Kion and his Lion Guard finally arrived in Zooland after crossing the vast ocean that separated the country from the Pridelands. They made it to the castle where they met with King Lionheart as Kion explained why they were here and when he finished, the king sat on his throne and shook his head.

"I'm afraid I don't have an idea as to why one of my lords would just be gone like that."

Kion said, "My father is very worried about him as he is an old friend to him and Lord Big."

"Yes, I know…" Leodore solemnly said, "I wish I can be of more help but I have a kingdom to run." he shouted to the side, "Lady Bellwether!"

The sheep quickly ran up to her king while passing the Lion Guard and bowed, "Yes, Sire?"

"I need those reports on Herds and Gazing from yesterday. I didn't get the chance to finish them."

"But you said that I should work on those instead."

He huffily replied, "Well, I changed my mind. Now bring me the reports!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, right away!" she scurried away.

The king turned back to them with a smile on his face, "Please feel free to look around the castle and kingdom to give you any clue as to where Lord Emmitt could be. Except the dungeons, there's no need to look there."

Kion bowed, "Thank you, Your Highness. If we find anything we'll let you know."

Bellwether then rushed in with a pile of scrolls and almost dropped them as Fuli speeded in to catch them. Dawn looked uncomfortable being next to the predator but mustered a sweet voice, "Thank you." and went up to the king.

Ono asked his leader, "Now where do we go?"

Kion stated, "To meet with the captain of the guard…"

While Kion met with the captain of the royal guard, Fuli took this chance to talk to her cousin along with her teammates.

"Oh, it is so nice to see you, Fuli! We never get a chance to get together that much anymore."

Fuli rolled her eyes, "We saw each other every summer as kids, Benjamin. We're not that distant from each other."

Bunga spoke up, "Good thing too! Or else he never would have sent that letter to tell us about Lord Otterton."

Ono said, "It's true if Fuli and Ben weren't that close we never would have found out."

Beshte pointed out, "But why would King Lionheart not want to mention to the other kings that his lord disappeared in the first place?"

Kion then came back with Captain Bogo, as the tough cape buffalo stated, "Because this is a personal affair within our kingdom's border and no outsider should have the right to interfere!"

Kion calmly told him, "It's like I told you, Captain. We are just concern about Lord Otterton; the rest of the missing mammals are your responsibility…"

The Guard's eyes widen with Bunga shouting, "There's more missing animals?!"

Kion sighed, "Yes… fourteen to be exact, including Emmitt."

Fuli inquired with a furrowed brow, "And we're not going to find the other mammals, why?"

"We don't have any right to look into that. The king allowed us to look for Lord Otterton and that's it. My father also gave strict orders that we obey Zooland law and that's what we're going to do."

Beshte asked, "So what now, Kion?"

The lion replied, "We talk to Lady Otterton to see if she knows something."

In moments they were in the estate of the noble Ottertons and Lady Otterton was busy doing her needlepoint while looking distressed. In the manor were portraits of the Otterton family and several pictures of the couple themselves. Kion could tell that Lord and Lady Otterton loved each other very much like how he and Jasiri loved each other. While it was true he distrusted Jasiri when he first met her given how Janja and his clan acted and how his parents went against Scar's hyena army. But Jasiri was nothing like them and for that they eventually fell in love.

Lady Otterton stated, "I begged Captain Bogo to find him but he and the rest of the guards are so busy that I am force to wait and see if my Emmitt will ever come home…"

"When was the last time you saw him?" Fuli asked.

A tear ran down her cheek as she retold the tale, "He came home one night and told me that he discovered something disturbing within the castle walls and that it would be treason if he tried to do something about it."

The Guard exchanged concern looks.

"He couldn't tell me what it was without the children and I getting into trouble and said it was safer this way. So I suggested to him to meet with the king alone and confront him on what this was all about."

"And then…?" Kion slowly asked though he had a good idea as to what happened.

Lady Otterton wept, "My Emmitt disappeared…"

The group gave sympathetic looks.

Kion looked upset as well thinking if he was in the lady's place of his fiancée just suddenly disappearing, he would be worried out of his mind. At that moment he was grateful Jasiri was away helping her sister had she come along on this adventure… he couldn't bear the thought of losing her not after all they been through… He went to the otter and declared.

"We'll find him… I promise."

She gasped happily, "Oh! Bless you! Bless you!" and went up to hug Bunga who was the closet in her size.

