Overprotective Chapter 6
By Mr_Toast
To be completely honest, When I was writing chapter 1, I never thought that I would make it to chapter 4,5,6. But here we are. Chapter 6. Like always feel free to comment about any questions you have or any errors you come across and I'll be sure to fix them. With that being said here's chapter 6. Enjoy!
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Simba woke up and felt like his head was spinning. He opened his eyes slowly and found that his vision was blurry but figured it had to be night time do to the lack of light. He heard what sounded like voices but came out as muffled sounds. When his ear focused, he heard what sounded like his mother talking.
Simba finally looked up and saw that his mother was looking down at him with worried eyes. The only thing he remember was Nala sobbing uncontrollably into his chest, and before that he was running out of the den with much haste.
"Mom?" Simba said but it came out more as a mumble then a real word.
"Yes Simba It's me" Sarabi said glad to see that her son could at least talk. Not many people were able to talk after having a pointed rock driven into their skull.
"What happened?" Simba asked. He was trying to understand why his head felt like he was being tossed around like small prey. He felt this unbearable pounding sensation in his head that just wouldn't go away.
"Nala says that Kula tried to manipulate you for the thorn and was caught, so she hit you in the head with a rock and then fled. Your father sent out a search party to look for her and when they find her, she with be giving judgement for her actions" Sarabi said with a hint of anger in her voice. Im sure any mother would be angry after they found out that someone took a rock to their kids head.
All of a sudden, Nala busted into the tree with Sarafina behind, she almost pushed Sarabi out of the way and started to check over Simba. Her mom was originally in the room but went to go get her when he woke up. Mufasa was talking with Nala to gather any information that would assist in the capture of Kula. Nala heard the news and bolted as fast as she could over to the tree.
This sudden spark of commotion overloaded Simba's brain and caused him to pass out again. This made Nala worried like always fearing that something bad had happened to him. Sarabi had to pull Nala off him telling her that he would be ok. The only thing that they could do was wait for him to recover before they gathered what information he knew.
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Throughout the next few days, Simba was getting much better and Nala never left his side. There was no sign of Kula anywhere, Mufasa was still determined to find her and bring her to justice for this betrayal. All the other girls were starting to fear Nala a bit, avoiding her and Simba as much as they could. Nala was grateful for this but Simba found this rather annoying that people were scared to confront him because of Nala.
"Hey Simba" Nala said cheerfully coming back up to the tree to see that Simba was looking out of the window into the pride lands. He didn't move or show any sign of acknowledging her. This killed Nala's mood and she knew that when Simba was like this is almost never ended well.
"Simba?" She tried again. This time he did turn around and just gave her a dull look before returning his focus back to the pride lands. Nala was a little annoyed by the fact that Simba wasn't saying anything back to her.
"Simba…" She tried again, this time with more sternness in her voice.
"I love you" Simba said as he turned to face her. Nala was surprised that this was what he had to said. She figured that whatever was bothering him had something to do with them. Before she could say anything else, Simba felt some kind of dizziness and this caused his legs gave out causing him to collapse on the floor. Nala immediately rushed over to him and checked his breathing and pulse. She was relieved to know that he still breathing and had a pulse but was ready to get down to the bottom of this.
"Simba what's wrong?" Nala said looking into his eyes. Nalas eye where like a drug to Simba. He could stare into them and it only wanted to make him do it more each time he did it.
"What did I do wrong?" He asked in a voice that wasn't directed to anyone… more as if he was just thinking out loud. Nala then realized that Simba was beating himself up on the inside over the events from a few days ago.
"What do you mean Simba?" He had been In Rafiki's tree for the past three days. She had been watching him the whole time and he hasn't done anything wrong to her standards… Which is surprising.
"What did I do to make Kula betray me like that. I thought I could trust her and it turned out she wasn't who i thought she was after all this time" Simba said with a saddened tone.
"Simba, you didn't do anything wrong. Kula is sick, she took advantage of your soft and caring side and used it to try to split us up. She wanted you for herself and pretended to be hurt. She lied to you, So to answer your question, You did nothing wrong" Nala said. It troubled her to know that Simba thought he was the problem and not her.
"Your right, but what if she succeeded and we ended up hating each other. What if you hurt me instead of her, I couldn't live with that" Simba said now looking into her eyes.
