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The Lion King 4: Kovu and Kiara's Cub(Chapter 11)

Later on that night at Pride Rock, Kiara still couldn't sleep because of her injured leg. She then started to remember what had happened earlier that day, the humans coming to the Pridelands, Vitani asking Krooger for his help to defeat the humans!

Since Kiara couldn't sleep, she decided to try to get up, but to her surprise, she could actually stand up on her injured leg. So she said to herself, "Wow, that's odd. I can't sleep because of my injured leg, but I can actually stand stand up a little."

She started walking slowly out of the den and went into deep thought. Something told her to do something and that there was a surprise waiting for her, but did not like the idea of it, but she carefully went down Pride Rock and then she heard it again, and it said, "Go to the Outlands and talk to Krooger. You will be surprised by what happens."

She then said, "No, I'm not going to do it."

But all it did was keep telling her to do it, but she kept refusing which caused a headache to come on, because she had a feeling that she might get attacked.

But eventually gave in, and said, "Fine, I'll do it."

The voice went away and so did the head ache afterwards. So Kiara continued to walk carefully to the Outlands and once she reached the boarder, Kiara stopped, her heart pounding against her chest. One more step and she would be in the Outlands.

Kiara carefully lifted her injured leg and crossed it and waited. After waiting awhile, and being a little confused as to why she was there, she was about to turn and walk home until she sees four figures come towards her. She gulped and was about to turn and run, but then stopped and told herself that if she tried to run, they would possibly chase her and would easily catch up to her because of her injured leg.

Krooger then spoke, "Kiara, what are you doing here?"

Kiara hesitated to answer, but then said, "To tell you the truth, I don't know, something forced me to come here. But since I'm already here, I might as well say this.

Kiara paused for a moment, then continued, "I know you'll probably think like, why the hec would she be saying this, but I wanted to thank you for helping me and my Pride to defeat the humans...because without your help, my pride and I would not have survived."

Krooger just stood there, shocked by what she said, while his lionesses looked like they would attack, but told them, "Do not attack her!"

The lionesses obeyed him, but were shocked by what he said.

Krooger then said, "Why are you thanking me? I mean after all, look at what I've done to you all these months, you shouldn't be thanking me for anything."

Kiara replied, "I don't hold grudges against anyone for a long period of time, but that's all I wanted to say."

As Kiara turned and started to limp home, Krooger said, "Your Welcome."

Krooger then covered his mouth, shocked at what he said, and asked himself, "What is happening to me? How come I'm acting so......nice?"

Kiara then stopped, also shocked by what he said. She turned around and looked at him in the eyes, but to her surprise, she didn't see hardly any hate.

She then slowly turned her head back in front of her and started to walk slowly back. But what she didn't know, is that two lionesses were going to attack her, while Krooger just stood there looking at the ground in deep thought.

Kiara knew that she couldn't fight back because of her injured leg, so she just closed her eyes, waiting for the lionesses to attack her. Without Krooger even noticing that they were going to attack her.

The two lionesses lunged themselves at Kiara. One lioness racked her claws across the left side of Kiara's face, re-opening her scar, causing Blood to rush out and drip to the ground! As Kiara roared in pain, the second lioness lunged herself at Kiara's neck, and sunk her teeth into Kiara's neck. Blood began rushing to out of her neck as she felt the lioness' teeth sink further into her neck! So, with the lioness sinking her teeth into Kiara's neck, she all of a sudden let go of her neck and Kiara fell to the ground, bleeding badly.

The lionesses seeing that Kiara's so close to deep unconsciousness, they stood over Kiara, who was breathing heavily, waiting for them to kill her. To everyone's surprise, in a flash, Krooger jumped at the lionesses and threw them both into a huge rock, and they immediately were knocked out cold!

Krooger then just stood there, not believing what he just did! Knocking both of his lionesses out cold to save Kiara's life!

Krooger looked down at her and saw that Kiara was loosing blood fast!

Kiara began thinking, "This isn't good! I'm loosing blood fast and I can even taste my own blood in my mouth."

Kiara, soon enough, fell into a deep unconsciousness! Krooger then heard something running at him, so he turned around and saw his other two angry lionesses running at him with bared teeth. Krooger didn't want to but, if his lionesses were going to try to kill him, he had to defend himself.

The lionesses jumped at Krooger but dodged their attacks and they went sprawling across the ground! This gave him a chance and he slammed his huge paw into the lioness' face and hit the ground hard and fell unconscious. The other jumped on him and sunk her teeth deep into the back of his neck, but Krooger easily shook her off and knocked the lioness unconscious!

Krooger saw that Kiara was still unconscious. So, he grabbed Kiara by the nape of her neck and put her on his back.

After awhile, he saw a huge oak tree, so he walked up to it and said, "Hello, anyone there?"

