I don't own any of the characters! Except all of the ones that I introduce, they belong to me!
A few months have gone by, and Kiara is a lively little bundle of golden fur. She is a lot like her father; always seeking adventure, not listening to her parents, and getting into trouble.
The sun rises one morning and Kiara makes her way out of the cave to greet the new day.
"Wow!" she says to herself as she looks out into the kingdom. She proceeds to make her way down Pride Rock, but Simba stops her.
"Woaw, where do you think your going in such a hurry?" He says as he picks her up and then lets her down.
"Daddy! Let go!" Kiara complains as she hits the ground with a very slight thud.
"Now, I just want you to be careful." Simba starts to lecture his daughter, but she is distracted by a butter fly near by, and she starts to pounce on it, Simba steps on her tail. "Kiara, are you listening, you could easily get, hurt..."
"Hurt, stepped on, or even get lost." Kiara finishes for him.
Simba sighs, "And remember stay in sight of Pride Rock..."
"At all times, and if I see any strangers don't talk to them, come straight home, I know, I know, can I go now please!" Kiara puts on a wide grin for her father.
"Hmm, very funny."
"Mind your father Kiara." Nala says with a slight laugh as she walks up to her family.
"Yes Mom." Kiara rolls her eyes.
"And stay away from the outlands." Simba warns
"Nothing there but a bunch of backstabbing, murderous, Outsiders." Zazu says as he flies in.
"Zazu's right, you can't turn your back on them." Simba says looking in the direction of the Outlands.
"Really? How come?" Kiara asks
"Never mind, just run along now." Simba says getting away from the subject.
"But Dad I..." Kiara starts
"You'll understand one day."
"Daaad..." Kiara nuzzles her father, then runs off to explore.
Kiara hops down Pride Rock, to seek adventure. Simba watches her carefully.
Nala laughs, "Simba, who does she remind you of hmm?" She asks, noticing how much Simba and his daughter are alike.
"Hmm, what, oh, who?" Simba asks
"She's just like you were, when you were young." She says nuzzling him.
"Exactly, do you realize the dangers we put ourselves in?" Simba says suddenly very alert to Nala.
Nala pushes him over and pins him gently. "You mean the dangers YOU put us in"
Simba laughs, Nala nuzzles him, and then gets off. "She'll be fine!" She walks away.
"Hey Timon, Pumbaa!" Simba says once Nala was out of earshot, looking over at his two best friends, and motioning his head for them to come over to him.
"Good morning mon' capiton'" Timon says from the top of Pumbaa.
"I want you to keep an eye on Kiara, you know she's bound to run off."
"Don't worry Simba, we'll be on her like stink on a warthog!" Timon says confidently
"Hey!" Pumbaa snorts
"It's the hard truth Pumbaa live with it."
"Guys! I'm counting on you, danger could be lurking behind every rock!" Simba says scanning the kingdom.
"Ahh..." Timon gets it, and him and Pumbaa run off after Kiara, acting like spies.
Kiara has found a butterfly and is now chasing it, trying to capture it in her paws, she pounces, and misses.
"Hey, come back!" she pounces again, and misses, "I just wanna play!" Kiara complains to the butterfly. The red butterfly lands on a rock. "Ahhhh, the mighty hunter, has cornered her prey!" Kiara says as she crouches low to the ground, and puts her ears against her body. She pounces one more time at the bug, and again misses, but something else catches her eye, the dark, dusty, mysterious land that lays before her, across the river, the Outlands "Wow, I wonder what's out there". Kiara sits and observes the curious place when she hears rustling behind her, she turns to look.
Timon and Pumbaa appear before her, all three animals scream, and Kiara backs up and falls off of her rock into the pond that was in front of the rock, and is submerged under the water.
"Don't worry Kiara! Uncle Pumbaa's coming!" Pumbaa screams as he jumps off the rock after Kiara.
"Oh-no! Ahh lets see now, Hey Simba the good news is, we found your daughter, the bad news is, we dropped a warthog on her... is there a problem with that?" Timon recites nervously what he is going to tell Simba.
Pumbaa sits in the water, without Kiara in sight. "Kiara?"
"Pumbaa, let me define, BABY SITTING!" Timon screams to Pumbaa as he realizes that Pumbaa is on Kiara. Pumbaa gets it and stands up, revealing Kiara beneath him, she coughs, and spits water out, as she gives Pumbaa a dirty look. "Sorry."
Pumbaa and Kiara climb out of the water. "Now, princess Kiara, you know better then to run off all alone, you could have gotten hurt."
"Hurt!" Timon screams, "Oh, Simba would kill us!" he jumps to Kiara, observing her. "You didn't slip a disk did'ja, catch a fever, get a hang nail?" he says nervously.
Kiara scoffs. "Timon!"
"I had one once, very painful." Timon says referring to his hang nail, he finds a near by leaf and holds it over Kiara so she is in the shade. "Darling with your complexion, you should stay out of the sun," Kiara swipes her paw at the leaf, "What, do you want a wrinkle?"
"Would somebody please just listen to me!" Kiara complains
"What I'm sorry princess I wasn't listening, did you say something?" Timon asks
"I'm not just a princess you know! That's only half of who I am!" Kiara says
"Oh, well, whos the other half?" Pumbaa asks
"Well... ahh..." Kiara thinks.
