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The sun had set over the horizon, the sky deep blue. Dawn had approached. The King of the pride lands stood over his kingdom and sighed. Today was going to perfect. Right now, his queen was in the other cave, privately giving birth. She had requested it for personal reason, not even saying it to his face. Until given instruction, he was booted out until the process was over.

The pained screams of his wife echoed throughout the lands, and he flinched noticeably. He knew the Queen was supposed to be given full privacy from her husband until after birth, but it was still a bit scary to hear your mate screaming from a short distance. He paced back and forth, taking a few deep breaths. He almost hit himself, he wasn't even the one giving birth yet he was pacing like a moron!

He knew he had to be patient, giving birth was far from a simple process and he was going to be digging a hole in the rocks with all his pacing. There was going to be a rut here sooner or later if he didn't keep prancing around!

He quickly tried to calm himself ,doing his best to make sure he wasn't losing his cool. It was difficult, the stress of being a new father and king was getting to him. He usually knew how to put a apathetic and stoic mask on, but this was a bit much for him.

However, this relief was short lived, hearing a screech his mate echo in the distance. He flinched, almost running up to the cave. The only reason he didn't was because of the lionesses guarding the front of the den. Uru had placed them there to make sure no one would enter without her permission.

"Uh uh, Sorry Ahadi, no entering."

He blinked in bemusement. "Why not?" He already knew the answer, but his stress was getting to him from the bottom of his heart. He needed to see what was going on in there!

The lioness rolled her eyes and sarcastically replied to his question."Because the Queen gave orders to be let in private until she grants permission. Afterwards, you can enter."

"But that will take hours!"

"She made the rules, not me. Until Uru is finished, she won't let anyone inside, and that's final."

"But I'm the father for crying out loud! I can't even be present to be see my own son/daughter?" Ahadi looked somewhat bewildered, being told he couldn't even witness the event of his future child at this point and time.

The female remained firm at his annoying whining."Hey, your wife made the rules, we're just following orders. I'm sure it's nothing personal, she probably just doesn't want anyone to distract her while in labor."

His face was mixed with annoyance and shock."Distract her? How would I distract her?"

She didn't even need to think about it for a moment."Well-"

"On second thought, do not answer the question." He said flatly. He had the strangest feeling he was going to be digging himself a hole getting an answer a question. "Alright then. Just stay out here until the time comes. Just relax."

Ahadi groaned, continuing to pace around like a hippo with hernia. No matter what, he couldn't rest. Relaxing was impossible, his fast track mind was zipping back and forth.

Hours passed, though to the king, time had gone by painfully. Time ticked and tocked, each cry causing him to just circle faster and faster. At this rate, he would be digging a rut into the ground the size of the grand canyon if he kept it up.

After a few hours, a lioness who had previously guarded the door approached him. He didn't notice at first, having to snapped back to reality with a paw to the chest."Your majesty?"

The king turned, narrowing his brown eyes."What is it woman?"

The huntress smiled, not fazed at all by his harsh tone."Your son has been born, congrats your highness. I'm sure your wife would like you to see him."

Ahadi's red eyes lit up with curiosity and excitement. His regal dark brown mane and caramel fur spiked up in surprise and a hint of excitement. His nose rose up, his head held high. For once, the king leapt to his feet, rushing past the lionesses inside. The lionesses smiled, it was nice for a change to see their king excited for once. Quite rare to get that stoic look off of his face.

As he entered the cave, his eyes spotted a lady lioness, lean and feminine in the darkest area of the cave. His Queen, a lioness with deer fawn fur and a tan diamond birthmark on the middle of her forehead. Her ear trims were visible even from the darkness, her amber eyes gleaming with the sunlight.

His steps were gentle and light, not wanting to wake the cub. For the first time, he felt slightly nervous, knowing that he had fathered a child, yet excited at the same time. He tiptoed up close to her, awaiting to see his child."Uru...Can I see him?"

Exhausted the hours of straining birth, she weakly smiled at him."O-Of course, Ahadi."

He inhaled his breath quietly, the anticipation was getting to him on the inside. As his heart beat faster, he leaned as she moved her paws. Inside of her grasp was a golden cub, who slept inside her strong arms. He kept his breathing deathly quiet, not daring to exhale. He was new around children, not knowing how to approach a child.

The baby was spotted marigold, fuzzy eyebrows and adorable muzzle. The cub was relatively healthy and big for his age, though he would grow into it. His tail was ruby red, most likely a recessive trait considering no one in the family had it before. The baby's eyes were squinted, obviously not ready to open his eyes yet.

Despite this, Ahadi remained silent in amazement, looking at the creature he could now call his own son. He wasn't just amazed, nor shocked, he was hypnotized by the sight of it. He was no fan of children before, but that changed in a millisecond. The coldness Ahadi put up in front of others had melted like a candle.

'He's so precious.'

"Ahadi."

The king remained silent, gazing at his wife sparingly, his focus still on the cub.

"You can touch him, he's your son too."

The stoic lion lowered his ears."Are you sure? I could hurt him."

"You won't, just don't do anything foolish. Come on, you're his father, touch him."

Ahadi froze for a moment, his paw reluctantly rising, just enough to where he gently ruffled his son's head, making sure not to cause any harm. The cub sniffed his paw, nibbling his father's paw. It didn't hurt Ahadi, who almost laughed at the attempt to harm him. That was his son alright.

The private moment was interrupted by the sound of other lionesses entering the cave. Apparently, the ladies had gotten a bit impatient about the new heir that they needed to see him for themselves.

Ahadi quickly hid any overly gushy emotion, repressing his loving emotions to a small smile. Uru had a proud grin on her face as the lionesses approached from all around, many awes and cooings were heard from the team. The huntresses and king had given their time for her to lay out the baby, now it was time for them to see the prince for themselves.

The first lioness went up, looked at both Ahadi and Uru, anticipation and pride in her eyes. At this gesture, the members of royalty nodded, Ahadi being far more reluctant. It took a special signal from his wife to for him to agree, after all, that was his baby. Squeals of joy could be heard as they cooed over the cub , one turned to Uru and calmly asked."So what this cuties name?"

Ahadi blanked."Well, I was kind of distracted...I forgot what we originally planned if we had a male."

Uru seemed to forget as well. Given a moment of silence, she put some thought to it before snapping her paws together."I think I got something, how about Mufasa?"

"That means king….I like it." He turned to his mewling son and smiled."Prince Mufasa. That will be his name from now on."

The lionesses were overjoyed at the birth of their future king. Ahadi and Uru were excited and happy as can be. This was a day that would be remembered like all new cubs. Especially a prince. Uru arrogantly showed off her son, the lionesses enjoying the view. Her son was adorable and special as can be. He was going to be a great king when he was older, she was sure of it. She saw it, even if he was just a newborn. Especially with the help of the loyal lionesses around.

They both looked at their son. They were sure he was going to grow up happy and strong some day.

Ahadi looked out, weakly smiling. The time was something he would treasure for the rest of his life. While he couldn't spend all the time with his son, he was sure to make the transition of power easy.

But before any of that happened, he was going to need some discussing with Zazu in order to get his son's presentation underway. Once the club opened his eyes, they'd be able to show him to the kingdom.

'This is the best day of my life.' The king and queen mutually thought.

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