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On the one paw, she'd succeeded in finding her basic needs. Food, water, and shelter. On the other paw, she'd run into the most annoying, rude, and horrible little meerkat to ever have gotten in her fur...\n\nLiterally gotten in it.\n\nShenzi shuddered as the insipid little memory bubbled to the forefront of her mind.\nTiny pays gripping her tail base, little chirps and chitters from his muzzle as he bite her butt fur and humped...\n\nShe'd never live down such embarrassment.\n\nThe Queen hadn't stop growling at Timon since he'd appeared. Yet the meerkat seemed unphased, he practically looked bored. \"To what, oh gracious [i]Queen[/i] of the hyena, do I owe the horrible luck of dealing with you, Shenzi?\"\n\nShenzi said nothing, just increased the volume of her growling.\n\nTimon rolled his eyes. \"Oi, ya give em some attention and they try to bite your head off the following morning, such is love I guess.\"\n\nShenzi's pupils shrank to pinpricks and she snarled, lunging forward as he said those words. \"You raped me you little furry shit stain!\"\n\nTimon's expression merely looked more bored as she dove for him, jaws wide. Hie simply pivoted to the side and fell down a burrow. Shenzi cursed her luck as her teeth snapped closed on dirt and grass. Her furious shout echoed down the hole as she scratched and dug at the space the rodent had been in a frenzy. \"Love implies I gave consent you fucking pile of waste! Love implies you asked [i]permission[/i] first!\"\n\n\"If I remember correctly, doll, you moaned while it happened... Pretty loudly too, was that not verbal consent?\"\n\nShenzi snapped her head up into the tree above her. [i]How the fuck'd he get up there so fast[/i]!?\n\n\"[i]I WAS ASLEEP, TIMON[/i]!\" She roared, leaping up as high as she could go, and only marginally came close to him with her snout.\n\nTimon smirked, reclining on the branch with his arms behind his head. \"Yeah you were, it was rather great...until you woke up huh? I still remember the look of horror on your face.\"\n\nShenzi swore she felt a tooth crack under the pressure she was applying to her clenched jaws. \"Get down here...Get down here and let me rip that little head of yours to pieces, you perverse predator molesting ass hole!!\"\n\nTimon stayed where he was. He watched her for a time, before yawning, and looking up at the sky. \"Call me whatever you want. To a guy like me, you deserved it and more. The humiliation...the ridicule from your clan mates...the embarrassment of knowing you got fucked by prey...\" He glanced back at her and raised his hand, nearly pinching his fingers together. \"All of that was just a [i]liiiiitle[/i] bit of revenge flavored cream in the hyena cake I burrowed into that night.\"\n\n\"The fuck is wrong with you!?\" She snarled, pacing back and forth. \"What did I do to deserve that kind of treatment?!\"\n\nTimon's hand lowered, and his eyes darkened. \"You sadistically crushed my mother's body in your jaws...as I was trapped and unable to escape.\" He glared down at her, his little claws scratching into the three bark. \"You grinned down at me, and said [i]thank you for the meal[/i], and then...your clan brothers ate half my burrow family...sounds to me like you got off scott free, bitch.\"\n\nShenzi rolled her eyes this time and snapped her jaws shut loudly, making him flinch. \"I am a predator! I have to hunt, I have to eat–\"\n\n\"YOU DON'T HAVE TO GLOAT OVER US!\" Timon chirped angrily making her flinch back. \"You could have killed her quickly, and firmly, and [i]walked away[/i] while doing so!\"\n\nThe meerkat rose to his feet, tiny paws clenched at his side. \"But no. No you stood there towering over me, knowing I was watching...as Ma gasped for air between your rotten carrion glazed teeth, and you slowly crushed the life out of her.\" His glare turned icy.\n\n\"So yeah, I snuck into your den, and at first I contemplated how I might kill you in return.\"\n\nShenzi's shoulder itched suddenly and she rolled the bones to make it go away...but the more timon spoke, the worse the itch got, and the worse she actually started to feel.\n\nAs he spoke, Shenzi couldn't help but scratch at it with a hind leg. \"You couldn't possibly do enough damage to me to kill me, and you know it.\" She said with a low growl.\n\n[i]What is up with my shoulder[/i]!? she said trying to look back at it, but Timon's words made her stop and look back at him slowly. Her growl returned.\n\nTimon smiled, but not a friendly one...no his smile was more akin to how Scar used to smile, and it made her listen. \"Oh I do know, so I left a different [i]kind[/i] of damage, the kind you'd be stuck reliving every day of every breath you had...just like you did to me.\"\n\nHe turned to the side, and huffed, \"So I snuck under your tail and filled your pussy with the seed of a prey animal while you slept...and then I woke you up so you'd see, you'd [i]SEE[/i] what had happened and never be able to rid yourself of the memory. I still think I didn't do enough.\"\nHe said flopping against the opposite branch and grinning down at her.\n\n\"And now I'm the one towering over you, and I have all the time in the world to get back at you again, and again.