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Fan Fiction Based on: The Lion King, first movie Title: The Lion King: Sanctuary Total Chapters: 10 Written in Chapter parts The Lion King (c) Disney Fanfic (c) glycermakhado Also posted on .net account, SavageAlex Lion King characters (c) Disney Characters Dynar & Kade Kagen, Zeeza & Vyza (c) glycermakhado -
The Lion King - Sanctuary
"For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved." -John 3:17
Chapter 3 ~ The Outsider
A full week passed by, birds were chirping and singing their songs as the sun rose up from the horizon.
Another morning had arrived, bringing with it a thrist and hunger for food. Prey animals were scarce to find let alone hunt for, as it was the dry season but with mild and short rains. Not quite yet fully into the dry season. It was foggy outside too, which meant visibility would be low. It would be a rough day indeed, but hopefully a day that would pass without being injuried.
Gathering up his camp and own hand-made survival gear, Dynar packed up as much as he could carry. A few bottles of water at his left hip, beef jerky-like strips of meat he made from leftovers of the porcupine he finished off in the early morning after he woke up. A camo survival knife at his right hip, he placed his 45 pistol sidearm back in its thigh holster, the modified M-16A4 he placed the shoulder strap over his head to rest on his right shoulder as the rifle itself held against his left hip. This rifle of his also boasted a grenade launcher.
The tan colored backpack he left resting against the rocky wall just at the right side of the cavern entrance, he picked the pack up, making sure all the pockets on it were secure and the straps on it secure and tight then put it upon his back, his arms through the pack's shoulder straps. Last he did, putting on his standard high tech CRAI helmet on. It meant Digital Radar Artifical Intelligence, it spoke to him with a female computer voice through a special WIFI microscopic device chip in his cybernetic left eye. The CyberEye he had a major surgery from a motor vehical car crash. His eye had been the only injury he had sustaned from the crash. The digital readout displayed in the vision of his cybernetic eye.
"DRAI, status on."
/Loading... DRAI: On. Status: Ready. Health: 80% Objective: Find permanent base camp near water, food and wood. Secondary objective: Build shelter or find another cavern in rock outcrop for shelter. Find and hunt for food and water./
"Confirmation. Affirmative. Proceeding with objectives."
Dynar stepped out from the cavern entrance, taking in a deep breath. The least he could do was also collect some fruits from the surrounding trees before leaving this small paradise. The lone young man rummaged through the fruit bearing trees, picking only two varities of fruits per tree. This took half an hour but he was done and heading out, continuing in the direction he believed his younger brother lived. He checked his wrist watch compass, first he had to travel east-south-east until he got near Lake Victoria then change direction to west-south-west into Zaire on the western side of Lake Tanganyika.
On the left side of his backpack, he drew out his sheathed hunting knife and attached it to his belt on the left side, beside the camo survival knive. He reached the edge of the small forest, then grabbed a water bottle as he started walking out in the dry, hot, barren wasteland of the sandy desert most of the land had become. He doubted that small forest paradise would even last very long before also succumbing to the sandy desert.
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After what seemed a long walk or traveling through the dry and harsh sandy desert, Lake Victoria came into view then the direction was changed to head towards the second longest Lake Tanganyika. The first longest lake in Africa is Lake Nydsa which was farther south and he had no intention of going that far. Nation borders didn't exsist no longer, so he had no worries about crossing over fences or fenced-in park areas. What was to be careful and watch out for was murauding human Nomads. Once civilized now turned savage and cannibal, cause by no means did they take prisoners.
It might have took extra hours up to at least four to five hours but he passed through the Noman's Land with no interference. And it was uneventful, besides being humid and outrageously hot, he only did stop once at a man-made watering well to refill his water bottles. Then went on to continue his walking. Dynar noticed that the desert was ending as it gradually was replaced by dry serengetti then to tall grasslands. He has to be near the place where Kade was currently living. He noticed that he was drinking a bit more water that he usually does, when he knew that in the dry and hot seasons he should be rationing his water during this time. Especially since water was more sparse. Even if the water contained in his bottles turned tepid and distasteful. Water was water, he'd drink it even if it was warm or hot.
This long traveling was becoming more than tedious, it was now intensifying by the hour. Walking all this way from where he had been temporary camped at was indeed insufferable. He wished he could have called Kade somehow, to let his younger brother know he was here in East Africa and near, then Kade could've came in a vehical of some kind and this whole traversing would be unnecessary. The unrelenting heat of the sun was also uncomfortable, yet, thankfully it was nearing closer to night but still in the evening hours. His world around him in his vision was becoming unreal- like it was something like a dream. It had a blurry surreal quality to it. Only the vision in his right eye was like this, his left cybernetic eye kept displaying digital information to him via the DRAI helmet he wore. And currently it was warning him with a slow blinking message that his heart rate was dangerously high and his breathing was too shallow.
