[A/N: Ok this chapter…..this chapter where to begin? I just did a Pride Lands chapter for my other Kingdom Hearts story and I was worried that they'd be too similar, but I think I was able to avoid that pretty well. Originally I was going to just follow the beginning of the movie for this one, but since I have three chapters like that in a row coming up I decided to go the original route instead. Quick note for the next chapter its Country of the Musketeers and I have absolutely no idea what to do so if any of my faithful readers have any suggestions please leave them in the comments section. Reviews are appreciated. Enjoy the chapter!]

They'd been flying at a much more hectic pace than usual which caused them to crash. They'd landed pretty hard too. Juliet got up from the ground and brushed dirt from her pants and looked around. "Wonder where we are…..the only thing I can make out is that we're in a bone yard of some kind."

There was the sound of pattering feet coming towards them which prompted Clementine to pull Juliet and Akio into the shadows. She peered out to see two lion cubs with a blue bird making their way through the bone yard. "I think its best if I changed your forms. Hold still this will only tickle."

When Juliet opened her eyes again she looked down and saw paws. "What have you turned us into?" She heard flapping behind her and looked back to see that Clementine had changed herself into a bird.

"You a lion now silly. Akio is too."

"Why change us into lions and yourself into a bird?"

"I like the idea of being able to fly." Clementine stretched her wings and flew over to Juliet landing on her head.

Akio stumbled over to them tripping over his paws. "Are we still looking for Antonia? Or do you think she's long gone?"

Juliet began to walk towards where she thought the exit of the bone yard was. "No, we're going to keep looking for her. I have some questions for her once we do catch her." She stumbled and fell over causing Clementine to fly off her just in time. "Maybe we need to practice this running around on all fours for a little bit first."

As they were doing this Juliet heard the sound of paws coming towards them and stopped.

Coming towards them were two lion cubs one golden and the other cream colored. The male gold one noticed them and walked over. "What are you doing here?"

Juliet was still stumbling a bit as she walked over to them. "We are explorers. I am Juliet and this is Akio and Clementine."

The lion cocked his head to the side. "Juliet? That's a weird name. I'm Simba and this is Nala."

Akio was looking around at the bones feeling a little apprehensive. "This place seems a bit dangerous don't you think?"

"Danger? I laugh in the face of danger!" Simba was laughing, but imminently stopped as the sound of cackles came from deeper in the graveyard.

Simba and his friend started to back away as three hyenas made their out from the depths of the graveyard; one of them was cackling.

I could try fighting them, but how I am supposed to use the Keyblade? It's not like I have opposable thumbs in this world.

The lead hyena (a female) began to advance on them with her teeth bared. "Its not every day tasty morsels run across our way. When was the last time you saw something so tasty, Banzai?"

"Not for a long time Shenzi. What do you think Ed?"

Ed only laughed manically.

Juliet started to back away, but kept herself in front of Simba before she whispered back to him. "You two run and hide we'll deal with them."

Banzai heard this and started laughing along with Ed. "You think you can take on all three of us? Come on Shenzi lets show this kid who she's messing with."

"Well, there's three of us too."

Shenzi swatted at Ed's nose prompting him to stop laughing. "Shut up will you. I think the three of us could take on the three of you. And the prize is those two cubs. We win we eat them. You win we let all of you leave."

"All right sounds like a deal." Juliet summoned her Keyblade, but was surprised that it went in her mouth. Well this is awkward. Not like I can tell Akio and Clementine what to do like this, but hopefully they'll know what to do anyway.

Shenzi and Banzai leapt out at them before getting swatted in the back of the head by Akio's disk.

Clementine was flying a safe distance away while shooting fireballs at the hyenas and healing Juliet and Akio as needed. "Come on you guys we can take on these bozos."

"Who are you calling a bozo, bird?" Banzai was snarling up at Clementine, but was hit in the back by Juliet's Keyblade.

Shenzi and Ed were coming to Banzai's rescue while Clementine continued her aerial assault.

Akio looked over at Juliet half expecting her to say something when he saw that that the Keyblade was in her mouth. "How about you take on the female, I'll do the male, and Clementine can have chuckles?"

Juliet nodded through her full mouth and started running after Shenzi who took off deeper into the graveyard. She lost track of Shenzi and stopped running to catch her breath not seeing the hyena anywhere. Where could she have gone? I don't see her anywhere. Juliet heard the sound of running feet coming towards her and looked back in time to see Shenzi running at break neck speed towards with the intent of knocking her over.

Shenzi lunged at Juliet and bit her hard in the side. She felt the Keyblade hit her several times in the face, but didn't let up and only dug her teeth in further.

Since the Keyblade wasn't working Juliet opted for another approach and smacked Shenzi across the face with her claws.

The hyena backed off imminently rubbing her face with her paw before turning her gaze back to Juliet; a snarl on her face.

Oh this isn't good. She's mad at me now. It wasn't normally in Juliet's nature to run from a fight, but she wasn't exactly in the position to keep fighting and quickly turned around to run away. She could hear Shenzi coming after her and had to pick up the pace. I'm not going to let her catch me. She'll tear me apart. As she ran past a gap in the bones Juliet could have sworn she saw a black lioness a bit bigger then herself watching her. Was that Antonia? She didn't get the chance to go back and look because Shenzi was hot on her tail.

After several more minutes of running Juliet found herself back up into a corner. She turned around and saw that Shenzi was slowly advancing on her.

"Nowhere to run now squirt." The gap between them had almost closed when something came sailing out from behind Shenzi and knocked her in the head sending her to the ground.