\"\n\nShenzi stared up at him for several minutes of silence, she lowered her hind leg as the itching went away, and she genuinely thought back to that day....to the day she'd woken to find the meerkat had dug a burrow into her den, and was under her tail breeding her. She remembered his claws gripping her fur...She remembered how he felt against her rump...\n\nBut more than that, her emotions forced her to dig deeper...to look closer. She remembered something he didn't...or something he'd forgotten to mention. Something he didn't want to remember himself perhaps.\n\n\"You were crying.\" She said quietly. \n\nTimon jerked a little, and looked away as she spoke more.\n\nShenzi stood up on the tree with her front paws. \"You were crying and breeding me... And those tears were ugly...not gentle in the least. That always stuck out as odd to me. Here you were getting your sweet revenge and yet...I saw guilt and anguish in your beady little eyes.\"\n\nShe glanced up at him. \"You regret it, don't you?\"\n\nTimon growled, a weak comparison to her voice but one heard all the same. \"The only thing I regret is not having the strength to kill you, Shenzi.\"\n\nHis resolve was a lot weaker than before. Shenzi frowned, and sat down. \"I lived with a tyrant who didn't know the meaning of remorse or guilt...He hurt cubs in his den, and tortured his females by starving them of food and water, all because of his anger and jealousy. He didn't give two licks about caring for others. Revenge was something he knew well too.\"\n\nTimon's head slanted back to listen, and she caught the barest hint of curiosity under his roiling emotions. \"Whoopdee doo, did this hyena try to bed you too?\"\n\nShe lowered her ears. \"He wasn't a hyena, Timon. I would have killed him myself if he had been. No It was King Scar, of the Pride Lands. He killed his brother, took over the pride and held an iron paw over the land.\"\n\n\"Sounds like your average male lion if you ask me.\" Timon grumbled. \"So naturally he sent you to look for more land to conquer, am I right?\"\n\nShenzi frowned. \"Not even close. He's dead, the pride is alive and doing better and...and the hyena clans have allied with the lions. I'm here to tie up loose ends.\"\n\nTimon eyed her. \"Loose ends...and those ends might be?\"\n\nShenzi growled and started walking away. \"I'm looking for a lion cub named Simba. Not that you actually care.\"\n\nThere was a rapid scurrying of paws, and before she knew it Timon hopped out onto the trail in front of her a couple paces. \"Ah ha! So that scrawny cub is from the pride lands too eh? I thought I recognized that scent.\"\n\nShenzi immediatel lunged at him, and of course all she found was dirt in her mouth as he bolted down a hole. Standing and shaking her muzzle clean she looked around for the rat. \"Rrg, you know him?\"\n\nAnother couple paces ahead he reappeared from another burrow opening, head resting on his hand, elbow propped under him. \"Yeah that kid and I go waaay back. He arrived not a few months ago, dying basically. Pumbaa and I we....\"\n\nTimon paused, and Shenzi felt like he had trouble saying the next words. \"We ah...[i]tried[/i] to take care of the little guy...\"\n\nShe waited for a few seconds. \"...Pumbaa? Whose that?\"\n\nTimon frowned eyes turned downward. \"No one, now. The little brat attacked us one night, hunger crazed, frothing at the mouth for meat and unwilling to back down. He chased me into a burrow and when Pumbaa tried to intervene...well. A lion is a lion, regardless of size.\"\n\nShenzi felt her anger abate some at his admission, \"He was your friend?\"\n\nTimon nodded. \"More like a brother really...but why do you care?\" He asked cautiously. \"For that matter why is Simba so important to a Hyena...oh.\"\n\nBefore Shenzi could speak Timon's eyes widened and he scowled at her. \"[i]Tying up loose ends huh[/i], you got it out for him too?\" Timon growled and darted back into his hole. \"Scar sent you to off him, didn't he?\"\n\nShenzi growled and rubbed her face with her paws. \"No you stupid rodent, I'm here to bring him home! His mother, the queen of the Pride lands tasked me with bring him back alive and safe.\" She flailed her paws at the jungle. \"But this place is so freakishly large that I have no idea where to even start looking.\"\n\nThen her eyes slanted back to his burrow, where he was cautiously peeking up at her. \"But you do, you know where he likes to be, don't you?\"\n\nTimon lifted a small grub in his hands and put it to his muzzle, chewing loudly. \"Oh ho ho ho no. No no no. I'm not gonna be your little errand mouse, lady. You wanna go lion hunting, call your brethren who are...oddly not around, I might add.\"\n\nShenzi huffed and clenched her teeth shut. \"Fine, tell ya what then, lets make a deal. I will leave you alone [i]completely[/i], while I look for him, and in return, you do the same. That way neither of us has to deal with each other, fair?\"\n\nTimon eyed her for several long seconds. \"Don't need to make any deals, I got my burrows, and you've got a haystack of a jungle to search, this'll be fun for me to watch you fumble around, not so much for you.