"But I didn't, And I would never. I love you and I would never do anything to hurt you" Nala said making sure that he was clear on that. He got up and started to walk towards the exit but Nala stopped him before he could go out there. Simba knew what she was about to say and so he just started to formulate his arguing point.
"Where do you think you're going?" Nala asked a little irritated that he just tried to walk off on her like that. She knew Simba was one to do this and didn't like to tell people what was bothering him.
"To the meadow… To clear my head. You can come along if you want to." Simba said. This shocked Nala, Not only was he going to the meadow, be he was allowing for her to come without a argument. Weather he wanted her to or not she was going with him.
"Of course, you know I always like to go there" Nala said as she and Simba started to walk off to the meadow. She still walked close to him incase he got dizzy or tripped. He had got a concussion and had been really wobbly the past two days.
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Kula was walking through a jungle thinking about what had happened a few days ago. It was over for her. She could never go back. She had killed the king's son… So she though. The punishment would be death itself and she knew this. She wished that she could of have been able to spend more time with Simba after she developed feeling for him, and tell him the truth of what was really going on… But she couldn't… it was over. Kula was just walking in one straight line, seeing where her paws would take her.
She was a little younger than one years old and wasn't old enough to be able to protect herself from other lions. But she didn't care about that, She just wished that the whole thing she was going through right now was one big nightmare and would it would soon end.
Kula had decided to make shelter in a cave overlooking a pond. This would be a good place for three reasons. Prey would come to drink here, she could drink here, and she could clean herself off in it.
It was official, she would live her new life in this jungle and never return to the pride lands. She made a vow to start thinking about the future, either start her own pride or live here for the rest of her days. She didn't know which but she would play it by ear, never looking back.
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Simba and Nala were sitting in the meadow, Simba was sitting ike he always was, on his back looking up, and Nala was closely watching Simba to see if he was ok. Simba got up and walked over to a nearby tree. Nala got up wondering what he was doing and started to slowly inch closer to him.
Simba just yelled out as if he was enraged and started to punch the tree with all this force. After a few punches the tree had a large split going down it and before he could continue, Nala pulled him back and onto the ground. She looked down at his front paws to see he had cut himself on the bark and was bleeding.
"Simba?!" Nala asked scolding him for doing taking his anger out on a tree.
"I'm sorry its just i was blind… She did poison me against you and because of that I almost lost you" Simba said in a daze. Nala was really angry at Kula right now… more that she had ever been. She had not only damaged him on the outside, but also on the side.
"Simba you still have me thats all that matters. Now let's just go back to pride rock, I'm sure your parents would like to see you" Nala said as she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before guiding his back to pride rock.
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When Simba and Nala wear entering the cave, they saw that there parents and some other older lionesses where surprised and happy to see that Simba was ok and mobile again. Mufasa had encouraged Simba to stay inside the cave or at least always with someone until they caught Kula.
Simba wasn't surprised by this and for once didn't mind be stuck inside. He didn't feel like doing anything right now. His best friend, so he thought, only wanted to mate with him and was never truly a good friend. Simba was hurt by this, He didn't trust people as much as he used to. He started to contemplate whether or not his 'friends', were really his friends at all.
Nala only watched him suffer on the inside. It reminded her of how depressed he looked after the landslide and only this time, there was nothing she could do to help. She had always made it here goal to help Simba and now here she was, watching him beat himself up after something that Kula did to him. Nala swore that if she ever saw Kula again, she would personally kill her in the slowest most painful way she could think of to make her pay for what she had done.
Nala was so deep in thought of how much she hated Kula that she didn't even notice that Simba had left. When she broke her thoughts and looked over at him, she saw that he wasn't there. She quickly got up and looked around the den, she still didn't see him. It was her job to watch him and here she was, unable to find him. She made a bolt for the entrance of the cave and saw that Simba was walking in the direction of the field. Nala was relieved to see this but then got angry at him leaving.
"Simba! You're not supposed to leave without telling anyone!" Nala said as she ran up next to him. Simba just signed knowing where this might go.
"I tried, four times in fact, you never responded so I thought you didn't care" Simba said as he continued walking on. This surprised Nala, she didn't even notice him calling out her name, she realized then that she must have been in deep thought of how much she wanted to end Kula right then and there.
"Well I'll come with you" Nala said catching back but with Simba. Simba sighed, he wanted to be left alone, alone as in no one there. He knew that Nala wasn't going to let him but he would do it anyway.
