Okay so I have to say that I was inspired to write this after ghosting over princedeathflame's story. I did have a story with this pairing in works but abandoned it until now. Without further ado here's the first chapter of Ripped.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but a few OCs.
For as long as he could remember and that wasn't very much, but he was told that one day he'll be a king. That it's his destiny to avenge a lion that not only he never met but is neither his father. Since he could remember hearing his mother told him about how great his step father and suppose successor was but a evil tyrant came and killed him. He's suppose to grow up and kill the old king's murderer. That was his life for the past four months, apart of training that his mother had him be apart of. Which at the moment he hunting a dung beatle. He caught it and grinned when he saw the bug between his dusty brown coloured paws. He opened his paws to let the insect go to feel a sharp pain in his side. Which caused him to slide against the dusty Outlands ground.
"Kovu! You're suppose to kill it!" his mother growled, her orange-red eyes burning into his green ones.
He tucked his paws under him and looked up with teary eyes, more from the pain. He could never show that he's hurting it's a sign of weakness. "B-but it wasn't hurting anyone.."
The angry pale tan lioness growled. "Don't let it go. What's the matter with you?" Kovu flattened his ears as his mother circled him. "There is no room for weakness here, my son. Remember... Scar took you in and accepted you as his own son. " Kovu's mother has moved close and pulled him against her. Even though he heard it a million times he still seem doubtful.
"But he wasn't my father. "
The pale tan lioness shook her head. "No... but he chose you to become the next King. When you rule, we shall no longer be forced to live in these dry, barren, disgusting, pathetic, termite-infested Outlands!" she swatt at the ground, railing against fate. Kovu looks down, in quiet agreement.
"Mother! Mother! Mother!"
The pale tan lioness groaned before looking to the source to see a young rich brown lion with a small black mane and a light tan cub run over. They were speaking over one another, trying to get the first word in.
The rich brown lion sat with his head raise. "We were there- in the Pride Lands. We saw the whole thing!"
After catching her breath the light tan cub added her half. "At Pride Rock. We saw everything!"
Then they both reported to their mother. "We saw Simba's cubs!"
The pale tan lioness' eyes widened before she turned her attention on her daughter. "What? Vitani- what did you see?"
Vitani raised her head and reported what she seen. "Simba's new cubs are a girl and boy!"
The pale tan lioness laughed. "Scar, my beloved... did you hear that? This couldn't be more perfect."
The rich brown lion looked at his younger sibling. "Who's she talking to?"
Vitani rolled her light blue eyes. "Shhh Nuka. She's talking to dad."
Nuka gasps before looking around. "Where? Where?"
A new voice caused Vitani and Nuka to look towards a rich brown lioness, her green eyes full of annoyance as she joined her younger siblings. "Father's dead."
The pale tan lioness snapped out of her state of mind and growled. "Yes! Because of Simba... if not for him, Scar would still be King. And I, Zira- his loving, devoted Queen!"
A tannish grey lioness sat on the side. She knew when the pale tan lioness went in her rants someone gets hurt. She sighed before standing and walked over to the older lioness. "Zira. I think we should go for a hunt. You been training Kovu all morning."
Zira sneered, but knew that she was right. "Fine." she then turned her orange-red eyes to her oldest son. "Nuka, watch Kovu and Vitani!"
Nuka nodded and watched as his mother and the tannish grey lioness walk away with the rich brown lioness following. He sneered before walking off after his little sister ran off leaving Kovu sitting in his spot. He was unsure of what to do until he realized the opportunity that was given to him. He was never let to wonder off, he always wondered why but his mother always latched out so he stopped asking. But now he could explore what's outside the Outlands. He looked around and seen his brother talking with a greyish-brown teen lioness without a another thought he bolted the opposite direction his mother went.
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The sun had risen over the beautiful plains known as the Pridelands. Princess and future queen Kiara ran out of the cave along with her younger brother, Prince Kion onto the peak of Pride Rock, and smiled happily at the beautiful day the sun had brought them.
"Wow!" they both cried at the same time. They smiled at each other, and made their way down the steps, before the golden orange princess was suddenly plucked up from the ground by their father Simba, making Kion stop in his tracks.
