Three Brothers 3
Full character List
Michael- a now overprotective
father
Kani- Michael’s Son
Howie- glad he’s still an
uncle
Simba- glad he’s still an
uncle as well
Nala- Michael’s wife
(author’s note: marriage is oh so very overrated)
Zira- the warleader of the
outland pride
Kovu- Zira’s son
CHAPTER ONE – The one
who could destroy us all…
It is midnight in the
Pridelands, a light rain is falling, and everyone is asleep, except for one
night-black lion…
(Michael’s Dream)
Michael is standing out on
the plains, they look terrible, and they are charred black.
Michael: (thinking out loud)
where am I?
(A voice answers)
Voice: (answer) you are in
the lands that you used to rule.
Michael: (another question)
who are you?
Voice: (answer) me? I am a
monument to your one biggest mistake.
Michael: (confused) which
was?
Voice: (answer) the night
after Ra died, you said “I don’t want my family lineage to stop with me and my
brothers.” And Nala agreed with you, if you know what I mean.
Michael: (statement) yes, yes
I get it but I still don’t understand how that was bad.
Voice: (explanation) it is
not what you did, it is the result of what you did, that is your problem.
(Then a Black lion walks by,
Michael looks at the lion, night black fur, blood red eyes, and a white mark of
fur on his head, the voice then speaks)
Voice: (question) in your
haste to continue your family line, and bad parenting, you have spawned the one
who could kill us all.
Voice: (continuing) but then
again, you could try and change this uncertain fate, because in this future,
you don’t exist anymore.
Michael: (confused) I still
don’t understand, what happened?
Voice: (statement) come, I
will show you, lets rewind to two years ago.
(A muscular human being is
standing over a large grey box with a digital timer on it, he presses a button
and a beep is heard, the numbers on the timer start flashing, and the human
runs, a mechanical voice is then heard)
Machine: (monotonous) 90
giga-ton nuclear detonation in 60 seconds
(Michael didn’t know what a
“nuclear detonation” was, but he didn’t like the sound of it.)
(The beeping increases and
then BOOM, a very bright blast vaporizes pride rock and a 270 mile radius
around it, the voice then speaks)
Voice: (letting it all sink
in) your son, somehow made contact with these animals, and arranged for the
complete annihilation of the Prideland pride, but he was betrayed after wards
by these “humans” so he killed them, and now he wanders the lands aimlessly,
forever sentenced to die.
Michael: (words can’t
describe his feelings) I-I father him?
Voice: (changing the subject)
it is morning in the real world, you should wake up and watch the presentation
of your newborn cub, oh and I have the perfect name for him, how does Kani
sound?
(Kani means “Traitor” or
“destroyer” in South African)
Chapter Two- Kani
Nala: (breaking Michael’s
sleep) hey! Wake up!
Michael: (oblivious) I
thought up the perfect name for him.
Nala: (anxious) well? Let’s
hear it!
Michael: (suggestion) how
does Kani sound?
Nala: (likes it) it sounds
pretty good; it has its own ring to it.
Michael: (question) do you
have any suggestions?
Nala: (statement) not really.
Howie: (yelling into the den)
hey! Hurry up in there; you two are late to your own ceremony.
Nala: (correction) you mean the baby’s ceremony…
Howie: (agreeing) yea, yea
sure, just get out there!
Michael: (picking up the cub)
alright Kani, it’s time for you to see your new home.
(Nala thinks about the
similarities between father and son for a second)
Nala: (thinking) they are
almost twins, except for their eye colors, and that white mark near
Kani’s left eye.
Michael: (to Nala) Nala? Are
you coming?
Nala: (snapping out of
thinking) yes, give me a second
Nala: (question) did you ever
notice that your son has red eyes?
Michael: (answer) yes, my family
has a history of red eyes, my father had red eyes, my mother had red eyes, my
grandmother had red eyes, the only lions ive ever heard of in my family that
didn’t have red eyes, were me, my grandfather, and my brother.
Nala: (realizing) hey! We
gotta get out there!
Michael: (stating a fact)
that’s what ive been trying to do, but you keep stopping me…
(After a ten minute argument
they finally show their son to an anxious kingdom)
Chapter Three- Don’t Go
There…
(A year has passed, Kani is a
little older, and a little bit arrogant)
Michael: (to Kani) just where
do you think you are going?
