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Months passed as Kovu, Kiara, and Amber grew up to be teenagers in their years. Kovu was trained well enough by Scar and Zira to be the tough fighting lion. Scar made sure that if Kovu ever came into contact with Kiara, he would hate her with all of his soul rather than feeling sympathetic about her. Scar had corrupted Kovu ever since he was a cub and Kovu had fallen for his lies. He had been bought up to think that the Pride Landers were selfish lions filled with greed and pride. He had grown up to hate them, both lions and lionesses. Today, he was out for blood.
Amber adopted her mother's wits and skills in hunting. She had been trained by Shenzi and her father and she was sure that she was going to succeed in today's hunt. She was going to hunt alone without any of the other hyenas and she was pretty excited about that. She walked out of the cave and breathed in the fresh oxygen. The warm crisp air made her well prepared to face today's challenge which was hunting down an antelope from the Pride Lands. The hyenas knew well that they shouldn't even step a paw in the Pride Lands but it was also a bonus to make the lions mad so they could get into a fight with them and take back the Pride Lands.
"Are you ready?" Shenzi asked as she walked up to Amber and gave her a nuzzle.
"Good luck kiddo," Banzai said as he gave his daughter a nuzzle also.
Ed stared at Amber with a smile on his face with his tongue hanging out of his mouth. He gave her a couple of nods.
"Thanks mom and dad and uncle Ed," Amber said as she smiled at Ed. "I'm ready," she said as she ran out of the cave and away from her territory. She knew that this was a risky job but she wasn't going to let her parents or her clan down.
Kiara had grown up to be a pretty lioness. She got out of the cave and faced the lionesses that were standing side by side.
"Here she comes," Sarabi said as she watched her granddaughter walking down the slope. "Oh Mufasa would have been so proud of her and Simba."
"My how you've grown," Sarafina said as Kiara passed by her with a smile on her face.
Kiara felt happy that she was finally going to venture out on her own. This was the first time that she was going to hunt for the pride and bring some food for them. She was excited and also frightened. She was afraid of messing up and not bringing anything back for them to eat.
Nala sensed Kiara's emotion. She walked up to her daughter and nuzzled her. "You'll do just fine," she said in a soothing voice.
Kiara returned the nuzzle and went over to Simba and nuzzled him also. She leaped over to the cliff and smiled as she saw the land before her. Bring it on! she thought as her eyes narrowed the lands. She was going to find the juiciest antelope she could find and they were going to feast upon it. She leaped down the slope and continued to her destination, unaware that Timon and Pumbaa were following her and that she was in danger from her great uncle.
"Do you know what we should do?" Zira asked as she walked up to Scar. She had been thinking about Scar's plan for a while now. "I think that we should hunt down Kiara and set the place where she is hunting in on fire. Then Kovu would rescue her, go into Simba's pride, and kill him when he has the chance."
Scar looked over at her and smiled. "That does sound like a good idea," he told her. "But I have a better plan," he said as he leaned over to her and whispered in her ear.
Nuka and Vitani watched as Scar secretly filled Zira on his plan. "Hmph!" Nuka grunted as he walked away from Vitani. "They're probably talking about how great Kovu is. That little termite," he said as he scratched his ear with his paw.
"You mean a big termite," Vitani clarified for him, "he is much taller than you."
"Well I am older than him," Nuka argued, "that's why I should be the king. The oldest is always king, not the youngest, the oldest."
"We got the point," Vitani told him, "you have been upset about this ever since I was a cub you know?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Nuka said as he saw Scar and Zira emerging from the cave. He watched as Zira smiled mysteriously to Scar making Nuka more curious about what they were talking about. "So what were you two chatting about?" he asked as he walked up in front of them.
Vitani let out a sigh as she put a paw over her eyes.
"Nothing that would concern you," Scar said as he glared at Nuka, "I have some royal business that I have to attend to and I don't need any of your help." He walked past Nuka as Zira followed him.
