Kellan's POV:
I tried to grasps all the sleep I could before I had to wake up, Mheetu and Shanni said that they had a "surprise" for me or something.
"Kellan it's time to get up" Mheetu said pushing in on my stomach with his paw.
"Ugh please just five more minutes" I moaned, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes as I stretched out my legs, I felt like I've been asleep for ages, it must have been the fact that my muscles were still a little tense.
"Where is Shanni" I looked around noticing that she was nowhere to be seen.
"Oh she is out getting things all ready for today" Mheetu said with a grin plastered on his light furred face.
"Getting things ready, for what?" I said in confusion.
"You'll see soon enough Kellan" Mheetu said walking out of our den.
I was a little confused what Shanni was getting ready for, but I pushed it aside and walked out of our nice, chilled cave into the bright hot sun.
"Kellan, has anyone showed you how to pounce before?" Mheetu asked.
I knew how to pounce, my mother and father showed me how about a few weeks ago, but I knew Mheetu was trying to do this 'father' stuff so one little lie could not hurt.
"No, no one has ever shown me how to pounce or hunt for that matter" I said faking a frown while tipping my head down.
"Hey Kellan it's ok, I'm a pretty good teacher" he said perking my head up with his paw.
I knew that I had to make it look like I did not know what I was doing. This is going to be fun.
"Come over here Kellan" Mheetu said walking towards the tall grass.
I slowly past into the tall grass and wondered how I'm going to pull this off, do I just mess up? Or like make myself look like a fool, maybe I should just fall flat on my face.
"Ok Kellan, why don't you show me what you can do so I can see what I have to work with" Mheetu said smiling.
Well here goes nothing, I just hope I can act like I don't know what I'm doing. I really want Mheetu to feel like he's teaching me something.
"Ok here I go" I said, getting low to?the ground.
Once I thought I was low enough I slowly crawled over to a rock, climbed onto it, then instead of keeping my breathing quite, I exhaled really loudly, and jumped up into the air, and fell to the ground landing on my face.
" little buddy, are you ok, Shanni is going to kill me if you get hurt on our first day of having a son." Mheetu sounded worried, is Shanni really that scary?
"Kellan did you hurt anything?" Mheetu's body shot straight up like he had seen a ghost.
"Mheetu calm down, I just fell, that's all" I said calming him down. He seemed to loosen up.
Timeskip to later that day -
"Alright Kali, I've got you this time," I muttered under my breath, ready to pounce on my newly found best friend.
"Gotcha!" I yelled as I leaped out from the brush, only to find that Kali wasn't there. Though, I wasn't worried about that at the moment. What i was worried about was the mud puddle that was slightly below the rock I was on.
I sighed with relief, "that was close."
However, I heard something rustling in the tall grass behind me, i knew exactly what was going to happen, Kali had been stalking me, waiting for the perfect moment to pounce on me.
"GOTCHA!" Kali leapt out at from her hiding spot.
"No, Kali wait!" I tried to stop her, but it was too late. Kali rammed into me, sending us two falling into the mud puddle below.
"Bleh!" I spit out the mud that got in my mouth.
"Aww! Gross!" Kali cried.
"Kali!" I yelled in frustration.
"Sorry," Kali said sheepishly.
We both walked out of the puddle drenched in mud. I looked over at Kali who was shaking all the mud off of her fur, not her best idea because it got all over me.
"Kali stop your making it worse" I yelled.
"Sorry again" she repeated.
I turned around and sat down next to the puddle, looking at myself in the reflection, I do look like my dad, I have his eyes and his fur color, but I have my mother's heart. A tear fell from my muzzle, and landed in the puddle causing a ripple.
"Kellan I know what will cheer you up, let's go meet the King of Pride Rock" Kali said with light in her eyes.
"Wait I thought Kovu was king?" All these kings and queens are so hard to keep track of.
"No silly, they are next in line, right now the king and queen are Simba and Nala, my grandparents"
Kali boasted.
I looked at Kali with a confused expression, Simba? Who is that?
"Kali do you expect me to know who Simba is?" I told her.
"Kellan are you kidding me, you can't live in the Pride Lands and not know who Simba is, come on I'll take you to meet him."
I started to get up to go with her but again, she gave me that look like I was doing something wrong.
"What are you looking at?" I said tilting my head.
"You can't go meet Simba looking like….THAT" she said scanning my dirty fur.
"Ok I'll be right back I'll go clean myself off rig-" she cut me off before I could finish.
"Kellan go see Shanni, she'll know how to get you ready" Kali said pushing me back into my cave.
Who does she think she is anyway, I'm not that dirty was I?, I walked into the cave looking around for my Shanni, my paws felt so cool to the touch walking on the cave floor, after being in the sun all day, if feels really good.