Kani: (confused) where does
it look like im going?
Michael: (answer) right now?
Nowhere.
Kani: (upset) aww… come on
dad…
Michael: (giving in) ok, ok
no lower lip thing, you can go, just no fighting with Tala’s boy anymore.
Kani: (statement) we weren’t fighting,
we were just having an aggressive discussion.
Michael: (statement)
whatever, and one more thing, stay away from the outlands, unless you want more
scratches like this one. (Touches a deep scratch on Kani’s forehead)
Kani: (annoyed) arrgh! I hate
it when you do that; that hurts.
Howie: (question) what hurts?
Kani: (answer) nothing, uncle
Howie, ill be going now.
Michael: (reminder) be home
before the sun sets.
Kani: (not really paying
attention) yea, ok
Michael: (whispering to
Howie) go and watch him for me ok?
Howie: (leaving) ok sure.
(Kani walks around the plains
until curiosity gets the better of him)
Kani: (thinking out loud) the
outlands don’t look so bad, I wonder what my father’s not telling me.
Howie: (sneaking up) he’s
telling you everything, you can get carved up pretty bad out there.
Kani: (question) who asked
you to follow me?
Howie: (answer/lie) no one.
Kani: (annoyed tone/sees
right through the lie) all I asked for was one day of no one bothering me, but
oh no, my outrageously overprotective father sends my outrageously
overprotective uncle to watch me.
Howie: (leaving/mock sadness)
if you didn’t need me, all you had to do was ask…
Kani: (to Howie) uncle Howie,
see you later
Howie: (continuing to walk
away) see ya Kani, have fun, don’t get hurt out there (whispers to himself)
something is gonna happen and we’ll end up seeing him hurt or killed.
Kani: (walking toward the
outlands/hears Howie whispering) oh don’t worry about that…
Chapter Four- The Outlands
(and the Capture)
(Kani walks through the
outlands, and stumbles head on into an outsider)
Outsider Cub:
(question/growling) who are you, Pridelander?
Kani: (answer/question) my
name is Kani, and seriously, quit growling, you are not “threatening” in any
sense of the word.
Outsider Cub: (retort) oh
really? We will see about that.
Kani: (statement) I’d like to
know the name of the cub im about to wipe the floor with.
Outsider Cub: (answer) my
name is Kovu, and you have goaded me too many times.
Kani: (question) have I? Then
why don’t you back up your words with action?
(Kovu lets out a cry as he
charges at Kani, but Kani side steppes, and Kovu is flung into the fast-moving river
behind Kani)
Kovu: (mixed emotions) help!
I can’t swim…
Kani: (sort of frantic) im
sorry, I wanted that to be a clean fight, I had no idea that was there, grab
that branch about an inch from you.
(Kovu does as he is
instructed)
Kovu: (impatient/interrupted)
pull me in!
(Then, a Human hand plucks
Kovu from the water, and throws him and Kani in a cage)
Human: (holding the necklace
he is wearing to his mouth) hmmm… the boss said he wanted adults, but you two
will make him a nice fortune.
(Surprisingly the two cubs
understood the human.)
Kovu: (mixed emotions) oh
great, how are we gonna get out of here?
Kani: (ramming himself
against the cage) I don’t know… these walls are tough…
Human: (listening to the
cubs) don’t even bother, that cage is 100% titanium alloy, there is no way you
are getting out…
(Kovu’s mom overhears the
human and interrupts)
Zira: (interrupting) unless I
help them…
Human: (mock surprise) well,
well, well, lookie here an adult (un-slings a large caliber rifle) I know you
don’t want to feel this, and my boss prefers live lions over dead ones
Zira: (angrily) foolish
human, do you think a stick is gonna- arrgh!
(The human shoots Zira in the
head, the bullet penetrates Zira’s skull and escorts bits of brain and skull at
high velocity out the other side)
Kovu: (out loud) mom! No!!!
Human: (laughing) heh heh I
warned her.
Kani: (almost mad) what do
you want?
Human: (answer) why little
Kani, I want you and your friend here, to join us in creating a superbreed of
lion
Kovu: (crying) who’s side are
you on (cries some more)
Human: (playing mind games)
im on your side Kovu, can’t you see that?
