Title: We Are One
Rated: T
Summary: His dad killed her grandpa. Her father murdered his dad. But somehow, these two find themselves falling harder…for each other. TxG Threeshot
A/N: Plot based on Lion King II: Simba's Pride.
Disclaimer: I do not own High School Musical or Lion King II…which I am not very happy about…
Chapter One
The Chosen One
But you see everyday,
That we'll never turn away,
When it seems all your dreams come undone,
We will stand by your side,
Filled with hope and filled with pride,
We are more than we are,
We are One.
-We are One, Lion King II: Simba's Pride
Two Months Old
The king and his queen stood out on the side as his advisor lifted the baby up for all of Albania (real country, don't own, just decided to use the name) to see. The king looked over to see his best friends looking at him with a gleam in their eyes.
"We are going to have so much fun, teaching him how to hunt, watching him ride through the woods on a horse…," One of his best friends said.
The king laughed, "It'll be kind of hard teaching a girl to do all those stuff."
"Oh well, we can live through it-," The same man stopped in the middle of his sentence, shocked. Realization dawned on him.
"Wait, A GIRL??" The two best friends looked up at the king in shock.
"Yep, a daddy's girl for sure." The king watched as his people all bowed down to the new princess, who kept looking down at them in amazement.
Five Years Old
"DADDY!" Young Gabriella Montez ran over to her dad, her feet pounding on the concrete below her.
"Gabriella!" Benjamin Montez exclaimed, "Hi sweetheart." He said when Gabriella jump up and landed in his arms. Benjamin Montez loved his daughter, even if his work took him to many places. It was hard being the king.
"Can I go to the park?" asked Gabriella, putting on her sweet innocent little face that all people loved and couldn't resist. Her bottom lip was curled outward, her eyes wide.
"Sure, hun," He let his daughter onto the ground, sighing as he did. He signaled his two best friends, Nicholas and Christopher.
"Nick, Chris, make sure she doesn't get into any trouble," Benjamin said on a low whisper. Gabriella hated it when he had security guards protecting her, but he needed to keep her safe, away from outsiders.
"Job done, sir," Nick replied and started to head out. Chris followed him, walking with pride.
Gabriella walked through the crowds and went through the secret passage her dad showed her to the park. She followed the dirt trail that was guiding her. She heard figures shift behind her. She looked in back of her, frightened.
"Hello, is somebody there?" Gabriella was never a shy person. She was brave and courageous.
"Nick, get out the way. You're blocking my sight. We're supposed to be babysitting," Gabriella heard. The voice's volume was at a whisper and she could barely make out what they were saying.
"Chris, Nick?" She, in all her bravery brought up to ask.
"Oh, hey Gabriella didn't see you there. We were just, uhh, we were just," Nick nudged Chris in the ribs.
"Oh, umm, we were just, umm, buying a cup of coffee, yup, buying a cup of coffee," Chris said nervously.
"The coffee shop is that way," said Gabriella, pointing to the pathway behind Chris and Nick. Even though Gabriella was five, she knew this country fairly well, since it was small country. "Daddy sent you here, didn't he?" Gabriella had her arms crossed, her pigtail down on the side of each shoulder, and her eyes stern.
"Fine, yes Gabriella, he did," Chris said nicely, "He just doesn't want you to get hurt," By the time he was finished with that sentence, Gabriella was already stomping down the pathway to the park. She tripped on a rock and ended up falling on her stomach. Nick widened his eyes and ran to help her, but tripped on another rock and ended up squishing Gabriella.
Chris widened his eyes, "Umm, Ben, good news is we found your daughter, bad news is, we dropped a plump man on her," said Chris, trying to think of an explanation to say to Benjamin. "Oh, forget it, he'll kill us, banish us forever," He ran over to Nick and pulled him off of Gabriella.
"NICK, DID YOU NOT SEE THAT ROCK?" Chris asked him.
"OH, I'M SORRY; I WAS TOO BUSY TRYING TO SAVE THE KING'S DAUGHTER!" Nick yelled back. They were too busy getting engaged with their fight that they didn't notice Gabriella slipping out into the darkness.
Gabriella looked around the park to see a big dog running towards her. She looked around for signs of help but didn't see anyone. She whimpered as she saw the dog advancing towards her. She closed her eyes, hoping it will go away, when she felt a small hand pull her towards someone.
"Are you okay?" asked that person.
"I'm fine, and why did you pull me away, I'm brave," Gabriella said, boldly.
"Didn't look like it," the person laughed.
"Who are you?" Gabriella asked, making a face.
The five-year-old looked at Gabriella and smiled showing the gap in between his teeth, "I'm Troy Bolton."
"Gabriella Montez." She smiled. Then a deep voice scared the both of them.
"Get away from her." The voice growled. Gabriella looked up, "Daddy," she whimpered scared at the voice her dad was using. She wrapped her arms around her dad's left leg.
"Maybe you should get away from him," A low voice called out. Gabriella looked up to see a middle-aged woman picking up Troy. She saw her dad narrow his eyes.
"You know the rules," Benjamin looked at her in the eye. Gabriella's grip on her father tightened.
