Chapter 17: Reuniting with Simba
I watched as Nala and the male lion continued fighting. "What's going on?!" Axane cried as she was running towards me. "Nala attacked another male lion, and now they are fighting!" I said. "Come on, get her, bite her head!" Timon who was standing next to me said. After a while of fighting, Nala pinned down the male lion. Nala growled at him. "Nala?" The male lion said. My eyes widened in shock.
Nala's eyes also widened as she got off of him. "Is it really you?" The male lion asked. "Who are you?" Nala asked him. "It's me, Simba" The male lion said. "Simba?" Nala said. My eyes widened in shock again. Simba has been here the whole time? After all this time, I thought Simba was dead.
Nala and Simba smiled and they laughed with happiness. "Woah!" They both cried at the same time. "What are doing here?" Simba said. "Me? What am I doing here, what are you doing here?" Nala asked him. "Hey, what's going on here?" Timon asked as he was walking up to them. Timon got between both of them. "Hey! What's going on here?!" Timon yelled. "Timon, this is Nala, she's my best friend. And this is Lana, my Aunt, and Axane here is my sister" Simba said with a smile.
"Friend?" Timon said with confusion. "Yeah, hey Pumbaa come over here!" Simba called. "Huh?" Pumbaa said as he got himself unstuck from the branch. "Nala, Aunt Lana, Axene, this is Pumbaa" Simba said. "Pleased to meet your aquatences" Pumbaa said. "The pleasures all mine" Nala said with a chuckle. "How did you...Woah Woah, time out let me get this straight. You know her, and she knows you.
but she wants to eat him, and everybody's okay with this?" Timon said. "Did I miss something?!" Timon yelled. "Relax, Timon" Simba said. "Wait till everyone finds out you have been here all this time. and your mother, what will she think?" Nala said. "She doesn't have to know. nobody has to know" Simba said. "Of course they do, everyone thinks your dead" Nala said. "They do?" Simba asked.
"Yeah. Scar told us about the stampede" Nala said. "He did, well what else did he tell you?" Simba said. "What else matters? you're alive. and that means, your the king" Nala said. "King? Lady have you have your lions crossed" Timon said. "King! Your majestey! I gravel at your feet" Pumbaa said.
Pumbaa then began biting at Simba's feet. "Stop it" Simba said as he pulled his paw away. "It's not gravel, it's grovel. and don't, he's not the king!" Timon shouted. "Are you?" Timon said. "No" Simba said. "Simba" Nala and I said. "No I am not the king, maybe I was gonna be but that was a long time ago" Simba said. "Let me get this straight, your the king and you never told us?" Timon said. "Look, I'm still the same guy" Simba said.
"But with power!" Timon said. "Could you guys excuse us for a few minutes?" Nala said. "Hey, whatever she has to say, she can say in front of us. right Simba?" Timon said. "Mm...maybe you better go" Simba said. "It starts, you think you know a guy" Timon said. Pumbaa groaned as he and Timon walked away. "Timon and Pumbaa, you learn to love 'em" Simba said with a smile. Nala, Axane and I had sad looks on our faces.
"What, what is it?" Simba said with concern. "It's like your back from the dead...you don't know how much this will mean to everyone. What it means to me" Nala said. "Hey, it's okay" Simba said. "I really missed you" Nala said as she placed her head under Simba's chin. "I missed you too" Simba said as he rubbed Nala's head with his head. They both nuzzled each other. After they nuzzled, Simba went over to me and hugged me.
"I missed you, Aunt Lana" Simba said. "I missed you too Simba" I said as I hugged Simba back. Simba then went over to Axane and hugged her. "I also missed you Axane" Simba said. "I missed you too Simba" Axane said as she hugged Simba back. Nala and Simba then left and walked together in the jungle. "Where are they going?" I asked. "We should leave them alone for now. let's go explore or something" Axane said. "Okay" I said.
Axane and I went to go explore the jungle for a bit. The jungle was beautiful. waterfalls were everywhere and trees and flowers were everywhere in the jungle. "This place is amazing" I said. "Yeah, a lot better than the pride lands" Axane said. "I bet the pride lands will be even better when we finally defeat Scar" I said. "Yeah" Axane said. After a while of exploring I decided to sit down and watch a movie on my phone for a while.
I decided to watch Harley Quinn: birds of prey for a bit. When I finished watching my movie I saw Simba, Nala, and Axane walking in the jungle together. I put my phone away and I ran up to them to catch up with them. "Isn't this a great place?" Simba said. "It is beautiful. But I don't understand something. You've been alive all this time. Why didn't you come back to pride rock?" Nala said.
"Yeah Simba, why didn't you come back?" I said. "Well, I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. and I did, and it's great" Simba said as he laid down in some vines. "We really needed you at home" Nala said. I nodded. "No one needs me" Simba said. "Come on Simba, don't say that" I said.
"Yes, we do. your the king" Nala said. "Nala, we've been through this. I'm not the king, Scar is" Simba said. "Simba, he let the hyenas take over the pride lands. "What?" Simba said. "Everythings destroyed. there's no food, no water. Simba if you don't do something soon everyone will starve" Nala said. "I can't go back" Simba said.
"Why?!" Nala shouted as Simba stood up. "You wouldn't understand..." Simba said. Simba began walking away. "What?" Nala said. "No, no, no. it dosn't matter. Hakunna Matatta" Simba said. "What?" Nala said. "it's something I've learned out here. Look, sometimes bad things happen, and there is nothing you can do about it. so why worry?" Simba said."Because it's your responsibility! And Simba, do you realize Scar has forced Lana to marry her?!
he tortures her and he rapes her!" Nala shouted. "What?" Simba said. "Well, what about you and Axane? You two left!" Simba shouted. "I left to find help! And I found you! don't you understand?! You're our only hope!" Nala yelled. "Sorry" Simba said. "What happened to you. Your not the Simba I remember" Nala said. "You're not the Simba I remember either. You used to be happy and you were so excited about being king when you were young.
You used to tell me every day how excited you were. Now your acting like you don't care" I said. "Shut up, Lana! don't tell me what I do and do not know! you aren't even my real Aunt, my grandparents took you in after the plane crash you had, so stop acting like you care! And Axane, you aren't even my real sister! Father took you in as well" Simba said. What Simba had said felt like knives stabbing in my heart. I looked at Axane who had tears streaming down her face.
I got pissed now. I angrily slapped Simba hard across his face. I wrapped my hand around his throat. "How could you say that to me?! I loved you and cared about you! and after everything we have been through?!" I yelled. "Aunt Lana I..." Simba choaked out. "Shut up! Don't call me Aunt again! you hurt me Simba, and you hurt Axane!" I shouted. "I..." Simba started. "Save it! I'm fucking done with this family!" I yelled.
I roughly dropped Simba on the ground. Simba coughed a bit. "God damn it...You know you both are starting to sound like my father!" Simba shouted. "Good, at least one of us does" Nala said. Simba looked at her angrily. "Listen, you think you two can just show up and tell me how to live my life?! You guys don't even know what I've been through!" Simba yelled. "You don't even know what I've been through!" I yelled at Simba.
"I would if you would tell me!" Nala yelled at Simba. "Forget it!" Simba yelled. "Fine!" Nala yelled. "Don't even think about following me!" I yelled as Simba stormed off. I stormed off too. When I found a nice spot under a tree I laid down. I started to cry. How could Simba say these things to me?! After I finished crying, I decided to watch RWBY on my phone for a while. after some time of watching RWBY I put my phone down and rested my head on my backpack.
in a few minutes, I fell into a deep sleep.