Princess Nala covered her mouth with a gasp, her green eyes wide as the tawny princess realized the mistake she had just made.
"Did you say Simba and Selam was in the Oasis?" Kula asked her green eyes wide with surprise.
"I uh I uh..." Nala stammered unable to think of a responce quickly enough.
"Now sweetie don't be cruel," Dwala said gently. "I'm sure Nala just made a slip of the tounge. Prince Simba and Prince Selam are dead. Everyone knows that."
"Yeah," Nala piped up suddenly. "I don't know why I said that. Heh. Can we just forget I said anything please? The important thing is Malka and Tau are safe."
"Yes that is the important thing," Dwala agreed. "And I think it's best we don't mention any of this to King Scar. You know how he gets when things like this are mentioned."
The four female cubs nodded and with that the group headed back to Priderock without another word.
But Princess Zira knew something was up and she was determined to find out what.
...X...
Late in the afternoon almost evening, Malka and Tau had reached the oasis where Dwala had told them to go.
"Wow," Malka said his brown eyes wide with amazement. "This place is great."
"Yeah," Tau said nodding his head. The creamy gold cub looked around and spotted a waterfall. "Hey Malka there's some water," Tau exclaimed running over to the pond with Malka right behind him.
After both cubs had enough to drink they beagn to explore hoping to find something to eat.
As they were searching they spotted a meercat scrounging around a nearby rock.
"Hey Ta' do you think you can catch that meercat over there," Malka asked his voice a low whisper.
"Sure I can," Tau whispered back. "I think he's big enough to split."
Tau crouched down low preparing to pounce on the unspecting meercat. Tau positioned himself and whispered, "Now!"
And went flying through the air towards the meercat who upon seeing him let out an ear piercing scream.
Just then a golden fured cub came out of nowhere and tackled Tau in midair causing both cubs to come crashing to the ground.
"Hey!" Tau growled pushing the other cub off of him.
Just then Malka and a light beige fured cub came out of some bushes.
As Malka went over to Tau the light beige cub went over to the golden cub.
"What did you do that for?" Malka asked the golden cub angerily. "We saw the meercat first."
From all the commotion a dark brown lioness cub came running over with a young adult reddish-brown, black maned lion.
"Simba, Selam what's going on?" asked the dark brown lioness cub.
Malka and Tau looked at the two other cubs that was standing in front of the meerkat prospectively.
"Simba...Selam? Is it really you guys?" Malka asked with hopeful brown eyes.
Selam and Simba looked at the two cubs before tackling their old friends.
After catching their breaths the former princes turned to the lioness cub and the reddish-brown lion.
"Hey guys these are our friends from home." Simba smiled but that dropped when a thought crossed his mind. "What are you two doing here?"
Malka and Tau shared a look before looking at their friends.
"Scar banished us. Because he thinks we'll be a threat to his new son." growled Malka.
The dark brown cub, Sherise, purple eyes widen at that. "Come on. We must speak to my father at once."
The other cubs nodded before following Sherise and the reddish-brown lion through the oasis terrain.