know where he is.”

“Well then Zazu, I think you better tell me how to get through here without running into that hawk.”

“Just go where you were heading, I’ll lead the hawk away from where you exit. Okay?”

“Fine, just get moving.”

 

Zazu flew straight back to Kucha after this. He needed to ask if he wanted to kill the lion cub that injured him. If not, then he wouldn’t have to tell Kucha to move somewhere away from the swamp. He hoped that that would be the case.

Zazu made it to Kucha very quickly, apparently he was closer to the edge of the swamp than he had thought. He was desperately out of breath, but at least one if not two lives were on the line here. Zazu gasped out his message.

“Kucha! Remember that story of your…” Zazu panted for breath. “Childhood? When the lion attacked you? I was wondering if you harbored any hate over that fact at all.”

“Well of course Zazu. That lion destroyed my life. Stole my family from me and seriously wounded me. I don’t want to kill him because I did turn out just fine, but I definitely would like to give him some scars he would remember.”

“Oh, fine with me. We should probably get moving and try to fly around this swamp. There are some strange winds out there.”

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“All right, I have a few more questions especially concerning your issue with hawks. First, why do you think that one hawk wants to kill you?”

“Well, let’s see here, I left him lying on the ground back there with about half his blood on the ground and with no possible way to live.”

“Well if he can’t have lived, then he must be dead. I think you’re stressing out about this way too much.”

“Except for one small detail. He’s alive.”

“All right then my friend Mufasa, tell me any distinguishing details and the age he would be now”

“Well let’s see if I can remember now, he would have larger than average claws probably on his own, unless he’s with whoever healed him from his wounds, and he would probably be a young adult now, only slightly older than me.”

Zazu looked away with a nervous twitch. “I uhh… should head back to where my uhh… other uhh, uhh friend is. Goodbye!”

With that rather strange parting, Zazu tried to fly off. However Mufasa was still alert and grabbed Zazu by the tail feathers. “You aren’t going anywhere yet. You were suddenly really nervous right there. I want you to explain why. Were you the being that healed that hawk?”

“No sir Mufasa.” Squeaked Zazu, “however I believe I know that hawk. His name is Kucha and I think I know where he is.”

“Well then Zazu, I think you better tell me how to get through here without running into that hawk.”

“Just go where you were heading, I’ll lead the hawk away from where you exit. Okay?”

“Fine, just get moving.”

 

Zazu flew straight back to Kucha after this. He needed to ask if he wanted to kill the lion cub that injured him. If not, then he wouldn’t have to tell Kucha to move somewhere away from the swamp. He hoped that that would be the case.

Zazu made it to Kucha very quickly, apparently he was closer to the edge of the swamp than he had thought. He was desperately out of breath, but at least one if not two lives were on the line here. Zazu gasped out his message.

“Kucha! Remember that story of your…” Zazu panted for breath. “Childhood? When the lion attacked you? I was wondering if you harbored any hate over that fact at all.”

“Well of course Zazu. That lion destroyed my life. Stole my family from me and seriously wounded me. I don’t want to kill him because I did turn out just fine, but I definitely would like to give him

“Let’s go then. Race you to the other side!”

Kucha thought it was strange how this conversation went and therefore decided to look inside the swamp a little while flying around. He saw a large cub walking cautiously through looking around. As soon as the cub looked his way and saw the two birds he lowered himself and tried to make himself unseen from anything. This was the cub from his adventure but Kucha flew on, he would have his revenge later with Zazu at his side.

 

Mufasa was traveling through the swamp at a faster rate now that he knew the tricks to traveling in one. He hoped Zazu would manage to convince the hawk to go away and not bother him. He was always watching for that glimpse of a hawk.

There! No that was just a wisp of fog. But finally he caught his glimpse of two birds. They were far away but it was definitely Zazu and therefore the other one was the hawk, Kucha or whatever his name was. Mufasa instinctively crouched down behind a bush. It was possible that the hawk had glanced his way and seen him, but they just kept going straight. He was safe, at least for now.

Now that they were out of sight he abandoned all caution and ran straight for the exit to the swamps. He hoped he would come out on the path of Taka. It could make life very difficult if he lost the path.