"Well," Nuka said as he turned around and looked over at Vitani, "at least they didn't take Kovu along with them."
Kiara tried to be as silent as possible as she hid underneath some blades of grass. Her paw made contact with a twig and it snapped in half. The antelopes looked up and ran away, fearing that there was danger lurking nearby. Kiara leaped from the ground and ran to catch an antelope but they were running as quickly as they could from her. Kiara stopped as she took in a deep breath. She had escaped from Timon and Pumbaa a couple of minutes ago and she was still having a hard time trying to catch an antelope. She couldn't believe that her father had lied to her. She wanted to do this on her own but he still didn't trust her. What could possibly happen in the Pride Lands? There was nothing dangerous around here!
Kiara gasped as she stopped in her tracks when she saw something gray jumping out of the grass and running towards the antelopes. The creature was quick. She suddenly realized who that creature was. It was a female hyena and she was in the Pride Lands. Kiara ran after the hyena to make her go away and still get her meal.
The female hyena jumped on top of an antelope and she sunk her teeth in its neck. The antelope bellowed in pain as it toppled to the ground. Amber hugged her arms around the antelope's neck and squeezed the antelope tightly against her teeth. The antelope stopped breathing as Amber stared at her prize. She stood up on her feet and smiled. "I finally got you," she said.
Kiara jumped over at Amber and roared at her. Amber arched her back and her fur began to rise. "What are you doing here?" Kiara asked her as she took a step forward.
Amber gave her a smile. "Hunting for food," she told her, "what does it look like?"
"You know that you are not permitted to be in the Pride Lands."
"Rules are made to be broken," Amber told her. "I don't think this antelope had your name on it."
Kiara furrowed her eyebrows at her. "You better leave," she said as her voice shook from the anger that was rising inside of her, "or I'll-"
"What?" Amber asked as her yellow eyes flared at the lioness. "Are you going to kill me? HA!" she said as she laughed in her face, "that's one of the funniest things I have heard."
Kiara leaped towards Amber. Amber quickly ducked and fell to the ground. "And you call yourself a lion," the hyena teased as she picked up the antelope and ran away from the Pride Lands.
Kiara was not going to let this hyena go without a fight. She ran after her but this hyena was much more quick. She breathed harder and harder and then slowed down to catch her breath. After her heart rate slowed down she looked up and saw that the hyena was gone. Not to mention that she was not in the Pride Lands anymore.
From the distance, Zira and Scar lurked about. "I see her," Zira said as she pointed her paw at the confused Kiara.
"Then this should be easy," Scar said as him and Zira slid off a rock and slowly crawled over to Kiara.
Kiara turned her head when she heard a noise close to her. "Hello?" she said as she looked through the heavy fog. "Is someone there?" She tried to be alert and attack if anybody was behind her. Through the heavy fog and the mysterious noises, she was more frightened than she was alert.
"Now!" a raspy voice said behind her.
Kiara turned around but to her surprise, a large lioness with red eyes jumped out of the fog and attacked her to the ground. Kiara squirmed out of her grip but the lioness was bigger and tougher than her. Kiara tried to scratch her with her claws but the lioness swatted her paws away. Kiara bought her hind paws on the lioness stomach and pushed her off of her.
Zira slid to the ground but jumped back on her paws and snarled at Kiara. Kiara took a couple of steps back. A paw lashed out as it placed itself on her nose and mouth. Kiara's eyes popped open as she tried to struggle from whoever was holding her. She couldn't breathe and she was hurt from all of the scratches that she received from Zira. Darkness slowly surrounded her as she became unconscious from the lack of oxygen. Her body became limp as she was dropped to the ground.
"That takes care of that," Scar said as he looked over at her great niece. "Now we take her to our pride," he said as he smiled at Zira.
Zira walked over to Kiara and grabbed her by the cuff where she flung her over her back. "Oof," she said once Zira made contact with her body, "she's heavy."
"That's what they get for eating so well," Scar said, "they are healthy and fat while we're starving out here," he said as him and Zira went back home.
