"Isn't this place amazing?" Logan asked in an almost wistful tone as he showed Raven the waterfall. Raven smirked.

"It is beautiful," she replied. "But I don't understand. Why didn't you come back? Why did you let us think you were dead?" Her expression showed the confusion she had been feeling for two whole years. Logan paused but smiled and climbed onto some vines like a hammock.

"Well I uh, wanted to see the world. Be my own lion. So I did and it was awesome!" Raven's frown deepened.

"We needed you." Logan scoffed.

"Yeah, right. No one needs me."

"Yes we do, Logan! You're the king!"

"I'm not the king, Rae! And I'm never gonna be. Besides, Slade's the king."

"Logan! Slade let the hyenas take over the Pride Lands and they cleaned out all the food and water!"

"What?" This caught Logan's attention.

"If you don't come back we're going to starve!" Raven was trying to reason with him now.

"Raven, I can't go back."

"But why?"

"It's hard to explain. You wouldn't understand."

"And what exactly wouldn't I understand Logan?" The green lion hopped down from the vines and started to walk away. Raven followed after him.

"It doesn't matter," he answered. "Hakuna matata."

"What?" Raven raised a brow.

"Hakuna matata," Logan clarified. "Its something I learned out here. You gotta learn to put your past behind you. So why worry?"

"Maybe because it's your responsibility!" Logan turned to face her.

"Well what about you Miss High-and Mighty? You left didn't you?" Logan almost shouted at her. Raven was almost taken aback by his frustration. What had happened to the fun-loving Logan she had known as a cub?

"I left to find help!" she defended. "I don't plan on remaining hidden like a coward! Logan, you are our only hope to turning things back to how they used to be!"

"That is no longer my problem," he replied calmly. "Sorry." Raven was shocked.

"What happened to you?" she asked, her voice barely above a whisper.

"Sorry. Things change!" Logan saw the disappointment on her face. "Are you satisfied?" She shook her head.

"Just disappointed."

"You're starting to sound like my dad," the green lion said as he started to walk away from Raven once again.

"At least one of us does," Raven snapped. That stopped Logan in his tracks. He turned around and walked till he was face to face with Raven. She just stared defiantly back up at him.

"Listen! You think you can just show up and tell me how to run my life, and I'll listen to you like I used to?" he yelled in her face. "You don't know what I've been through!" Raven narrowed her eyes.

"I would if you would just tell me!" she shot back. The lion just scoffed and walked away.

"Just forget about it!" Raven growled in frustration.

"Fine!" She yelled at his retreating figure as he left Raven by waterfall. He walked out into the grasslands of the oasis. He started to pace in the tall grass.

"She's wrong. What would going back prove anyway? I mean, seriously, it wouldn't prove anything." He looked up at the sky and sighed. He remembered when he was cub how his dad would tell him about the past kings and the stars. If that was true then he truly needed his Marcus's guidance right now. "Dad, I really wish you were here right now," he said, barely audible. "You'd know what to do." Logan sighed and hung his head. Just then he heard someone singing something in an unfamiliar language. He looked up and saw a red baboon standing on a branch high up in a tree. Logan shook his head in annoyance and started to walk again. The baboon smiled and swung down to a lower branch and hummed the tune.

He walked across a log bridge and laid across it, and rested his head on top of his paws. He was looking at the water below when a pebble was thrown into the water. He looked up to see the red baboon from before and a black monkey sitting on a limb hanging over where Logan was laying. The red baboon started to sing that tune again. Logan sighed. "Would you cut that out dude?" The black monkey gave an apologetic look.

"Kori, maybe you should stop annoying him," he said to his companion. The baboon – Kori – suddenly stopped and rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly.

"Sorry dear friend, but that tune is very catchy," she apologized. "But Rich, wouldn't it just grow back if I 'cut it out' as he so stated?" Rich smirked but shook his head. Logan rolled his eyes. He really wasn't in the mood for this.

