It was Kiara's presenting today Rafike takes Kiara gently from Nala's mouth and holds her up presenting her to the crowd below. A cool gentle breeze blows past Kiara and blows through Simba's mane and across my face the breeze felt relaxing and soothing. As the crowd below bowed their heads I heard from behind me Timon talk to Pumbaa.
"Ah, Pumbaa- look at that little guy. A chip off the old block! And you gotta know who's gonna raise 'im...?"
"His parents?" Pumbaa answered. Timon paused for a minute seeing as Pumbaa was correct.
"Okay sure, get technical. But who's gonna teach him the really important stuff? Like how to belch?" Timon then proceded to burp loudly, which made me scrunch my nose up in disgust. "And dig for grubs?" I shuck my head holding back the laugther as Timon jumped off of Pumbaa's nose. "I'm telling ya, buddy... it's gonna be like old times. You, me... and the little guy" Myself and Rafiki began chuckling I turned to him saying.
"you tell them" Rafiki turned to the two saying.
"It is a girl" Timon who mustn't of heard him correctly nodded.
"...Girl" Both the warthog and the meerkat then fell backwards in shock. "Girl?! ...Oy!" Kiara has now grown up to a playful child Simba has become very protective over her and always wants her to either be by his side or with an escort. Usually Simba would want me to be with her seeing as I am her auntie and can protect her because of that. However I often ignore Simba's rules and take Kiara to more fun areas I mean I always watch her and make sure she is safe but I don't see the point of just staying to the safe and protected areas. As I woke up I saw Kiara playing at Simba's paws at the top of Pride Rock she then turned to the edge and looked across.
"Wow" she awed in amazement she then began to giggle continuously she gets closer to the edge just as Simba catches her.
"Whoah. Where do you think you're going in such a hurry?" Kiara wriggles in Simba's grasp as he moves her to a safer spot.
"Daddy! Let go!" Kiara keeps on giggling as she tries to escape.
"Well, I just want you to be careful." I chuckled as I watched Kiara pounce after a butterfly but miss. Simba steps on her tail to make her stop jumping. "Kiara... are you listening? Accidents can happen. You could easily get hurt, or stepped-" Kiara joins in with Simba having heard this time and time again.
"...Hurt, or stepped on, or even get lost."
"and remember,... I want you to stay in sight of Pride Rock at all-"
"At all times, I know" she then continues the speech. "And if I see any strangers, don't talk to them. Come straight home. Okay, okay. Can I go now? Please?" I see Nala arrive with Zazu next to her as Simba sees her he remembers how he and her used to act to go and play.
"Hmm. Very funny" Nala laughs gently at her daughters antics.
"Mind your father, Kiara" Kirara giggled.
"Yes, mom"
"And stay away from the Outlands" the outlands were where Simba had decided to send all of Scar's followers after he was killed. The outlands was a barren desolate place with only termites to eat.
"Nothing there but a bunch of backstabbing, murderous Outsiders!" Zazu said disgust in his voice.
"It'll be the best thing if we never see them for the rest of our lives" I added.
"Zazu and Amara are right... you can't turn your back on them" Simba said glancing at me and Zazu before turning back to Kiara, But upon discussing this Kiara became curious.
"Really? How come?"
"Mmm... never mind. Just run along now" but Kiara wasn't letting it go.
"But Dad, I-"
"You'll understand someday. Go on"
"Dad..." Simba runs his paw over her and then gently nudges her off. "Come on Amara let's go" I ran off Pride rock with Kiara. We soon find ourselves out in the open savannah I look ahead to see Kiara is chasing a butterfly. "Hey! Wait! Come back! I just wanna play!" Kiara sees that the butterfly has now landed on a rock so she slowly crouches to attack the flying bug. "Ahhh... the mighty hunter has cornered her prey" I sit down and smile watching my niece in amusement. Kiara the pounces stopping at the edge of a small rise I followed after her seeing the outlands in the distance. "Whoah... cool! The Outlands! I wonder what's out there..." I began to worry if Kiara went into the outlands she could be hunted down and killed by the outsiders.
"listen Kiara you know I always go against your fathers rules but this one I think you should do wise to obey" Suddenly a rustling in the grass makes my ears press to the back of my head. I place my leg in front of Kiara and begin to growl threatingly. In a split second myself, Kiara, Timon and Pumbaa all scream Kiara is so frightened that she backs away and falls of the edge into a pool below. Pumbaa sees that she has fallen in and his natural instinct is to leap after her.
