No Pride in the Pride Lands [Completed]

[fairiesandmilk]

Character(s): Link, Scar, and anyone else who pops up.
Content: Link is still stuck in the Pride Lands, and still being forced to live as a wolf.
Setting: Pride Lands near Pride Rock
Time: Late Morning (Week 31)
Warnings: Possible mauling by Scar?

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[i_killedmufasa]

Well, here was a rare animal. Scar wasn't sure he'd ever seen on like it before. Something like a jackal...but certainly bigger than that. Still nothing compared to the size of a lion, but the hyenas would probably have some trouble with this one.

They had all been rather surprised when he arrived, something about having watching him get mauled. It didn't take long before the lot of them shut up, however, as the Heartless proved far more useful than the hyenas ever had. For one thing, the Heartless actually obeyed him. None of them had dared to follow him beyond the boundary of the Elephant Graveyard.

It hadn't taken Scar long after that to be quite certain that these were not his Pride Lands. Oh, it was the same place, of course, that he couldn't deny. However, the Pride Lands he had left were in the middle of a terrible drought. While the signs of that dry season were still here, new grass was growing, and he could see sprigs of new leaves on the trees. This was probably the Pride Lands of Zira's memories, or one of her

[lionessofwar]

Vitani wasn't entirely sure how it happened, but when she suddenly vanished from Muspelheim to...what looked oddly like the Pride Lands, well, saying she was utterly bewildered was a understatement. It looked like the Pride Lands, but the more she wandered and looked around, the more she realized something...wasn't quite right.

Especially when she caught a scent that didn't seem like anything she had known before, but also another...lion? She follows the scent, leading her to the waterhole where she not only caught sight of the unfamiliar canine, but also...no way. She had only been a small cub when Scar had been killed by Simba, but Kovu certainly bore a resemblance to him. She had been told he's here, but Vitani never thought she'd actually run into Scar, even after she had spoken to her mother.

At the moment, she's just a bit too caught off guard by surprise to do much more than silently creep closer, keeping a careful eye on the stranger while most of her attention is on Scar. It couldn't really be him...could it?

[fairiesandmilk]

Link looked up from the water and gazed at the lion next to him. Well, what do you know! It's the lion that had helped him in Spira! Why was he acting so...creepy?

"I didn't know there were lions around here. You're Scar, right?" Link had turned to face him now. "I know I don't look like me anymore, but I'm Link. I think it was you who had helped me back from Spira?" Link cocked his head, and hoped that Scar would remember him. He didn't like the look he was getting, and he felt very vulnerable in this new body considering he had no weapons and would have to use his teeth to defend himself.

The lioness' presence went unnoticed. Link sense of smell had multiplied, but he wasn't used to separating the smells. His brain was overloaded with the information coming from his nose so even if she was in a place where he could catch her scent, he wouldn't know how to process it.

[i_killedmufasa]

"Link?" Scar put a claw to his lips in thought. "Ooooh, yes, I do remember. You were that poor soul who'd been set upon by the Heartless. You're certainly in much better shape now than you were last time we met." Scar's teeth were now much less visible, though his grin still held some of that devilish quality.

Unfortunately, Scar had never been very good at noticing anyone trying to sneak up on him. There were very, very few in the Pride Lands would dare. This meant that Vitani went just as unnoticed by him as she had by Link. Her silent creeping made her rather difficult to detect...and if any creature in the Pride Lands was good at that, it was a lioness.

[lionessofwar]

Well then, that atleast erased her doubts. So this truely is Scar, and the stranger is someone named Link? Strange name. But that still leaves Vitani the not so little problem of she had never really considered what she would do when she finally ran into Scar, and now she truely wishes she had because she honestly doesn't know what to do now that she is here.

She stops when she gets close, though if she were actually paying attention, she may notice she's actually a bit too close. Either Link or Scar could catch her scent, and if either happened to look in her direction, possibly see the lioness watching them from the tall grass.