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Vitani can't respond, she just stares at Kopa. Her blue eyes widening and filling with confusion, anger, and sadness.

"Kopa where are your parents?" Lamka asks Kopa

"Um I don't know, where are they?" Kopa asks mainly to Vitani, but Vitani can't answer.

"We don't really know where they are, they are out looking for Zazu." Kovu says

"Oh well here he is." Kopa replies

"Right." Kovu says

"Um come on." Vitani finally says turning around right away and starting in the direction of Pride Rock. The others are a little confused, but follow her, Kovu picks up Zazu. Kopa runs up to talk to Vitani, Lamka walks with Kiara, Kovu on the other side of Kiara.

"Vitani, are you alright?" Kopa asks

"I guess." Vitani replies not looking at him.

"You don't sound alright." Kopa says suspicious

"I said I was alright!" Vitani basically yells at him, looking at him with hurt angry eyes. Kopa stops in his tracks at this, Vitani never yelled at him before, and now, once he came back she does.

"So Lamka, where are you from?" Kiara asks

"The Grass Lands." Lamka replies happily.

"Oh I've heard of those, is it nice there?"

"Yes it is, lots of food, water... its just great."

"That's good."

"This place is beautiful too."

"Oh well thank you."

"And let me get this straight, your Kopa's sister, your her mate, and you two are..." Lamka says looking at Vitani and Dotty.

"She's my sister." Kovu says looking at Vitani, "and she is a good friend." He says looking at Dotty

"Oh, you don't look that much alike, unlike you two." Lamka says addressing Kovu and Vitani, then Kiara and Kopa.

"No, I guess I take more after my Dad, and Vitani looks more like my Mother." Kovu says

"Oh..." Lamka doesn't know how to keep the conversation going.

"So, why did you two decide to come back now?" Kiara asks

"Oh, I don't know, Kopa just really wanted to see his family again I guess." Lamka says not really knowing the reason in their coming here, she would have rather stayed home. "But I don't know why he had to come back now, I mean we just became King and Queen."

"Really!" Kiara exclaimes "We're going to be King and Queen tomorrow!"

"Really! Congratulations!"

"What!?" Kopa had heard this and wasn't expecting it.

"That's right, tomorrow right at noon." Kovu says proudly, Kiara gives him a little nuzzle.

"Your becoming the new king and queen!? Kopa says to Kovu and Kiara.

"Who else would be Kopa?" Vitani yells over her shoulder, sarcasm, and anger in her voice.

Kopa doesn't respond, he can't figure out why Vitani is being so snappy.

"Are Timon and Pumbaa still around?" Kopa asks

Kiara laughs "Yeah."

"And apparently Zazu still does his job... looks like nothings changed!" Kopa says happily

"Ha! You have NO idea." Vitani says not looking at anyone, Kopa is again confused. The rest of the journey is basically silent except for Lamka and Kiara talking, sometimes including others.

When they reach Pride Rock Lamka is amazed at the sight.

"This place is amaizing!"

"I know isn't it." Kopa says standing next to her and also looking around.

"I thought you didn't like it here?" Vitani asks Kopa.

"Well I haven't been here in a long time Vitani."

Vitani doesn't respond, but she walks up to the tip of Pride Rock, and roars a laud mighty roar, calling the others back to Pride Rock. Lionesses appear walking towards Pride Rock, and of in the distance Vitani can see a spot of red, Simba. She walks back down to the others.

Kovu tries to wake Zazu up. "Zazu!" he says poking the bird, when nothing he does works, he proceeds to pluck out a feather.

"Ouch!" Zazu says waking up. "Oowww! My wing!" He screams holding his right wing.

"Shhh, Zazu it's alright, we'll get Rafiki." Kovu says trying to calm the bird.

Suddenly a growl is heard behind the lions, they all turn to see two lionesses named Elisha and Dibeh.

"Relax its just Kopa." Vitani says to the lionesses that are just a bit younger than Simba and Nala.

