Banished part duex | @Nuka 

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Facilier held out his hand to the younger male. “I gotta know you trust me. Shake my hand, or else the magic won’t work!” Facilier waited while Nuka slowly reached out and took his hand. Facilier gave it a good shake, making a pact of trust.

“Now kid, hold on to your hats and glasses and whatnots, ‘cuz this is gonna be a crazy ride! I’m calling for assistance from my friends on the other side!” As Facilier yelled out the last part, a disquieting metamorphosis began around the duo. Swirls like red water cascaded over them in a dome, albeit a dome with large holes in it. Slowly however, these swirls slowly grew together creating a protective bubble around them. With a final wave of his hand, Facilier finished the spell, causing the bubble to close in around them. From an outside view, it would appear that a small red tent had been caught in the wind as the bubble shot off into the sky.

Inside the bubble was a different scenario. The insides worked like a chameleon, taking the colors that were passing and quickly making a kaleidoscopic image that would cause anyone unused to the travel to vomit profusely. Finally, after a whirlwind of a trip, the duo was suddenly standing in the courtyard of a castle, complete with a small well for collecting water.

“So kid, what did ya think?” Facilier asked Nuka.

Nuka extended a shaky hand out to Facilier as promise that he trusted him. Nuka was scared out of his mind, and completely clueless as to what was going on around him but sure, he trusted Facilier. There wasn’t anyone else he could trust to help him anyway, Facilier was all he knew in this strange new place filled with humans. During the time he’d been there, he hadn’t seen one other animal to relate to and certainly no other lions wandering about. He was very out of his element, not that he really “fit in” back home either. It seemed as though Nuka was doomed to alway be an outsider no matter where he ended up.

After sealing the deal with Facilier, the atmosphere around them changed drastically. The noisy parade looked warped as he looked through it from inside colorful swirls that surrounded them and drowned out all excess noises. The swirls slowly consumed them until they were wrapped up in a color changing bubble that caused them to travel elsewhere. “WHAT’S HAPPENING? I DON’T LIKE THIS! LET ME OUT LET ME OUT!” Nuka screamed in panic as he always did. Everything was changing so fast. First being transported to a new place, then changing form, and now traveling by what could only be described as magic. It was way too much for his tiny little brain to handle.

Nuka began to get dizzy from the quickly changing colors and fell down with a thud. He even blacked out for a minute or two, but when he woke up, instead of looking up at the inside of the colorful dome they were once enclosed in, he was looking up at a dark cloudy sky, which was still spinning from when he hit his head. He jolted up though, his head throbbing, and looked around at their new surroundings. 

 They were right outside of a large castle. It was the largest building Nuka had seen so far. The castle was up on a cliff, one piece of land that was familiar to Nuka which eased him a little bit. He stood up slowly once his head stopped spinning. The castle was white with many, many towers and pointed red rooftops. It actually looked very inviting. “WHAT IS THIS?! WHERE ARE WE?! I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT IS BUT CAN WE GO INSIDE PLEASE PLEEEEEAAASEEEEE?” Nuka said, jumping up and down. He was actually excited to be in this new place, rather than scared like in the last place they were. It was calmer here, no other people around and not as noisy or suffocating. Nuka ran right up the steps, on all fours just so he could get up there faster. When he got to the large double doors, he stopped almost hitting his head in the process. He really could not wait to get inside and began twitching with excitement. Little did he know what awaited him on the inside. 

Favourite The Lion King Characters → 12. Nuka

“Hey, is it hot in here or is it just me?”

I’M SOMEONE’S FAVORITE!

Banished part duex | @Nuka 

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Facilier watched in terror as the younger male stumbled into the oncoming parade. He sighed as he leaped in to save the kid. He managed to fight the oncoming traffic and find Nuka curled tightly into himself.

“Pull yourself together, kid!” he called as he lifted the boy to his feet. He then held tight and dragged Nuka out of the crowd and down the street. Once he felt they were safe from the voodoo gods, he turned to Nuka and said, “Alright kid, there is only one way I can think to truly lose them. You gotta trust me though. Can you trust me?”

As Nuka shut down while cringing on the ground in the middle of the parade, he could see long rows of people carrying instruments coming very close to him. The music was blaring all around him to the point where it was all he could hear. His hearing wasn’t as good as it used to be when he was in his old lion body, but it was still much too loud for his liking. All of this, the events that happened today and in the past month really were like a horrible never ending nightmare. Especially this day. Earlier in the morning Nuka was living his normal life of disappointment in the outlands with his mother, sister, two brothers and his sort-of-father. Now he was still a disappointment, just in a different body and about to be trampled by other humans like him.

