A/N: Looks like I was able to put up this story a little early. Are you ready for this one? I know I am. I've been looking forward to writing it. It's based off a horror movie I saw. Anyone who can guess what movie it is wins a grand prize of absolutely nothing! Anyway, here we go.

Chapter 1: Terror

"We're lost, aren't we?" a light gold cub asked as he walked next to his parents in the middle of a very secluded area. The sun was hot, and the ground was more sandy. There weren't many plants growing and the ones that had grown looked like they were dead from lack of rain.

"No, of course we aren't." the lioness with light brown fur answered, not wanting to worry her son. "Right, dear?" She looked to the gold lion walking next to her.

"Yeah, we'll be fine." he assured his son.

"I'm really thirsty..." the cub said in a hoarse voice. "And my legs hurt."

His father stopped and looked at his son and mate. "You two wait here and take a break." he told them. "I'll walk ahead a bit and see if there's any water."

The cub collapsed to the ground, tired from having to walk in the heat for hours. "Okay..." he said as he shut his eyes to rest.

"I'll be back." he said before giving his mate a kiss. He then began walking farther into the desert.

The lioness looked down at her sleeping cub. "It's okay." she whispered. "We'll get out of this place." She looked back up to see how far her mate was. She was shocked to see he was nowhere in sight. "Where'd he go?" she asked herself. He couldn't have gotten that far in the short amount of time she looked away. She noticed a small group of bushes not far from where she and her cub were. They seemed out of place. She looked back at her cub and figured it would be okay to leve him there for a minute while she went over there, after all, there wasn't anything in this place that could hurt him, it seemed like there was no life within miles. She made her way over to the the bushes. As she got closer, she started to get a bad feeling as to what she would find over there. When she reached the bushes, she looked behind them. She screamed at what she saw. It was a grisly sight. On the ground was her mate. He was dead. He had been torn completely in half. After a moment, an awful stench filled the air. It smelled like a thousand rotting zebra carcasses, but worse. She turned around and a terrifying figure stood before her.

The cub had woken up after hearing his mother scream. "Mom?" he said as his head shot up. He looked around before spotting his mother not far away from where he was. He saw his mother facing something. It looked like a lion, but it appeared to have some sort of cloak covering it's body. He stood up and ran in the direction of the figure and his mother. As the cub got closer, an overpowering smell took over. He gagged when he caught the stench.

"Get back!" his mother yelled to him. "Run! Don't worry about me!"

"But mom, I-" the cub tried to protest, but was cut off by his mother.

"Don't argue, just go!" she shouted.

The cub was terrified. He decided it was best to listen to his mother. He turned around and started running. He looked back to his mother. He saw the creature raise a paw, revealing very long, extremely sharp claws. They glinted as if they were made of metal. He watched in horror as it swiped at the lioness, easily cutting her in half. Any attempt to defend herself would have been useless. Suddenly the cub saw the creature disappear. He turned his head around and came to a complete halt when he noticed the creature had appeared in front of him. The stench from before had also come back.

This creature didn't have a face. At least you couldn't see it because the hood on the cloak obscured it. It's long, metallic claws were easily visible. The creature began advancing toward the cub.

"P-please don't h-hurt me..." he said as tears streamed down his face and he backed away from the monster.

The creature didn't say a word, it just continued to walk towards the cub.

As he was backing up, the cub tripped over a rock. He fell flat on his back. He looked up and noticed the creature was standing right over him. The cub closed his eyes as the creature raised it's razor-sharp claws and brought them down directly at him.

"Hey, guys!" Simba yelled to his friends as he walked into the den. It had been a few weeks since the incident with Sora. Simba was finally able to walk on his leg again, since it healed a bit faster than expected.

"What's got you so excited?" Tora asked as Simba walked up to them.

"I met this great girl down at the water hole." he said. "I think she really likes me."

"What!?" Nala exclaimed.

"Calm down." Simba laughed. "I'm kidding."

Nala walked over to him and pushed him over. "Jerk." she said in fake anger.

"Okay." Sora said. "What's the real reason you're so excited?"

"I overheard some cubs talking about this desert that they heard about." he told his friends.

"Oooh... A desert." Kora said. "What's so exciting about that?"

"Apparently, there's some legend about it. I didn't really hear that part, but apparently, it's really creepy." Simba said.

"Let me guess." Kora said to him. "Now you want us to go check it out, which will result in it costing our lives or almost costing our lives?"

"Yeah, pretty much." Simba said. "So, who wants to go?"

"We don't even know what to look for." Nala said.

"I'm sure we'll know when we find it." Simba told her. "Come on, we have to check it out!"

"Fine." Nala said.

"I guess I'm in too." Tora told him.

"I have nothing to do, so why not?" Sora added.

They all looked at Kora.

"Ugh... Alright, I'll go." he said. "But I know I won't like it."

"How far is it anyway?" Nala asked.

"I think they said about a day." Simba told them.

"Our parents will realize we're missing." Nala said.

"I ran into Kulaani on the way here." Simba said. "He said he'd cover for us."

"So is it just us five?" Tora asked.

"I guess." Simba answered. "Mheetu doesn't want to go, I saw him already. Angani called me an annoying little pest and threw a rock at me when I snuck up on her and Mkali, so I'm guessing they won't."

"Alright then, let's head out." Tora said.

The cubs walked down Pride Rock. Simba was leading them.

"It's this way." he said. They managed to get away from Pride Rock without any adults seeing them leave. It was still morning, so they figured they would reach their destination sometime early in the morning. Simba was most eager to get there. He knew something was in that desert and he couldn't wait to see what it was.

A/N: So, did you like this chapter? Some horror, a little comedy... Well, feel free to leave a review. Next update will be soon. See ya then!