A/N: Yes I know, I updated this chapter before. But the problem is was malfunctioning and I had to delete the last chatper to add on to it -_- but I did add on to it a little so you can go read that, and not only that, but I have HUGE annoucment at the bottom!
Sora, Ven and Kairi flew through the countless stars looking for a world that could be in danger from the darkness. Thankfully for them, it was not long when Kairi stopped her rider with the tip of it pointing towards a familiar world to Sora. "That world has some darkness in it." She said calmly.
"That's where Simba lives, the Pride Lands! We need to get there now!" Sora said and without warning he flew towards the world.
"But Sora isn't Simba a lion?" Ven asked as Sora stopped and turned to look at the other keyblade masters.
"Yeah, what does it matter?" He asked as Ven and Kairi both looked at him dumbfounded.
"You know a lion? Grrrrr!?" Kairi said, trying her best to imitate a noise a lion would make, but clearly wasn't doing it justice.
"Guys, Simba won't hurt us! Just come on!" Sora said as he once again flew towards the world with the cautious Ven and Kairi following him.
As soon as their riders touched down on the Pride Lands, Sora, Kairi and Ven felt their bodies begin to change form. When Sora landed on his four paws, he looked at himself to see that his lion form aged slightly, and he now looked more like a teenage lion with his crown necklace and his armor guard on his shoulder. But unlike Sora, Kairi did not know that she would change into a giant cat, and was shocked when she realized what she had become. "What the?" She cut herself off, looking down at her light red fur on her paws. "Why didn't you tell me I would become a cat?"
"Because I wanted it to be a surprise." Sora lied, since in reality, he simply forgot to tell the two. Sora then looked at Kairi head to paws, seeing her light red fur and some of her hair that where her real hair color on the top of her head. The only thing Kairi appeared to have the same from her human clothing was the crystal necklace she had worn all her life and her armor guard. "Besides baby, you look great."
Kairi immediately blushed at this. "I just hope Ven does not have a heart attack when he finds out he is a cat, he told me he is a dog person after all." Kairi laughed.
Sora then looked around, seeing they were in a clear path surrounded by a huge field of tall grass, but with no sights of Ven. "Speaking of which, where is he?" Sora asked.
"I'm over here," Ven's voice said. Sora and Kairi then turned their heads in the direction from where the voice was coming from and where shocked by what they saw. Out of the grass came the Ven, in the form of a meerkat, only having his armor guard, but kept his spiky hair. As soon as Sora and Kairi saw him, they tried to hold in the laughs, but were unable to and soon found themselves laughing on the ground hysterically.
"Not funny guys!" Ven said, stomping over to the two lions. Sora and Kairi did not stop laughing though as Ven continued. "I said cut it out!"
"But how can we? Ven look at yourself!" Sora laughed again. Ven only crossed his arms at the two and gave them a death glare, but little did he know that something in the shades of the tall grass was watching his every move.
"You know I didn't laugh at you two when we changed forms in different worlds." Ven said.
"Well that's because we never looked so ridiculous!" Kairi snorted. Ventus then rolled his eyes at the two until he could have sworn that there was something watching him. Ven then turned around, ignoring Sora and Kairi and continued to look in the tall grass. It was then when Ven noticed the golden figure hiding in the grass that was running towards him, growling.
Ventus only screamed when he noticed the figure was a lion, which made Sora and Kairi stop laughing. Ven then jumped as high as he could just as the lioness brought her paw down to slice at the meerkat, who as soon as he landed, ran behind Sora and Kairi, who stood as a wall between the two. "Paws off our friend!" Kairi said.
The lioness only growled at the animals before Sora looked at her and noticed something. "Wait… Nala?" Sora asked. The lioness then ceased growling and only gave the three animals a look.
"What? No, Nala is my mother," the teenage lioness said. It was then when it hit Sora.
"Oh, that's right! Simba said Nala was pregnant!" Sora said.
