A week later, Nala is in the den and sleeping, she wakes up and sees Simba walking out of the den with an adult male lion with a scar across his eye.
Nala had a bad feeling, and something inside her mind told her to stop Simba from following that lion.
Nala gets up as fast as she could, and ran to Simba.
She places her paw on his shoulder.
"Simba, please don't go." Nala pleaded.
Simba smiled, and nuzzled her.
"Don't worry Nala, I'm coming back." Simba said, while smiling.
Nala sighed, "Okay, but don't take to long, I still wanna play with you." Nala said.
Simba left, and Nala began to cry, she had no idea why, but she just did.
Nala wiped away her tears, and ran to her mother.
Sarafina smiled, and licked Nala on the cheek.
Nala lied in her mother's arms, she placed her small head on Sarafina's paw.
Sarafina smiled warmly.
Her ears perked up, she saw Mufasa and Zazu exit the den.
"Mufasa." Sarafina called out his name.
Mufasa turned his head and looked at Sarafina, he told Zazu to wait for him outside.
Zazu flew off of Mufasa's shoulder, and went outside.
Sarafina made sure Nala was asleep, to her relief she was.
"I'm sorry, of what I said to you, about being Nala's father." Sarafina apologized.
Mufasa shook his head, "No I'm sorry, I am the one who should apologize." Mufasa replied.
"Those years ago, I was always afraid to be exiled, I did not stop and think about you, I cared about you, but since I was a coward, I have lost you, and your love." Mufasa said.
Sarafina smiled, Mufasa still loves her.
Sarafina had tears in her eyes.
She gently got up, and made sure Nala did not wake.
Sarafina walked to Mufasa, and stared straight into his eyes.
"You still love me, don't you?" Sarafina asked.
"Just like you said, we are friends, but I do love you." Mufasa said.
Sarafina put her head under Mufasa'a chin, and purred.
"You know the king can mate with any lioness." Sarafina said.
He pushed her away gently.
Mufasa looked at her in surprise, she had offered her self to him.
Mufasa sighed, and looked around to see if anyone was around.
"Sarafina, I won't mate with you." Mufasa said.
Sarafina's ears flattened against her head.
I'm sorry Sarafina, but I love Sarabi; you and I are meant to be friends, nothing else." Mufasa said, then he left the den, and met with Zazu.
Sarafina's ears flattened against her head again, she frowned.
"It's my fault for not doing anything about Mufasa, those years ago." Sarafina thought to herself.
"I could have asked him to leave with me, could have become rogues, start a pride all on our own." Sarafina thought.
Sarafina turned her gaze at her daughter, and smiled warmly.
She can't believe that she tried to seduce Mufasa, she shook that thought away.
An hour later.
Sarafina and Nala are walking in the Pridelands, they hear low rumbling near the gorge, the both of them see a stampede of wildebeests, running down into the gorge.
"Mother, I never saw wildebeests do that before." Nala said in awe.
Sarafina squinted her eyes, "Ne'er have I." Sarafina said.
Sarafina turns back to Priderock, "Lets go, my daughter." Sarafina said.
Later that night.
The whole pride is sitting at Priderock, and one of the pridelanders points out Scar.
"Hey look, I see Scar." One lioness pointed out.
The pride looks behind them and saw Scar walking slowly.
"Scar, where is Simba, and Mufasa?" Adia asked.
Scar closed his eyes, and tears emerged from his eyes.
Scar stops walking, near the entrance to the den, and sits down.
"Dead." Scar replied ruefully.
The whole pride gasped.
Nala's heart skipped a few beats, she did not want to believe Scar.
Sarafina nuzzled her daughter, and then looks at Sarabi, she had her mouth open.
The whole pride looks up at Scar again.
"Mufasa's death was a terrible tragedy; but to lose Simba, who had barely begun to live..." Scar said, mournfully.
Zazu places his wing on Sarabi's paw, Sarabi nuzzled Zazu, she was sobbing. Nala is rubbing against her mother's leg, she did not want Simba to be dead, she loved Simba as a friend very much. Nala began to cry.
Tojo is nuzzling Adia's chest, he is mourning the loss of Simba, his best friend.
"For me, it is a deep personal loss. So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne. Yet, out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era." Scar said.
Eerie green shadows of hyenas start emerging on Priderock, then they appear laughing evilly.
"In which lion, and hyena come together, in a great and glorious future!" Scar exclaimed, as he began to ascend Priderock.
Nala gasps at the sight of hyenas, she backs away, and then runs into the den.
She fell to the ground of the den, but she did not care.
"Simba, don't leave me!" Nala exclaimed, after that Nala cried herself to sleep.
To Be Continued...