Hi! This is my first fanfic! Hope you'll like it and please review!

I'll update the next chapter soon.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters here exept for Slayn Wilder.

The rest belongs to Walt Disney.

CHAPTER 1: THE PRIDE LANDS

Here I am, a 24 year old marine in a transport plane on the way to Iraq. I joined the US marines 2 years ago and finally, I'm going to get some action. There are about 20 of us in the cargo, most of them around my age and not to mention, inexperienced marines. The only senior here is Captain Rockwell, a 40 year old soldier. We were suppose to be heading straight to Iraq but due to some problems in our plane, we had to change course to land in an airport in Africa. That was when the trouble started.

We already knew that there were some problems in the engine on the left wing but the problem got worse. We were still hundred of miles from the airport and the left engine burst into flames. Captain Rockwell, knowing that the plane won't even make it to the ground, ordered us to take parachutes. I was the first to grab one and he opened the cargo door. While the others were still scrambling for their gear, I already have my backpack and my parachute. He placed a hand on my shoulder and said, "You go first son! Get down there and we'll meet somewhere in the savannah. GO!"

I didn't have to be told twice. I took one last glance on my panicked companions and at my superior officer and jumped into the darkness of the night. While I was falling, the unthinkable happened. The plane from which I jumped from exploded!(Like the way the plane exploded in Final Destination 1) I glanced back, still falling, and saw the explosion. "NOOOOOOO!!!!"

I wasn't thinking straight. I almost forgot that I was still in the air and when I looked down, I realized that I had to open the parachute. I opened it just in time, crashing to the ground quite hard but luckily, no broken bones. After a few seconds of trying to get out of the mess of the parachute, I looked up at the sky. There were obviously no survivors. I'm alone. I'm miles away from civilization, since being an orphan, I have no family, no friends. Tears were streaming down my face. I have not cried in years. After a few minutes of crying, I had to get to my feet. I have to try and survive.

I checked my equipment. With me right now, I have my secondary weapon, a 9mm pistol with 3 magazines in my back pouch . Each magazines carried about 12 bullets. I also realized I carried a grenade in my back pouch. I also have a sharp razor blade in my left pocket. Well, at least I have can protect myself in a melee combat too, I thought to myself. In my backpack were a bottle of water and at least another uniform mixed with brown and yellow colour. It was used as camouflage in Iraq. It's useless now but at least I have another set of clothes to change in to. No food though. I also have about 2 lighters in my backpack. Can't seem to remember why I brought it. That was it. So little equipment for such a large backpack. I sighed to myself.

Not knowing where to go, I headed west. I regretted not taking my primary weapon before I jumped off the plane. It was an MP5. I was the only soldier that brought a sub-machine gun. The others brought assault rifles but I hated the weight. Well the 9mm will be enough, I thought to myself.

However, after 4 days of walking nowhere in the hot savannah, I was reaching my limits. I did not have a decent meal for 4 days! The only thing I ate were tiny little insects that I've read were consumable. At least I had not seen any wild animals yet that could threaten my life. Even my bottle of water was running low. As I continued walking for another half an hour, I saw a gigantic rock in a distance. It was in an 'L' shape, only the L is pointing the opposite way. I could seek shelter there, so I dragged my feet towards my destination, tired, hungry and thirsty. I was sweating like hell and I was about to pass out from exhaustion or even the heat. I have been taught in boot camp on survival but with low supplies, I guess 4 days is all I can last unless I could find food and water. Water is more important though.

After another quarter of an hour walking in the long grass, I spotted a watering hole not to far from the rock. I have never been so happy in my life. I ran there with joy in my heart and when I reached the water, I dropped face first and started drinking like I never thought I could. It lasted only a few seconds though and I started washing my face, to rid of the dirt and the heat. I was quite happy but food was still another problem. At last quenching my thirst, I knew I had to find food before I seek shelter in below the large 'L' rock. I walked for about twenty minutes when I spotted a herd of antelopes. Well, I've never eaten antelope before but it will do. Taking out my pistol, I cocked my gun and was about to shoot one of the antelopes in the head(That was my speciality in the army, I have perfect aiming), I heard sounds I did not expect to hear.

Turning back, I heard large purring and just a few yards from me, I could see an animal lying low in the grass. It was camouflaged. But the purring came from all directions and I could see about 5 lionesses have surrounded me. I was no match for even 1 lioness so I slowly raised my hands in surrender and said, "You can have the antelopes. I don't want any troubles."

I knew it was no use talking to them but I wasn't thinking straight. The lioness that was right in front of me seemed to twitch it's ears in surprise and I looked around, the other lioness also seemed surprise and their eyes filled with confusion. Only the one to my right still seemed hostile and suddenly, the hostile lioness leapt at me, it's claws out. I did not know whether it was instinct or if it was exhaustion but I dropped to my knees and the lioness missed me, landing on all fours and turning back to me. I wanted to shoot it with my gun but it would be obvious to the lioness that I was hostile so I just held it in my right hand. In my left hand was my knife and I would only use it in self defence. I could see the other lionesses were at least not attacking. They were looking at the hostile lioness. The hostile lioness once again leapt at me, but this time I was prepared. I rolled forward, and it leapt above me and having no choice, I just gave a small cut to it's left hind leg. Though a small scratch, it roared in pain and dropped to the long grass.

