The Lion King 3: The Dark Pride(Chapter 7)

Disclaimer: I don't own lion king, but I do own Lea(long "e" and a short "a" for the name Lea), Kanaka and Kodda!

It was late afternoon as Simba had just saw Kovu disapear into the darkness in the Outlands to search for Kiara, Starlight and Vitani. Just as Kovu disappeared, a Pridelander named Lea saw this so she ran to catch up with Kovu and try to help.

Lea was one of the stronger and better fighting Pridelanders in the pride. Though she was great friends with Kiara and cared about her, she was about Kiara's age, just a tad bit older. Lea had tanish fur, brown eyes and a white-creamy underbelly. Though Lea was one of the gentle kind of lioness in the pride, she had great vision, was an great huntress, great pouncing ability and was excellent when hunting prey. When needed in battles, she was quick and had excellent fighting skills.

Lea yelled at Kovu and said, "Kovu, wait up."

Kovu had stopped and turned around to see Lea coming towards him. Once she stopped in front of him, Kovu said quietly, "Lea, what are you doing here. You could get injured, go back now before it's to late."

Lea rolled her brown eyes and replied, "Kovu please, I'll be fine. Kiara's one of my best friends, I want to help save her and the others. I'm not going back, I'm going to help you look for them.

Kovu, knowing that he couldn't change her mind said, "Okay, you can help, but be carefull."

Lea nodded her head, then said, "Maybe we should split up, we can cover more ground. I'll be fine Kovu...besides, I am one of the better Pridelander fighters in this pride."

Kovu hesitated, not wanting to loose another one of his pride mates, but gave in and said, "Okay, I'll search over her and you search over there, but try to stay as close to me as possible while I look, okay. I don't want you getting hurt."

Lea smiled and replied, "Sure thing Kovu."

With that, she went to look in a different area. Kovu watched her go, but after a bit, he moved on to search for Kiara, Vitani and Starlight.

Back to where Lea was, she was quietly searching for her pride sisters and said quietly to herself, "Come on, where are you."

Lea then heard a snap behind her and came to a complete stop, her ears percked up and listened for any movement closely. After awhile, she growled quietly and started searching more. She was almost sure she was being watched, but just couldn't find out where it was. Just then she heard another snap, this time closer then heard an evil voice say, "Well well, look who we have here girls, a weak and pathetic Pridelander wondering in our lands. Tell me, why are you here...all alone?"

Lea whirled around to find three rogue lionesses, but snarled angrily at the lioness' comment about her and replied, "What did you just call me rogue?"

The lioness ignored the last comment from Lea, then replied back, "You heard me. You know, coming this far into our lands was a bad idea, especially alone."

Lea growled dangerously and spat, "I'm not going to answer that, you know why, because I'm not afraid of you pathetic rogues."

The lioness replied, "Oh, so sure of yourself huh, well we'll see about that. Kill her!"

The two roge lionesses nodded and leapt at her, but Lea only smirked and dodged their attacks. Lea then took the chance and leapt at a lioness and racked her claws across the rogue's face. the rogue yelped in pain as blood began running down her face, then Lea jumped at her and pinned her to the ground and said, "Times up rogue."

The lioness only smirked as she sunk her fangs deep into the lioness' neck. The lioness tried pushing her off, but Lea was to strong as the rogue kept getting weaker by the moment as Lea then jerked her head and soon enough, the rogue was dead.

Lea then spat out a large chunk of her flesh but just as she turned around another rogue jumped on her and sunk her teeth deep into Lea's back and held on tight. Lea roared in pain as blood started rushing down the side of her belly from her back, but finally was able to throw her off, but then again, the other rogue leapt at her and her jaws found their way to her neck and she began sinking her teeth deep into Lea's neck. She roared in pain and the rogue kept sinking her teeth as deep as she could into Lea's neck. Blood began rushing fast down her neck and quickly dripped to the ground, but Lea wasn't about to give up, she then yelled, "Get...off...me!"

Lea finally threw the lioness of her wildly, causing the rogue's teeth to finally let go of her neck. As the rogue hit the ground hard, she had no time to react as Lea pinned her quickly! She then smiled, blood still rushing down her neck and said, "Times up!" Lea then sunk her teeth aggressively into the rogue's neck, spilling her flesh fast and soon the lioness died. Lea then removed her jaws from the dead lioness' neck and leapt at the other lioness, as she had no time to react, Lea pinned the rogue and quickly sunk her teeth into the rogue's neck and soon enough, the rogue was dead.

Lea smiled and removed her jaws from the dead lioness' neck, licking the blood off her muzzle. Lea then said, as she looked at the dead bodies of the three rogues lionesses, "You are no match for me rogues."

