If you are reading this then that means you've read up to chapter 8! Wooohooooo! So anyways on to the story…
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I couldn't breathe, and my head was spinning. Everything happened so fast, just a seccond ago I was helping Kiara, now I'm fighting for my life! I had to do something to make sure that Kiara got away. So with what little breath I had I screamed,
"RUN KIARA!!"
The lioness looked at me and growled "Oh so Simba made you a babysitter?! That's rich; too bad you'll never see them again." The lioness put a paw on my neck and started slowly putting pressure on it. I grabbed her paw and mannaged to lift it up a little bit bat that earned me a smack on the head. Even through she didn't have her claws out, it felt like someone smacked me with a bag of brickes. vision was blurry and I new that I had to reach my knife. I franticly reached for it, but the lioness had pinned me down and I couldn't move my arms. So I took my leg and kneed her in the gut. The lioness jumped back with a roar of pain and glared at me.
"You're not worth my time! I came here for the cub." The lioness said as she jumped over me.
Oh no you don't!
Right as she was over me I grabbed her hind leg and pulled with all my might. The lioness fell to the ground with a growl and spun around to face me.
"That's it I really didn't want to get my paws dirty, but you leave me no choice!"
Oh crap
She jumped at me and all I could do was roll out of the way. I managed to grab my knife and face her and all she did was laugh.
"You actually think you can hurt me with that stick?! You humans are more stupid than I thought!"
I growled out of frustration, if I die I'm taking her with me!
"Come then, make the first move." I said.
She lunged at me, but I stood firm. Then she started lashing at me with razor sharp claws, and all I could do was hope that Kiara managed to get some help.
"Give up human! Once I bring you're body back Zira she will surely give me a reward!"
Anger was rushing through me and was giving me the adrenaline to fight back. I pushed the lioness away and lunged at her. I managed to get a cut across her shoulder and jump on her back. She frantically tried to get me off by jumping sideways, but I held on. Then suddenly I remembered.
The sleeper hold!
My brother had taught me how to do it, but I wasn't sure if it would work on a lion. So I put my arm around her neck and the other arm around the top of her head and squeezed. She tried to squirm out but failed. Then slowly she started to pass out.
I got off her and collapsed on the ground. My arm hurt like hell! I looked down at my arm and saw four long gashes going from my shoulder to my wrist.
That's gonna leave a scar. I thought
I also noticed that I had other scratches all over my chest and stomach. Most of them weren't too deep so I thought they should heal up within a week or so. I tried to stand up but fell to one knee. I was in no condition to walk, so I managed to crawl over to a tree and lay down beside it. Looking down at my foot I had an Idea. I took off my sock and wrapped it around part of the wound on my arm.
At least it will help stop some of the bleeding.
I knew I had to get to Pride Rock, but there was no more strength in me.
Soon I welcomed the darkness…
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I was trying to find a good spot in the grass so Nicole wouldn't see me. I was trying to ocus but it's hard! There are so many things that are distracting. Crouching down I blended in with my soundings. I really wanted to make Nicole proud, and this time I focused completely on staying quiet.
Just as I was about to make a step Nicole whispered to me.
"Kiara… Where ever you are don't move"
Nicole sounded serious so I crouched low and didn't make a sound. I looked up and saw her standing a few feet in front of me. She looked worried,and before I knew it there was a roar and Nicole was gone. It felt like the world stopped for a moment as my mind tried to make sense of what just happened.
Then I heard Nicole scream…
"RUN KIARA!"
I was almost too scared to run, but I knew that I needed to get help. So I ran as fast as my legs could take me. I stopped to look back and to my horror she was being slashed by a strange lion. I wanted to cry, she was being attacked and I couldn't do anything but hope she could hold on till I got help. As I ran I kept screaming for help hoping that someone would hear me. I kept running till I saw Pride Rock, I knew my father would be there. I don't ever rember how I got to the top, everything at that moment didn't matter.
"Daddy! DADDY!!" I yelled as I ran up to him.
He turned around and looked at me and noticed than Nicole was missing "Where's Nicole?"
I was panting hard and I couldn't form words into my mouth. Once I regained some air I managed to blurt out something out.
"!"
"Slow down Kiara, tell me slowly what happened!" My dad said to me.
"NICOLE! She's being attacked!"
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The sun was beating down on me when I woke up and all I could see were distorted figures of grass and trees.
I was so dizzy I couldn't even sit up, so I just laid there on the ground hoping someone would come. I think the lioness left, I don't even know. I'm not even sure how long I've been out here. My wounds throbbed, and all I saw was blood coating my entire body. I think my pants were the only article of clothing not totally covered in dried blood. The smell was what got to me and made me sick.
The last thing I remember seeing was a bunch of lions surrounding me, and then everything went black again.
