Chapter 20: Alive and Confession

Axane Pov:

"So let me summarise the whole story you just told me: You came from transports called planes and had an accident, You were found by the king and queen, the queen adopted you but the king abuse you, they made Father as the king and Scar as the lion guard, Scar was not happy about and grew jealous on you and Father, he force you to marry him as punishment, then when king and queen died, Scar blamed you for their death and you decided to leave because you were burden to the pride especially to father," I said.

"Yes indeed. I'm glad that you listened to my story. I never ever thought that I could ever talk to someone like you in my life." Aunt Lana said.

I and Aunt Lana continue to converse for the whole day about each other's life stories and other stuff. Nala was exhausted through traveling and she decides to sleep. Jabali on the other hand...

"Umm...I might gonna head to bed now. It's very late now. If you need me, you know where to find me. Good Night, Girls," Jabali said and left. There was only awkward silence in the room. My gaze was still locked on Jabali. I want to confess my feelings for him but will he accept it?

"You like him, don't you?" I heard my Aunt speaking. I was shocked by the question that was asked from me.

"Yes...as best friends," I lied.

"I think its more to that,"

"What are you talking about?"

"What I mean to say is that you don't like him as a friend. You like him as someone who deeply more than just a friend." Aunt Lana said. I turn my face away from her to hide my face that is already blushing. 'Goddammit! Why am I feeling this way?' I thought in my head.

"Axane, It's not bad to fall in love with someone. It's very normal for anyone to love."

"I know but I'm just scared that it's my first time developing this feeling and I am not sure if he is going to accept my love."

"You will not know if you ask him first." Aunt Lana said before leaving the table and went to her room.

I was left alone in the dining room, doing nothing but thinking of what my Aunt just said. think she is right. I'll have to ask him tomorrow and confess my feelings to him. I am very lucky I met him in my life. But not today, maybe when I'm ready. After processing all the information, I just went to the room with Nala and slept beside her then drifted to a night of deep sleep.

*Timeskip - Tomorrow*

I woke this morning and got myself ready for hunting. Nala and Jabali decided to join me since all of us are hungry and we need to get for food for breakfast. all of us parted ways to get ourselves some food. It was better this way and will make things easier since most of us are already trained to hunt. But my disadvantage is that I lack the speed and strength of a lion, which means going on a fight with large animals will be big trouble for me to encounter. So I should better avoid these situations to save my own skin and life.

While hunting, I was hopping around the trees to get a better look in the area. At this point, I'll be able to see any animals moving from the top. I stayed in a hidden branch of the tree and waited for any animals to pass by in my tree. I waited for at least 45 minutes until a deer pass by my tree. I silently position myself on the branch wait for the deer to be near my range. Another rule I learned from hunting lessons is that stealth is mandatory in every hunt. When the deer was already on my range, I lung myself to the deer and pin him down to the ground. The deer was struggling with my grip and use all its strength on escaping. I quickly brought my knife out and stab his neck and let him bleed out to death.

After a successful hunt, I grabbed the corpse of the deer and went to our meeting area. I saw Jabali sitting in the rock with an antelope in his side. We glance and complimented each other's success. But there was something missing that came to our head.

"Axane, do you where Nala is?" Jabali asked

"I don't know. Last I saw we parted ways. Remember?" I said.

"Yeah, but she should be back by now,"

Before I could reply, a roar was heard in the west. We already knew whose roar is it. We dropped our kill and run to the direction of Nala's roar.

"I hope you're okay, Nala,"

Nala's Pov:

I was hiding in the tall grass field and waited for any animal to passed by to my range. I waited for a while until I spotted a warthog trying to chase a butterfly. I was excited to bring this hunt to Axane and Jabali. I positioned myself in my hiding spot, armed with a spear, and ready to take the kill. But something did not go in plan. The Warthog's attention went to my direction, carefully observing the area. When he looked closer, he realized that I was in there, waiting for him to be distracted and take the kill. The Warthog screamed and started sprint away from me. I jump out of my hiding spot and let out a chase to the warthog. I'm not going to let hunt escape from me.

The chase kept ongoing and I noticed that the warthog was getting exhausted. Out of nowhere, The warthog bumped on a meerkat and both of them screamed at me as I was prepared to take my a kill. When I was about near them, Another lion suddenly appeared out of nowhere, pushed me off from my kill. We started to fight each other. I tried to impale the lion from the chest but he knocks my spear out of my hand. So we were having hand-to-hand combat. We fought for a while until I finally pin the lion down to the ground. He was shocked while I give him a snarl in the face.

"Nala?" The lion said. I was surprised at what he said. 'How does he know my name?' I thought. I got off from and backed away a little.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"It's me! Simba!" Simba replied.

"Simba?"

Before any of us to respond, I heard someone called my name, "NALA!". I saw Jabali and Axane Jumped behind Simba and put him to the ground. Axane was on top of Simba, placing a knife on his throat while Jabali went to me, trying to ensure if I'm fine.

"I'm fine, Jabali! Axane! Let Simba go!" I exclaimed. Both Jabali and Axane looked at me with a shocked expression at what I said.

"Did you just call him 'Simba'?" Jabali asked and I nod back.

'What! How!" Both of them yelled in unison.

"Well, I will explain better if you let that knife off from my throat," Simba said and Axane let go of Simba. Oh well, He will have to explain a lot of things to explain to us.

Here is Chapter 20, guys. Sorry, it took too long because of a little bit of stress in life and need to break. I was already reaching to the point that I might give up on fanfic writing But I thank my friend Lightreigna21 for keeping me motivated to continue writing the story. Anyways, I hope you enjoy and leave a review.