"Oooh, don't worry, Kiara- Uncle Pumbaa's comin'!" Timon seems to be panicking now.
"Oh, no... ohh... uh... uh... let's see, uh..." he begins to talk as if he is talking to Simba. "Gee, Simba. The good news is, we found your daughter. The bad news is, we dropped a warthog on her. Is... there a problem with that?" I look back down the edge to see Pumbaa sitting in the pool looking side to side.
"Kiara? Kiara?" Timon looks down yelling.
"Pumbaa! Let me define "babysitting"!" Pumbaa quickly realises what he means and gets up Kiara managing to breath finally.
"Sorry. Now, Princess Kiara... as Simba's daughter, you know better than to go off all alone. You could have been hurt!" I jump down next to Kiara.
"what do you mean alone I was with her and we were perfectly safe until you nearly suffocated her"
"But... but..." Kiara tries to speak but Timon jumps down.
"Hurt! Oh... Simba would kill us! You didn't slip a disc, did you?" Kiara tries to talk again.
"B-but-" Timon begins to check Kiara to see if she is still intact.
"Catch a fever? Get a hangnail?" Timon is now examining Kiara's claws but she simply pulls her paw away.
"Nnngh! Timon..."
"I had one once."
"Very painful"
"Excruciating!" Timon holds a fern branch over Kiara's head blocking out the sun. "Darling... with your complexion, you should stay out of the sun" Kiara glares at the branch, swatting it away. "Whaaat? Do you wanna wrinkle?"
"Would someone please just listen to me?" I could see why Kiara was getting frustrated.
"I'm sorry; I wasn't listening. Did you say something, Princess?" I growled at Timon.
"Timon don't make me have to return to Pride rock with one less merkat"
"I'm not just a princess, you know. That's only half of who I am!"
"Oh, uh... who's the other half?" Pumbaa asks.
"Uh... well, I, uh... um..."
"Well, while you're figuring it out, let's eat" Timon snaps his fingers and Pumbaa lifts up a log. "Grubs!" Timon offers a leaf-full of grubs to Kiara and myself. "so high in protein!" I was beginning to be sick just looking at them and Kiara simply looked disgusted.
"Eww! Gross!"
"No? How 'bout you, big boy?" Pumbaa sniffs the grubs.
"Aaah. Love grubs!"
"Not like..."
"Love!" Timon tosses a large bug into Pumbaa's mouth as Pumbaa crunches the bug up he coughs on it a little then spits the chewed up left overs back onto the leaf, coating them all with spit.
"Ohhh.. you always do that! You take a bite out of every one, and then put it back. It drives me crazy!" Timon says disgusted.
"But you can't tell from the outside which are the real slimy ones!"
"Slimy? Pumbaa... my corpulent compadre. It's the crunchy ones that make the meal!" Kiara looks at me as the two start to fight we begin to sneck off as we begin to walk on a log Kiara tumbles off and lands on a lion cub. I jump down next to Kiara but this doesn't stop the young lion from growling at us.
"Who are you, Pridelander?" The young cub asks but Kiara doesn't answer but she just keeps jumping from side to side keeping her eyes on the cub. He growls menacingly at her until his curiosity gets the best of him. "What are you doing?"
"My father says to never turn your back on an Outsider!"
"You always do what Daddy says?"
"No!"
"Bet you do. Bet you're Daddy's little girl! Ha ha!" As he starts to mock my niece I move forward growling at him saying.
"watch what your saying there kid" he seems to be a bit startled but he moves away hopping on logs on the river.
"An Outsider doesn't need anybody. I take care of myself!" Kiara begins to follow him across the river in awe.
"Really? Cool!" I suddenly see a large crocodile rising behind Kiara I quickly pounce in clawing it's eye seeing that we were getting cornered I quickly picked Kiara and the other cub up by their scruffs and pounced out of the river just dodging a large crocodile. I laid the cubs down all of us panting we look down at the crocodiles who look angry. "I did it... I did it!" she then proceeds to stick her tounge out to the crocodiles. I watched as Kiara describes the adventure the three off us just had when she stops looking at the young cub. "We make such a good team! And you... you were really brave!"
"Yeah... you were pretty brave too. As were you. My name's Kovu" He said smiling at us.
"I'm Amara" I said introducing myself.
