Chapter 1: Mysterious place

Hi everyone! This is my first story which I have attempted to write twice so it's my third time. I am gonna take a different approach this time though, hope you like it! Feel free to comment just don't be too harsh because I don't really take critisism well, I give up quite easily, but this time I am determined to finish the story. I am fine with honest, genuine critisism but please don't do it just to be mean. BTW (By The Way) Kina is a cub at this point which is equivalent to about 5 or 6 year olds. Here is the first chapter!

Kina woke up in the middle of the dark night and suddenly felt freezing, cold air brush her fur gently. Where was she? How did she get here? Was she alone? Her mind was beginning to hurt as she tried to remember the events that brought her to this place. Why can't I remember? she thought to herself. She looked around in the darkness trying to spot any signs of who had brought her here and who she was with. She began to feel eyes watching her, watching her worried expressions, watching her every move. She was far too frightened to run because she knew too well that her little legs wouldn't carry her very far and she would get caught easily.

She tried to think of other options but every one she thought of resulted in her being even more trapped and lost. She wondered why the thing that was watching her hadn't done anything yet, maybe they were just curious as to why a small cub was on their land. She froze at that thought and remembered that some animlals took trespassing VERY seriously and wouldn't like to see any new animals on their land, let alone a lion! She finally accepted that her only chance of escape was to wait until the morning. That way she would be able to find out what was around her and possibly trick them into letting her go. She just hoped that these thing weren't dangerous. Tears began to sting her eyes as thoughts of her homeland came to her mind. Would she ever find her way home? She knew that she could never properly be happy without her family and friends. Feeling scared and defeated, she hopelessly plopped back down onto the cold grass and closed her tired eyes to stop the tears flowing.

She told herself that this was just a horrible nightmare that would soon end and she would wake up in her mother, Kiara's arms like she normally did. Every time Kina had a bad dream she would immediately wake up her mother, who always slept in the same part of the cave, near the entrance next to Kovu, her father.(Kina's father not Kiara's father.) Kina would look up at her mother with those big weepy eyes which always said 'I had a bad dream again.' Kiara would quickly scoop Kina up into her arms and rock her gently until she fell asleep again, no matter how tired she herself was. This memory gave Kina a tiny shread of hope and happiness which helped her to eventually fall asleep.

Back at Pride Rock

"We have to go and look for her!" Tika cried, running out of the warm cave into the pouring rain. She was determined to find her twin sister. She didn't care that her pale gold fur was getting drenched in the cold rain. She could hardly see anything because of the darkness of the night so she shouted Kina's name as loudly as she could hoping that her sister would reply. "KINA!" Nothing. "KINA!" Still nothing. Her hope was quickly disappearing as tears began to form in her light blue eyes. She looked down at her birthmark which is three small, dark peach diamond shaped spots on her right paw. This reminded her of Kina because she had the exact same mark in the exact same spot. Where could Kina be? What if she was hurt? Fresh tears ran freely down her face now. Suddenly she heard a voice calling her name. "Tika! Tika, where are you!" She quickly recognized this voice as her Father's.

"Dad?" Tika shouted into the darkness. "Dad i'm over here!"

The outline of Kovu quickly came into view and she ran to his paws. He nuzzled her quickly and then led her back to the cave where the rest of the pride where discussing the recent events. When they got to the cave, Tika quickly embraced her mother who she knew would have probably been feeling even more pain than she was right now. Kovu was having a meeting with the rest of the pride (Kovu is king now BTW) about the attack that had just taken place which resulted in the kidnapping of Kina the princess and future queen. "We cannot go after her now because I don't want anyone else getting lost in that awful storm, so we will go after her first thing tomorow." Kovu announced. "Those of you that were harmed, Lina our medicine Lioness and Rafiki will treat your wounds."

"What about that evil pride that attacked some of our lionesses and kidnapped Kina?" asked one of the worried lionesses. She had dark red fur and a very dark shade of green eyes to match. Her underbelly, toes and muzzle were a very pale shade of peach. Her name was Sonika.

"Yeah what if they try to attack again" another lioness asked quite dramatically with her eyes wide in fright and a paw to head as if she was going to faint. She was called Tioni, she had light peach coloured fur but very dark red eyes in contrast. Her underbelly, muzzle and toes were just a shade lighter that her fur. She had an outlander facial structure because she used to be an outlander before the joining of the two prides.

This caused a few murmurs in the pride, partly because of Tioni's outburst but mainly because of the curiosity. What would the royals decide to do about the evil lions that had attacked? Surely they wouldn't just leave the situation alone, would they? Soon the murmurs became full conversations between the pride, this continued for about 10 minutes until Kiara spoke up.

"Tioni there is no need to worry everyone, however I must be honest, what she says is true. Vitani heard a couple of those lions talking about attacking once again, we just don't know when it will happen. We do know that it will not be any time soon but we must always be alert and ready just incase they come when we are least expecting it. As Kovu said, tomorow at dawn we will search the lands for Kina or even outside the lands if we have to. If we follow their scent then we will find Kina and know where they reside." her words were strong and sad at the same time but she knew was determined to find her daughter even though she was also very frightened.