Alrighty Guys, ready for the next chapter? Great but first
A BIG special thanks to Royal Dragoness for the chapter idea!
And everyone else :)

Kovu sat hunched over the ledge of pride rock staring wearily down at the lionesses scouring the plane for any trace of Kiara's scent or any clue as to who had taken her, it was the hyena's obviously but which pack was unknown. They had all been baffled when they realized Kiara was not coming back, at least not on her own, it made no sense, Yes the hyena's where most likely looking for revenge and food, but the cubs should have taken care of that, and even if they had taken Kiara simply out of spite, her body like the cubs would have been left at the kill site.
For Kovu this was his worst nightmare come true, the first day he had told himself she would come back, she'd gotten lost on a late night stroll, but as days turned into weeks which where steadily turning into months, he began running out of excuses and the thought of seeing the lioness again grew weak, but he hid these emotions for the pride's sake of course, but especially Kiara's parents, they where coping surprisingly well under the circumstances
but everyone had their breaking points.
In the days since her daughter's disappearance Nala slipped into unpredictable fits of rage that where directed at anyone unfortunate to cross her path, Kovu thankfully hadn't been on the receiving end yet and he hoped to keep it that way,
Simba was optimistic about the situation and he was positive the hyena's would return his daughter upon a hefty offering of meat, this was one of the only things that kept Kovu's hope from dying out completely, but on certain days the red maned lion would wander off to the ravine where the his father had met his untimely demise, and stare blankly into it's depths mumbling quietly to himself, until Nala sent someone to fetch him, after which he would become withdrawn for several days before returning to his former hopeful mind set, which Kovu now was forcing himself not to question.

Kiara had slept well after Scar's return and the next day the lion had taken her out back of the elephant graveyard, because all lions needed sun as he had put it, unknowmest to her she was being tested.
Scar had distanced himself a ways from the lioness letting her plod around the dirt ground, giving her ample opportunity escape if she pleased, Kiara could easily out run him and they both knew it ,that wasn't to say he wouldn't get her back of course, but to Scar's delight she never went farther than seven feet before returning to his side where she was at the moment, contently rolling pebbles into a small pile.
Now seemed like the perfect time to make this test a little harder.
So he motioned nonchalantly in a random direction "Strange in this lighting you can almost see Pride rock."
Kiara lifted her head slightly, turning to look at the skyline "Really? I cant see it." she murmured thoughtfully, before returning to her rocks.
Scar grinned widely, so far so good, now for the last phase.
"Dear I'm going inside for a moment, wait here"
Kiara nodded in acknowledgment him disappear into the large elephant skeleton, she was no longer concerned about Scar vanishing on her he had already all but promised her last night that leaving her was the last thing on his mind and Kiara believed him wholly. she had nothing to worry about nothing at all.
well at least thats what she'd been telling herself, but there was on thing, he wanted cubs at least three of them, tho he was willing to wait a little while every time she thought of this a strange sense of urgency would overtake her but she couldn't figure out why, could it be possible she was one of those lionesses who's clock ticked faster than normal, would she even be able to have cubs in a little while? then what use would she be to Scar, and cubs of course was something she also wanted- she and Kovu had wanted, it was something they had talked endlessly about from possible names to the best season to have one, but that was in the past something she couldn't think about now maybe later but right now she had to find Scar, as she began her search she ran into Shenzi was carrying a large gazelle carcass, mumbling her apologies she she quickly hurried around the hyena, speaking of Hyaenas they didn't seem nearly as bad as her pride made them out to be,letting her stay here and eat from their mountain of meat which amazingly never seemed to lose height and she couldn't help but silently wonder where they got it all from...

A/N. Well I hope you enjoyed this, I was thinking of ending it here and starting another story with the cubs or I could just expand on this one what do you think?
Oh! and here's something fun, I've already picked the first cub's gender, looks and personality so how do you guys want to pick the others one?
Here's the first cub's bio of sorts
Name: Shani
Color: reddish brown, with green eyes, dark eye spots
Personality: Shy
Age: Second born
Gender: Male
If you want to make a cub go crazy, (But not too crazy :), I'd really appreciate it!

PS. I'm realizing exactly how hard it is to juggle two active stories at the same time, Oww