Author's note: I don't own The Lion King. But I do own Amira, Miki, and Bakira.
The sun and Moon had rose and set many times. Time had passed, and the Pride Lands had aged along as well. As of present the African sun was sitting on the horizon, ready to greet the day.
A single cub came bonding out to the edge of Pride Rock, it was Amira. She had grown into a curious and beautiful cub. She had her father's dark red coat color and her grandmother's light cream undercoat; but what set her apart from her parents were her sparkling blue eye's.
Amira sat on the edge of pride rock, scanning with excited eyes the land that stretched out before her. "Wow,"She said under her breath, "This will all be mine...cool." She sat watching the land peacefully, then something hit her. Startled she leapt in the air flinging both herself and her attacker head over heels. She landed with a thump, underneath a cub laughing so hard his body shook. "Bakira! That was so unfair!" Amira shouted at him while pulling herself out from under him. She looked at her friend with a mock pout. Bakira, was the cub of an outlander who had met a rouge male a few days before the outlanders joined the pride lands. He had a dark almost grey tinted coat and a large tuft of dark red hair, which contrasted nicely with his close to white underbelly and dark brown nose. Bakira stopped his laughing slowly, then picked himself up and flopped down ungracefully next to Amira. He looked at her his grey eyes dancing, "Well, it's only that your such an easy target." Amira increased her pretend pout. This was their usual game, see who could last the longest with out cracking. Then Bakira uttered, "It's like pouncing on a stump." Before he could evan utter a laugh Amira's self-control broke. She leapt on Bakira and pinned him to the ground. She usually lost their little patience game but she didn't care, she had more fun when she tackled Bakira anyway. "Hah! Whose a stump now!"Amira said playfully as she looked down at him. "Your all crazy if you ask me.". Amira and Bakira turned to see Miki.
Miki smiled and chuckled softly as her friends picked themselves up from the ground. Miki was Vitani's daughter. She was almost an exact clone of her mothers build as a cub. Except Miki looked like a full pride lander. She had a bright golden coat on top and a nice tan under belly; her eyes were a bold reddish color. The thing that set her apart, from the other golden haired lions, were two small red spots on her right thigh. Amira laughed at Miki's remark and said, "Takes one to know one."
Bakira was about to add something to the conversation, when they heard a large yawn and turned to see Kovu make his way out of the den, and into the morning light. Amira bounced up to her father, "Morning Daddy!"she said happily to him. "Good Morning" Kovu said as he nuzzled his daughter's head. "Hey Uncle Kovu," Miki said happily, " Can we go play? Please!" she looked up at him with big eyes. Following her lead Amira and Bakira looked at him sweetly, till they heard those faithful words, "Okay." "Thanks uncle Kovu!"Miki yelled and started running down the walkway to the ground with Bakira following at her heels.
"Yea, Thanks daddy!" Amira said as she nuzzled her father. "Your welcome," said Kovu looking at his daughter, "But promise me you'll be careful and don't go looking for trouble" Kovu had learned that info from Simba and figured it would work for now. "Sure Daddy!" Amira yelled since she was already half way down the rock way. Kovu smiled as he watched them run, then headed back inside to see if Kiara was awake yet.
Miki, Bakira, and Amira had ran to the water hole, but they soon bored of splashing in the water. "I know," Miki stated, "We'll play hide-and-seek!" Amira and Bakira decided the game sounded better than anything they had come up with, so they agreed to play. Bakira was dubbed it so he sat by the water hole and started to count. Miki picked her hiding spot, a small cliff like rock formation. Amira searched and searched but she couldn't decide where to hide. Then she looked out and saw the outlands. The outlands always made her curious, mostly because no one ever talked about them. It seemed so odd to her that if it came up in conversations evan her grandmother Nala would change the subject. Something in Amira told her she should go; and with that one thought she ran off to the outlands looking for a hiding spot, not realizing that what she would find would stay with her for her whole life.