"Fine, I'll rest." Dynar stopped and removed the backpack to lay it down up against a tree's stump and he also took off the M-16A4 to lay against the pack. It must be time for third meal because his stomach was grumbling with hunger. Opening the main section of the backpack, he reached in and grabbed a plastic bag of Mountain Trail Mix. His favorite. This wasn't the mountains, yet there was hills scattered around in areas. He also grabbed out a fruit juice carton from the small cooler. With those, Dynar sat down on a log that was on the ground sideways and begun to eat and drink to replenish his walked-off body energy.
An hour of resting done, Dynar crumpled up the Trail Mix and carton and put them in a ziplock sealed plastic bag and back into the backpack, he wouldn't leave no trace of himself being here. That way no one could trace his steps or track his travel.
Strangly enough, he felt at home here in Africa, like it had been his home all along and he hadn't known it till he was sent away to here. Putting the backpack back on his back, and picking up the rifle to sling it over a shoulder, Dynar returned to his travel. He looked up to see the sun setting and a bright full moon was raising. With his cybernetic eye, he saw a cabin ahead likely made from the local wood. A let out a sigh of relief as he came up to the building. It was the size of a normal sized two person log cabin, the windows looked dusty and the inside appeared unlit and murky from looking within the wooden house. Coming around to the front door, he knocked a few times, hoping to get a greeting but stead he found to his surprise the door was unlocked and open.
Curious, Dynar lifted his arms up while pulling up the M-16A4 rifle up in one fluid movement. It didn't feel right. Was it a ploy to attract robbers and then the robber person would be killed silently inside or had something happened before he had gotten here? Kade had to be alive, he hoped and prayed his younger brother was.
Cautiously he slowly pushed the front door open with the barrel end of of the rifle, the door made a erie creaking noise that echoed within the home. Getting a aweful bad feeling in his gut, Dynar flipped off the rifle's safty switch and moved in, taking slow but careful steps. Yet the home's floor made slight creaking noise was well. The HUD display in his left cybernetic eye scanned the room, it was the main living room from the looks of it. The targeting triangel with a dot in the center swept around the room as it scanned, searching for living beings that would pose a threat or be friendly.
/Scan of room complete. No senient life detected. Options; continue on to other rooms of building, search for possible lifesigns. Current health: 98% Strength: 100% Stamina: 94% Endurance: 97% CAUTION: Wrecked and poor misarranged furniture of building gives away the possiblity of kidnap or a struggle first then murder./
"Affirmitive, DRAI. Continue scan."
Stealthly, Dynar kept to the cabins' shadows as to not give away his presence, moving over to the nearby door at his right. He reached out a hand from the rifle's main thick barrel to the door handle knob, gripped it and slowly twisted it to one side. The door now free to open, he gradually pushed the door open with an elbow.
Then adruptly, he shoved the door. It flung open as Dynar lept into the doorway, knealed down on one knee as he surveyed the room. Swinging his rifle to and fro, he followed the targeting triangle as it scanned. To his dismay, he found the bathroom. /No life signs indicated in room. Conclusion: Move on to other unscanned rooms./
"I can see that DRAI. Just alert me when you find something of importance." Dynar said with coldness in his voice. But he took this shoer time to search for medical items, he found pack of Band-Aids, a bottle of Hydogen Proxide, a tube of Triple Antibiotic, a tube of Cortaid, a tube of Antibiotic Oontment, a bottle of Isopropyl Alcohol, a plastic container First-Aid Kit that opened up like a suitcase and a jar of Vaseline.
Gathering those, he opened his pack and stuck the medical items inside and closed and returned the pack onto his back. "Now, moving on to other rooms."
His metallic bionic left arm shimmering and gleaming in what sunlight that shone through the windows, even the metal cable that went from his bionic left wrist and curved out and up to just below his bionic shoulder muscle. His left bionic hand clutching the underside of his M-16A4 rifle barrel while his other real right hand held the rifle's handle where the trigger was. Though the rifle had two triggers; one where his right hand was that shot out the rifles' bullets and the other trigger near where his left hand was that shot out loaded grenade's from the grenade launcher under the rifles' main barrel.
The metal of the bionic left arm was made of an unknown alloy, yet, so far its been undamaged in his journey's. Not even from fire to a large and heavy boulder of rock falling on to it. Not even a Massai's blade at the end of a spear could cut through it, the blade of the spear would simply make a clang sound then break at the impact.
