Well it's been a long time, but I've finally finished this story. Now before you start reading I should probably say that this is a sequel to my first Lion King story 'The Lion King: The Master Plan', so if you haven't read that I strongly suggest that you do before reading this story, otherwise I doubt you'll have much idea of what's going on or who a couple of the characters are.

This is set a year after the events of the first story and will tie in to it quite a bit, answering some unresolved questions from The Mater Plan but also progressing the plot further.

Anyway, now that's out of the way, enjoy the first chapter.

Chapter 1

She watched as that was all she could do. Watch. As her father threw himself into the ghostly mass of Mohatu. She screamed.

"Daddy!"

Then she woke up. Gasping.

Kiara looked around the cave and saw her pride all asleep around her. Kovu beside her, Kion and Vitani in the corner with Maisha nearby and Leela in her usual spot. Sarabi was no longer with them as she had passed away earlier in the year, peacefully.

"Oh, thank god." She said when she realised it was only a nightmare.

But it's not like it didn't happen at all. At least it didn't happen right in front of her for the first time. It did, however, happen a year ago. A whole year had passed since the master plan incident, since Simba and Nala had died. Kiara thought she would forget about it over time but the memory of it still haunted her. It was a surprise that she didn't wake anyone else up when she had the nightmare with the amount of noise she must have made. She nudged Kovu with her paw to wake him up.

"Hey." She whispered. "Kovu, wake up."

There was no response from her mate.

Kiara rolled her eyes.

"Kovu. The cave's on fire." She joked.

"What!" Kovu shouted as he sprang up.

Kiara tried to calm him down and shushed him so he didn't wake the rest of the pride up.

"Hey, shoosh. Calm down, not really. I just wanted you to wake up."

Kovu calmed down and laid down again once he heard this.

"Jeez Kiara, don't do that. You had me panicked there for a second."

"Sorry." Kiara apologised.

"So why did you want me awake?"

Kiara sighed and replied "I had the bad dream again."

"Oh, Kiara. That's three times in the last week. It's been a year too. Can't you forget it yet?"

"I'm trying but it isn't easy."

"Oh come here you."

Kovu moved in closer to Kiara and nuzzled her on top of her head. Kiara purred slightly in response.

"Thanks." She replied.

"Don't mention it. Now why don't you try and get back to sleep, aye?

"OK." She said.

"Good."

Kovu then laid his head down and quickly went back to sleep while Kiara, on the other hand, tried to get back to sleep but found herself staring out of the cave at the dark sky above. All year she had been wondering about this 'Skylands' place since nobody else seemed to be interested in finding out more about it. She thought it was funny how she was the only one in her pride who cared about learning about the place where the dead go. But then again she had a specific reason to. She wanted to know more about the place. She wanted to see for herself what it was like. But most of all she wanted to know for sure if her parents had gone there.

Perhaps she would never know. Who knows? Time will tell. Kiara decided she'd had enough of staring into space and finally managed to resume sleeping. Hoping she wouldn't have her nightmare again.

Nice start I think. It's really just a quick recap of what happened at the end of The Master Plan and a quick insight into what Kiara's thinking at the moment. This story also focuses on Kiara a lot more than the previous one did. Chapter 2 will be up in a couple of days.