DarkEcoOttsel: Final chapter, peeps! (sobs) I'm not crying because I'm
sad—I'm just happy I'm almost done! Mwaha! Okay, enough of my evil
laugh—just read the chapter! (listens to TLK soundtrack)
Summary for Chapter Six: This is the last chapter and also the most action/adventure filled. I don't wanna give all of it away and I'm not good at keeping secrets! All I'm telling ya is that Timon finds Mira. The hyenas are right on their tails, too. Will they make it out alive? Just read and review, peeps!
Disclaimer: I only own Mira, Niku, and Miku. DON'T SUE ME!!!
Chapter Six ~~ Showdown in the Outlands
Timon sighed and grinned tiredly. He had made it to the place he saw in his dream: the Outlands. Standing before him was the huge, castle-like, termite ridden domain that was now inhabited by the hyenas.
So, Timon thought. The hyenas are hanging out here.
Timon had traveled through the Pride Lands all night and through the day. Something inside him gave him the strength to carry on.
Timon stiffened when he hard laughing and saw two female hyenas approaching. He hid behind a rock and listened to their conversation.
"Did ya hear? Niku and Miku captured that rat, Mira," one hyena told the other. "Those two dopes are gonna kill her at dusk to prove that they're just as good as Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed."
Timon felt a wave of relief and horror flood throughout his body. Mira was alive, but only for a while longer.
"Where're they keeping her until then?" the other hyena asked.
"Somewhere in the west wing."
That's all Timon needed to hear. He looked at the sun, which was setting. Setting?! He only had a few minutes to get her out before the hyenas killed her!
Timon quickly entered the domain and followed a series of tunnels heading west. There weren't any hyenas around; Timon guessed they were all waiting somewhere to watch Mira die.
Timon cursed when he came to a fork in the road. Which way should he go? He didn't have time to search every tunnel in the west!
Then Timon heard a faint sound. It sounded like humming or whispering or something but it seemed to be coming from the tunnel to the right. He followed it and it became louder with each step. He stopped in front of a wall that had a hole towards the ceiling. He climbed up and looked inside.
Mira was sitting in a corner looking utterly miserable. Her left arm lay limp at her side and her eyes were red from crying. She was humming the same tune she had before, only this time she didn't look happy at all.
"M-Mira?" Timon whispered.
Mira looked up slowly and gasped, "T-Timon?"
"Mira! It's me!" Timon cried happily.
"Timon!" Mira sobbed. "What are you doing here?!"
"Well, that's a fine hello!" Timon retorted and folded his arms in mock.
"Timon, if they catch you here, they'll kill you along with me!" Mira shouted in a whisper.
"We're both gonna get outta here alive," Timon told her. "Climb up here! Hurry!"
"I can't—they broke my arm," Mira responded. "I'd be dead weight to you. I haven't eaten or drunken anything in a day!"
"All the more reason to get you outta here," Timon smiled as he jumped from the hole into the room.
"Timon..." Mira started.
He turned around and said, "If you can, see if you can put your arms around my neck. Hold on and we'll be outta here in no time."
Mira used her right hand to lift her sprained one around his neck. She winced and yelped a little but Mira was determined.
"You okay?" Timon asked as he began the slow climb up. The weight of her wasn't that bad, but he feared he might lose his grip.
"I little pain is worth our lives," Mira responded. She wrapped her legs around his stomach to offer him better support.
Timon was almost to the top when he heard hyena laughter. He almost lost his grip when a hyena broke through the wall.
"Be quiet," he whispered to Mira.
When the dust cleared, Niku looked around and growled.
"Hey!" he shouted to his brother behind him. "She ain't here!"
"You probably stepped on here!" Miku shouted back as he stepped into the room. He looked around and then suddenly looked straight at Timon and Mira.
"HEY!" Miku shouted and Timon and Mira screamed. Miku lunged at them and narrowly missed them.
"I told you she would escape!" Niku growled angrily.
"I told you to break her arm so she couldn't!"
"I did!"
Timon took this chance to start climbing again but he was losing his grip. Mira noticed how strained he was becoming. She also noticed some loose rubble hanging loosely to her right.
"I got an idea," Mira told Timon. She started kicking at the rubble and with one last whack of the tail, pounds of soil, dirt, and rock came pouring from the wall and landed straight on the hyena brothers.