"That's impossible!' Elisha says

"Yeah, he died a long time ago." Dibeh adds

"No he didn't, hes right here." Vitani says

"That's right, I'm back" Kopa says, slightly recognizing the lionesses.

Then 6 more lionesses show up, they all gasp and growl at the two unknown lions.

"Relax guys, I'll explain who they are when Simba and Nala come." Vitani says

The lionesses are weary, but none the less trust Vitani. Soon all of the lionesses are back and Simba and Nala are walking up Pride Rock.

Simba's eyes were hopping that Zazu would fly right to him and explain to him what happened, but instead he sees, two lions, not of his pride!

"Who are you!" Simba demands, Nala recognizes the lion slightly, bu can't put her paw on it.

"Mom? Dad? It's me Kopa." Kopa says, his eyes filled with joy.

Nala instantly looks to Vitani, who nods in agreement. "MY BABY!" Nala screams and starts to run to Kopa, but is cut off by Simba.

"Nala Kopa was killed!" Simba says looking at Nala, then turns his attention to Kopa, "How dare you come here, and pretend to be my son, get out! Now!" Simba says almost charging at Kopa who backs up in fear. Vitani stands between them.

"Simba this is Kopa! He wasn't killed... (sigh) he ran away" Vitani explains

"NO impossible! Kopa's dead and we all know it!"

"No I'm not Dad, Vitani's telling the truth, I ran away." Kopa tries to explain.

Simba looks at him for a while, studding him. 'He does look like me' Simba thinks to himself. Simba realizes that it is Kopa and his expression softens as he walks over to Kopa. "Why did you run away?"

Nala runs to Kopa, almost knocking him over, tears stream down her face. Kopa hugs her.

"I don't know dad, I wasn't happy here, and I didn't like that you were having another cub, I guess."

"Oh Kopa, we're sorry." Nala says through his mane.

"It's alright now, I'm over it."

"Well we still are, and I'm sorry you felt that way." Simba says nuzzling Kopa.

"I am too Dad, you always told me how lucky I was to live in such a place, but I just didn't like it..."

"Sire!" Zazu screams

"Zazu!" Simba notices the bird and runs to him, "Zazu where were you?"

"Well quite frankly sire I don't really remember." Zazu replies

"I found him at the boarders." Kopa says, figured you would be looking for him, and brought him back."

"Are you alright?" Simba asks

"My wing hurts an awful lot."

"Jaska, run and get Rafiki." Simba says to a lioness near by, she runs off to find the old baboon.

"How come you didn't tell me?" Kiara asks

"I wanted to protect you Kiara." Simba says

"From what?"

"I don't know, I didn't want you to have it in your head that you had a brother that was killed."

"We thought it would be best if you didnt' know." Nala adds

"Oh... I could have taken it."

"Well we were going to tell you sometime, just not when you were still this young, probably when your cubs were teenagers were we going to tell you." Nala explains

"That long!"

"Well we wanted to make sure you would handle this maturely." Simba adds

"I would have!"

"Kiara I don't think this is the right time to be discussing this." Simba says sternly

"So Kopa who is this?" Nala asks looking to Lamka

"Oh, Mom, Dad, this is Lamka," Kopa says standing next to her, "she's my mate."

Nala doesn't know how to respond, she knew Vitani still loved Kopa and now this. "Oh! That's Wonderful!" she finally decides to say.

"And you should probably know that we are King and Queen of the Grass Lands." Kopa says.

"What?!" Simba almost screams

"That's right, Lamka is or was a princess." Kopa says

"Oh, that's great!" Nala says, still not knowing what else to say. "Congratulations!"

"Yes, you will be a great king Kopa." Simba says, proudly walking over to Kopa and giving a hug.

"Thank you Dad."

"Now how did you survive, and get involved with these lions, and why didn't you come back, or send word that you were alive?" Simba asks

Well, hope you liked it! I don't really like how this chapter turned out, but I didn't know how else to put it so here it is! The next chap will explain everything!

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