
Zazu: (flying in) the only
checking out you four will be doing will to be to check out of here
Michael: (conclusion) awwwww
man we’re busted
Zazu: (scared tone) we’re way
beyond the boundary of the Pridelands
Michael: (laughing) hey look,
banana beak is scared
Zazu: (poking Michael in the
nose) its MISTER banana beak to you, fuzzy and we are all in very real danger…
Michael: (walking toward the
bull elephant skull) Danger? Ha! I walk on the wild side. I laugh in the face
of danger. Muhuhahaha!
Laughter is heard coming from
the inside of the skull and Michael is scared by this
Michael: (very low whisper)
Howie, Simba form a defensive circle around Nala and Zazu
Shenzi the hyena:
(question/to Bonzai the hyena) well, well, well Bonzai what have we here?
Bonzai the hyena: (answer/second
question to Ed the hyena) hmmm… I dunno Shenzi. What do you think Ed?
Ed: (insane) ooh ha-ha ooh
ha-ha haaah….
Bonzai: (eyeballing the cubs)
that’s just what I was thinking, a band of trespassers!
Zazu: (scared) and quite by
accident let me assure you, a simple navigational error
Shenzi: (recognizes Zazu)
whoa, whoa, wait, wait, I know you, you’re mufasa’s little stooge
Zazu: (offended/angry) I
Madame am the king’s majordomo.
Bonzai: (to Simba) and that
would make you three…
Simba: (interruption) the
future kings
Shenzi: (threat) do you know
what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?
Michael: (retort) puh! You
can’t do anything to us.
Zazu: (scared) uh technically
they can, we are on their land
Michael: (statement) but
Zazu, you said they’re nothin but slobbering, mangy, stupid dogs.
Zazu: (whispering) shhhhhhh…
Zazu: (trying to usher the
kids away) oh my, look at the sun. Its time to go!
Shenzi: (sarcastic) what’s
the hurry? We’d love you to stick around for dinner.
Bonzai: (trying to make a
funny) yeah we could have whatever’s lion around! Ha, ha, ha, ha
Shenzi: (joining in) oh I got
one “make mine a CUB sandwich” wha’ja think?
(Ed starts bouncing around
and pointing)
Shenzi: (question) what Ed?
What is it?
Bonzai: (sees what Ed is pointing
at) hey did we order this dinner to go?
Shenzi: (confused) no. why?
Bonzai: (yelling) CAUSE THERE
IT GOES!!!
(The cubs are running as fast
as they can, deeper into the elephant graveyard they quickly loose Zazu so they
stop)
Simba: (question) where’s
Zazu?
Not very far away…
The hyenas push Zazu into a
steam vent they call the “birdie boiler”
Bonzai: (storytelling tone)
and then the majordomo bird hipity hopped all the way to the birdie boiler.
Zazu: (scared) oh no not the
birdie boilerrrrrr!!!!!
The steam vent shoots Zazu up
in the air, the hyenas howl with laughter
Michael: (to the hyenas) hey!
Why don’t you pick on somebody your own size
Shenzi: (agreeing) like YOU
Michael: (scared) oops…
The four cubs run through the
graveyard till they come to a split in the path
Michael: (to the other three)
you guys go that way, ill distract them.
The three run the way Michael
had told them to
Then the hyenas come.
Michael: (to the hyenas) hey
do you wanna know what I call a hyena with half a brain
Ed nods his head yes
Michael: (finishing the joke)
GIFTED!!!
Ed howls with laughter until
he is slapped by Bonzai
Bonzai: (to Ed) stupid, he’s
talking about us
(Michael then runs down the
other path until he hits a dead end)
Michael: (really scared)
uh-oh… I didn’t plan on this…
Bonzai: (mocking) hey guys
what do you call a lion cub with half a brain (brief pause) DINNER!
Michael: (against the wall) I
REALLY didn’t plan on this… (He thinks, then acts)
Michael: (attempt at roaring)
rnnnaarrrgh!
Bonzai: (laughing) is that
it?
An adult roar is heard; the
hyenas stare at Michael in astonishment and fear
Bonzai: (scared) n… n… nice
lion cub g… g… good lion cub, please don’t do that again.
Shenzi: (scared) yeah we was
just playin, we didn’t mean anything by it.
