"Ahhh. Another boring day." Thought Shenzi as she streched on a pile of uncomfortable bones. Beside her, her friends Ed and Banzai slept. Banzai was snoring loudly. Shenzi, who was a rather violent hyena, was annoyed by this.

    She kicked him. "Hey! Wake up!"

    "Huh whazzat?!" Banzai said as he woke up suddenly. He shook his head three times, in a state of shock. When he realized it had been Shenzi, he got angry.

    "Shenzi Marie Predatoria Jackalina Hyena! You have got to stop doing that!" He said.

    Shenzi snickered. "I'll do it if I wanna do it. And don't call me by my full name!"

   Banzai rubbed his back where Shenzi had kicked him. "Well why don't you ever do it to Ed? It's always me!"

   Shenzi poked him. "Pfft. Ed doesn't snore like you, and his breath doesn't reek of bones."

Banzai rolled his eyes. "Bones don't even smell, dimwitt."

Shenzi snickered. "Whatever you say." She looked down at Ed, whose drool was hanging out of the side of his mouth. He was breathing slowly, and sleeping peacfully. "Could be fun though." She said.

   Shenzi reared back to kick Ed. But just as she was to do so, a voice startled her.

   " So bored we're reduced to kicking each other are we?"

   Shenzi jumped and fell off of the pile of bones. It had been the voice of their boss, Scar.

   " How incredibly barbaric." Scar said as he walked by the pile and sat down in front of the trio.

   "Uh, we were only playin'." Said Banzai.

   " What a wonderful way to play." Scar said, rolling his eyes. Ed, who had awoken by the small arguement taking place, laughed stupidly, totally unaware of what was going on.

   " Yeah. It is...barbaric...I guess. But uh, hey Scar, weren't you supposed to be at Mufasa's ceremony...thing?" Shenzi asked, surprised to see him. "You do know it's today, don't you?"

   Scar snickered, then rolled his eyes at the hyena's question. "Of course I know it's today you idiots!"

   Shenzi got uncomfortable. "Um, aren't you supposed to be there?"

   Scar paused, then continued in an irritated way. "If you morons think Im going than your dumber than I thought!" Scar snapped. "I was cheated out of my own right! I was supposed to be the next king! Not that scrungy little "Simba"!"

   Shenzi's ears went back. "Sorry Scar. Just curious."

   "Of course you are. You hyena's are ALWAYS curious. Too curious for your own goods actually." Scar said. He cleared his throat. "Ahem, we're getting off-topic. I came here to ask you something."

   "Shoot." Banzai said.

   " Do you think that today, you could stay inside the ELEPHANT GRAVEYARD?!"

   All hyenas got tense and endured themselves for a lecture.

   " DO YOU HAVE ANY SENSE?! ANY SENSE AT ALL? JUST YESTERDAY YOU GOT REPORTED  AGIAN FOR SNEAKING INTO THE PRIDELANDS! WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU? THIS IS THE THIRD TIME THIS WEEK! DO YOU KNOW HOW CLOSE I WAS, TO BEING CAUGHT HERE, WITH YOU, YESTERDAY?! DO YOU KNOW HOW THAT'LL RUIN MY REPUTATION!?"

   On and on Scar rambled. Until he got sick of yelling. Which actually lasted through the whole ceremony of Simba's birth.

  "Ahem. Now if you'll excuse me, I must go endure my sick brother." Scar started to slink off. But before he left, he gave the hyenas a look. "Don't do it again!" He yelled. Then he disapered from sight.

"Geez." Said Banzai as he scratched his left ear. "What's he so angry about? We were hungry. I mean, there's nothing to eat here."

"Yeah I know."Shenzi said. "But hey, whatcha gonna do?"

Ed panted and drooled, thinking of the zebras they had chased yesterday. Shenzi shot him a glare.

"Ed! Don't remind us!" Shenzi snapped as her stomach growled.

"Man, we gotta eat something." Said Banzai.

"But, what? We'll get caught if we go in the Pridelands..."

There was a long silence.

"Guess we'll just have to go hungry again..." Said Banzai.

Later that night, Scar returned to the Graveyard, in a horrible mood.

The hyena's were forced to listen to a long explanation of how Mufasa was angry with him for not attending the ceremony.

"He almost challenged me!" Scar told them. "Do you have any idea what would've happened to me if I'd accepted?"

The Hyenas weren't very interested, and were very disapointed when Scar had told them there would be no food for them tonight.

A few weeks passed. Not much food was consumed.

"Man, I'm am so tired of this!" Banzai complained to Shenzi. "I haven't eaten in three days!"

