Ugh, my inspiration keeps disappearing… Sorry guys, I'll try to update more fics in the next couple of weeks, but I just have too many to remember them all and the only one that I've constantly been working on isn't even posted on here, though I might change that sometime…
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It was late the next morning when Ed woke up, looking straight at the bottom of Mufasa's mane. The lion was standing over him for the moment, and Ed noted that he was looking concernedly at something nearby. Finally, he turned and looked down at Ed.
"You're coming with me to search for Simba," Mufasa said, moving so that Ed had enough room to stand up. "If I'm right, you may be the only one who can find him."
Ed nodded and followed the lion quietly out to the savannah. Once they were far enough away, Mufasa slowed down and turned to Ed.
"I heard you spoke with my brother last night."
Ed cringed inwardly. He had a pretty good idea of where this was going. "Something like that."
"Tell me what happened."
"Well…" Ed began, not quite sure where to begin.
"Everything that happened. Including what was going on before your guard woke up."
Ed sighed. Either he was about to expose Scar for good, or he was walking right into his death, but seeing as he didn't see a better way out of this, he went ahead and told Mufasa what he'd heard, getting ready to run if things got dangerous.
Thankfully, things didn't get dangerous once Ed finished his story. Instead, once Ed had finished, Mufasa let out a resigned sigh.
"I had a feeling he was behind this," he said as they made their way to the rocks. "He must have been waiting for an opportunity like this, and if you had been any other human, it may have worked."
Ed frowned. "What do you mean, if I had been any other human?"
"Well, how many humans do you know that can understand lions?" Mufasa asked.
Ed decided not to respond to that. Even if he hadn't had the feeling that there was something more to it, he realized that Mufasa was right. If he couldn't understand them, then he'd probably be doing much worse.
They climbed up to the top of the rocks and looked out at the surrounding lands. Ed was beginning to feel worried; something big was about to happen, and he didn't know what to think of it because, quite frankly, he didn't know what it was.
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Simba was overjoyed to escape from Al's armor after the train ride; they had arrived in that town where Simba had first seen Al, and they had passed through it to the rocks loomed over them. Simba walked ahead of Al, sniffing and pawing the ground in an effort to find his way back to where Scar had first found him. Finally, he arrived, and the two of them wandered around for a while, Simba trying to return to his own world and Al looking for whatever Simba was looking for.
It was a few hours later that Simba gave up, collapsing on the ground with a disgruntled sigh. Why couldn't he get back? This was driving him insane! All he wanted was to see his mom and dad and Nala and Ed again–
"Simba!"
"Ed!" Simba shouted, and he turned and ran towards the disembodied voice, which wasn't disembodied as he approached, because Ed seemed to appear out of nowhere. Simba jumped up and tackled Ed, and he laughed as they fell in a heap on the ground.
"Ow…"
"Oh, sorry," Simba said, stepping off of Ed's chest and backing up a bit. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," Ed replied, but he didn't look so fine to Simba. He looked tired and worried and beat up. "What about you? You okay?"
"Oh, yeah, I'm fine," Simba replied. "I ran into that other Scar you mentioned, and he thought I was you, but he didn't try to kill me because I was a lion, and he gave me to Al, and I sat in Al for a long time and met this other guy named Roy, and neither of them could understand me so I had to do some writing thing, and then we came back here–"
"Brother!"
Ed and Simba turned to see Al run up to them. The armor pulled Ed into a tight hug, but like Simba, apologized and backed off as soon as it started to hurt Ed. "You're hurt, brother?" Al asked.
"Yeah, but it's healing. So you brought Simba to headquarters?" Ed asked.
Al seemed surprised. "Well, yeah, but how–"
"I have no idea, Al," Ed interrupted. "But we can understand each other."
"Well, that's good," Al said. "Because the Colonel wants to know what happened."
Simba watched the brothers exchange some more dialogue, added a few things himself, and sat back with a smile. Ed was home, and Simba would probably be home soon, too. Everything was good.
Until a voice from behind Simba said, "Well, well, what a touching reunion."
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This chapter's a bit short and discombobulated because I forgot where I'm going with the plot. I think I remember now, though.