Mali, grandpa, Mum, Dad, Shani, grandma, me and everyone else!!!& are Simba's daughter," he growled between his teeth.
"Kiara!" Kovu gasped and ran to help her. But before he reached her, Scar knocked him to the ground, too. "K-Kim...?" Kovu coughed. "And YOU, hand-chosen by ME. How could I be such a fool to trust you?! The minute you saw a Pridelander, you turned your back to your own pride." "K-Kim, w-what...what are you tal-talking about...?!"
Kovu looked at his son and gasped. It wasn't Kim. It was Scar. There were a few minor differences but it was him, Kovu knew it better than anyone. "N-no...I-it can't be you...Y-you're, y-you're dead!" Scar chuckled. "Never speak bad of the dead, Kovu. They just might come back!" He held his paws on Kovu's throat, ready to rip the traitor apart, when he remembered something else.
"No," he smiled. "I won't kill you just yet. I'll do it in a slow and painful way - I'm going to let you watch how I tear my dear little brother to small pieces." "NO!!!" Kiara screamed. "No! You can't do it!" Scar looked at her down his nose, then turned to Halali. Until this moment, the lionesses had been afraid and stayed out of his way, but now they all gathered around Halali to protect him. Somehow they knew he was their only hope. Kovu tried to get up, but Scar only needed to slap him a little an he fell to the ground in pain again. "I Good. I'm not mad at you, sorry if I yelled." She nuzzled him lovingly and all was forgotten.
"By the way," Kovu started. "Umm, this might not be a good time to ask, but...when ARE we gonna return to the Pride Lands?" Kiara looked at him sadly. "I dont know, Kovu. I think we'll still have to wait some time." "But we've waited for so long!" Kovu replied. "I miss everyone back there, Vitani Nala, Kim, Shani, Mafumbo, everyone. I want to go home." "So do I, but...what about Kim?" "What ABOUT Kim? What if he' not jealous at all? Whay if he just misses us and wants us back? He doesn't even know about Halali! I'm sure they'll get along. If they don't, they'll just have to learn it sooner or later."
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Kim somehow got the strength to throw Scar off him and got ready to attack him, but Scar was faster than he expected and got away before Kim could grab him. He ran up Pride Rock, to the top and Kim followed him. "Kim, be careful!" Shani shouted after him. "Don't worry, I will!" Kim saw dark clouds forming to the sky, like an omen, he thought.
He reached Scar at the top, thinking he had gotten him into a trap, but this was part of Scar's plan. "You can't escape this time!" Kim shouted angrily. "So young, so foolish..." Scar laughed. "I'm not trying to escape. This is where I wanted YOU, not the other way. You see, Kim, I need you. And you need me, that's the hard truth." "I don't need you, I never did, you just tried to convince me to believe it, Kim growled. "No, Kimwondo. What about your brother? I did it for you AND me."
Kim felt himself filling with rage. He jumped on Scar and nearly choked him. "SHUT UP! YOU'RE LYING! YOU'VE BEEN LYING ALL THE TIME!" Scar just smiled. "Oh, Kim. It's all your own fault." "What do you mean?!" "It wasn't my idea to kill Maliki, it was YOUR own idea. Otherwise I never would have gotten inside you." He chuckled evilly. "That's a lie! I never wanted to kill him!" "Look back, Kim. Look back at that time. Remember your dream? Remember?! You said you hated him. You said you wanted to get back at him. AND I FELT IT THE WAY YOU DID."
Kim was ready to refuse to believe again, then he remembered. He remembered how the only thing in his mind at the night they returned from the elephant graveyard, was to KILL Maliki. He had been so filled with anger and rage, that he just wanted ti get rid of him for good. To KILL him.
When he was memorizing this, he didn't watch out for himself and suddenly Scar rolled him to the edge of Pride Rock. "You foolish Pridelander!" he hissed. "You are the only thing on my way now. And up here, there's no-one to help you. Now..." he chuckled, "...prepare to meet the Great Kings of the past."
Kim felt helpless and didn't know what to do. Suddenly, it hit him like a lightning. He looked at Scar and saw what had been the keyword all the time:
Anger.
He smiled to himself, he knew what to do now. "Before you kill me, I want to say two things." Scar lifted his paw to strike him to death, then suddenly stopped for this strange interruption. The brat was spoiling his victory! He looked madly at Kim.
"WHAT?!" "It's my last wish, can you at least be that noble?" Kim smiled carefree. Scar wanted to get this overwith, Kim was the only thing stopping him on his way to power and he wanted to win this time. "Alright," he groaned. "What?!"