"No you won't, you're going back to the den, or somewhere else besides the field" Simba said. Nala had heard that same tone in his voice for the past few days. It was a tone that showed no emotion, and one that was cold and dark.
"Simba… what happened to you" Nala asked trying to hold back some tears, but a few fell anyway. She was used to Simba wanting to take her places and spend time with her, now all of a sudden he wants nothing to do with her.
"I don't know! Ok… ever since Kula left me, a part of me has just been missing…" Simba said in a sad voice. Nala just feared that he would say the thing that she tried to keep him from saying for so long.
"Y-you l-loved her…" Nala stuttering to get the words out.
"What? No… It's just that I thought I knew who she was… my friends… now I'm sure about anything… Is Chumvi my friend? Do you love me? Is my -" Simba was saying before a angry Nala cut him off. The fact that he was unsure if she loved him made her furious. She loved him to death and would jump in front of danger any day to save him.
"Simba don't ever say that I don't love you! I couldn't express how much I love you! Only though this isn't the Simba i fell in love with! The one that's always depressed and pushes everyone away! I fell in love with the Happy, fun and creative Simba! I want the other one back!" Nala said pinning him to the ground getting defensive.
"Nala I'm sorry It's just…" Simba said before hulting to a stop. He looked beside him and saw that a few pebbles where starting to shake. Nala also noticed then and got off him and looked behind her. In the distance they saw that a dust cloud had formed and that meant one thing… Stampede.
Nala quickly got Simba up and the two started to look for a place to hide. The stampede was starting to gain on them and they found a rock they could take cover under.
Nala quickly lead Simba to the rock but even at their fastest, the stampede was now on top of them and the dust made it hard to see.
Once Nala got the rock she looked behind her but didn't see Simba. The dust gave them a range of visibility that was around five feet, and made it increasingly hard to to breath. Nala wanted to go out there and look got Simba but she knew if she did, it would be suicide.
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After around fifteen minutes of waiting, the stampede had moved on and the dust was starting to settle. Nala spotted Mufasa in the dust and quickly ran to get help from him.
"Uncle!" Mufasa heard and turned to the sound of the voice to see Nala frantically running towards him. He immediately knew that something was wrong and starting to run towards her as well.
"What's wrong Nala" Mufasa said once reaching her.
"It's Simba! He got lost in the stampede and I haven't seen him since!" Nala said looking around her frantically. Mufasa quickly panicked but he calmed himself knowing that if there was any chance of finding Simba, he would need to be calm. He looked at Nala and saw that she was too worked up right now to be any help to anyone at the moment.
"Nala, calm down, when did you last see him" Mufasa asked trying to calm her down. He was glad that she cared so much about his son, but even he had to admit she could be overprotective of him.
"We were talking and the ground started to shake, we saw the stampede and went to take cover under the rock, it started to get dusty and he must of have gotten lost because when I looked back he wasn't there" Nala said still looking around frantically.
"Ok Nala, I want you to run back to pride rock and gather the other lionesses" Mufasa said, he knew that she wouldn't go willingly so he didn't ask her, he ordered her. She only nodded and went to gather the lionesses.
Mufasa stood there and thought about something. Why were they stampeding, and why did they come east if they were going west the other day… something… or someone had made them come here, and it just so happened that Simba and Nala where standing in the area… this was no accident… this was planned… Mufasa thought before returning to search for Simba.
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Simba was currently lying in the shores of what looked like the water hole, just with lush green plants around it. He looked around and saw he was in a jungle, and there was a cave beside him.
He struggled to get up, he was very sore from being trampled by charging water buffaloes.
He had never seen any place like this and knew he wasn't in the protection of the pride lands anymore. He was weak and could be in another males pride. He needed to get out but wouldn't be able to quite yet. Him being a young male lions in another lions pride was only going to be asking for trouble. He heard a noise and turned around to see a smaller sized lion come into view. His heart stopped when he saw who it was. Kula…
"Where am I!" Shouted. He got into a fighting stance but his sore muscles prevented him from holding his stance and he lied down on the
ground.
"Calm down! I don't know if anyone else loves around here and I don't want any trouble" Kula said is a worried tone. Simba knew that she had something to do with why he was here, and knew she didn't want to harm him because of she did, she would have left him to die.
"Fine, but where am I, why are you here, and what the hell is your problem" Simba said. He still didn't, would never forgive her for what she had done to him.
