An AU where Claudius survives his attack and goes to nearby village to guard survivors he gives the sword to Lion-o and tells him to go find out to be the great king he knows he can be. He hopes Tygra will go and seek the truth and find his real home like he promised Tygra's father. Along the way Lion-o meets a specail lioness.

chapter 1

The king had been badly wounded but thanks to him managing to move his injure wasn't life threatening. Lion-o, his brother and father were locked up. A lizard gave them some food.

Lion-o found something in the bowl.

"What is it?" Tygra asked.

"Sometimes my plans lead a disaster but this one got us a key." Lion-o said showing them what he found.

"Son looks like you were right about pardoning those lizards." Claudius said.

They got out of the cell and Jaga and Cheetara were freed. Claudius had been healed by Jaga's magic.

Claudius allowed Lion-o to take the sword of omens and the gauntlet of omens with him.

"I'll go look for survivors and take them to a nearby village where they will be safe." Claudius said. "Lion-o you are in charge until then." he said. He turned to Tygra. "Tygra help your brother in anyway that you can." he said.

Then he talked to the new Thundercats. "If the real Panthro is still out there tell him I said to join you and help you." Claudius said.

"Yes father." Lion-o and Tygra said.

They headed out to get what they needed. Claudius went out to do what he had to do.

Now it was time to find the book of omens.

Upon finding it Lion-o was trying to figure out how to make it work. Lion-o found himself sucked into the book and relived past events. He succeed in defeating Mum-Ra as his ancestor did.

Now he knew what had to be done.

They had to find the stones.

Upon finding the first stone. The spirit stone, Lion-o and his brother went into the astral plane. They discovered their deepest darkest memories and desires. Lion-o and Tygra found new respect for each other.

They were glad to call each other brother.

Lion-o felt betrayed by Tygra when he saw him kissing Cheetara. This was hard for Lion-o.

Soon Lion-o came to accept it.

After a little incident life and death experience Lion-o had a lot of explaining to do.

Today they it was getting late. Lion-o went out to get fire wood. He was starting to gather it when a big Lonot boar came charging at him. It knocked him over. Lion-o got his sword out and prepared to fight.

The boar charged again and Lion-o slashed at it with the sword. The boar charged once and again knocking the sword out of Lion-o's hand. The boar charged once again and knocked Lion-o in to the river which had a raging current.

Lion-o got swept away. "Help!" Lion-o cried. He got tossed all over the place. He bumped in to rocks. Finally the exhausted Lion-o swam to the riverbank. He was really tired and passed out.

Young Lioness who was riding her Marchnoke nearby saw Lion-o climb out the river and pass out. She came up and checked on him. He was breathing. "He's alive." she said. So she put him up on her Marchnoke and carried him to her nearby log cabin vacation home, which was now well her home, home since Thundera's fall.

Her father saw her come up with the injured Lion-o. "Dad he's hurt he must have fallen into river." she said.

"Lionette, let's take him inside, we need to treat his wounds." her father said.

They got to work on in it. Her father had gathered some herbs from the garden. Some for Lion-o's wounds and other's for the fever he had developed. Lion-o woke up just as they began to tend to him.

He looked at Lionette. "Is that the face of an angel?" Lion-o asked.

The lioness and Lion-o looked in each others' eyes and they fell in love. It was love at first sight.

"You are very much alive my daughter found you on the river back did you fall in some where upstream?" the lion asked.

"Yes I a Lonot boar attacked me and I dropped my sword on the ground and fell into the river." Lion-o said.

"Was it all black with red eyes?" the lioness asked.

"Yes," Lion-o said.

"That is fourteenth animal it attacked." the lion said.

"I'm Leonos and this is my daughter Lionette." Leonos said.

"I'm Lion-o." Lion-o said.

"You are our prince, oh my we met up with your father we decided to he to our vacation home in the woods to stay in for awhile but we are alright. We also met more survivors one is name Pumrya your father and I had to lift some rumble off her I treated her with my herbs I could tell be looking at her if we didn't get there when she did she would have died. She thanked us and went to find more survivors." Leonos said.

"But most of the survivors were captured by the lizards." Lionette said.

Leonos rubbed the herbs on Lion-o's wounds. Then he wrapped the bandages around them. He ground up the other herbs and boiled them down into liquid. He handed it Lion-o.

"Drink it all Lion-o," Leonos said. "It's going to be a little bitter." he said.

Lion-o did as he was told. "It is bitter." Lion-o said.

"Good now get some rest your fever will be gone by tomorrow and those wound should be healed enough by then too." Leonos said.

Meanwhile the others were looking for Lion-o. They found his sword and followed the river and they found Leonos' and Lionette's cabin. They knocked on the door. "I'll get it." Leonos said.

He answered the door and saw the Thundercats.

"I'm Tygra I was wondering if you have seen my brother Lion-o?" Tygra said.

"Yes he's inside. My daughter found him on the river bank. We just finished treating him and gave him some medicine he's going to be fine by tomorrow." Leonos said. "Come in." he said.

They came in and saw Lion-o. "Are you okay Lion-o?" Tygra asked.

"Yes I'm fine." Lion-o said. Lion-o explained what had happened.

The next morning Lion-o felt like himself again. They decided to stay for a while and help their new friends with breakfast. Then the Lonot boar from yesterday attacked. It was about to attack Lionette. Lion-o protected her. He ran the horrible creature through.

The boar was dead.

"Now we have nothing to worry about." Leonos said.

Lionette made a decision. "I want to go with you Lion-o." she said.

Her father came up. "Dad I," she said.

"I understand Lionette. You love him and it is time you left the nest. I know you will do alright out there." Leonos said. Then he hand her something it was a boomerang.

"It was your mother's she wanted you to have it. Now it is time for you to use it" he said.

Leonos and Lionette said good bye and the Thundercats left with a new member.

The next day Lion-o, Lionette and Tygra went up to find a short cut. They found the tiger clan's village. The tigers were so happy the prince was home. Javan revealed a monster had been terrorizing the village and had badly wounded Tygra's mother and cause her to die in Tygra's birth. The monster was after Tygra. So he gave Tygra to Claudius and his wife to save his life.

Tygra soon found himself corner by the monster he grabbed a sword one of the tigers dropped and ran the beast through. The beast was on top of him dead. Lion-o and Lionette pull the dead monster off Tygra who was miraculously uninjured. The monster turned to dust and blew away and the evil was banished from the village.

"You saved us Tygra." Javan said. "You will make a fine chief of the tigers one day." he said.

Then the other Thundercats came up and found them because they were worried. Javan meet Tygra's friends and Cheetara, Tygra's girlfriend.

Later Javan gave Tygra something. "This was the proposal gift I gave to your mother. When you feel ready give it to Cheetara." Javan said.

"Thanks father." Tygra said.

Now it was time to head out once again.

To be continued.