

Afterward, Simba takes over the kingship as rain begins to fall.

Scar survives the fall but is attacked and killed by the hyenas, who overheard his attempt to betray them. Scar attacks his nephew, but Simba manages to toss him from the top of the rock. Scar begs for mercy and attempts to blame the hyenas for his actions Simba spares his life but orders him to leave the Pride Lands forever. Timon, Pumbaa, Rafiki, Zazu, and the lionesses fend off the hyenas while Scar, attempting to escape, is cornered by Simba at the top of Pride Rock. Enraged, Simba pins Scar to the ground and forces him to reveal the truth to the rest of the pride. Scar taunts Simba over his role in Mufasa's death and backs him to the edge of the rock, where he reveals to him that he murdered Mufasa. Realizing that he can no longer run from his past, Simba decides to return to the Pride Lands.Īided by his friends, Simba sneaks past the hyenas at Pride Rock and confronts Scar, who had just struck Sarabi. Simba is visited by the ghost of Mufasa in the night sky, who tells him that he must take his rightful place as king. He then encounters Rafiki, who tells him that Mufasa's spirit lives on in Simba. Feeling guilty over his father's death, Simba refuses and storms off. She and Simba reunite and fall in love, and she urges him to return home, telling him that Pride Lands have become a drought-stricken wasteland under Scar's reign.

Now a young adult, Simba rescues Timon and Pumbaa from a hungry lioness, who turns out to be Nala. Simba grows up in the jungle with his two new friends, living a carefree life under the motto " Hakuna matata" ("no worries" in Swahili). Simba collapses in a desert and is rescued by Timon & Pumbaa, a meerkat and warthog, who are fellow outcasts and chase away the vultures. Scar tells the pride that both Mufasa and Simba were killed in the stampede and steps forward as the new king, allowing his three hyena minions and the rest of their large pack to live in the Pride Lands. He orders the hyenas to kill the cub, but Simba escapes. Scar then convinces Simba that the tragedy was Simba's own fault and advises him to leave the kingdom and never return.

Scar refuses to help Mufasa, instead throwing him to his death. Mufasa saves Simba but ends up hanging perilously from the gorge's edge. Scar himself does not interfere to save Simba, but instead informs Mufasa of Simba's peril, knowing that the king will rush to save his son. Scar sets a trap for his brother and nephew, luring Simba into a gorge and having the hyenas drive a large herd of wildebeest into a stampede that will trample him. Though upset with Simba, Mufasa forgives him and explains that the great kings of the past watch over them from the night sky, from which he will one day watch over Simba. However, the cubs are soon attacked by three spotted hyenas, Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed, who are in league with Scar. He tricks Simba and his best friend Nala (to whom Simba is betrothed) into exploring a forbidden elephant graveyard by tricking Zazu. Meanwhile, Scar plots to eliminate Mufasa and Simba, so he may become king. This is the subject of an argument with first Mufasa's advisor, the horbill Zazu, then Mufasa himself.Ī few years later, Mufasa shows a young Simba the Pride Lands and explains to him the responsibilities of kingship and the "circle of life", which connects all living things. Mufasa's younger brother, Scar, covets the throne and is angered by the birth of the new prince. King Mufasa's and Queen Sarabi's newborn son, Simba, is presented to the gathering animals by Rafiki the mandrill, the kingdom's shaman and advisor. In the Pride Lands of Africa, a pride of lions rule over the animal kingdom from Pride Rock. Productions and will be part of the Ghost and Company's Adventures Series Ghost Hunter Meets the Lion King is the first crossover made by D.E.M.
