"Faster! Adilah keep running! Almasi go, keep up with your sister!" Nala yelled, leading her grandchildren to the borders.
"Grandma! My leg!" Nala turned around to see Almasi's hind leg caught on a branch. "Help!"
Nala turned around and urged Kopa to keep going, while she freed his sister. "Hurry now, run after your sister! Go!" The old ex queen watched as her grandson caught up with his sister. When they were out of sight she got to work clawing the branch that held Almasi down. "Grandma.." The orange cub whimpered, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Don't worry, 'Masi, I just need a little bit more..." Nala chewed and clawed the stick, hearing a snap she looked down to see that she had indeed broken the branch. "There we go. Now let's go." The pale lioness scooped her granddaughter up in her jaws and ran, following the paw prints Adilah left.
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Adilah panted as she ran, her baby sister in her jaw, while her little brother ran beside her. "Come on, Kopa! The borders just there!" The teenage lioness nodded towards the tree that marked the Pridelands eastern border. The two royals ran faster reaching the tree quickly, Adilah scanned the grasslands around them before sitting down, gently laying the two week old cub down beside her brother, who was also panting.
"Adilah?" Kopa sniffed, "W-where's mummy?"
It broke Adilah's heart to see her only brother crying, with a sigh she embraced the cub in a hug, letting her own tears spill. The only thing that brang her back to earth was the whining sound of her little sister, Uzuri, whose eyes hadn't even opened yet. Without letting her brother go she picked up the crying cub with her paw, when a sudden yet important thought hit her. Who was going to feed Uzuri?
Adilah sighed, pulling her siblings close to when she heard a twig snap. "Who's there?!" The dusty brown lioness snarled, standing over the two cubs, one awake trembling while the other lay asleep.
"Adilah!" Nala ran into view, Almasi in her mouth. The young lioness wasted no time, bounding towards the old queen. "Grandma..." She sobbed, burying her head in the pale lioness's neck, "What am I going to do?"
"Be strong, for your siblings, my love." Nala gently nuzzled her eldest grandcub, her ears perked up as she heard an angered roar come from Pride Rock. "Adilah, listen to me, keep travelling east from here, there you find a desert, you must cross there. Then you will find a jungle, ask around for the group of meerkats living there, they will help you. Tell them your Simba's granddaughter, daughter of Kiara, ask for Timon and Pumbaa. Got that?" Nala looked at her grandchildren, sadly smiling, knowing this would be the last time she saw them. Adilah nodded, wiping the tears away. Nala heard another roar, this one just south of them. "Hurry now Adilah, run and don't look back. Almasi and Kopa. be good. I love you's so much." Nala nuzzeled the twins, then Uzuri, the tiny cub, then her eldest granddaughter. "Be safe and protect eachother." Nala pushed Adilah towards the Easter Desert.
"Your not coming?"
"No, Almasi, I need to throw them bad lions off your scent. Now hurry, go!" With one last tearful look Adilah tore her eyes away from her granddmother and ran east, her little sister in her mouth and two cubs following her.
Another roar, this one closer. Nala looked in the direction of the roar, with tears running down her face she watched her daughters cubs flee the Pridelands, probably forever. Please Mufasa and Ahadi, keep them safe and watch over them. With that last thought she ran in the other direction, ruining all the pawprints she saw. Nala ran, creating as much noise as she could, successfully drawing the attention of one of the rogues.
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Kopa ran as fast as his paws allowed him too, trying to keep up with his sisters. "Adilah! Wait up!"
Adilah stopped and looked back, frowning when she saw her brother, panting with his eyes closed. The adolescent looked down at the oranged coloured sister who looked back up at the amber eyed lioness. "Here, hold Uzuri for awhile. We're far away from the Pridelands now." Adilah had given Almasi the two week old cub to hold.
"I should start searching for some sort of shelter." Adilah muttered as she scooped up her brother, who sighed with relief. "C'mon, sister." Adilah walked foward, with her sisters in tow.
After about half an hour of walking and searching, the prince and princesses finally found a warm cave, which was good considering that the rain had just started to drizzle. Adilah went in first, looking around to see if any animal was in there, seeing no threats, she called her siblings in. Too tired to notice the fur or bones scattered around one side of the cave, she went to a corner and laid down, Almasi curled up by her stomach with Uzuri inbetween while Kopa settled himself in his sister's paws, the three cubs falling asleep straight away. Adilah pulled her siblings closer to when she realized that they were alsleep, soon she herself followed, not noticing the shadow that appeared over her or the gasp.
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Ok, just to get this straight, Almasi and Kopa are 8 amd half month twins,
Uzuri is two weeks old, she should be opening her eyes anytime soon.
Adilah is 1 year and four months, meaning she has the basic teaching of hunting.
Ok now that that's over, OH MY GOSH! Thank you for liking my story! I will try to update as much as I can, but seeing as its the school holidays in Australia, I should be able too.
Also, The Lion King doesn't belong to me.
