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Kion followed Kiara through the bit of the Pridelands until the grass disappeared. The golden yellow cub looked unsure before moving his light brown eyes towards his sister. "Isn't this close enough?"
Kiara rolled her amber eyes before leaping on a log. "You worry too much, Kiongozi."
Kion frowned, he didn't really like his real name. He wasn't even a leader, Kiara's going to grow up and be queen. The prince shook his head before focusing on his sister to see her trip over a lifted peice of wood before tumbling down and rolled into a cub that was sitting, looking around. Kion joined his sister's side just as the dark brown cub got up and glared at them with a small growl.
"Who are you Pridelanders?"
The more the cub apporched the more the prince and princess jumped away, keeping their backs away from the older cub. The more they moved side to side to more the dark brown got curious until his curiosity got the better of him.
"What are you two doing?"
Kiara glared as she stood in front of her brother. "Our father said to never turn our backs on a Outsider!"
The Outsider cub smirked as he looked the two Pridelanders. "And you two always do what your daddy says?"
Kion was going to answer but Kiara beat him to it. She frowned as she growled. "No!"
Kion just frowned as the dark brown cub laughed before he turned away and started hopping on rocks across the river.
"An Outsider doesn't need anybody. I take care of myself."
Kiara and Kion's ears perked up then as their eyes shinned with curiosity. "Really? Cool!" as they followed the darker cub across.
The dark brown cub looks back at the prince and princess and notices a huge crocodile rising up behind them with its mouth gaping.
"Wuhh... Waaaahh!"
Kiara and Kion turns and their smile drops as they saw the crocodile.
"Aaaaahhh! Run!" shouted the prince as he and Kiara ran off before the reptile's teeth came crashing down. "This way!"
The siblings and the dark brown cub narrowly escape, leaping from rock to rock across the river and out of reach of the crocodile's jaws as more rise up out of the water. The three cubs rest on two unmoving "stones" further down, and begin to pant and giggle.
"That was a close one." laughed the brown cub.
Kiara laughed in agreement. "Yeah, real close."
The "stones" they were sitting on started to rise up and reveal themselves as more crocodile heads.
"Whooaaahhh..." screamed Kiara, Kion and the dark brown cub.
Kiara runs up a tree out of reach, however, Kion and the brown cub runs past the princess, leaping from crocodile to crocodile down the river.
"Hey! What about me?" yelled Kiara her amber eyes wide with fear.
"You gotta take care of yourself! But I will distract them! Then you run!" shouted the dark brown cub as he raced across the crocodiles' heads.
The dark brown cub slips off the last crocodile into the water along with Kion. As they come up gasping for air, the crocodiles loom over them. Kiara was swiping at the reptiles from her branch, when she saw her brother and the dark brown cub in trouble.
"Look out!" yelled Kiara with her ears against her head.
The dark brown cub was paralyzed by fright, the gaping mouth in front of him was suddenly clamped shut by Kiara leaping on top of it.
"Move it!" Kion growled lowly, he wanted to get out of the river and the quicker, the better.
The three cubs scramble up a branch and up onto the bank, out of danger. On top they pant and rest for a few. Then move back to look over the edge . The crocodiles are massing below, furious at being cheated out of their meal.
"We did it!" yelled Kion excitedly.
Then he and Kiara raspberries the angry reptiles below.
"Ha!" laughed the dark brown cub as he turned along with Kiara and Kion.
The cubs move back from the edge and recount their adventure. Kiara stopped walking and turned to face the dark brown cub as Kion sat by her.
"Whoah, man- did you see those theeth. They were going eat you, but I jumped on her head - and I bumped her so good..." laughed Kiara as she was on her back.
As Kiara was retelling the brown cub and Kion about the adventure they didn't notice a pale tan lioness with a dark brown stripe going down her head and orange-red eyes, watching with a snarl.
Kion was quiet as he watched his sister before he turned to Kovu with a smile of his own. "You were pretty brave."
"You were pretty brave too. The name's Kovu" smiled the dark brown cub with proudness.
"I'm Kiara." Kiara smiled at the older cub.
Kion rolled his eyes before looking at Kovu. "My name is Kion."
"Well Kovu, wanna play?" Kiara asked as she bowed playfully. Kovu tilted his head and Kiara groaned. "Play? As in you run and I tag." Kovu just looked at his new friend like she had two heads before looking at Kion and back to Kiara with a frown.
"Well if you don't know how to play, then let's fight." Kion said getting in the fighting stand.
"Well alright..." said Kovu following suit.
Just as Kovu let out a playful growl a massive golden paw came into view and a loud roar was heard. Kovu looked up to see Kiara and Kion's father, King Simba. The pale tan lioness jumps from her hiding spot and roars in the king's face.
"Simba!" growled the pale tan lioness.
"Zira!" Simba growled back with bared teeth.
Just then Nala showed up with three other lionesses.
"Nala!" Zira snarled before she turned her eyes on one of the lionesses, a pale beige furred lioness with a dark brown stripe going down her head. "Mother!"
