It was a really good thing Ramses was dead, and the Lion's Bane was probably no more. Kion would prefer to battle Reirei and her mischievous family than those dangerous renegades.
Kion and Rani were sitting on a hill together, along with Chris and seeing the beautiful horizon in front of them.
Chris was still a little shaken from almost getting eaten alive by that crazy and unhinged Ramses, but he was glad it was all over, and that his new friends were safe. He was really hitting it off with the Lion Guard, and the other friendly animals. Yes, Chris realized he has made friends for life out here in Africa. He was making more friends here than he was in his homeland, wherever that was of course. "Thanks for saving me, Kion." said Chris. "i would have turned into lunch meat by Ramses.
Kion smiled and looked at his new human friend. "I think I should thank you for saving me, Chris." he snuggled close to him. "If not for your dad, we would have been dead." he looked at his girlfriend. "Are you ok, Rani? Are you hurt?"
"No, not that hurt. My face is still a little sore," Rani smiled, "but i've suffered worse pain before."
"Like what?"
"Well, this was long before I met you, but... I accidentally got myself stuck in a thorny bush while playing hide and seek with my parents." said Rani, looking a little embarrassed. "I looked like a porcupine with all those thorns on me."
"It must have hurt." said Chris.
"Maybe if it was a porcupine, then it would have longer quills, and it would be on your face."
Rani laughed at what her boyfriend said, and replied: "That is so true. I know I haven't told you this many times, but... you're funny, Kion."
The cub flushed and smiled before saying: "Thanks, Rani."
Chris might have been a young boy, but he realized that he was probably getting in-between these two lovebirds. He didn't want to interfere, and he didn't want to make them both uncomfortable. He got on his two feet, and said: "Maybe I should leave you two alone. I don't want to ruin everything for you guys."
"No, no, you're not ruining anything, Chris." said Rani. "You're just fine."
the human sat back down on the grass with his new lion companions. "How long have you guys been together?" he asked them curiously
"A little while now." Kion said. "She's one of the best things that ever happened to me."
The sweet remark made Rani blush, looking quite touched at her boyfriends' sweet words. "Thank you, Kion. And you're one of the best things that ever happened to me." they both snuggled one another to show affection and their love for each other.
"So, if you guys don't like to talk about it, I understand, but you told me about Inuwa and how dangerous he was." said Chris, giving a small frown. "What was he like?"
Kion and Rani let out a small frown, thinking about how awful and disastrous it was for them to endure and meet Inuwa in the flesh. A lion they never thought of meeting before in their lives. "He was very, very evil. I mean, Ramses was evil too, but Inuwa was way, way worse. You should have been there to... actually, you shouldn't have been there to see everything that happened when Inuwa was around." he slightly looked away. "Trust me, you wouldn't want to have seen it."
"yeah, maybe you're right." said Chris. "It's probably glad I wasn't there." he looked at a group of giraffes wandering off in the distance and a few of them eating the leaves off of tall trees with their really long, slimy tongues. It was a nice, calming sight to see gentle giants like giraffes minding their own business. "But at least you defeated him."
"Yep." Kion smiled. "It wasn't easy though. He got my family brainwashed under control. Many other animals were brainwashed with dark magic. Me and my friends did have help with us, but it was pretty scary."
"But how did you do it?" Chris asked: "how did you kill Inuwa?"
"It's a very interesting story." Kion admitted. "My grandfather Mufasa, grandmother Sarabi, and all the other kings of the past came down from the stars to help me out and gave me the power to kill Inuwa with the biggest Roar of the Elders ever. I literally blasted him into pieces of evil dust."
Chris looked very amazed and astonished by this fact. "That's awesome."
"And Kion here," Rani said, sitting more close to him, "this made Kion one of the greatest heroes to ever walk the Pride Lands. He did something no other cub could do."
"True." said Kion. "But I never felt so scared in my entire life. I thought I would lose my whole family, and everyone I ever cared about." he looked down, showing that he is clearly still not completely free from the trauma. He can still get over this mostly, but he knew it might take a little while to completely get over it. "I never get scared before until then."
"Come on, Kion." said Rani, "it's ok to be scared. We all told you this before."
"I know. I know. but, it made me a better lion."
"I'm sorry that happened to you, Kion."
"No, don't be sorry." said Kion reassuringly. "It wasn't your fault. It was all Inuwa's fault. It was all Inuwa's fault."
"True. but my dad always told me: forget the past. Stop living in it, and keep pushing forward to the future."
"right! and my dad always said focus on here and now." Kion said. "And besides, I kinda feel how my dad feels."
"What do you mean?" asked Chris.
Kion made a frown once more, and he began telling how Simba was tricked by his evil uncle Scar, and how he maliciously killed his own brother, Simba's own father. He even told him how traumatized it made his own dad, having enduring the pain of false guilt, really believing that it was his fault Mufasa was killed, but it was all Scar who manipulated everyone.
Chris looked really sympathetic and sad just thinking the thought of losing his father in a gruesome way. The worst part was that: Simba was only a cub when his father was killed.
"But he did have good memories with Timon and Pumbaa."
"Who are they?"
"A meerkat and a warthog that raised my dad in their home. Besides, my dad took down my great Uncle Scar and became the king of the Pride Lands."
"Good. I'm sorry about your grandfather." Chris said.
"Thanks." said Kion. "You would have really liked, and he would have really liked you."
"Cool."
"So how long will you be staying here?" asked Rani
"For at least five more days." said the human boy. "But we'll always come back another time. I just need to talk to my dad when is a good time for me and my family to visit here again after we head back home."
Meanwhile, in a certain jungle Timon and Pumbaa were feeling so bored right now. Yes, these two knuckleheads were feeling bored stiff and don't know what to do for fun right now.
"Pumbaa, you ever get the feeling some stuff we do is old news?" asked the meerkat before effortlessly grabbing a nearby cockroach from the ground and eating it. Timon decied to take the load off, and got up to lay down on something else, and it was at this moment: he was just laying on his back and staring at the sky while floating on a leaf in his and his friends nice little pool.
Pumbaa was laying on his belly on the ground, sniffing at it with his snout without any given reason at all, and just having a bored, blank expression on his face, feeling like falling asleep from all this boredom. "No, Timon," the red warthog admitted, "I'm just as bored as you are. I mean, look at this place, we've been her a long time and we wait for some good things to happen, but somehow I feel..."
"Like you're gonna die from being too bored, old buddy?" Timon asked
"Yeah!"
"Pumbaa, let me tell ya, nothing exciting happens that much here anymore." said Timon.
"But what about Hakuna Matata?" Pumbaa asked. "We would always stick with that, remember?"
"That's for problems." Timon said. "Yet again, being bored stiff can be a problem. Secondly, I told you: we need a new motto. Don't get me wrong, i love Hakuna Matata, but it's just... old news now."
"But that's what brought us together in the first place, Timon."
"Guilty as charged." Timon admitted. "But some things can get old pretty fast. So what do you think we should do?"
"Well, we could-"
"Nah."
"Right. how about-"
"Nah.
"Something more like-"
"Nah."
"Ooh! or maybe we can both go and-"
"Nah nah nah nah nah!" Timon complained
"You're right. we've already did that stuff." Pumbaa admitted his defeat and looked at the ground below him.
"Say," Timon thought of something. "How about we go meet the mysterious creatures Bunga told us about? I mean, if it's creatures we have never seen before, then it must be exciting."
"Good idea, Timon." Pumbaa agreed, looking happy again. "Wait, I was about to say that before you told me nah the final time. Are you stealing my ideas?"
"Nooooo." Timon said in a sly voice. "I used your idea as a springboard."