\"\n\nShenzi growled and took a step forward, loving how he cowered in his burrow reflexively. \"I...am [i]trying[/i] to be civil, [i]Berkowitz[/i]. Stop spitting on my paws and at least acknowledge that the longer I'm here, the longer you have to deal with me, and I'm hoping to lessen that by making this trip quick.\n\nHis head disappeared as he scurried away. \"Have fun with that, [i]Marie[/i].\"\n\nHer snarl make the leaves next to her shake. \"Grrrr I hope you rot in that burrow.\" She spat as she loped by.\n\nShe had a cub to find.\n\n****\n\nFour hours of sniffing. Four hours of dodging other predators bigger and stronger than her. Four hours of dealing with bugs, humidity, and another damn snake. Three hours of Timon's constant nagging voice in her ear from every perceivable angle of the place. \n\n\"Yeah he's not there. Nope not there either, are you sure you are even looking, pretty sure he marked that tree once, nope it was me, a few minutes ago.\"\n\nFour hours of exhaustion and failure. Where ever Simba was in this blasted jungle, Shenzi was having no luck finding him,and the meerkat was making it worse by the second. Her paws ached from ambling around aimlessly in search of a scent she barely remembered at all. Nala's scent was close in comparison, but it was like catching a fart on the high winds, there and gone again before she could put it to memory.\n\n\"Uuugh.\" She flopped tiredly into an empty divot at the base of a large tree. \"Why Simba did you have to make this so damn hard?\" She said licking her tender paw pads. \"Find the cub, bring him home, easy. That is what was supposed to happen.\"\n\nSighing haggardly she curled up and drifted off to sleep, eye occasionally opening to see Timon coming closer to–\n\nHer growl broke him out of his sneaking. \"Come any closer and you're dead, rat!\" She blearily yawned and lifted her head, eying the meerkat defensively. \"You try and get under my tail ever again and I'll crush you to death with my hips.\"\n\nTimon chuckled at that, scurrying back to the nearest hole he'd made, a few feet from her back end. \"I know an egret who would take you up on that offer.\"\n\nShe growled louder. When he didn't move, she slowly lowered her head back to her paws, and then shifted her rump so it was planted firmly up on the base of the tree trunk she rested against.\n\nAfter a moment, he spoke again. \"Well Shenzi, I can honestly say I'm amazed...you weren't [i]lion[/i] about Simba, were ya?\" He chuckled at his own joke, at least until he found her staring away from him.\n\n\"No. I'm not.\" She inhaled a big breath of air and felt her shoulder itch again as her guilt rose with the memories of Timon nad his burrow mates...of his mother. She could tell a compromise was needed here or it'd be a month before she managed to get Simba home...and the cub might not have that much time left.\n\nAgainst her inner struggles, Shenzi spoke up.\n\n\"Look...You were right earlier.\" She mumbled, already hating how his ears perked. \"Predators shouldn't gloat over their prey, it was wrong of me to do so, and ...and I'm sorry you have trauma for it.\"\n\nTimon's snide comment failed on his lips and his jaw dropped like a lead weight. \"Wha...what did you say?\"\n\n[i]Why must we always repeat it[/i]?[i] It's hard enough to say once[/i]! Shenzi thought sourly. \"I [i]saaaaid[/i], I'm sorry for what I did to you and your family. While it's true hunters need to eat to survive, we shouldn't be so...cruel about it. Your mother didn't deserve what I did to her.\"\n\nSeveral seconds went by where Timon simply stared at her. It got uncomfortable real fast for the Queen. \"Can you reply to that? Can you say something please? Even if it's to ridicule me more, not just sit there like I told you I'm pregnant!\"\n\nTimon rapidly shook himself and partially crawled out of the hole. \"Is this a trick? A ploy to get me to come closer?\"\n\nShenzi rolled her eyes and reset her chin on her paws. \"I'm done snapping my jaws at you, as long as you don't try any [i]funny business[/i] with my backside again.\"\n\nShe closed her eyes, wishing for the release sleep brought her, only to hear the pattering of small claws n paws as Timon came practically right up to her nose. Was the urge there to bite him in half? Oh most certainly, but she knew now that if she wanted to get home before spring she was going to need to get on his good side and fast.\n\nAs much as she wanted to vomit at the very idea. \"I'm asking for a truce, and extending a peace offering. A genuine one. I need to find Simba as fast as possible, and you want me gone...Help me find him sooner rather than later and I'll leave, and not come back unless given an order to.\"\n\nTimon paused, sitting in front of her with his arms folded in skepticism. \"Who orders a Queen around?\"\n\nShenzi huffed. \"I am [i]a[/i] queen of my people, not [i]the[/i] queen of the pride lands. if Simba's Mother, Queen Sarabi ask it of me, I will come back through here to achieve whatever goal she has tasked me with.\" Then she lowered her voice. \"As much as you and I hate each other I will not let that cub's family suffer more for trouble they didn't cause.\"\n\nTimon waved his arms out in front of himself suddenly. \"Whoa whoa whoa, time out, you're sayin that cub is a prince?\"\n\n\"Soon to be King actually...if i can find him.\" She grumbled. \"I just hope he is better than Scar was.