Chapter 2: First Encounter

Arthur Weasley, Head of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, couldn't be happier. He had one an all expenses Safari in Africa for him and his whole family from the Daily Prophet Grand Prize Drawing. His eldest sons where in Hogwarts, Bill in his second year and Charlie in his first. Percy would be gong in two years, the twins after Percy, and Ron two years later. Then their only daughter, Ginny would be going to Hogwarts the year after Ron. They had surrounded the campsite with the usual muggle repelling charms and protection wards to ward off dangerous animals. And their childrens clothes had been charmed to bring them back to the campsite if they where in danger.

"Dad, we're going exploring." George, or was it Fred? Said as they held Ron and six year old Ginny. By their hands. Knowing they'd be in no danger he decided to let them go.

"All right, but be as careful as possible." Arthur told him. "And do NOT approach any animals. And always try to stay downwind of the animals so they can't smell you."

"Daddy." Harry whined. "Can I go now?" He had accidentally stumbled on his way down Pride Rock and Kovu was checking him over like the mother-hen he was.

"I want you to be careful." Kovu reminded his son for the hundredth time. "You could easily-"

"Get hurt, or stepped on or even get lost. And if I see any strangers, especially other humans, don't talk to them. Come straight home."

"I just don't want you to get hurt." Kovu nuzzled his son's face. "OR taken from us." He said seriously.

Harry frowned. The seven year old was the only one of his kind on Pride Rock. Sure, Rashad, Vitani's cub, played with him all the time, but the other cubs thought him a freak among freaks. Especially since he sometimes made odd things happen. Like one time he was caught floating a stone ten feet above the ledge of the rock formation. Or the time he protected himself from a hyena that had made its way into the Pridelands by making some kind of energy shield from between him and the hyena. "Why can't I see other humans?" He asked for the millionth time.

"Because they'll take you away from us." Kovu reminded his human son for the millionth time. "So any?"

"Humans I see, don't talk to them, come straight home." Harry sighed.

"Mind your father Harry." His mother, the Queen of Pride Rock Kiara told him as she

"Momma." Harry said and he hugged the lioness. "I will." He passed Simba on the way down who had overheard everything and didn't like how it sounded one bit. It sounded too much like the time Kiara had met Kovu. "Bye grandpa." He said as he wandered into the brush.

"I never thought I'd live long enough to be called grandpa." Simba said as he walked up to Kovu and Kiara who where keeping an eye on Harry from the ledge seeing him play in the brush.

"What's up old man?" Kovu teased the older male who raised an eyebrow at the younger male.

"Kiara, didn't that sound a little familiar to you?" He asked his daughter.

"Now that you mention it." Kiara went back in her memory to the day she first met Kovu.

"And if I see any strangers don't talk to them, come straight home." Younger Kiara said to her father. "Can I go now?"

"Mind your father Kiara." Nala said as she walked up next to Simba.

"It can't be a coincidence. Something's going to happen today." Kovu said suddenly realizing what Simba was getting at.

"Sounds like a job for us." Timon said as he and pumba came out of the cave. "We're on it. Run pumba move it!" He said to the aging warthog.

"Right." Pumba grunted and they ran down Pride Rock.

Simba sighed. He loved those two like family. But they where unreliable at times. "I'm going to follow them." He said and hopped down the rocks and into the brush.

Harry was checking out some soldier ants who where carrying things back to their nest when he heard something.

"But dad said not to wander too far out." A young male voice complained with an accent of somekind.

Poachers. Harry thought. He growled under his breath. He HATED poachers. Not in MY kingdom. He thought in anger. Well...technically my its dad's kingdom but someday it will be mine. Its the principle. He crouched. Getting their scents on the wind. Two scents smelled the same. What the hey? And a female scent.

"Don't be a baby Ron." One of the ones with the same scent said. "We're only playing in the brush for a bit. We'll be back by dinner."

Now. Harry thought and he ran as fast as he could with a dagger he had made out of rock and pounced, tumbling into a group of humans and landing on top of a human child with red hair.

"Your not a poacher." Harry said with his dagger at the whimpering boy's throat.

"Oi! Get off him!" One of the same scented humans demanded and he was heaved and hurled off of the young human.

"Ron are you okay?" A twin human asked looking the boy over. "What the hell's wrong with you?" He demanded at the loin cloth clad child with long messy hair.

"I thought you where Poachers." The boy shrugged. "Sorry. See ya." He turned to leave.

"Wait a moment, who are you?"

"FRED FABIAN WEASLEY! GEORGE GIDEON WEASLEY!" A loud female voice called and was coming closer.

"Oh no, there gonna take me away." Harry said before trying to hide. He climbed up a tree.

"Take you away?" The young female asked. Then they all saw it. A scar shaped like a bolt of lightning between his long bangs.

"Merlin's saggy left-!" The younger male said before he was cut off.

"If you finish that sentence I'll jinx your tongue to the roof of your mouth!"

Harry suddenly climbed a tree and hid in the branches as a plump human female with flaming red hair came onto the scene. She made a chair appear out of thin air with a stick and brought one of the twins over her lap. She then made a broomstick appear and began smacking the twin's bare bottom with it.

"Mum, we saw a boy! We think its Harry Potter!" The little girl said.

Crap! Harry thought.

"Harry Potter? Don't be ridiculous Ginny, he's living with relatives in England."

"No I'm not." Harry replied before realizing what he'd done and making an "Eep." Sound when the red haired woman turned her head.

"Good lord." She said before a roar was heard and a black furred lion leaped into the clearing they where in. Kovu eyed the group of red headed humans.

Harry hopped down from the trees. "Daddy." He said.

"Daddy?" One of the twins asked in confusion.

"Harry. Come. Its time to go home." The lion said in plain English which made the humans jump.

"Yes Daddy." Harry said sadly. His little adventure was over. He hopped onto the lion's back who turned to growl warningly at the humans and then took off in the direction of the strange rock formation.

"Wait!" The red haired woman called out before the black lion and boy left them be. "Oh dear." Molly Weasley said as the lion leapt over the tall grass and sped away with the black haired child on his back.

"Cool, a black furred lion." Ron said having only seen pictures of golden furred, red maned lions. Fred smacked the back of his head as the lion and boy disappeared from sight.

Meanwhile, on Kovu's back...

"What where you thinking?" Kovu demanded as they took their sweet time walking back to Pride Rock.

"Daddy I-"

"I've told you this over and over. Never make contact with other humans because-"

"They'll take me away from you and momma." Harry sighed.

"Right. So why did you even make your presence known?" Kovu asked turning his head back a bit as the crickets chirped away signaling dusk on the horizon.

"I thought they where poachers and wanted to stop them." Harry honestly said. Kovu could tell he was telling the truth.

"And what where you going to do if they had one of those gun things?" Kovu demanded making Harry cringe. Rafiki had told him all about what guns do as he'd seen them in action before.

"I'm sorry Daddy." Harry said as he hugged the lion and nuzzled into the dark colored mane.

Kovu smiled. He knew his son meant well. He just was only seven and didn't think things through. "By the way, your grounded for two weeks." He said as Harry dozed off on his back after seeing his aunt Vitani come up to them having been searching for Harry as well.

Harry suddenly woke up. "WHAT?"

To Be Continued...

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