I don't own any of the characters from the movies.
This story is my opinion of what happened to Kopa and it will also take place after SP, but it starts out inbetween the movies.
The sun was beginning to rise over the Pride Lands, and all of the animals were starting to wake.
Simba and Nala have had a boy cub named Kopa. It's been a few months now and he and his best friend Vitani play all day, getting into trouble, and having fun. Vitani's mother Zira didn't like this however and would try to occupy her daughter as much as she could with her son Nuka.
Kopa runs out of the cave and looks at the land before him, Vitani is close behind him.
"Come on Kopa!" Vitani shouts as she starts to run down Pride Rock.
"I'm coming!"
"Woa where do you two think your going?" Simba yells to the young cubs.
"We're just going to play Dad." Kopa says, and starts to run off, Vitani following
"Alright, but be careful!... Timon Pumbaa keep an eye on them." Simba whispers to his friends who are now standing beside him.
"Okey Dokey Simba as long as after the runts are back, we get a free bafett." Timon says
"Ok now go, but don't let them see you, I wan't to know what they do alone." Simba says again.
Timon and Pumbaa take off as sneakily as a meerkat and a warthog could be and follow the cubs.
"So Kopa what do we want to do today?" Vitani asks running up ahead of Kopa turning around to face him and walking backwards.
"Hmm. I don't know, this place is boring."
"What, how could you say that, this place is awsome!" Vitani says jumping up and down.
"Well its the same thing everywhere." Kopa says very unenthusiastically.
"Well fine then you can just sit around all day and get fat, and wait till your king and then you wont know the land and fail as king!" Vitani says in his face
"Fine, where do you want to go?"
"I don't know, where haven't we been?"
"Hmm... Hey! I heard my mom and dad talking about a place called the outlands. I don't know what it is, but I know that its across the water hole. I think we should go check it out."
"My mom said something about that place too, I wonder whats out there, let's go!" Vitani says now back beside Kopa.
"Ok this way come on!" Kopa says running off, Vitani follows.
"Where are they going Pumbaa, theres nothing this way but the water hole and they go there all the time. It must be boring by now." Timon asks
"I don't know Timon, but if they are going there thats less work for us." Pumbaa says
"Lets hope so."
The cubs soon reach the water hole.
"I win!" Kopa shouts as he skids to a stop right at the waters edge.
"I'll get you one day, you just wait and see." Vitani says in defence
"Ok you keep telling yourself that."
Vitani sticks her toung out at him. "So how do we plan on getting across?"
"Um, the hippos..."
"Ok, but I don't like hippos."
"Don't worry all of the big ones are asleep."
"Alright, lets go." Vitani says starting towards where the hippos are. The hippos have fell asleep in a stepping stone path straight to the outlands. The cubs hop their way over and are about half way through when Timon and Pumbaa show up out of the tall grass and see what the cubs are doing.
"AAAAHHHHHHHH! WHAT ARE THEY DOING???!!!" Timon shreeks in a very high tone. The hippos stir and are mad for having been woken up.
The hippo that Vitani is on starts to stand up, and she just happens to be on one of the biggest ones. Kopa keeps going not noticing.
"AHHH KOPA!" Vitani yells, shes frozen in fear and can't jum, the hippo is fully out of the water, opens his big mouth and slams it shut causing its whole body to shake and Vitani falls off.
"Vitani!" Kopa yells making his way back to where she fell.
Vitani starts to swim back to the originall shore that they came from but a hippo pops up right in front of her, sees her and opens its mouth and comes slightly towards her, she screams and quickly starts swimming the other way. Kopa is almost to her and standing on an old hippo that doesn't notice anything that is going on around him, and sleeps calmly. He reaches out his paw for her, she tries to grab it, but he is too far up for her.
"Don't worry cubs uncle Pumbaas coming!" Pumbaa shouts as he jumps into the water with a large splash. He slowly makes his way to Vitani, but when hes almost there a hippo comes up from under him. Pumbaa is now scared, and faints falling off. He floats back to shore quicly for a hippo has stood up and slamed back down causing a masive wave that takes Vitani closer to the outlands shore. Kopa now has no way back so he too is forced to jump off and try to make his way back to shore, but his way is blocked by many hippos so he swims to a small island.
"Vitani where are you?!" Vitani can't hear his calls, she is almost to the shore now.