The hyenas bolt out of the
chamber, Mufasa appears with a cocky grin on his face, and then he looks down
on Michael with a scowl
Michael: (knows he’s in big
trouble) dad, I can explain everything, this is all my fault don’t blame my
brothers
Mufasa just keep staring then
motions for Michael to come, they then go get everyone else and they walk home
with the only words to come out of Mufasa’s mouth “your mother will deal with
you three”
Later on…
Chapter 6 ½ Parental
discipline…
Serabi: (to Michael) you can’t
run off like that Michael, Do you realize the danger you put your brothers and
your friend in, not to mention yourself?
Michael: (explanation) the
only reason we ran off was that you guys won’t let us have hardly any fun…
Serabi: (interrupting) is
that what you call fun? Almost getting you, your brothers, and your friend
killed?
(Michael starts to walk away
without answering)
Serabi: (demanding) Michael
get back here this INSTANT! Im not finished with you!
Michael: (to Serabi) well im
finished with you!
(Serabi was at a loss of
words after being back-talked like that)
Mufasa: (coming outside) let
him go Serabi, he’s had a rough day, ill speak with him in the morning.
(Michael walks to a spot near
the den and lays down
It’s almost an instant and
he’s asleep…)
CHAPTER 7- The Stampede
The next morning Simba and
Howie get up and try to wake Michael up
Howie: (to Michael) why
haven’t you woke up yet? Everyone else is awake.
Michael: (half asleep/answer)
I wake up slow.
Howie: (command) well wake up
faster!
Simba: (statement) we were
supposed to meet uncle Scar in the Canyon
Michael: (suddenly wide
awake) yea, he said he had a surprise for us
Howie: (ushering tone) then
let’s go!
Later on…
Scar: (to the three boys) ah!
There you are,
I was beginning to think you three
weren’t going to show
Scar: (leaving) now for the
surprise to work I have to go get your father, you three just wait here, ill be
back soon
Up on the plains, the hyenas
are waiting near a herd of 200,000 wildebeest
Bonzai’s stomach growls, he
is slapped by Shenzi
Shenzi: (command) shut your
stomach up.
Bonzai: (complaining) I can’t
help it, I haven’t eaten in four days…
Shenzi: (command) wait for
the signal from Scar. (Scar appears and shakes his head up and down 3 times,
the signal)
Shenzi: (evil voice) there he
is, let’s go cause a stampede.
Back down inside the Canyon,
the cubs are wrestling with each other
Michael: (to Simba) heh-heh I
pinned ya!
Simba: (command) let me up.
The loose pebbles on the
ground begin to bounce and a low rumble is heard
Michael: (looks up/scared)
run.
(The wildebeest stampede into
the Canyon and charge straight toward the cubs
Simba climbs up a tree and
Howie hides in a small outcropping, but Michael can’t find a hiding place and
is kicked in the head by the bone crushing power of a wildebeest and knocked
sprawling to the ground, unconscious or dead, so Howie probes the telepathic
bond, he cant concentrate long enough to get an adequate reading)
(Then Mufasa jumps out of
nowhere to go grab Simba whose tree had snapped, he is able to place Simba on a
ledge before being pushed away by the stampeding wildebeest. Out of nowhere
again he jumps out of the stampede and starts climbing the 90 degree angle
cliff wall.
Then not even a minute later
he falls from 60 feet up, both an echoing noooooooo!!!! And an echoing
ahhhhh!!! Are heard. Then the stampede goes through the canyon just as fast as
it had come.
The 1st thing
Howie does is check on Michael to make sure he’s dead, he’s not. His eyes are
open, but have now a white haze over them)
Howie: (relieved) Michael?
Michael: (alarmed) Howie? Is
that you?
Howie: (laughing) good one
Michael, im right in front of you.
Michael: (mad) im serious, I
can’t see.
Howie: (worried) why not???
Michael: (commanding tone)
never mind that now help me up.
Howie: (ushering) you’ll be
better in the morning, im sure of it, now lets go check on Simba
Michael: (coming along) what
happened anyways?
Howie: (explaining) dad fell
from way high up
Michael: (smelling) they’re
very near
Howie: (question) why are you
sniffing?
Michael: (stressed) ugh, I
can’t see. What am I supposed to do??
They walk up on their father
and Simba, Simba is crying, their father is lying on the ground
Howie: (question/tears
welling) is he…?
