After time of reading, studying, yelling at why an equation does not make sence, have I, Gulefritz, finally made the next chapter of Life in the Pride lands.
I am sorry for those who looks forward to see what Tiifu does, or if she will do anything for that matter, that will come in a later chapter hehe.
Now, I thank you all for the support, (8,5k views so far) even reading and reviewing 1 month after I had uploaded anything, for that thank you guys.
Now without further ado
Welcome to Chapter 14 of Life in the Pride lands!
Kion and his group were out in the fields of the pride lands on their daily patrol. What was unusual was that the lion leader had decided to split the group into two groups, one going north, towards the outlands and one going south towards the great desert. The two groups would meet again, coming from east and west at the watering hole.
Ono and Beshte was curious to this, as Kion had set Bunga to follow them, while he and Fuli would form their own group. Both shrugged it off, curious as to why Bunga saw it as normal. Ono raised his eyebrow as he saw the two felines leave, heading north, "Guess Felines stick together"
Beshte and Bunga nodded, their group heading south.
Bunga and Fuli knew why Kion had split the group into two. Bunga found it funny, Fuli found it, somewhat romantic really. Right now, she walked right beside the lion who smiled at her from time to time. She walked up to the lion and nuzzled his chin with her muzzle as they walked and purred. To her liking, Kion smiled more and nuzzled her back.
The lion and cheetah would reach the top of a hill and immediately stop in their tracks. Down there below them is an entire pack of Hyenas, from the young pubs to the elder former matriarchs. Both felines looked serious, before Kion spotted the leader of the pack. This wasn't Janja's pack, this was Jasiri's.
Both of them went down the hill towards the hyena pack. Immediately the entire pack looked in their direction, some of them looked scared while the juvenile and adult hyenas started to snarl as they approached, making both Kion and Fuli stop dead in their tracks. This was unexpected from Jasiri's pack.
Soon a young female hyena forced her way through the group. She sighed at her snarling pack members. It was Jasiri, she had seen Kion and Fuli approach and had immediately stormed through the pack to get to them. She had expected her pack to dislike Kion as he was a Lion, and they all remembered the events last night. She rushed up to the Lion guard members.
"Kion! Fuli! Am I glad to see you two!"
Fuli opens her mouth but is interrupt by Kion before she is able to form any words.
"Jasiri why are your pack here in the Pridelands and not in the outlands? You know my father wold never allow Hyenas to roam these lands again"
Jasiri let out a sigh, for two reasons. One because she was reminded of the hate to hyenas the Pridelands harbored after the mad king Scar, second because she had to tell what had happened the night before. She opened her mouth and told Kion the whole story.
"A pack of lions attacked our home in the outlands! They killed my brother Jamal and drove us away from our home. It was one of the few waterholes left in the outlands"
Both Kion and Fuli raised their eyebrows at the story Jasiri, both had the same thought.
"Lions in the outlands? There are no lions out there, they all live here in the Pridelands!"
Jasiri would immediate laugh at them clearly showing she did not believe them, even suggesting they are mad.
"Say that to my dead brother! He was killed by a lioness who led her pack in the outlands"
Kion would sigh and looks at Jasiri, trying to give her a look that tells her he would aid her and her pack with this "lion problem" she and her pack had encountered. He told her to lead them to these lions and she was glad to do so.
Kion and Jasiri left, while Fuli went back to tell the rest of the guard what was going on. Kion and Jasiri would hurry to the outlands, soon crossing the river dividing the two areas. They crossed the river and both were immediately leapt at, pinned down by two gray and brown lions. Both of them looked malnourished and very hostile. They both growled at their prisoners.
"Zira knew you filthy Hyenas would be back! She send us to make sure you never came back!"
The first lion said, even spitting on the hyena, he glared at her, when the second one opened his mouth.
"Hey, who is this golden cub? One of the pridelanders?"
The other lion would look at the pinned down Kion, finding the lion guard mark on his shoulder, laughing immediately.
"Ha! A lion, of the lion guard no less, aiding one of these filthy parasite infested filt! What a disgusting sight!"
Jasiri looked up at the two lions with a scared and almost terrified look, these lions had taken her home after all. Kion on the other hand was surprised to actually find lions in the outlands. He raises his eyebrow as he looked up at the lion who pinned him down. He soon saw it was a cub not much older than he was a female. The other lion was a more grayish older lion who seemed to be just a few months from adult age.
"We told you never to return hyena, and you come back with a traitor lion"
Jasiri snarled at the lion pinning her down opening her mouth to finally speak her mind.
"You will pay for what you did to my family, you will pay for stealing our home! This is Kion, son of Simba, king of the Pridelands, if you remain here or hurt us will Simba come her and kick you out!"
The older lion was about to laugh but is cut short by the young female. She looked down at kion and grinned as she noticed whom the lion was.
"Why would he come to the aid of those who drove him from his lands? Now if you are Simba's son then mother surely want to see you"
She grinned before going off Kion. The other lion would do the same, Kion and Jasiri rose up but would be forced to walk forward, led by the two lions behind them.
Meanwhile at pride rock, the remaining members of the lion guard, except Fuli and Kion, had returned to their cave. The remaining members did not give it much of a thought; they were probably making out or something.
Suddenly Fuli entered the cave, she panted heavily. The other members of the guard saw her and wondered why she as so tired, and where was Kion. Rafiki was also there but was minding his own business, doing some painting about the history of the pride lands.
"Fuli, where is Kion?"
