A.N: The Lion King 3d is out! I'm so excited! Go see it and enjoy. I loved it.
I had never seen it in theatres before and it was a cool experience. Did
anyone else see it? Please let me know how you thought of it. Here is chapter
A Lover's Tale-Chapter 4, Retribution
"I can't believe he did that to me!" Kopa thought as he hit the ground hard
with his paw. His father had just banished him like that! That brown lion was
the one who attacked me. These thoughts were racing my mind. Kopa's sadness
had turned to anger about how his father and that brown lion had… attacked
him! Before Vitani came to him he had been lonely for what seemed an eternity.
Why now did everything go wrong? Kopa couldn't figure why that lion had
attacked him.
Back at Pride Rock…
"Who was that daddy?" Kiara asked with concern as Nala, Kovu, Vitani , and
TImon and Pumbaa hurried up Pride Rock after a scowling Simba.
"Why did you treat your our own son like that?" Nala yelled to Simba.
"Who is our son?" Kiara asked Dad again.
"Yea, who was that rogue who touched my sister?" Kovu was a little angry as
well.
"Kovu, I told you I know him!" Vitani was furious, more than anyone else.
"Enough with the questions! I will answer them one at a time. And Nala, I
don't want to hear it anymore. You know he is gone," Simba finally turned
around. Nala wasn't finished yet.
"Simba, couldn't you see the similarities between you and him?" Nala asked,
trying to find something to agree on.
"Nala…"
"You both had the same golden coat, the same eyes, the same…"
"Nala, just because he might have some of the same similarities doesn't mean
that he is our son. He just attacked Kovu! Future heir to this throne! What do
you think I'm supposed to do?" Simba defended Kovu.
"Well you obviously don't know what your talking about," Kiara spoke.
"Excuse me?" Simba said.
"Kovu attacked him," Kiara said. Kovu was surprised Kiara would accuse her.
"Well yea! He touched Vitani!" Kovu said.
"So Simba, you shouldn't have banished him, bring him back," Vitani begged,
hoping Simba would now change his mind.
"No. Even if he didn't attack Kovu, he still was a rogue," Simba spoke as if
he had finished.
"Father you still didn't answer my question. Who was he?" Kiara was getting
impatient.
"I don't know Kiara," Simba was getting annoyed now, laying on the ground.
Nala sat down, thinking to herself about what to do. Kovu sat close to Vitani,
but Vitani moved away farther from him.
"Well what about this brother I apparently have?" Kiara was always one for
curiousity. But this was a lot more serious.
"You tell her Nala. I'm going to retire to the den," Simba got up, but Nala
blocked his path.
"Your not going anywhere," She stared into his eyes.
Simba didn't say a word. He just sat angry on the floor, staring at the floor.
He was clearly not comfortable.
Everyone gathered in to hear Nala talk of her son. This was a serious matter.
Even for Vitani who knew Kopa almost as well if not more than his parents did
interesting.
Nala took a deep breath and began her story…
"The day right after your father took back the pridelands, I became pregnant
with Kopa. Two weeks later, after everything in the pridelands was in gorgeous
condition, we presented him to the kingdom. All of the animals were happy to
see him. He grew up a happy cub, Vitani can tell you more about who he was
away from us. I know he was very happy to be with us." Nala smiled, looking up
into the heavens.
"He had a golden yellow coat, just like Simba's. He also developed a strip of
mane along the top of his head. Unlike your father's it was brown. He was such
a cub. I loved him so. Your father does as well, even though he isn't showing
it," Nala gave Simba a dirty look. Simba rolled his eyes.
"One day Kopa said he was going to meet somebody at a cave. I asked him who
he was going to meet. He said that Zira wanted him to see something. I was a
little worried at first, but then I realized Kopa was good friends with her
daughter Vitani, so I thought it had something to do with her. A few couple
hours later, Zira came to our den and was carrying a dead cub in her mouth.
She wanted revenge on Simba for what he did to Scar. She just came right up to
us smiling. It was Kopa. Simba checked for signs of life. There was none. You
remember when we told you you'll one day understand why you couldn't turn your
back on the outsiders? This is why."
Simba jumped up and started talking.
"Our son was dead. We didn't want to see him because it made us so sad. Our
own son… dead. We gave it to Rafiki, we couldn't bear to see the body,"
Simba had tears come to his eyes.
Vitani was confused what to do. She knew the cub was Kopa, but she certainly
didn't want to make Simba mad.
"Simba, I need to speak with you," was all she said.
"Vitani, I do not want to hear-" started Simba.
"NOW! Please!" she shouted and he cringed. Nala lifted her eyebrows in a smug expression and motioned to a reluctant Kiara to come inside the cave behind her. Kovu followed quietly.
"Simba, you know that that was Kopa!" said Vitani, frowning at Simba hard.
"Vitani, I am King, and-"
"And as King, you should know how to inspect things further and not just bannish a lion first sight!" interupted Vitani. "You have made some pretty bad mistakes as King, and not as King, in the past, and you know it! You were stuborn and wouldn't return to Pride Rock, remember the 'no worries' thing? And then you bannished all the Outlanders first thing as soon as Kopa vannished. Then, you judged Kovu and me wrongly when you should have seen that we were just innocent cubs in the beginning and bannishing us too. Finally, you exiled Kovu when you assumed that it was he that helped set up attack on you when he was really in love with Kiara. You have a problem with seeing the truth, Simba! It's like you are so used to having to see signs now to prove the right things to do rather than see it yourself." Vitani took a breath and sat down, finnished. She was still frowning at the King.
And he just walked off into the cave as if she weren't even there, leaving her with her mouth hanging open.