Simba nods.
Michael: (confused/sad) what happened?
Simba: (answer/crying) he had
dropped me on a ledge then the wildebeest knocked him down and he jumped up and
started to climb the cliff, then he just fell, I didn’t see much
Scar appears and sees the
three cubs standing near their dead father, he seizes the opportunity.
Scar: (to the three cubs)
boys, what have you done?
Simba: (explanation) there
were wildebeest and he tried to save us. It was an accident, we didn’t mean for
anything to happen.
Scar: (false sympathy) of
course you didn’t, no one ever means for these things to happen (brief pause)
but the king is dead.
(On the word “dead” Simba
cringes)
Scar: (continuing) and if it
weren’t for you three, he’d still be alive (pause to let it sink in) oh, what
will your mother think?
Michael: (question/desperate
sounding) what are we gonna do?
Scar: (ushering tone) run
away you three, run, run away and never return.
Simba and Howie start running
and Michael quickly follows their scent trail
The three Hyenas appear
behind Scar and he gives them one order
Scar: (command) kill them.
The three cubs run through
the canyon and quickly loose Michael
Michael: (question) hey guys
can you please wait? Guys?
Michael’s improved hearing
due to his lack of sight hears low ominous sounding growling coming from his
far left, and his improved sense of touch allows him to “see” with the
vibrations created by all things around him with this info he learned that his
brothers are gone and there is three bloodthirsty hyenas about 18 feet away,
and that there is a narrow passage on the same side. do the math, a hyena can
run 3 feet per second and a lion can run 4.5 per second, that’s one and a half
seconds difference in Michael’s favor, he decided he’d take a chance, he makes
it, there is nothing but desert for miles, but Michael decides to walk it
anyways
The cubs have lived today,
but will they fight tomorrow…
CHAPTER 8 – The Desert
After escaping the hyenas,
Michael starts wandering aimlessly through the desert; some vultures attempt to
stop him
Vulture: (Spanish) Hola amigo!
Como Te llamas?
Michael: (unknowingly
understands and replies) me llamo Michael
Different Vulture: (question)
say, aren’t you Mufasa’s boy?
Michael: (sad) I don’t wanna
talk about it… please let me continue walking, from what I can smell there’s a
jungle about a 5 hour walk from here.
Vulture #2: (question/again)
why are you smellin? Why aint you seein?
Michael: (answer) im blind.
Vulture #2:
(understanding/another question) well you were born seeing. Why cant you now?
Michael: (answer/frustrated)
I got kicked in the head, now can you please move so I can get going?
Vulture #2: (understanding)
ok, ok were going, just one more thing, how can you know where you’re going
when you’re blind?
(Michael points at his nose
and then at his ears, then he stomps the ground)
(The vultures fly away)
Michael: (to himself) what
was that about?
(He hears the vultures say
something like “we’ll be eating him before too long” and “I haven’t had
anything to eat in months” as they fly away)
Meanwhile with the other two
cubs…
Howie: (to Simba) I think we
lost Michael.
Howie realizes that Simba has
fainted from heat exhaustion so he lies next to his brother, he looks up and
sees vultures circling over head, the circling motion hypnotized Howie into the
deepest sleep he had slept in forever.
He is then awoken by a very
sharp pain
He stood up and roared the
best roar a lion cub could muster. The vultures didn’t even budge; he passes
out from the pain
It was the vultures that
Michael heard that interested him and his stomach so he decided to check it
out, and then he heard the sound of hooves, the vibrations from it showed a
meerkat riding a warthog. And they were chasing the vultures off whatever they
had been eating.
Michael: (thinking to
himself) oh great, more scavengers, im starving too ya know.
Then Michael hears the
warthog speak
Warthog: (to Meerkat) uh-oh…
hey Timon ya better come look I think their still alive.
Timon: (murmuring) all righty
what have we here?
Michael’s improved hearing
picks up the faint sound of sniffing, his touch picks up the vibrations and
forms a picture, two lion cubs lying together, he stops and processes this new
information then gasps, the two are his brothers, he emerges from his hiding
place…
Michael: (to the warthog)
hello im those two’s brother and I was wondering, are they alright?
Michael hears the faint
chattering of teeth
Michael: (calming tone)
relax. I don’t even know how to kill things yet, plus im blind so it would be
impossible for me to kill you.