He then saw a baboon come out and he said, "Some of my lionesses attacked Kiara, when she went to thank me for my help. I don't know why she was out there when she was already injured, but I think she's badly injured, is there anything you can do?"

Rafiki replied, "If you bring her up here, I may be able to help her."

Krooger did as he was told, still thinking that what was wrong with himself.

After awhile of examining Kiara, Rafiki said, "I've stopped the bleeding, and it seems that Kiara will be okay, just leave her here for the rest of the night so I can keep an eye on her."

After a moment of silence, Rafiki asked, "Is there anything you wanted to ask?"

Krooger hesitated and replied, "Yes, there is. Why am I being so nice, and how come I'm not full of evil anymore? What is wrong with me?"

Rafiki started to explaine to him about what might be wrong with him. After awhile, Krooger started to understand a little.

Krooger asked, "One more question, how do I explain all of this to her family and Pride?"

Rafiki thought for a moment, then said, "I'll tell them. I'll tell them everything you told me, okay."

Krooger nodded and said, "Thanks, but what do I do now? How will I be able to explain to my Pride without them attacking me?"

Rafiki replied, "I don't have all the answers, on this one, you're going to have to figure out that one on your own."

Rafiki then said, "I'll take care of Kiara for the night, you can go back now alright."

Krooger nodded and left! And on the way back, he was trying to think of a way to tell his Pride about what happened, or then again, perhaps make up a little tall-tail.

Rafiki then went back inside and heard Kiara moan a little.

She then said, her eyes still closed, "Where am I? What happened to me?"

Rafiki replied, "You were injured my some rogue lionesses. Although, Krooger brought you here to me."

Kiara, still out of it, "Really, how many lionesses attacked me?"

Rafiki sighed a little, then answered, "Kiara, I think you need to get some rest and ask the questions in the morning, okay."

Kiara replied, "Okay, am I going to be okay? Will I live?"

"Yes you will, now, you need to get some sleep, okay," answered Rafiki.

"Okay," replied Kiara.

It only took about one minute for her to go to sleep. Rafiki sighed, and walked up to Kiara, who was sleeping on her side, padded her shoulder and said, "You're going to be fine, don't you worry."

He then started putting some more medicine on her injured leg and then put some on her neck and face.

Back at the den of Pride Rock, Nama stirred a little then woke up to find that her mother had gone missing.

Nama started to panic, but didn't want to wake anyone else up. So she got up slowly and quietly. Once she was out of the den, she walked down Pride Rock quietly, and once she was down Pride Rock, she sped off into the Pridelands to search for her mother!

Nama slowed down to a walk, and while she was looking to her left, she bumped into someone and fell backwards on her back. She opened her eyes to see she bumped into Krooger.

Her heart started pounding against her chest as she saw him walk towards her. So she started crawling backwards on her back until she bumped into a rock which stopped her.

Nama looked up at him, her eyes full of fear; her ears drooped way back. So Nama put her paws over her face and eyes and just laid on her back, thinking that this was it.

But to her surprise, she uncovered one of her eyes to see Krooger sitting down in front of her. She slowly removed her paws away from her eyes and face and got up.

Nama, confused as to why she wasn't attacked, asked, "Why didn't you attack me and kill me, I was just laying on my back, totally vulnerable to you?"

Krooger replied, "Well, I don't know what's happening to me, but I seem to be a lot nicer after Kiara had thanked me for helping her and your Pride. It seems as if my heart has changed from evil to good, I don't know why though."

Nama thought for a little, then replied, "Well, maybe you're just realizing what you were doing in the past was wrong instead of right, and maybe thinking that killing is wrong now?"

"Maybe, just maybe."

Nama looked deep into Kroogers eyes and saw that it wasn't full of hatred now. So she asked, "Do you know where my mother is?"

"Is a matter of fact, yes I do. She got injured by a couple of my lionesses, so I carried her to an big oak tree, where that baboon lives."

"You mean Rafiki."

"Yeah, that's right, he told me to leave her with him and he'll take care of her for the night."

"Thanks!"

He nodded as Nama ran off to find Rafiki. When she got there, Nama ran into Rafiki's tree and ran to her mother and asked, "Is my mom going to be okay?"

Rafiki replied, "Yes she will, feel free to stay for the night if you want."

Nama replied, "Okay"

So she lay beside Kiara for awhile then went to sleep!!

So, what did ya think? I worked long and hard on this!

Yeah, I know your probably thinking why Kroogers attitude is changing, but that's how I wanted it to be, okay! Don't worry, the rest of the story is still going to have great action and adventure!

Anyway, What is up with Krooger? Why is he being so nice now? Or is this another trick of his to try to take control of the Pridelands? And will Kiara be okay? You'll just have to find out in later chapters!

Not sure when my next Update will be, but for now, Please R&R!!

-Elliot Williams 20