Taka was a happy cub. He lived with his brother Mufasa, and his parents in a pride in Africa. He had 2 friends named Sarabi, and Sarafina who had brilliant, white coats. He, on the other hand, had inherited a dark coat from his mother Uru. Taka, Mufasa, Sarabi, and Sarafina were playing one morning when the sun was playing peek-a-boo behind the clouds, the four cubs decided to play hide and seek. While looking for a place to hide, Taka bumped into someone. It was another cub, Taka had never seen her before, he got closer, and started sniffing displeased the other cub very much, and she pushed Taka away saying:

"I'd like a little space, if you don't mind thank you," She situated herself and stood up.

Something about this cub interested Taka. So he said politely. "Hello, I'm Taka," He sat down waiting for her to say something.

The cub looked Taka up and down. She was a lovely cub, she had a dark coat like Taka's obviously kept very clean, and she had violet eye's that set off a deep, purple glow, that you might see in a cave full of amethyst's in the sun. After a moment the cub spoke, in a very kind voice, "I'm Afina, Princess of the Midlands. I'm here on a -er- family matter. My sister has wandered off and I must search for her-with the rest of my pride of course."

Just then Mufasa jumped on Taka. "Hey! your supposed to hide Taka!'

"Will you please get off of me Mufasa?" Said Taka who was rather embarrassed about the whole situation.

After Mufasa got off Taka, he then took a notice of Afina.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"That's Afina." Said Taka 'She's a Princess.

"A Princess, eh?" Said Sarafina who had walked up behind them. "Well why are you here exactly?"

Afina explained, then Sarafina said "Well, where is your pride, Princess?"

Afina was just about to say something when there was a big clap of thunder. Afina scrambled under a tree, looking quite frightened.

"There! She probably freaked out just because of a little thunder." Said Sarafina "Come on, let's leave the 'Princess' 2 herself."

And with that Mufasa and Sarafina bounded off, but Taka stayed looking sympathetically at the cub. She had her paws held over her ears, breathing very walked over to her.

"Umm, hi." He said standing over her.

"The noise." She said still taking very heavy breaths. " I-it scares me."

"You mean the thunder?" Asked Taka "Why?"

"The sky mad that sound." Said Afina starting to take slower breaths. "When they..." She paused for a minute "When they killed my father."

Taka sat down next to her, "I'm sorry." He said softly "Well is there anything I can do to help?"

"Please." She said pitifully. "I don't want to be alone"

"Do you know where your pride is?"

"I-I think I could find my way." Said Afina, now breathing normally."Will you walk with me?"

"Sure." Said Taka he looked up at the sky "But I need to get home before it starts raining."

"Then we better hurry." Said Afina getting up, glad she didn't have to go home by herself.

As the two cubs walked Taka was going to ask how her father was killed, but he didn't thinking it was a touchy subject for her.

"I really am a Princess." Said Afina "So I wasn't completely fibbing."

"Well, my Dad's a king." said Taka, puffing up a little.

"Oh." Said Afina "That's nice. I think we're here."

Afina turned to Taka "Thanks for walking me home, Taka."

"Am I going to see you again?" Asked Taka, a little hopefully.

"I'm sure you will." She said "Well goodbye,Taka."

"Bye Afina" Said Taka. "Hey, next time there's a thunderstorm, look me up".

Afina walked away with a little smile on her face.

Ello! I hope you liked it. :) I wrote this chapter like, last year or something. So the writing gets better. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this. Maybe review? I ask hopefully.