Hey guys! Sorry it has been SO long. Five months perhaps? Well here it is! Chapter eleven! I will try to post a chapter or two a week (:

The ceremony was long. Rafiki just babbled on about the conjoining of two souls, things like that. Sarabi would occasionally take her gaze away from Rafiki, and look at Mufasa. Mufasa stared at her with eyes gleaming. Sarabi and Mufasa stared at each other for the remander of the ceremony, until Rafiki cleared his throat.

"Do you Mufasa, take dis lioness to be your wedded wife?'

Mufasa looked deep into Sarabi's eyes, and without breaking their gaze he said, "I do."

Rafiki continued, "And do you, Sarabi, take dis lion to be your wedded husband?"

With a smile, Sarabi nodded, "I do."

Rafiki grinned, "You may know nuzzle your bride."

Nuzzling was only appropriate at this occasion, the Royals aren't suppose to show too much affection in public. Mufasa and Sarabi stood and nuzzled, the whole kingdom went wild.

Rafiki once again cleared his throat and the whole kingdom went quiet. "And now, lions may come and give da new King and Queen a congratulation before they are off. The new King and Queen must travel, alone, for a three day period, where they can prove to take care of themselves, and to have some time to themselves."

The crowd broke out into noise as animals left. The lion prides all stood, stretched, and chatted amongst themselves as Sarabi and Mufasa made their way down the rocky steps to the ground to greet their people.

Everyone went quiet when Mufasa and Sarabi sad down side by side, smiling ear to ear. First came Katari, Uru, Sarafina and Kiana. They all gave quick nuzzles and happy congratulations, Katari remained very much silent however, much unlike her, but Sarabi and Mufasa were both far too happy to notice. Next came Mufasa's best friend and his pride, Jabari. Jabari is a golden color much like Mufasa, but a light brown mane that flows along his big body. Jarabi, currently a bachelor, brought with them a big, killed zebra, a wedding gift. They spoke briefly for a few minutes, but had to move along with the line, Sarabi like Jarabi a lot, he was quite funny.

An hour or so passed when Sarabi saw the last pride, a familiar bunch of lions. Sarabi narrowed her eyes and she couldn't believe it. She thought they were dead. Big smiles on their faces, Chiku, Mzuri, Bwana and a small little girl cub came padding toward them.

A grin flashed across Sarabi's face and she and Chiku instantly bounded towards each other, smacking into each other, and they rolled on the ground laughing.

"Sarabi! We thought you were dead!" Chiku said loudly, as she used to always do.

Sarabi looked at her best friend with tears in her eyes, "I thought you were all dead… It was horrible… Until Mufasa rescued me."

Sarabi stood up and looked at her old friends. The little light brown cub with red steaks, obviously Chiku and Mzuri's. She was smiling ear to ear, she looked like Mzuri, but definetly had the personality of Chiku. Sarabi looked at Mzuri and Bwana, both of them were still quite large, but they had both grown full manes by now, Mzuri's a dark brown, while Bwanas was dark black. Bwana stood stiffly, he had small scars on his muzzle and back, he looked sad. That's when it hit Sarabi.

"Wait where is Sena? Sarabi asked tilting her head.

Bwana's face hardened. Chiku's ears fall back as she explained the story. "When the hyenas attacked… We all ran in different directions, it just so happens that Sena ran all the way back to the River Pride. Akin found her, and took her back. We have been able to talk a couple of times without anyone noticing, we told her to say that we escaped and she tried to stop us. She didn't want to tell that story at first, but if she said that she too tried to run away, they would kill her."

Sarabi was shocked. She knew how horrible her old pride was, but killing? What have they come to…

Chiku continued, "Now Akin thinks we will try to come back to hurt her because she tried to stop us from escaping. He watches her round the clock except when he sleeps. Ejo is mainly the King, since Akin just sits and watches Sena all day. Sena's foot was badly injured by a hyena, which Akin thinks that I bit her. They have been waiting for it to heal so that she can walk down the aisle…"

Sarabi was so stunned. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. "When are she and Akin scheduled to be married?"

"In exactly one week. They are sending a messanger tomorrow to tell all the prides so that they can come if they wish. The reason nobody came here for this wedding is because they are preparing for their own wedding. They have no idea you are the new Queen of all prides."

Sarabi looked towards Mufasa with a worried look, Mufasa nodded, and with a furrowed brow began to speak. "From what my wife tells me, this pride is abusive, we have to get your friend out of there before the wedding. I will go down there as soon as possible, and order a meeting of the council of Kings. Being the King of all the prides' kings, I have the power to stop a marriage, even take a lion from a pride."

Sarabi smiled, she loved Mufasa, he will be a great husband. "Do you think we could put off our trip until after we rescue Sena?"

Mufasa nodded and gave her a kind nuzzle, "Anything you want, my Queen."