Kovu: (confused) you are?
Then why did you just kill my mom?
Human: (a boast) Kovu, this
here is a .50 caliber semi automatic sniper rifle.
Kovu: (question) what?
Human: (answer) nevermind,
you’ll learn more when I take you to see my boss, but as for your mum, she’s
dead son, a .50 can nearly penetrate your cage…
Kani: (falling for the
human’s tricks) you won’t kill us?
Human: (disgusted tone) I
would never even begin to think about it my friend
Kani: (seduced) I think we
can trust him Kovu.
Kovu: (not happily agreeing)
I will, for now.
(The human then takes them to
a field camp by jeep where they are handed off to another human)
Human#1: (to Human#2) boss, I
got something for ya.
Human#2: (curious/lets call
him “boss”) you do? Let me see the lions.
Human#1: (slight
introductions) this ‘ere is Kani, Michael’s boy, and this one ‘ere is Kovu,
who’s mum I had to kill earlier.
The boss: (outraged tone)
cubs? You brought me cubs? I told you to bring me two adults!
The boss: (dismissing the
thought) ah nevermind just set the cage next to the tiger’s cage…
Kani: (question) where are we
going?
Human#1: (answer) you are
going to storage in the tent next to this one, the boss has all kinds of tests
for you two.
The boss: (running after
them) wait! Ive changed my mind, get them to my lab, we are going to run some
experiments on them.
Kovu: (question) how do you
understand us?
Human#1: (showing them his
lion-shaped pendant) this here is an amulet of lionspeak, it allows me and the
boss to talk with you, and vice-versa. I also have all these (shows a mass of
different animal shaped pendants)
The boss: (impatient)
Rainsford, get Kani in my operating room now, he needs some shots
Rainsford: (picking up Kani)
come on you little bugger, time for your shots.
(Kani is strapped into a
table, a needle with a purple fluid in it, slides up and aims for Kani’s left
forepaw)
Kani: (in pain) ow!
(a heads up display appears
in front of the boss, it says what kind of shot Kani is receiving, it reads,
“extract of cheetah speed, body speed amplified times 1000%” then a needle with
yellow fluid comes down and aims for Kani’s stomach, the h.u.d says “extract of
tiger strength, body strength amplified by 1000%”
The boss: (talking) now, we
see what has happened, move into the next room please
(The straps on Kani release
and he walks into the next room, like he was told to)
Rainsford: (to the boss) what
if the enhancers did the opposite effect?
The boss: (answer) then his
bones will shatter when you tell him to attack that concrete target
Rainsford: (to Kani) ok Kani;
do you see that pole in front of you?
Kani: (answer) yea.
Rainsford: (continuing) I
want you to hit that pole as hard and as fast as you can.
(A blur of motion is seen and
then the pillar crumbles like a cracker dropped from the empire state building)
The boss: (astonished) this
is truly a breakthrough in modern genetics engineering! And I discovered it.
Rainsford: (Sarcasm) right,
and im just chopped liver, without me you wouldn’t have Kani, I was the one who
tracked his parents and brought him-
(The boss pulls a .45 out of
his sleeve)
The boss: (talking to
Rainsford) then maybe you’ll become their dinner tonight.
(The boss then tosses the
small handgun away and waves his hand)
The boss: (going over an
imaginary list) now we inject Kovu with the serums Kani has, then we inject
them both with steel skin extract and virtually, we make them invincible…
Chapter Five- Where did he
go?
(A couple of years have
passed, we find Michael remembering fatherhood)
Michael: (thinking out loud)
where did I go wrong?
Simba: (answering the
question) you didn’t go wrong anywhere.
Michael: (whining) then how
do you explain two dead sons.
Simba: (explaining) we don’t
even know if Kani is dead, we haven’t found his body!
Nala: (in the opening of the
cave/distant) there is a chance that he could be alive…
Michael: (doubtful) no, he’s
dead, I failed.
