One year had past since Scar raign had ended, the greed full lion had fallen to his pride and was ripped to shreds by them grey, laughing hyenas. The pride lands had return to its glorious state. All the animals had returned to the lands and Simba, the new king of the Pride lands and Nala, his chosen queen. has had their very first cub, Kopa. Yet One early mourning as the sun began to rise as the Pride rock was the first to be touched by its warm light. Inside the Cave Nala who slept on the rock plat form with her husband Simba and her son who was only a few weeks old and just like his father for when he was the free spirited cub long ago. Simba was the first one up. He yawned as he stretched his front paws before he stood up. He turned to look at Nala and Kopa who were still fast asleep. Simba smiled and then walked toward the entrance of the cave. Once outside of his lair Simba stared over at the rising sun that would begin another day in the pride lands.
"Good mourning, sire." said Zazu as he flew and landed at Simba's left side. "It'll be another splendid day, I imagine."
"I think so, too Zazu." said Simba.
"You'll be please to know that there are no hyena's in site." reported Zazu. "And good riddance to them."
"Lets not get our hopes up just yet." said Simba. "You know they could come back any day."
"Yes Sire." said Zazu. "I shall do another exception to the northern borders."
As the blue feathered, bird flew away Simba headed down the rocky path of Pride Rock to patrol his kingdom.
Deeper into the Morning, Nala began to wake from her slumber
"Kopa." a voice called as the lion cub came to a halt and looked up to see his mother. "Where do you think your going?"
"To find dad." answered Kopa.
"Must you follow your father everywhere?" asked Nala.
"Aw come on mom." he said. "If I want to be king some day and I have to learn from dad."
"Like how to hunt for your food?" asked Nala.
"No." said Kopa. "Thats girl stuff."
"Whatever you say, your Majesty." said Nala.
Kopa then ran down the rest of the path as Nala watched him. She sighed with a smile for having a Simba as a son.
"Nala." Said a voice as she turned to see Sarabi and a few other lioness. "Its time to hunt."
"Oh, right." said Nala as she followed the lionesses down to the plains to hunt for food.
Meanwhile far from Pride rock, The mighty lion king is seen walking through the tall plains. But as Simba walks along he hears slight noise making him stop dead in his tracks, he looks all around at his surroundings, little did he know that something was stalking him in the cover of the plain grass. Simba then let his guard down, But before he continued on, a young yellow furred cub pounced out of the cover of the tall plain grass as Simba turned and got a glimpse before fell to the ground.
"Gotcha, Dad," The cub said laughing as he jumped off of his father.
"Kopa," said Simba who also laughed, as he rolled back onto his four paws, "Come here, you."
Just before Simba could catch his son, the young free spirited Kopa ran back into the plain grass laughing. But then the cub walked onto a pile of sticks and nearly fell into a hole, but luckily held tightly on one long and strong stick.
"Help!" He cried.
Simba heard the cry of his son.
"Kopa!", He called as he rushed to see what was wrong.
Meanwhile Kopa tried to hang on to the branch, but was began to slip. Kopa the lost his grip and began to fall, but was then caught in his fathers jaws. Simba pulls him out and sets the cub on the ground beside him.
"Kopa, are you Okay?" ,asked Simba.
"Yeah," answered Kopa, shivering a bit from nearly falling in, "Who did this, dad?"
Simba turned and stared at the trap, this looked the way Mufassa described when he told him as a cub, of creatures called, humans. those that set traps for their prey or even kill then with sticks that shoot fire, even the lion is hunted by this predator.
"Humans," Simba growled knowing that humans have dared enter his kingdom, Simba turned to Kopa and picked him up in her jaws and ran back to Pride Rock to get his son to safety.
Meanwhie far west into the pride lands, a herd of Wildebeests are seen grazing in the plains, but had no suspicion that in the cover of the light brown grass, a few lionesses are stalking them from behind, Nala moved stealthily through the plain grass, toward one of the wildebeests, her blue eyes stared ahead. She took one last step before she leaped at her prey with a roar, the wildebeest, hearing it then scattered as the other lionesses chased after. Nala was in hot pursuit of one of the wildebeest, who ran from the attack site, separating her from the others. After some time of chasing the blasted thing, Nala began to slow down to catch her breathe as her prey runs out of site.
Nala sighed, having to lose her prey. But little did she know that she was being watched from behind. A man with white skin, brown hair waring grey vest and shorts, holding a trank gun is seen sneaking up on the lioness, As Nala continues to look ahead, the hunted raises the gun and aims at her, looking through the scope with two lines that aimed for Nala's shoulder. The man then pulled the trigger as a dart flew and hit Nala in the shoulder, Making her growl from the pain of the sharp needle. Nala turned to look at her shoulder and saw the trank dart. Her vision then became blurry as she looked and saw something approaching her. Nala, feeling more and more dizzy then became unconscious and fell to the ground.
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