Ok, I've had this idea for a while now to mix the lion king and frozen together. Note that you'll notice some elements and scenes are inspired by (Tarzan and the jungle book) I hope you all like it and comment on what you thought of it. I do not own Frozen or The Lion King. they are owned by Disney studios.
Ch. 1: The girl man-cub
It was a calm evening in the pride lands, and at pride rock, all was well. The sun was setting and as night was approaching the lionesses were still talking and rejoicing about the presentation of the young prince, Simba. Soon as night fell all of the lions were sound asleep, except for one. A rare white lioness, Named Kya was feeling depressed and sulking in the far corner of the den of pride rock. Next to her was her young cub Talia, who was peacefully sound asleep. But Kya couldn't sleep. Not in the state she was in now at least. So, she decided to go out of the den and get some fresh air.
As she walked out up near the edge of pride rock, she took a few deep breaths and looked up at the starry night sky just feeling lost.
"Kya, what are you doing out here?"
Kya immediately recognized that voice. She turned around to see none other than Mufasa, king of the pride lands.
"M-My king!?" she said, surprised to see him out here. "What are you doing up at this hour?"
"I heard you leave the den. Anyway, as I asked before what you are doing out here?" He questioned her again.
"U-Umm I couldn't sleep so I decided to get some fresh air."
"Ok", Mufasa understood. "Also, I wanted to talk to you about this morning. Sarabi and I didn't see you at the presentation of my son, Sarabi really wanted you to be there. Where were you?" He asked her, wanting to know why she wasn't at the ceremony.
"Oh, uh… m-my deepest apologies Mufasa. I o-over slept and… I guess I just lost track of time." She told him, but Mufasa could tell something was up with her.
"Kya what's wrong? You know you can tell me."
"I-I'm fine Mufasa… I'm … fine." She responded to him in a low voice, looking sullen.
Mufasa knew she was lying and then knew what was upsetting her. "You're still upset about Leon aren't you."
Kya paused for a moment looking like she was about to deny it. But she just bowed her head in depression, knowing it was true.
"Kya, I know it's been hard since you lost your mate nearly a month ago. But if it wasn't for him, you or your cub would've died at the hands of those poachers in the jungle. He was a noble white lion, a great friend, and he will be missed." Mufasa expressed his sincerity. "You know that me, Sarabi, and all the other lionesses are here for you. You're not alone here Kya."
"I know Mufasa and thank you for all that you and Sarabi have done for me and Talia to get through this. I am very grateful. But ever since I lost Leon there has been an emptiness in me that doesn't seem to want to go away. And I don't know if it ever will go away." Kya said in a sorrowful tone.
"In time it will Kya, in time it will!"
"And it's not just that! It's just… Why!" Kya blurted out.
"Why what?" Mufasa asked.
"Why are man like that? Why do they just take things? They take more than what's given from the land, the jungle, and us!" Kya ranted. "They kill things without consideration, and they don't care about how they hurt the balance of the land and jungle they only care about themselves! Why is that Mufasa!"
Mufasa sighed and said, "Man are just misguided. They don't follow the circle of life; they only follow their own rules." He explained. "If things could be different with man, they would, but unfortunately that's not what they all want."
"You're right." Kya sighed, knowing it was kind of true.
"Now, let's go back in the den. You still need to sleep."
"Ok" Kya agreed. Then they both returned back into the den. Mufasa returned to his family and went back to sleep. Kya went back to her cub Talia. Seeing her daughter blissfully sleeping she gave a small smile to her sleeping cub and returned to bed.
But as Kya began to drift off to sleep and began to dream, she couldn't help but remembered what happened that night in the jungle. The night she lost Leon.
It was like any other day for her in the pride lands. The weather was great, the land felt calm, and Kya was spending time with her mate and cub. Then Kya and her family decided to take a stroll together around the pride lands. Things were great, Leon was playing with their young cub Talia and having fun. Seeing them have fun brought a joyous smile to Kya's face.