(as if on cue, Kani walks out
of the woods and heads toward his home, but he has been brainwashed with a
quite ingenious plot, wait a week, at exactly midnight send a signal, in an
hour an elite force of spec ops humans would arrive and place a large grey box
with a timer on it in the den, and then boom. The shots that he was given make
him practically invincible, but one thing the boss conveniently left out was,
the shots turn off with radiation, but he wouldn’t get radiation poisoning,
just turn into an average lion, but the heat would kill him unless he was given
a shield shot)
Nala: (staring at the lion
walking up/ almost in tears) k- Kani?
Kani: (surprised) mom?
(Nala almost faints)
Michael: (question) Kani?
Kani: (counter question) yes
dad?
Simba: (cocky) see? Wha’d I
tell ya?
Michael: (growling) shut up
Simba.
Kani: (laughing) don’t listen
to him uncle Simba, you deserve to laugh
(Michael then looks at his
wife who is crying)
Michael: (concerned) what’s
wrong?
Nala: (answer) nothing, I was
just thinking about
Ra, I didn’t want you to
bring home Kani’s body like you did Ra’s, it tore me up to see you crying like
that…
Simba: (curious/to Kani) how
have you been?
Kani: (answer) im fine, im
just a little tired from the long walk
Kani: (looking around)
where’s uncle Howie?
(Michael turned his head,
obviously hurt by the question)
Nala: (answering for Michael)
he… well your uncle Howie… ok Kani, it’s like this…
Michael: (interrupting) what
your mother is trying to say is we don’t know, the day you disappeared he ran
off, he said he didn’t want to be here when we found your body
Simba: (commanding tone/ sad)
oh come off that lie Michael, we all saw Howie jump off that cliff
Michael: (retort/mocking) we
never found his body!!! We don’t know if he’s dead!!!
Simba: (just talking)
regardless, we saw him jump off
Kani: (shocked) he’s dead?
Nala: (answer) no, I mean we
don’t know
Michael: (yelling) everyone
be quiet!!!
(Silence)
(Michael closes his eyes and
concentrates)
Nala: (question) what is it?
Michael: (answer) there’s
something outside…
Kani: (command) stay here, I
got it.
(Kani leaps out of the den and
tackles the shadow)
Kovu: (annoyed) ow! Get off
me.
Kani: (whispering) get out of
here! You’re not supposed to be here yet! I still have a week!
Kovu: (to Kani) the boss
wanted you to move it to tonight, and he wanted you to have this.
(Drops a small blue vial at
Kani’s feet)
Kani: (question) what is it?
Kovu: (answer) the boss
called it a “heat shield,” he said for you to drink it.
(Kani laps down the vial’s
contents in a single gulp)
Kovu: (walking away) well,
ill go tell the boss that you’re ready
Kani: (adding) tell him to
hurry.
Kovu: (teasing) want to
murder your family quick eh? Ok.
(Kovu sprints away, and Kani
goes back inside the den)
Michael: (talking/to Kani)
what was out there?
Kani: (yawning/lie) just some
cubs looking around…
Nala: (yawning) well im
tired, im going to bed…
Kani: (agreement) yea, me too
(Everyone goes to sleep,
little do they know, two of them won’t see tomorrow…)
Chapter Six- Zero Hour
(Michael’s vision)
(Mufasa appears as a ghost)
Mufasa: (a sense of urgency
in his tone) Michael, you need your memories for the next part of your life,
and I scanned your memories, you need what else I’m giving you.
Michael: (optimistic) which
is?
Mufasa: (command) don’t get
that tone with me. (Tone changes) these changes will take place in real life,
but this is what will happen if they don’t.
(Mufasa snaps his “fingers”
and an atomic cloud is seen in the background)
(Meanwhile in the real world)
(Six heavily armored special
operations humans are dragging a large silver box into the den, one of them
speaks)
Human: (arming the bomb)
alright, were done, ive set the timer to go off in an hour, it’s an untested
caliber of atomic weapon but im sure it will get the job done.
(Another one talks)
Human: (to the other human)
that’s not what I heard, I heard they put one of these bad boys in Japan and
set it off, and Japan sank under 130 feet of water, how’s that for a test?
Human#1: (uninterested)
really? Then we better get going, we have an hour to clear a 200-300 mile
radius, is the Concorde waiting at the airstrip?
Human#2: (answer) gassed and
30 minutes away.
Human#1: (shouting to his
men) alright men, lets moooove out!!!
All squadmembers: (answering)
sir yes sir!
