I felt someone pull something soft and warm up to my shoulders. Where was I? I opened my eyes and saw that I was in a small den, that was in a tree? I was laying down in a small bed made of leaves and long grasses. I felt the soft and warm thing that was wrapping me. It was a square thing, that was woven? I never saw it before. I was completly confused. Then the events of the day finally registered in my brain. The memories came flooding back. I kissed Simba. We were together but he was in the gorge and there was a stampede. She, she was on something, and and she fell off of something. It hurt her head to try to remember so she stopped trying. Ugh, why did her whole body ache. Suddenly there was a brown furred creature walking towards me. WOAH! STRANGER! I tried to call for help but found that my voice didn't work. The creature just chuckled and said in a soothing, motherly voice, "Don't talk. It will hurt your healing wound. We don't want you to go mute do we?" She took off a bandage made of a leaf from my head and applied some paste to it. She then tried to tie it around my head again. I resisted, who was she? What was she trying to do? WHAT THE HECK WAS GOING ON! She seemed to notice my distress and laughed. "I forgot you were unconcious throughout your whole ordeal. Well, why don't I start from the beggining. My name is Halette, I'm an otter and I found you one day, bloodied and barely breathing on the Silver Pool's banks. I knew that your kind ate meat but just couldn't bring myself to deny you care, so I called my husband and together, we brought you into our home and nursed you back to health using skills my mother taught me. Let's see, what's missing? Oh yes! The reason you can't talk is because you had several nasty gashes on your head, neck, and chest. It really is a wonder you're alive!" I had no time to process the information properly because she started to try to feed me a fish. "Come on, you have to eat! I've been feeding you smooshed oysters for almost 3 days!" 3 days? I was unconcious for 3 days? And this otter saved me? I looked into her dark brown eyes and saw nothing that frightened me. I was hungry too so I took a bite from the fish she was giving me. Hmmm, it wasn't as good as antelope or zebra but it was good. I gobbled the rest up. Halette, the otter, smiled and patted my head. she stood up from her seat next to me and went to a smaller bed and sat down, looking at me, while nibbling on another fish. "Of course, your welcome to stay as long as you like,
but NO EATING US! You will have to survive on fish, oyster and fruit now." I could live with that. I wouldn't ever dream of eating her, or her husband. They saved me. They saved my life.
I nodded eargerly and ate the other fish before me. Halette smiled and stood up when someone entered the den but I fell asleep before I could see who it was.
SIMBA'S POV
I felt water running down my face. Water? WATER! I opened my eyes and saw a small pool of water before me. I immediatly dunked my head in and starting gulping down water while having my head still submerged. I gulped and gulped and savored the feeling of the cool water running down my throat, quenching my burning thirst. After a while, I took my head out and came face to face with a meerkat and a warthog. What? They were together? In the desert? I took a quick look around, I wasn't in the desert, I was in a beautiful jungle. Green lush bushes and trees were all that I could see, and flowers in brilliant colors and patterns were scattered everywhere. An annoyed voice piped up behind me. "HEY! HEY KID! Heloo? Earth to kid?" I looked back at the meerkat. What did he want? "A thank you would be nice!" oh. "Thank you...?" He stood up straighter. "Timon, and this warthog here is Pumbaa!" I managed to smile and shake Pumbaa's hoof. "Thanks you guys but I have to go now." I started walking away. "Go? Go where?" Timon jumped on my back and stuck his nose against mine. "You were almost dead in the desert! Where did you come from?" I shook him off "Nowhere." I heard whispering and a few seconds later, Timon was in front of me. "Hey, what's eatin ya?" I just sighed, remebering the events that made me come here in the first place. "I don't wanna talk about it." Pumbaa just put a hoof around me and patted my side. Well it's like my pal Timon says, you gotta put your behind in your past! Wait, uh was it?" I smiled in spite of myself. That could not be it. Timon interrupted "NO no no! Ametuer, lie down before you hurt yourself. What Pumbaa was trying to say was you gotta put your past, behind ya." that was polar opposite of what I knew. "Well that's not what I was taught." Timon just laughed. "Well then, I think it's time for a new lesson! Repeat after me. hm hm hm...Hakuna Matata." "What?"