\"\n\nAs she lay there watching the meerkat think and mumble to himself, she finally managed to look at her shoulder, which once again was itching. Did she have a termite there or something?\n\nWhat she found confused her. As if painted into her fur, the image of a roaring lion was marked on her. She scratched at it gently to see if maybe her eyes were playing tricks on her. The image did not falter or fray in its design...it was seared into her fur.\n\n[i]Where the heck did this come from[/i]? [i]What even is it[/i]?\n\nAs she pondered this, even licking the fur a few times to see if it tasted different, Timon brought her back to the conversation with his words. \"Okay okay , Okay okay...You say this Queen Sarbi or whatever is his mother?\"\n\nShenzi raised a brow at the meerkat. \"It's [i]Sarabi[/i], and yes? She is the Queen of the Pride lands and the current ruler.\"\n\nTimon zipped up to her snout and put his hands on her nose, and she had to fight the urge to bite him. \"So say I tell her I saved her son! He'd literally be a desert mummy by now if we hadn't intervened.\"\n\nShenzi growled. \"You're attempting to curry favor with the Queen.\"\n\nHe nodded. \"Yup. Ya know it'd be nice to have some recognition for a change, I do way too much not to deserve it.\"\n\nShenzi growled more, making him side step her vibrating muzzle, but he didn't pull away, in fact he leaned on her nose bridge like he was about sell her something.\n\nAnd he was. \"So here's my deal, Marie. I help you get to Simba, you save him, help him, blah blah blah, and I go back with you and the cub. Sarabi sees what a hero I am, I get my recognition and maybe a couple royal favors, and ya know....you get your moment of praise too I suppose.\"\n\nShenzi lifted her head and made him back up. \"And what exactly is stopping me from telling her you abandoned him shortly after?\"\n\nTimon grinned. \"Because you, hyena, don't know what I do.\" He turned and started hopping down the trail. \"You have no idea how scared that cub is about leaving this jungle, the amount of times I've fed him, tricked him into finding fresh water, and even listened to him as he whimpered in his sleep. I know things about that cub that will keep your mouth shut.\"\n\nShenzi started walking, following after him, grumbling. \"How does any of that effect me? OR me telling Queen Sarabi that you're just trying to get in her good graces?\"\n\nTimon stopped as she came to stand next to him. \"You got brothers right, those two stooges who usually follow you around yeah?\"\n\nShe nodded slowly. \"Yes? Why?\"\n\nHe smirked and patted her leg. \"Yeah, I figured as much, Simba whimpers about you three in his sleep. He's terrified of Hyena. So ah, good luck getting close to him with out my help.\"\n\nShenzi growled and sat down, rubbing her forward in frustration. \"Aaaagh, that's great, juuust great...Okay fine he remembers us, no big deal, I'll just get him to see that I'm here on his mom's orders and–\"\n\n\"Yeah that ain't gonna work either, doll.\" Timon said, stopping again to scrabble at a log. He pulled a juicy looking worm from it's hole. Slurping it down he licked his lips and smacked them loudly. \"Mm taste like chicken.\"\n\nShenzi looked frazzled by his shut down of her idea. \"Okay, why wouldn't that work? Kids love their parents!\"\n\nTimon shook his head. \"Not this kid, some trauma with his dad a while back spooked him into hiding away. On top of that he's afraid to even speak of momma lion. I tried once to bring it up and he got all depressed and mumbled something about never going back and secrets of some stuff.\" Timon cleaned his paws and kept walking along as she joined him.\n\n\"So what do you suggest I do?\" She sourly spat. \"Just roll over and let him slowly work his way over to me? Should I just submit and let the kid batter me with his tears and trauma?\"\n\nTo her horror, Timon nodded. \"Now you're gettin it Queenie! The kid's spooked by your very presence, gotta lower yourself down to his level to get any word in edge wise.\"\n\nThe hyena shoved her nose into the small of the meerkat's back and knocked him over, growling lightly. \"Do not call me that, again.\" she snipped. \"My mate is the only one who calls me that, you do not have that honor.\"\n\nTimon chuckled nervously as she walked over top of him, and he got a good eye at her assets.\n\"Must be a lucky fellow to have all that to himself.\"\n\nShenzi flicked her tail, making sur he couldn't see much. \"Yes, he is. Now back on track pervert. If Simba is that scared, how are you getting close?\"\n\nTimon scurried underneath her and ahead. \"Easy, I leave him food. Buuut today I'll be leaving him you.\"\n\nShenzi plodded after him, worry in her expression and voice. \"[i]Ooh joy[/i]...\"\n\nShe hoped he would make it easier for her to explain the situation. But as all things in life for the Queen Hyena seemed to be, nothing was ever easy when lions were involved. ", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Tense would be a  far cry from the word Shenzi would use for the current situation she was in. On the one paw, she'd succeeded in finding her basic needs. Food, water, and shelter. On the other paw, she'd run into the most annoying, rude, and horrible little meerkat to ever have gotten in her fur...