Lea turned away and rubbed her neck with her paw. She groaned a bit as she felt the pain and removed her paw from her neck and saw her blood covering most of her paw. Lea then said quietly, "Dumb rogues. All of you will pay for taking Kiara, Vitani and Starling away from us."

Lea smirked as she began searching again. After awhile of searching, she saw a cave up ahead, so she slowly walked towards is, but saw a lioness guarding the entrance. She then quietly said to herself, "That must be where my friends are."

So she scanned the perimeter, but didn't see anyone else. So she quietly got closer, the lioness not knowing Lea was there and before the lioness had time to react, with a single blow to her head Lea hit the lioness hard and she hit the ground hard and was out cold. Lea walked up to her and bumped her slightly to see if she was unconscious, she was, so Lea looked inside the cave ans saw Kiara, Vitani and Starlight out cold. So she quickly approached them and checked their breathing.

Back outside the cave, unfortuanately Kodda saw some drops of blood, leaving a small trail to the cave Lea was in. Kodda leaned down and sniffed it, then said to himself, "Wel what do you know, another stupid Pridelander trying to save her friends. Well we'll see about that."

Back inside the den, Lea heard a moan, it was Vitani, so Lea quickly approached her and said, "Vitani, Vitani are you okay?"

Vitani opened her eyes, shaking her head from side to side, trying to get rid of the dizzyness and said, "Lea? Is that you?"

Lea responded, "Yes it's me. Kovu and I decided to split up and search for you so we could cover more ground."

Vitani narrowed he eyes and spotted some wounds on her. Lea had what looked like a pretty good sized neck wound, because blood was still rushing down her neck, so she said, "Lea, your neck is bleeding. You need to get that looked at."

Lea looked down on the ground, drops of blood were hitting the ground from her neck wound, but shook her head and said, "Don't worry about it Vitani, it doesn't hurt to much."

Vitani's eyes widened as she saw Kodda behind her, so she yelled, "Lea, look out!"

Lea responded, turning her head to look where Vitani was pointing at, "What..."

But Lea was cut short as Kodda slammed his paw square into her jaw and Lea went flying and hit the ground hard. Luckly Lea's jaw wasn't broken like Kanaka's was, but it certainly hurt as she groaned in pain, covering her jaw with her paw. Lea opened her eyes, her head throbbing a bit, and saw Kodda close in on her.

He then said, "Times up Pridelander."

He put his claws on her throat and was about to kill her until Kovu came in and slammed his paw as hard as he could into his head and Kodda hit the cave wall hard and slowly fell unconscious.

Kovu approached Lea, eyes her neck wound and asked, "Are you okay Lea?"

It hurt to move her jaw, but Lea responded, getting to her paws "Yeah...I'm fine. It doesn't hurt to badly..but what really...hurts the most...is my jaw. He slammed his paw into my jaw...and it hurts to move it...terribly."

Kovu replied, seeing that Lea's jaw was bruising up, "Okay, well we need to get you, Kiara, Starlight and my sister to Rafiki so he can take a look at you all."

Lea nodded as she walked over to Starlight and gently put her on her back and waited for Vitani and Kovu to get Kiara. Once Vitani was up and Kiara was on Kovu's back, they quietly walked towards the entrance, trying not to be heard. They saw that the lioness that was guarding them was still out cold from Lea's blow to the head and Kodda was still unconscious. So they quietly walked out of the den and towards the Pridelands to get to Rafiki's tree.

About thirty minutes later, they finally got to Rafiki's tree. So Kovu gently put Kiara down inside, as did Lea with Starlight. Rafiki examined them and soon, he came back out and said to Kovu, "Kiara and Starlight will be fine. Starlight's leg is broken but it should heal up in about three to four weeks. Kiara's fine, all she needs is medicine each day and night and rest and should be back on her paws in two weeks max."

Lea then walked towards Kovu and Rafiki continued, "Lea will be fine, I've stopped the bleeding from her neck wound and back. Though because of the blow to Lea's jaw from Kodda, it will begin to bruise up some more but don't worry, it isn't broken okay. Kanaka will be fine, her jaw is broken but is should heal up in a matter of weeks okay."

As Lea walked back into Rafiki's tree, Rafiki said, "Just let them rest here for tonight, I'll go with you and inform the pride that they will be fine."

As Kovu nodded, they made their way back to Pride Rock to tell that the others are safe. Back at Rafiki's tree, Lea sighed and laid down next to Kiara and soon fell asleep.

Well, what did you think? Hope you liked it. I tried to make the chapter as good as possible.

Anyway, again, I'm not sure when the next Update will be, but I promise to do my best to Update ASAP, okay!

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-Kovu 01