Here's chapter 11 and please review. I'm sorry about the delay in me updating.

Back at Priderock, Tojo and his friends were furious. "This is completely unfair" Alex snarled. "They weren't responsible for hurting their own siblings."

"I'd really like to give Mufasa a piece of my mind." Thresh said, and inside he was thinking, "I'm sorry, Nala. I should have protected you. I guess you really do deserve Simba."

Flashback

Thresh was alone in the meadow, thinking. He had heard about Simba and Nala getting together. He was furious and very upset.

"Thresh?" came a voice. It was Simba.

"What?" he asked, in an unfriendly voice.

"I know that you love Nala. I can see it by the way you talk and look at her. Am I correct?" Simba asked.

"Yes" he snorted.

" I want you to know that Nala is mine. I love her, she loves me back. I don't want you interfering with anything. Understand?"

"I understand, but I don't like it one bit" Thresh snapped.

"That's not my problem." Simba snarled. "Stay away from Nala. I'll make sure she isn't anything more than a friend to you."

"Oh really?" Thresh asked. "And if I can change that?"

"You'll have to get past me first." Simba snarled. "I really don't want it to get to that point. So I advise you to stay away from her and everything will be fine. And don't tell Nala any of this. I won't either"

After giving him one more dangerous glare, Simba left.

Thresh watched him go. "I don't stand a chance. Nala's taken. But I still love her and will protect her." he closed his eyes painfully. "If you love someone, protect them."

End of flashback

" I should have protected her," Thresh thought.

" We have to make sure they're alright." Shani said.

"She's right." Safi said. "But how?"

" I have an idea." Tonal said. "But it has to be done at night.". Everyone nodded in agreement.

"We can meet when the Pride is sleeping, by the southern border. That's where they ran. Some of us will keep guard by the border and half way to the border, to make sure the adults don't come looking for us. The rest of us can search for Simba, Nala, Kula and Chumvi."

"Alright, we'll meet at midnight, by the border." Toklo said. "We better get some sleep."

Everyone except Alex went inside. He motioned for Shinda to stay. "Alex what's wrong?" she nuzzled his cheek.

"Shinda, I just wanted to tell you, don't go alone without me. Or Tojo. I'll meet you by the base of Priderock."

"Alex, I'll be fine. I've done hunting at night. But I'll listen to you." Shinda sighed.

"Good. I'll see you at midnight." ne nuzzled Shinda and then walked out.

Near midnight, Tojo shook Shinda and Shani awake. One of them each had made sure they stayed awake, so they wouldn't sleep past midnight. That hadn't been easy, with their younger half sisters. Anjani had used Tojo's head as a pouncing target, until Shinda pushed her off.

Shinda sleepily opened her olive green eyes. Tojo motioned for her to be quiet and carefully got up. Shani followed and without a sound they walked out the small entrance. The Pride started using the bog den, since it was the beginning of the rainy season.

They walked down the to the base of Priderock. Alex was waiting for them.

"So you made it," Alex whispered.

Shinda leaned forward and nuzzled him. "With many problems, but yes. Let's go"

"Tama and Moraan are there." Alex said, motioning to the two figures making their way toward them.

"Let`s go" Tama said , as she approached them. The group made their way toward the southern border.

They met the rest of their friends by the border.

" Ok listen" Amri began. " We need three of us to guard by the border, two a little ahead of the border, and the rest of us can search in pairs in the outlands."

"I`m willing to stay a little ahead of the border. Anyone else?" Shani said.

"Me," Zakia volunteered. Shari had managed to convince them of Simba, Nala, Kula and Chumvi`s innocence and had made her sister come along with them, along with Kareena`s brother, Karan, who was a good friend of Zakia`s.

"I`ll stay by the border." Kareena volunteered.

" I will too." Safi and Shehani said at the same time.

" So that leaves me, Thresh, Moraan, Tonal, Toklo, Alex, Tama, Shari, Shinda, Karan, and Amri." Tojo said. "Let's go."

"Be careful." Shani stepped forward and nuzzled her siblings. "How long should we wait, before we start worrying?"

"Give us a couple hours. They may have travelled further." Amri answered.

Nodding Shani stepped back and she and Zakia ran over to the hills to keep guard. Kareena, Safi and Shehani spread themselves between the area of the southern border. The rest headed into the Outlands.
"We should pair up." Karan said. "It's safer and we can cover more ground."

Nodding, Moraan said, " Tama come with me. We can search more toward the east."

" Me and Shari can come with you." Amri said, not wanting to let Shari out of his sight.

"Ok, let's go." Moraan said and began to walk east.

They searched for a while, trying to find any scent or sign that their friends had been there. It was too risky to call out their names. Cold wind blew and Tama shivered.

"Cold?" Moraan asked, and pressed against her, lovingly.

"I'll be ok. Besides. Simba, Nala, Kula and Chumvi would do the same thing." Tama insisted.

"Moraan you can walk ahead if you like. I can continue searching here." Tama said, giving his muzzle a lick.

"No way am I leaving you here, without me to keep an eye on you." Moraan said sternly.