He was having one of the luckiest days of his life. The faint smell was right there when he left the swamp. He looked back and could have sworn that the swamp was already half its previous size. The weather was definitely not right.

 

Kucha thought about the lion cub he had passed. There was no way it was a different cub. Tomorrow he would get Zazu to turn around with him and then he would avenge his loss. He flew on a little farther in silence. The feeling of hate grew in him every second.

He became afraid that when given the chance he would kill the cub instead of just causing him pain lasting for a few weeks. He might need Zazu’s help to keep him under control. He wished it would go away.

“Zazu?”

“Yes Kucha?”

“I will need your help. I’m changing into some sort of killing machine. If given the chance, I will kill everything. You need to be able to keep me under control okay? I’m afraid of what would happen otherwise.”

“I would always help you like that. I hope that never happens.”

“Thank you. I’ll see you in the morning.”

 

 

A Conversation: Chapter 10

 

He couldn’t delay any longer. Both his sons were somewhere in the savannah, possibly dead, and no trail to identify where they could be. If he didn’t start now, he would never have a chance of finding them.

Ahadi summoned two of his favorite lionesses to help him search for Mufasa and Taka. Their names were Sakanya and Kuta. They had a knack for finding things that most others wouldn’t find.

They set out starting at the water hole that Mufasa hid in. It didn’t take long before they found his trail. Ahadi was not doing much in the search. He was not as good as the lionesses. They were almost sprinting following the trail. Mufasa had covered more ground that last day than any had suspected.

It was still early in the morning when they came next to the place where Kucha had been attacked as a fledgling. As fate would have it, Kucha and Zazu were just waking up. Ahadi approached boldly and started talking as if he could fight them both off easily. The lionesses glanced at each other, hawks were not supposed to be bargained with in this way.

“You there! The sleeping hawk. Wake up.” Ahadi waited for a minute before deciding the hawk was not moving very willingly. He shook him roughly. “HAWK! Wake up before I decide to kill you.”

This time the hawk moved. But not in the way Ahadi was expecting. Kucha was awake but not showing it. So he surprised Ahadi by suddenly jerking his wings open and pushing away. He prepared himself for an attack on Ahadi.

Very fortunately for Ahadi, Zazu had also just woken up and yelled at Kucha, “KUCHA! Don’t attack. I still need you.”

Kucha calmed down and started talking to Ahadi, but not very nicely. “What do you want? We’re just trying to get some sleep and you just shake me and yell at me and set my reflexes to attack. That would have been very bad for you.”

Ahadi was equally impolite also, “Well sorry. I’m under some stress here to save my cubs life and you refuse to help.”

“I never said I wouldn’t help, but it looks more likely now for me to do that. I should just fly off with my friend Zazu here and never see you again!”

“Oh yes. I forgot. A hawk that does have a small potential to actually injure someone is traveling with a Hornbill! They are worthless birds that should be eradicated from this planet.”

Zazu replied to this one. “I’ll let you know that I seem to have hurt more people in my life than this Kucha the fearsome hawk. That includes killing someone who was trying to maim me for life.”

Ahadi just laughed harder. “HAHAHAHAHAHA. If you did more than this hawk here, then he must have done NOTHING!”

It was at this point that Sakanya and Kuta stepped in between them and quietly talked to Ahadi. “Sire, we want these birds to help us. Right now all you’re doing is making them angry. Could you please walk over there behind that rock outcropping? We can handle this situation.”

Ahadi agreed but reluctantly, he still wanted to humiliate the birds more.

Kuta stepped up and introduced them selves. “Hello uhhhh… Kucha and Zazu! Now I remember. We have to apologize for Ahadi’s behavior both his sons have gone missing and he really wants them back.”

Now Sakanya stepped in, “There have been many strange things happening here in the pridelands in the last couple days. I don’t know if you had the occurrences too, we had some extremely strong wind and our shaman had a vision about our past with similar circumstances.”

Together now, they asked the main question, “We were wondering if you saw two lion cubs come by here. At least one anyway?”

Kucha immediately replied no, but Zazu was fidgeting around and was clearly in an awkward situation. “Well uhh… um, sort of.”

“Sort of?” Asked Sakanya, “You either saw one or you didn’t.”

Zazu was thinking, he hadn’t told Kucha about his conversation with the lion cub yet and speaking up

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