He had known another cheetah by the name Duma, but knew that far from the friend the other had been, this one was certainly a stranger. That the cheetah cub spoke of the humans knowing of Malaika, or at least his plight, only served to highten the tension he already felt about the situation. Malaika had no love for humans, had fought and feasted on their flesh, and had nearly downed Fernando once. The older lion clearly had no love for the species and anyone claiming to be there to "help" him was doing so without his knowledge.

simba wasted no time in catching up and quickly reached a paw to grab Duma's shoulder to stop him. Many of their group were fallen or missing and he had no intention of watching it happen again! With a sharp tone of voice and solid measure of authority he chided at once.

"What do you and the humans want with Malaika?!"

While simba's experiences with humans may have been less traumatic than Malaika's, his own brushes with them left him with no doubt that they were not to be trusted in the slightest, and those who aligned themselves with them were just as dangerous.