The pale beige lioness and the peachy cream queen just growled.
"Timon, Pumbaa! Now that we all know each other get out of our Pridelands!" yelled a light brown meerkat.
"These lands belong to Scar!" roared Zira in Timon and Pumbaa's faces.
The pale beige lioness stepped up and sneered at her daughter. "We banished you, so get your child and get out!"
"Oh you haven't met my son, Kovu." Zira tore her eyes from Simba to her mother. "Your grandson." before moving them back to the glaring golden lion. "He was paw chosen by Scar to follow in his paw prints- and become...King!"
Simba growled at that as Timon laughed "King? That's a fuzzy Maraca!"
Zira's mother chuckled at Timon's joke before turning her attention on the her king and queen.
"Kovu..." Zira started as she began to walk around the frighten Kovu. "Was the last born before you..." Zira stopped and gave Simba a evil glare before continuing, "Exiled us to the Outlands..."
One of the other lionesses with dark beige fur roared and got in Zira's face with a snarl."You know why you were exiled!"
Zira smirked and finished with a dramaic stand, "Where there's little food and little water."
"You do the crime, you do the time! You don't get no pity from us!" growled the pale beige lioness, disgust in her orange-red eyes.
Zira looked over at her and growled "You stay out of this, mother!"
Simba had enough and stepped up and said "You know the penalty for returning to the Pridelands."
Zira glares at the golden king and says "But the child does not! However... If you need your pound of fresh-" the pale tan lioness nudges Kovu toward Simba, daring him to show either ruthlessness or cowardice.
Simba looked from the shaking cub to his mother and growled in disgust. "Take him and get out. We are finished here." then he grabbed Kion with his teeth.
Zira walks over and looks down at the terrified cubs. "Oh no, Simba... We have barely begun." sneered Zira before she turns and picks up Kovu in her jaws.
"Bye..." whispered Kion and Kiara.
"Bye..." Kovu whispered back before disappearing.
The Pridelands
It took a good walk from the borders but they finally made it back to Pride Rock. Kiara kept on walking with a forlorn look on her face, before her father stopped her with his paw.
"Simba?" Nala turned to her mate, who just cleared his throat, clearly saying that he need alone time with the cubs. She nodded in understanding and gestured for the three lionesses to come along.
Simba place Kion on a small rock and gestured for Kiara to get on as well. While Kion looked at his paws, shamelessly, Kiara tried to smile brightly, but it only faltered when Simba did nothing but glare at them.
"What were you two think you were doing? You could have been killed today!" he scold them lightly. They protested, but he interrupted.
"I'm telling you this because I love you. I don't want to loose either of you." he told them.
"We know." they both sighed. Simba sighed as well.
"If something happened to either of you I don't know what I'd do. Look Kiara, one day I won't be here, and I need you to take my place. And Kion, you still have a role in the pride. You are both part of the great Circle of Life."
"'Circle of Life' I know." Kiara recited, getting annoyed with all the talk about becoming queen.
"Exactly! And you need to be careful. As future queen-"
"What if I don't want to be queen?! It's no fun!" she pulled away from him in protest as Kion felt out of place. He felt that Simba favored Kiara over him. He had showed her the most attention. He tried to convince himself that it was because that she was going to be the next queen, but now he wasn't sure.
"That's like saying you don't want to be a Lion. It's in your blood, as I am and Kion." Kion looked up at his father then when he said that. "We are a part of each other." he told her, she humphed, before Simba pushed her off the rock and made her land on Kion.
Simba raised an eyebrow, before smiling cheekily. Kiara and Kion smiled too, then rubbed themselves against him.
Simba - As you grow through life, you'll see, there is so much that we don't understand.
And the only thing we know, is things don't always go the way we planed.
But you'll see everyday that we'll never turn away, when you see all your dreams come undone.
We will stand by your side, filled with hope and filled with pride.
We are more then we are.
We Are One!
Animals - Family. Family. We are One.
Family. Family. We are One.
Kiara - If there's so much I must be, can I still just be me?
The way I am?
Kion - And can I trust in my own heart?
Or am I just one part, of some big plan?
Simba - Even those who are gone are with us as we go on.
Your journey has only begun.
Tears of Pain. Tears of Joy.
One thing nothing can destroy!
Is our pride, deep inside!
We are One!
Animals - Family. Family. We are One.
Family. Family. We are One.
Simba - We are One, you and I.
We are like the Earth and Sky.
One family under the sun.
All the wisdom to lead, all the courage that you need.
You will find when you see.
We are One.
Simba looked at Pride Rock with pride, but the cubs still looked unsure. Simba looked puzzled, before coming over to them.
"As long as you live here, it's who you are." he nuzzled and licked them.
"You'll understand someday." with that said, he walked away.
Just then a little white bird flew by, catching the cubs attention, before flying off into the sunset, where the Outlands two cub frowned, before smiling at the bird's chance of freedom. As they sat together in silence, they continue to watch the sun set until the stars began to shine.