The Neutral Prince

Chapter 2: Krayt

Arthur's note: Hello there, everybody. I know in my last stories there is usually rushes but in this one, changes are going to happen in my writing. For one thing, I have a life too and ain't going to publish chapters every three days like it's an chore and like I have to do it. I had to do the same with The Hyena Lion and boy near the end I was going to stop writing it, luckily I didn't. I came onto this app for fun and to practice my writing as well because my writing was horrible but this app help me improved my writing over an keyboard instead of over a paper, not for me to be treated like I have to do everybody's bidding. I'm not going to publish an chapter unless I'm satisfied too. I also wanted to take a slower pace in my stories. If you demand for me to do something, tbh with you I'm most likely not going to do it 'cause for one thing I do stories I want to do. For another, that is an demand. I am not going to do a story unless I want to do it. I will explain more at the end of this chapter.

Kion... now Krayt had hated his life. It have been a bad nearly six months since Kion were captured by his uncle. Now, Prince Krayt, was forced to kill those whom Mheetu would targeted. He had grown to hate this cage with an absolute passion, he had an feeling that Mheetu was frightened and afraid of his potential. Krayt faintly remember being tied up with harsh vines that were an test for him. When he were tied up, Krayt's chains were completely broken and he have latched out to the vines. While he was still an cub, Krayt have became very strong and left an terrifying image to many of the Outlanders. Of course, Krayt will be after young targets since older targets can likely beat him. The lion cub would meditate in secret just to cling on both Prince Kion and Prince Krayt equally, since Kion still haven't succumb to the darkness at least not totally.

After Krayt meditated and meditated nearly endlessly, he allow the light to fight against this darkness. Each time, he had to relay on his older sister, Kiara, image to calm him down due to somehow still remembering her. After all, he have seen Kiara, Tiifu, and Zuri a lot during his first months. Krayt collapsed slightly. He felt the two others image calming him down at last. As the days passed, Krayt felt himself growing darker and darker and hope he can control this endless anger and rage. Sure, he have remember all of his friends yet Mheetu is urging him on to kill and he have grown passed the limit of what someone, who had once been an pride lander should be.

Some may say he is an shadow of his former self.

Krayt ain't just a mighty fighter who would rushed into battle like others would. Usually, he would calculate any movements and will be acting calm whenever he's in battle. 7 month old Krayt proven to be tougher than other cubs. The fact that he, a cub, can meditate and calm himself down without even being close to adolescent years. Krayt had have been shadow by his uncle who would test his emotions to the max, and the young lion cub were forced to carry out his commands like an dog. If Mheetu orders a bird need to be kill, Krayt would have to kill the bird despite how painful the killing blow would be. If a fish is to be kill, Krayt would have to kill the fish. Mheetu had wanted to take his training to the maximum and implanted his training so he would one day over match the Pride Landers lionesses. Krayt has been more freewill lately by his uncle but he knows he is on watch still because Mheetu feared that he would return to the pride lands.

Krayt knew Mheetu completely loved using him as his weapon and pet. One day, Krayt would surpassed Simba and be able to kill him should he actually become Mheetu's pawn. What Krayt didn't know was that Mheetu knew about Zira's plans to kill Simba. Somehow, Krayt were always a strong speaker, but his original name did mean leader after all.

Having been so transpired in his thoughts, Krayt almost forgotten his surroundings... until a voice echoed in his head. "Kion! Kion!" A voice echoed in his head. Krayt stood up from his deep meditation and turned to see if there was an voice yet there was merely the wind.

Krayt felt his eyes closing as he tried to smell his surroundings. Is Kopa trying to attack him again? After all, Kopa never liked Kion from the beginning and in training he would purposely hurt Kion. Now, even as Krayt, Kopa would make an mockery of him and will always show his distaste of him. Krayt paced the lands in silence and eventually came to a stop.

"You must escape from him! He is shaping you into someone else!"

Kion frowned yet allowed an grimace to form. "I-I can't," Kion stammered grimly. "My family have abandoned me for several months. All they did was throw me aside like garbage just for Kiara. I had needed them and yet they left me to rot."

"Your sister miss you; not an day goes by where she don't cry about you. You must escape to the Pride Lands before you fully become the very thing that everyone would fear."

Kion frown became a considerate look. He haven't fully joined Mheetu so there is an chance and Mheetu did manipulate him so he likely made an likely story to the Pride Landers. The lion's eyes darkened, and clenched his jaw and bared his teeth. Kion felt the rage burning through his soul. He felt the urge to roar out at the area he is in. With rage starting to bowl up, Kion manage to close his eyes and meditate again. He remembered the small cub being helpless and begging his uncle whom he had still trusted to help him only for him to instantly betray him. He allowed a whimper to form from his lips. When was the last time have Krayt shown true emotion to anything? Kion had barely cried since he was train by his uncle.

Despite the endless nights of torment, Mheetu have shaped him up into an emotionless killing machine and beast. Krayt felt his muscles going stiff but yet the lion cub refused to collapsed. "Why?" Krayt cleared his throat, yet an hoarse came from his throat. "What have I done to deserve this life?"

"The answers you seek shall be find in time, but you should know that the Pride Landers did try to find you. Your parents ordered your search and doubled it for 3 months. Eventually, they had to move on yet your parents made an anniversary about you each month. Tomorrow is about to again be your anniversary where you had been 'taken away' and you mustn't allow yourself or them live a lie any longer. Go back by tonight. You will arrive back by tomorrow. Mheetu is exactly like Scar and would betray you at the end. The Pride Landers will not allow you to live in a lie. To them, Mheetu have gotten so depressed after you 'going missing' and have left them. They're playing with you."