Soon sunset was approaching, and Kya and Leon decided to rest before returning to pride rock. But what they didn't know was as they were resting and not paying attention to their cub, Talia saw a butterfly and decided to chase and hunt it. Talia chased the butterfly all the way to the deepest part of the jungle of the pride lands, not paying attention to her surroundings. Just as she caught up with the butterfly, she realized how far away she was from her parents and familiar territory. It was also starting to get dark, and Talia was getting scared. As she was trying to find her way back, she ran into something. She looked up to see what she ran into; her face was full of fear. It wasn't something it was someone! A couple of someone's in fact and those someone's were man! Poachers to be exact!
Talia started to run off just as the poachers were trying to catch her. At this point Kya and Leon realized that their daughter was gone and were frantically searching all over for her, suddenly they hear their daughter's screams in the near distance of the jungle. So, they quickly rushed to their daughter's location.
Meanwhile… Talia had been chased and cornered at a cliff wall with no way out! Just as the poachers were about to capture her, Kya and Leon suddenly jumped in at the nick of time to their daughter's aid. As Leon was roaring, swiping, and clawing at the poachers to keep them away, Kya picked up her cub by the scruff of her neck and quickly ran off to get away. Leon saw that his mate and child were successfully able to get away, so he swiftly maneuvered away from the poachers to catch up with his family.
As they were running away, Kya and Leon could hear the poachers gaining on them and started using their guns and weapons. Luckily, they were able to lose for a bit and quickly hide out under some big jungle fauna. As the two lions were trying to figure out how to get away and back to pride rock with their daughter, Leon notices how close the poachers were near and how they were practically surrounded. Even if they were able to escape them and dodge their weapons, he knew that these bad men would follow them to pride rock, and he didn't want to bring any danger to his pride or family. And Kya remembers the last thing she said to her mate:
"Kya, take our daughter and get out of here!" Leon exclaimed. "I'll draw them away so you can escape."
Kya stared at her mate in disbelief, as if he was insane. "I won't leave you!"
"There is no other way out of this." Leon knew he had no choice if he was determined to keep his family safe. "Go now!"
So reluctantly, Kya nodded. "Please, come back safe." She nuzzled her mate for the last time, and Leon repeated this warm loving gesture to his infant cub.
And just like that, Leon dashed off drawing the attention of the poachers away from his family with Kya running off with their cub in the other direction. As Kya was running away and nearing and the exit of the jungle, she could hear Leon's roars in the distance and the poachers weapon fire. But when she finally escaped the jungle, suddenly-
BANG!
Kya stopped in her tracks when she heard the loud gunfire. She put her cub down, faced the jungle, and started to roar out to Leon, hoping he would respond. But there was just silence. Then Talia tried to roar and call out for her father, but no response. Kya didn't want to believe it to be true. She denied every part of her being not to be true, but in the back of her mind, she knew. She knew Leon was gone. Tears begin to escape her eyes as did her daughter's. Not wanting to stay any longer Kya picked her cub back up and they returned back to pride rock.
Kya then woke up from her dream and remembered everything from it. Why did she have to relive that bad memory she wondered. Kya looked out the opening of the den and saw it was the break of dawn. So, she decided to take an early morning walk around the pride lands to clear her head. Kya quietly walked out of the den not wanting to wake anyone and began her walk.
Kya was walking around the pride lands lost in thought. Thinking over why she was dreaming about that awful night. She knew she missed Leon and she'll always love him with all her heart, but she just wanted this emptiness and pain in her to stop. As Kya was deep in thought while she was on her walk, she unknowingly stumbled in front of the pride lands jungle! Looking at the jungle instantly brought back flashbacks from that night, but Kya immediately shook them off. Not wanting to think about it anymore, she turned back to head home. Just as the sunlight began to touch the top of the jungle, suddenly-
Ah-ah, oh-oh
"Huh?" Kya's ears perked up. She heard a strange voice. She looked around to see who was doing that, but no one else was out here other than her. So... what was making that voice?
Ah-ah, oh-oh
She heard it again and it was starting to freak her out, "Whoever is there, show yourself!" she demanded.
Ah-ah, oh-oh
Kya was wondering what was causing this strange sound, it was almost like this voice was... singing? Then she realized the sound was coming from somewhere in the jungle. Did this voice want her to follow it in there?
