HL: I went from 2 to 3 since this now focusing on Tirana's life and adventures.
Summary: Now that Tirana is out on her own she meets a lion her age (still as old as Kovu and Kiara) that's also an outsider. The two have adventures of their own and end up falling in love (that's later on though). Chike was part of Simba's pride, but left for reasons unknown to the pride. Being a troublemaker himself, flirting with danger, and a brave soul, he meets Tirana while running from some mad antelopes (XD) and drags her off with him.
Disclaimer: I do not own the original characters (which should be appearing at some point), but I do own Tirana and Chike plus the others they meet along the way.
-Somewhere near a pool of water-
Tirana laid by the pool of water under a tree as she looked out. The grass was green and there was enough food for her alone in her little home. Tirana sighed laying her head down. Her father, mother, sister, caretaker, and her friend were gone. She would of stayed with her cousin, but she didn't want to, because was way too much trouble even for Zira when she was just a hyper cub. Tirana knew to take things more serious now, because she wasn't as goofy as she used to be. She stood and drank from the water hole and watched as an antelope walked up to it lazily. It looked tired and weak, and also dying. She went down on her front haunches watching it curiously as it laid by the pool. Tirana watched it quiver then stop, 'Hm…must be dead..' she thought to herself.
She walked up to it carefully and made sure it was dead before ripping it's flesh off. She ate to her fill and looked around again. She felt so lonely sometimes, plus, homesick. She never wandered far from Pride Rock. If she wandered far away she would run back to a spot where she could see it and stay there, if she could find shelter. As night fell Tirana curled up under the tree she laid under every night and fell asleep.
-Off with Chike-
Chike pounced on a butterfly and let it go. The lion looked around, 'Well, I see Pride Rock, at least it's better then being in the Elephant Graveyard.' He thought to himself as he laid in the grass. He sighed. He always envied Simba, a mate, and a daughter. There were never any rouge lionesses that were around so he was used to being by himself. He saw a herd of antelope and a smirk played, 'Might as well have some fun.' He said to himself.
-Tirana-
Tirana walked in the grass as she saw a herd of antelope she put her ears back and went down on her front haunches. She slowly crept and went to pounce when, "TIRANA!" The lioness lifted her head and the antelope scattered. Tirana growled angered that her breakfast was just scared away. Who dare interrupt her when she was hunting? A blue bird with a yellow beak landed in front of her, "What do you want Zazu?" She asked rather annoyed with the king's helper. Zazu held his head high, "King Simba would like to see you." He said.
Tirana rolled her eyes, "You can tell the royal highness that I don't want to live with the Pride and I can take care of myself, now move or I'll make you my breakfast since you chased the herd of antelope away." She said smirking at the bird, "Uh…Tirana…don't look at me that way…SQUAWK!!!" Tirana had the bird in her mouth, "Tirana…drop him."
Tirana looked behind her and spit the yellow beaked bird out, "Ew…that's rather disgraceful if I do say so myself." Zazu said to himself. Simba stood behind Tirana with Kovu, Nala, Vitani, and Kiara there. She glared at her cousin, "what do you want?" she asked, "Relax, we just wanted to see how you were doing." Vitani said.
"It takes five of you to do that?" She asked. Kovu sighed, "Tirana look…we know you don't want to live on Pride Rock…but…we just wanted to ask again." Tirana stared at him then put her ears back, "No I don't want too. I can take care of myself. Why don't you just leave me ALONE!" She snarled running away from them. "Tirana!!" Kiara called starting to go after her, "No, Kiara, don't….let her go…" Simba said, "She'll come to her senses one of these days." He said watching after her. Kovu shook his head as Kiara still watched the rouge lioness. Simba, Vitani, and Nala started walking back to Pride Rock, "come on Kiara." Kovu said starting to follow the other three. Kiara followed after him as Tirana stopped running finally.
She panted slightly and saw that the five other lions weren't following as she looked in front of her. It was the same herd that Zazu had frightened away. She smirked and went down on her front haunches and rolled her shoulders ready.
-Chike-
Chike was watching the same herd that Tirana was. He saw a bird fly over head and as it flew away a loud sound came from the middle of the group. Chike, startled, lifted his head up as the antelope reared and half took after him and the other took off in Tirana's direction, "Oh no…" he said to himself bounding off and jumping on a near rock that was above the stampeding herd. Out in the midst of it though, he saw a rouge lioness and jumped off the rock and ran through the tall grass going as fast as he could go.
-Tirana-
Tirana put her ears up and lifted her head up. What she saw made her frightened and she stood in her place shaking. 'Oh no…I'm going to be road kill for the antelope if I don't move…' she thought to herself forcing herself to move, but her legs wouldn't listen. Instead she put her ears back and stayed low to the ground as the herd ran and jumped over her. As she shut her eyes tightly she felt a jaw clamp down on her neck and drag her out of the stampeding herd. When she felt the dragging stop she opened her eyes to see a dark colored lion standing by her. She blinked then flipped onto her stomach and stood growling, "Was it you who caused the herd to stampede?" she asked hostile. Chike blinked at her, "Hey now, don't blame me! I didn't do anything." He said.
Tirana glared at him and started to walk away, "Where are you going?" Chike asked trotting to her side, "Looking for someplace SAFE to stay where rogue lions won't try to run me over with a stampede of angry antelope." She said. Chike smirked a bit, "I wasn't trying to run you over." "Oh so you admit to doing it now." She snapped.
Chike shrugged, "Don't know maybe I did maybe I didn't." He said. Tirana wheeled around, "You look someone who could be in Simba's pride and you act like it too so why don't you go there?" She asked moodily walking away again. Chike's ear twitched at the sound of Simba's name. Suddenly, he felt something odd in his stomach, like butterflies, sort of, "Hey…what's your name?" Tirana stopped again. Was he seriously trying to waste her time? Or was he alone and he just wanted to be her friend? 'Friend….hm…interesting choice of word there Tirana…' she thought to herself. She looked at him again, he didn't look that bad, strong, kind of patched fur, but that didn't really matter, "The name's Tirana. And yours is?" Chike smiled, "The name's Chike." He said. Tirana smiled slightly and started walking again.
When she saw that Chike wasn't following she stopped again and looked at him, "Are you coming or what?" she asked. He blinked at her and smiled going to her side, "Ok let's go." He said. "Where though?" Tirana asked.
Chike smiled, "I know somewhere we can go. Come on." He said taking off running and Tirana ran as fast as she could, even though she was hungry, since her antelope herd had been scared off twice. She decided just to follow him, but she didn't trust him, one bit.
HL: blah….first chapter..FINALLY!!!
To be continued….