Dynar checked the living room and bedroom of the cabin but the search had turned up nothing but distrubed and scattered clothes and knocked over furniture. The place was a mess, like someone was looking for something as well as there had been signs of a struggle. Then he shook his head to dispell any thoughts that his brother had been captured. An African Tribe wouldn't take a male person captive, only female people for their breeding.
/Scanning of recent visit of two rooms show that Tribe Aggressors might still be in the area. Be alert and be aware./ His cybernitic eye computer gave out the warning in a worried by quiet voice.
"Copy that, DRAI. Defensive Targeting ON." Dynar gave the order for the targeting hud system to activate.
/Status: Activation of Targeting system complete and on. Health: 97% Strength: 100% Stamina: 95% Endurance: 96% Thrist: 77% Hunger: 75% Scanner still active on upper left of HUD. Be advised, proceed with caution./
Dynar grinned grimly, this was the best part he did enjoy. "Activation, body condition and caution noted and carefully proceeding to the backyard outside of house." He quietly said in a whisper, stepping close to the back door, opening it to a crack to peak out, checking what all he could see if anyone was still around. Next he got behind the the back wall next to the doorway frame and kicked the door open. His M-16A4 held at the ready close against his upper chest and his right eye looking through the scope target sighter on top of the rifle's top hand holder grip. Making sure the area in the backyard was clear of any possible hostilities, he slowly stepped out through the back door and began walking around outside for any signs of his younger brother.
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Outside of the cabin was another matter, the walk trails that had been cut down from the normal tall grass and blocks of flat stone put in its place.
Dynar saw the small trail of blood that looked like someone had been dragged on the ground so he decided to follow it, not knowing what the blood trail may lead him to. Following the trail of blood lead him to a gruesome scene, from the dragged trail of blood was a circle of blood which matted the surrounding tall grass. The blood slowly dripped from the tall grass that was bent over. At the center of the bloody mess lay the mauled, impaled and eviscerated body of his younger brother.
Upon seeing this, the color went from his face as he limply fell down to his knees. The toneless voice of his cybernetic left eye's computer interrupted his shattered hopes of finding his younger brother Kade alive.
/Life signs not detected. No readings of internal heart beat or rate of blood pressure. Human life has been ended by what appears to be a slaughter./
Dynar was in a such servere state of emotion, the cybernetic eye's computer voice only caused to affect him all the more. Saddened, fraut with a terrible feeling of loss and tears emerging out only from his right eye and dripping down over his right face cheek. His hands went limp and his M-16A4 dropped to the ground in the tall grass beside him. In the pit of his stomach he felt a pain -a horrible sensation- hit him as it felt like he was having a heart attack. The painful waves surging throughout his entire body as he had to bend over and hold himself up with his hands placed on the ground.
The stomach pains lasted for about ten agonizing minutes while his body was wrecked with spasms he'd never felt before he was able to speak again.
/Lieutenant Commander Dynar.../ The DRAI's voice tonelessly sounded, but it almost sounded worried.
"I have to bury him, DRAI." After a couple of deep breaths to push the hurting sence of loss back for what he needed to do Dynar took off his pack from his back and opened it up, pulling out the foldable shovel and began clearing an area from tall grass and began digging deep into the ground, at least down to six feet. For the time being, he refused to speak to his left DRAI cybernetic eye computer. Sweat poured down along his skin from the digging, the sweat would drip off and splash on the dry soil of the ground before slowly being evaporated into steam and drifting away like a tiny puff of smoke.
When he was finished digging, Dynar climbed out of the six foot deep rectangle hole. At his left side hip, he grabbed and pulled off his water canteen. Unscrewing the cap, he drank the remains of his water- water he had refilled back at the small paradise area he had come across. It was too far to head back to it, so he'd have to find water elsewhere. Perhaps in the cabin's kitchen or sink, if the source of water hadn't been drained.
Done with satisfying his thrist, he put the canteen back then walked over to where his dead younger brother Cade lifelessly and bloodily lay. It looked like a small massacre with blood blanketing the surrounding tall grass as drops of blood dripped off. The gore would be unsightly to a normal decent person.
Carefully, Dynar got his arms under the lifeless body of Cade and lifted him up, turned and walked back over to the six foot deep grave he dug. Lowering himself down onto his knees, he took great care to lower Cade's dead body down into the grave. With Cade's body down in the grave all the way, Dynar began the tedious task of shoveling the loose dirt back into the grave.
Replacing the soil back into the six feet deep rectangle hole took up to two hands of time- two hours, when Dynar had checked with the position of the sun by putting his right hand up against the sun and counting down until his hand touched the horizon. Unlike most people, him and Cade had done things in the old ways, just like the Neolithic paloindians, before anyone had discovered the Americas.