The Keyblade disappeared when Juliet saw that it was Akio and Clementine who had come to her rescue. "My jaws hurt, but what happened to the other two hyenas?"

Clementine landed on Akio's head and began cleaning her feathers. "Well, this older bigger lion just came out of nowhere and scared them off. He took Simba and Nala with him too."

Akio was looking Juliet over when he saw the blood. "What happened to you? You're bleeding."

"I got bit."

"Are you ok?"

"I think I'm ok, but I think if Clementine wouldn't mind healing me I'd be better."

Clementine flew down form Akio's head and cast a healing spell on the bite mark. "So, where do we go from here?"

Juliet started walking back out of the graveyard back to where she thought she'd seen Antonia. "I might sound crazy, but I thought I saw Antonia while I was running."

"Do you think she's still there?" Akio was walking after Juliet while Clementine sat perched on his head.

"I don't know. That's what I'm going to check out now."

As they drew closer to where Juliet had seen the lioness she saw paw prints leading out of the cave. "Looks like she left. Time go look for her again."

When they left the elephant graveyard Juliet saw nothing off in one direction and a mountainous rock in the other direction. "I think it would be in our best interest to go in the direction of the rock. It doesn't look like there's anything in the other direction."

It didn't take them very long to reach the rock when Juliet saw a cave not too far up the cliff's side. She peeked into the cave and saw a dark brown male lion with a black mane sitting on the floor with his back to her. "Excuse me sir, could you spare a minute so I can ask you a question?"

The lion turned around and looked a bit board. "I suppose I could spare just a minute."

Juliet smiled and walked a little closer to him. "We're looking for this lioness named Antonia. She's a little smaller then you and she's all black. Have you seen her?"

The board look changed into one of pleasant surprise. "Antonia? Oh, yes I know where she is. In fact she was just here paying me a little visit."

"Really? Where'd she go?"

"Up to the top of Pride Rock." The lion got up and began walking over towards Juliet. "In fact she said she said she told me to tell you that she was waiting on you."

"Why would she tell you that?"

"Oh, I don't know….now run along and play with your little friends." He stretched, yawned, and laid back down.

Juliet was starting to feel apprehension creep up and backed out of the cave. "Well thank you sir….I hope we didn't disturb you too much."

"Not at all."

Akio was looking after Juliet who had her head down. "Did something happen?"

"That lion is a little creepy that's all, but he did tell me where to find Antonia?"

"Where's that?"

"At the top of this rock."

Akio paused and looked up at the top. "All the way up there?"

"Yep, all the way up there." Juliet looked over at him and saw pale his face had gotten. "Are you ok?"

He swallowed hard. "I'm fine."

"You don't look fine."

Clementine leaned down from atop her perch. "If I didn't know any better I'd say you were scared."

"I'm not scared."

"I think you are."

"Be quiet Clementine."

Clementine only folded her wings down and nestled herself in. "You don't have to put a show on for her."

"I'm not putting any show on."

"Sure you aren't, but you might want to hurry up she's getting away."

By this time Juliet was already in the King's den and was making her way up the flight of steps to the top of Pride Rock. She heard feet behind her, but didn't turn around since she expected to hear Akio and Clementine. "What kept you guys? I already found out how to get to the top."

"Secrets."

"Secrets?"

"Yeah, Akio was telling me secrets."

This caught Juliet's attention and she turned around. "What kind of secrets?"

Akio looked up at Clementine who looked like she was going to start talking again. "Nothing, who said anything about secrets? I didn't say anything about secrets."

"So you'll tell Clementine your secrets, but you won't tell me?"

"Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying."

Juliet shrugged and started walking up the steps again.

Akio looked up at Clementine. "Did I mess up?'

"Maybe a little."

By the time Juliet got to the top of Pride Rock she found Antonia waiting for her, but it looked like she was more interested in the view. "So, you've been hiding here the whole time have you?"

Antonia kept her backed turned. "Yes, this where I've chosen to hide for the mean time." She turned her head a bit to look at Juliet. "To be honest I didn't think you'd have enough sense to know to ask Scar. He would have been a good ally, but alas it wasn't meant to be." Antonia began to prowl towards Juliet; her eyes glittering malevolently. "So, what are you going to do now that you've found me?"

"I have a question for you."

"A question? Perhaps I have an answer. That is if you can beat me." Without giving any more warning Antonia swung her paw at Juliet's head clipping her ear. She was forced to jump out of the way when the Keyblade came sailing down. "So, you've figured out how to fight on all fours." Even though the fight had just started Antonia looked like she was starting to get winded.

"What's the matter old lady? Getting tired all ready?"

"Old lady? I'll show you who's an old lady." Antonia jumped up and smacked Juliet across the face with her paw nearly knocking the Keyblade from her mouth. She jumped over Juliet so that she was behind her and bit her in the same place that Shenzi had bitten earlier. "Still think I'm old?" This came out sounding like an angry snarl as Antonia loomed over Juliet.

Juliet was able to get the Keyblade angled so that the blade was sticking up and she stabbed at Antonia's heart.

Antonia shrieked and jumped off nearly falling into Akio and Clementine. "Three on one? That's not fair!"

Akio threw his disk at Antonia hitting her in the back. "What do you know about playing fair?"

Things weren't looking good for Antonia and she noticed this almost imminently. "Well kiddies all though this has been fun I'm afraid I have to leave now." She summoned a dark portal and quickly ran through it. Once she was on the other side Antonia allowed herself to shift back to her usual form as she slumped against the wall. "Master, why did you have to drain me so much? I could have won."

"No, you couldn't. Besides I told you no harming them until I give the word and even after that you leave the Keyblade wielder to me. You and your brother can do what you want with her friends."

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