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That scraggly hyena was still wasting away her day, sleeping in the hazy fog of the Grave Yard. This time, it was a restless sleep. Dreams of lions chasing her, stealing away food straight from her mouth...It made her twitch and whine, rolling over into a particularly sharp bone. "Erk--..!", she bolted upright, looking around in confusion. "What? Huh? .." Grumbling, she swatted the bones away and glared around. "It's deffinetly too early for me to get up.."

Her head hunched low beneath her shoulders, as if she were sulking. In reality, she was wincing. Those yellow eyes turned to watch first Ed, then eye the rocks in a curious, disdainful way. "..What, Ed?". Blinking, her large ears perked up as she spotted the bug, before she rolled her eyes and gave an exagerated groan. "..Well, that's great, Ed. Really, you've proven your skills at finding food are far superior to all of ours.." She refrained from making some sort of "rock for brains" joke, without Banzai around, it wouldn't be as funny. Ed wouldn't get her wit.

Within the graveyard there was another. A long, sleek, majestic lion prowled along the cliffs and bones. Scar, black mane concealing his face, glared upon the hyena as they searched for food. Within his grasp a single wildebeast hindquarter, a "gift" if you will. The scent of meat would surely drive the hyenas in his direction, so silently he remained perched atop the largest skull in the grave yard. "come and get it you filthy slobbering, mangy stupid poachers..." he muttered, having heard that phrase somewhere before.

"Ed, why don't you do something useful like find REAL foo--..", she trailed off, forgetting the pile of rocks Ed had so laborously donated to her. Eyes wide, large ears perked straight up like huge arrow heads, she rose to her feet and smelled the air. "..You smell that? THAT smells like food..", of course, the smarter part of her food oriented brain picked up the scent of Scar, as well. "..But that is NOT food, for certain. Eh.."

There was only one lion she ever saw around here, and that was Scar. As it were, she slunk out of the skull and scampered some feet further, turning to look up at the black maned lion perched atop it. Then, she became all smiles and gesture. "Oh, Scaaar..It's so great to see you! Why, I was just talking to Ed here, " she paused to look around for the spoken hyena, "..Talking to him about how amazing you were, not like all those other lions.." Grin, bristle, try not to drool..Work for the food, that was the job here.

Scar's smile grew more malicious as he stood atop his perch. In his own mind he was king of these beasts, yet still in the Monarchy there were two to be delt with. With the recent birth of Simba, Scar felt his hold on the crown loosening, this angered the black lion and so he sought refuge the only place he could find it. He looked down to Shenzi, watching her as they came toward him. "I see..." He said lifting the wildebeast leg high. "Perhaps something...to wet your appetite..." He added slyly, tossing the leg down to them. In his mind the wheels were churning...something had to be done...and quick.

"EEEeeeee!! HeheeeHaMmph!"

Where it started as a high-pitched laugh, it quickly dies into muffled giggles as Ed, too, tears into the leg. One instinct in his mind wins over the other, and he decides not to play with this one... Not yet anyway. See, the little voices in his tummy had been talking to him for days, and he was getting tired of hearing them argue!

If he wanted to hear arguing, he could just listen to Shenzi and Banzai. That was fun! And Ed always won those arguments. Always.

The grand thing about this is Ed doesn't care - or even realize - that this is a bribe. That makes it all the more enjoyable, 'cuz whatever follows... Whatever Scar has them do - It's going to be fun. And he's going to like it. And he's going to laugh. And suddenly it's time to play Chase-the-Hyena-with-the-Food! Thusly, he valiently tries to tug it out of Shenzi's grasp.

Gripping the meat in her teeth, she snarled and held her ground at Ed's tugging, finally ripping her chunk free and no doubt sending Ed on a rolling journey. Swallowing her mouthful, she gave Scar a flattering grin, but doubtful gaze. "Right, a free gift", unable to keep a straight face, she burst into brief laughter, coughing to slow it down as she spoke on. "Whens the last time you ever gave anyone something for nothing?"