Timon: (relieved/to Michael)
do you have a name kid?
Michael: (introduction) my
name is Michael
Timon: (intro) im Timon and
this is my ol’ warthog buddy Pumbaa.
Michael: (to Timon) is there
anywhere with water we could take these two?
Timon: (pointing) look over
there about five miles ahead.
(Michael clears his throat)
Timon: (ashamed) oh right
your blind. Well follow our scent trail and we will be there in no time
Pumbaa: (thinking) Timon,
that’s not such a good idea…
Later on…
Timon: (angry/to Pumbaa)
Pumbaa I told you no eating anymore re-fried beans, oi… no wonder the kid
passed out. Sheesh!
Pumbaa: (apologetic) sorry…
Timon: (mad) oh no Pumbaa,
don’t tell that to me. Tell it to the blind lion you just knocked out!!!!!!!
(Timon flings meerkat sized
handfuls of ice cold water in each of the cubs’ faces, all of them wake up)
Howie: (confused) wow dying
wasn’t all that bad…
Michael: (shocked) im dead?!?
The warthog killed me with a gas emission?!?
Simba: (distant) this isn’t
heaven… it’s the world, were still alive.
(Michael breathes a heavy
sigh of relief)
Michael: (to the other two)
are you guys ready? We leave right now
Timon: (stopping them from
leaving) whoa!! Wait a second, where are your parents?
Michael: (covering up) last I
remember we had no parents…
Timon: (telling) then you’re
staying here, with us well be your “parents” and best friends
Michael: (happy) they live in
a jungle, have a bed and a ample source of food, that’s all I need.
Timon: (adding) we have one
more thing you won’t find anywhere else.
Howie: (question) what is
that?
Timon: (answer/southwest
African) Hakuna Matata.
Simba: (question/distant)
what?
Pumbaa: (answer) simply put
kid, it means no worries, and we don’t have to sing to tell you about it
either, just one simple meaning “no worries”
Later on, the cubs are
getting a tour of the jungle
Pumbaa: (belches) im starved.
Howie: (agreement) me too.
After a little bit more
walking, they come to a fallen log.
Timon: (happy) ah this looks
like a good spot to wrestle out some grub (snaps finger)
(Pumbaa lifts the log and
thousands of bugs come crawling out from under it)
Howie: (curious) what’s that?
Timon: (holding a huge worm)
a grub, what’s it look like?
Simba: (grossed out) ewww…
gross
Michael: (confused) what’s
going on? What’s gross?
Timon: (to Michael) here kid,
try this. (Hands Michael a large worm) (Michael slurps the worm down and
swallows it)
Michael: (question) can I
have another??
Timon: (explaining) learn to
like these, because if your gonna live with us, your gonna have to eat like us.
Ok?
Michael: (slurping another
worm) ok.
Howie: (staring at the worm
in his grasp) o- ok (bites off it’s head) I cant believe I like this.
Simba: (attempting to stomach
his worm) slimy, yet satisfying…
CHAPTER 9 – Parenthood
(The raising of the three cubs/Timon and Pumbaa’s worst nightmare)
A brief amount of time has
passed sense the three arrived in the jungle, they are now teenagers
Michael: (waking up) what
time is it?
Timon: (half asleep) not time
for us to wake up, cant you see that.
Michael: (clearing his
throat/laughing) heh, heh, heh what’s the matter Timon? Had a little too much
Hakuna Matata lately?
Timon: (half asleep) come on,
you and I know there’s no such a thing as “too much” of anything.
Michael: (turning his words
around) but with you, and trust me on this, there is.
Timon: (waking Pumbaa) hey
Pumbaa, who holds the record for the world’s longest bug-belch?
Pumbaa: (answer) Michael with
a time of three minutes and twenty nine seconds.
Timon: (question) beetle
breaking?
Pumbaa: (answer) Simba with a
total of 1,000 beetles broken.
Timon: (getting desperate)
cricket crunching?
Pumbaa: (answer) Howie with a
total of 400,000 crickets crunched.
Howie: (interruption) and
still feeling them.
Timon: (question) Snail
slurping???
Pumbaa: (statement) I don’t
know, we never had a snail eating contest before.
Timon: (happy) then we’ll
have one between the three, winner takes all!