Kya didn't want to go follow this strange voice to who knows where in the jungle. She turned back to go home, but the voice kept getting louder and LOUDER the further she was away from the jungle! It wouldn't leave her alone. Was this voice the work of the spirits or the great kings themselves!? If so, what is in the jungle that they want to show her?
Figuring she didn't have any other choice, Kya ventured into the jungle to find whatever this mysterious voice wanted to show her and also to hopefully find the source of this voice.
15 minutes later…
She was deeper in the jungle than she's ever been since losing Leon. She felt like she was walking for hours. she was starting to question why she even started to follow this voice in the first place. As Kya continued her journey she also inspected more of the area. then she smelled something… off? Like, something wasn't right? It wasn't coming from around the jungle so, where was it coming from? Kya couldn't put her paw on what this smell was. Then she began to realize that the scent was coming from where the voice was leading her.
Ah-ah, oh-oh
"What is it that you want to show me?" She called out to the voice, but again no answer.
She just about had it with this mysterious voice. Suddenly, the voice finally stopped.
Kya wondered if she finally reached the place wherever the voice was leading her. She saw through the trees there was something ahead and what she discovered really surprised her. It was a small open area in the jungle, it had a lot of beautiful flowers, fauna, and many fruit-barring trees surrounding the place. Near it was a beautiful waterfall with a river flowing by with fresh water! And in the center of it all, Kya saw what she thought was the biggest tree in the jungle! It was over 100 ft tall! She was kind of amazed at all of this.
"This is a nice place to be!" Kya thought, "It seems surprisingly peaceful out here! But why did the voice lead me here and why aren't there no other animals here? That is strange?" Kya was beginning to get suspicious about this place, but then she smelled the strange smell again from earlier.
She sniffed for it again and it was coming from atop the big tree. She went over to it and began to climb up the huge tree. It was difficult, but Kya was determined to get to the bottom of all this, using all her strength she was able to scale up the tree with ease. Once she reached the top, what she found was a huge Man-den! Kya didn't think any man lived out here! Especially near the pride lands! Kya could smell that there wasn't any man here at the moment, but she didn't want to stick around any longer if they were nearby! Just as she was about to leave, she heard a loud creak. Kya looked over and saw that the opening to the Man-den was slightly open. Curiosity got the best of her again and she decided to take a peek at the Man-den, wanting to know what was inside. When she went through the door and looked at what was inside Kya's face was filled with horror. The whole den… was practically destroyed! There was rubble everywhere, things torn up, and strange items all over the floor.
"What went on in here?" Kya thought to herself as she walked in and looked around, wondering what had happened.
Then off to the side, she saw something by some big rubble. They were feet! She looked a little closer and saw that there were 2 human bodies on the floor, motionless! She could tell by their scent that they were dead. But what killed them?
A small breeze of wind blew into the den and moved some dust and leaves off the floor. That revealed so many bloody paw prints and claw marks! She knew now what killed those humans! Frightened, she quickly backed away from the scene, until she stepped on something! Kya moved her paw out of the way to see what she stepped on and it was an image of some sort. Not like a painting it was too realistic. What was shown in this image were 4 humans. One was a tall man with strawberry-blond hair, a mustache, and green eyes. Next to him was a female with light long brown hair that was tied into a bun, with blue eyes. With them were two little girl man-cubs. She figured these two were their children. The oldest one had Platinum-blond braided hair that almost looked white, pale-like skin, and crystal blue eyes. The youngest had strawberry-blond hair like her father, a few freckles on her face, and blue eyes as well. They looked like a happy family.
Kya felt a little sorry that this happened to them, but she wondered where the Man-cubs were. Maybe they suffered the same fate as their parents?
Just then, Kya began to hear a strange noise in the den. The noise was coming from the far back of the den behind some strange stuff. As she got closer, she got a better hearing of the noise, it was… crying!? She got to the strange objects and got up to look over them to see what was crying. She saw that something was moving under this big cloth sheet and knew that whatever was under it was the one crying. Kya removed the cloth with her paw and saw who was crying!
It was a Man-cub! A little girl Man-cub! Kya could tell from her appearance that she was the same platinum-blond Man-cub from the picture! She was all curled up on the floor gripping onto her legs, crying and whimpering. Her clothes were torn and looked worn out.
