All the Strength and Courage You'll Ever Need
Chapter Four
(Disclaimer: Sorry that is has taken me so long to post the next chapter but I have been to busy with the holidays and work to write much. Sorry to keep you all waiting and thanks to all who reviewed it means a lot to me and has made me want to continue writing this story.)
Harry watched as Kiera walked front in front of him to stand beside the handsome blonde male who he remembered was Draco. 'Where have I heard that name before? Wait! Draco Malfoy! I remember that dad and uncle siri were talking about the malfoy family and how their son was picked to be his heir. Well he is gone now and Draco and his pride were cast out. But why?' Harry's thoughts were interrupted as a loud roar rang out through the soft blowing breeze in the meadow. "Get away from him Harry!" a large lion roared as he leaped over to land between Harry and the Slytherin group of young cubs.
The large male lion had a thick tattered dark brown coat with an almost black brown mane. His golden eyes glowed slightly in the light as he growled to push back the trespassing members of the old pride. Soon three more adult lions joined the first. One female with a thick light crimson blonde coat and emerald eyes. A large male with light brown coat and dark brown mane with blue eyes and a male which was the largest of them all by inches with his thick dark brown coat and mocha brown mane and gold eyes. These were Lord Remus Lupin, Queen Lilly and King James behind their young charges. In front of Harry was Lord Sirius.
"Harry dear are you alright we heard from Dobby that you were cornered by trespasser." Lilly mewed softly as she came to her son and nuzzled his human form. Harry softly stroked his mother along her back to show her he was ok. His father James walked past him and stepped beside Sirius and growled commanding him to step back with Remus as he then glared to the trespassers. "What do you think you are doing with in the strict limits of the pride lands? You all were exiled years ago." James said as he advanced on the young group of dark wizards. As James was about three feet away he was harshly knocked back by a slender silver lioness. She stood tall and slightly shabby with her termite invested coat and glowing ice blue eyes. She growled deeply as she swiped James away further but never hitting him, she knew better. "Stay away from my son!" The voice rang out and James knew just who it was that this shabby shadow of her former self was. His best friend and now exiled enemy Narssica Black become Malfoy.
"Narssica? Narssica is that you. Well you do look a little run down then when we were kids" James spoke sadly as he saw his friend. He did not understand why she had betrayed him but he stood by his choice to exile the darker part of his pride. When he looked up from the ground Narssica was now joined with another Silver lion this time male with a thick blonde gold mane and ice blue eyes. Lucius Malfoy and another pair of dark brown coated lions one with a white mane and both with golden eyes. Lavender and Marcus Parkinson. "What are you all doing with in my lands?!" James nearly roared as he looked at the assembled exiled. Lucius glared and stepped forward as he lowered his head to show he was not attacking but he did not show the proper sign of respect to one's king as he held no respect for James, Tom's little brother. "We came when we heard roared in the direction are young son's hunting party had gone."
Lucius said coldly as he once more stood beside his wife as she muzzled her son's human form. "You know the law Lucius, the price for entering the pride lands!" James spoke loudly as glared at the outsiders. "Oh yes the law, where here is your pound of flesh for each exile in your land" Lucius said as he pushed Kiera forward in human form. He nuzzles her softly telling she would be alright. James glared at the other male before looking to young female. His eyes went wide when he recognized her as Kiera, Harry's lost friend from years ago.
James turned Harry who in turn shook his head. So Kiera had not been lost but left to the exiles of her own will. His friend Chris Finnegan will be heart broken to hear his daughter is alive but not with us. "Take your son and his friends and leave… But you are never to set foot in these lands again or your payment will be taken with the live of more then just once cub." James spoke as he turned and herded his wife and the cubs away along with Sirius and Remus. Harry turned and stood at the top of a hill and watched as Draco and his family left the boarders and into a desert area out of bounds for himself. James walked up beside him and sat watching with his son. James knew then that his young cub had lost his heart to the Slytherin prince and he could do nothing about it.
"Son why do you watch them? You were never friends any of them but Kiera when they were here. They are not like us. They followed a path of darkness where they truly now reside in. We live in the path of light." James spoke softly as a light windy music started to play over the land. James deep voice rose to call through the tune with the words burned into his heart.
"As you go through live you'll see
There is so much that we don't understand
And the only thing we know
Is that things don't always go the way we planed"
Harry sighed as he watched the shadows of the outsiders disappear and both he and James stood to head back to pride rock. Watching the young animals wander into the sunlight and hearing the music seemed to dance.
"But you'll every day that we'll never turn away
When it seems all yours dreams come undone
We will stand by your side filled with hope and with pride
We are more then we are , we are one"
As they walked towards their large home he crossed over the cool earth and water as his own voice rang out in the son to counter his father's.
"If there is so much I must be, can I still just be me the way I am
Can I trust is my own heart, or am I just one part of some big plan."
James smiled softly to his son as they leaped up onto a crumbling tree that had fallen with in the last storm months before as he answered with his own lyrics to the timeless song.
"Even those who are gone, are with us as we go on
Your journey has only begun
Tears of pain , tears of joy one thing nothing can destroy
Is are pride deep in side , we are one"
" We are one you and I
We are like the earth and sky
One family under the sun
All the wisdom to lead, all the courage that you'll need
You will fine when you see we are one"
James nuzzled his son's side before leaping up onto pride rocks walking path and looked down to smile before transforming into his human form and walking on towards the caves. Harry looked down over his family's lands and sighed. Draco was once more on his mind. If what his dad said was true then where they not all one, both Draco's pride and his own, weren't they all one.