"You're in a jungle, about a day away from the pride lands, I found you in some tall grass about fifteen minutes away from here. You looked beat up and terrible and took you in, you woke up a few hours later and now here we are" She said before going to the pond to drink some water. Simba's eyes never left her and she still didn't trust her.
"You saved me?" Simba asked shocked. He didn't understand why she saved him if not a week ago she tried to kill him.
"Simba… about 4 months ago I wandered into the outlands and meet some outcast lion. They said that they would kill me and everyone I loved if they told anyone there plans or where they were. They hired me to bring you to them. I really did.. and still do love you but I couldn't let them take you. They want you alive so that they can use you as a way to draw your father in, kill him, then kill you so their leader can take the throne. I knew that if I went back failing them that they would kill my parents so I hit you on the head to get away from you to flee. They'll know that I'm gone soon and attack the pride" Kula said shamefully looking into the water.
She felt a paw on her shoulder and looked over to see Simba looking back at her.
"Hey, look I'm sorry that happened to you. We need to get back to the den and warn the others of the attack, if they sneak up and corner them, everyone will die" Simba said looking into her eyes with a serious face.
"I can't go back, your father will kill me for what I did" Kula said trying to turn away but Simba held her in place.
"Oh I think I know how to handle that part" he said with a smirk on his face. The two cubs there started to make there way back to the pride lands to warn the others. It would take them a while with Simba's condition so they opted to walk through the night.
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After a full day of searching yesterday, and a couple hours of searching today, the lionesses where starting to worry that Simba had died in the stampede. Even with people doubting him being alive, Nala refused to give up and would search until her body couldn't take it anymore.
"Alright everyone stop!" Mufasa voice boomed out. All the lions stopped the search and went over to where he was, even Nala. "We have searched all over the pride lands and we can say that Simba isn't here. This means we must look outside our borders starting tomorrow!" Mufasa said looking into the tired eyes of the other lions.
"That won't be necessary" Simba called out from on top a rock. He looked all beat up and tired. He had just taken a stampede head on a traveled through the night to get back. Everyone was shocked to see that Simba was somewhat well and standing in front of them. Kula then stepped up from behind him and Mufasa went to charge her. Simba saw this and got in his father's way.
"Simba, move now!" Mufasa called out.
"If you want to hurt her, you'll have kill me first" Simba said glaring his father down. Mufasa and all the other lions where shocked, Simba had just challenged his father, and his king.
"What?" Mufasa asked in a shocked voice. Simba motioned for Kula to tell her speech she had prepared.
"Hey everyone… I know most of you hate me for what I did, and I deserve it. I'm not here to beg for forgiveness for I do not deserve it. I come to tell you that a pride of outcast lions are trying to attack the pride lands and take the throne. They caught me, and used me to get to Simba so they could lure Mufasa in before killing them both. They will attack soon knowing that I left the pride lands and failed my mission" Kula said shamefully.
There was a long pause before some of the angry lionesses started to speak their minds. "It's a trick" "She's taking us for fools!" "She just wants another chance to kill the prince!" They called out. Kula just held her head in shame. She knew that coming back here would be a bad idea, but she still wanted to save the people she loved.
"Everyone SHUT UP!" Simba yelled out. "She isn't trying to trick us, or take for fools, or even trying to kill me again! Because if she wanted me dead, she would have left me in the brush she found me in! But instead she pulled me out and moved me to a safe location!" Simba called out. Everyone was shocked by this. Nala wanted to run up there and hug him but even she knew that he was being serious. They all had to stop and think for a second, after awhile one of the lionesses finally spoke out. "So what will we do?" She asked.
Mufasa stood before his son, and then turned to address the search party. "We head back to pride rock to inform the other lions, we will be on high alert and there will be round the clock sweeps of our boarders, if anyone sees anything, they are to report it back immediately" Mufasa said now turning away from the scene to prepare for the rouge pride of lions.
"Then what?" one of the other lioness called out. Mufasa stopped in his tracks, and turned around to face them.
"War" He said before continuing to walk back to pride rock.
Ok first thing I want to say is sorry this took longer than expected to write, I just started school back up and that made writing this really hard. The other problem was that I'm running out of smaller events in the story to just put in a little fillers to keep the story flowing. So suggestions are greatly appreciated in the comments. Anyways that's all for this chapter and keep a watchful eye out for chapter 7. Mr_Toast Out!