Kiara defies fate as the very first to escape Kaa's own innards and seeks to be the very last by any means necessary.

Chapter 14: Watch The Queen Conquer

Kiara could feel her body telling her that standing up alone was a strain, still feeling burns all over from the stomach acids. However, she still scowled back up at Kaa in all his wooziness and told herself that it'll never be over until the python is where he can't ever hurt anybody ever again. The plucky princess allowed her former friend to get a good look at her before she bolted off in the opposite direction and right into the trees, praying the seething serpent would come for her.

"I wasss being kind by allowing her body to nourisssssh me," Kaa began with his rage boiling to a fever pitch, "a way of giving thanksssss for being ssssuch a lovely toy." Even with the lingering urge to vomit, he slithered steadily to where his prey escaped to. "However, thissss insssssolenccccce desssservesssss to be paid back in full." It was hard to know what hurt worse, his guts or his pride. "I will hear her beg for the releassse of death no matter what the cossst isss."

Simba felt his hope plummet when he saw Kaa slither off towards Kiara and still felt his body as still as a statue. He shut his eyes and grit his teeth with all his desperation in an attempt to break free of the spell, focusing on his daughter. His constant overprotective parenting led her into the serpent's manipulative grip and yet she managed to fart her way out. The king mustered up every bit of willpower that he had left, vowing to put his past behind him and do his dad proud.

With a worn out Nala in his sights, Simba slowly but surely took the first step...

Kiara's rush of adrenaline could only push her body so much until she finally slowed to a near crawl, her chest heaving like she just ran an marathon. Her head hung like a fruit ripe enough to fall from the branches as she began to actually process what had just happened to her. The princess had been eaten. Gulped. Consumed. Swallowed alive like she was actual food. It was hard to believe that she would've been melted down to mush if not for a sudden bowel movement.

"Note to self," Kiara began to tell herself, "as far as anybody's concerned, I clawed my way out like a badass." She hoped that it would take the edge off but it still freaked her out how easily Kaa made a meal out of her. The helplessness of it all shook her to her core but what made it most upsetting was that she had been eaten alive by the one who made her feel... special. Her eyes shut to remember all of their time together and wished that this was all just her nightmares.

Kiara's eyes snapped back open upon hearing a sharp hissing noise from a distance behind her, sending her adrenaline into overdrive. She got her second wind while forcing herself past several trees with her body still barely able to keep from wobbling. She could collapse at any moment and be all too easy for Kaa to swallow back whole again. Ironically, it was this very threat of her imminent demise that was the only thing making her pained legs put one paw after the other.

"Perhapsssss you didn't get the messsssage, your highnesssss," Kaa's barely restrained voice called out from by a few feet away. "My ssstomach isss a tomb." Kiara's sharp hearing made it seem like he was right on top of her and had her push her body even further out of sheer fear. "To be ssssswallowed whole by me isssss a death sssssentancccce than nobody hasss ever onccce defied before." The princess had to hold her tongue from giving out any of her witty replies.

"Thisssss transssssgresssssion you dared to commit will cossssst you dearly," Kaa's voice continued, his hissing still sounded awfully nauseous. "For assss long assss I live, you will be nothing but a helpless prisoner within your own body." Kiara urged herself to ignore the serpent as she struggled on towards the open plains, no matter how gruesome his tone of voice was becoming. "My eyesss will put your very deep under my thrall yet delicately allow you some awarenesss."

Kiara couldn't help but remember every time Kaa's eyes instilled that happiness within her and feel her heart sink upon realizing what he had been doing. It was always his subtle little way of making her trust in him implicitly and mixed in a few words of encouragement that her own father never gave. The princess grit her teeth in order to fight back the tears but knowing that she had already been the snake's little toy was a tough pill for even a python to swallow whole.

"While your father gorgesssss on the Pride Landsssss like a hyena," Kiara heard Kaa monologue further to her anxiousness, "I'll make your perform for me like my own court jesssster for dancing, playing and ssssqueezzzzing mosssst essspecccially." She could see the trees becoming more sparse as the tall grass came into view. "I'll let you wake up in time to exxxperiencccce the full forcccce of my coilsss." The princess could hear her "old friend" becoming more unhinged.

"I can almosssst ssssee it now," Kaa called out, getting closer according to Kiara's sharp ears. "Barely gasssssping for air with a pathetic look in your eyesss all assss they bulge out, your life teetering on the edge of death itsssself." The princess tried her best to keep herself from visualizing the snake's sadistic fantasy. "Every sssssingle day will have you wissssshing that you allowed me to consssssume your body but I'll ssssssee to it that I rip that hope clean away from you."

Kiara scowled hard and shook her head in attempt to get her mind off of Kaa's declaration of revenge. She entered the Savannah and used her sharp sense of smell to pick up the musty scent of wet mud. Her body began to pick up speed as hope filled her heart and her veins. The princess knew that it was a long shot but also knew that she had to do what she could. Her family. Her subjects. All of the Pride Lands were depending on her to wake them up from their nightmare.

"Keep dreaming, you overgrown worm," Kiara declared viciously under her breath. "Your death will be all the better..."

What hope does Kiara possess to topple Kaa's reign of terror. The final showdown comes to a head... next time.