"Pumbaa talk to me!" Timon yells running to check on his buddy. "Oh great kings!" Timon jumps on to Pumbaa's stomach and starts jumping up and down and in a matter of seconds the warthog wakes. "Oh Pumbaa your alright!"
"Timon where are the cubs?!"
"Oh! How are we going to get them, we can't go out there?!"
Zazu had seen all of the comotion going on at the water hole and came to see what was going on, he sees Timon and Pumbaa who are now freaking out and swoops down to them.
"What is the matter with you two?"
"ZAZU! The cubs there out there somewhere! Go get them!" Timon shouts.
"Oh my!" Zazu flies up and sees Kopa stranded on the island and Vitani crawling up the bank. Kopa is surrounded by hippos. "Don't worry Kopa! Help is on the way!" Zazu yells as he goes to find Simba.
"Hurry Zazu!" Kopa shouts
The hippos are now in a fight with each other, because they all think that the other one is the one that woke them all up.
Zazu finds Simba Patrolling the boundries near by.
"SIRE!" Zazu swoops down to eye level with the king.
"Zazu."
"Come quickly! The cubs, in the river, hippos in a fight!"
"WHAT!?" Sima shouts and runs as fast as he can to the watering hole. He soon arives to find Timon and Pumbaa running around in circles screaming. "Guys! Where Kopa and Vitani?!"
"Simba! Out there!" Simba looks out to the river, and soon spots Kopa on the island, and a hippo fight heading straight for him. "KOPA!" Simba yells and jumps into the river without hezitation. He has to dodge many hippos but soon reaches Kopa.
"Dad! Help me!"
Simba grabs Kopa around his mid section, and heads back towards shore, and soon makes it, he sets Kopa down.
"Dad Vitani's still out there!"
"Zazu, where is she?!"
Zazu disappears for a second, and soon returns. "She is on the other shore sire."
"Is she alright?!"
"Yes it appears so."
"Good." Simba roars as loud as he can, most of the hippos stop, the leader barges his way through the crowd, and comes right up to Simba, he is easily two times the size of Simba.
"Our slumber was disturbed!" He booms
"And I am sorry to hear that Hizarko. But I don't know what happened, and it seems that none of you do either, so I suggest that you just go back to sleep." Simba replies calmly.
"Fine but if it happens again, I'm taking it out on asomeone!" Hizarko says as he walks back into the water.
"And there is another cub on the other side of the bank, I would like her back please."
A small female hippo that didn't take part in the fight goes off to get Vitani.
"Come on small one, you father wants you." The hippo says sweetly
Vitani doesn't say anything, but reluctantly steps onto the hippo's head, she carries Vitani back to the other shore. Vitani jumps down and runs right behind Simba (where Kopa was also).
Most of the hippos have already fallen back to sleep, and the others are settled down.
"Oh thank goodness you came Simba, or those cubs would have been gonners for sure." Timon says as he and Pumbaa walk over to Simba who shakes the water off his coat and main.
"Are you two alright?" Simba says turning around to the cubs.
"Yeah were fine." Kopa says
"Good, what did you think you were doing, you know that hippos are very dangerous?"
"I'm sorry." Kopa says looking down at his paws.
"Where were you even going, thats not our land over there?"
"You and mom were talking bout that place and I wanted to see what was over there."
"Oh Kopa, you shouldn't go someplace that you don't know without us. You know better."
"Sir it wasn't all his falt, I wanted to go to." Vitani says
"Well, you both should have known better, I'm very disapointed." Simba says sternly "Now, let's go home."
They head back to Pride Rock, and soon walk up the rocks to the entrece of the cave. The cubs start to walk off to the side where some of the lionesses sit, chat, and sun bathe, and wehre the other cubs usually were also.
"Now you two stay here for the rest of the day, and tomorrow!"
"Ok Dad." Kopa says over his shoulder.
"Thanks Zazu." Simba says to Zazu who is sitting on his shoulder
"It's my job sire." Zazu replies and flies off.
"Guys..." Simba says turning to Timone and Pumbaa
"Yes Simba." Timon says.
"You could have handled that better."
"I know Buddy, we'll do better next time."
"Let's hope so otherwise your out of the job, and I'll give it to Zazu, or some other meerkat and warthog duo." Simba says with a smile.
"Oh no need for that Sims, we'll be on top of things next time!" Timon says in panic, thinking Simba was serious about getting another meerkat and warthog.
"Ok." Simba says and starts to go back to his deuties.
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