"I do, but the little one doesn't," she said pointing to Troy.
"If I remember correctly, you were banned from Albania," Ben said, angrily. "NOW GET OUT!" He commanded.
"Now Benjamin, we'll get out but remember we'll get our revenge." She said, before she slowly walked away from the king, into the outlands. Ben turned to his daughter.
"What were you thinking, princess? They could have killed you." Gabriella looked down at her feet.
"I'm sorry, daddy," Gabriella cried out, her tears dripping down from her eyes. Ben smiled at his daughter and wiped away her tears with his thumb.
"I know you are, princess. But you got to be careful, there are strangers out there. If someone killed you, I don't know what I would do and you're going to be queen next. It's part of the circle of life,"
Gabriella looked up at her dad. She said tearfully, "What if I don't want to be queen?"
Benjamin tapped his daughter's nose. "That's like saying you don't want to be human. It's in your blood, as I am. We are part of each other," He picked up his daughter earning squeals from the child. He laughed and walked to the palace, with her in his arms.
"You were supposed to be watching him!" Lucille looked sternly at her eldest son.
"I'm sorry, ma," David Bolton looked up at his mother, scared at what she was trying to do. "But I was supposed to be the chosen one, but instead you chose him," David looked at his younger brother. Troy had shaggy brown hair, a great smile, and blue eyes that you could drown in. David on the other hand had blond hair, a weak smile, and brown eyes he inherited from his mother which showed envy in them. The 15-year-old scoffed at his brother.
"Troy was the last one born before Benjamin exiled us out of Albania. He was the chosen one and he could help us get our revenge for my dear husband, whom Benjamin killed!" Lucille looked from her eldest son to her 12-year old daughter, who was rocking young Troy to sleep. She looked at her youngest son as a plan started to form in her mind.
"Sleep, little one, tomorrow your training will begin," Lucille laughed evilly with a gleam of hope in her eyes.
Sixteen Years Old
"Dad, you have to let me do this on my own," Gabriella looked at her father, pleadingly.
"Benjamin," Gabriella's mom, Victoria, looked at Ben sternly. Benjamin looked at the orbs of his favorite girls, from Gabriella to Victoria and gave in.
"Fine," Ben looked away from Victoria to Christopher and Nicholas, expectedly. Gabriella smiled at her father and walked down the hill to her white horse, Lexy.
"Chris, Nick," Ben signaled to them.
"Yes, sire?" Chris asked.
"Look after my princess,"
"But, you said-," Ben gave Chris a stern look.
"Fine," Chris said, "Let's go Nicholas," He signaled to his best friend.
Gabriella heard leaves rustling behind her. She rolled her eyes and suddenly her heart pounded rapidly. He broke his promise, she thought, he promised. She looked behind her and called out, "Chris, Nick, you guys can come out now."
Chris and Nick came out of the bushes and forced a smile on the faces.
"He sent you, didn't he?" she asked. They nodded. Gabriella's kind facial features were now angry. Her eyes were squinted, her lips curled out, her face stern.
"Can't believe it, the nerve of him, after he promised," Gabriella looked at Chris and Nick who had sorrow filled eyes.
"We're sorry, your highness," They said. Gabriella muttered,
"Fine if that's the way he wants it," She gave her horse a whack with the rope she was holding and it fled, towards the outlands.
"Now, Troy, what will you do?" Lucille asked her son, evilly.
"I will kill Benjamin," he recited. He was annoyed at this. Deep down he knew Benjamin was a good guy and he killed his dad for a reason. No, he killed my dad for no reason at all, he argued with himself.
"Great," Lucille said, "Now, go, Gabriella is going horse back riding, GO!" She shouted and an evil smirk appeared on her face as she saw Troy run out the door.
"Why do we have to help him? Isn't he supposed to be the Chosen One? He's supposed to help himself," David said, jealously.
"SHUT UP!" Vanessa said to her brother. Vanessa was three years younger than him but she knew what it took to shut him up. Slowly, she picked up a match and scraped it across the rock causing a small flame. The flame began to grow bigger and bigger. She placed it on the stick she was holding.
"Here's yours," She said to her brother. David ran across the field toward the place his brother was heading. On the way, he accidentally dropped the stick. Fire began to spread on the grass below him. David shouted, "FIRE!" and ran away from the flame that was growing bigger with each minute that passed.
Gabriella looked at the grass in front of her. She saw an orange flame contradicting with the green grass about a mile away. She widened her eyes when she saw it was headed towards her.
"HELP!" she shouted, "HELP!" not expecting anyone to hear her. But little did she know someone did.
"There's fire in the outlands, sire," Benjamin's messenger told him.
"Outlands?" Chris asked as shock overcame him.
"Yeah in the outlands, but I doubt it will reach us." Ben told his friend.
"No, you don't get it," Chris told him.
"What don't I get?" Ben asked him, curiosity clear in his eyes.
"Gabriella is headed toward the outlands," As soon as Ben registered the comment in his head, his eyes widened as he felt his heart drop.
Review, please. I'm sorry if there's spelling mistakes, I did this in a rush. This is going to be a three-shot.