"Who are you guys?" Kori smirked.

"The better question my dear friend would be, who are you?" Logan raised an eyebrow.

"Logan," he responded. Kori and Rich both shook their heads.

"That's not what she meant," Rich stated.

"Then what did she mean?"

"I meant who are you?" Kori replied putting emphasis on the word 'are'. Logan sighed.

"Then I don't know."

"We do. You're Marcus's son," Rich said. Logan's eyes widened just slightly. Both monkeys looked at each other and nodded before taking off in the opposite direction of the lion. Logan ran after them. He found them sitting down on top of a rocky hill.

"You two knew my dad?"

"Correction," Kori replied. "we know your father." Logan raised a brow and looked at Rich, who nodded.

"I'm sorry to say this guys but he…died two years ago," the lion replied sadly. Kori shook her head in the same manner.

"Sorry to say this but you are wrong again my green friend!" the red baboon said cheerfully before her and Rich took off again, followed again by Logan. They both started to crawl through a borrow of vines, Logan not too far behind. He ran, following the two prim apes when he suddenly almost plowed straight into Kori. She motioned him to be very quiet and walked over to a small pool that was in the middle of a clearing, which Rich stood by, and motioned for him to come over. Once he got to where he could see the pool he sighed in disappointment. All he could see was his reflection, and he told them this. Rich and Kori both shook their heads.

"Look again," Kori commanded gently. Logan looked again, trying real hard to see what the baboon wanted him to see. Slowly, his reflection shifted into that of Marcus. Logan's eyes widened in awe. "You see? He lives in you Logan." The wind started to pick up and Logan looked up to the sky to see clouds gathering and slowly they took the shape of Marcus.

"Logan," his father's voice said, which sounded like thunder. "My dear boy, you have forgotten yourself. And so you have forgotten me." Logan shook his head. "You must return to the Pride lands and take back what was rightfully yours," Marcus's apparition continued.

"How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be!" Logan asked. Marcus's reply was,

"Remember who you are." He started to fade as the clouds rolled away from the young green lion.

"Wait! Dad! Don't go!" Logan cried as he tried to chase him but Marcus soon disappeared with his voice still echoing through the sky. Logan looked ahead of him, appearing to be in deep thought.

"Very strange weather we're having. Wouldn't you agree Rich?" Kori asked from beside the green lion with a knowing smile.

"Very," the black monkey replied with the same smile. Logan looked at them and then smirked.

"The winds are changing," he agreed with a very toothy grin. Suddenly he felt something whack him on top of the head. "Ow!" he cried as he started to rub the spot that had been hit. He looked over to find that Rich had acquired a very long stick. The black monkey was smirking while Kori tried to stifle a small laugh. "What was that for?" Rich shrugged.

"Some motivation," he replied. "The longer you stay here, the harder I'm going to hit you with this stick." Kori rolled her green eyes.

"Is that really necessary Friend Rich?" she asked with a small smile. Rich shrugged again.

"Why wouldn't it be?" Logan glared at the black monkey. The monkey started to raise the stick again.

"Ok! Ok! I'm going!" he said. Rich smirked and gave a look to Kori that said 'see?'. Kori simply shook her head in amusement and was about to say something when Rich gave out a shout of protest.

"Hey give me back my stick!" Logan was running from the ape with the stick clasped in his mouth when he chucked it as far as he could and continued to run from his pursuer. "That's right you better run! Get out of here!" he said with a laugh as he stopped chasing the green lion and gave a mission accomplished look to Kori who had a huge grin on her face.

Logan continued to run and he didn't know if it was from the hit to the head or just luck but he now had a very good idea what was to be done and he was going to go through with the plan he had. But before he could do that, he needed to get to Pride Rock. Logan's stomach did a flip at the thought but he needed to set things right. Slade would no longer be ruining the Pride Lands, his home. Not if he had any say in the matter.