CHAPTER SIX:nightmares confirmed

FLASHBACK

"I'll go with you."

"No...no you just stay here,on this rock.Whouldn't want to end up in another mess like the Hyenas whould you?"

"You know about that?"

"Simba everybody knows about that." Scar said taking on a baby voice.

"Really?" Simba's ears slanted down in shame.

The scene shifted to Simba running away from the wildabeasts.The dust kicking up in his face.He chould taste it again.He coughed and the scene shifted again to to himself by his fathers side.He saw the great kings body lying motionless on the ground.Simba gasped,and yelled out in his sleep just as Li nudged him awake."SIMBA!"

He didnt budge,but continued to yell in his sleep.So Li giggled to herself and licked Simba on the cheek who immeditly woke up. "What..what happened!" Simba looked around groggily to see Li sitting next to him,and lift his head with hers as she rested it under his,Simba calmed down. "Another bad dream wasn't it." Li said comfortably looking at Simba.

Simba nodded. "But..i keep dreaming about my fathers death.I dont know why...Maybe its just my contious."

"Look Simba that was a few years ago.Dont let it worry you,or get to you.Just let it all go." Simba looked up and nuzzled her,then looked away sadly.

"Whats wrong Simba?"

"I must leave.I cant stay here anymore.I'm sorry Li..but something keeps telling me to go somewhere else,and I have to follow what it tells me."

Li suddenly became annoyed. "Why! So you can go back to your Girlfriend Nalaaa!" Simba's eyes wided with shock.

"No.That isn't it..and We were not girlfriend and Boyfriend.You are.." He stopped looking away,he didn't know how to finish the sentence.And he wasn't sure if he really wanted to.He looked away not wanting to look at Li.She stuck her face right under Simba's vision. "Tell me." She said in a low voice.But it was commanding,he swallowed then looked at her. "I heard..my father talking to me last night.He said it was time for me to leave.But that I whould see you again."

Li looked away then back at him. "So your going to believe some dead guys voice in your head,and leave me?"

Simba looked away in shame and nodded. "Yes.I'-" Li gave a great huff of anger and slapped Simba in the face.It stung for a moment then left a red mark there.He rubbed it where he was hit. "Ow,what did you do that for?"

"To remind you of me!" Li said her eyes swelling up with tears.Then she turned around,kicked snow in his face and ran off into the woods.

"Li..." Simba tried to yell,but his voice had lost him,and all his courage had deflated to his feet which now felt like they weighed a ton.His ears drooped and he turned around and walked in the other direction.He continued to walk,and he headed down the slope that headed off the mountion.But he didnt know where he was going to go.

Then a voice inside his head,wispered something. "Follow your heart Simba.Do what you feel is right." And Simba nodded to himself,but he didn't turn to go back,instead he continued foward south,back twords the dessert where he came.Thats where the voice was telling him.

Nala sighed looking at the field.She had done this for the past three weeks hoping to see Simba emerge from the grass.But nothing ever came,and every night she went to bed almost in tears again.But tonight she did hear something.Her eyes widened watching the grass,and it parted to reveil a almost full grown male lion but his mane was not fully grown and it was a dark red.Nala got up immeditly and began to show her teeth.But the male did not return the agression,He mearly huffed and fainted.

She gasped and ran over to him.He had bites all over him,which looked like hyena bites,but Nala had no idea who this was but she had to help him.But if she was seen trying to help this male..she chouldn't imagine the horror.But she still grabbed his arm and lifted the male lion partly to her back and knew exactly where to go.She made her way a few miles from Pride Rock where there was a hill and a rock rising into the air at a odd angle,with a cave inside.

With her teeth,Nala dragged the lion inside,and stopped at the back of the cave.The male groaned.Nala looked at him. "Who are you?Can you tell me?"

The lion lifted his head. "My..my name is Seart...who are you?" Nala gave a warm smile. "I'm Nala.I helped you come here,were you attacked?"

Serart nodded. "Yes...I was out hunting,or trying to at least,but everything was gone.Then i saw a Hyena..and i attacked it and i killed it but was then attacked by about a hundred of them..they came out of nowhere..."

"Where are you from?" Nala asked looked at him and sitting down,then glanced over her shoulder making sure noone was there. "I'm...from the River Pride,I was the king there,and i went out with my..my mate..-" Nala's heart sunk,had Scar sent hyenas to attack a Pride that he knew about,and wanted to iliminate any competition? She shook her head and looked at Seart who was looking at her. "Sorry can you go back...what happend to your mate and pride?"

"Well my mate and I were walking over to the river and,there was another pride there waiting for us...a young lion,but was not a cub told us to leave the river and it was theirs now.He said that they were going to take it over and change everything.He said he was going to talk to someone named Scar...Anyway we tried to fight but the lion had to many,and they killed everyone..." He shuddered with anger. "But my mate...he made me watch him..." He began to cry,tears streaming down his face,and Nala smiled reassuringly. "Dont tell me that part if its too hurtful.Go on." Seart nodded and closed his eyes for a secound while the tears leaked down,then stopped.He continued in a shuddering gasp. "..Well after the pride had taken over,I didn't have any choice but to leave..I chouldn't get to any of my Prides bodies because the invaders were too many in number,and so I ran away to here.I asked a cheetah who Scar was,and he said he was the current king.He told me to come here,so i did.That was when I was looking for food,and chouldn't find any...then as i said I saw a Hyena and killed that but was attacked by more then i've ever seen.."