Pumbaa: (question) all of
what?
Timon: (answer) that’s not
really all that important…
Later on…
An old tree stump is piled
high with well over a 1,000,000 snails. The three stand over it waiting for the
race to begin.
Timon: (announcer’s tone)
meerkats and gentlehogs turn your attention to the center stump, in this corner
I give you Michael “no see” the lion, and in this corner I give you Howie “lightning”
the lion, and in this corner, I give you Simba the lion, Who will take home
tonight’s prize? Will it be Michael, Howie, or Simba?
Michael: (interrupting) just
shut up and let’s get this show on the road.
(Timon claps his hands,
signaling them to start, they start wolfing down snail after snail leaving only
the shells)
Four hours later…
(Three snails left, Michael
reaches over and eats his snail, Simba attempts to eat his but he coughs it
back up, grossing Howie out)
Timon: (to Michael) come on
Michael, now all you have to do is eat the last snail that Howie didn’t eat
(Michael slurps the final
snail down, then he collapses, a low rumble is heard)
Timon: (out loud) he’s gonna
blow!!!!!
(The loudest burp in history
is heard)
Michael: (burping) URRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!
(The wind from the burp was
so great; it caused the world’s largest hurricane to form in the Gulf of
México) J
Howie: (astonished) Holy…
Michael: (laughing) I think
we have a winner for the world’s LOUDEST bug-belch, ha-ha that was awesome.
Timon: (proud) we have the
winner of the snail eating contest and the world’s loudest bug-belch (mutters:
and my ears are still ringing) Michael.
Timon: (statement) im gonna
go see if that hot spring is all it’s cracked up to be.
All three teens: (statement/together)
right behind you.
Later on…
Three of the four that were
going to the hot spring are in but there’s one question that’s on the three
that are there’s mind “where is Michael?”
Michael: (jumping out of
nowhere) cannonball!!!!!
(A loud splash is heard)
Howie: (to
Michael/frustrated) Michael?!? What are you doing?
Michael: (answer) jumpin’ on
you.
Howie: (statement) you
missed.
Michael: (statement) my whole
point Howie.
Chapter 10- A Blast from The
Past
A year has passed since the
bug eating games, the three have matured into young adults, we find Timon and
Pumbaa singing and walking
Timon: (singing) in the
jungle, the mighty jungle the lions sleep tonight, in the jungle the mighty
jungle the lions sleep to- I can’t hear ya Pumbaa back me up. (Instantaneously
reverts back to singing) a wheeeeeeeee a wheeeeee a bum bum bom a way.
(Realizes he’s all alone) Pumbaa? Pumbaa?
(Pumbaa is quietly following
a dung beetle as it crawls across the ground humming very lightly the backup
for “in the jungle”)
(The beetle flies away and
Pumbaa sees something tan in the grass moving very slowly, he then realizes
what it is, A LIONESS, and from the looks of things he was on the menu) (He
runs frantically as the lioness chases him through the jungle, then he gets
stuck on a root), Timon hearing the commotion runs to Pumbaa’s location.
Timon: (question) what’s
wrong buddy?
Pumbaa: (screaming) SHE’S
GONNA EAT ME!!!!!!!
Michael: (walking up) who?
Michael smelled a tinge in
the air that smelled distinctly familiar…
The vibrations showed a
lioness charging toward Pumbaa and Timon, so Michael jumped in the way and got
slammed into a tree, hitting his head and getting knocked out cold (Howie runs
up and sees what has happened so far)
Howie: (out loud) who are
you?
Lioness: (familiar tone) the
better question would be, who are YOU?
Howie: (answer) im Howie, and
the lion whose neck you’re about to step on is my brother Michael.
Lioness: (appearing
astonished/backing off Michael) no… you can’t be… Howie and Michael died a long
time ago…
Howie: (coming to a
recognization) I know you… you’re Nala.
Lioness: (looking over Howie)
yes, that’s my name (asks a question only Howie would know) ok the day before
Howie died what did I say to his brother on the walk home?
Howie: (remembering) it was
“I thought you were very brave” (pauses) why did you ask me that?
Nala: (overwhelmed with joy)
Howie?
Howie: (confused) yes Nala?
(Michael begins to wake up)
Michael: (confused) what hit
me?
