Kion could hardly believe what he was looking at in front of him. This very lion who almost completely destroyed the Pride Lands with his reign, and the murderer of his elder brother: Mufasa, so he can seize the throne and the power for himself. Was this really Scar? Or was this just an illusion by poor Kion, who looked very petrified and still like a wax statue. "What's the matter, Kion?" Scar asked with an amused look on his wicked face. "You look like you have seen.. a ghost."
"S-Scar?" Kion said. "Great uncle Scar?"
"A smart cub you are, Kion." Said the evil spirit. "Indeed, I am Scar, your great-uncle. Oh come now, don't be so surprised, we are practically family after all."
At first, Kion was scared and then, a great rage built up inside of him, completely oblivious to the fact that this was all a nightmare to him. "Why are you even here Scar?" He Asked.
"What? A once glorious king like me cannot see a family member, even in death?" Said Scar.
"You called yourself a king?!" Said Kion. "You were a horrible ruler over the Pride Lands! Did you know what you have caused when you took the title?"
"Bah. I do not know what you are talking about, Kion. The Pride Lands were doing just fine with me as the ruler."
Kion did not look very convinced by Scar's deception. "Many animals moved somewhere else because of your carelessness, rivers dried up and trees died because of you!" He continued ranting at him. "You were never the rightful king! My dad was!"
"SILENCE!" The scream of this deceased, evil lion boomed like thunder. It was so powerful, it made the skies emit lightning and sounds of thunder clapping. "You dare to talk that way to a lion that was the leader of the original lion guard?!"
"Well I'm not like you, Scar. You are nothing but evil! You killed your own crew with your roar!"
"Only because they would not listen to my offer over and over again." Said Scar. "An offer I thought they would accept for sure. Together, we would rule over the Pride Lands, and have as much meals as we want. However, they were all too stupid and too blind to see how wonderful it is to have power."
"No!" Kion shouted. "That is not what being a king is all about. Being king comes with great power and great responsibility. Being a king means caring for all your subjects, hyrax, gazelle, falcon, even hyenas."
"Oh puh-lease." Scar brushed off with his eyes narrowed. "All those animals are all weak and worthless in comparison to us lions. We are the kings of the Circle of Life. We lions are the purest of all animals that should eat whatever we want, whenever we want."
"You obviously don't believe in the circle of life. You are nothing like Mufasa was."
"I am ten times the king Mufasa was!" The evil lion shouted.
"I'm just glad I'm not you." Kion retorted
"Oh ho ho, I beg to differ." He began to approach the cub. "You and me are very much alike, Kion. You got the Roar of the Elders like I once possessed." He let out a sigh. "It's sad, really. The Roar of the Elders was the best thing to ever happen to me. But now, it is gone forever."
"Yeah, because you're evil!"
"Evil? Come on. I am not evil." Scar retorted. Sure, his words sounded round and smooth, but there were just honeyed words for Scar was a master manipulator. Kion knew that whatever Scar is going to say to him, or offer him, it would be all lies.
"You killed your own team."
"Only because they would not listen to reason with me in my conquest to rule over the Pride Lands." His lying was absolutely boundless and he would stop to manipulate others to get what he wants, even if it meant playing it dirty. "Believe me, I really hated to take them all down, but they gave me no choice for me to explain everything to them all."
Kion made a "Pfft!" From himself and said: "I wish i can believe that. We need to rule over the Pride Lands ti have a mutual respect for all animals out there." that's what the Circle of Life is all about, Scar. Can't you see that?"
The spirit just gave a cruel laugh. "You are more naive than I imagined." He circled around him like he was about to attack him from behind. "My boy, you have potential. I know you can use the rose for something greater in your life than just use it to save meaningless lived that live in Africa."
"I'm nothing like you, Scar." Kion said. "Do you hear me?!"
The ghostly lion just chuckled some more. "I know that you are lying. You are just a coward to admit it."
"No. No. No!" Kion repeated out loud. "I am nothing like you, Scar!"
"You cannot escape the truth, Kion." Scst warned him sternly. "You and I are the same." Then he began vanishing in thin air and poor Kion heard his evil laughter as he disappeared into mist.
He kept on screaming: "No! No! Nooooo!"