Kani: (an evil smile on his
face) thanks guys.
Human#1: (getting in a jeep)
no problem, are you certain that you want to stay here?
Kani: (command) hey, yea you,
you with the shotgun, shoot me.
(The human obeys and shoots
Kani with his shotgun, nothing happens.)
Kani: (question) any more
questions?
(the humans drive away, and
Kani puts on quite the act to cover up the fact that he’s working for them, he
fake cries a cry of pain, Michael, Nala, And Simba run out to see what
happened)
Nala: (question) what
happened?
Kani: (fakes Hurting) they
came, and hit me over the head, and then they put that box in the den.
Michael: (remembering
everything) that cant be what I think it is, because if it’s what I think it
is, we are in trouble.
(He walks over to the bomb
and reads the digital display it reads 0:49:56)
Michael: (thinking to
himself) I can try to diffuse this sense I got my memories back from Mufasa
Nala: (question) what is it?
Michael: (pretending like he
doesn’t know) I don’t know but whatever it is, I don’t like it
(Michael claws open a side
panel and cuts a red wire, he then looks at the timer which now says
0:10:59)
Michael: (out loud) oops…
wrong wire
Simba: (question) what are
you doing?
Michael: (panicking) there’s
no time, run!
Human: (charging in) not so
fast, you three are staying right there.
(Then Simba leaps at the
human)
Simba: (to Michael and Nala)
run! Ill hold him off!
(Michael looks at his brother
for the last time and then he and Nala leap out of the cave and start running)
Nala: (running/question)
where are we running to?
Michael: (answer/running) as
far away from here as possible
(Back in the den, the human
was overpowered by Simba, and he looks at the timer it says 0:00:05)
Simba: (last words) good luck
guys…
(the timer hits 0:00:00 and
then a tremor runs at blinding speeds faster than the two who made it can run,
it opens a large deep fissure in front of them, Michael sees it and stops on
time, but Nala stops a second too late and falls in, but Michael grabs one of
her flailing forepaws, a loose grip, it wont hold long so Nala realizes that
its time to say their farewells)
Michael: (holding on with all
his strength) I- won’t- let- go… I- can’t- bare- to- see- you- die…
Nala: (crying/to Michael) let
go Michael, save yourself, there’s no sense in you dieing when you are
salvable…
Michael: (tear running down
his face) regardless of what happens here, if you survive, remember that I love
you.
Nala: (being brutally honest)
there’s little chance that we will ever see each other again, but I love you
too.
(Michael cringed as Nala’s
paw slid out of his grasp, he felt like he was literaly ripping himself in half
and throwing one half away, he watched every painful second as Nala faded from
view, then Mufasa spoke to him in his head)
Mufasa: (VERY urgent)
Michael, quit standing there and RUN! (Pauses) wait, there may be an
alternative, here (a familiar looking ring appears on Michael’s “ring paw”) rub
it.
(The blast wave was about ten
feet from Michael, and if it hit him, it will sentence him to the same fate as
his wife, so he obeyed Mufasa and a bright blue luminescent bubble appeared
over him, and the blast wave passed over him no harm to Michael, but he blacked
out, and a voice awakens him)
Voice: (to another)
neurological scans show that he’s coming around, can’t believe how many strings
we had to pull to get him to the states
Michael: (question) where am
I?
Voice: (answer) your on a
rescue trawler designed to recover the remaining wildlife from a 270 mile
stretch of southeast Africa, but we’re full up on space so we have to go back
to the states, (she is interrupted by a ding from a monitor) you are one lucky
king of beasts, there’s no hint of radiation in your bloodstream which is
remarkable considering that we found you a mile and a half from the epicenter
of the blast
Michael: (standing up on all
fours) can I go into the place where you store the survivors?
Nurse: (answer) ok, ill let
you in.
(She opens a heavy door)
Nurse: (question) what’s up,
why do you keep staring into the cages?
Michael: (answer) someone I
know is in here.
Nurse: (question) how do you
know?
Michael: (smart-alec answer)
call it a lion thing.
(The Nurse sighs and walks
off, and Michael starts looking in cages, as he looks the sense that someone he
knows is still alive grows, and he reaches a cage, and sees a sleeping form in
the back of the cage, he calls out to the form)
Michael: (inquiring tone)
hello? Can you give me a minute of your time?