"ARGH!" Niku shrieked right before a rock silenced him.
"Go!" Mira shouted. "The others must've heard that yell by now!"
Timon summoned all his energy and soon they were standing in the tunnel. As they ran, Mira asked Timon a question.
"Timon, why'd you come to save me?" Mira asked.
"I came...I came to save you because I—" Timon was cut off as a wall of hyenas came right at them and full speed.
Timon pulled Mira into a small niche in the wall that went a little ways back. The hyenas began clawing and snapping at the entrance.
"Whoever kills 'em first wins!" one hyena shouted.
"Timon, I'm scared," Mira whispered as she clung to him. Timon was just as freaked out, but he didn't want her to think that. He noticed the weak looking ceiling. He grinned and knew that his klutziness would come in hands once again.
Mira watched as Timon began to kick at the ceiling and soon it all came rushing down, creating a hole large enough for them to sneak out.
Once out, they discovered that they were at the top of a huge hill that was slanted straight down. They were at least fifty feet high.
"What're we gonna do?" Mira cried as she grabbed Timon's arm.
"Uh—" Timon was cut off as a hyena broke through the ground behind them.
"Gotcha!" she cried as she began to wriggle free.
Timon and Mira screamed and began to back up slowly as more hyenas broke through the termite-weakened structure.
Mira backed up more and gasped when she felt the earth slip away from beneath her feet. She screamed as she tumbled backwards down the hill. She landed with a thud on a piece of land jutting out and didn't move.
"Mira!!" Timon screamed.
"Aww, poor baby," one female hyena chuckled as she approached him. "Miss her? That's okay—you'll be joining her!" She slashed at him but he had leaped down the hill and landed next to Mira's lifeless form.
"Get them!" the hyenas cried as they slid down the hill after them.
Timon gingerly picked Mira up in his arms and cradled her. He looked up in horror at the hyenas as they came skidding at him.
"Heads up!" a hyena shouted as more went over the side. They failed to notice that the ground beneath them was starting to shatter and crumble.
Timon shut his eyes tightly and felt himself falling, still clutching Mira tightly. He heard the frightened cries of the hyenas as they fell to their deaths along with the entire domain of the Outsiders. Then Timon felt the world around him slip into an uneasy darkness.
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"Hurry up, Pumbaa!" Ma shouted from the warthog's back as they galloped at full speed across the Pride Lands. "I told everyone that we'd be back with Timon and Mira!"
"I'm—hey, what's that?" Pumbaa looked to the horizon where a reddish smoke was rising up. The next thing they heard was the roaring echo that sounded like a structure collapsing. Pumbaa had a feeling deep in his gut. He knew that Timon and Mira were over there.
"Pumbaa, where are you going?" Max asked irritably as the warthog changed directions.
"I think Timon's over there," Pumbaa stated without changing direction.
"I think he is, too," Ma said, putting a paw over her heart and staring off into the distance.
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Mira took in a sharp breath and coughed several times. She opened her eyes and saw that it was dark out. There was nothing left of the Outlander's domain except rocks and rubble. Mira could also make out several bodies among the rubble but they were too big to be Timon's. Timon.
"Timon!!" Mira shouted as she sat up painfully. She looked around until she spotted him a few feet away. He was bleeding from a long gash down his arm and he was unconscious.
"Oh my God!" Mira screamed in horror as she crawled over to him. She touched his cheek with a paw. He didn't even flinch.
Fresh tears filled Mira's eyes and she began to sob.
"I'm so sorry, Timon!" she cried. "Its all my fault! If I hadn't gotten you involved, if I hadn't lost my memory—"
"If I hadn't been so stupid."
"Yes, if I hadn't been so stup...id?" Mira trailed off and she opened her eyes.
Timon grinned up at her and soon a smile found its way onto her face. She was too overjoyed to be upset with his remark.
Mira hugged Timon tightly, not caring about the pain that shot through her sprained arm.
"Ow!" Timon yelped and Mira quickly released him.
"Oops, sorry," Mira smiled sheepishly. "I'm just so glad you're alive!"
"I'm glad YOU'RE alive," Timon told her as he sat up and groaned. " Oww...I'm gonna be sore tomorrow."
