Sorry that I didn't update last week- I typed up the chapter but my computer did some weird glitch thing and the entire chapter disappeared. I think the Heartless stole it. Well anyways the story is getting in pretty far but just as a heads up here in a few chapters a huge change is going to happen (just trying to build up the suspense) I have a poll now on my profile if anyone wants to check it out (please vote!) I so far have 0 entries for my drawing contest : ( Well maybe I will cancel the contest and try again some other time. Well anyways hope you enjoy the chapter! (sorry its not a very long one)

*Sora*

Simba's daughter is missing?! Wow he must feel awful since it is probably his fault…oh I'm assuming she ran away. Maybe I should ask.

"Do you guys think Kiara was kidnapped? Or that she ran away?" I asked, noticing uncomfortably as all heads in the room shot towards me.

"Well there's no doubt in my mind that she ran away" Simba said before hitting himself in the face with his paw. "I'm so stupid! I should've seen this coming and prevented it! I could've at least taken a moment to check on her last night. She may have left hours ago."

"Well then I suppose we are just going to have to go out and look for her!" Kairi said to Simba, stepping forward while Lauren shifted her weight uncomfortably.

"Well we should definitely look for Kiara but the whole reason we came here was because of the Heartless…" Lauren said, her voice trailing off due to the dirty looks she got from Selphie and Kairi. It's pretty obvious what they think we should do. Kairi, Selphie and Lauren started yelling at each other about what to do. I shot Riku panicked glance but he just shook his head, not willing to get into this one. I stuck my tongue out at him and he just gave me this what-did-I-do?! look.

Then an idea sprang into my head. I roared as loud as I could, thanking the cave walls which made my voice sound louder, and waited for everyone to give me their attention.

"Lauren has a good point- we did come here to fight the Heartless, but Kairi and Selphie have a good point too. We can't just let Kiara fend for herself. So what should we do?" I asked, hoping that no one had a suggestion so I could stage mine.

"Well I could send out the lionesses as a search party…but the Pride lands is too big it could take them days to search the whole thing." Simba said, sounding more and more like a worried father.

"Well then why don't a few of us go and fight Heartless while the rest of us make a second search party to go look for Kiara" I suggested, pretending not to notice Kairi's admiring gaze. Although in reality it was the only thing I saw right then.

*Roxas*

And I thought my Other didn't like me. Lauren, Axel, Riku, and I were going to set out as an elite Heartless killing team and our goal was to destroy Heartless in all parts of the Pride lands. It was pretty obvious that he had picked the best fighters, other than himself, to go. He probably just wanted to spend more time with Kairi. Whatever, I couldn't pass up an awesome opportunity like this-not even for a little extra time with Namine. I was going to spend the entire day kicking Heartless ass with my best buddy Axel, my second best buddy Lauren, and…Axel's Other, whatever that guys name was.

*Selphie*

I slowed down for just a second, taking a deep breath, before sprinting to catch up with everyone else. I was completely exhausted but I didn't want to hold everyone up, especially considering how important it was that we find Kiara. It turned out that Kovu's mother had been exiled many years ago and would probably hurt Kiara at the first chance she got. Her name was Zira. I shuddered, what a horrible name. Just then Sora picked up the pace a little and I was forced to sprint desperately just to keep up, and I was still the furthest behind.

"Hey guys I need a break! Can we stop for a minute?" Tidus called out. Simba slowed down reluctantly and Sora nodded.

"But just for a minute!" I shot Tidus a grateful glance and he smiled at me. I plopped down on the ground and did my best to control my breathing but after about two minutes of that I just gave up.

"Alright let's get going!" Sora called to us, standing up. Kairi groaned

"Sora you have to be kidding!" she cried

"Kairi it's important that we keep moving! The Pride lands are huge and besides- Simba is counting on us to help him find his daughter" Sora told her gently. She sighed and gave a small smile which spread to my face too. People are hooking up everywhere! First Lauren and Riku and now Sora and Kairi! Man I wish I had a boyfriend! I looked over at Tidus and blushed, yeah right Selphie, like he would fall for you. Just then I came to a sudden halt, a random thought but important thought all the same popping into my head.

"Hey guys! Do any of you know where Namine is?!"

*Riku*

"Oh son of a bitch!" Lauren yelled before collapsing onto the ground, breathing hard. "I'm so freaking tired! How many Heartless can one place have?!" she moaned. I voiced my opinion by stepping on her tail. She whirled around to face my and snarled, her red eyes glaring into my aquamarine ones. I simply picked her up, why, because I knew it would piss her off even more.

"If you're not going to walk then I will carry you. See if you like that better" I said which came out badly since I was carrying her. She squirmed, trying to make me let go of her

"Riku you are messed up! Drop me now or I will bite you" Again with the venom filled fangs.

"Well you two just give it a rest already?" Axel said with a sigh. I tossed Lauren a few feet before rubbing my tongue with my paw.