Shenzi pointed to the Pridelands. "Well...it ain't too busy today...maybe we can, like, sneak there and just get a little something. Whadda say?"

"Can't say no to that!" Banzai said eagerly. He really wasn't ready to say no, when he was as hungry as he was.

Little did the arrogant hyenas know, today was the day King Mufasa was going to show his son, Prince Simba, the Pridelands.

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Mufasa walked alongside his son in the Pridelands, explaining many things his curious son questioned him. "Simba is really growing up." He thought to himself. "One day he'll be a fine king."

Soon after hearing the Morning Report from Zazu, and clowning around a bit with his son, he was informed the hyenas were in the Pridelands. "Not again!" Mufasa thought. Those hyenas were dangerous to Simba, and ate too much food at a time. After ordering Zazu to take Simba home, he ran as fast as he could to where he had heard they had been spotted. 

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    "Man! That was great! I've never had better mutton in my life!" Said Banzai, who was gorging himself on an antelope the hyenas had just killed.

"But Banzai," Shenzi said with a full mouth. "This isn't a sheep..."

Suddenly, a tremendous roar was heard.

"Uh-oh!" All three hyenas stared in shock as Mufasa came charging into view. He stopped right in front of the terrified hyenas.

"GET OUT!" He roared. "YOUR NOT WELCOME HERE!"

"Err, yes sir...right away sir..." Said a terrified Shenzi.

Mufasa looked at the corpse of the antelope.

"YOUR DESTROYING THE CIRCLE OF LIFE! OUR ECOSYSTEM HAS TO MAINTAIN A CERTAIN BALANCE! GET OUT!"

All three, panicked hyenas scurried away as fast as they could. Ed tripped, got up, and ran behind, that's how nervous they were. Everyone knew that NO ONE messed with Mufasa. And to make matters worse, Mufasa had to squeeze in one last, terrifying roar to them.

The hyenas entered the elephant skull, which was their, "hangout" as quickly as possible. As soon as they were safe inside, Shenzi snapped at the other two, wretched hyenas, still shaking with fear.

"It's all your fault! You guys gave us away somehow!" She yelled.

"Not true!" Banzai argued back. "It's your fault! They probably smelled you from half a mile away!"

Shenzi gave a "oh no you didn't" look. "You! Why I oughta-your the one with bone breath!"

"What'd I tell you earlier! Bones. Don't....STINK!"

"Well, your bones do!" Shenzi said. And before they knew it, they were on top of each other, biting and nipping at each other ears, clawing faces, and fighting.

"It's your fault! No it's your fault!" Choruses could be heard throughout the whole graveyard. A curious Scar came to investigate. He entered the skull, and saw the three hyenas. "Well, what a wonderful day it's been for me." He thought.

Scar yelled to the hyenas. His voice was barely heard over the racket. "Cut it out, you fools!"

The three hyenas froze. They all stared at Scar for about three seconds, then snapped to attention. "Eer, sorry sir!" Said a rather embarrassed Banzai. All hyenas, who were looking rather foolish, blushed.

"What have you done this time?" Asked an annoyed Scar.

"Eer, nothing!" Shenzi said. "We were uh, bored, so we were having a wrestling-"

"Yes, whatever. I know where you three numbskulls have been."

"Uh, ya do?" Asked a nervous Shenzi.

"Yes. You snuck in there AGAIN. Didn't you?"

"Uh....yeah...but-"

"Now listen to me." Said Scar. "I won't get angry with you today because I understand your probably hungry."

"Um...ok?" Shenzi said, confused. She didn't understand why Scar wasn't giving his lecture.

"In fact," Scar continued. "I have a little job for you. You should get some good eats for a reward!"

"Re-Really?!" Banzai asked. "You mean...we'll get some zebra or something?"

Scar smiled evily. "Much better than that my friends. Much better."

Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed listened intently to Scar's plan to getting rid of Simba, so he could be the future king. Apparently, Scar was going to tell curious little Simba about the elephant graveyard, as he knew the young prince couldn't resist going somewhere he was not supposed to. Then, he'd come here, maybe even with a friend, and the hyenas could eat him up, just like that.

"So, how's that sound?" Scar said when he finished his explanation.

The hyenas were excited to start. "When we gonna do it?"

"Today, if we must." Scar said. "Well, I'm going to go into the Pridelands and give little idiot Simba a talk about this place."

Scar got up, and slinked off. "Be sure, be sure to eat those little mangy furballs." He told the hyenas. Then, he disapered as always.

"Oh, you don't have to worry Scar. No worries." Shenzi said, licking her chops.

All three hyenas snickered and laughed.

End of Part 1.

To be continued...