(Heres the chapter you all been waiting for, I give my apologies for it to take this long and my thanks for giving me the idea's for the climax, I'll have to split this chapter up, so two chapters to end the story, I hope you enjoy this one.)
The three climbed up the steep rock to get back to the ground above. once they were back on the ground above. They then heard loud voices and looked to the other side of the river.
"They're coming, we have to go!" Len said.
Len, Jay and Nala quickly left the river and headed through the land of pine and leafless trees. Going back toward the dirt road where Len had left his truck. The police men still searched for Nala in the woods. The three came outside the woods and to the dirt road.
"Come." said Len as he ran to the back of his track and to the traveling cage he had for animals. He opened the cage door for Nala. He stepped aside for the lioness to get into the traveling cage.
"Get in, girl."
Nala as always, was a bit sceptical about getting into the cage.
"Go on, Sarah." Jay encouraged.
Nala finally gave, and got into the cage. Len closed the cage door behind the lioness and locked it. Nala looked back toward the cage door. It felt like the time she came to these lands of America. And now it was the same as when she leaves.
Jay and Len then went into the front of the truck. Len opened the door and got into the driving seat of the truck.
"We have to get to the airport. Theres a few planes leaving to Africa today."
"Where did Sarah come from?" Jay asked, wondering where Nala came from.
"The flight came from Niger. That's where the animal preserve is." Len explained, having to read the schedule of delivery of animals.
"Then we have to get to one of those planes. That's planes Sarah's only hope." Jay insisted.
Len turned the key of the truck. The engine stated. Len drove to the right side of the road. He then back up and drove back the way he came. The three came to the highway and drove to the airport. Nala laid down in the back of the truck. She thought about finally going home. She waited for many days for this. To see the friend she had for a long time. And the young free-spirited cub that she called her son. But the more she thought about it, the more she felt it was getting hard. Leaving Jay, Areli and the others was making it hard for her from doing this. These were the ones who had become family to her. Leaving them felt like the day she was taken away from the Pridelands.
The truck arrived at the airport. Len parked near a fence. Ahead of them was a large cargo plane thats corse was to the African provence of Niger. Len got out of the truck and walked toward the plane. Jay got out as well. He went to back of the truck to see Nala.
Len talked with the man driving the plane. It was a man in the age of thirty, with a grey shirt and had red hair and beard. He talked with hime about transporting a lioness. He paid the pilot the money needed for the trip. After a while, Len came back to the truck with another, driving a fork lift. The flat metal pole went under the cage and lifted off the truck. Nala was a bit frighten at this. The forklift then back away and drove toward the plane. Once there, the forklift lowered the cage. Two men came up and pushed it up into the plane. Nala felt as if time was repeating itself. Only now, it was returning home. But there was one thing that didn't change, Leaving behind a family. As Nala's cage was settle in with the rest off the cargo, Len and Jay came into the plane. The boy kneeled down in front of the cage.
"You alright, Sarah?" he asked.
Nala looked to Jay. He looked a bit sad about doing this. Mostly for Nala going back to Africa. She was a close friend to him and it hurt to know that she was going away. But there wasn't a choice for her, she would die if she stayed. Nala felt the same way. As much as she was glade to go home, she wished that she didn't have to leave Jay or the others behind. The plane door then came up and shut.
Len walked toward the front of the plane. He looked back at Jay, who was in front Nala's cage. He felt it was best to leave the two friends be. He turned back and went to the front of the plane.
"Thank you for helping us." he said to the pilot.
"No problem." the pilot responded.
Len sat down in the right seat and buckled up
The one piloting then drove giant flying machine the moved toward the runway for its journey to the lands of Africa. The plane, faced west. each of its two propellers on each side of its metal wings began to spin. It then went down the runway, gaining speed before it flew up into the air. Getting higher into the sky.