A young lion cub peeped his head up to a small opening. He did so carefully because he had been ordered to stay hidden. It was an odd command but he had followed it. He has sat silently in the small cave and waited for his father to came retrieve him. But despite he determination to follow his father's orders he couldn't help but to chance a glance outside. His bright green eyes grew large as he saw what the commotion was outside. A sea of animals of all had formed around his home. Spurred on my curiosity the cub poisoned himself in front of the opening so he could see everything. It was fascinating. The cub watched as massive grey beast stomped around and swung large tails that hung from their faces. He saw long spindly animals that had spotted fur and long necks. He smiled and giggled at how silly they all looked but he stopped suddenly as his father came into view.

His father was large and powerful. He very big compared to the rest of the pride, the lionesses had dull fur and bones that stuck out at places. His father on the other hand was like a ray of sunshine in the pride, he had a big auburn mane and golden fur that shined in the sun. The cub wished like he always did that he looked like his father, he wished he was a ray of sunshine with brown eyes and a reddish mane but he was not. He was a shadow. He had corse brown fur. Dirt. And green eyes. Sick. Along with a spiky tuff of orangeish fur on his head. Dead grass. The cub sighed. No one liked a shadow and he didn't blame them.
Movement out of the corner of his eye caught his attention. His father had moved over to his mother's side as she came out of the main cave with Rafiki and to his surprise Tanabi. Tanabi was always sick and never left the main cave so the cub was amazed that he was outside now. The cub shrank back as his parents and brother passed by his hiding place but they didn't even look his way. They walked right past him, all of their attention on the crowd of animals at the base of Pride Rock. As if on cue the clouds parted and let down a ray of light onto his family and in the one moment he felt as if they lived in completely different worlds. As they where bathed in sunlight and honored by all of the animals in the kingdom he was hidden away in the shadows, forgotten and abandoned. He felt tears well up in his eyes as he backed away from the light. They where meant to be liked because they where rays of light and he was to be a disliked shadow. It was a simple but painful thing to realize, he was bad and they where good.

The presentation day was a big event in the Land of the Kings and Golden shining pelts jostled for cloud with exited chatter. Happy. Nervous. Expectant. In the spectacular flow of golden pelts a cub stubbled about. He weaved around the legs of his pride mates to get a spot over looking the Pride Rock. He had be born there not to long ago burr now he was up in the clouds with all of the other lions that had died. He found a spot at the edge of a cloud and peered over excitedly to catch a glimpse of his brothers. He spotted his brother Tanabi easily. He was with his parents but he didn't care about them they didn't matter he was looking for Kopa. He loved Kopa. Kopa was amazing! Brave, strong, independent and alive. All the things he wanted to be with all his heart. So the cub searched with his little golden eyes for his brother. He found the brown form of his brother in his small cave. Alone. Why wasn't Kopa with his family. It seemed like the other members of his pride had noticed the same thing, they shifted slightly put on edge. The cub was very concerned for his brother. He coked his head to the side. Why was he so sad. As far as the cub could see he was not trapped in the little cave he was in so he had no reason to be sad. If the place made Kopa sad he should just leave. The cub's brow furrowed as he tried to figure out the situation without Gandpa knows! Gandpa knows everything! The little lion lept to his feet. And started racing towards the cloister of clouds his grandpa was perched on. He raced along the soft clouds and cleared the gaps between with skilled ease. He landed gracefully on his Grandpa's cloud along with a few other lions watching the presentation.
"Grandpa!" the cub called racing across the clouds to the large lion sitting not to far off talking with another lion. "Grandpa!" the cub called again when he had gotten closer. The lion stopped in his conversation.
" This isn't over Mufasa" the other lion growled angrily as he stalked away.
"I know." Mufasa said as he dipped his head to the lion. The lion grunted and he growled at the cub as he passed. He then preceded to faze out like mist.
" Who was that Grandpa?" The cub asked looking back at where the lion had disappeared.
"That's my father" Mufasa told the cub. The cub's mind started to work over the new information. That was Grandpa's dad. "Young…" So that would mean that's my Great Gandpa. "Young!'
"Huh" Young snapped out of his thoughts. Mufasa sighed. "What did you come here for?"
"Ummm…" Why did I come here? The cub had a very particular memory. It never seemed to want to stay on one topic to long. It was only annoy at most when you talked to the cub but wasn't anything to bad. "Oh Yeah, Why is Kopa sad?"
"Kopa?" The old lion looked down at the presentation. It only took him a short moment to find the lone brown cub hidden in the rocks. " Well that's because he's lonely." Young though about that for a second. His forehead creasing with the effort. But in the end he just couldn't figure it out.
"What does lonely mean" The cub finally asked. That was his first problem he had never heard that word before. He needed to know all the parts of this explanation.
"Well lonely is when no one is with you and you are alone." The old king explained. Young frowned, taking time to add in the information. It still didn't add up.
"But every one it right there. Can he see them?" the cub had stated getting frustrated with himself for not understanding.
"Well he's lonely on the inside" Mufasa was faced with Young's empty stare. "You'll understand when you're older." he told the cub. He left the cub looking over the edge of the cloud.
Older. He didn't need to be older. He could figure it out now. All he needed was the right parts. Everything always adds up. It would make sense only if Young could find all the parts and add them up. But there was alway one little piece that was missing from his equation. Age. Being older. He didn't have it and he couldn't get it now and that is what irritated him most of all. He was the only one up here his age. He was the Youngest and he had been named as such. He always needed to be older to understand but there is always more than one way to solve that problem. If everyone else got their age when they came up from the savanna all he had to do was to do the smiled slyly. All he would have to do was go down.

-Author's Note-

This is the revised version of my first chapter. It is much better than the first one I had up so I hope you like my newer writing style. I know you will love my story so continue reading.

Lark Out. (｀_´)ゞ