Howie: (answer) a tree, and
hey your bleeding pretty bad, I guess Nala doesn’t know her own strength.
(Michael feels a very heavy
sense of pressure being relieved in the back of his head)
Michael: (complaining tone)
ohhhhh…. What a head rush….
(All of a sudden Michael gets
really exited)
Michael: (exited/normal tone) I can see…
Howie: (sight test) ok then
how many fingers am I holding up? (Holding up 4 fingers)
Michael: (answer) four
(Nala looks confused)
Howie: (explanation) he got
kicked in the head and lost the ability too see 3 years ago.
Nala: (question) where’s
Simba?
Michael: (answer) said
something about a spa this morning, come on let’s go look for him.
Timon: (stressed voice) wait
a minute, you can see?!?!
Michael: (answer) yep.
Timon: (confused tone) who’s
the braud?
Nala: (offended) Braud?!? I
beg your pardon?
Michael: (answer) this is our
best friend Nala
Timon: (confused) I don’t get
it, one second you are ripping each other apart and then your friends? Oi! What
next, Simba falls from the sky!?!?
(The sound of a vine snapping
is heard, and then a shadow is cast on Timon, Simba’s shadow.)
Timon: (bracing himself) this
is gonna hurt…
(Simba lands with a
resounding thump and then looks confused at Nala)
Simba: (confused) who’s she?
Nala: (as if anything
couldn’t be more obvious) Simba, it’s me Nala
Timon: (interrupting) um not
to interrupt, but while you four are chatting, every bone in my body is being
crushed!!
Simba: (embarrassed/jumping
up) oh! Sorry Timon…
Timon: (walking away) oh
don’t mind me or Pumbaa, just sit there and chat, im sure you four have a lot
of chatting to do.
Nala: (to Michael) can I
speak with you alone for a minute???
Michael: (normal tone) ok.
(Michael and Nala walk away
from the other two)
Michael: (to Nala) so what’s
up?
Nala: (confused) with what?
Michael: (explanation) when I
got up, you couldn’t stop staring at me, even now you’re staring right into my
eyes, and when you stare you look rather distant so I know that there is
something wrong.
Nala: (explanation) we’ve
really needed you three back home.
Michael: (to Nala) Tch, no
one needs any of us.
Nala: (not fully
comprehending) why would you say something like that?
Michael: (low voice) you
wouldn’t understand…
Nala: (stern) Try Me.
(Michael tells the tale of
the stampede from start to where they are standing now)
Michael: (finishing) and
that’s how we ended up here.
Nala: (amazed) no that’s
impossible… you three were just cubs; you couldn’t have killed Mufasa... even
if you had tried… wait who else did you say was there?
Michael: (naming names) uncle
Scar, the three Hyenas, and Zazu, who disappeared in the beginning of the
stampede.
Nala: (process of
elimination) the three hyenas are too simple minded to kill, Zazu couldn’t harm
a fly… your uncle on the other paw (hand whatever) held a grudge against your
father, and lusted for the throne…
Michael: (interrupting) wait.
You’re saying my Uncle did it?
Nala: (statement) everything
adds up that way, yes.
Michael: (statement) and
sense im the oldest…
Nala: (finishing) you have to
find a lover and become king.
Michael: (question) hey, you
are still single right?
Nala: (confused) yes… why?
Michael: (question) will you
marry me?
Nala: (shocked/happy) that
was fast but ok I will.
Michael: (normal tone) now
all we have to do is de-throne Scar.
Nala: (normal tone) im
helping you, you can’t do it alone.
Michael: (trying to talk her
out of it) it’ll be dangerous.
Howie: (emerging with
Simba/mocking tone) Danger? Ha! I laugh in the face of danger ha ha ha
Nala: (smiling) took the
words right out of my mouth…
Michael: (warm smile at his
brothers and his friend) thanks guys
Nala: (clears throat) *Ahem*
Michael: (fixing the
statement) thank you *everybody* we leave at first light tomorrow morning; rest
up well you’ll need your strength.
(Everybody quickly falls
asleep, some deeper than others…)
Chapter 11- sighting the
horizon (the future in a dream- Michael’s premonition)
Michael is standing on Pride
Rock, his home, he feels the stickiness of blood on his claws, his uncle lie
dead at his forepaws, but he cant shake the feeling that something more
important was about to happen, then he looks up; hyenas maybe 300 or so very
hungry hyenas wanting either him or his uncle’s corpse
Hyena: (to another hyena) get
the body, thank the kid, and let’s go, there’s nothing left for us here in the
Pridelands.