Literally gotten in it.

Shenzi shuddered as the insipid little memory bubbled to the forefront of her mind.
Tiny pays gripping her tail base, little chirps and chitters from his muzzle as he bite her butt fur and humped...

She'd never live down such embarrassment.

The Queen hadn't stop growling at Timon since he'd appeared. Yet the meerkat seemed unphased, he practically looked bored. "To what, oh gracious Queen of the hyena, do I owe the horrible luck of dealing with you, Shenzi?"

Shenzi said nothing, just increased the volume of her growling.

Timon rolled his eyes. "Oi, ya give em some attention and they try to bite your head off the following morning, such is love I guess."

Shenzi's pupils shrank to pinpricks and she snarled, lunging forward as he said those words. "You raped me you little furry shit stain!"

Timon's expression merely looked more bored as she dove for him, jaws wide. Hie simply pivoted to the side and fell down a burrow. Shenzi cursed her luck as her teeth snapped closed on dirt and grass. Her furious shout echoed down the hole as she scratched and dug at the space the rodent had been in a frenzy. "Love implies I gave consent you fucking pile of waste! Love implies you asked permission first!"

"If I remember correctly, doll, you moaned while it happened... Pretty loudly too, was that not verbal consent?"

Shenzi snapped her head up into the tree above her. How the fuck'd he get up there so fast!?

"I WAS ASLEEP, TIMON!" She roared, leaping up as high as she could go, and only marginally came close to him with her snout.

Timon smirked, reclining on the branch with his arms behind his head. "Yeah you were, it was rather great...until you woke up huh? I still remember the look of horror on your face."

Shenzi swore she felt a tooth crack under the pressure she was applying to her clenched jaws. "Get down here...Get down here and let me rip that little head of yours to pieces, you perverse predator molesting ass hole!!"

Timon stayed where he was. He watched her for a time, before yawning, and looking up at the sky. "Call me whatever you want. To a guy like me, you deserved it and more. The humiliation...the ridicule from your clan mates...the embarrassment of knowing you got fucked by prey..." He glanced back at her and raised his hand, nearly pinching his fingers together. "All of that was just a liiiiitle bit of revenge flavored cream in the hyena cake I burrowed into that night."

"The fuck is wrong with you!?" She snarled, pacing back and forth. "What did I do to deserve that kind of treatment?!"

Timon's hand lowered, and his eyes darkened. "You sadistically crushed my mother's body in your jaws...as I was trapped and unable to escape." He glared down at her, his little claws scratching into the three bark. "You grinned down at me, and said thank you for the meal, and then...your clan brothers ate half my burrow family...sounds to me like you got off scott free, bitch."

Shenzi rolled her eyes this time and snapped her jaws shut loudly, making him flinch. "I am a predator! I have to hunt, I have to eat–"

"YOU DON'T HAVE TO GLOAT OVER US!" Timon chirped angrily making her flinch back. "You could have killed her quickly, and firmly, and walked away while doing so!"

The meerkat rose to his feet, tiny paws clenched at his side. "But no. No you stood there towering over me, knowing I was watching...as Ma gasped for air between your  rotten carrion glazed teeth, and you slowly crushed the life out of her." His glare turned icy.

"So yeah, I snuck into your den, and at first I contemplated how I might kill you in return."

Shenzi's shoulder itched suddenly and she rolled the bones to make it go away...but the more timon spoke, the worse the itch got, and the worse she actually started to feel.