I later woke up with some weird looking monkey standing over me. I tried moving but pain shot up through every one of my limbs.
"Oh you shouldn't do dat!" He said to me while applying some sticky substance over my wounds.
"Uhhhh, but I need to see if Kiara is okay." I said while still trying to stand.
The monkey took a stick and hit me over the head with it.
"OW!! What was that for?! I'm already hurt enough as it is!" I said while rubbing my now sore head.
"I just needed to knock some sense into you! Kiara is fine, but you on da other hand are not!"
"Ow… you didn't need to hit me." I mumbled.
"You are one brave girl, taking on one of Zira's lionesses! I'm surprised that your wounds weren't as bad!"
"One of Zira's lionesses? You mean the lioness that attacked me was one of the Outsiders?"
"Yep, and one of her best fighters!"
"So anyways" I replied while laying back down "Who are you?"
"Oh me? I am Rafiki, the shaman of this pride."
I then heard someone come into the den. I looked up and saw Simba and Kiara, and from what I could see Kiara had flowers in her mouth.
"Hi Nicole, are you feeling any better?" Kiara asked.
"Well, a lot better than I was." I replied with a grin.
"I wanted to thank you for saving me…again. I wish I could have done somthing to help. Oh and I brought you these flowers." Kiara said as she dropped the flowers in front of me. I smelled them and noticed that they were the most beautiful shade of blue I've ever seen.
"Thanks Kiara, and really you're the one who saved me! If you didn't go back for help I would have died!"
She smiled and nuzzled me, "You're the best sister anyone could have!"Then she ran off.
As I watched her leave the cave I realized that Kiara had grown a lot since I've been here. She was no longer the little cub that I could pick up. She stood up a bit past my knee and had matured a lot. I looked up and saw Simba heading over to me.
"Nicole I need to discuss something with you." He said as he sat down next to me. "It's about you and Kiara. I don't want you to go out by yourselves again."
"What why? You know that I wouldn't let anything happen to her!"
"That's the thing, I also worry about you. I don't want you to be killed as well. I would never forgive myself." He said as he looked down. "That's why if you and Kiara go some where you can only follow the path that I have made, or have one of the lionesses come with you."
I looked down. Well he is only trying to protect me and Kiara.
"But Simba this was only one time, I'm sure we'll be alright."
He gave me a look that says 'I don't care what you say I've made my decision' I sighed in defeat.
"Okay Simba I promise not to go out without a lioness and to follow your path."
"Good, you know I'm just looking out for your wellbeing" he said as he nuzzled me and followed Kiara.
I looked around and found Rafiki mashing some green goo in what looked like a turtle shell. He looked up at me and smiled.
"You are one unusual human! Being brought into a pride of lions and being accepted by them! I believe you have a great destiny!"
My eyes grew heavy and I realized how tired I was; so I laid my head down and closed my eyes.
Yeah right, some destiny…
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"WHAT!?" A dark tan lioness with a line down her back growled out.
"I'm sorry Zira! I was only trying to please you!" an ash colored lioness said as she flinched back.
"Only trying to please me? Do you even realize that I already had a plan! And it does NOT involve killing Simba's spawn!" Zira said while pacing back and forth, "You're lucky that I have some use for you Tuli!"
"But Zira I was also going to kill that filthy human, I thought that it would have sent a huge blow to Simba."
Zira growled and stood to face the lioness "You do also realize that that 'filthy human' saved my son's life? She saved Scar's heir Tuli! What she did is something I could never pay back for! I'm in that human's debt; and judging buy the way she took you down she could be of some use to us." Zira said with an evil smirk.
"Zira, how could she help us? She's one of Simba's now." Tuli replied.
"Get her to trade sides of corse! Once Kovu gets into that pride he'll start to meddle with her mind and hopefully she'll turn to our side. And besides you never know we might not have to go that far with her."
"MOTHER!" A dark scrawny lion bounced into the cave.
Zira growled and turned to face her eldest son "What is it Nuka?"
"I heard about your plan about the human and I…I t-thought that I could help!" he replied warily.
Zira laughed "You get into the mind of a human? I don't think so. This is more of a job for Kovu; he is after all the chosen one."
"Yeah but mother I-I thought that well you know since he has to get to Simba and stuff I could help and..."
"NO! Nuka this job has been chosen for Kovu. And aren't you supposed to help Kovu with his training?"
"W-well uhh umm yes?"
"Never mind, I can't trust you to do a simple job. KOVU!"
"Yes mother." A dark cub said with a small mane growing.
"It's time we've intensified your training!" Zira said with a smirk.
Edited
Whew! Man that was a lot to put into words! Well I felt like I had to add Nuka because we all feel bad for him. Sorry for the late update I have been trying to help my parents make arrangements for when we go to Disney Land Paris. YAY gotta love summer!
Well I hoped you enjoyed!
