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The Lion King 3: The Dark Pride(Chapter 8)

Two weeks have gone by and still no sign of Kodda or his lionesses. Kiara, Lea's Starlight's wounds are all gone and as for Kanaka, she's slowly recovering from her broken jaw. Rafiki had informed everyone that she would be fine.

It was morning as a young lioness with golden fur, brown eyes and a white-creamy underbelly, otherwise known as Kiara had just woken up and walked out to the tip of Pride Rock. As she streacthed her body, she looked over the Pridelands, everything was just the way it was supposed to be.

Kiara smiled and turned around to see Kisha headed out of the den and down the stones of Pride Rock.

So Kiara walked towards her and asked, "Hey Kisha, where are you going?"

Kisha replied, "Oh, I am just headed to the watering hole to get a drink, I'll be right back okay."

Kiara smiled and answered, "Okay, well I'm going to go ahead and lay down in the sun over there if you want to join me when you get back."

Kisha smiled and replied, "Okay, I'll join you after I get a quick drink okay."

Kiara smiled in return and said, "Okay."So, Kiara watched as Kisha walked to the watering hole. After she was gone, Kiara smiled and walked towards a smooth rock to lay on in the sun. She then laid down on her back and let the sun rays hit her as she rested her paws on her chest, closed her eyes and rested a bit. As the sun hit her fur and belly, it was so relaxing to her to finally be able to rest on her back in the sun, she wished she could do it more often.

Back to where Kisha was, she just began drinking from the watering hole untill she heard something in the bush. She quickly turned around to see what it was. But as she heard nothing, so she growled slightly then continued drinking some water. After awhile, she heard it again, so she stopped and quietly walked over to the bush and before she had time to react, she was attacked!

Back to where Kiara was, the young lioness rolled on the side of her belly and thought to herself, "Lea has been gone for quite awhile, better check to see if she's okay."

So Kiara got to her paws and walked down to the watering hole. Once she arrived, she saw that Lea wasn't there, so Kiara narrowed her brown eyes and said to herself, "Hmm, I was sure she said that she was going down to the watering hole ."

Just then, Kiara's ear twitched a bit and quickly turned around. Her eyes widened in fear as she saw some blood leading into the bushes. So she quietly walked towards the bush and was shocked at what she saw, she saw blood everywhere as Kodda was on Lea who was not moving. So Kiara quietly ducked and watched in horror.

To where Kodda was, he had just sunk his teeth deep into neck. As blood continued pouring out of her neck, Kodda dropped the bloody lioness and left Lea to die from blood loss. So, once Kiara saw that Kodda had left, she quietly walked towards Kisha, who was breathing heavily. Kisha had a couple of deep wounds, both of which were bleeding badly.

So Kiara asked Lea worriedly, "Lea, can you hear me? Lea wake up."

Kisha dazely looked up at Kiara and responded weakly, "Kiara, help me...I don't...want to die."

Kiara began to panic as Lea had just coughed up some blood and responded, "Lea, stay with me her, you won't die. I won't let you."

As Kiara was about to pick Kisha up, Kisha yelled the best she could, "Kiara...look out!"

Kiara replied, "What..."

But Kiara couldn't finish as Kodda slammed his huge paw into her jaw and she hit the ground hard which immediately knocked her out cold. Kodda smiled and picked Kiara up and carried her unconscious body back to the Outlands, leaving Kisha to die from blood loss. Once they got there, put Kiara down. Once they did that, Kodda walked towards Kiara and bumped her hard to wake her up.

After awhile, Kiara finally moaned and opened her eyes to only see that Kodda was in front of her. So she quickly got to her paws and asked, "Who are you and what do you want with me?"

He responded, "Why, my name is Kodda princess. Once I have the Pridelands, you will rule along with me, whether you like it or not."

Kiara growled, but then smirked and said sarcastically, "Oh right, it will be so much fun ruling along with you. Oh, and what will be more fun, we can get married and become mates...and then we can become parents and rule forever, it will be so great..."