As he spoke, Shenzi couldn't help but scratch at it with a hind leg.  "You couldn't possibly do enough damage to me to kill me, and you know it." She said with a low growl.

What is up with my shoulder!? she said trying to look back at it, but Timon's words made her stop and look back at him slowly. Her growl returned.

Timon smiled, but not a friendly one...no his smile was more akin to how Scar used to smile, and it made her listen. "Oh I do know, so I left a different kind of damage, the kind you'd be stuck reliving every day of every breath you had...just like you did to me."

He turned to the side, and huffed, "So I snuck under your tail and filled your pussy with the seed of a prey animal while you slept...and then I woke you up so you'd see, you'd SEE what had happened and never be able to rid yourself of the memory. I still think I didn't do enough."
He said flopping against the opposite branch and grinning down at her.

"And now I'm the one towering over you, and I have all the time in the world to get back at you again, and again."

Shenzi stared up at him for several minutes of silence, she lowered her hind leg as the itching went away, and she genuinely thought back to that day....to the day she'd woken to find the meerkat had dug a burrow into her den, and was under her tail breeding her. She remembered his claws gripping her fur...She remembered how he felt against her rump...

But more than that, her emotions forced her to dig deeper...to look closer. She remembered something he didn't...or something he'd forgotten to mention. Something he didn't want to remember himself perhaps.

"You were crying." She said quietly.

Timon jerked a little, and looked away as she spoke more.

Shenzi stood up on the tree with her front paws. "You were crying and breeding me... And those tears were ugly...not gentle in the least. That always stuck out as odd to me. Here you were getting your sweet revenge and yet...I saw guilt and anguish in your beady little eyes."

She glanced up at him. "You regret it, don't you?"

Timon growled, a weak comparison to her voice but one heard all the same. "The only thing I regret is not having the strength to kill you, Shenzi."

His resolve was a lot weaker than before. Shenzi frowned, and sat down. "I lived with a tyrant who didn't know the meaning of remorse or guilt...He hurt cubs in his den, and tortured his females by starving them of food and water, all because of his anger and jealousy. He didn't give two licks about caring for others. Revenge was something he knew well too."

Timon's head slanted back to listen, and she caught the barest hint of curiosity under his roiling emotions. "Whoopdee doo, did this hyena try to bed you too?"

She lowered her ears. "He wasn't a hyena, Timon. I would have killed him myself if he had been. No It was King Scar, of the Pride Lands. He killed his brother, took over the pride and held an iron paw over the land."

"Sounds like your average male lion if you ask me." Timon grumbled. "So naturally he sent you to look for more land to conquer, am I right?"

Shenzi frowned. "Not even close. He's dead, the pride is alive and doing better and...and the hyena clans have allied with the lions. I'm here to tie up loose ends."

Timon eyed her. "Loose ends...and those ends might be?"

Shenzi growled and started walking away. "I'm looking for a lion cub named Simba. Not that you actually care."

There was a rapid scurrying of paws, and before she knew it Timon hopped out onto the trail in front of her a couple paces. "Ah ha! So that scrawny cub is from the pride lands too eh? I thought I recognized that scent."

Shenzi immediatel lunged at him, and of course all she found was dirt in her mouth as he bolted down a hole. Standing and shaking her muzzle clean she looked around for the rat. "Rrg, you know him?"

Another couple paces ahead he reappeared from another burrow opening, head resting on his hand, elbow propped under him. "Yeah that kid and I go waaay back. He arrived not a few months ago, dying basically. Pumbaa and I we...."

Timon paused, and Shenzi felt like he had trouble saying the next words. "We ah...tried to take care of the little guy..."

She waited for a few seconds. "...Pumbaa? Whose that?"

Timon frowned eyes turned downward. "No one, now. The little brat attacked us one night, hunger crazed, frothing at the mouth for meat and unwilling to back down. He chased me into a burrow and when Pumbaa tried to intervene...well. A lion is a lion, regardless of size."

Shenzi felt her anger abate some at his admission, "He was your friend?"

Timon nodded. "More like a brother really...but why do you care?" He asked cautiously. "For that matter why is Simba so important to a Hyena...oh."

Before Shenzi could speak Timon's eyes widened and he scowled at her. "Tying up loose ends huh, you got it out for him too?" Timon growled and darted back into his hole. "Scar sent you to off him, didn't he?"

Shenzi growled and rubbed her face with her paws. "No you stupid rodent, I'm here to bring him home! His mother, the queen of the Pride lands tasked me with bring him back alive and safe." She flailed her paws at the jungle. "But this place is so freakishly large that I have no idea where to even start looking."

Then her eyes slanted back to his burrow, where he was cautiously peeking up at her. "But you do, you know where he likes to be, don't you?"