Familiar Voice: (agitated) I
said no medicine; let me die the slow and painful death I deserve…
(Michael instantly recognizes
the voice as Howie’s voice)
Michael: (amazed) Howie? We
thought you were dead.
Howie: (not really paying
attention) I am dead, after what I did twice, poor watching, which ended in
both of my nephew’s deaths, I can never face my older brother again…
Michael: (trying to prove
something) Howie, it’s me, Michael.
Howie: (wanting to curl up
and die) Michael, im sorry…
Michael: (interrupting) don’t
be, im kinda whishing Kani had died a long time ago when he disappeared.
Howie: (confused) you mean he
didn’t? (Asks another question) why?
Michael: (closing his eyes
and turning his head away) do you know what he just did, look around you at all
the sick and dying animals, Kani did this, all of it, and (pauses) he made me
kill Nala
Howie: (words can’t describe
the astonishment he’s feeling) you- killed her??? Why???
Michael: (brushing it off)
it’s a tale im not about to tell, it still hurts me every time I think about
it.
(Kani appears)
Kani: (laughing) heh, heh,
heh, heh what are we to do with you dad? An atomic bomb couldn’t even slow you
down; you are almost as strong as me…
Michael: (angry) give me
three good reasons why I shouldn’t kill you where you stand, after what you’ve
done; I could care less about the fact that you’re my son.
Kani: (confident) ok, reason
one, you can’t reason two, you can’t and reason three, you can’t kill me dad,
im beyond killing
Howie: (to Michael) let me
out of this cage and ill help you.
Michael: (agreement) ok
(turns handle and opens the cage)
Kani: (laughing) uncle Howie,
you can barely stand, you have radiation sickness and if I were to even touch
you, you could just dissolve into oblivion
(An alarm sounds, and a
computerized voice comes over the ship’s loudspeakers)
Mechanical Voice: (warning)
Warning, low Coolant on fusion engine number five, all personnel to the
lifeboats immediately
(Michael’s old memories
reminded him that a fusion engine needed to be cooled or it would explode, and
most fusion engines were nuclear, which was bad.)
Michael: (out loud) oh no,
not another atomic explosion…
(Michael didn’t see Kani
lunge to Attack him, and was subsequently knocked out, he awoke to a sound)
Chapter Seven- What Happened?
(Awakening)
(Michael awoke to the sound
of Serabi’s Voice)
Serabi: (Waking up Michael)
Michael? Are you awake?
Michael: (to Serabi/drowsy)
yea mom, im awake
Serabi: (to Michael) I didn’t
mean to wake you, I was gonna tell you this in the morning, im sorry for
yelling at you, but it’s just that I don’t like it when you lie to me,
especially when that lie nearly gets you killed, now go back to bed, I love you
son.
(Michael looks over himself
and sees that he’s a cub again, it’s early in the morning on the day after the
encounter with the hyenas, the day of the stampede, he thinks out loud)
Michael: (confused) that was
all a dream? But it was so real, how could that’ve been a dream?
Michael: (continuing to think
out loud) according to my dream, something terrible happens today but I don’t
remember what…
(Howie walks out of the cave
and talks to Michael)
Howie: (to Michael) I
couldn’t help but eavesdrop on your talk with mom yesterday, why did you say
the things you did? It made mom cry, and she did most of the night, ok I know
your older but trust me, mom is trying her best to keep us three as healthy and
happy as possible and she would do anything for us.
Michael: (understanding) I
know, but the way uncle Scar made it sound was that we were missing out on the
coolest thing of all time…
Howie: (agreeing) yea, it was
almost as if he wanted us to go there…
Michael: (question) what are
you implying?
Howie: (withdrawing) nothing,
it’s just that it’s a little odd that he told us about it the way he did
Michael: (getting up) ok now
you got me thinking…
Howie: (interrupting/teasing)
for once in your life.
Michael: (starting to walk
away) im gonna go check on our good uncle…
(Uncle Scar wasn’t in the
place where he usually sleeps, and a trail of pawprints led back to the
elephant graveyard, so Michael followed them, what he saw and heard in the next
three minutes would make him run, his uncle was talking to the hyenas that had
attacked them earlier, so Michael listened)
Scar: (holding what looked to
be a hind leg of a zebra over the hyenas) I don’t think you deserve this, I
practically gift wrapped those cubs for you, and you couldn’t even dispose of
them.
