"Noooooo!" The scream of a rather young adult lion cried as he was being dragged away by an older lion. They looked almost identical, but the scar on the lion that dragged the younger one was very hard to miss. "Leave me alone!"

"Kovu!" She cried out, but was held back by a pack of hyenas. Her brown eyes cried out with pain and sorrow. She tried to follow, but was ripped apart by the hyenas. Tears streamed down her tan face as she was bitten and mauled by them.

A scream was heard ringing throughout the fiery hell that they were in, and then, all was dark…

"Sire! There is fire in the Outlands!" The voice of a familiar hornbill cried out as Simba awoke quickly from his deep sleep.

"Assemble the lionesses. Kiara…Kiara!" Simba exclaimed to the sleeping lioness. She stirred in her sleep before being awakened by the shout of her father once more. "Kiara!"

"What!?" She jumped up quickly and tiredly. Her eyes fluttered as she realized what had just happened.

"There is a fire in the Outlands, stay here with Timon and Pumbaa." Simba replied. His tail flicked as he glanced over at two sleeping figures, a meerkat and a warthog. He soon dashed off without a trace but deep footprints in the soft soil covered rock.

Kiara sighed as she looked out of the entering of the cave formation of Pride Rock, watching the Outlands burn. Her spot, it could be being burnt to a crisp as she watched helplessly. Her eyes were caught, caught in a trance that she could hardly escape.

It's what makes life, life…the mission to save you mind from a fiery death. The things you love get pulled from you so easily, and they are hard to regain back. Love is so hard to grasp, but so easily lost…

She soon realized something. She quickly flicked her head behind her and inspected the cave thoughtfully and thoroughly. The brown lion, Kovu, was not there. Had he gone with her father? Had he just go out for a hunt? She didn't exactly know.

Kiara slowly walked towards the two sleeping figures, known as Timon and Pumbaa. She slightly poked Timon's stomach and he stirred to an awake state. He yelled in a shock as Kiara's face was rather close to his, reminding him of a time when Nala had done the same.

"Ahhh!" Timon cried out. "Oh, Kiara, it's only you."

"Timon, where's Kovu?" Kiara asked her companion in a very serious tone. "I can't find him, I'm worried."

"I'm pretty sure he left this mornin'. Don't worry, he'll be back. Hakuna Matata." Timon said lazily. "Can I go back to sleep?"

"Yeah…"

Timon dropped back onto the stomach of the warthog and quickly fell asleep, snoring loudly and continuously. Kiara sighed once more and looked back outside. Her heart was pounding loudly as questions ran through her head one by one and being answered and becoming done.

"Kovu…" Kiara whispered and looked at the blaze of fire that was raging in the Outlands. She held back tears as she worried about her mind and her love. Her brain was bursting out of her head with fires of destruction. A headache befallen her, but she cared none.

Kiara's brown eyes were only focused on the dead trees that caught fire one by one and killing them as the murderer moved onto the next. Each tree that died, so did another part of her dream world. She could hardly take it, but she knew she had too. After a short amount of time of the headache, she could stand it no more. She dashed off in the direction of the fire, which was very far off. Her paws moved swiftly over the green grass of the Pride Lands. She made turns and forks, sprints and walks.

"Heheheh." A laugh emerged from the large brush that had been beside the lioness as she rested from her long, yet tiring, trek.

"W-Who's there?" She asked the laugh in the brush. Another one came, and soon, she was surrounded, not your average 5 creatures around you, completely closed in by hyenas. "Leave me alone!"

"Oh, but we will, once your corpse lay on the dirt and your blood is being drunken by the grass." The lead hyena chuckled as he walked closer. The others closed the spot where he was standing.

Kiara stand, terrified, what would she do? She had so much to think about, but they were catching fire and being destroyed by the second, and she couldn't be distracted, but she was.