"How do you know this?" The lioness asked.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm Sora, this is Kairi and the meerkat it Ven." Sora said as he looked over at Ven, who was still cowering behind Kairi. "I'm friends with your father, he traveled many places together not too long ago; what's your name?"
The lioness only looked down at Sora's sudden change of subject. "It's Kiara," The lioness said.
"It's nice to meet you Kiara!" Sora said, holding out his paw to do a handshake, but the lioness calmly pushed it away.
"Um, sorry, I really don't have time…" She said.
"What's the rush? What you don't want to eat me anymore?" Ven asked in a sarcastic tone with attitude.
Kiara then brought her head down to his level. "I'm sorry, I didn't know they were with you." Kiara apologized.
Ven only huffed. "Like I haven't heard that one before!" He said as he walked away behind Kairi.
"Ven you don't need to be so rude." Kairi said.
"Are you kidding me? She almost ate me, and you are taking her side?!" He asked shocked.
"I never said I was taking her side but you seriously need to calm down, you are making a huge deal out of nothing." Kairi said.
"Out of nothing?!" Ven said. As the three world travelers continued to bicker, Kiara only rolled her eyes as she looked out to see a herd of antelope not too far away. Sora, Kairi and Ven had already interrupted her first hunt enough, so she sneaked past them and quietly traveled over to the herd. But unfortunately, Kiara was a little too loud this time and the antelope ran away. Kiara then tried to chase after them.
But all four of the animals where halted when they heard two loud screams.
As soon as Sora heard the noises, he through the grass towards where the herd of antelope where running. It was not long when the keyblade master came across to an unlikely duo containing a warthog and meerkat. "Timon! Pumbaa!" Sora exclaimed happily when he saw the two.
Timon and Pumbaa then rose from their cowering to see the keyblade wielder. "Sora! Man am I glad to see you!" Timon said happily as he and his warthog friend went up to the young lion.
As soon as they heard Sora knew who it was, Kairi and Ven stepped out of the grass to see the two animals. "Kairi, Ven, this is Timon and Pumbaa, there some of Simba's old friends!" Sora said.
"It's great to meet yah!" Pumbaa said.
"The pleasure is all mine." Kairi said as Timon went over to Ven.
"Wait; are you from the digging holes not too far away from here?" Timon asked.
"Ah no," Ven said with a weird look on his face.
"Oh, funny, I thought I have seen you somewhere before." Timon said.
"Timon! Pumbaa!" Kiara's voice said angrily. The duo then turned to look at her afraid, and they both only swallowed.
"Oh… ah hey Kiara!" Pumbaa said nervous.
"Why are you two here?" She asked as Timon rubbed the back of his head.
"Well there's a funny story…" Timon trailed off.
"My father sent you to watch me, didn't he?" Kiara asked with an angry tone in her voice.
Timon and Pumbaa only exchanged looks. "Princess Kiara, he only wants what's best for you." Pumbaa said as Kiara's back turned to face them with a groan coming from her.
"That's it! I am going to continue my hunt alone, away from the Pride Lands!" Kiara said before dashing off, running farther and farther away from them until she was out of sight.
"Kiara wait come back! Simba's ganna kill us if you don't come home safely!" Timon said as he dropped to his knees and gripped his head in distress. He then quickly got up off the ground and jumped onto Pumbaa's back. "Come on Pumbaa! We need to go after her now!"
"But Timon, do yah really think that we'll be able to catch up with her?" Pumbaa asked, which silenced Timon, who only slapped his forehead.
"Great! Now I know I am going to become Simba's next meal!" He said.
"Why is Simba going to kill you?" Sora asked.
"He just wants to keep an eye on his daughter, he is just worried for her safety but Kiara thinks she can do everything alone." Pumbaa said. Sora then looked at Kairi and then at Ven, who both nodded.
"Well if you want, we can go get her back for you." Sora said as Timon and Pumbaa perked up.
"Man oh man! You guys would do that for us?" Timon asked.
"Sure, besides, we will be able to get her back a lot faster." Kairi said as Timon kneeled down to her and grabbed her paw.