"Jasiri and her family was driven from the outlands by a pack of lions, Kion went to investiga-"
Rafiki who had a very blue right hand interrupts Fuli. He literally jumped from where he stood and landed in the middle of the lion guard pointing at her with his very blue and dripping hand.
"Did you mention lions in the outlands?"
She nodded and pulled her head back not to touch the blue berry mixture Rafiki had on his hands. Luckily, for her the old mandrill pulled it back and ran his hand through his beard, turning his beard very blue very fast. Then the old mandrill raised his hands, pointing upwards.
"If that is true, then Kion is in very grave trouble, you have found the banished, Lions who were loyal to Scar and did not support Simba when he took over the pride lands"
Rafiki would point straight to the painting he was making earlier, what a coincidence.
"When Simba took over a lion named Zira tried to stop him, claiming that Scar had picked her son, Kovu, to be his heir, despite him not being of his blood. Simba refused this, as he did not see Scar as the rightful king. He allowed her to stay as Kovu was still a very young cub, but she soon attacked Simba and his family"
Rafiki let out a loud sigh, ending up making his head even more blue when he rubbed his hand against it, thinking back to when he meet Scar.
"A shame really, Scar was a troubled lion and only wanted the affection of his father, a shame his story would end up with him killing his brother and spreading his evil further through Zira… Why are you still here? Go, save your leader!"
With that the entire Lion guard would run for the direction of the pride lands. They rushed as fast as they could, determined to save their leader.
Meanwhile in the outlands by the watering hole. Zira was enjoying her takeover of the waterhole. She and her pride had not been able to drink water for days and now they were here, one of the few spots of water left in the outlands, and it was all hers. She sighed, relaxing for once. It was tough to lead a pack where there is no food, and raising three cubs does not make it easier. This was all Simba's fault of course, he drove Scar away, he killed Scar, he threw him to the traitor filth the hyenas were. Simba, one day I will enjoy killing him and take his and for Scar, for Taka.
Zira looked forward to the way leading into their new home as she noticed some commotion. Her pack members were all looking at someone approaching. She looked and found a golden cub and a hyena. She growled immediately, why is that filth of an animal here? Moreover, who is that golden cub? She would soon find out as she rose from her spot and meet her new guests.
Kion looked around at all the lions, finding them more scary and dirty, nothing like the pride land pack. He shook his head and looked forward at as a female lion arrived, flanked by four lions. This must be this Zira we heard about earlier. He would soon find out.
"A lion and a hyena, for some reason I had expected a fight yet here I see you two, side by side, and not fighting, why is that?"
Kion is about to answer when he is interrupted by the female from before who walked from behind him and went to sit by Zira.
"This is Simba's son"
This piece of information would make Zira smile, here in front of her is the son of her enemy, her rival. She wondered why he looked at her with a confused look when she suddenly realized the situation she was in, Simba never told his son about me. Kings never change.
"Simba, the King in the pride lands, Vitani you have brought me the Prince of the pride lands, good job"
Vitani smiled at the praise as she received by her mother. Zira looked from Vitani over to Kion focusing her gaze on the young cub.
"Now, tell me, son of Simba, what are you doing out here? With a Hyena even?"
"M-My name is Kion, and this is Jasiri. She and her pack lived here until you and your pack drove them awa-"
Zira laughed interrupting the young lion; Zira stopped laughing and got up close to lion looking him over.
"As you said yourself, they lived here, now why would a lion, a leader of the lion guard even, aid one of those who ruined their lands years ago? Who stole their food and almost killed their pack through starvation and stress?"
For once in his life, Kion did not know what to say. He had never meet one with so much prejudice as Zira. He shook his head and let out a long sigh.
"They harmed the land but that is of the past, now. Zira, this waterhole is the home of the hyena pack, you will have to move or-"
"Or you will use the roar on us? Ha, the roar cannot be used on Lions without the user losing the skill"
Zira interrupted the lion again; she grinned and soon continued speaking.
"My mate, Scar, the rightful king of the pride lands, slain by hyena scum, showed me all there is about the roar. He used it against his guard and he lost the roar!"
Zira could see the look on Kion, showing he did not believe her; she grinned and motioned towards a cloud in the sky. She lowered her head and whispered into the cub's ear.
"Roar at the cloud, and it will begin to rain, try it and see that what I say is true"
Kion looked at Zira's grinning face before doing as she told him to. Kion let out the roar, it hit the cloud, and soon enough it turned dark, filled with water, and soon started to rain. The rain would fall and hit the unfortunate lion beneath, which was Nuka who clearly disliked the water and rushed away from the cloud.
There in the outline of the shadow made by the cloud sat a brown lion cub. He laughed at Nuka as he noticed how he ran away to shake the water off him. It was Kovu, of course, Kion does not know that, but he could see the cub was better fed than the rest of the pack. Kion then noticed that Kovu and Vitani was not looking skinny like the rest of the pack.
Kion looked back to Zira who by now had walked back and sat on an elevated rock, looking down at Kion.
"As you can see, I know all about the roar. You can use it and we will be gone, momentarily as we will return another time free from the fear that is the roar"
Kion did not know what to do. They were too far away from the pride lands to tell his father, and there were to many for him to fight off and run. He looked up at Zira who was smirking. Zira would suddenly walk towards a cave and she turned around, motioning Kion to follow her. He did so and followed Zira into the cave, Jasiri walked as well but was stopped by Nuka and Vitani.
Kion looked but didn't do anything, knowing that Zira is the one in control of this situation. He sighed and followed Zira into the dark cave, prepared for anything Zira might do, but that feared him. What would Zira do? Surely she wouldn't kill a cub, right?
A little cliffhanger because I can hehe.
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