Mistaken
Disclaimer: I do not own Lion King but I do own Mali.
Summary: Kiara and Kovu stumble upon a dehydrated lion cub in the savannah, but what if he wasn't a lion cub but a…?
Message from Me: This is my first Lion King and movie fanfic so please be nice! I'm going to try my best at this!
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"Stay low… stalk them… silence…" Kiara whispered to herself, concentrating on the antelope. Accidentally, she stepped on a pebble and scared the antelope away.
Kiara sighed, as she raised herself from the ground. She had messed up. Again.
"I messed up again," Kiara stated, walking toward Kovu.
Kovu told her, "You still need practice your quietness."
"Yeah, I know that," Kiara reminded Kovu, purring, as she rubbed her head against Kovu's.
Suddenly, they heard a thump nearby. "What was that?" Kiara asked, pulling her head away from Kovu's.
"I think something just collapsed," Kovu guessed.
"I think it was right over here!" Kiara thought out loud, rushing towards her left.
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Kovu complained, "Kiara, we've been searching forever!"
Kiara pleaded, as she continued searching, "Come on, let's look for just five more minutes."
Kovu's eyes wandered, pointlessly, around the area until he spotted something white. "Kiara, over here!" he responded, jumping over a few hedges.
When Kiara and Kovu reached the object, they started examining the figure.
"It's a white lion cub," Kovu inspected, pushing the hard-breathing cub a bit.
Kiara reacted, "Kovu, don't be so rough! He could be fragile, for all we know!"
"He's a strange-looking lion cub, that's for sure," Kovu thought out loud.
"Kovu," Kiara reacted, making a pouting face.
Kovu replied, "All right, all right, I'll be careful."
"We should bring him back to Daddy," Kiara suggested, trying to gently lift up the lion cub.
"I think you're supposed to lift him up with your mouth," Kovu informed Kiara.
Kiara reacted, carrying the cub on her back, "I want to be a bit gentler. Now, hurry up or you'll be left behind."
"Hey!" Kovu responded, catching up to her.
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"Simba, don't worry, Kovu's with her," Nala assured her husband, who was pacing back and forth.
"But what if there's another fire like before?" Simba asked her, "I knew I should've had Pumbaa and Timon with them."
Nala reminded him, "If you used your head, you would know that would anger Kiara."
Simba told her, "I know, I'm just so worried about them."
They both heard a "Daddy!" right after that.
"Kiara, Kovu, you're back!" Nala responded, "You were worrying your father so much."
"I'm sorry, Mom (I don't know what Kiara calls Nala because, to my knowledge, she doesn't say her name or anything in Lion King 2)," Kiara apologized, "We just bumped into something."
"Something?" Simba questioned her.
Kovu replied, "A white lion cub to be exact, and he's on Kiara's back."
Simba and Nala peered over their daughter when they caught sight and the heavy-breathing cub.
Nala was the first to react; "The poor thing!" she yelled out, dashing a bit towards the cub.
"Daddy, could we take care of he until we find his parents?" Kiara asked, almost begging.
"Well…" Simba hesitated before answering.
"Please?" Kiara beseeched, making a "Pretty please?" face.
Kovu added, "He's going to die if we don't take care of it now! Come on, Simba, just until he gets better?"
Simba sighed and concluded, "All right, but only until he recovers. And then, we find his parents."
"He's still so young," Nala observed, "What do you suppose happened to it?"
"I wonder…" Kiara said before her voice trailed off.
Kovu notified them, "He needs a name."
"I don't have any in my head right now…" Kiara told Kovu, turning her head towards him.
Nala recommended, "How about Mali? It seems like a nice name."
They all thought for a bit; "Mali does sound nice," Kiara agreed.
Simba completed the conversation by saying, "All right, his name is Mali."
"Um, 'hope I'm not ruining the moment but," Kovu interrupted, "doesn't it look like Mali needs water?"
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Mali had just woken up and started to slurp up the water.
"Kiara," Nala said to her daughter, "where exactly did you find Mali?"
Kiara answered, "I just found him on the ground, behind some bushes."
"Strange, though," Nala reacted, "not many lion cubs are white, then again a bit… peculiar."
Mali was staring at a fluttering butterfly that just appeared inside the cave; he appeared to be examining it.
"Mali," Kiara called out, causing the young white cub to turn around; he scampered up to Kiara and Nala.
Kiara responded, "That was so cute!" Mali tilted his to his right and meowed in a questioning tone.
Nala guessed out loud, "I suppose he's too young to talk."
Kiara didn't listen to her mother as she was watching Mali sniff at the same butterfly.
"Kiara," Nala said, "Kiara!"
"Huh, yes, Mom?" Kiara reacted, turning her attention towards Nala.
Nala lectured her, "Kiara, you need to be more aware of your surroundings when taking care of a cub. Your father knows that too well, though."
Nala sighed- Kiara and Simba were different in many ways.
Kiara watched at Mali tried pouncing on the butterfly, missing every shot.
"Mom," Kiara said, all of a sudden, "Did I ever cause too much trouble?"
"Well," Nala replied, "you did like to go on mischievous adventures, every now and then."
"Wow, taking care of kids is hard, isn't it?" Kiara responded.
Nala answered, "Mm-hmm."
They heard Mali sound out a short growl and turned their heads toward the white cub; he had caught the butterfly between his paws and released it out again.
Kiara asked, "Do you lion cubs ever do that?"
Nala answered, "Not to my knowledge."
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Three weeks has passed since Mali was found, and Kovu and Simba found no trace of his parents.
"We've searched this area over a thousand times!" Kovu kept on declaring to Simba and Mali, who couldn't understand, "Why do we have to keep looking here?"
Simba responded, "His parents might come back to here."
"After three weeks?" Kovu reacted, "It seems impossible."
This was the first time that Mali was reintroduced into the wild so he began examining his environment.
He had found some grass and started sniffing it; then, he backed away from it to look for something else to explore.
"Mali looks like he's having fun," Kovu thought out loud, trying to ignore the current situation; he paced towards Mali.
"Kovu, we need to find his parents!" Simba kept on repeating.
Kovu responded, "Aw, come on, Simba! Adults need to have fun, every once in a while, too."
While Kovu and Simba were arguing, carelessly, Mali wandered off to where he should not have been going- the Outlands.
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"Shenzi, look, over there," a strange voice told another, pointing his paw towards the wandering cub, "'you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Shenzi replied, "Yeah that looks like lunch to me, Banzai. What about you, Ed?"
Ed just laughed like his usually self with a side of drool sinking from his mouth.
The three hyenas ran toward the easy prey.
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This is the first part and I'm working on the second. I hope I obtain at least two reviews. Mali's profile is in my profile so go ahead and look there if you want to know about Mali. Bye bye, everybody!