(He drops the leg and the
hyenas greedily munch on it as they reply)
Shenzie: (chewing) well ya
know, it wasn’t exactly like they was alone.
Bonzai: (adding) yea what are
we supposed to do? Kill Mufasa?
Scar: (answer) precisely.
(Michael, freaked out at the
situation got up and attempted to run, but he tripped on some bones and they
made a loud thumping noise)
Scar: (looking up/with a
sneer) Michael. Not very stealthy.
Shenzi: (laughing) hello
little spy, your not very good at spying, lets see how good you taste.
Michael: (taunting) come and
get me fleabags!
Bonzai: (angry) hey!
Shenzi: (statement) for your
last meal, your gonna eat those words.
(Scar motions for the hyenas
to leave)
Scar: (at the hyenas) leave,
let me do it.
Scar: (to Michael) it’s
better if I kill you myself.
Michael: (unnecessary
bravery) not if I do first.
(But instead of standing and
fighting, Michael runs as fast and as hard as he can back to pride rock, he
races into the den and wakes his mother
Michael: (out of breath) mom,
wake up!
Serabi: (awake) what is it?
(Michael recounts the story
of what just happened)
Serabi: (in disbelief/turns
to Mufasa) he wants the throne.
Mufasa: (talking/angry) I
would’ve forgiven him had he wanted only that, but attacking my son, that
crosses the line.
Serabi: (question) what did
you say to him shortly after we presented Simba, Michael and Howie?
(Mufasa has a flashback why
he’s retelling the story, it’s a year in the past, and Mufasa is mad at Scar
for not showing up for the birth of his sons)
Mufasa: (to Scar) Serabi and
I didn’t see you at the ceremony this morning.
Scar: (mock shock) that was
today? Oh I feel just awful, must’ve slipped my mind.
Mufasa: (statement) well as
slippery as your mind is, as my brother you should’ve been first in line.
Scar: (statement) well I was
first in line, until the little hairballs were born.
Mufasa: (retaliating) those
“hairballs” are my sons, and one of them is your future king.
Scar: (sarcasm/walking away)
oh I shall practice my curtsy.
(Flashback ends)
Mufasa: (ending) … and that’s
all I remember.
Howie: (whispering/to
Michael) yea I can see why uncle Scar would want dad dead.
(Howie realizes that Michael
isn’t there)
Howie: (question) Michael?
(A message was clawed into
the rock with tiny claw marks, it read “goodbye forever, I can’t take being the
source of all problems”)
(Howie looked out the cave
and saw Michael running into the sunrise…)
(Michael posed a question to
himself)
Michael: (question) I wonder
if this thing still works (holds up a reality ring)
(he
turns the dial on the reality ring and in a flash the reality deleted itself)
Chapter Eight- (Homecoming)
(Michael awoke to human Howie
shaking him)
Howie: (command) wake up!
Michael: (question) what time
is it?
Howie: (answer) five minutes
after we went to sleep at 10:55
Michael: (statement) I had
the craziest dream.
Howie: (blatant statement)
that was no dream bro, that actually happened.
Michael: (question) it did?
Howie: (answer) yea it did,
we could keep these rings just in case we wanted to go into another movie
Howie: (adding) oh, why did
you pick that movie??? After all, we have better ones like the fast and the
furious.
Michael: (answer) I was born
two years before that movie came out, and when mom bought it for me when I was
two, I loved the movie, and ive never really gotten over that love, its just
there and refuses to go away
Howie: (talking) yea I
suppose that was alright, especially you and Nala getting all lovey-dovey and
having two kids.
(Michael flushed red with
embarrassment)
Michael: (out loud) I know
what I could do, im gonna go see if grandma’s computer has Microsoft word and
im gonna turn this experience into a book.
Howie: (question) can we go
into “Independence day” next?
Michael: (answer) you can do
that, im gonna start writing on my book…
(And so I sit here, writing
the story of my journey into another reality, and this is the end)
THE END
(Story wrote by: Michael Lee Burchill, ninth grader at
Auburndale senior high school, and writer of a great book)