"Tag! You're it! You're it!" she did this several times but he didn't respond except for staring at her. "Hello? You run, I tag... get it? What's the matter? Don't you know how to play?" Kiara suddenly gets an idea she crouches down and bared her teeth and growls. Kovu gets the idea and mock-growls back but suddenly Simba stood in front of Kiara. Simba roared and a face me and Simba both knew jumped out as well. Zira. Zira was Scar's loving wife.
"Zira" both me and Simba growl.
"Simba, Amara" she looks like she is getting ready to pounce when Nala, Timon and Pumbaa arrive behind Simba.
"Nala"
"Zira"
"Timon, Pumbaa. Great. Now that we all know each other.. GET OUTTA OUR PRIDE LANDS!" Zira turns to Timon snarling.
"Your Pride Lands? These lands belonged to Scar"
"I banished you from the Pride Lands! Now you and your young cub... get out!"
"Oh... haven't you met my son, Kovu? He was hand-chosen by Scar to follow in his pawprints... and become King!" Simba looks at Kovu and growls making him shake in fear I turn to Simba and say.
"Simba don't he's only a young cub" Simba turns to me but ignores me all the same.
"Pbbb! That's not a king... that's a fuzzy maraca!" Timon insulted.
"Kovu was the last born before you exiled us to the Outlands, where we have little food, less water..."
"You know the penalty for returning to the Pride Lands! " Simba reminded.
"But the child does not! However... if you need your pound of flesh... here" Zira nudges Kovu toward Simba daring him to either kill the young cub or let him live.
"Take him and get out. We're finished here." Simba picks up Kiara in his teeth but Zira walks up to Simba and looks straight at Kiara.
"Oh no, Simba... we have barely begun" she beings to laugh but I moved myself in front of Kiara blocking her view whilst snarling at her making her turn away and pick up Kovu. We walked back home in silence until Pride rock was in sight Nala looks to Simba who clears his throat lifting up Kiara in his mouth before I walked ahead of him he placed a paw in my path. Simba drops Kiara who grins at him but he simply glares back at he making her look to the ground.
"Kiara, what did you think you were doing? You could have been killed today." He then turned to me adding. "And Amara you know as well as I that Kiara isn't meant to wander off" instead of arguing back and just looked away.
"But Daddy, I- I didn't mean to disobey-" Simba turns back to Kiara.
"I'm telling you two this is because I love you. I don't wanna lose you"
"I know..."
"Simba I know the dangers of the world you won't lose me or Kiara so easily" Simba still didn't look convinced and carried on.
"If something happened to you, I don't know what I'd do. One day I won't be here... and I need you to carry on in my place. You are part of the great Circle of-"
"Circle of Life. I know" Kiara said glumly.
"Exactly. And you need to be careful. As future Queen-"
"But what if I don't wanna be Queen? It's no fun"
"That's like saying you don't want to be a lion. It's in your blood... as I am. We are part of each other" Simba simles and shoves Kiara off the rock she was sitting on making her slide down. Kiara gets up and looks up to her father as they nuzzle Simba begins to sing.
Simba: "As you go through life you'll see
There is so much that we
Don't understand" Kiara watches as a small baby bird tries to fly but a mother bird sternly prevents it from doing so. But as we keep on walking a Wildebeest calf is getting up for its first time.
Amara: "And the only thing we know
Is things don't always go
The way we planned"
Simba: "But you'll see every day
That we'll never turn away
When it seems all your dreams come undone"
Amara: "We will stand by your side
Filled with hope and filled with pride
We are more than we are"
Both: "We are one" Kiara see's her reflection in the river and she then begins to sing.
KIARA: "If there's so much I must be
Can I still just be me
The way I am? Can I trust in my own heart
Or am I just one part
Of some big plan?"
SIMBA: "Even those who are gone
Are with us as we go on
Your journey has only begun"
Amara: "Tears of pain, tears of joy
One thing nothing can destroy
Is our pride, deep inside"
Both: "We are one"
"We are one, you and I
We are like the earth and sky
One family under the sun"
Amara: "All the wisdom to lead
All the courage that you need
You will find when you see"
Both: "We are one"
"As long as you live here, it's who you are" Simba says to Kiara as he hugs her he then licks her side gently. "You'll understand someday" A bird fluttered by Kiara in circles as it flies past pride rock. Kiara looked at it sadly and thoughtful for a second I made my way to her and nudged her she turned to me and smiled nuslling into my leg. I smiled at her and walked her back up to Pride rock.