"I'll be fine. There aren't any hyenas around here. If there were, the lions on patrol would have told us." Tama insisted.

"No,"Moraan shook his head. "I'm staying with you."

Tama didn't argue, knowing she couldn't win.

Meanwhile, Shinda and Alex had paired up and was looking with Tojo and Tonal. Shinda wandered away a bit to look. She thought she smelled and unfamiliar sound and smell.

"Alex?" she called. She heard a twig snap. Feeling odd, she turned around to go back to her brother and Alex, when she heard a sound behind her. She turned around to see the most biggest hyena she had seen in her entire life. It had bulging muscles and razor teeth. It jumped toward Shinda and she was to shocked to react. Suddenly, she head an ear splitting roar.

Alex jumped in front of her, and knocked the hyena away with one powerful hit with his paw. The hyena went flying a few feet away. Alex ran over to the creature and slashed his throat with his paws. Once making sure the hyena was dead, he hurried over to Shinda, who was still looking in shock.

"Shinda, are you hurt?" Alex asked, nuzzling her, checking her sides to make sure nothing was broken.

"I'm fine." Shinda said taking in a gaspy breath. "That was the biggest hyena I've seen in my life."

"I see them once in a while when I'm on patrol. I had the same reaction you did when I saw them for the first time. Are you sure your okay? Do you want to go back home?"

"Alex I'm fine." Shinda said smiling at him. "You saved me. Thank you." She licked his nose.

"I'll always protect you. You know that right?" Alex said.

"Of course. Let's go back to searching." Shinda said.

A few hours later, near dawn they met back at the border.

"Did you find anything?" Safi asked, as they regrouped.

"No." Tojo said."They must have left." He closed his eyes painfully.

"Then we'll never see them again." Moraan said, softly. Everyone was silent.

"Then may the spirits protect them." Shari murmured.

"We should be going back. The adults might wake up and we're really going to be tired in the morning." Zakia said.

"She's right." Amri said. "Let's go."

The group of lions went back to Priderock and into the den, silently. Their hearts were still full of fresh grief of losing their close friends.

Meanwhile, Simba and his companions had travelled for what seemed like ages. They stopped at two huge rocks, with a couple trees and a small pond beside it.

"We should rest." Kula said, her muscles aching from all the walking and the cold seemed to cut through her skin right into her bones.

"Let's go hunting, Kula" Nala said.

"We'll come with you." Simba said and Chumvi nodded.

"No," Nala shook her head. "You two are too loud and you're going to scare the little prey we have here. Me and Kula can do it."

"Alright, but don't go too far." Chumvi said.

Nodding the lionesses walked away. Chumvi was too tired to talk, so he lay down. In less than a minute he fell asleep.

Simba lay down next to him. He looked up at the stars in the sky. He thought of his ancestors. "Are you watching us? You must believe us. You must know that we weren't responsible for those murders." Simba sighed. His ancestors were definitely not taking care of them now. While they were travelling, Simba and his companions agreed that they would find some unclaimed territory and that they would start a new life there. It would be hard, but Simba knew that life would be good again someday. "Someday" he thought. "With plenty of laughter, tears, and pain along the way.". With these thoughts, the former Prince drifted off into a deep sleep.

He woke up a while later, to feel Nala nudging him.

" Simba, get up and eat. You need energy. We caught an antelope and warthog." Nala said, rubbing her cheek against him. Nodding sleepily, he got up and took a bite of warthog. The prey was small and their stomachs were nowhere near satisfied. After eating and taking a small drink from the pond, they went by the boulders for some sleep.

Simba and Nala settled down together by one edge of the first boulder, surrounded by tall green grass and Chumvi and Kula lay down by the second boulder, both groups receiving some privacy. Simba's eyes began to droop immediately. He felt Nala licking his aching shoulders, and cleaning his fur.

"Nala, don't worry about me. You need to sleep." Simba said, gently.

Nodding, Nala lay her head in her paws. Simba rested his head over hers and his chest over her shoulders. Although, he was shielding her from as much wind as possible, he noticed that she was still shivering. The wind blew hard and he shivered. Sounds from other animals echoed throughout the night. He imagined, his family and friends back at Priderock, all warm and safe in the big den. He fell asleep, but his sleep was interrupted. He woke up, to find Nala twitching. She seemed to be trying to run in her sleep, and muttering names and calling for him and for help.

"Nala." Simba gently shook her. "Get up, you're having a nightmare."

Nala shot her head up, gasping for breath.

"Simba, where are-" she began, the stopped, remembering what happened.

"You had a nightmare. Want to talk about it?" he asked, nuzzling her.

Nala shook her head, but there were tears rolling down her eyes. "It was all so real." she sobbed, into his mane.

"It's alright, Nala. I'm here now. Sshhhh. It's ok." Simba said, rubbing his paw against the back of her neck.

Nala pulled back, then lay her head back down in Simba's paws.

"Stay with me." she begged, as she drifted off.

"Always and forever." Simba whispered back.

Thanks for reading. And I did get the idea from The Hunger Games Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, for the last little part about Simba and Nala.