But Kiara couldn't finish as Kodda interrupted her and yelled, "Shut up princess, before you get hurt!"

"Hmm, let me think...no."

"You are asking for it."

"Oh right, bet ya you won't hurt me b/c you keep giving me that look in your eyes."

"What look?"

"A sign of likeness, whenever you look at me, I always see that hint. I bet I can mock you all day and you won't hurt me, that's your weakness."

As Kodda got more and more angrier at the moment, he swiftly clawed the side of Kiara's face. As she yelped in pain, blood began rushing down Kiara's face, he then slammed his paw into her face and the young lioness hit the ground hard.

As Kiara weakly got to her paws, she snarled a little bit and said, "Well, that wasn't nice. You are even more pathetic than I thought you monster!"

Kodda snarled and charged at her and pinned her to the ground and said, "More talk like that and you die, got it!"

Kiara replied, "No, I can talk however I want to. I'm free to do and say whatever I want to. So go ahead, kill me, I'm not afraid to die. I'd rather die than rule beside a murderer like you."

Kodda responded, "Fine, have it your way."

So, Kiara closed her eyes as Kodda sunk his teeth into her neck, but not deep. To Kiara's surprise, he removed his jaws from her neck fairly quickly and said in her ear, "That's a warning, next time, I will surely kill you, by breaking your little neck, got it!"

As Kiara was breathing heavily, she replied, putting her paw on her somewhat blood neck, "You know, by sinking your teeth into my neck, is just going to make it worse. You think by biting my neck, you will get me to like you? You've got to be insane if you think that, that's the wrong way to go about it. I knew you couldn't kill me"

Just before he left, Kodda replied, ignoring the last part of her sentense, "No, I was just teaching you a life lesson about not to fool around with me."

As Kiara took her paw of her bloodied up neck, the wound wasn't to bad and wasn't deadly, just enough to cause it to bleed, so Kiara laid down on her belly and sighed a bit, hoping that someone would soon come and rescue her.

Back at Pride Rock, Kovu had been searching for Kiara almost all afternoon but had no luck. But something caught his attention, the smell of blood spilled onto the ground was close, so Kovu quickly ran to where the scent was and once he arrived, his eyes were wide with shock. He saw Kisha lay there motionless, her fur was soaked in blood. So he quickly approached her to see if she was alive, she appeared to be dead, since there was no sign of breathing, but just as he was going to tell the horrible news, but to his surprise, he heard her caugh a bit.

So he quickly approached her and asked, "Kisha, Kisha can you hear me?"

But all she did was groan in pain a bit, she had been brutally injured.

So Kovu quickly and gently sled her body onto his back and ran to Rafiki's tree. Once they got there, Rafiki checked on her and examined her for awhile. After he was done, he walked towards Kovu and said, "Kisha surprisingly will be ok, I stopped the bleeding, but just leave her here and I'll take care of her okay."

Kovu replied, "Okay, thanks Rafiki."

The shamen just nodded and walked back into the tree to take care of the injured lioness.

Kovu just sighed, and continued searching for Kiara. He walked back to where Kisha had been injured, because he had figured Kiara must have been there also. Obviously Kisha had been in a fight, because blood was spilled everywhere. Then something caught his attention, he saw some paw prints from the blood on the ground and then he picked up another scent, it was the scent of a lioness to. Then it hit him, the lioness' scent was from Kiara, it appeared yet again, she was taken to the Outlands.

So, Kovu sighed, not wanting to cross into the Outlands, but then again, he was worried about Kiara safety, not wanting to loose her, because besides Vitani, his sister, Kiara was the only lioness he loved and if anything were to happen to her, he would feel like it was his fault, that he wasn't there to help her. So, Kovu sighed again and crossed the boarders, hoping to find Kiara and escape unharmed.

Well, what did you think? Hope you liked it! Yes, I know some of this was brutal, but, I tried to make it as best as possible.

Anyway, I'm not sure when my next Update will be, but I'll try to Update ASAP, okay!

But for now, Please R&R!!

-Kovu 01