Hyena#2: (gratifying/mafia
accent) there’s not too many words to say to you except thank you for stopping
the evil dictatorship of your uncle, and if you ever need us just give us a
holler, y’ hear?
Michael: (exhausted/normal)
your welcome, if I ever need anything ill find you, goodbye.
Random hyena: (Spanish)
adios!
(The hyenas leave the
Pridelands in a mass-exodus but before Michael could see what his life with
Nala would be like he was awoken by her)
Chapter 12- The Sons Have
Returned
At first light the next
morning the four set out to stop Scar’s Rule.
Simba: (Announcement) well, I
think this is the Pridelands’ boundary so we have about an hour’s walk to where
we need to go.
Michael: (question/looking
around/astonished) what happened here?
Nala: (explanation) the night
after you guys disappeared, the whole of the Pridelands was enflamed, no lions
were killed, but it killed all the plants and nearly all our food animals, Scar
makes us go on 5 day long hunts, and currently we have four cubs living in the
den and they barely are fed because after 5 days the meat has turned white with
maggots and other lovely stuff like that.
Howie: (statement) that’s
terrible…
Michael: (rushing) every
second we stand here is another one of which Scar rules over, we need to quit
talking and de- throne him now.
Timon: (coming up from
behind) so, why did you not tell us about your plan to save the Pridelands?
Nala: (annoyed) if we were
still planning, we wouldn’t be here.
Michael: (suggestion) Hey
Nala, you did say something about Hyenas; well I propose we use live bait to
sneak past them. (Stares at Timon)
Timon: (scared) what do you
want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula???
Michael: (agreement) ok sure
whatever, as long as it distracts them.
While Timon and Pumbaa
distract the hyenas, the others sneak in.
Michael: (turns to Nala) go
find our mother and gather the other lionesses.
Nala: (question) while you do
what? Stand there and look pretty?
Michael: (answer) im going to
find Scar.
Simba: (objection) no way. Im
not gonna let you do this on your own.
Michael: (listening) im sorry
Simba but I can’t let you come; I have to do this on my own.
Howie: (butting in) I don’t
care what you say, im at least gonna stand off to one side and be there for
you.
(Before Michael could object
a loud shout of “Serabi!!!” is heard in the commanding voice of their uncle)
Over where Scar and Serabi
are…
Scar: (almost mad) where is
your hunting parties? They’re not doing their jobs.
Serabi: (emotionless tone)
Scar, there is no food.
Scar: (persistent) No. you’re
just not looking hard enough.
Serabi: (A hint of Shock in
her emotionless tone) is this what you want? To mock our hunting abilities when
we have hunted every animal for five hundred miles in each direction to
extinction, At least Mufasa had respect for his lioness
Scar: (taking offense/pimp
handing (or pimp pawing) Serabi) I haven’t the time to hear how great Mufasa
was! (A low growl is heard emanating from the top of the hill; Scar looks in
the direction of the growl and sees a black furred lion standing there, the
lion speaks)
Michael: (quite thoroughly
mad) you have 5 seconds to give me one good reason as to why I should let you
remain in one piece.
Scar: (question) so you are
threatening me? And we haven’t even got to know each other yet.
Michael: (still very mad) oh
you’ll find I know a great deal about you.
Scar: (normal tone) say, you
look familiar… do I know you from somewhere?
Michael: (Anger in his tone)
and now you sit and pretend to not know me, as if with my disappearance you
have lost all recollection of my very existence, you should try to remember
better.
Scar: (now shocked) Michael?
Impossible, you’re supposed to be dead.
Michael: (Angrily) now that
you remember who I am, step down from my rightful position as king
Scar: (it’s not that easy
tone) you see I would, but do you see them? (Points to a large grouping of
hyenas) they think im king.
Nala: (objection) well we
don’t, Michael is the rightful king.
Michael: (still Angry) last
chance uncle, either stand down peacefully, or choose plan B.
Scar: (intimidating) you are
very confident for one such as young as you, why you’ve barely scratched
adulthood, and I have lived in adulthood’s recesses for six to seven years.
