Time for a shorter chapter again. Kiara and Sauti met last time and now they're spending the night in a cave they found. Enjoy.

Chapter 7

Kiara

Sauti and I found the cave she was talking about and now we're sleeping in it. She's fine and fast asleep but I'm tossing and turning. It's been a while since I had a nightmare but I haven't forgotten what the experience tends to be like. I'm standing in the jungle, all alone. But that's not the nightmare, I've gotten quite used to it now actually. The real terror will begin in a minute though, I'm certain. I hear a twig crack behind me and I whip around to see what made the noise. But there's no one that I can see.

"Hello?" I call out, but to no avail.

There's no vocal response to my calls. Instead there's just the occasional twig snap or heavy footstep in the foliage around me. When I turn around next I find a sight that wasn't there before. One that makes me shudder. I can't believe it. Before me are the bodies of Kovu and Maisha, brutally slaughtered by the looks of it.

"Kovu... No..."

I hear laughing from the bushes behind me and I turn around to face its creator. And what I'm met with are multiple grey and black bodies. Hyenas with glowing green eyes advance towards me. Only recently I became scared of them to this degree. That must be why this nightmare was happening.

I get myself ready to fight but I can't move. So it was going to be one of those kinds of nightmares was it? One where I couldn't fight back.

The laughing just continues to come at me along with its source and all I can do is stand still and wait for it to attack me physically. Suddenly one of the hyenas jumps and lands on me, knocking me to the ground and it starts clawing at my face. It hurts but it's only a dream which just about makes it bearable.

The maniacal laughing carries on as I start to feel blood run down my face. I kick upwards and I seem to have some effect. The hyena that was once on me now gets off involuntarily and backs away a bit. I get to my feet and regain my balance but it doesn't matter because I'm instantly assaulted again. This time two hyenas attack at once, one digging in underneath me and the other slashing away on my back. There's nothing I can do to stop them. I start to feel dizzy and I fall to the ground. My vision begins to blur and I start to see dark spots followed by... Blackness.

I wake up when all this has ended. I wake in shock, breathing fast and loud as I look around the cave I'm in. It's small and dark. Sauti lies next to me, fast asleep. Of course she wouldn't have heard my stirring or my breathing. For her it's just silence constantly.

"Thank god, it was only a dream." I mutter more than once as I begin to calm down.

Thank god that's over.

I'll try and go back to sleep now. I've never had more than one nightmare in one night so I convince myself that another one won't happen now. I sleep on until the morning, uninterrupted this time.

Could this be foreshadowing something later on? Perhaps. The next chapter will be up in a couple of days.