Timon lifted a small grub in his hands and put it to his muzzle, chewing loudly. "Oh ho ho ho no. No no no. I'm not gonna be your little errand mouse, lady. You wanna go lion hunting, call your brethren who are...oddly not around, I might add."

Shenzi huffed and clenched her teeth shut. "Fine, tell ya what then, lets make a deal. I will leave you alone completely, while I look for him, and in return, you do the same. That way neither of us has to deal with each other, fair?"

Timon eyed her for several long seconds. "Don't need to make any deals, I got my burrows, and you've got a haystack of a jungle to search, this'll be fun for me to watch you fumble around, not so much for you."

Shenzi growled and took a step forward, loving how he cowered in his burrow reflexively. "I...am trying to be civil, Berkowitz. Stop spitting on my paws and at least acknowledge that the longer I'm here, the longer you have to deal with me, and I'm hoping to lessen that by making this trip quick.

His head disappeared as he scurried away. "Have fun with that, Marie."

Her snarl make the leaves next to her shake. "Grrrr I hope you rot in that burrow." She spat as she loped by.

She had a cub to find.

****

Four hours of sniffing. Four hours of dodging other predators bigger and stronger than her. Four hours of dealing with bugs, humidity, and another damn snake. Three hours of Timon's constant nagging voice in her ear from every perceivable angle of the place.

"Yeah he's not there. Nope not there either, are you sure you are even looking, pretty sure he marked that tree once, nope it was me, a few minutes ago."

Four hours of exhaustion and failure. Where ever Simba was in this blasted jungle, Shenzi was having no luck finding him,and the meerkat was making it worse by the second. Her paws ached from ambling around aimlessly in search of a scent she barely remembered at all. Nala's scent was close in comparison, but it was like catching a fart on the high winds, there and gone again before she could put it to memory.

"Uuugh." She flopped tiredly into an empty divot at the base of a large tree. "Why Simba did you have to make this so damn hard?" She said licking her tender paw pads. "Find the cub, bring him home, easy. That is what was supposed to happen."

Sighing haggardly she curled up and drifted off to sleep, eye occasionally opening to see Timon coming closer to–

Her growl broke him out of his sneaking. "Come any closer and you're dead, rat!" She blearily yawned and lifted her head, eying the meerkat defensively. "You try and get under my tail ever again and I'll crush you to death with my hips."

Timon chuckled at that, scurrying back to the nearest hole he'd made, a few feet from her back end. "I know an egret who would take you up on that offer."

She growled louder. When he didn't move, she slowly lowered her head back to her paws, and then shifted her rump so it was planted firmly up on the base of the tree trunk she rested against.

After a moment, he spoke again. "Well Shenzi, I can honestly say I'm amazed...you weren't lion about Simba, were ya?" He chuckled at his own joke, at least until he found her staring away from him.

"No. I'm not." She inhaled a big breath of air and felt her shoulder itch again as her guilt rose with the memories of Timon nad his burrow mates...of his mother. She could tell a compromise was needed here or it'd be a month before she managed to get Simba home...and the cub might not have that much time left.

Against her inner struggles, Shenzi spoke up.

"Look...You were right earlier." She mumbled, already hating how his ears perked. "Predators shouldn't gloat over their prey, it was wrong of me to do so, and ...and I'm sorry you have trauma for it."

Timon's snide comment failed on his lips and his jaw dropped like a lead weight. "Wha...what did you say?"

Why must we always repeat it? It's hard enough to say once! Shenzi thought sourly. "I saaaaid, I'm sorry for what I did to you and your family. While it's true hunters need to eat to survive, we shouldn't be so...cruel about it. Your mother didn't deserve what I did to her."

Several seconds went by where Timon simply stared at her. It got uncomfortable real fast for the Queen. "Can you reply to that? Can you say something please? Even if it's to ridicule me more, not just sit there like I told you I'm pregnant!"

Timon rapidly shook himself and partially crawled out of the hole. "Is this a trick? A ploy to get me to come closer?"

Shenzi rolled her eyes and reset her chin on her paws. "I'm done snapping my jaws at you, as long as you don't try any funny business with my backside again."

She closed her eyes, wishing for the release sleep brought her, only to hear the pattering of small claws n paws as Timon came practically right up to her nose. Was the urge there to bite him in half? Oh most certainly, but she knew now that if she wanted to get home before spring she was going to need to get on his good side and fast.

As much as she wanted to vomit at the very idea. "I'm asking for a truce, and extending a peace offering. A genuine one. I need to find Simba as fast as possible, and you want me gone...Help me find him sooner rather than later and I'll leave, and not come back unless given an order to."