Facilier snatched him up out of the crowd before anything could happen though. Good thing too, because he almost peed himself out of fear for the second time. Once Nuka was somewhat stable on his feet, Nuka led him further away from the parade down the street. The music was much more distant now and there were much less people around but he had no idea where they were going. “WHAT’S GOING ON! WHAT WAS THAT? WHERE ARE WE GOING NOW? OH FINE, I TRUST YOU BUT WHAT ARE WE DOING NOW!” Nuka stumbled a bit on his wobbly legs to keep up with Faclilier’s fast pace.

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Facilier chuckled at how easily the young “man” could be amused. He finished making sure they were good before he answered. ”Well now,” he said, slowly walking to his new companion. “Now, we make our departure. If all is as I’m thinking-“

Facilier was cut off from his statement when he heard a small growl near the back of his shop. The growl was then slowly accompanied by another manner of dangerous noises, including some high pitched laughter. Facilier finally finished his statement, “-they should be arriving soon. Now, RUN!!!” He grabbed the young one and pushed him towards the door, following closely as the back room seemed to come to life in a flash of green light. An odd assortment of voodoo paraphernalia, including voodoo dolls and masks, came pouring out of the room, heading in the direction of the fleeing figures. 

Nuka’s eyes grew wide again when he heard the stirring that was coming from the other room. The green light and strange noises caught his attention instantly, he wanted to see what it was but Facilier was already pulling him out of the shop. “HEY WAIT WHAT WA-,” Nuka began to say but was interrupted when Facilier shoved him harder out the doorway, screaming at him to run. Nuka did as he was told and ran ahead of Facilier, he was still pretty fast for a human but it was nothing compared to his lion speed. 

He still wasn’t used to running on two legs rather than four though and lost his balance on more than one occasion while they ran. He would stumble to the ground, catch himself by pushing his hands out to break his fall, get back up to continue running then repeat the cycle. Once he finally got the hang of it his running was wobbly but it got him where he needed to go. Facilier ran just behind him, maintaining his speed perfectly. 

Nuka wasn’t sure where they were going or how far they were supposed to run. When he turned around to ask Facilier about it, he realized running without looking didn’t work too well for him. He ended up falling to the ground and rolling right in the middle of a parade. Nuka picked up his head, looked around and saw all the happy people marching around him. He could see Facilier through the crowd so he just curled up into a ball and cringed in fear of getting trampled. 

Banished part duex | @Nuka 

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Facilier looked at his work in astonishment. He had done his work for quite some time, but never had a transformation without help from his “friends” go so smoothly. He chuckled as Nuka tried to get up and landed square on his butt. “Easy there, kiddo. A transformation like that will take a bit of energy from you. Just be calm and steady. You’ll get used to it soon enough.”

Facilier double checked the provisions he had set. He then went over to a chest of drawers and pulled out a few pieces of his spare clothing and threw them at the kid. “You running around in your birthday suit would scare people as much as if you were still a lion. Best you put those on.”

Nuka opened his mouth wide trying to catch the clothes. That’s how he and any lion would catch things, with their mouths. Then he realized, that’s what his new arms were for, catching and holding things. Nuka started flailing his arms with his mouth still wide open as the clothes flew at him. He looked like a complete idiot. The clothes ended up falling flat to the ground at his feet. He scrambled to pick them up and after a lot of struggling, he finally managed to put them on and look somewhat decent. 

Since the clothes Facilier’s, he wore an outfit similar to his. Long, dark pants; a tight, plain sleeveless shirt, and a jacket to go over it. Everything fit just a little looser on him than Facilier since he was smaller than him. He bounced around excitedly, now that he had clothes he felt a little more human. “I think I’ll like being human! SO WHAT NOW!?”

Banished part duex | @Nuka 

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“Someone you definitely don’t want to meet,” Facilier answered. He grabbed a few things from the cupboard, and ran out of the room, shutting it tightly. “We probably should do something about you before we leave, kid.” With that, he put some powder on his hand and blew it directly at Nuka. The powder swirled around him as it began its transformation.

When Nuka paused waiting for Facilier he noticed he was carrying some things from the room they’d just run out of. Before Nuka could even ask, Facilier blew some powdery stuff at him that made him sneeze rather loudly. “HEY WHAT WAS THAT FO-,” Nuka began to say but stopped mid sentence. Something strange was happening to him. He was changing very quickly before his eyes. 

He sat on the ground, dumbfounded as he watched his body morph into something else. He was crouched on his hind legs that were now shrinking, becoming slimmer, less hairy. In fact, all the fur that once covered his body was shedding, leaving bare skin on his face and torso. There was still a thin layer of of hair left on his arms and legs. Where his paws should have been there were much smaller features with long skinny extremities branching off of them. That was only one set though. They other set, that were attached to where his hind legs were were more square like and the extremities coming off them were shorter and stubby. These were his new hands and feet, Nuka didn’t know that though of course. 