Michael: (confident) age
doesn’t matter; all that does is your choice…
Scar: (observant) notice the
way you back up as I approach, and notice how there is a ninety-nine foot cliff
about four steps back, my dear boy you’d better stop backing up or you may have
to ask for my assistance instead of wanting to get rid of me…
Michael: (oblivious/still
backing up) the jut of pride rock is 100 feet high, not ninety-nine feet high.
Scar: (evilly) that doesn’t
really matter; oh I know what would be fun…
(On the word “fun” Michael
backs off the edge, but summons the strength to grab the cliff edge and hold
on)
Michael: (bleak stare) ………
Scar: (evilly/continuing his
statement) … if you were the one to find out.
Michael: (bland tone) oh…
something else I didn’t plan on…
Scar: (laughing) I bet you
weren’t planning on the 100 foot fall either.
(Scar lets go, sending
Michael to an almost certain death, nothing is heard as Michael falls, Howie
sees Michael fall and is Enraged by the fact that Scar was Laughing at it, so
he runs in and delivers the most brutal Claw slap to Scar’s face, knocking him
spinning to the ground, unconscious for the moment)
Michael: (climbing/to Howie)
hey don’t mind me… just hanging off a 100 foot cliff here…
Howie: (can’t believe his
eyes/helps Michael up) Michael?!? How’d you…
Michael: (interrupting)
Survive? I didn’t have to, all I had to do was grab at the rock to stop my falling
and climb the five to six feet I fell.
Scar: (congratulating
Howie/Unbenounced to Michael’s presence) good job Howie you were the strongest
of the three… Michael?!?!? You’re supposed to be dead!
Michael: (smiling) yeah
right… no one gets rid of me that easily…
Scar: (agreement) so I see…
Michael: (attacking) and
you’re old so you can’t defend against this! (Slits Scar’s throat with his
claws)
(Michael realizes that this
is what played out in his dream)
Howie: (looking at Scar’s
writhing corpse) he won’t be alive for much longer, I’d better just end his
suffering right now (Kicks Scar’s corpse in the nuts, this only causes the
writhing to intensify)
Michael: (laughing) I think
you only made it worse.
Howie: (letting out a sigh)
well, you’d better hurry; you have a throne to claim and all.
(All of a sudden, the voice
is heard)
Voice: (loud) you have
accomplished all you needed to, your memories will be restored and you will be
faced with a choice, destroy your rings and stay here in the Pridelands or shun
this realm and go back home, to Knoxville Tennessee.
Michael: (remembering
everything) I think we’ll stay here.
Voice: (question) are you
certain? You do realize that once this decision is made it cannot be reversed.
Howie: (prolonging) wait! Ill
go get some opinions.
(Howie gathers up the friends
and family they have made in the Pridelands, the voice explains it all to the
others)
Nala: (to Michael) if you
stay, we can be together, and we may even have that cub that we discussed.
(Michael blushes)
Simba: (to Howie) you guys
are entitled to whatever decision you make.
Voice: (rushing) come on you
two, there are others who are finding reality rings; I can’t be here for much
longer.
Michael: (realizing who the
voice is) Mufasa, we’ve decided to stay.
Mufasa/voice: (leaving) I
take your memories after you destroy the rings
(Michael and Howie pick up
their rings with their mouths and toss them off the cliff, a loud bzzt sound is
heard, and then Mufasa speaks)
Mufasa: (leaving) you have
chosen to live the rest of your lives in the Pridelands, goodbye my sons. I now
take with me the memories of a previous life!!
(In a flash Mufasa is gone
and no one remembers anything about the last four minutes)
Howie: (statement) Michael,
you have a throne to claim.
Michael: (walking to the tip
of Pride rock) I know.
(Michael walks to the tip of
pride rock, a heavy rain has begun to fall, and Michael Roars 3 times one for
each king before him and one time for him)
Five months later…
(the Pridelands have reverted
back to their original condition, lush and full of life, the African animals
have gathered around pride rock to witness the continuation of the royal
family, for on that morning the Queen (Nala) gave birth to a beautiful baby boy
lion cub, the wise old mandrill holds up the newborn for the whole kingdom to
see, and as this happens, Mufasa’s voice is heard
Mufasa: (to Michael) well
done.
(All the new king can do is
look up at the clouds and smile)
THE END.
(to be continued)