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The Lion King 3: The Dark Pride(Chapter 14)
Rafiki looked down for a moment, but then looked at Nala and said painfully, "I'm sorry, but Kovu's dying."
As Rafiki said that, Nala just looked shocked, couldn't believe all that is happening. First, earlier, Vitani had died, Zaraka was close to death, Kiara had died, then Mufasa had resurected her not to long ago, and now is told that Kovu is dying? Nala just couldn't believe it.
Nala regained her composure and asked, still shocked a bit, "Are you sure that there's nothing else you can do for him? Does Kovu have a small chance in surviving...or even the slightest bit?"
Rafiki looked down for a moment, then looked up at Nala and replied, "Well, there's a slim chance he will recover, but it looks like it's highly unlikely."
Nala didn't reply, so Rafiki continued, "All we can do now is hope and pray to the Great Kings that he will recover, okay."
Nala nodded sadly as Rafiki padded her on the shoulder and left to tell everyone else at Pride Rock what the situation was with the Pridelands Monarchs.
Just as Nala was about to leave, she heard a cough behind her. She turned around to see that it was her daughter...so she sighed in relief and walked over to her and asked with a small smile on her face, "Hey, Kiara...can you hear me?"
Kiara opened her eyes, smiled and replied, "Yes, I can hear you."
Nala leaned down and nuzzled her daughter deeply, glad that she at least didn't loose her. After a small while, to Nala's surprise, Kiara was able to get up and from the looks of it, amazingly, her wounds were closed and all that was left from them was just a few scars and that was it.
So, as Kiara got up, she asked, "What's wrong mom...you look sad."
Nala replied, not wanting to tell her daughter the bad news...yet at least, "Nothing's wrong, I'm just a bit tired is all."
"Mom, I know when something's wrong...whenever I see you hanging your head and having droopy eyes, I know something's wrong. Tell me."
"Okay...this is really hard, but...Vitani is...dead and..."
But Nala couldn't finish as Kiara asked, her eyes welling up, not to mention that she is shocked to hear that, "Wh-what...Vitani's dead? But...but how?"
"Well...from what I heard...when Kodda had attacked you, Vitani saw him attack you, so she ran to help you and try to fight off Kodda...but she eventually...died. Kodda was to much for her to handle."
Kiara just stood there in shock, so Nala continued, "But you have to remember, what Vitani did was very brave of her. Not many lionesses would do what she did, especially considering how big Kodda is. Kiara, hunny, she didn't want to loose you...she gave her life away for you, and I'm sure she doesn't regret trying to save you. I know it's hard, but you must honor that."
Tears began streaming down Kiara's face, but responded weakly while crying into her mothers chest, "I do honor what Vitani did...it's just so hard to believe."
After awhile of grieving, Kiara pulled back and asked, "What about Kovu, is he okay?"
Once again, Nala lowered her head with her ears all the way back, and responded sadly, "I'm afraid not...from what Rafiki told me, Kovu lost to much blood before he got here. He...he's most likely not going to make it...I'm sorry Kiara."
More and more tears began streaming down Kiara's face as she said, "Mom, I'm sorry, but I need to be alone."
Nala nodded understandingly as she saw Kiara run on past her, not knowing where her daughter would run off. She prayed that she would come home unharmed after grieving.
So, Kiara just kept on running and running further out into the Pridelands, not wanting to believe that Kovu to would most likely die on her to, just like Vitani did. After about ten minutes of running, she came to a stop, and just flopped onto the ground and cried her heart out for Vitani and Kovu. Besides her mom and her childhood friends, Vitani and Kovu were the two she most cared about...especially Kovu.
Kovu was the one lion she ever had come to love so much. She gave her heart to him. She loved him so much that she would do anything for him, she would even die for him.
After awhile, rain had started falling on her, but Kiara didn't care. As Kiara let out a roar of sadness, a big crack of thunder was heard. The rain got heavier as she cried her heart out even more. By the time she stopped crying and grieving, her golden fur was all soaked with rain water, but she could care less. She felt as if her heart had been torn out and felt all alone.
It was still raining at a good pace, and every now and then thunder was heard. Eventually, she slowly rose to her paws and began her journey back home. As she continued walking home, her sadness was slowly changing over to anger and fury. She wanted to rip Kodda's life out of him, just like he did to her. She wanted to make him pay for all that he's done to her.
The rain water began weighing her down even more, making it harder for her to continue her journey home, so she shook the water off her fur, though she was still soaked b/c it was still raining, but not as heavily as earlier.
She then stopped as she looked far ahead of her...it looked like it was Kodda, making his way towards Pride Rock. Kiara began to growl and her fur bristled up and ran at him with full speed. She would make him pay for his crimes and wouldn't allow him to harm anyone else again, even if it meant death. She would do it for her pride, she would do it for her mother and she certainly would do it for Vitani and Kovu!
As she neared him quickly, he had no time to react, as Kiara slammed her paw into his head and yelled, "You will pay for all the crimes you've done! Especially with what you've done to Vitani and Kovu!"
With that, she slammed her paw into his face again and he hit the ground hard. Kodda began heaving heavily, but got up quickly and said evilly while mocking her a bit, "Ahh, well, look who's back from the dead...the worthless Queen of the Pridelands. So, why are you all wet...were you being a big crybaby because of your worthless mate almost being dead?"
Kodda chuckled a bit, as Kiara's brown eyes flashed with anger and snarled furiously, "No, but you will be near begging me to spare your life in just a few moments!"
And with that, Kiara leapt at him again, but Kodda dodged her attack, smirked and leapt at her and slammed his paw into Kiara's face! She hit the ground hard, but as soon as she got up, he racked his claws accross her eye and she roared in pain! Her head throbbed a bit, but she didn't let that slow her down as she quickly whirled her head back towards him, her eyes flashing with fury, causing a little blood to fly through the air off her face, and attacked again!
She jumped at him and slashed him across the face and he roared in pain! Kiara leapt at him again and tried to snag his neck, but she ended up missing as Kodda just barely dodged the attack! Kodda ran up to her and slammed his mighty paw into her face and as she hit the ground hard, he ran up to her again and sunk his teeth deep into her hind leg, and unexpectedly to Kiara, he dug his teeth in so deep that he then broke her right hind leg and then began crushing it with his paw, causing blood to spew out of her hind leg. Kiara roared in tremendous agony!
Kodda then got on top of her and said, "Time to join Kovu!"
So Kodda sank his teeth into Kiara's neck as she roared in even more pain! Kiara felt his teeth dig in deeper into her neck, causing blood to rush out of her neck, but with all the rage and fury she had, she got her foreleg loose and and said outloud, "Die you monster," and Kiara racked her claws and sliced into his throat!
Kodda immediatly let go of Kiara's neck and roared out in agony. Kiara saw Kodda trying to stop the blood from coming out of his throat, but failed as it kep spurting out onto the ground and soon Kodda fell to the ground and soon died, his jaw hung slack with blood flowing out of his mouth.
Kiara slowly limped away from Kodda's dead body, but fell back onto the ground, due to her broken hind leg. Blood continued quickly rushing out of her hind leg and was swelling up a bit. As for her neck wound, it wasn't really deep and wasn't life-threatening and the bleeding was slowing down.
Kiara tried getting up again, but soon fell back down, so she roared for help, but the pain in her hind leg was to much for her, so she didn't bother trying to get back up, because it would just make it worse. So she just laid there on her side until help came.
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