Alright, sorry to have kept you waiting. I finished this chapter awhile ago, but the truth is that I just don't like how it turned out. I may rewrite it when I have more time to do so.
I don't own Pokemon or Lion King.
Sorry for those of you who believe themselves mislead by the fic's description. It will be about Kovu and Kiara, but it's a Pokemon-Lion King crossover, so it will also be about our favourite heroes and villains from the Pokemon anime.
Nefu walked to the end of Pride Rock, closely accompanied by the King and Queen. Both King and Queen held a cub by it's scruff. Both cub's foreheads had been marked with some kind of the fruit juices, the dusted with a handful of earth and seeds, in the same ceremony that every royal cub before them had gone through.
After his uncle, Rafiki, had passed in a violent thunderstorm, Nefu had taken over Rafiki's duties. He'd spent his whole life learning about the way that his grandfather lived, about what he did, everything.Now, it was his time to take over. He still missed his uncle's guidance and wisdom, which was now seldom offered since his passing, but Rafiki's presence was still as strong as it was when he'd still been alive.
Nefu bowed to the King and Queen, and accepted the first cub, a pale-furred lioness cub with seafoam green eyes and a little ginger tuft on her forehead. Queen Kiara gave up her newborn daughter to the young mandrill, who turned to the kingdom of animals below Pride Rock, and held the little cub high above the world.
A breeze picked up, and a handful of seeds and earth swirled around the little princess. The clouds above the Pridelands parted, and a beam of sunlight shone down on the little princess, the mark of approval from the gods of the past. It was the love of Simba and Nala, as they looked down on their precious daughter and her two newborn children.
After the animals below had finished rejoicing, Nefu handed the little princess back to her mother. Then, he took a brown furred male lion cub with a black mane tuft on his head from the King of the Pridelands, King Kovu. Much like his sister, the handful of earth and seeds swirled around the young prince, and a shard of sunlight illuminated the young prince's features.
Just as they had with the young princess, the animals below celebrated the birth of the young prince, while the little prince looked astounded. His dark brown eyes were wide as he batted at a passing seed, before getting dust up his nose, which caused him to sneeze.
Nefu handed the young prince back to his father. The animals celebrated, while Nefu bowed to the king and queen, before solemnly making his way down from Pride Rock. The celebrations had barely begun, but Nefu was leaving the party early.
His fingers were clutched tightly around the staff that his uncle had once taken everywhere he went. Tears were stinging his eyes, a lone tear rolled down his cheek. Just because Rafiki wasn't completely gone, it didn't mean that there was no empty space left in his nephew's life. His uncle had been his only companion, and when he'd passed, he'd left Nefu with nobody.
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