Here's the next chapter. Sorry about the wait guys!

A couple years had past since the day Mulatto was born. He was growing up to be like any normal cub except for one thing. Kiara and Kovu had pretended not to notice Mulatto's behavior. But everyone else had noticed it. Simba took note of all the things Mulatto was different about. He wanted to prove to Nala that something happened to the cub when the darkness fell when Mulatto was born.

For one thing, he always seemed to be lying on the point of Pride Rock. All the little cubs loved to lay there too but not alone like Mulatto would. The cubs of Simba's pride would all lay on the point when they were little. The lions would group up together and talk and giggle like all the lions would when they were little. Mulatto was always by himself over there and stared off in the distance with glassy eyes. No body knew why except for him.

Another thing Simba noticed about Mulatto was he was the only lion cub who didn't mind when Zazu flew with him and the other cubs. Actually, it seemed as if Mulatto enjoyed Zazu. It was Zazu's job to watch over the young ones when they went off to play like he did with Nala and Simba. None of the other lions wanted this job because who would want to baby sit a bunch of rowdy little lion cubs for the whole day? So Zazu was stuck with it.

But the weirdest thing about Mulatto was, he didn't eat any kind of meat that at one point had feathers. Simba realized this one evening during dinner....

The lions at Pride Rock always had an ostrich once a month. They did this when Zazu went off to get the monthly report from the beaver since an ostrich is a type of bird (A/N I think). Simba didn't want to upset Zazu by eating while he was there so they waited until he left for the report. And this was Mulatto's first time where he was able to eat whole meat. He was still pretty young though.

Kiara gave Mulatto a slab of fresh ostrich meat. Mulatto looked down in disgust. He could not believe that this used to be an animal at one point. Not only that, but an animal with wings! Mulatto was really young at the time. Not even a year old. But his mom had told him about birds and how they could fly with what she called wings. Kiara showed him Zazu's wings and right away they had fascinated him. Mulatto was amazed that something like wings could actually make you fly in the air. So when he saw a lioness bring the ostrich in Pride Rock and rip off the wings, Mulatto felt like he might throw up. He knew ostriches couldn't fly and had very stubby wings, but he couldn't imagine why they would eat something that actually had the tools that could have made them fly.

"Mulatto, why aren't you eating your meal? It's delicious," Kovu had said to Mulatto that day.

At that moment Mulatto could have sworn he felt the nasty taste of the regurgitation but swallowed it down. A bird delicious? How could his father even have swallowed the creature and say it was delicious? Mulatto had turned his head away from his meal and pushed the ostrich away with his paw. He just couldn't eat the poor thing.

The lioness that had caught the ostrich stood up in rage. It had taken her a very long time to catch that pesky animal and now the prince snubs it? "Is my capture not good enough for you, your highness?" she managed to squeak in rage.

"It's not that, it's-" that was all Mulatto could say before Kiara stood in front of him.

"Synabin, please," Kiara pleaded to the lioness. "It's not that Mulatto doesn't like your catch, it's just...." Kiara looked up at Kovu with a pleading look in her eye. Synadin was not the lioness you wanted to have mad at. Her rage was fierce and Kiara didn't want Mulatto to say the wrong thing

Kovu quickly finished for Kiara. "It's just that Mulatto is allergic to animals that had feathers." Kiara thanked Kovu silently. Kovu mouthed back the word your welcome.

Mulatto meanwhile had looked confused. He didn't know that he was allergic to anything. The only thing he knew about allergies was that his friend Lybia was allergic to dandelions and sneezed anytime she was near them. Mulatto never sneezed when he was around birds.

Synabin had only huffed in disproval but she said no more and gave Mulatto some antelope meat from the last night. Mulatto ate in haste because all that confusion had made him very hungry.

Simba chuckled to himself as he remembered that day. He still never understood why Mulatto never ate the ostriches because he knew Mulatto wasn't allergic to feathers. I mean, what kind of lion, let alone a future king lion, would be allergic to feathers? Simba shook his head. He just had to find out what was wrong about his grandson.