Mira started to cry again and Timon gently wiped away her tears. They moved closer for a kiss when—
"TIMON! MIRA!!" Pumbaa shouted as he galloped up to them and gave them a huge, crushing hug.
"OWWWW!!!" they screamed in pain.
"Pumbaa, heel!" Ma grabbed Pumbaa's ears and pulled. The pig released the meerkats and he set them down.
"What happened?" Max asked as he stared at the carnage around them.
"Can we talk about this later?" Timon asked tiredly as he took Mira's paw in his.
"Yes," Mira rested her head in his shoulder. "Can we just go home?"
Ma and Max looked at each other and smiled. Then Ma whispered to Pumbaa telling him to walk ahead of them slowly.
"There's a good and down side to this," Mira said once they were out of earshot and frowned.
"What's that?" Timon asked her. "Good first."
"Well, the good part is that we came out of this alive," Mira replied. " And the bad part is that I still have amnesia."
Timon frowned. Then a thought popped into his mind. He remembered a story his dad would tell him when he was young about a kiss that had a magical power to do something—he always fell asleep before Buzz could tell him what it did.
Timon leaned down and kissed Mira on the lips. He broke it after a second and asked, "Did that help?"
"No..." Mira blushed. "But it felt good."
"Would it help if I said I love you?"
As those words echoed in her head, something clicked. Then her whole past came rushing back into her head. Everything that she had forgotten was coming back to her now: how Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed came and slaughtered her entire family, how she escape and drifted around looking for a place to stay, how the other mobs shunned her, how Niku and Miku chased her into the river, how she slammed her head on a rock, and finally how she woke up at Pride Rock. She remembered now.
"Mira?" Timon waved a hand in front of her face and she blinked. She looked at him and grinned.
"I remember!" Mira hugged him gently. "I got my memories back! Thank you so much, Timon!"
"What? You mean it worked?" Timon looked surprised.
"Hurry up, back there!" Max shouted from a ways away. "I wanna get back home before I die!"
"I guess we better hurry then," Timon joked and Mira laughed. They climbed onto Pumbaa.
"Where to, pal?" Pumbaa grinned.
"Home! And wake us when we get there!"
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"Wake up, Timon!"
Timon groaned and opened his eyes to see Max standing over him.
He rolled over and grumbled, "Aww, what? Are we home already?"
"No, this is just a pit stop," Max snapped. "Everyone's thirsty and hungry."
Timon sat up and grimaced. They had only been traveling for a few hours but he was already sore. He looked around but Mira wasn't there.
"If you're looking for Mira," Max said with a small grin, "she went off in that direction."
"Thanks, Uncle Max," Timon said as he slid off the rock he was lying on. After he looked around, he realized that they were at the same spot where he had found Mira after looking everywhere for her. He thought that she might be there.
He made his way through some grass. He saw Ma and Pumbaa looking for grubs but he didn't see Mira anywhere. Then, after moving a bit further, he spotted her sitting on the same rock he found her on. Timon grinned and sneaked up behind her. He wrapped his hands around her eyes.
"Guess who?" he joked.
"Lemme guess," Mira laughed and pulled his hands away. "Well, hello, sleepyhead."
"Hey, I seem to recall that you were just as tired as I was," Timon sat down next to her.
"Mmm..." Mira chuckled. "Say, um, am I still coming home with you?"
"Yes...if you want to," Timon added quickly.
"I asked if YOU wanted me to," Mira glanced at him.
"Of course I do," Timon took her hands in his. "Mira, when I told you that I loved you back there, I meant it. I love you, Mira. I want to know if you feel the same way."
"Timon, I love you, too," Mira whispered. Then, louder, "I mean, I kinda guessed that you had feelings for me. You started acting weird around me and blushing ever since the Rafiki incident. Your sarcasm began to deteriorate, too. "
"Uh, heheh," Timon blushed. Then he kissed her on the nose.
"You two ready?" Ma shouted from the distance. "We're going to be leaving!"
"Coming, Ma!" Timon shouted. He took Mira's hand and together they walked back to Ma, Pumbaa, Uncle Max, and a whole new future.
