Nami, Usopp, and Luffy arrived at the giant rock. The group was tired and exhausted from the trip over. Nami sat down in a patch of shade and Usopp sat nearby. Luffy however jumped up on the nearest rock to overlook the area. "You guys gotta see this, this is so cool!" Luffy cried, looking over the vast plane. It was a waste land to the others, without much to look at. There were animal bones littering the desert floor and Luffy could make out a large number of lions like Nami moving slowly along the sand. Nami sighed.

"Doesn't anything discourage you?" she asked.

"Nope!" Luffy said, excitement filling his words.

"So what animales do you think the others would turn into?" Usopp asked Nami. Nami tried to shrug.

"I have no idea, with them you never know. We'll just have to find some other animals and ask if they have seen them." Nami said. Usopp nodded, liking that. "We'll wait until we can find some less dangerous animales then..." Nami started.

"HEY!" Luffy yelled to lionesses. They all looked up at Luffy, then to each other. Some understanding passed between them before they suddenly charged forward, like Luffy was a meal for the hungrey females to devour. Luffy smiled as they were comming, not senseing the danger he was in, but Nami and Usopp did.

"LUFFY!" they cried, as Usopp curled into a ball and Nami ran from the oncomming pride. Luffy saw the hunger in their faces as they got closer, and his smile vanished when one snapped at him in an attempt to eat him. Luffy yelped and started running after Nami and Usopp, who was rolling along. Scooping the slow moving animal in his hand, Luffy jumped onto Nami's back. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" she screamed.

"YOUR A LION NAMI! YOU RUN FASTER!" Luffy pouted. The lionesses looked shocked. Nami stopped running as the persute stopped. "HEY, WHY ARE YOU CHASING US?!" Luffy yelled at the lions. They looked at each other.

"We must hunt so that we can eat and live." said one lioness. She sounded older, and their was an air about her that made her seem higher than the other lionesses.

"Who are you?" Nami asked. The lioness turned to her.

"My name is Sarabi. I have never seen you before." she said, looking Nami over.

"No, my name is Nami, and these are my crew mates, Luffy and Usopp." Nami said.

"Crew?" Sarabi asked, never having heard that word before. Nami nodded.

"We're actually humans who live on the sea." Nami said. Sarabi looked genuinly confused, having never seen or hear of 'humans' or the 'sea' before, but she could tell that this was a young lioness and her friends and they were all in trouble.

"Nala." called Sarabi. A beautiful young lioness came forward threw the group. "Can you keep an eye on them while we go hunt?" Sarabi asked. Nala nodded and the lionesses left. Nami looked the lioness over.

"You all seem a little on edge." Usopp said.

"Who wouldn't be with Scar as king." Nala said.

"Who's this scar?! He sounds scarry!" Usopp whinned. Nala looked sad.

"He's our King, or rather forced king. He tock over when our King Mufasa died and his son...Simba, died as well." Nala explained. Luffy tilted his head to the side.

"So he's a bad guy?!" Luffy asked. The others looked at him as if he was stupid.

"Yes Luffy! And that means he's dangerous! We need to find the others and get out of here as soon as we can!" pleaded the armidillo as he couldn't reach up and grab the rubbery monkey of a captain. Luffy laughed.

"We don't know how to get home anyway! I wanna stay and look around!" Luffy said excitedly. Usopp and Nami stared at him like he was an idiot. Nala gave them a small smile.

"I don't think that's a good idea. You see Scar led the hyenas in, they're eatting everything. If they find you guys, they'll deffinatly eat you too!" Nala said. Usopp and Nami screamed in fear of being eatten by this unknown enemy, but Luffy laughed.

"We all gotta die someday right?! I just want to find my friends is all." Luffy said. Nami batted him hard, sending him tumbiling away.

"You can risk your life if you want, but I for one dont' want to die here!" Nami yelled at him.

"Why are you worried Nami? Your a lion, they won't touch you." Usopp pointed out. nami thought about that for a second.

"Fine then, do what you want." she hissed at Luffy. Luffy climbed back to his feet.

"Just don't do anything rash. You guys can stay with the other lionesses for now." Nala said. Nami gave her a concerned look.

"Are you going somewhere?" she asked Nala. The lioness nodded.

"Scar is destroying our home and everything that we have. I can't let him keep doing this, but theres nothing we can do as he's the rightful king by birth. So I'm going to go get help!" Nala said. Luffy nodded.

"I understand, then we'll stay here and protect the lionesses until you get back." Luffy said. Nala gave him an odd look at the rediculsness of a monkey protecting a pride of lions, but she acceted the kind gesture just the same, it would be a termendious weight off her mind while she was away.

"Thankyou." she said. Luffy smiled and nodded.

"Like Zoro told us before, if you get lost the best thing to do is to stay put, that way the others can find you anyway!" Luffy said. Nami and Usopp gave him an uneasy look.

"Neither you or Zoro follows that advise." Nami complained.

"You just want to satisfy your sick urge for something dangerous." Usopp whinned. Luffy smiled and nodded, confirming both statements as true. Nala looked back over at the lionesses.

"Don't tell them I left until I'm gone. You showing up actually works out perfectly, as the won't notice your apperence or my departure." Nala pointed out. With Nami there, the hyena's wouldn't notice a change in number and she could get long gone and probibly be on her way back when they notice that she left. Nami nodded and Usopp cowered.

"So, where do we go?" he asked. Nala thought for a second.

"You should probibly find Raffiki. He's a monkey that lives not to far away from here. He's like a shaman. He was very close with King Mufasa." Nala said. Usopp nodded, excited.

"Alright then, good luck!" Luffy told Nala, and the lioness tock off at a run. Her looked back over her shoulder at the three strangers. Something told her that they were the help she wanted to retreive, that they could do what needed done, but that same instint was what was telling her to run, to leave and that she would find someone even more important down the road, and that is what made her run.

Sorry for the wait, I got swamped with prodjects. Well, here's the next chapter, I hope you like it. Thank you for reading and thank you Generalhyna for your reveiw! I hope you like it!