* I don't own ANY of the Kingdom Hearts characters or Lion King II: Simba's Pride characters, I only own Katie


Katie finally broke free of Zira's death grip, leaving her blood splatter on both her and Zira. Katie's flanks were heaving heavily from exhaustion and blood loss, she was seeing double. Why wasn't Vanitas helping her? Was it because she was now a lioness and not human? She put most of her weight on three paws and looked at Zira, "You…done…yet?" Katie panted.

Zira smirked evilly. "Finely begging for mercy?"

"No. I'll never beg for mercy. I'm not a weakling…"

"Not a weakling, eh? Then why have you lost?" Zira sneered.

Katie looked at the floor. "…Because…you weren't fighting fairly, Zira." She growled.

Zira's eyes narrowed. "I haven't told you my name, weakling!" She batted Katie to the ground; Katie went down hard and made a grunt of pain. "Who are you?" Katie didn't answer. Zira pressed her forepaw on Katie's neck, not allowing air flow to the lioness' lungs. "Who are you?" Zira repeated bitterly.

"L-let me go…" Katie gasped.

"Who are you?!" Zira yelled.

"I said…let…me…GO!" Katie's body burst with dark energy that threw Zira off of her. Katie's fur started to frizz, the blood coming from her neck and belly stopped flowing and the gashes disappeared. Slowly, Katie stood back up, her eyes locked on Zira. Katie's ribbon melted off of her face and fell to the ground. Katie's eyes were glowing gold. The silver streak in her hair-like fur on her head grew larger, now almost taking half of her head. She glared at Zira angrily and panted very hard, those pants became growls; those growls became roars of rage. She charged at Zira.


"We're almost there!" Simba called over his shoulder, leading the pack of lions.

Repliku was running right beside the feline king. "That's good. I don't want her to be—" He suddenly let out a yell of pain. Repliku stopped dead in his track and sunk to the ground, having his paws clutching onto his head.

The whole group stopped. Lea nudged Repliku with his paw. "Repliku! What's wrong?"

"There's too much…there's too much…!" Repliku cried. He let out another yell of pain.

"Too much what?" Sora asked.

Repliku couldn't speak; he was in too much pain. Riku walked closer to Repliku, "Is it the Darkness? Nod for yes, shake for no." Repliku nodded his head hard while hissing in pain.

"How did you know, Riku?" Kairi asked.

"Repliku can sense the Darkness. How, I don't know, but it has been very useful in the past for finding Heartless. If he can't even move that he's in so much pain, there must have been a very large spike in the Darkness." Riku explained. He motioned Lea to step forward, which he did. Riku grabbed Repliku by the scruff and put the lion cub on Lea's back. "Be careful, okay?" He told Lea.

Lea nodded. "No prob!"

Simba walked to Riku. "Will he be alright?" he asked.

"I don't know, Simba." Riku sighed, "It's never been this bad before."

"If Repliku is in this much pain, there's gotta be something big." Sora added. They continued forward.

Lea stopped and sniffed the air. "You guys smell that?"

Kairi sniffed the air and reported, "No."

"Really? I smell smoke." Lea sneezed. "Like, real bad."

Sora rolled his eyes, "You set something on fire again?" he joked.

"No!" Lea answered quickly. He looked around and his eyes widened. "It's coming from over there!" He lifted a forepaw to point to his right. On the horizon was a fire crackling.

Simba's eyes widened too. "Kiara!" He yelled. He ran towards the flames.

"Kiara?" Riku repeated.

"Simba's daughter. Today's her first hunt." Sora answered.

"Alright, Lea and Sora. Go help Simba find his daughter. Kairi, you're coming with me." Riku turned to Lea and picked Repliku by the scruff again and laid him on his back. "I'll take Repliku."

"Be careful." Said Kairi.

"You too." Sora returned, with a nod, the group split up.

"Riku! I'll show you the way to the Outlands!" Kairi called over her shoulder. "C'mon!" Riku went after her, hoping that Katie wasn't in the flames along with Simba's daughter.


I own you guys an explanation of why my chapters are so suddenly short. I realized that if I keep on updating regularly, this story will be done by the early summer. I want it to last longer than that so I'm making them shorter...and I getting writers block. ^-^'

Fun Fact!: Katie's favorite KH character is a constant rivalry of Roxas and Riku.

Bless your face. And if you sneezed while reading this KH fanfiction, then bless you. Peace off. BOOP!