"Too much fur!" I complained while Lauren just smirked

"That's what you get!" she said and we all continued our trek through the Pride lands. And then it started raining. Of course! It had to start raining.

*Namine*

Whoa wait what was that?! I quickly skidded to a halt and lifting up my nose. Simba had shown us something that had Kiara's scent on it and this seemed familiar, except maybe a bit weaker. I better tell Sora! I turned back to where the group had been to see….nothing, nothing at all. The group hadn't noticed me stop and must've kept running! I frantically looked around for someone, anyone! Nothing

"Oh no. Ugh man why do I get myself into these situations?!" I groaned, collapsing onto the ground. I wish Roxas was here. With a sigh I got up and headed off in the direction of, what I suspected, was Kiara's scent.

*Lauren*

My. Mouth .hurts. And I think I lost my tail a few miles back…no wait it's still there! Why isn't anyone answering me? Fury? Hellooooo? Anyone?! Wait a second…

I came to a complete stop, trying to figure out this strange phenomenon. Fury was never quiet, if anything she talked most when I didn't want her to. I felt sort of...empty. I remembered the strange feeling I had had when we had crash landed on the Pride lands. I had felt something from me vanish and Fury had been silent since. I tried to summon up here black sword in the place of the Two Across….nope that isn't working. Oh God

"Hey are you coming?" Riku yelled back at me, annoyed

"Oh my God!" I screamed, curling up on the ground. "Oh my God I killed my Dark Being!" At that statement Roxas and the others came running to my side.

"What do you mean?" Axel pressed. I quickly explained what I had figured out.

"I don't think you killed her" Roxas said. I gave him a look that said: go on. So he did "Well Sora can't go into Drive Form here in the Pride lands because Drive Form is made for humans, or at least, people with clothes on. Maybe because you're a lion Fury and you aren't separate beings. Maybe she doesn't have the ability to become a lion like all of us can, since Dark Beings are probably more specific on appearances." I did my best to take that all in. What Roxas said had made sense, and that could also explain my Furyish appearance.

"Well I still don't like the idea. It feels like Fury is gone and it's uncomfortable." I said, shifting from two paws to the other two.

"Missing your she-devil half huh?" Riku asked, but since he got glared at by Roxas and me he figured out that he should probably stop.

"Let's just keep going" I said. Now that I knew the reason of the strange feeling it felt more exaggerated than ever. I felt…lonely. I was so used to sharing my body, my mind with someone else. Being alone like this was so strange. I couldn't even talk to her. I sighed and began to slowly follow the others a few feet behind.

"This way! Come on I can show you!" I turned my head in the direction of the strange voice. I could see them fairly well through the rain, but that meant that they could also see us.

Guys be quiet! Look- I see someone.

I waited for them to do something but they didn't. Oh right- the telepathic abilities were one of Fury's traits, not mine. I ran up to them and frantically gestured in the direction of the two strange lions.

"Well why didn't you just say something?!" Riku whispered as we ran for cover.

*Namine*

Kiara where are you?! I mentally cried. I was lost, and had become lost on some possible chance of finding Kiara, if the scent had even been Kiara's to begin with! And then the scent got a lot stronger.

"Kovu what are we going to do now? My father is going to be furious with me!" Kovu? That was the name of the guy that Kiara was in love with. She must have run away to meet him!

"What if the two of us ran away? We could start our on pride" a voice said, which I presumed to be Kovu. I smiled at the mischievous tone to his voice. He sounds like Roxas. I crept through the bushes to see a small clearing covered in ash. A small wind blew, causing the ash to blow around and reveal healthy green grass underneath. There in the center of the clearing were Kiara and Kovu. Kovu was a dark brown lion, almost black. I hadn't seen any other lions like that throughout the entire Pride lands! He had a small scar next to his left eye. Kiara was a beautiful lioness with sparkling eyes and shining blond fur. They seemed like opposites of each other. If Kovu is Scar's son then they come from completely different worlds. I remembered what Sora had told us about Scar's treachery and how he had reached his end.

The way they look at each other…they are in love. Oh if I tell Sora about this than the two will be separated forever! How could I do something like that?! They are like two halves of a whole! I would know since I'm only half a person. I quietly backed away through the bushes and once I was a safe distance away I started to run.

*Lauren*

So of the two lions only one had mentioned their named and that was the girlish looking lion named Vitani. I honestly couldn't tell if that lion was a boy or a girl. I was going to go with boy though just for the hell of it. He led the lioness who had been with him towards the outskirts of the Pride lands.

"Should we try and stop them?" Axel asked quietly. I shook my head

"It's a long shot but they might know where Kiara is!" After maybe a half an hour of stealthily following Vitani and this lioness we reached the very edge of the Pride lands. The lioness exchanged a few words with Vitani before sprinting into the Outlands, which was what the area outside of the Pride lands was called. It was where all exiles were sent, exiles like Zira.

"I told you I had a bad feeling about this!" Riku said

"No you didn't Riku! You didn't say anything." I replied and Riku just sighed loudly. Vitani paced back and forth but there was something about him, something…relaxed. I didn't like it. Then the lioness appeared again.