THE END
DarkEcoOttsel: It's DONE! Whew! Finally!!! I'm already working on a sequel and if you want me to post it, review telling me to!!! THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO REVIEWED!!!! TTFN!
Summary for Chapter Six: This is the last chapter and also the most action/adventure filled. I don't wanna give all of it away and I'm not good at keeping secrets! All I'm telling ya is that Timon finds Mira. The hyenas are right on their tails, too. Will they make it out alive? Just read and review, peeps!
Disclaimer: I only own Mira, Niku, and Miku. DON'T SUE ME!!!
Chapter Six ~~ Showdown in the Outlands
Timon sighed and grinned tiredly. He had made it to the place he saw in his dream: the Outlands. Standing before him was the huge, castle-like, termite ridden domain that was now inhabited by the hyenas.
So, Timon thought. The hyenas are hanging out here.
Timon had traveled through the Pride Lands all night and through the day. Something inside him gave him the strength to carry on.
Timon stiffened when he hard laughing and saw two female hyenas approaching. He hid behind a rock and listened to their conversation.
"Did ya hear? Niku and Miku captured that rat, Mira," one hyena told the other. "Those two dopes are gonna kill her at dusk to prove that they're just as good as Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed."
Timon felt a wave of relief and horror flood throughout his body. Mira was alive, but only for a while longer.
"Where're they keeping her until then?" the other hyena asked.
"Somewhere in the west wing."
That's all Timon needed to hear. He looked at the sun, which was setting. Setting?! He only had a few minutes to get her out before the hyenas killed her!
Timon quickly entered the domain and followed a series of tunnels heading west. There weren't any hyenas around; Timon guessed they were all waiting somewhere to watch Mira die.
Timon cursed when he came to a fork in the road. Which way should he go? He didn't have time to search every tunnel in the west!
Then Timon heard a faint sound. It sounded like humming or whispering or something but it seemed to be coming from the tunnel to the right. He followed it and it became louder with each step. He stopped in front of a wall that had a hole towards the ceiling. He climbed up and looked inside.
Mira was sitting in a corner looking utterly miserable. Her left arm lay limp at her side and her eyes were red from crying. She was humming the same tune she had before, only this time she didn't look happy at all.
"M-Mira?" Timon whispered.
Mira looked up slowly and gasped, "T-Timon?"
"Mira! It's me!" Timon cried happily.
"Timon!" Mira sobbed. "What are you doing here?!"
"Well, that's a fine hello!" Timon retorted and folded his arms in mock.
"Timon, if they catch you here, they'll kill you along with me!" Mira shouted in a whisper.
"We're both gonna get outta here alive," Timon told her. "Climb up here! Hurry!"
"I can't—they broke my arm," Mira responded. "I'd be dead weight to you. I haven't eaten or drunken anything in a day!"
"All the more reason to get you outta here," Timon smiled as he jumped from the hole into the room.
"Timon..." Mira started.
He turned around and said, "If you can, see if you can put your arms around my neck. Hold on and we'll be outta here in no time."
Mira used her right hand to lift her sprained one around his neck. She winced and yelped a little but Mira was determined.
"You okay?" Timon asked as he began the slow climb up. The weight of her wasn't that bad, but he feared he might lose his grip.
"I little pain is worth our lives," Mira responded. She wrapped her legs around his stomach to offer him better support.
Timon was almost to the top when he heard hyena laughter. He almost lost his grip when a hyena broke through the wall.
"Be quiet," he whispered to Mira.
When the dust cleared, Niku looked around and growled.
"Hey!" he shouted to his brother behind him. "She ain't here!"
"You probably stepped on here!" Miku shouted back as he stepped into the room. He looked around and then suddenly looked straight at Timon and Mira.
"HEY!" Miku shouted and Timon and Mira screamed. Miku lunged at them and narrowly missed them.
"I told you she would escape!" Niku growled angrily.
"I told you to break her arm so she couldn't!"
"I did!"
Timon took this chance to start climbing again but he was losing his grip. Mira noticed how strained he was becoming. She also noticed some loose rubble hanging loosely to her right.
"I got an idea," Mira told Timon. She started kicking at the rubble and with one last whack of the tail, pounds of soil, dirt, and rock came pouring from the wall and landed straight on the hyena brothers.
