CHAPTER 22

The moon glistened, but it made nobody feel any better. Tania sighed and ran faster to catch up to the others. Kita looked up at the stars. She suddenly felt different. She felt as though something-or someone-was missing. Her ears perked up and the fur on her back stood up. She looked at Sarsha and Shengo who were in front of her, and then turned and almost smashed into Tania. She stopped and looked Kita in the eye. Kita pinned her ears, but Tania let her go past. She turned and watched Kita sprint back to the Pride Lands........Tiaru stared after her, and then spoke. 'I better go and see if she's alright.' He said. Tania nodded and watched him go after her........

'Kacela.' Kacela turned and gave a short growl. Tanu growled back. 'Kacela, we have a job to do. The boss wants us to lure those lions back to camp. We've caught that wimpish female, we just the others. Especially that white one.' Kacela narrowed her blue eyes,

'And how are we supposed to lure them back?' Tanu gave an evil grin.

'Follow me.' He ran of to the Outlands with Kacela behind him.

Kamania let tears slide down her face as she thought of the lions back at Pride Rock. Why had she snapped at Kiki and the other cubs? What if it was the last thing she had ever said to them? What if they never saw her again and they thought that she didn't care? Well, the truth was, she did care, because they had saved her life. She did want friends. She knew Eshma was right. She just didn't want to believe it. And maybe she just let Kita do what she can to help.

Shengo lifted his head after sniffing the ground. They were still in the Pride Lands. He followed the smell to the lake. Tania gasped and ran towards her sister. Tika nuzzled her and cried. 'Tika, I know your upset about Mum, but the humans aren't gonna get you! I prom-'

'That's what you said when Mum went to fight them off! And they got her! Do you know something?'

'What?'

'You shouldn't make promises if your not gonna keep them!'

'I'm just trying to help you!'

'I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP!' Tika roared as Tania pinned her ears. Shengo backed away.

'Tika, please-'

'No, Tania!'

'TIKA, YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO ME MORE! I'M YOUR OLDER SISTER; YOU SHOULD LEARN TO RESPECT ME ONCE IN A WHILE!'

'I-I-'

'It's ok. Come on, lets just-' she broke of and looked up. Tanu and Kacela were standing on a rock with burning branches in their mouths. Tania shook her head.

'NO!' Sarsha yelled, but before she could stop them, Kacela and Tanu had set the dry grass on fire. Then they fled, hoping that the lions would run towards the camp to get away from the fire. Kacela hissed a laugh and fled. Tania turned to her sister.

'COME ON! WE'VE GOT TO WARN THE OTHERS!' she and Tika raced of towards Pride Rock and warned Kita and Tiaru. Kita pinned her ears and ran to help........Sarsha and Shengo started scooping water onto it, but the fire just got bigger. Sarsha shivered and backed away. She saw the flames flickering in the shape of a male lion.......she shook her head and turned away form the figure of her father. Shengo jumped onto the rock and looked over the Pride Lands.

Kita raced through the Pride Lands and into the human camp. The humans weren't in sight, so she ran to cage and looked at Kamania. She looked up at her and cried. 'Sshh, it's ok now. I'm gonna help you.' Kamania remained quiet as Kita scratched away at the lock. She bit at it, but couldn't break it. Frank came out and yelled.

'Oi! That's my lion!' she made his way to the table and picked his gun up, but accidentally knocked the cage over. CLICK. The padlock opened and Kamania jumped out and ran with Kita behind her. They didn't look back they just kept going. Kamania gasped as she saw the flickering flames.

'KEEP GOING KAMANIA!' Kamania sped of dodging the flames. She looked behind and saw that Kita had gone in a different way as to confuse the human. She ran on and on and on until she came to a hill. She looked down and saw the flames. She had no choice, as the human had gone foe her! She ran down the hill, but it was really steep and she tumbled over her paws.

'AAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!' she rolled down and was heading fore the fire! ROAR!!!! The loud roar sounded, and Kamania was suddenly caught in a lion's jaws. The lion ran up the hill and dodged the human's bullet. He growled and ran towards where Kita was. Once there, he dropped Kamania, knowing they were safe from the humans. Kita nuzzled Kamania. Then she looked up at the lion.

'Hello Kita.' He said.

'Miku!' she gasped as the lion smiled.

Shengo pounced up a very tall rock (same one Kiara climbed up to get away form the fire in SP) trying to escape the fire. He gasped as the fire flickered.

'HOLD ON SHENGO!' Sarsha called as she ran to try and get to Shengo. Tiaru and Tania and Tika appeared and gasped at Shengo. He dug his claws deep into the rock as they all desperately tried to get to him. His back paws kicked into the rock as he tried to scamper up. He looked down at the fire and remembered his dream........he looked down again and saw two green glows with a scar across the left one.

'Come down here baby brother!' a cruel voice echoed. Shengo turned away and slipped down slightly. A chunk of rock fell down and Tika gasped. Sarsha leapt onto a tree but couldn't get to Shengo.

'Shengo!'

********FLASHBACK************

Sarsha jumped into the tree just as the fire got her parents...........

'NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

*END OF FLASHBACK*

'NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Sarsha yelled.

AAGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!' Shengo fell down, down, down........

END OF CHAPTER 22

Hmm, I think this is ok. What do you think, Bambi? Hope ya like! Can't wait for the next chapter!