Breathing, Krayt crooked his head and turned around to a lion figure with a gleam around his body, his eyes seem to be amber only, his body were faint yet still was seen, barely. "Who are you?" Krayt demanded.

"Who I am is irrelevant," the ghost said, his voice seemingly like he was across the lands and were calling out for him. "At least at the moment. I am merely someone from history. You are more important since you are the time of now."

"I am merely an lion cub who have been stripped from my home," Kion states hoarsely, tears now pouring down his eyes. This was a surprise for him because Kion hadn't cry for a long time. He than thought as he begin walking back and forth from his cell. The voice said nothing. Kion didn't have to be a genius to know that the presence is gone.

Kion paced around his cell. He had been trying to think of a way to escape his makeshift prison since his uncle whom he had thought he have loved, Mheetu, had betrayed him and his family and threw him in jail. He had grown substantially, thanks to Mheetu regularly training him in combat so that he could one day overthrow his family and become the new ruler of the pride lands. He had become very attractive as well, seeing as how he would catch the lionesses guarding regularly sneaking glances at him.

He heard paws approaching his cage, before the wooden door was opened and Mheetu stood there. "Come, Krayt. We have more training to do." He told his nephew in a stern voice.

"Yes father." Kion replied with a light bow. He had pretended to forget his previous family and accept Mheetu as his new father in order to trick him. This became hard at times, especially when Mheetu decided to rename him Krayt in order to further distance himself from his family. He was forced to accept it in order to keep up his charade.

"Ok. This time your going to break this log without claws." Mheetu points to a massive tree lying on the ground beside him.

Kion took a deep breath, before running up to the wood and smashing it into pieces with his bare paw. Kion was shocked he was able to do that, while Mheetu grinned. Sure, he have been doing this for months but it seems more-and-more Kion/Krayt couldn't control himself. His uncle's paw being place around him made him cringed. "Very good my boy. You're becoming stronger every day." He said proudly, wrapping his paw around his young nephew and pulling him closer.

Kion smiled back. Hidden underneath his forced grinned, Kion was happy. Unbeknownst to Mheetu, Kion had been chiseling his way through the thick wooden door in his cell to open up a crack so that he could soon escape. This is partly why he had trained so diligently with Mheetu everyday. And now that he was strong enough to break down the door, he could finally escape and return home. He were concern when he had realized Kopa would one day return with Mheetu after his escape. Sadly, Krayt would always have to accept his crimes of what he had done because he have killed young animals in the past under Mheetu's orders. To be home with his family would actually take a while to get use to it because the cell became an trauma because he has to wake up each morning and going back at night to face that. As soon as, if, he returns, Kion would have to accept the guilt of his past and will have to possibly to sort his abilities out, because he didn't want to hurt his own sister or another cub in a fit of rage.

Krayt knew that many others would have already broke completely, had they been in his position. For an few seconds, the cub had thought about what would have happened had Kiara been the one sibling capture? Or Tiifu and Zuri? Kiara may have been able to contain it for a few months less than Kion, due to her never being an warrior like. Tiifu though may have broke the first week. Zuri, maybe around the first few days. Had they been in his position and break, it wouldn't be their fault though. Why? Because Kion had nearly broke many times, like when he accepted Krayt as his name. Krayt have became an mane implanted to many of their allies who had shown clear fear of him, yet they were envy of him, because Krayt's heritage and being their most hated king's son. Most of them are the followers of Scar whom wanted nothing more than Simba's head.

Seemingly satisfied as well as shock, Mheetu had his mouth opened for a minute, but once the shock weared off, a smile came into it's place. "Here." Mheetu said as he pushed a large chunk of meat towards the lion cub.

"Thank you." Kion replied back with a smile. To Kion's surprise, ever since his capture Mheetu has been treating him fairly well. He would feed him good food so he wouldn't be hungry, and was never degrading and cruel. But he still became angry whenever Kion mentioned his family and at times would lash out at him. Kion rubbed the large scar over his left eye as he remembered when he once was crying about how he missed his family and his uncle had slashed him across his eye and that forced him to maturity. One of the rare times he have actually cried. He has learned that he must act like he has forgotten and hates his former family in order to someday get back to them.

Mheetu wants Kion to be an image of Scar to one day rule the Pride Lands, and Kion knew that he wanted to act nice so he doesn't turn back to his family. Well, he has gotten an surprise coming for him. Once he had finished his food, Kion looked up to see Mheetu nodding to his side. Kion sighed and started to head back towards his cell as he had done for the past 6 months he was trapped. This was his routine: Wake up, train, eat, go back to his cell. Well, tonight that was all going to change. He heard the wooden door slam shut behind him and his uncles paw steps becoming fainter. Now that he was alone; away from his sight of his maniacal and crazy uncle or cousin who is following in his uncle's pawprints, or his wife who clearly held a distaste of Kion, it was time for his escape.

Author's note (again): Now first thing first, shoutout for Jzak98 for helping me to the part of escaping.

For another, over PM, people wanted to demand me for publishing an chapter in a certain time view. Now, I don't like being so rude but I'm tired of this treatment, I want to expand my writing. I am here to do something outside of the real world but not feel like I must/have to do it. I had read stories with longer paces and having longer chapters so that inspired me to start making longer paragraphs.