"Sora, I love your friends already!" He said as Kairi pulled her paw away from him, feeling awkward. As this happened, Ven could have sworn he smelled something blowing in the wind.
"Hey, do you guys smell something?" Ven asked.
"Oh, sorry, I think that was me." Pumbaa said, looking embarrassed.
"Not you, something else," Ven said as the other animals then sniffed the air, catching the same whiff Ven got.
"Is that smoke I smell?" Kairi asked as she then looked in the direction the smoke was coming from, seeing a large puff of black smoke in the distance.
"Some call it smoke, others call it trouble." Sora said as he, Kairi and Ven (who was riding on Sora's back) ran towards the smoke, trying to do whatever they could to save Kiara. Even though they have only met her a few minutes ago, they hoped and prayed that she was alright, since she was Simba's daughter after all.
"Kiara!" "Where are you?" Sora exclaimed with Ven finishing. They continued to look around, searching through the flames that now surrounded them, finding nothing.
It was then when Kairi could have sworn she heard something, the only thing it wasn't Kiara. Kairi then turned around slightly to see the shadow of a lion figure behind the flames, looking at the three keybladers from the distance. As soon as she saw this, Kairi summoned her keyblade, holding it in her tail, and pointed it at the figure. "Who are you?" Kairi asked.
As soon as they saw Kairi point her keyblade at something, Ven and Sora did the same, thinking it was a heartless hiding behind those flames. But as soon as all three of them had their keyblades pointed at it, the figure jumped out from behind the flames, coming out calmly. It turned out that the figure was a brownish lion with a dark main that looked very similar to Scar, but without his scar across his eye.
"Man, you Pride Landers are so over protective…" The lion said in a dark voice. Kairi then began to look at him, sensing darkness, but there was more light then the darkness. So with this new information, she lowered her keyblade, with Sora and Ven doing the same.
"We aren't Pride Landers," Sora said.
"Well you aren't outsiders; I have never seen you before." The lion said.
Ven, becoming frustrated, began to tug on Sora's hair. "We don't have time for a talk! We need to go find Kiara!" He said.
"Well we share a common goal then," the lion said.
"What do you mean?" Kairi asked.
"I was looking for her too, we are childhood friends and when I heard she was stuck in the fire, I figured I'd come and help her." The lion said.
"But how do we know he is telling the truth?" Ven whispered in Sora's ear.
"You can come with us." Kairi said, earning shocked looks from Sora and Ven.
"Kairi, are you sure we can trust him?" Ven asked.
"I can sense darkness within him, but there is more light, we can trust him." She explained.
Sora and Ven then sighed, but listened to the princess. "Alright, you can come with us, but it would help if we knew your name," Sora said.
"It's Kovu," the lion said. The keybladers were about to reply, but they did not have much time to since the flames were rising around them.
"Nice to meet you now let's move!" Sora exclaimed quickly as they ran through the flames, trying to find Kiara before it was too late.
So yes, sorry for the confusion at the top -_-
But as I said at the top, I have an anoncment! After a VERY long time... KINGDOM HEARTS III THE KEYBLADE WAR IS ON 100 FAVORITES! WOOOOHHOOO! And so i decided, to thank my fellow favoriters, I am going to write a one shot that you all are going to vote on what it will be about! The poll is up on my profile if you would please vote!
Oh and once again, WhiteWolf100101 guessed the song game correct! The song reference that one chatper was Savages from Pochahontas. So your hint for the figures this time is... I will tell you at least one of them will be very familar to you, and it is not the Riku replica (Evil smirk)
Also, if any of you are super smash bros and all those huge crossover fans, shadowwaker 54 has a story out there that could use some reviews called Heroes Vs Villians First Contact If you guys could go check that out, it would be great!
So anyway, please look out for the next chapter soon! I think I might need to rewatch Lion King 2 though to get a good feel of the story (thankfully a buddy let me borrow her copy) so please R&R until then!