When the little girl felt that the covers weren't on her anymore, she looked up to see what removed them. When she came face-to-face with Kya her face was full of fear.
"Aaahhh!" She screamed, "P-p-please…. don't... h-hurt… me!" The little girl begged, thinking Kya was going to kill her.
"I-I'm not going to hurt you, little one. Oh, what do I do?" Kya stammered a little to the Man-cub and herself, wondering what to do.
"You… you can TALK!" The little girl staggered, surprised that she heard this lion actually talk!
"Wait? You… you can understand me!?" Kya replied. She was just as shocked as the Man-cub that she could understand her. She thought humans couldn't understand her kind or other creatures. How could she understand her language?
The little girl was still frightened and freaked out about Kya and that she could understand her. So, Kya did her best to calm her down. "D-Don't fret Man-cub, like I said I'm not going to hurt you."
"You… you're not?" The Man-cub asked, wanting to know if what she said was true.
"Yes," Kya answered her, "Let me help you out of there."
She bit on her dress and helped lift the Man-cub over the rubble. Then she began to ask her questions. "Now, what's your name little one?"
"E-Elsa," she told her.
"Well Elsa, my name is Kya and I'm a white lioness." She properly introduced herself. "And may I ask what happened here? what caused all this?"
"Well… th-this big creature came in… and started to attack us. M-My mama hid me away w-while my papa tried to get rid of it. But things happened and th-then th-the creature overpowered them and… and KILLED them!" Elsa sobbed and choked up while telling her story.
Kya was filled with such remorse for this young Man-cub. For her to go through something so tragic, especially at her age. She couldn't imagine what she was feeling. But in some way, she could! She remembers how torn and sad when she lost Leon to those poachers, it felt like she lost her whole world. But she also remembered how her pride came together for her and her daughter to help them through that. But this Man-cub had no one now.
"Come here," Kya told Elsa as she brought her close and began to embrace her.
Elsa didn't know how to react for a moment, but then immediately, she returned the embrace. Elsa hugged Kya very tightly and began crying very hard into her chest.
"Shhhhhhhhhh", Kya soothed the little girl. "There-there, it's alright to cry. I'm here for you." She continued to comfort her.
Elsa looked up at Kya and gave her a small teary-eyed smile. Looking into those pure blue eyes, Kya felt a warmness in her heart that she hadn't felt since she lost Leon. She returned the warm smile at Elsa and licked a few tears off her face. Elsa chuckled a little from that and Kya began to lie down and nuzzle her. Soon Elsa stopped crying and was smiling and started to snuggle up against Kya, looking like she was about to drift off to sleep.
Kya was surprised at herself that she was connecting with this Man-cub, especially since she was from a species she detested! But that didn't matter to her. All she could feel from this little girl was love. Was this the reason the voice brought Kya out here, to find her? Why would the voice want to bring her to this Man-cub? Then a thought came into Kya's head, she knew she couldn't leave Elsa out here all alone! She was just a child! She couldn't hunt or defend herself; she would surely die!
That's when Kya made a decision that would change her life forever. "I'm going to keep you." She whispered to Elsa and continued to nuzzle her.
Suddenly, Kya stopped what she was doing, lifted her head, and sniffed the air. She could tell that she and Elsa weren't alone! She slowly looked up and saw what was there, it was a fierce Leopard! On one of the ceiling beams, looking ready to pounce and attack!
Quickly, Kya grabbed onto Elsa and moved away from the leopards' attack. Then the leopard stopped in its tracks and was just intensively staring at Kya for a moment. Kya wondered what was going on with this leopard but kept her guard up, then she immediately recognized who this leopard was.
"Sabor!" Kya hissed.
"Well-well-well, if it isn't the famous white lioness Kya. How long has it been since I last saw you? Oh, that's right, when you had Mufasa banish ME from the pride lands!" Sabor said in a venomous tone.
"You were banished for a reason! You were disrupting the balance of the circle of life! You weren't even hunting for food most of the time, you were doing stuff like this!" Kya stated as she gestured to Elsa's dead parents.
