*I don't own ANY of the Kingdom Hearts characters or Lion King II: Simba's Pride characters, I only own Katie

Katie drew her mouth back into a snarl, "We're just passing through."

Zira stalked towards Katie and grabbed her muzzle with her front paw. "Oh, I bet you are…it's just I don't like it when a lioness and her cub trespass into my territory…"

"Wait a minute…Kairi isn't my cub! I'm two years older than her!" Katie retorted.

Zira raised an eyebrow. "Is that so, my dear?" She laughed and let Katie go, "Oh, you Pride-Landers don't know when to stay on your side of the savanna."

"We're not Pride-Landers!" Kairi quickly responded. "We're travelers." Katie nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, and we're sorry that we trespassed. We'll just be on our way…" Katie and Kairi slowly backed away from Zira.

Zira jumped in front of them before they could run for it. "Oh, but I need to make sure that you never do it again…" She dropped into a hunter's crouch and unsheathed her claws.

Katie mirrored Zira's movements. She looked over her shoulder to tell Kairi, "Kairi, get out of the Outlands and see if you can find the others! I'll catch up with you later…" Kairi nodded and ran off, leaving a dust trail. Katie turned her attention back to Zira and flicked her tail forward. "Bring it." She and Zira started to circle around each other, growling and spitting at each other.

With a roar, Zira pounced. Katie didn't even have time to think of retaliation that the she-cat was so fast. Zira pinned Katie to the ground and sunk her teeth into Katie's neck. Yowling in pain, Katie used her back legs to flip Zira off of her. Katie scrambled back up to her paws and hissed. Katie decided to make the first move this time; she charged towards Zira and looked at Zira's left flank. Zira followed her gaze, right Katie wanted her. Right before she striked, Katie quickly changed direction and sunk her claws deep into Zira's right flank. Katie grabbed Zira's scruff and shook Zira violently. Zira let out a furious yowl and suddenly went limp. The sudden change of weight threw Katie off and gave Zira the advantage, Zira sprang to live and rolled onto Katie. Katie let out a hiss and started to wrestle with Zira, rolling in the cracking earth. Zira finally got on top and raked her claws on Katie's exposed belly. Katie yowled on the top of her lungs as the stench of blood filled her nostrils. Katie raised her right front paw and batted at Zira's muzzle, knocking the lioness over. Katie got back up to paws and growled a challenge to Zira, ignoring her bleeding belly. Katie rushed at Zira and batted at Zira's head before jumping back. Katie winced at the sharp pain igniting in her belly.

Zira smirked, "My, dear…you look like you're in pain…" she mocked.

"Well…you're going to be in the same circumstance pretty soon…" Katie panted.

Zira laughed, "I'd like to see you try…"

Katie smirked and chuckled, she rushed at Zira. Unexpectedly, Katie jumped over Zira as if she was a hurdle! Landing on her front paws, she rose up her back legs and shifted all of her weight to her front. She kicked Zira's backside harder than a mule. Zira let out a yelp of surprise and spun around. She made a deep, angry growl in her throat. Katie circled around Zira, panting hard. Her mind was spinning from all the blood she lost. She needed to end this and fast. Katie aimed for Zira's neck and charged with a roar. Clamping her jaw on Zira's muscular neck, she sunk her fangs into Zira's neck. Zira hissed in pain and pulled herself away from Katie's death grip, making the gash larger than she intended. Katie licked her lips and growled, "Now we're even…" She turned around and stalked away.

Zira growled and pounced Katie. "I'm not giving up that easily…" She sunk her fangs into Katie's scruff.

Kairi kept tripping over her paws, still not used to running on all fours. She noticed that the dead ground steadily turned into grassland. On the horizon, Kairi could see a large mountain with a long rock ledge. She stopped as a large, full-grown dark orange lion with a spikey red mane and a cream colored underbelly walked by her with his head down. It was obvious on who this was. "Lea!"

Lea looked up and grinned. "Kairi! There you are! Riku, Sora, Repliku, and I have been looking everywhere for you!" He turned around and yelled, "You guys! I found Kairi!"

Three lions ran up to them. Only one of them was a full-grown lion and was a light periwinkle that transitioned to blue as it got closer to his paws, which were white like his long mane, tail tuft, and underbelly. On his left front leg was a white arm-band, it was obviously Riku. Next to him was a mini Riku but was a cub instead of an adult and had the outline of the Heartless emblem on his back, it was dark blue and didn't have an armband. This was Repliku. The last one was also a cub he was brown and had spiky hair. It underbelly was a very light brown and a clunky crown necklace hung from his neck. Kairi went to the brown cub, "Sora? Aw! You're so cute!"

Sora looked at the ground, embarrassed. "The last time I was at the Pride Lands, that's what Donald thought you'd say that."

Repliku looked over Kairi. "Where's Katie?"

"She's in the Outlands…fighting a lioness. It gave me time to escape." Kairi answered.

Sora turned around and said over his shoulder, "I'll go get Simba. I'll be right back!" He ran off to the large rock. Two minutes later, he came back with a muscular lion with a red mane and orange-yellow fur. "Kairi, this is Simba. King of Pride Rock."

Simba bowed his head, "It's nice to meet you, Kairi." He turned to Sora. "You ready to go?"

Sora nodded. "Yeah, thanks for helping us go get our friend, Simba. "

"No problem, least I can do. Now come on, it's a long trip to the Outlands, and if we want to get there quick, we'll have to dash all the way there." Simba told the group, with that said, they took off to the Outlands.

To tell you guys the truth, I'm more comfortable with this world than any of the other worlds I had Katie visit. The reason is that I'm really good with writing cat-based stories because One: My favorite book series is about cats and it has very detailed fights. Two: I've been around cats all of my life. And Three: I've been writing cat stories since I was in 2nd grade. So...this is right up my alley! :D

Fun Fact!: Out of all of the KH games, Kingdom Hearts II is Katie's favorite while Re:Chains of Memories being her least favorite.

Bless your face. And if you sneezed while reading this KH fanfic, then bless you. Peace off. BOOP!