Chapter 18: Going back

I felt myself being woken up. When I woke up I saw Nala standing next to me. "Morning Lana, time to wake up" Nala said. I stretched and yawned as I sat up. "How are you feeling?" Nala asked me. "Okay, I guess..." I said. "I know Simba had hurt you, Lana. He hurt me too.

But everything will be okay once we take down Scar and claim the pride lands again" Nala said. "But what if Simba still refuses to come back home and help us?" I said with worry. "Don't worry Lana, he will come around. We just need to give him time" Nala said. "Okay" I said. "Where are Timon and Pumbaa?" I asked. "They are still sleeping, we should wake them up now" Nala said. Nala helped me up and we walked over to where Timon and Pumbaa were.

When we got to where Timon and Pumbaa were, we found them sleeping on the ground next to a tree. Timon was sleeping on top of Pumbaa's stomach and Pumbaa was snoring loudly and talking in his sleep. Nala gently tapped them. "Hey, hey wake up" Nala said softly. When Timon and Pumbaa woke up, they both started to scream with terror when they saw Nala standing next to them.

"It's okay, Woah, Woah, it's okay! it's me" Nala said, trying to calm them down. "Don't ever do that again!" Timon said as he walked up to Nala. "Carnivores! Oy!" Timon exclaimed. "Have you guys seen Simba?" Nala said. "Yeah, have you seen Simba? We can't find him" I said. "I thought he was with you two" Timon said. "He was but now I can't find him, where is he?" Nala said. "Has anyone seen Simba? I've been looking for him everywhere" Axane said as he walked up to us.

"We were just asking about that too" I said. We then heard someone laughing. We looked up and saw Rafiki who was sitting in the tree. "ho, ho! you won't find him here!" Rafiki said as he cuckled. "The king has returned" Rafiki said with a bow. My eyes widened in shock, so did Nala and Axane's.

"I can't believe it, he's gone back!" Nala cried. "Woah, Nala he actually returned to the pride lands!" I exclaimed excitedly. "Gone back, what do you mean?" Timon said as he jumped down from Pumbaa's stomach. "Hey, what's going on here? Who's the monkey?" Timon said as Rafiki disappeared. "Simba went back to challenge Scar" Nala said. "Who?" Timon said. "Scar" Nala and I said at the same time.

"Who's got a scar?" Timon said. "No, no it's his Uncle" Nala said. "The monkey's his uncle?" Timon said. "No! Simba's gone back to challenge his uncle to take his place as king" Nala said. "Oh" Timon and Pumbaa said at the same time. Now that they finally understand, I looked at Nala. "What do we do now, Nala?" I asked her. "We go back too" Nala said. "Okay. But Scar might hurt me again" I said with worry.

"Don't worry Lana, we will protect you from Scar" Nala said. "And we will get our warframes back" Axane said. "Okay, lets go back then" I said. Nala, Axane, Timon, Pumbaa, and I started our way back home. As we were heading back home, we crossed through a desert. Nala and Axane started to run. "Guys, wait, slow down!" I called as I was trying to catch up to them. Nala ran back to me. "I can carry you Lana" Nala said.

"Thanks" I said. I got on Nala's back and held on tightly. "Hold on" Nala said. Nala started running. After a while of traveling, we finally got back to pride rock. When we got back, we looked in the distance and we saw pride rock, the same as before. no wildlife in sight, the place was in ruins. Everything was dried up. Ahead of us, we saw my nephew, Simba looking out into the distance. "Simba, wait up!" Nala called as we walked up to him. I was a bit nervous about seeing him again.

I am still mad at him for hurting me the way he did. "It's awful, isn't it?" Nala said. "I didn't want to believe you guys" Simba said. "What made you come back?" Nala said. "I finally got some sense knocked into me, and I got the bump to prove it. Besides, if I don't fight for it, who will?" Simba said. "I will" Nala said.

"I will too" I said. "And me" Axane said. "It's gonna be dangrous" Simba warned us. "Danger? Ha! I laugh in the face of danger, hahaha!" Nala said with a smile. "I see nothing funny about this!" A voice said. We turned around to see Timon and Pumbaa walking up to us. "Timon, Pumbaa, what are you doing here?" Simba said.

"At your service, my liege" Pumbaa said. "Aww, we're gonna fight your uncle for this?" Timon said. "Yes, Timon. this is my home" Simba said. "Oh, talk about your fixer-uper!" Timon said. "Well, Simba. if it's important to you, we're with you to the end" Timon said. Simba smiled at him as we looked at pride rock. Simba then looked at me. "Aunt Lana, I'm sorry for what I said to you. I know your dad refused to let you rule the pride lands.

So to make it up to you, once this is all over, you can rule alongside with me and Nala" Simba said. "It's...It's okay. But I thought there was only supposed to be one king and one queen of the pride lands. Not more. That's what my dad taught me" I said. "Well, your dad taught you wrong. There can be more kings and more queens ruling. I don't want to make the same mistake he did, and I feel like this is the only way I can make it up to you for what I said" Simba said.

Simba then looked at Axane. "I am sorry for what I said to you too Axane. You will always be my sister, no matter what happens" Simba said. Axane smiled. "It's okay Simba. I'm just glad you came back" Axane said. We then started making our way towards pride rock. When we got to pride rock, we saw hyenas surrounding pride rock. "Hyena's...I hate hyenas. So what's your plan for getting past these guys?" Timon said.

"Live bait" Simba whispered. "Good idea...hey!" Timon said, realizing what Simba was talking about. "Come on Timon, you guys gotta create a diversion" Simba said. "Nala, Axane. you find my mother and rally the lionesses. Aunt Lana and I will look for Scar" Simba said. We nodded and we parted ways. "Fallow me, Aunt Lana" Simba said. I nodded and followed him to find Scar. "I'm still worried Scar will hurt me" I said. "Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you" Simba said.

as we were looking for Scar, I felt like something was watching me. "Simba...I don't feel good" I said. "What's wrong?" Simba said. "I just got this weird feeling..." I said. As I was about to continue what I was saying, I heard Simba shouting, "Aunt Lana, watch out!" Simba shouted. My eyes widened in fear when I turned around and saw Scar's guardian's Stalker and Misery standing in front of me. Simba got in front of me.

"Don't touch her!" Simba shouted with a growl. "Out of the way" Misery said as he pushed Simba aside. Stalker and Misery then walked up to me. "What do you want with me?" I said. "It was scar's orders for us to find you" Misery said. Stalker then raised up his arms. "Say goodnight, princess" Stalker said. I screamed as he prepared to punch me.

with a hard punch in the head, my world went black.