Everlasting Vengeance
Chapter 2: Untold Potential
As Nusurika grew a little, but not to an adolescent, she came to know the ins and outs of the Pride Lands. Unlike Kiara or Simba did, she respected her limits. One time, she stood proudly on the edge of Pride Rock, pretending she was queen, and suddenly, a piece of the edge crumbled, causing her to lose her footing. She now dangled above a lethal drop, and she tried to climb back up, but couldn't keep footing with her hind legs on the side to support her enough to pull herself up. Her mother was currently out hunting, and her father was with Simba investigating a situation that could turn into trouble if left unnoticed, so calling for help was useless. She felt her paws slipping, and just before she fell, she saw Kiara and the lionesses come back. She fell, and screamed at the top of her lungs,
"Mommy!" Kiara heard her daughter, and looked right below the edge of Pride Rock to see her daughter falling.
"We'll never reach her in time." Nala said. Kiara couldn't bare to watch her only child plummet to her death, so she looked away, tears beginning to fall.
"Mommy! I'm sorry!" Nusurika called out. Then, about a foot away from impact, she fell unconscious. Kiara thought that she was about to lose her daughter, but then Nala piped up,
"Kiara, look!" Kiara just said,
"Look at what? My daughter's corpse?" Nala forced Kiara to look by turning her head. Kiara was overjoyed at the sight.
"The Great Kings have spared my daughter!" Kiara said.
"No, no king has had such power, even in the afterlife." Nala said.
"Then who?" Kiara asked. Nusurika was floating about 2 inches from the ground, surrounded by a blue glow. She landed softly, still unconscious, on the ground below Pride Rock. She woke up about an hour later, with Kiara looming over her, at the very place where she landed.
"Oh, my child!" Kiara said, embracing Nusurika, who, while still dazed from the experience, asked,
"Did you all commit suicide?" Kiara shook her head no, and Nusurika said,
"Then how are you all in front of me. I'm dead." Kiara then said,
"No, you're alive." Nusurika was confused, but then remembered something.
"When I fell unconscious, I felt something stirring inside of me, and it suddenly burst out. It was like, some sort of overwhelming force, and it sent a chill down my spine. I think that thing, whatever it was, saved me." She said. Kiara definitely had to consult Rafiki about that. She took her daughter to him, and he used some kind of magic to identify any spiritual forces that lay dormant within Nusurika. Rafiki had just finished examining her, and explained his findings.
"I found something, but it was something the likes of which I have never seen before. I can tell you one thing." Rafiki said.
"What would that be?" Kiara asked.
"Keep her away from evil ones! If she ever learned to control those forces, she would be an enormous threat to you if raised by evil ones!" Rafiki said. Kiara understood, and took Nufurika back to the den. That night, Kiara had a nightmare.
Enter Dream Sequence
Kiara was alone. As she looked around, she gasped. The Pride Lands had become a blood bath because of a massacre. She walked around, unable to find anyone alive. Next to Kovu, however, was a figure, disguised by shadow. As she got closer, she found out it was a cub.
"Nusurika?" Kiara asked. The cub had an emotionless face, but as Kiara got closer and realized that it was her daughter, Nusurika's face turned into a wicked smirk. Blue waves of energy ratiated off of her, and effortlessly crumbled a rock formation. Rafiki's worst fear had been realized. Nusurika was there one moment, but the next, she was gone from that location, and instead pinning Kiara. Nusurika's wicked smirk turned emotionless again, and she held a claw to Kiara's neck.
"Goodbye, mother." She said. Then Kiara was about to be killed in a most unusual way for lions. She was about to be beheaded. Right before that happened...
End Dream Sequence
Kiara shot awake, breathing heavily after witnessing that nightmare. She decided, since all of her more recent dreams came true at least part way, she would not leave Nusurika unsupervised. She closed her eyes again, and had a more peaceful sleep after that.
The next morning, Kiara explained her new decision to Nusurika, who moaned in disappointment.
"Mom, do I have to?" She asked.
"Nusurika, I don't want you to be abducted. It would be very bad...For all of us." Kiara said.
"You're thinking about your subjects before your own daughter?" Nusurika asked in disbelief.
"I am thinking about you. I'm thinking about your safety." Kiara said.
"Alright." Nusurika said, still not happy, but giving in.
"Now, go play, but don't leave my sight." Kiara said.
"Yes mom." Nusurika said. She ran out into the savanna, and eventually found the Tree of Life.
"This tree, it has a sort of energy to it." Nusurika said.
"Yes, it is called the Tree of Life." Said a voice. Rafiki walked to the edge of his hollow, and was surprised that it was her who had noticed the energy that the Tree of Life.
"Hello Rafiki!" Nusurika said. Rafiki just huffed. He was about to introduce himself.
"How do you know my name?" Rafiki asked. Nusurika then said,
"Don't know, it just came to me." Rafiki was intruiged by Nusurika.
"Do you want to come up?" He asked.
"Ok." Nusurika said. She was helped up, and once inside the hollow, Rafiki asked her,
"Do you know that you have a peculiar power inside of you?" Nusurika nodded, and Rafiki then asked,
"Do you want to learn to use it?" Nusurika then said,
"I'm listening." Rafiki smiled, and said,
"Ok, I will teach you how to control your dormant energies." The lessons began immediately, and Rafiki had already defined all of the abilities that Nusurika's energy gave her. He started simply by explaining to her how to unseal her power.
"It's quite simple. Just focus your energies, and let those energies search your body for an energy seal. Once your energy has found that seal, focus on it, and the seal will break." Nusurika nodded and closed her eyes to concentrate her energy. As her energy searched her body, it found the seal. She concentrated harder, and the seal was broken.
"I did it!" Nusurika said. Rafiki was proud. He then moved on to levitation.
"To levitate, let your new energy coarse through you. If you focus enough, your body will defy gravity to an extent. It will become easier with practice." Nusurika nodded again, and closed her eyes. As she concentrated, Rafiki saw her body glow blue, then come off the ground.
"Excellent!" Rafiki said. Nusurika opened her eyes, and saw that she was floating. She began to swim in the air for a bit, and then came back down into the hollow. She yawned, and decided that she had had enough for today.
"I'm done for today, Rafiki." She said. Rafiki nodded, and Nusurika headed for home. She ran home really fast, and Kiara saw a blur heading toward her. She braced herself, but it stopped right in front of her. As the dust cleared, Nusurika stood there, and yawned.
"How did you do that?" Kiara asked.
"I'll explain in the morning. I'm exhausted." Nusurika said. Kiara nodded, and they went into the den.
"I thought I told you to stay supervised." Kiara said.
"I spent the day with Rafiki." Nusurika said, before settling down to sleep. Kiara and the others went to sleep as well, and everyone had peaceful dreams.
Once again, I didn't include Zira in this stroy. She says she's too busy setting up her plan, and doesn't want to reveal it (LOL). Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it.