Summoned Character Monologues Part One: Simba
by Martial Arts Master
All Disney-related characters copyrighted by Disney. All Square related characters copyrighted by both. Sora, Riku, and Kairi are copyrighted by both. I got the idea for these by Raiegki Leviathan, and decided to do them with her permission given to me by e-mail. These monologues are on the summoned characters. In order, once completed, they will be: Simba, Genie, Bambi, Dumbo, Tinker Bell, and Mushu. Now, on with Simba's story!

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My name is Simba. I'm the king of Pride Rock. At least, I used to be...

Now, however, I am merely someone to be summoned to aid in the fight against evil.

It's a long story, but I'll tell you anyway.

It all started when the Heartless showed up. The Heartless are creatures filled with hate. They go after people's hearts, and they destroy worlds.

But maybe I should start at the beginning.



I was born on Pride Rock. As a cub, I was very, very mischievous.

It got me into trouble once. I listened to Scar (baaaaaad idea) and went into the elephant graveyard he mentioned with Nala. There were three hyenas there, and they nearly killed us. If it hadn't been for my father, Mufasa...well, I don't even wanna think about what would've happened.

Anyway, I got a scolding from my father, but he eventually forgave me.

I'm glad he did...because it would've made my inevitable pain all the worse if he hadn't...



You probably don't know what I'm talking about. Let me explain: I mentioned Scar earlier. He's my uncle, and he turned out to be rotten to the core. He killed my father by shoving him off a cliff.

At the time, I didn't know that. I thought it was an accident. Heck, I even thought it was my fault because he was trying to save me from the wildebeasts at the time.

So Scar told me to run away and never return. I did, and he ended up telling everyone else that I'd been killed in the stampede as well! (I didn't find that out until later.)

I would've died out there in the desert, if it wasn't for Timon and Pumbaa. They saved my life, and taught me to live a life of "Hakuna Matada", which means "no worries".

I lived a carefree life, growing up on a diet of bugs. Then, a bit after I grew up into an adult lion...she came looking for help.

By she, I'm referring to Nala, who was my best friend as a cub.

As cubs we played together almost all the time. Even when we were cubs, although I didn't realize then, there was just something that drew me to Nala...it was her playful nature, actually.

Of course, when we were cubs, Zazu the hornbill told us we'd marry someday. Naturally we thought the idea was gross. I mean, c'mon! We were best friends! As I said then, it would be too weird.

But I didn't think it was weird at all when Nala showed up again, having looked for help and found me. It turned out that she, and everyone else, thought I was dead. That's what Scar told them.

Also, Scar had let the hyenas take over the Pride Lands. But, showing my immaturity, I didn't want to go back. I wanted to keep on living a carefree life.

Then, Rafiki the monkey showed up. He showed me that although I can't change the past, and although the past can hurt, I can learn from the past. He showed me a vision of my father, who accused me of having forgotten who I was and therefore having forgotten him.

So I made the right choice and decided to return to Pride Rock.

I had a battle with Scar...and got a nasty shock.

He told me, right then and there, that I wasn't responsible for my father's death because he was responsible.

I think that gave me the strength to beat him.

I took my place as king then, and soon I had a daughter named Kiara...



Unfortunately, I was too protective of her. This resulted in a lot of arguments between us. It didn't help much that I'd made a bonehead move in banishing all those who were loyal to Scar to the barren lands outside Pride Rock, rather than doing the right thing and merely showing them that they were wrong.

That caused Zira, a loyal follower of Scar's, to hate me. She raised Kovu, her younger son, who was hand-picked by Scar to succeed him even though he technically was born before Zira met Scar, to hate me too.

Then, Kovu fell in love with Kiara, and that complicated matters, let me assure you.

It also complicated matters when I was ambushed, and just assumed that Kovu was responsible. I ended up exiling Kovu from the Pridelands...something I will regret for as long as I live.

Things came to a head when the Outsiders began to wage war on Pride Rock. Kovu and Kiara stopped the fight by helping me and the Outsiders come to our senses. "We are one", as the saying goes.

But Zira alone wouldn't let it go, even when her own daughter, Vitani, admitted Kiara was right.

Zira tried to kill me, but ended up fighting with Kiara. By accident, Zira fell off a cliff into a flood, and since the logs kept her underwater...she was a goner.

All of us came back to Pride Rock not long after, even the Outsiders. I let them come with us because I realized I was wrong in sentencing the Outsiders to such a barren wasteland, almost devoid of food and water. That had been too strict of a punishment.

Kovu and Kiara became mates. After that, when everything was settled, Kovu calmly explained to me that the ambush I had exiled him for earlier had not been caused by him, but rather by his family. I believed him this time, enough to deliver a public apology for his earlier exile. After all, he had stood up to his own mother to stop the fight between her lionesses and mine.

Those were the last happy days...before the Heartless came.

They were murderous creatures, stealing hearts everywhere. I have no idea where they came from.

At first, we were able to fight off the Heartless. Most of them were Shadows and Soldiers, actually.

Even when they started bringing in the Large Bodies and the Fat Bandits (I learned these names from Jiminy Cricket later, who chronicled Sora's adventures), Vitani of all lionesses was the one to figure out that they were weak in their backs and in their heads.

Then they cheated. They started bringing in flying Heartless. Only birds could even meet them in the air, and even they were no match.

And worst of all, the Heartless brought Scar and Zira back to life. With the help of the evil lion and evil lioness, they gained access to my world's Keyhole, infesting it and enveloping the whole world in darkness.

Eventually, the world vanished, and I found myself alone.

I was trapped. In gem form, actually. I didn't know why I was spared the fate of actual death. I found out later.

I was eventually found by a human child named Sora, who brought me to the Fairy Godmother. She told Sora what I wanted to know: that I had been trapped in gem form instead of vanishing because I had too strong a heart to be completely eradicated by the Heartless.

Then, the Fairy Godmother turned me back into my real form.

After that, Sora, Donald, and Goofy had to explain to me about the Heartless, and the meaning of the Keyblade that Sora carried. I was saddened at the loss of my world, but when I actually saw Sora battling Heartless, I realized that Sora had the heart of a lion. That must have been why the Keyblade appeared to him.

Every once in a while Sora would call on me to aid him, and for some reason my power had been magically enhanced. The Fairy Godmother's work, no doubt.

Anyway, because of my enhanced power, all I need to do was charge up my roars to wipe out the surrounding Heartless.

I was glad to do this. If Sora could save more worlds from the fate that Pride Rock had to suffer, then offering my services was not too high a price to pay.

And Sora is such a nice kid. He could've thought I would only get in his way. He could've left me behind. Instead, he asks me about my past, doesn't talk down to me (well, metaphorically speaking, of course. Physically he doesn't have a choice, unless he wants to kneel or sit), and generally treats me like an equal, not as a pet.

I will follow him wherever his quest leads. As I said, he has the heart of a lion.



To be continued with the next monologue...



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