Welcome back dear readers. I see a lot of you can't wait for Kiara to meet Kion. So you don't you to wait any longer. Here's the next chapter, enjoy.

During the weeks that passed, Kiara had got her new friend out of her mental shell. It was mid afternoon as Kiara and Amira raced through the Pridelands tossing a baobab fruit ball back and forth. Kiara leapt up trying to catch the pass from the pale golden cub. But the fruit went over the golden orange princess' head before landing on a ledge that was over a pond. Kiara pounced on the ledge before she caught sight of a unexplored vast up ahead. A bit of a barren land on the other side of the creek that ran on the northern border of the Pridelands.

"Wow." Kiara whispered loudly as she sat on the rocky surface as her orange eyes shined with wonder. "I wonder what's out there?"

Amira came up to her cousin's side before sitting with a frown. "Isn't that the Outlands? I thought Uncle Simba didn't want us to go there?"

Kiara groaned before rolling her eyes. "But he nor the others have said why." she turned to see the pale golden cub looking at her with her ears pinned. "You don't have to go...if you don't want to."

Amira sighed in relief before turning to head back towards the green grass. "I'll try my best to cover. Just...be careful Kiara."

Kiara nodded before heading towards the Outlands with a excited smile as she wondered what she would find.

In the Outlands

"This stinks."

A light gray hyena rolled his brown eyes at the beefy, dumb witted hyena. "Shut it Chungu. This is Janja's order and we must carry it out."

"But Kasar." a smaller, still dumb witted pale gray whined as his tongue rolled out of his darker gray muzzle. "We been out here for months."

Kasar growled before he spotted something headed their way. A evil grin formed before he turned to the two hyenas he was stuck with. "Chungu. Cheezi. There's a cub, go get her."

The two lower ranked hyenas ran off towards the unexpected cub.

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Kion had to get away and with Xolo going into labour was the perfect time. Everyone minus his mother and older sister was fussing around the blonde lioness. He took the opportunity to explore on his own when he didn't realise that he was close to the Pridelands until he heard a scream. He didn't know why he bolted towards the source but he did. The golden yellow cub ran as the wind of his running whipped through this red mohawk tuff. He stopped at the edge of a valley to see a beefy hyena holding a scared cub by her scuff. He couldn't explain why he cared but he did.

"H-hey! Let her go!"

Kasar laughed as he looked up at the Outland prince. "Why don't you come down here!" when Kion didn't move Kasar and Cheezi laughed before the light gray hyena turned to the princess. "You're lucky that the boss wants you 'cause I'm starving."

"No!" something in Kion snapped. His eyes began to glow. "Let her go!"

He roared which sent the hyenas tumbling back. When Kion stopped roaring he looked around before taking a deep breath. "Hevi kabisa! What was that?"

By now Kiara was climbing up the rocks before collapsing when she reached the surface.

"Are you okay?"

Kiara took deep breathes before looking up to see a pair of charming light brown eyes. "Yes, thank you."

Kion ears folded back as he smiled. "I couldn't let them eat you. My name is Kion by the way."

Kiara sat up and smiled which made Kion blush as he smiled a bit more. "I'm Kiara."

Kion wanted to say something before he noticed it was passed noon. "I should go. It's nice meeting you Kiara."

Kiara nodded, not trusting her voice. Before she turned and headed back to the Pridelands hoping no one would have noticed her absence. But knowing her father, she doubt it.

Scar's part of the Outlands

ROAR

"Scar, what was that?"

The rich brown lion didn't answer right away. He was too interested in the heads of lions disappearing back into the sky. He shook his head before looking at his peachy cream mate. "That was the roar of the elders. But I wondered who it was."

Nala and Scar's attention was brought to their son who came walking over with a distinctive expression. That's when Scar noticed the mark on his son's shoulder.

"It was you." then a thought acoured. "Who did you save?"

Nala was looking at her mate with confused green eyes. "Scar, what are you talking about?"

Kion was afraid of the punishment if he lied so he lowered his head. "A pridelander. The princess to be exact."

Scar narrowed his green eyes as he roared. Kion fell on his back as he looked up with fearful eyes. "You did what!?"

"I couldn't let her die and maybe I wanted to be friends..."

Scar stopped pacing at Kion's last words. He looked down and grinned. "You brilliant child. You will make a fine king one day." Scar pushed the cub over to Nala before heading towards Xolo's cave. "Put the the children to sleep Nala. Then meet me in Xolo's cave. I have a new plan that's to die for."

Nala was completely confused but picked up Kion and headed for the cave.