One last thing to do, Dynar used a long piece wood branch he'd cut from a nearby tree. Cutting the branch further into two parts, one part of the branch two foot longer than the other part of the branch. The main branch was four foot in length while the other branch was two foot in length. Next he used a rope he'd gotten from the cabin's bedroom closet and tied the two parts of the branch together to make a cross. Then he lifted up the bottom end to sharpen it to a point, not a too sharpened point just a standard cone shaped point.
With a hefty thrust, Dynar plunged the hand-made wooden cross into the ground where it settled after shaking from the force of the ground plunging. The high tech computer intoned him again. /Is there anything that you have to say?/ And he knelt down in front of the grave, placing his hands on the ground on the outside of his knees. "Its sad when a life gets taken away like this, without any questions asked nor answers given." He paused breifly, a tear emerging from his only organic right eye. "I wish I had gotten to see you again, Kade, before this had happened. Then I could've maybe help protect you and fight off those devils." Dynar managed to stop crying and pull himself together. Grabbing his rifle and slowly replacing it back onto his shoulder where it hung across his back. Getting back up to stand, he stood there for a moment in silence to pay respect to his brother Kade before letting out a deep sigh of regret thinking he could at least spend a few nights or a week in the log cabin.
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Two feline big cats traveled together, through the sun baked cracked and sandy ground with tired paws. One was a leopard female -or rather a leopardess- with a sleek and slender beautiful body, her muscles honed from hunting rippling underneath the tan fur with dotted and sploched black patches in the fur, she has yellow eyes. The other feline with a tawny golden coat of fur that was a lioness had similar body build yet was larger in body size, she had eyes of a aquamarine color.
The leopardess's name is Zeeza. The lioness's name is Vyza. They both hunt but in their own ways, Zeeza taking to the tree's followed by an ambush from above while Vyza stalks and hunts her prey on the ground. The two females use this to their advantage by working together. Taking turns on who gets to make the killing bite. They've both traveled here to this still pristine place of vegetation and shade and maybe also food and water for them. Zeeza doubted that she'd have to hunt since the place looked like it only supported tree fruits. Vyza however, didn't mind what she ate whatever was available to eat.
"At last, we've made it passed the dessert."
"I was begining to think we'd never make it out of that forsaken place."
"Whose idea was it to travel through it anyway?"
"Ugh. Did you forget? We had no choice. There was no way around it. And we promised to not let any lion Prides see us together."
"Oh. No, I hadn't forgot, my mind's just been on other things..."
"Other things? How can you be thinking about other things except our continued survival here?"
"I do think about our survival, but... If you haven't noticed, we're due to start both of our first heats. And there is no males around."
The two feline's came to a halt when they emerged from the acacia forest and into a grassy clearing. They looked around, spotting the lone log cabin made that had been put together by wood from the surrounding area.
"Wait," Zeeza said to Vyza in a hushed voice, her brows furrowing between her eyes. "this doesn't feel right."
"Phft," Vyza shifted her eyes, frowning at her blood-sister. "come on, sis, you always get this way when we find some place new. Have a sense of adventure." She scoffed and padded on ahead.
"You know, being cautious is better than being reckless all your life." Zeeza called out after the lioness but she was already on her way towards the cabin. To them it looked like a wooden rock with a cave inside. "I hope we don't regret this." She muttered to herself before padding on after her friend.
After several seconds, she caught up with her friend and they reached the cabin. Noticing how worn and weathered it looked on the outside and the inside looked like it got hit by a strong wind as thing were cluttered about from the two looking inside through the windows.
Moving around to what the two managed to propose was the front, they edged to the entrance. The front door, which was tied by fresh vines to one side of the doorway. It was likely a temporary fix. With a nose nudge by Vyza, they discovered the door wasn't locked and they carefully and slowly opened the door. Making sure the door didn't make a noise, for fear that there might be some other occupant somewhere inside, the sniffed at the air for scents. Only finding the faintest smell of blood and the fading smell of a single human who had once been living in the cabin, the two decided to sleep here for the night in the living room. They both yawned and Zeeza went for the three-person wide couch and lay down on it as Vyza circled around before settling to lay down on the zebra floor rug that was from an actual zebra.
Sure that nobody or nothing else was also in this wooden rock cave, they nuzzled each other and said their goodnights before going to sleep.
Had they known to check out the entire cabin, both lioness and leopardess would have found a lone young human male sleeping in the wrecked but somewhat cleaned up bedroom that was off from the kitchen. The bathroom was proceeded by the bedroom. The sunlight of day dimmed as night blanketed the land but no light shown within the cabin, not even fire light. It was hard to tell what would happen in the morning but for tonight, all was at peace for the long sleep.