"Where do you think your going in such a hurry?" Simba asked playfully, picking Kiara with his paw gently when she tried to escape over to her brother.
"Daddy! Let go!" Kiara giggled after Simba placed her back on her paws.
Simba smiled, but still looked a bit stern. "Now, I just want you to be careful." Kiara and Kion didn't pay that much attention, too busy trying to catch a pretty butterfly, before Kion fell on his belly when Simba pressed his paw on his tail gently.
"Are you two listening? Accidents can happen." Kion listened this time, while Kiara just looked bored. She had heard this speech a dozen times. While Kion understood his fathers rules when heading outside of Pride Rock, Kiara just had one thing in mind when it came to the outside world; Have fun.
"You could easily get hurt-"
"'Hurt, or stepped on, or even get lost'." Kiara copied.
Simba sighed, but continued anyways."And remember. I want you to stay by Pride Rock at all times."
"'At all times', I know." she finished with him at the end, while Kion just nodded. "'And if you see any strangers, don't talk to them. Come straight home.' Okay, okay! Can we go now? PLEASE?" Kiara smiled innocently as Kion nodded with her, giving their signature smiles that they inherited from their parents.
Simba hummed, "Very funny, you two."
The queen of the Pridelands made herself known when she sat down next to her mate and chuckled."Mind your father, Kiara and Kion." she told them and they smiled knowingly.
"Yes, mom." they chorused together. Then their father said one last thing;
"And stay away from the Outlands." just then, Zazu the Hornbill, the kingdom's majordomo, flew over Simba's head and seated himself beside the cubs.
"Nothing there but a bunch of backstabbing, murderous, Outsiders." Zazu gritted his beak and sneered, as if these 'Outsiders' were right by their side.
"Zazu's right." Simba agreed, looking at the Outlands in disgust for a moment, before turning back to them. "You can't turn your back on them." he told them. Kion nodded again, knowing not to talk back, but Kiara looked confused.
"Really? How come?" she asked innocently, but Simba just shook his head. They weren't ready to hear the truth about the Outsiders.
"Never mind. Just run along now." he told them, but they both still wanted to know. But he wouldn't give it to them, "You'll understand someday." they smiled, nuzzled them and then ran off.
"And stay on the path I marked for you!" Simba called out after them. Nala chuckled, finding this rather funny.
"Simba. Who do those two remind you of, hmm?" Simba looked confused for second, before asking what she meant.
"They were just like us, when we were cubs." she told him, nuzzling him, but he didn't return it.
"Exactly! Don't you relies the dangers we put us in?" he asked, looking in the cubs direction, before being pinned easily by a playfully insulted Nala.
"You mean the dangers you put us in." she told him, and he chuckled, realizing his mistake as she nuzzled him and he nuzzled back. They pulled away, still smiling.
"They'll be fine." with that, she walked away, making her way to the cave as Simba stared after her, not that comforted by her words.
In The Pridelands
Kiara and Kion were still chasing the same butterfly, trying their best to catch it. Before it landed on a rock. Kiara smiled and knelt close to the ground, Kion following close behind.
"The mighty hunters have cornered their prey." Kiara whispered excitedly as Kion smiled with her, both growling playfully before pouncing, but only succeeded in hitting their heads together. They rubbed their heads with their paws, before Kiara nudged Kion to look at what she was seeing.
Just beyond the ridge, was a barren sandy wasteland.
Kion looked cautious, but Kiara just smiled in awe.
"Cool! The Outlands."
"This is bad." Kion looked back at where they came from Pride Rock, only to see the peak of their home, "We've gone too far! We should probably head back!" Kion stepped away from the rock and back on the path, but then noticed that his sister wasn't following. "Kiara! Come on!" he called to her, but she didn't seem to hear him.
"I wonder what's out there?" Kion groaned, mumbling something about girls and questioning if he really was the youngest. "Kiara, come on. Dad said..."
Kiara rolled her amber eyes and looked at her brother. "Dad says to stay away but didn't say why." the princess noticed that her brother was still hesitant. "Just this once?"
The golden yellow prince frowned. "Fine, then we go straight home."
Kiara smiled before the two siblings ran off and made way for the Outlands.