"It's always about 'balance' with you lions. In reality, it's about the survival of the fittest, and don't blame me for what happened to them. They were in my territory, and you know as well as I do that you don't mess with a leopard's territory!" she said malevolently. "Now, if leave here immediately and let me have that Man-cub there I won't harm you!"
"I think you've done enough here, leave this poor Man-cub alone!" Kya demanded while she stood deafeningly in front of Elsa.
"Come on! I've already tasted the blood of her mother and father. I just wish to taste hers!" Sabor said with a sinister grin.
"Over my dead body!" Kya snarled.
"That can be arranged!"
Then Sabor charged toward Kya and Elsa. Kya immediately told Elsa to hop on her and hold on, then Kya began to bolt out of the den through one of the windows. Luckily, they landed on top of the tarp tent in the patio area. But it wasn't long till Sabor followed them down there. When she landed there with them, Sabor and Kya began to claw at each other and fight. But with their combined weight and their clawing the tarp, it soon broke, and they all fell through. When they landed and were trying to get back on their feet, Sabor tried to go after Elsa, but Kya quickly tackled her, and they began to brawl again.
Kya kept trying so hard to keep Sabor from getting to Elsa, but she was beginning to lose energy and Sabor was able to pin her down. Elsa was getting scared, but she could see Kya was losing the fight. She wanted to help her; Elsa was looking around trying to find something she could use against Sabor. Then she saw a big dead branch on the floor, and she thought it was a perfect weapon she could use. She picked it up and ran towards Sabor and whacked her in the head with it. Sabor was disoriented for a moment, but Kya was able to break free from Sabor and returned to Elsa. Sabor shook it off pretty easily and headbutted Kya. The impact was really strong that Kya was knocked into Elsa, and she got pushed over the edge. Kya gasped for a second, thinking Elsa fell to her death. But luckily, Elsa landed on a safety net suspended under the platform. Sabor saw this as an opportunity to get the Man-cub, so she cocked Kya to the side and jumped down on the safety net to go after her.
When Kya got back up, she didn't know what to do. She looked through the cracks of the floorboard to find Elsa. Thankfully she was still ok, and she saw her crawly on the net away from Sabor. But Sabor was slowly gaining on Elsa. Finally, Elsa reached the center beam of the platform and was trying to reach for Kya. Kya put her paw down the hole and tried to reach out for her as well. But they were too far from each other. Soon Sabor caught up with Elsa and went to pounce on her, but she missed and got her paw stuck in the net. The force from the pounce made Elsa jump in the air and Kya swiftly latched onto the neck hole of her dress. She tried to pull Elsa up through the hole, but it was too narrow for her to fit through. Kya had to think fast before Sabor got loose. Then she saw that the cloth was able to move between the small thin openings of the floorboard. So, she moved her along to the edge and pulled Elsa back up to her.
The two hugged for a moment, but it was short-lived when they heard Sabor breaking through the floorboards! Kya was thinking of a faster way for them to get down the tree, then she saw an elevated platform. Kya got a little hesitant if they should use it, unsure if it was safe! But that didn't matter anymore when they saw Sabor finally break through the floorboard and was running toward them. Kya quickly scooped up Elsa onto her back and jumped onto the elevator platform and it quickly got them down to the ground.
"This won't be the last you'll see of me! I'll get that Man-cub one day Kya!" Sabor declared, while she roared and snarled at them for getting away. But before she could do anything else, Sabor didn't know that her leg was caught around some rope that was connected to the elevator and when Kya and Elsa went down on the elevator the rope tied around her leg and pulled her up.
When Kya and Elsa landed on the ground they looked back up and saw that Sabor was suspended up and got tangled in the rope. Elsa got back onto Kya, and they began to leave. But before they did Kya turned back around and snarled at Sabor like she was saying, "That'll show you!" and Elsa blew a raspberry at Sabor like she was saying the same thing as Kya. Then Kya started running through the jungle with Elsa on her back, returning to the pride lands.
While she was running Elsa asked her, "Ms. Kya, where are we going?"
"Home!" She answered, "We're going home!"
(I recently updated this because at the time I had a different idea for the story but as I continued to write more chapters the idea for the plot began to change and now, I'm editing parts so it can make sense for what I have envisioned now.)