Bunga smirked while patting her back, "Yeah, that's what the Lion Guard's all about. Helping those in need and keeping the circle of life in balance."

Kion chuckled, "That's right, Bunga."

She let go the honey badger and faced all of them, "Find my Emmitt… bring him home to me and my babies…"

Beshte stated, "You have our word."

Kion said to them, "Till the Pridelands' end…"

The others responded back, "Lion Guard defends!"

They made their way back to the castle and as they did they enjoyed the sights of Zooland as everything was so exotic and diverse. Predator and prey mingled fairly well but there were some who avoided each other in fear or annoyance.

Ono commented on that, "Not the friendliest of animals in this kingdom…"

Kion pointed, "It is a shame that animals can't get along here as they do in the Pridelands…"

Beshte mentioned, "I wonder why that is…"

Fuli suggested, "Maybe it's how things are run here…?"

Bunga said, "Oh! Do you think that's what Emmitt found out? That the kingdom wasn't running right?"

Kion pondered on that, "It's possible… We know from our Pridelands' history that Scar was a terrible ruler… and Lady Otterton did tell us that her husband told her he found something within the castle that could lead to treason…"

Suddenly they heard a commotion ahead and rushed over to see two carts blocking the path. Mammals behind the carts were complaining and the Guard went ahead to see what was taking the cart drivers so long only to find…

Fuli exclaimed in horror, "No! Not sloths!"

Two sloths were trying to load their carts but were they going so slow it was exasperating to watch.

Kion went up to them, "Excuse me!"

A sloth slowly turned his head.

"Hello, my name is Kion and I was wondering if you could tell us why you're blocking this street?"

The sloth slowly replied, "Hello… my name… is… Flash…"

Ono muttered his breath, "Well that's a fitting name for a sloth…"

Kion started, "That's great but could you tell me why-"

"…I am… delivering… these crates… to… the… docks…"

"Okay… Um, Flash, these animals are trying to get somewhere, could you maybe speed it up?"

Fuli made an amused scoff, "Kion! They're sloths! They're the slowest creatures in the world! They can't speed up!"

Beshte suggested, "Maybe we can help them get to the docks?"

Kion asked Flash, "Would that be okay? Would you let us help you get to the docks faster?"

Flash responded, "Sure… that… would… be…"

"Great?" Bunga guessed.

"Fine…"

The badger shrugged, "Close enough."

Once the sloths slowly got in the carts, Beshte got ready to push the carts and gave out his signature cry. "Twende Kiboko!" and the carts moved much to the mammals' relief.

After they got to the docks, Flash slowly made his way down the cart as Fuli tapped her foot impatiently. When the sloths said their slow farewells and Kion returned it, the Guard was finally on their way back to the castle. But the sun was about to go down and storm clouds started gathering as Ono mentioned this.

"It's getting late Kion, and it looks like it's about to pour but we're still a ways from King Lionheart's castle."

Bunga noticed a coach nearby and pointed, "Hey, maybe we can ask for a ride back."

Fuli said, "Fine by me, I don't want to get wet from the rain."

Kion went up to the coach to find a panther and horse getting ready to leave. "Excuse me, sirs."

The panther turned to the lion asking in a deep voice, "Yes?"

"My friends and I need a ride back to the castle and I would gladly pay you for your services." he held out a pouch of gold coins.

The panther stared at the pouch before accepting it and stated, "Manchas." then he shook the lion's paw.

"Kion."

"Please take a seat." he gestured toward the coach.

"Thank you, we appreciate this." he motioned back to his team to get in.

By the time they got in the storm began and rain downpour on top of the coach causing noise.

Kion said while looking toward the coachmammal in the front window, "I feel bad that Manchas has to be out there."

Fuli looked to the side as a lightning flashed, commenting, "Well I'm sure glad I'm not out there."

Beshte questioned, "How do you think things are going back home? Think the Pridelands are handling okay without us?"

Kion replied, "The guards should be able to do their jobs. We made sure of that."

Ono sighed, "No doubt we've already missed the Pride Ball…"

Fuli rolled her eyes, "Like we would have missed anything anyway. The Ball is always boring, nothing exciting ever happens at it."

Bunga motioned, "Not unless one of the chandeliers came crashing down!"

Kion shook his head, "That wouldn't have happen, not when the castle staff takes care of things so well."

Beshte said, "So we can assume everything will be just the same when we get back?"

The others nodded in agreement.