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All of The Lion King characters are owned by Disney, not me, and Leo is my character so there.

Leo's Journal Part VIII- New century

November 3, 1999

Hasn't been much going on lately, today I was driving back from the village prides, well actually, there isn't a village there anymore. It burnt down in a fire... You see what happened was, is that I had this incendiary bomb and, well, for lack of a better word... boom. Anyway, there seems to be a lot of friction going on between those two prides, I pretty sure it's nothing though.

December 27, 1999

It's been a great year and so I decided to celebrate the new year in Las Vegas Baby! Oh-yah! I'm leaving today at midnight!

December 29, 1999

Aww man! This this place is awesome! Right now I'm writing this in my hotel room in the Mirage hotel and casino! (That reminds me Sarabi translates into mirage from the Swahili language). Now what to do...I know! I'm going to go to the Secret Garden, I've never seen a white lion or tiger up close and one of my friends works there. I wonder if he can pull some strings...

December 31, 1999

Well this is my last night here in Vegas... I'm leaving tomorrow at he start of the new year and a new century who knows what it will bring.

I can't believe how may years have passed... You know what I started this job when I was fourteen. Seriously! It's heard to believe how far I've come since then. But I can't remember anything from when I was twenty to twenty-four. It's just a big gap... kinda like a gorge in my memory...

But forget about all that, I'm going to spend the rest of my night on the town. Hmm, I might even have myself a vodka martini, shaken not stirred of corse.

January 16, 2000

I came across a lion today. I know that seem like a strange thing to write down, but this lion isn't from any of the prides I've ever seen. He's about nine to ten years old, a darkish brown color with a black mane, and green eyes. Also he has a lot of scars on him on him, but the most distinct one is right over his left eye. Well, when I found him he was dying, probably from kidney disease that's common in older lions he had some of the signs. He was malnourished and lethargic.

It made me have to decide, Should I help this lion? or should I leave him? If I didn't help him he probably wouldn't last another african night. I've lived in Africa long enough to know that it doesn't have pity on fools, mistakes, or weakness. But on the other hand... I'm not really free to interfere with the wild and if I did help this lion and took him out of the wild I could my job.

Decision time, Would I take this lion to live? Or would I leave him to die? (Don't you just love it when life puts you in-between and rock and a hard spot?) If I saved him I could lose my job and I've had this career almost my whole life. Where would I go then? I couldn't risk that... but I've never seen one lion die on my watch...

...and I wasn't going to start now.

I got out of the jeep to get him, he growled at me but, given his current situation, there wasn't squat he could do about it. I would have used the tranquilizer but that might have killed him in his state. So I just I just bent down, picked him up, and laid him down in the back.

Now I had a new problem "Where was I going to take a full grow lion?"

I couldn't just up and drive him to a animal rescue saying, "Hey what's up? I found this lion sick and dying out on the savanna, will you take him in?"

I quickly came up with a solution. An "associate" of mine works in a zoo so I decided to take him there. When I got there I simply said that I rescued him from a poachers' camp. And he bought it, what an idiot.

End of Leo's Journal Part VIII

Thanks to Kiara 01 for reviewing. Any new reviews are greatly appreciated!