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Chapter 2:

Many years past and one night in a baobab tree, not far from the rock known as pride rock by the lions, Naminé the baboon was painting a picture on the trunk high up, in a small area at the top, where the branches sprouted out. The colors used came from the pastes of the fruit that grew on the tree.

Naminé mumbled and chuckled as she gazed at the painting of the new prince. She finished with a stroke of her thumb above the picture just as she had done at the birthing ceremony of Roxas. "Roxas" she whispered with a bright smile. Dawn was near at pride rock and the now older Roxas ran to the edge of the cliff to see the sun had almost risen. He grinned in excite and raced back to the cave where the sleeping pride lay.

"Dad, dad!" he began calling out "c'mon dad we gotta go". He attempted to jump and maneuver his way through the horde of lions, all the way to the back of the cave, making hurried apologies to any of the lioness's tails he may have stepped on.

He reached the sleeping king and began nudging him and pulling at his ear "dad, dad…" Roxas persisted, while this continued Queen Cloud had already awoken and was grumbling to his husband.

"Your son is awake" he chuckled.

"Before sunrise, he's your son" King Leon retorted. Roxas, finally tired of yelling, ran his head into his dad's. "You promised" Roxas growled.

Leon cracked one eye open to meet a very impatient Roxas wearing a scowl. "Okay, okay, I'm up, I'm up" he acknowledged, "Yeah!" Roxas shouted in excitement as Leon let out a loud yawn. Roxas ran outside once more and looked back to see his parents following. He ran to his "mother" and began weaving through Cloud's legs. Cloud smiled and nudged Roxas's bottom to encourage him to catch up with Leon as he watched on with amusement.

Leon led Roxas to the very top of pride rock, higher that the cliff in which Roxas had been presented on years ago. The sun had just broken the horizon and was casting the savannah in a deep red, making Roxas's golden pelt shine; "Look Roxas" Leon instructed directing his gaze to the grassland below. "Everything the light touches is our kingdom"

"Wow" Roxas exclaimed in wonder.

"A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the setting sun" Leon educated "one day Roxas, the sun will set on my time here and will rise with you as the new king"

"And it will all be mine?" asked Roxas with wide eyes.

"Everything" the king confirmed.

"Wow, everything the light touches" Roxas whispered in awe, "What about the dark shadowy place?"

"That's beyond our borders, The Land That Never Was" Leon answered with a dark tone "you must never go there Roxas"

"But I thought a king could do whatever he wants" Roxas questioned.

"Well there's more to being king than getting your way all the time" Leon pointed out.

"There's more?" Roxas asked with curiosity.

"Roxas" Leon chuckled.

Leon led Roxas down to the grasslands where the antelope were grazing. "Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance" Leon continued to instruct. "As king you need to understand that balance, respect all the creatures from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope"

"But dad, don't we eat the antelope?" Roxas asked with confusion.

"Yes Roxas but let me explain" Leon pleaded "when we die our bodies become the grass and the antelope eat the grass and so we are all connected in the great circle of life"

Just as Leon finished, Zexion flew down to perch on a nearby rock. "Good morning sire" he greeted.

"Good morning Zexion" Leon returned.

"Just checking in with the morning report" Zexion informed.

"Fire away," Leon commanded.

"Well the buzz from the bees is…" as Zexion, continued with his report, Roxas decided to entertain himself by stalking a bug that kept escaping. Leon upon noticing continued to pretend to listen to Zexion as he turned to Roxas, "What are you doing son?" he whispered with curiosity.

"Pouncing" Roxas answered, looking down at his opened paws in frustration as he realized he had once again missed the bug.

Leon leaned down to Roxas's level, "then let a pro show you how it's done," he growled with pride.

"…I told the elephants to forget it but they can't…" Zexion continued to yammer on oblivious to his lack of audience.

"Zexion would you turn around?" the king inquired.

"Yes sire, as I was saying…" Zexion continued.

"Stay low to the ground," Leon instructed. At this point Zexion finally took noticed and looked over his shoulder to see Leon crouched down low next to Roxas.

"What's going on?" he asked.

"Pouncing lesson" Leon informed.

"Oh yes, very good, pouncing. Pouncing!" Zexion squawked. "Oh no sire you can't be serious" Leon motion Zexion to turn around again as he groaned. "This is so humiliating"

"Do not make a sound," Leon whispered to Roxas.

"What are you telling him Leon?" Zexion demanded. When he was met with silence he dared to look over his shoulder and found himself alone,"Leon? Roxas?" Zexion cringed and yelped as he was suddenly tackled by a blond blur.

Leon laughed, "That's very good" he praised Roxas. Roxas ran back as Zexion was left on his back. The earth crumbled behind him causing Zexion to turn to meet the beady eyes of a groundhog.

"Zexion" the groundhog saluted.

"Yes?" Zexion asked.

"News from the underground" the groundhog informed. Leon was busy with Roxas at the moment "Now this time-"

"Sire!" shouted Zexion "Hyenas! In the pride lands" Leon looked up in frustration.

"Zexion, take Roxas home" Leon commanded.

"Aw dad can't I come?" Roxas begged.

"No son" Leon answered with authority and ran off leaving no room for argument.

"I never get to go anywhere," Roxas complained.

Zexion smiled in humor "oh young master, one day you'll be king" he reminded "then you can chase those mangy slobbering stupid vultures from dawn until dusk"

A/N

Hey sorry for the late update I've been busy with exams and thankfully it is now summer vacay. Again no garuntees that this will b finished by the time I leave for University. AND I'VE RUN OUT OF PAGES IN MY JOURNAL! NOOOOOO!

Quick thing I want to apologize for and I'm super embarassaed but, my beta reader you know RikuAnimeloverButler. Ya her, well it turns out she is actually a he. ^^; God that's embarssing I'M SO SORRY RIKU-KUN! He is an awesome beta reader none the less and I am forever greatful to him. Thank you for following all my stories. :3

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E.M. Fiction: I have a feeling you're also the "guest" considering you both wrote word for word the same thing. Anyways just a heads up that I am glad you are enjoying the story but a warning that like most of my stories written like this it will start off just like the original but halfway through I will add in maybe some extra characters or a slight change to the plot just because that's why I write these. To tell a different take on the original in a "what could have happened" kind of idea, otherwise the story would be kind of boring. I'm also, if you've noticed by this point, avoiding songs. I just find that yes disney does amazing songs but for writing all they do is just sing about what the characters have already mentioned or are emphasizing their feelings which as one of my friends once told me, "a good writer can do this in their writing with out songs" Thank you again for the review.

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