Timon paused, sitting in front of her with his arms folded in skepticism. "Who orders a Queen around?"

Shenzi huffed. "I am a queen of my people, not the queen of the pride lands. if Simba's Mother, Queen Sarabi ask it of me, I will come back through here to achieve whatever goal she has tasked me with." Then she lowered her voice. "As much as you and I hate each other I will not let that cub's family suffer more for trouble they didn't cause."

Timon waved his arms out in front of himself suddenly. "Whoa whoa whoa, time out, you're sayin that cub is a prince?"

"Soon to be King actually...if i can find him." She grumbled. "I just hope he is better than Scar was."

As she lay there watching the meerkat think and mumble to himself, she finally managed to look at her shoulder, which once again was itching. Did she have a termite there or something?

What she found confused her. As if painted into her fur, the image of a roaring lion was marked on her. She scratched at it gently to see if maybe her eyes were playing tricks on her. The image did not falter or fray in its design...it was seared into her fur.

Where the heck did this come from? What even is it?

As she pondered this, even licking the fur a few times to see if it tasted different, Timon brought her back to the conversation with his words. "Okay okay , Okay okay...You say this Queen Sarbi or whatever is his mother?"

Shenzi raised a brow at the meerkat. "It's Sarabi, and yes? She is the Queen of the Pride lands and the current ruler."

Timon zipped up to her snout and put his hands on her nose, and she had to fight the urge to bite him. "So say I tell her I saved her son! He'd literally be a desert mummy by now if we hadn't intervened."

Shenzi growled. "You're attempting to curry favor with the Queen."

He nodded. "Yup. Ya know it'd be nice to have some recognition for a change, I do way too much not to deserve it."

Shenzi growled more, making him side step her vibrating muzzle, but he didn't pull away, in fact he leaned on her nose bridge like he was about sell her something.

And he was. "So here's my deal, Marie. I help you get to Simba, you save him, help him, blah blah blah, and I go back with you and the cub. Sarabi sees what a hero I am, I get my recognition and maybe a couple royal favors, and  ya know....you get your moment of praise too I suppose."

Shenzi lifted her head and made him back up. "And what exactly is stopping me from telling her you abandoned him shortly after?"

Timon grinned. "Because you, hyena, don't know what I do." He turned and started hopping down the trail. "You have no idea how scared that cub is about leaving this jungle, the amount of times I've fed him, tricked him into finding fresh water, and even listened to him as he whimpered in his sleep. I know things about that cub that will keep your mouth shut."

Shenzi started walking, following after him, grumbling. "How does any of that effect me? OR me telling Queen Sarabi that you're just trying to get in her good graces?"

Timon stopped as she came to stand next to him. "You got brothers right, those two stooges who usually follow you around yeah?"

She nodded slowly. "Yes? Why?"

He smirked and patted her leg. "Yeah, I figured as much, Simba whimpers about you three in his sleep. He's terrified of Hyena. So ah, good luck getting close to him with out my help."

Shenzi growled and sat down, rubbing her forward in frustration. "Aaaagh, that's great, juuust great...Okay fine he remembers us, no big deal, I'll just get him to see that I'm here on his mom's orders and–"

"Yeah that ain't gonna work either, doll." Timon said, stopping again to scrabble at a log. He pulled a juicy looking worm from it's hole. Slurping it down he licked his lips and smacked  them loudly. "Mm taste like chicken."

Shenzi looked frazzled by his shut down of her idea. "Okay, why wouldn't that work? Kids love their parents!"

Timon shook his head. "Not this kid, some trauma with his dad a while back spooked him into hiding away. On top of that he's afraid to even speak of momma lion. I tried once to bring it up and he got all depressed and mumbled something about never going back and secrets of some stuff." Timon cleaned his paws and kept walking along as she joined him.

"So what do you suggest I do?" She sourly spat. "Just roll over and let him slowly work his way over to me? Should I just submit and let the kid batter me with his tears and trauma?"

To her horror, Timon nodded. "Now you're gettin it Queenie! The kid's spooked by your very presence, gotta lower yourself down to his level to get any word in edge wise."

The hyena shoved her nose into the small of the meerkat's back and knocked him over, growling lightly. "Do not call me that, again." she snipped. "My mate is the only one who calls me that, you do not have that honor."

Timon chuckled nervously as she walked over top of him, and he got a good eye at her assets.
"Must be a lucky fellow to have all that to himself."

Shenzi flicked her tail, making sur he couldn't see much. "Yes, he is. Now back on track pervert. If Simba is that scared, how are you getting close?"

Timon scurried underneath her and ahead. "Easy, I leave him food. Buuut today I'll be leaving him you."

Shenzi plodded after him, worry in her expression and voice. "Ooh joy..."

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