"ARGH!" Niku shrieked right before a rock silenced him.
"Go!" Mira shouted. "The others must've heard that yell by now!"
Timon summoned all his energy and soon they were standing in the tunnel. As they ran, Mira asked Timon a question.
"Timon, why'd you come to save me?" Mira asked.
"I came...I came to save you because I—" Timon was cut off as a wall of hyenas came right at them and full speed.
Timon pulled Mira into a small niche in the wall that went a little ways back. The hyenas began clawing and snapping at the entrance.
"Whoever kills 'em first wins!" one hyena shouted.
"Timon, I'm scared," Mira whispered as she clung to him. Timon was just as freaked out, but he didn't want her to think that. He noticed the weak looking ceiling. He grinned and knew that his klutziness would come in hands once again.
Mira watched as Timon began to kick at the ceiling and soon it all came rushing down, creating a hole large enough for them to sneak out.
Once out, they discovered that they were at the top of a huge hill that was slanted straight down. They were at least fifty feet high.
"What're we gonna do?" Mira cried as she grabbed Timon's arm.
"Uh—" Timon was cut off as a hyena broke through the ground behind them.
"Gotcha!" she cried as she began to wriggle free.
Timon and Mira screamed and began to back up slowly as more hyenas broke through the termite-weakened structure.
Mira backed up more and gasped when she felt the earth slip away from beneath her feet. She screamed as she tumbled backwards down the hill. She landed with a thud on a piece of land jutting out and didn't move.
"Mira!!" Timon screamed.
"Aww, poor baby," one female hyena chuckled as she approached him. "Miss her? That's okay—you'll be joining her!" She slashed at him but he had leaped down the hill and landed next to Mira's lifeless form.
"Get them!" the hyenas cried as they slid down the hill after them.
Timon gingerly picked Mira up in his arms and cradled her. He looked up in horror at the hyenas as they came skidding at him.
"Heads up!" a hyena shouted as more went over the side. They failed to notice that the ground beneath them was starting to shatter and crumble.
Timon shut his eyes tightly and felt himself falling, still clutching Mira tightly. He heard the frightened cries of the hyenas as they fell to their deaths along with the entire domain of the Outsiders. Then Timon felt the world around him slip into an uneasy darkness.
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"Hurry up, Pumbaa!" Ma shouted from the warthog's back as they galloped at full speed across the Pride Lands. "I told everyone that we'd be back with Timon and Mira!"
"I'm—hey, what's that?" Pumbaa looked to the horizon where a reddish smoke was rising up. The next thing they heard was the roaring echo that sounded like a structure collapsing. Pumbaa had a feeling deep in his gut. He knew that Timon and Mira were over there.
"Pumbaa, where are you going?" Max asked irritably as the warthog changed directions.
"I think Timon's over there," Pumbaa stated without changing direction.
"I think he is, too," Ma said, putting a paw over her heart and staring off into the distance.
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Mira took in a sharp breath and coughed several times. She opened her eyes and saw that it was dark out. There was nothing left of the Outlander's domain except rocks and rubble. Mira could also make out several bodies among the rubble but they were too big to be Timon's. Timon.
"Timon!!" Mira shouted as she sat up painfully. She looked around until she spotted him a few feet away. He was bleeding from a long gash down his arm and he was unconscious.
"Oh my God!" Mira screamed in horror as she crawled over to him. She touched his cheek with a paw. He didn't even flinch.
Fresh tears filled Mira's eyes and she began to sob.
"I'm so sorry, Timon!" she cried. "Its all my fault! If I hadn't gotten you involved, if I hadn't lost my memory—"
"If I hadn't been so stupid."
"Yes, if I hadn't been so stup...id?" Mira trailed off and she opened her eyes.
Timon grinned up at her and soon a smile found its way onto her face. She was too overjoyed to be upset with his remark.
Mira hugged Timon tightly, not caring about the pain that shot through her sprained arm.
"Ow!" Timon yelped and Mira quickly released him.
"Oops, sorry," Mira smiled sheepishly. "I'm just so glad you're alive!"
"I'm glad YOU'RE alive," Timon told her as he sat up and groaned. " Oww...I'm gonna be sore tomorrow."