Nuka was now a human being, complete with hands arms and feet. He reached up to touch his head with his new hands. There was a thick patch of black hair covering the top of his head. Nuka then slid his hand over his face, rubbing his new human nose which stuck out much more than his old one. His hand then moved to his chin where another small patch of hair was. 

After examining his new features he looked up at Facilier who was standing up across from him. Nuka jumped up, trying to mimicked his posture, “THIS IS GREAT!” His arms and legs flailed about as he jumped in the air and instead of landing back on his feet as any human would, he landed hard on his butt, still not used to his new body. “OW!” He yelped as he rubbed his now sore butt. He got up again, slower this time but wobbly and stayed still. If he tried to move or walk or do anything else, he’d fall over for sure. 

Banished part duex | @Nuka 

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“Now now, my friend, all in good time,” Facilier said as he went towards his cupboard. He was searching through it when he noticed a small shard just barely inside on the bottom shelf. He picked it up, and realized that his only crystal ball, though he tried little to use it, had been broken. To him, this was not a good sign.

“Uh, Nuka, we probably should get out of here soon,” he said. “Just to let you know, there are some… things that do not like me, and I think they might be on the trail. So we should probably make our visit here brief.”

Nuka ran around frantically inside of Facilier’s place. There was so much to see! It was dark, almost like the caves back in his old home in Africa. Everywhere he looked there were strange looking figures and masks with the creepiest faces. Everything was very delicate and not animal friendly at all. Nuka still had some fear in him from when Scar screamed at him and did not want to endure the same with Facilier. It took everything in him not to grab at everything with his big bulky paws. 

He Facilier picked up something broken and looked at him guiltily. Even though Nuka hadn’t broken the glass in Facilier”s hand, he was so used to messing up and being blamed for everything that he assumed it was his fault. Nuka listened to Facilier and darted out of the room. His nervous twitch quickly came back. “WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DID WE HAVE TO LEAVE? WHO’S IN THERE?” Nuka nervously screamed at Facilier, causing a few heads to turn. Nuka slowed down his pace a little, allowing Facilier to catch up and explain to him what was going on. 

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Nuka jumped up when the man began to speak. He was a bit creepy but because of Nuka’s lack of good judgement, he trusted him anyway. “HI I’M NUKA. MY FATHER, I-I MEAN SCAR SENT ME HERE. WHAT’S VOODO? IS THAT A FOOD? IS HOODOO A FOOD TOO? I WOULD LIKE SOME FOOD.” His twitch was out of control as he spoke to Facilier and he was a bit delirious from the trip to New Orleans. He looked around wide eyed. He had so many questions, mostly stupid questions, about the new place he’d be living in for probably the rest of his life. 

Facilier looked at the lion and said, “Maybe we should get you off the street first. Follow me.” He then walked back down the way he had came, and soon the pair were standing at the door to his voodoo shop in the alley. “Now son, voodoo isn’t food, nor hoodoo. To put it in an easy to understand term, it’s like magic. I can read your future, change it around some too. I can look deep into your heart and soul and make your wildest dream come true.”

Nuka followed behind Facilier, getting strange looks from other humans walking the streets. Lions were not exactly common in New Orleans, some people screamed in fright at the sight of him, others just ran to the other side of the street, not wanting to be anywhere near him. Nuka was used to other animals not wanting to be near him so he didn’t expect humans to act any differently. He dragged himself across the ground by his paws, trying to scratch some fleas off his rear end. 

“Awww BUT I WANT FOOD!” Nuka wined as his stomach growled. His eyes grew wide and he got excited at the mention of magic. He didn’t know what it was but he thought he’d like it. “I WANT TO SEE SOME MAGIC!”

Banished part duex | @Nuka 

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Facilier was walking along the street, hoping to find some poor soul to bewitch and obtain their fortune. He just so happened to look up to see a lion walking around the city in broad daylight. The lion was rather scrawny and he looked to be a slight bit injured. Facilier had a better look and saw the eyes of the lion, which looked like the eyes of a previous client of his. He didn’t want to get on her bad side, so he walked over to the lion and bowed.

“Dr. Facilier at your service, my friend. What brings you to New Orleans? Care for a little bit of voodoo or hoodoo? I can help you out for anything you wish.”

Nuka jumped up when the man began to speak. He was a bit creepy but because of Nuka’s lack of good judgement, he trusted him anyway. “HI I’M NUKA. MY FATHER, I-I MEAN SCAR SENT ME HERE. WHAT’S VOODO? IS THAT A FOOD? IS HOODOO A FOOD TOO? I WOULD LIKE SOME FOOD.” His twitch was out of control as he spoke to Facilier and he was a bit delirious from the trip to New Orleans. He looked around wide eyed. He had so many questions, mostly stupid questions, about the new place he’d be living in for probably the rest of his life.