SCAR'S POV
"And it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne, but in the midst of this tragedy lays a diamond, the dawn of a new era, where lion and hyena, come together for a glorious future!"
right on cue, hyenas started pouring from all sides of Pride Rock. I congratulated myself on a brilliant speech. I watched in great intrest as Jari was not at all phased by the hyenas. She just walked up to me with a look of concern. "Are they really gonna stay here? With us?" I nodded my head. She sat next to me. "Scar...do do you know anything about my father?" The question genuinely surprised me. I was not expecting this. She looked up at me, one tear in her eye. I had a soft, weak spot for the cub. I had to fix that. Her statement reminded me of the most surprising news of all.
"Now, you may not know this, but a lie has been told, and a vital truth has been held from most of you. And me, until I was able to find the truth." Here I paused while the lionesses went further into shock.
"I have an heir!" At this, the whole pride broke out in gasps and whispers. Jari opened her mouth wide, her eyes were the biggest I've ever seen! "And she is next to me right this instant." I saw Sarabi, Sarafina, and Livali shake their heads. I could have sworn Livali say "No, no why?" Jari's eyes just got bigger. I pushed her with my paw and held her close. She was stiff, but then relaxed. Her mother, Livali bounded up to me and knocked me down with one swipe of her paw. "GET AWAY FROM HER!" I rubbed my head. She was strong. "NO mommy don't! Don't hurt him! He's my daddy!"
Jari was tugging at her mother's leg while letting go of tears. "WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME!" Jari yelled silencing all of the growls and yells from both sides. Livali looked down at Jari.
"Sweetie, I did it for you. I didn't want you to know, to get hurt because your father, didn't want you, love you." I looked at Jari. "I would have wanted her if I knew earlier. I would have helped raising her, I would have loved her. I do now." This wasn't the truth. It wasn't a complete lie either. Jari still was an annoying cub but she was cunning. Mostly I just needed her. Livali growled at me. Jari glared at her. She started to cry and whisper. "No mom. You didn't tell me for yourself. You didn't want to know who it was," Her voice got louder and louder. "you couldn't forgive him. EVEN WHEN HE COULD HAVE LOVED ME! EVEN WHEN I COULD HAVE HAD A FATHER!" Oh Jari was mad. I frowned in spite of my enjoyment. Jari walked over to me and sat in my paws. "He is my dad. He wants me. YOU lied." Livali looked as if someone had cut up her heart into a bunch of little pieces. She came one step closer and Jari just turned around, her backed faced her mother. Livali shed several tears before racing down the side of Pride Rock and out into the savannah. I carried Jari back into the den and the pride followed. They whispered and shot glares at me but all that Jari did was smile at me while letting go of some tears.
I smiled back and let her sleep next to me. I assumed my position in the kings spot. I enjoyed it immensly. I slept soundly that night, my kingdom and legacy secure.
LIVALI'S POV
I ran away. Away from the pain of my daughter's rejection. I risked everything, my life, my friend's safety, to save her. I lied and spent many sleepness nights keeping her father a secret to keep her from further heartbreak, to keep her from finding a father that could never love her, tpo save the pride from Scar making a case about her being the heir. To avoid exactly THIS. I DID IT FOR HER! Didn't I? I didn't care how Scar figured out that he was the father. I really didn't care. All I cared was that my daughter could mabye forgive me, see the story from my point of view. See why I did what I did. But she turned her back on me. She picked her just found father (who was a nutjob at that.) over her mother. I stopped when I found myself at the edge of the Pridelands. I started back. I had to go back, all that I was doing was clearing my head, Jari would come to her senses and come back to me, she would love me again. She was all I had. I had to get her back.