It gave me no time to recover though. With my back still facing her, she pounced on me hard on my back, falling face first and my head knocked on a rock. It hurt me badly but I was losing consciousness. I could feel some sort of liquid slowly flowing down my eyes and nose from my forehead. As my eyes slowly closed, I could hear talking. I did not know who or what was talking but the lioness on top of me was TALKING. But it happened so fast. Before I could even act surprised, I passed out, knowing I was the lionesses dinner.

When I came to, I did not open my eyes but I knew I was awake. I was lying down on a hard surface, no longer the soft ground in the savannah. Am I dead? I thought to myself. I could not feel the straps of my backpack and when I finally opened my eyes, there was nothing but darkness. I still felt the pain in my head from crashing against the rock but this new surroundings surprised me. How did I get here? I was still lying on the hard surface so I raised my upper body to get a better look of my surroundings and the sight shocked me. There were lionesses all over the floor! All of them were sleeping, the only lion I saw was a large lion with a thick red mane, golden fur and was sleeping on higher ground, just a little higher. Next to the large lion was another lioness, not as large as the lion but then, slightly larger than the other lionesses. She had a yellow fur. I was in fear and jumped dragged myself backwards until I reached the cave wall with a large THUD. All the creatures in the cave heard that and stared at me. I gulped.

After a brief moment of silence, the lion on the small plateau walked to me, with the lioness next to him. The other lionesses moved out of their way and fell asleep. The lion walked and sat just right in front of me, a few inches away from me! The lioness sat next to him and the two of them stared at me. Red eyes staring right at me. I began to tremble in fear when I heard the thing I never thought I would hear. The lion spoke, "Who are you and what is your purpose in my kingdom?" He asked, his voice deep but not loud to disturb the other lionesses.

My mouth dropped open. "You... you can talk?" I asked, barely a whisper.

"And what's so surprising about that?" He said, raising one eyebrow.

"I... I thought... animals can't talk..." I replied in a shaky voice.

"Mufasa," the lioness next to him said, "You're scaring him."

The lion looked at her, "What? What did I do?"

"Can't you see he's nervous. And you're a big lion. Let me do the talking." She turned to me and smiled and that at least calmed down a little, "I guess we can skip introductions for now. So, what are you?" She said, looking at me from head to toe. "You look like a baboon."

"I'm a... human. I live in a distant land from here."

"Human? I've heard stories from Rafiki about humans before but never thought I might see one. What're you doing here anyway?"

I hesitated but then answered, "I... err... got lost from my people and wandered in these lands for 4 days."

"I see..."

"Err... It's not that I don't appreciate you for sparing me, but why didn't you... erm... eat me?"

The lioness laughed and the lion next to her chuckled, "Well for one, I was curious when I saw you. We were about to strike an antelope when we saw you walking towards the antelope and pointing at it with something. So we slowly stalked you. We wanted to know what you were, for we have never seen a human before."

"Then why did one of you attack me?"

"Oh," The lioness said, "I apologize. That was Zira. She was not happy that we called of the hunt just to get a closer look at you. We have to admit, you're quite agile and you actually were able to at least injure her hind leg. When you said you did not want any trouble, all of us were even more curious and confused. You even offered the antelope for our hunt. Other predators would fight for food."

The human chuckled, "Yeah, she knocked me pretty bad."

"I'm sorry about that," The lioness said, "Is your head okay? You were bleeding pretty bad. We had to call Rafiki to at least stop the bleeding on your head and ease the pain."

"Who's Rafiki?"

"He's the prides Shaman and healer. He is a mandrill and lives in an acacia tree. His home is not so far but not so near either."

I just nodded, "Well, I think I can handle the introductions now. My name is Slayn. Slayn Wilder."

The lion, Mufasa finally spoke, "So your name is... Slayn or Slayn Wilder?"

"Oh, you just call me Slayn but yes, my full name is Slayn Wilder."

The lion eyed at me and then nodded, "I'm Mufasa, king of the pride lands. You are right now in Pride rock and this is Sarabi, my mate."

"Pleased to meet you." I replied.

"Look," Mufasa said, "It's getting late. Why don't we rest for the night and tomorrow we will inform the pride that you mean us no harm. You can live here for as long as you want."

"But won' they eat me??" I asked in a fearful voice.

Sarabi and Mufasa laughed, "That is why there will be an announcement tomorrow."

The two lions walked back to their small plateau and went back to sleep. That is when I saw a golden cub sleeping with them. It must have been their cub. Sarabi licked him on the head and nuzzled him. I smiled. A happy family. I saw my backpack on the corner of the cave and walked to the backpack and rested my head on it. Slowly, I drifted to sleep.

Hei, hoped you liked it! I will post the 2nd chapter soon!!