"Well, while your figuring that out, lets eat!" Timon says as he walks over to a log on the ground, he snaps his fingers, and Pumbaa picks up the log with his snout, while Timon grabs some bugs with a leaf, and put them in Kiara's face, as to offer them to her. "Grubs!"
"Grubs, the other white meat!" Pumbaa says
"And so high in protein!" Timon adds
"Eeewww, gross!" Kiara looks away
Pumbaa slurps up a worm. "I love grubs!"
"Not like..." Timon starts to say.
"Love!" They both say together. Each of them grab a bug, Timon eats his while Pumbaa bites half of it off, and then spits the rest back.
"Aahh, you always do that, you take a bit out of one and then put it back, it drives me crazy!"Timon complains.
"Well you can't tell from the inside what's the real slimy ones1"
"Ah, Pumbaa, my corpulent compadre, its the crunchy ones that make the meal."
"Slimy!" Pumbaa retorts
"Crunch!" Timon says defensively.
As the two 'baby sitters' continue their argument about which bug is better, Kiara ceases her chance and slips off, towards the Outlands. She comes to a log that is stretched out across the river, she crosses it, and because she is so in-tuned to looking all around, she doesn't look right in-front of her. She falls off the log, and onto another cub below. Both cubs roll, and the other cub, who is female, has bangs, and bright blue eyes, jumps right up and starts growling at Kiara. Kiara gasps and backs up from the other cub, ears down, and tail between her legs.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the princess, what are you doing here alone?" The cub says evilly, and then returns to her growling. The cub jumps at Kiara, slightly to the side, and Kiara jumps back, way off to the side, the same thing happens again two more times, alternating sides each time.
"What are you doing?" The cub asks in a confused angry tone.
"My father says to NEVER turn your back on an Outsider." Kiara says defensively.
"HA, Do you always do what Daddy says!?" The cub says slightly laughing.
"No! And I'm sure you do to!" Kiara yells
"I don't have a father!" the cubs says right in Kiara's face, "I do whatever I want!" she says holding her head high.
"Really? Cool!" Kiara says as she watches the cub climb a tall rock.
"So, Princess, how did you end up here?" The cub says laying down, and staring straight at Kiara.
"I was just curiouse as to what was over here, and what's your name?"
"Name's Vitani, and you look thirsty, why don't you drink some water?" Vitani suggests to Kiara as she notices Kiara's panting, from the dryness of the Outlands, and her nerves.
"Thanks." Kiara says as she makes her way to the water.
Vitani watches in anticipation, as the disturbance of the water starts to wake the crocodiles. Vitani could feel her mother's presence behind her, and new she would be proud, because she hasn't come out into the open yet.
The crocodiles slowly start to make their way to the drinking cub, when suddenly a lion appears at the top of the bank (from the Pride lands side).
"Kiara!" Simba yells to his daughter below, noticing the crocs converging on Kiara, "MOVE!"
"Hu?" Kiara backs up as told, as one of the crocs lunges at her, she moved in time that she was too far away.
Simba runs down to Kiara in a few large bounds to her, he picks her up by the scruff, and makes his way quickly back into the Pride Lands, away from the crocodiles.
"Vitani!" Don't let them get away!" Vitani hears her mother's angry voice behind her, she thinks on her feet, and jumps down before the crocodiles.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Vitani screams as the crocs notice her, and start to move towards her.
Simba, upon hearing this, turns to see where the cry came from, he spots Vitani, and his heart is torn. He sets Kiara down and runs to get Vitani, making it just in time, he takes her up to the Pride Lands as well, almost getting his hind legs bitten off a few times.
He sets Vitani down. Other lionesses had come.
"Kiara!" Nala says nuzzling her daughter, Nala then looks to Vitani, their eyes meet, and Nala looks away. "Simba." Nala says to Simba, who knows what she is thinking.
"Nala, I had to save her." Simba says to Nala calmly, Nala doesn't respond.
"Vitani!" a voice says suddenly from the side of the lionesses. As they notice who it is, they all crouch down and growl.
"Mother." Vitani says as she walks briskly to her mother.
"Zira!" Simba says sternly, almost growling. "You know the penalty, for returning here, get out!"
"I mearly came here to retrieve, my daughter, as I see you saved." Zira responds as she stands casually, with Vitani on her right hand side.
"I did."
"I suppose now, I am in debt to you, correct?" Zira asks, already knowing the answer.
"Right, and as your repayment, get out, and never return!" Simba says taking a step closer.
"Oh, Simba, I couldn't leave hear knowing that you saved, my precious Vitani's life, and that I can't do anything for you, but leave, surely there must be something else I can do."
"No, there isn't, now go!"
"Are you sure?" Zira insists
Simba roars.
"Fine." Zira picks Vitani up by the scruff, and makes her way to the log that stretches the width of the river.
Simba, also picks up Kiara by the scruff and walks back to Pride Rock with the lionesses following him.
Well, hope you liked it!! This took me a long time, I had a bit of a writer's block, but its here now, so tell me what you think please!
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