Chapter 4

Soon enough another week had gone by and for once there were no problems so to celebrate Simba, Nala, Kovu, Kiara, and Oliver decided to go out stargazing. "...and that one's called the Little Dipper," said Oliver pointing out over the horizon. He had been showing them the consolations, "Wow that's amazing," said Kiara. "Hey Oliver."

"Yeah Kiara."

"Do you ever miss anything from the human world?" This came as a bit of a shock to everyone, Oliver would often tell them anecdotes from his world, without actually mentioning the fact that he was from reality, but no one ever really wondered what he might have missed, not even Oliver himself. Nala responded before Oliver even got the chance to speak "Kiara, Oliver is our guest, don't-"

"No, no it's ok Nala. Sure I miss some things, like video games, movies, fast food, don't ask, but I guess the thing I miss the most would have to be my family. I wonder how they're doing. It's funny you know we were supposed to go to Mount Kilimanjaro next month, I wonder if there still going. I gotta go to the bathroom." Oliver lied on that last part, he just didn't want his friends to see him so upset. Truth be told he wondered if they even knew if he was gone, or would time be frozen in the real world until he left, make it seem like he was never even gone. And most of all how was is girlfriend Victoria doing. "You ok?" asked a nearby voice. "Oh hey Kiara," said Oliver wiping away his tears, "yeah I'm ok."

"Are you sure, I don't want to have upset you."

"No it's alright, I'm ok now, c'mon let's get back to the others."

"Actually Kovu offered to go for a moonlit walk with me, Mom and Dad are heading back to Pride Rock."

"Ok I'll catch up with them, thanks and see you in the morning."

Later Oliver found himself walking down a strange path. He didn't know where he was going, or why, but he knew he had to go this way. Pretty soon he came upon Kiara's collapsed form, she seemed hurt and it looked like she was struggling. "HELP!" screamed Oliver, "HELP!"

"HELP!" shouted someone in the distance, and Oliver jerked up awake, breathing heavily. Next thing he knew Kovu was climbing up Pride Rock with Kiara out cold on his back. "Kovu, what happened?!" shouted Simba. "I dunno we were just walking she said she felt a bite, and then she collapsed."

"Sounds like a snake bite," said Oliver finally recovered from his dream, "and from the looks of it the poison is spreading fast. Somebody get Rafiki."

"I'll go," said Vitani. "Ok hurry I'll do what I can now," said Oliver, "Ok first things first how long has it been since she was bit."

"I don't know about 5 minutes."

"Ok then it's too late to try and suck the poison out, do you now what kind of snake it was."

"No I didn't see it."

"Ok well is there anything you remember."

"Well there was this weird sizzle sound before she was bit."

"Ok well if i know my snakes then that's most likely the saw-scaled viper, good thing there's an antidote. Looks like we won't need Rafiki." Oliver went to get The Book held it open and said, "Bring me a woah!" Oliver tripped over a rock and dropped The Book down a large crack in the stone, "NO! I can't reach it. If we can't get the antidote with The Book then were gonna have to do this the hard way."

"What do you mean?" asked Simba.

"I mean if we can't get an antidote from The Book then were on a have to reverse engineer an antidote from the snake's venom."

"Can we even do that?"

"Without the proper equipment it'll be tricky, but I can improvise."

"Hey! We're 'ere!" shouted the old mandrill coming up the main path to Pride Rock. "Ok now wat tis wrong."

"Kiara has a snake bite, saw-scaled viper, unless you have an antidote were gonna have to find a way to reverse engineer one from the snake's venom."

"I'm afraid ta say dat I don't, all I can do is slow it down."

"Good that's what we're gonna need till we find it, Kovu I need you to show exactly where she got bit, with any luck the snake will still be near by."

"B-but I can't just leave her."

"Listen I know it's hard, believe me if that was my Victoria I wouldn't want to leave either, but we need to find that snake."