Mira started to cry again and Timon gently wiped away her tears. They moved closer for a kiss when—
"TIMON! MIRA!!" Pumbaa shouted as he galloped up to them and gave them a huge, crushing hug.
"OWWWW!!!" they screamed in pain.
"Pumbaa, heel!" Ma grabbed Pumbaa's ears and pulled. The pig released the meerkats and he set them down.
"What happened?" Max asked as he stared at the carnage around them.
"Can we talk about this later?" Timon asked tiredly as he took Mira's paw in his.
"Yes," Mira rested her head in his shoulder. "Can we just go home?"
Ma and Max looked at each other and smiled. Then Ma whispered to Pumbaa telling him to walk ahead of them slowly.
"There's a good and down side to this," Mira said once they were out of earshot and frowned.
"What's that?" Timon asked her. "Good first."
"Well, the good part is that we came out of this alive," Mira replied. " And the bad part is that I still have amnesia."
Timon frowned. Then a thought popped into his mind. He remembered a story his dad would tell him when he was young about a kiss that had a magical power to do something—he always fell asleep before Buzz could tell him what it did.
Timon leaned down and kissed Mira on the lips. He broke it after a second and asked, "Did that help?"
"No..." Mira blushed. "But it felt good."
"Would it help if I said I love you?"
As those words echoed in her head, something clicked. Then her whole past came rushing back into her head. Everything that she had forgotten was coming back to her now: how Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed came and slaughtered her entire family, how she escape and drifted around looking for a place to stay, how the other mobs shunned her, how Niku and Miku chased her into the river, how she slammed her head on a rock, and finally how she woke up at Pride Rock. She remembered now.
"Mira?" Timon waved a hand in front of her face and she blinked. She looked at him and grinned.
"I remember!" Mira hugged him gently. "I got my memories back! Thank you so much, Timon!"
"What? You mean it worked?" Timon looked surprised.
"Hurry up, back there!" Max shouted from a ways away. "I wanna get back home before I die!"
"I guess we better hurry then," Timon joked and Mira laughed. They climbed onto Pumbaa.
"Where to, pal?" Pumbaa grinned.
"Home! And wake us when we get there!"
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"Wake up, Timon!"
Timon groaned and opened his eyes to see Max standing over him.
He rolled over and grumbled, "Aww, what? Are we home already?"
"No, this is just a pit stop," Max snapped. "Everyone's thirsty and hungry."
Timon sat up and grimaced. They had only been traveling for a few hours but he was already sore. He looked around but Mira wasn't there.
"If you're looking for Mira," Max said with a small grin, "she went off in that direction."
"Thanks, Uncle Max," Timon said as he slid off the rock he was lying on. After he looked around, he realized that they were at the same spot where he had found Mira after looking everywhere for her. He thought that she might be there.
He made his way through some grass. He saw Ma and Pumbaa looking for grubs but he didn't see Mira anywhere. Then, after moving a bit further, he spotted her sitting on the same rock he found her on. Timon grinned and sneaked up behind her. He wrapped his hands around her eyes.
"Guess who?" he joked.
"Lemme guess," Mira laughed and pulled his hands away. "Well, hello, sleepyhead."
"Hey, I seem to recall that you were just as tired as I was," Timon sat down next to her.
"Mmm..." Mira chuckled. "Say, um, am I still coming home with you?"
"Yes...if you want to," Timon added quickly.
"I asked if YOU wanted me to," Mira glanced at him.
"Of course I do," Timon took her hands in his. "Mira, when I told you that I loved you back there, I meant it. I love you, Mira. I want to know if you feel the same way."
"Timon, I love you, too," Mira whispered. Then, louder, "I mean, I kinda guessed that you had feelings for me. You started acting weird around me and blushing ever since the Rafiki incident. Your sarcasm began to deteriorate, too. "
"Uh, heheh," Timon blushed. Then he kissed her on the nose.
"You two ready?" Ma shouted from the distance. "We're going to be leaving!"
"Coming, Ma!" Timon shouted. He took Mira's hand and together they walked back to Ma, Pumbaa, Uncle Max, and a whole new future.
THE END
DarkEcoOttsel: It's DONE! Whew! Finally!!! I'm already working on a sequel and if you want me to post it, review telling me to!!! THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO REVIEWED!!!! TTFN!