The Day We Went Out

Kion's POV

"Kopa, were are you going?" I questioned my brother, who was sneaking out of the den. We had just woken up from a long night slumber, though, I swear Kopa was always the first one awake out of the two of us. "Dad said we had to wait until either him or mom was up." I gave out a yawn.

My brother looked back at me, "Come on, Ki, we never do exploring on our own! Let's go! You and me! The two most powerful kings ever around!" I gave him a short smile before getting up.

"We're not even kings, Kop," I said, walking up to him. "Dad still has to choose between us for his heir, and honestly, I don't care if I don't get it." Kopa, this time, gave me a smile of trouble.

"Makes two of us," Kopa added. "You coming or what, bro?" he asked, going back to the cave entrance, where I ran to catch up with him. With a nod, we busted out of the cave and ran right away from Pride Rock. Dad would be pissed at us, but that was part of the fun when getting in trouble.

I didn't say anything as we went around the kingdom, checking everything out. No doubt that dad would've told us to be careful when it came to exploring around the kingdom. He would've mentioned the outsiders too. Kopa and I never got what was the big deal with them, but something was up.

After a while of exploring, we stopped at the watering hole to get some water, like dad did when he woke up in the morning. We thought we could explore some more before we heard paw steps of a bigger lion, we knew it was mom or dad.

"Kopa, Kion," Dad's voice boomed behind us. "There you are. What did I tell you two about going off in the mornings? Always wait for me or your mother to wake up so we can go with you."

"But dad," I started, "it's boring to wait that long for you and mom to wake up. We just wanted to have fun on our own, we stayed in the Pridelands didn't we? We followed that rule!" I beamed with that last part.

Kopa seemed to get where I was going, "Yeah dad!" he agreed with me. "Me and Ki stayed in the Pridelands! We didn't go off into the Outlands like you told us not too!"

He looked to be fooled, "Yes, you did follow that rule. For that, I'm proud of you for it. But," uh-oh, he might have figured out our plan. "You will still need me or Nala to come with you."

"What about grandma Sarabi or grandma Sarafina? They can come with us, right?" Kopa asked him. "That why, you can focus on your kingdom and subjects, while mom is focusing on the hunting party."

"Very funny, Kopa," Dad laughed. "But one of you will be the future king, and the other will lead the lion guard."

I titled my head. The lion guard? What's that? "What's the lion guard, dad?" I asked him.

"The lion guard is a group of lions that work together to protect the Pridelands," he explained. The guard sounded fun! But, also, dangerous. What if me and Kopa wanted to lead the guard?

"Choose Kion as your heir!" Kopa grinned. "I want the guard!"

"No, I do!" I spat back with a playful smirk. Kopa looked at me. "Wanna fight for it?"

"You're on!" Kopa smirked back, and before we could do anything, dad stepped in between us with a playful look within his eyes. Me and Kopa could tell dad was thinking we shouldn't fight for it.

Dad shook his head, "Oh no, you two aren't fighting for it. The roar will come to one of you."

"The roar?" we both asked at the same time. "What's that?" I asked.

"The leader of the lion guard has it," he explained, sitting down next to us. "The roar is known as 'Roar of the elders', every past king comes together and roars at the same time has the leader does."

Kopa awed, "Oh sweet!"

"Yeah, sweet," I agreed with my brother. "Kopa, you should be king! I wanna have the roar."

"No way," Kopa laughed. "You be king!"

"That's enough," Dad spoke. "The roar will choose you."

"Fine," we said together. I badly want to be the lion guard leader, maybe Kopa will, I don't know. All I know was we were both shown to the kingdom, and the light shined down on us together.

Maybe we both were made to be rulers.