Author's note

I know I said I'd complete this book before I published it, but with school I soon realized that I wouldn't be able to finish this as soon as I thought. So I'm gonna post the first 3 chapters for now to, for lack of a better term, hold you over until I can finish. I've gone over these chapters countless times, and I think they're ready now. But before I go I just wanna make the point of saying I admittedly had some help from a neighbor who is also on this sight (not that she can remember her username) but once she remembers I'll tell you so she can have the credit she deserves. Now I've kept you waiting long enough, start reading!

Chapter 1

"It's...so...hot," cried Kiara. "I know, it's the middle of a heat wave," said Oliver, "That's why I'm going down to the Water Hole to cool off." Oliver had been living in the Pridelands for a little over a month now, and there had come an unfortunate summer heatwave. The only ones left at Pride Rock were Kovu, Kiara, and Oliver.

"I'm surprised you can even move besides how much cooler can it really be down there."

"Well if I learned any thing in science it was, 1, heat rises, and 2, land heats up faster then water. In other words being on top of a giant rock formation in the middle of a heat wave, bad idea, going swimming in cool water, good idea."

"Really, in that case I'm coming with."

"Fair enough."

"Hey Oliver," called Kovu, "I need to talk to you!"

"Looks like you're in trouble my friend," teased Kiara.

"Yeah, hey, how about you head down, I'll meet you there."

"Ok? Something wrong?"

"No, no, I'll handle it."

"Kay see you down there then," said Kiara before walking off.

"What do you need Kovu?"

"Have you told Simba yet?"

"Just before you came running up with Kiara, I dreamt that I found her collapsed on the side of a path I had never been to before, almost as if just dreaming it made it come true, and if that's true then something even worse is yet to come and I'm scared," said Oliver about a week ago.

"What is it?" asked Kovu.

"I can't say, just incase I'm wrong."

"Well will you promise me one thing?"

"What?"

"I need you to tell Simba."

Oliver took a deep breath and reluctantly said, "I promise I will, soon."

"You promised you'd tell him, so have you or not?"

"No, not yet."

"You promised, and if you won't I will."

"I'll tell him I'm just waiting for the right time. Remember when you were planning to tell Kiara about Zira's plot, you had no idea how she would react and that scared you, that's how I feel right now. Now if you can excuse me, I'm meeting Kiara down at the Water Hole, you're welcome to come along," said Oliver walking off.