The Lion Guard: The Pride Land Twins
Chapter 2: Two Worlds Collide
It was still nighttime. Almost every animal in the savanna is fast asleep. In Pride Rock, Kion was getting ready to sleep when he heard his father calling out to him.
"Kion, can you come here?" Simba said.
"Okay, Dad," Kion answered back. But when Kion went to see his father, he notices Simba's angry face that made him gulp and chuckle nervously.
"Kion, I heard what Kiara said to me earlier. You and Bunga saw humans in Pride Lands?! And you think that those humans will be a part of the Lion Guard?! " Simba asked furiously.
"Well, yeah, Dad, it's because - " Kion tried to reassure but his father interrupted him.
"Kion, I allowed you to have members of the Lion Guard who aren't lions but I won't accept humans as members until I know that they are worthy of it," Simba said, still furious. Suddenly, Rafiki smacked Simba on the head with his staff.
"You know you can't forbid this legend just as you can't stop your father's choice. Tomorrow, these two humans will receive the royal light blessing from Mufasa," Rafiki said.
"Hold on. That blessing is only for the royal family," Simba intervened before being smacked again by Rafiki's staff.
"Simba, these humans would make a great influence to the whole savanna and of course, to their kind. Also, these humans will become Kion's royal advisers." Rafiki finished as he headed back to his baobab tree home.
As Kion is heading back to sleep, Simba looked at the sky and said, "Father, I hope you know what you are doing right now."
He then headed to sleep right next to Nala.
As Erika and Cole are asleep, the next thing they know, they are in a dark, barren wasteland with little or no life in it aside from them. There was also fog so they can't see what's around them except for the area they were standing on.
"Hello? Anybody here? Hello?" Cole called out but all he got was silence.
Erika looked around, "That's funny. Everything seems so dry and quiet."
Suddenly, Erika and Cole heard sinister laughter around them which caused them to huddle together in fear since they don't like that sound when they are alone. Then, shadows of menacing-looking animals are seen slowly heading straight towards them. They had nothing to do but run away from those shadows. As they hide behind a rock and expect the worse to come, they later heard a voice that was coming from the sky and a beam of light was shining on them.
"You two have been chosen," the voice in the sky said to the twins.
"What do you mean 'we've been chosen'?" Erika asked curiously.
The voice in the sky replied, "You have been chosen to be a part of my grandson's group. Go to the farthest part of the savanna and you'll find out what it is." It then disappeared and everything faded to white.
As the dream sequence ended, Erika and Cole woke up with a jolt. They look at the clock and realized it was 2:30 a.m. so they resumed their sleep.
The next day, as the sun starts to rise on the African horizon, the Roberts family are now waking up to the sun's rays peeking through the bay window. Erika was the first to go to the bathroom. She took a short shower and changed her clothes yet she failed to notice her Lion Guard mark on her left shoulder. Next, Cole did the same things as Erika, the only difference is that he also did his business at the toilet bowl. He also didn't notice his Lion Guard mark on his right hand. Rebecca went in the bathroom next and Marion was the last. When the family is now ready to start another day during their two-week-long vacation. They all had breakfast in the restaurant near the lobby. The restaurant has a breakfast buffet, ranging from Java rice to Belgian waffles.
The Roberts sat at their own table, eating their breakfast. Erika and Cole are slightly groggy from their dream but they decided to keep it to themselves.
After the Roberts were done with breakfast, they had another savanna expedition. As Erika and Cole are observing the gazelles leaping by, both noticed Bunga staring right at them.
"Hey, Erika," Cole tapped his sister's shoulder, "It's that honey badger we saw yesterday."
"Yeah. Let's go after him," Erika said slyly. Cole gasped at what she said.
"What?! Erika, have you lost your marbles?! Mom said we should stay near the ATV and don't get lost. Otherwise, we'll be in big trouble," Cole reassured her but he then saw Erika chasing after Bunga.
"Hey, get back here, Erika! I don't want both of us in big trouble!" Cole yelled as he ran after Erika.
For several minutes, Erika chased Bunga across the savanna, with Cole hot on her trail. Little did any of the three know that Bunga was leading Erika and Cole to the Pride Lands. When the twins saw Pride Rock, they stopped short and started walking around, wondering where they are while Bunga continued running and didn't look back.
"I haven't been to this part of the savanna before," Erika said.
Cole agreed to what his sister said, "Neither have I. This must be the area that sky voice is talking. But I think we better head back."
"Yeah," Erika said. As they headed back to the ATV, they realized that they have run several kilometers away from the ATV's parking spot and were tired from it so they decided to rest under a large tree first. Since the African air was so cool and refreshing, Erika and Cole sat down with their backs pressed on the tree's trunk. The African breeze is so cool that the twins fell asleep. Little did they know that the tree they were resting by was actually Rafiki's baobab tree home. And of course, Rafiki was there watching them before he left to Pride Rock.
10 minutes later, while Erika and Cole are still fast asleep, a group of 5 hyenas and a vulture were slowly approaching the two sleeping kids.
"Mzingo, are you sure that these two are the new Lion Guard members that monkey talked about last night?" one of the hyenas said to the vulture.
"They sure are, Janja. And I know that these two will pose as threats to us and the Outlands," Mzingo said as he, Janja, and the rest of hyenas silently crept towards the two oblivious kids.
Meanwhile, Ono was doing his usual fly-by's when he noticed the hyenas ready to attack and kill Erika and Cole, who are still asleep and too oblivious to notice the hyenas a few seconds ago.
"Oh no. I have to warn Kion about this," he said before flying to Pride Rock to tell Kion what is happening now.
As soon as Janja and the hyenas readied their claws and were about to attack the twins, they hear a certain loud roar and looked to the right. They noticed the Lion Guard standing with determined looks on their faces.
"Janja! I should've known it was you all along. You think you can harm these humans and get away with it?" Kion yelled angrily at the Outsiders.
"Well, duh. I heard about the second part of the Lion Guard legend from your baboon friend. And of course, destroying these two humans will of course weaken your group," Janja replied as he and the Outsiders slowly and menacingly approach the two sleeping and oblivious kids.
Not wanting to see the twins get attacked and hurt, Kion resorted to only thing he can do whenever he is in tight spot: the Roar of the Elders.
"Leave them ALOOOOOOOONE!" he yelled which later became a roar as the clouds above him were turned into roaring lion heads. This made the hyenas scurried back to the Outlands. But Erika and Cole didn't notice that their Lion Guard marks glowed as well as the marks of the other Lion Guard members.
"Way to scare them off like that, Kion!" Bunga said enthusiastically before turning to the still-sleeping twins, "I'm guessing we'll have to carry them back to Pride Rock."
"Yeah," Kion said.
Beshte, being the strongest Lion Guard member, carried Erika and Cole to Pride Rock. Both of them didn't know it, but then and there, their adventures had just begun.
Author's Note: If any of you have a DeviantArt account and is a fan of the Lion Guard, can you please make me a cover art that shows the title of this story and the Lion Guard members, including Erika and Cole in their transformation outfits? If you don't know what these transformation outfits, just see the current cover art or visit the official wikia of Brave Frontier, type 'Havoc Girl Luly' and 'Lawful Warrior Aneil' and click their pictures.