Once I found her I began to tell her that I wanted to go meet Simba, and just as Kali did she looked at me, with her red and blue eyes scanning me.
"Kellan do you really think I'm going to let you go meet Simba looking like that?" She looked at me and began to walk closer.
"Uhh yeah kinda I don't think I'm that dirty" I said looking at my fur.
As I was looking over my not so dirty fur, Shanni reached out and grabbed me with her paw, bringing me to her fluffy chest. I wiggled and tried to get away but before I knew it, my bath had begun.
"Shanni" I whined as Shanni was licking my fur.
"What? You think you're going to see Simba looking like that? Nope, not on my watch" Shanni giggled before continuing to lick me clean.
"Alright, Mom, I think you got it all," I said.
"Kellan your fur is brown not black" Shanni said laughing.
"Mom you're messing up my fur" I whined, it took me quite a while to do my Maine the way I liked it.
"Kellan if you're going to go meet Simba I don't want you looking like you just got out of the mud" she laughed in between licks.
"Are you almost done" I could not wait any longer, and I don't think Kali could either she must have been still waiting outside.
"Yes Kellan just sit still" she said.
After I was done with my fur getting cleaned I quickly ran outside to go find Kali, but she was nowhere to be found, in the two days I've known her she's always around the corner somewhere but I'm guessing because I took so long that she must have went home.
Well I guess I'll have to visit with Simba tomorrow, I walked back into the cave and lied down in my usual spot, that is until either Shanni or Mheetu move me next to them.
I decided that it would be best to just try to sleep on my own.
"Kellan you look exhausted, you should come here and go to sleep" Shanni said.
I could not argue with her, she was right, these few days have been like a crazy river ride and must have really took it out of me.
I slowly got up and groggily walked over to Shanni and lied down next to her.
I put my head down and just before I closed my eyes I felt Shannis paw wrap around my belly as she pulled me into her chest.
I felt warm inside and could not fight the sleep anymore.
~Kellan's Dream~
The sun was shining and hitting my brown fur, I've been out here for a while and could not find anything, well I guess it's time to go back home.
"Mom I could not find any food, I'm sorry" I apologized once I came up to my mother.
"Kellan sweetie it's ok, your father has found a antelope so we have some food for a while" she said embracing me.
I could not contain my excitement, I had not eaten for at least a day and I was starving. I jumped up onto my mom's back and started to laugh and play with her.
After what seemed like only a few minutes my father walked in and just like my mother had told me he had a antelope with him. I knew that this meal would be to die for.
We sat around the carcass and dug in like we had always done, once we had finished our meal my dad and I went for a walk.
My dad always had this secret place we would always go to and just talk or relax, it was the only flowing river in the Out lands, after about a few minutes of walking my father and I looked down at our reflection from the flowing water.
"Kellan, I want you to know something that you must keep close to your heart." My father said looking at the sun setting.
"Yeah what is it sad?" I asked.
"I want you to look down at your reflection, and look how similar you and I look, I want you to know that even if me and your mother are no less Niger around we will always be with you, right in here"
He said putting his paw on my heart.
"But won't we be together forever?" I responded with a innocent look.
"Yes Kellan, me and your mother will be with you whether we are down here or up there" we both looked up to the sky.
Was he talking about the Kings of the past? Maybe but I looked up at my father and walked into his chest nuzzling him.
"I love you dad" I whispered.
My dad just stood still not saying a word, after a while I decided to look up at him, I walked away from his chest and turned back around to face him.
But everything was gone, my dad was nowhere in sight, what the heck is going on?
"KELLAN HELP ME PLEASE" a voice howled like death in my ears.
I quickly turned around to find my mother being tackled by a few bigger lions, she was being attacked!.
"Mom get up" I yelled, starting to run up to her.
"NOOOOO STAY BACK, YOU LOST YOUR CHANCE, IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT." She screamed, the force of her voice pushed me back onto my back.
I watched in horror as the lion began to rip my mother into pieces, until she was no more…
Then darkness began to enclose on me… I felt like I was falling, deeper and deeper into the darkness.
Why did I not save her? It's all my fault, it should have been me.
I sat there in the dark waiting for it to consume my body.
"Kellan….. Wake….. Up" a voice echoed from the darkness. But I did not want to move. I just let the voice's keep calling my name, hoping that this nightmare would end soon.
A/N Hey guys, thx for all of the support, sorry for not posting in awhile but I've been super busy with school and my school play (Narnia) and I just wanted to get a chapter out as soon as possible. If you guys have any suggestions or if you want your character in this story, just fav this story and follow me and send me your OC
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