End of Kion's Nightmare
tossing and turning on his spot like the ground was on fire, Kion never felt so scared in his life like that before. "Kion, Kion!" Kiara gently shook him to wake him up.
Simba, Nala, Kovu, and Vitani were watching in concern at why Kion is acting like this all of a sudden. The cub was yelling and screaming and he was still sleeping and twitching.
"Kion!" Said Nala in a worried voice. At last, the cub awoken from his sleep and he was hyperventilating while looking around him. God, he had never been so scared like that before, or suffer a nightmare as bad as this one. "Kion, are you okay?"
"I-I'm fine, mom."
"What's the matter, Kion?" Asked Kiara. "Did you have a bad dream?"
"Yes!" Kion admitted. "I-i-i- saw Scar, and he- he- was telling me-"
"Shh, calm down, Kion." Said Simba. "You saw Scar?"
The cub nodded his head and a few tears went down his cheeks in horror. He curled up into a ball and sobbed to himself. Kiara come up and hugged him tightly. "Shhhh, it's okay, Kion." She said. "It's okay."
Nala, thanks to her maternal instinct, also hugged him to make her son feel better. "It was only a nightmare. It wasn't real."
"D-did you guys here me in my sleep?"
"Oh yeah. We heard you." Vitani answered him.
"We all heard you." Adisa added. The cub just continued crying some more in his sister's body, still totally scared.
"S-Scar said that w-we were the same. But, I'm nothing like him. I promise!"
"Shhhhh. Shhhh. It's okay, Kion." Kiara continued soothing him. "Please don't cry. You are nothing like Scar."
"Yeah, you are a way better Lion than him." Kovu encouraged him. "You are a good lion and you are nowhere near like him at all."
"Trust me and Kovu," Said Vitani. "You are way better than that."
"Yeah but... it felt like a vision or something like that. W-what if that all came true?"
"Nonsense." Simba retorted. "That will never happen to you at all. If you won't believe everyone else, then at least, believe me when I say: you are a noble lion, and my father would say the same about you, too."
Taking a few deep breaths, Kion was trying to calm down from what he had dreamed tonight. Still, he was still scared from seeing Scar, or his ghost at least. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry if I woke everyone up."
"Oh, do not worry about, Kion." Said One of the former outsiders named: Meneki. "It could have happen to any of us."
"Do you think you can go back to sleep, Kion?" Asked Kiara.
Looking a little uncertain, Kion didn't know what to say about it. "I... I don't know." he ultimately admitted. "It felt so real, and not a dream."
"It was a dream, son." said Simba. "I promise."
Less tears were coming out of the poor cub's eyes and he was still trying to keep it together. He felt Kiara gently tuck him close to her, encase in her left arm. "I believe you." he said. "But... what if it's a vision and what if I become like Scar and-"
"shhhh." Kiara soothed him. "Don't overthink yourself. You are nothing like Scar. It's like what father said: It was only a dream. It wasn't real. And don't worry, I'll keep close to you throughout the night if you want." She hugged him to tell him everything will be alright some more.
"And so will i." said Nala, sitting next to her daughter. "We won't leave you."
"Never." Kovu added.
Vitani, trying to be as tough as usual, didn't really like to admit it, and all she said was: "Everything will be okay, kiddo. I promise." Kion smiled, feeling very grateful, and he knew that he had a good family with him.
"Will you be okay?" Simba asked him
"I'll be fine." was what the cub replied. "Thanks guys."
"You're welcome, Kion." said Kovu.
"We love you, Kion." said his big sister. Everyone else began to hug him in reassurance to show their love. It was almost as if the fear had gone away from the boy, being surrounded by all that love him and care about him (Except for his closest friends of course). The other lions went back to sleep and Kion slept closed to his big sister thanks to that, he was starting to fully get back to sleep, and before he could set foot in dream land, He saw the spirit of Mufasa laying next to him.
Yes, Mufasa himself, in his spirit form was there for young Kion to make him as comfortable and make sure everything will be okay the rest of the night. It was a shame that no one else could notice his presence, even Simba. The king would have been very happy to see his own father's spirit once again like he did when he had that lecture with Rafiki about going back home.