"Where are they?" Vitani asked her

"We are all right here. You have done well Vitani. Mommy is very proud of you." A voice said. The voice sounded awful, like nails on a chalkboard. I flinched away from her voice while Vitani swelled with pride. But the next thing that happened filled me with complete dread. Twenty maybe even thirty lionesses came from the Outlands, each with a bloodthirsty look in their eye.

"Now we shall kill Simba and that traitor Kovu!" Zira snarled and she led the group of exiles towards Pride Rock.

"But Simba isn't there!" Roxas said quietly

"We have to find Simba and the others before Zira does!" I said and we all nodded before heading out into the Pride lands, hoping that we could somehow find the others.

*Namine*

"Come on! We are almost there!" a voice said, urging on a stampede of footsteps that I hadn't noticed until now. I quickly leapt into a small group of bushes, hoping that my scent wouldn't make me obvious. A large group of lionesses, their eyes gleaming with bloodlust, were heading straight for Pride Rock! At the head of the group was a lioness that looked more horrifying than the others. Somehow I just knew who it was. Zira

I looked back in the direction of where I had seen Kiara and Kovu. Simba had said that Zira hated Kiara and considered Kovu a traitor which meant that they were both in a danger. I sighed as I changed direction and sprinted back in the direction of Kiara and Kovu.

I burst through the bushes, taking in a large breath so I could scream. I saw two pairs of eyes look at me in synchronization.

"Zira is leading an ambush to Pride Rock!" I yelled and the pairs of eyes widened with shock.

"Oh this is bad!" Kovu said and began pacing.

"We have to go back!" Kiara said urgently.

"Kiara in case you forgot- I'm exiled"

"Well maybe my father will forgive you if you tell him about the ambush!"

"Ha I doubt it"

"Well either way I can't just let this go! My father is still my father and my pride is still my pride. I can't just sit by while Zira attacks them!" Kovu thought for a minute before reluctantly nodding his head. He turned to me

"Do you know where Simba is?"

"I think I do. The pride is split in half to look for Kiara. The lionesses are in a group while Simba is searching with a group of my friends." Kovu raised an eyebrow

"Your friends" I nodded

"You can meet them later! Let's go" I said before running towards where, I hoped, Simba was.

*Sora*

"Oh this is bad! Namine's gone and Kiara is missing. Oh what next" Simba said, putting a paw over his face.

"Come on if we give up we are never going to find them!" Then Namine, along with who I presumed to be Kiara and Kovu, burst into the clearing.

"Well from the looks of it giving up actually works pretty well!" Tidus said with a grin. Kairi and Selphie both rolled their eyes.

"Kiara" Simba cried before running up to her "I thought I had lost you"

"Father, Zira is attacking Pride Rock" Simba stood back, his eyes wide.

"But no one is at Pride Rock" Simba said

"Well we know that- now." A voice snarled form behind us. I whirled around to see a large group of lionesses, each of them prepared to attack. "We went to Pride Rock to see that no one was there so we set off to find you. Very good Kovu! Leading us straight to Simba, you were loyal the entire time, you even went on with our plan" I was almost positive that this lioness was Zira, the mother of Kovu.

"Zira is going to ambush Pride Ro- never mind" Riku said as he, Roxas, Axel and Lauren all burst into the clearing.

"See Kiara?! I told you that he was a traitor! He's been playing you this entire time!" Simba said accusingly.

"It's not true! She's lying" Kovu growled

"Father Kovu has been with me this entire time! He couldn't have been plotting with Zira" Kiara protested, but Simba ignored her.

"Mother and son, both traitors to their pride and they will be punished together." Simba snarled

"Kovu didn't betray you" Lauren said, sounding almost bored. Everyone turned to look at her and she smiled. "Zira knows that Kovu is a strong opponent and she doesn't want to fight him, which is why she is trying to turn all of us against him" Lauren explained.

"We should've had her on our team" Vitani said

"Silence!" Zira snarled, and Vitani bowed his head

"Zira you have a choice- you can leave now or you could fight, in which case you will lose." Simba said, even though we all knew the answer.

"I shall avenge Scar's death!" Zira cried, and with that the exiled lionesses charged into battle. "You shouldn't have exiled us Simba! While you were all lounging around we were getting stronger due to the harsh environment that you put us in! You are no match for us!" Zira cried above the sounds of fighting. Then in a lower voice she snarled "Kill anyone who gets in your way but Simba is mine" I summoned Fenrir as Vitani lunged at me but Lauren attacked him from the side, barreling him over. Noticing that Tidus was having to fight two lionesses at once I charged into the battle.

Ta-da! Probably not my best work since I kinda rushed through it. I hope you guys still liked it though! I tried changing POVs a lot in this chapter. Liked it? Loved it? Wanting to scream you hated it so much? You guys will have to tell me what you think. Review please and I will update soon!