Nala was shocked.Her mouth was hanging open. "So why did you come here? To tell Scar?"

Seart nodded."Yes...but i was attacked and now i dont want to tell him anything."

"Good because he starved us!" Nala said speaking up.Seart looked up. "What?He's starving you!" Nala nodded and Seart tried to move but he groaned instead and flooped back down breathing hard.Nala pressed her paw on his leg to stop him and he groaned more.

"Stay here,ill go and get help..you need it badly." She turned to leave,and ran out of the cave and yelled for Rafiki. "Rafiki! I need you!"

"Rafiki always here when you need him 'Ala,what is it child?"

"A lions been attacked,hes injured,you need to look at him!" Nala grabbed Rafiki by the arm with her teeth(which made Rafiki a little edgy),and lead him into the cave where Seart was laying down breathing hard. "Oh...dere..."Rafiki said sadly.He grabbed one of his fruits and cracked it open and began to cover the wounds with them.He then took some thick grass,and tied it around Seart's legs which worked like a bandage.

Rafiki finished up examining and wrapping up Seart and looked at Nala frowning. "How did 'e get like this Nala?"

"Scar's stupied Hyenas." Nala replied quickly and looking down to her paws. "Will he be ok?"

"If he stays in dis cave,and dosent attract attention yes.But if he leaves,the Hyenas wont let him live a secound time."

Nala nodded understanding and Rafiki walked out.

Simba continued to walk south back to the dessert,the mountion was far behind him now,but he kept looking over his shoulder,but he never saw Li chasing him.He didn't expect her to either.It was his choice that he was going to the middle of nowhere,and possibly die from heat,exhaustion,starvation or something else.

He stopped when he saw a small deer on the side,in the tall grass.Slowly Simba crept twords it.But he had forgotton how Li had told him to hunt,and he attacked it to quickly startling the deer and it yelled and ran off.Much to fast to catch. Simba thought dryly watching it run out of sight. My stupied contious...i should never listen to anyones advice but my own! He told himself firmly,then reliazed that what the advice to run away really was,was his own he huffed angrily and swung his paw into the ground,and his paw didnt hit solid ground.But he was sinking.Reliazing what had happened he looked around,but did not panic,and istead tried to climb out.It wasn't working,and now Simba was starting to get nervous,and he looked up and seeing a low hanging branch he gripped onto it with his teeth and pulled himself up wrapping his front paws around the branch and lastly wraping his tail.Simba sighed softly.

He made his way over to the thicker part of the branch and turned himself around and looked to where the dirt ended,and the sand picked up.He chouldnt find a end or a beggining to either.The only difference was that the quick sand did look a little thicker then normal.So making note of this he got off the tree and continued onward.

A little while on,maybe near sunset,he felt as if he was being followed.But when he turned around noone was there.So he continued on.Again he felt the sensation that he was being watched.He turned around and looked into the air.High above was deffinitly someone watching him.Vultures.Why whould vultures be following me? I'm not close to death...but i am hungry. All Simba had had all morning was a lizard he had caught,but that wasnt enough,and now he was regretting that he ever left Li and the safety of that Mountion.

Because now he was walking back twords the dessert.Back twords his past,which he refused to return to.So instead he sat right in the middle of where and layed down,and besides that he was awefully tired..and he wanted to sleep just a little while..

Seart's health was steadying improving,and Nala was comming to see how he was doing.He chould now stand for a short period of time but was more comfortable laying down.So one day when Nala was out,Seart tried again to stand up but to no avail.So when Rafiki made his daily rounds to check on the wounds he decided to ask the monkey something that had been bugging him for awhile.

"Rafiki...did Nala have a boyfriend at one time? Or someone real close?"

The monkey nodded. "Yes,actually she did...but he dissapeared,and his father died.We were ment to believe dat the cub died as well.But I know dat he is still alive somewhere.And that when the time is right it will present himself.-" He was about to continue when Nala returned and Rafiki hastned a cough and applied the leaf with the medicine on it,and waved to Nala as she came in.

Nala gave Seart a warm smile,and his insides grew,his heart skilled a beat. "How are you feeling today Seart?" She sat down looking at him,and Seart sat up a little into a relaxed resting position,his back legs resting out.Seart looked at Nala and her ears pearked up hearing something. "Uh oh..I smell Scar and his gits comming...I gotta go..if he catches me with you,...if he catches you at all..He will kill you..." She looked around nerviously,and slipped.Seart automatically stood up,and their noses touched but it was a mere fraction of a secound because Seart groaned and fell,and Nala blushed pulling away and ran out trying not to giggle.

end CHAPTER SIX