Author's note: Same deal here! # for singing, % for speaking!

"What?" Kiara's eyes widened. "No way...you're just a cub!"

*cue rock music*

"That kind of thing doesn't matter out here," Kovu replied, arching his back to get up in her face and baring his teeth in a smug grin. "You have a lot to learn, Princess."

There was that funny feeling again...Kiara's fur bristled for a different reason as Kovu sauntered away from her, leaping to the top of a rock and looking down at her like a king.

Not like her father, though...Kovu looked like a tyrant.

A smug, arrogant, self-absorbed little tyrant.

Kovu: #Quit starin' at me like that, cause you're looking kinda dumb.

If you had brains at all, kid, you'd go back where you came from.

Shoulda listened when your daddy said to show some teeth and gums

When you're face-to-face with Kovu - that's me.

Kiara: *rolls her eyes* % I know...

Kovu: *grins and leaps off the rock, coming towards her again as some small hyenas slink out of the shadows towards Kiara behind him, laughing maniacally*

Kiara: *backs away* % W-what's going on? What are those things?

Kovu: *glances behind him* % Oh, these guys? They're hyenas. My mom killed most of them, but for some reason, they do whatever I say.

Random Hyena 1: % Tell 'er, Scar Junior!

Kovu: *smirks and resumes singing, prowling around Kiara as it shows her POV from behind the hyena pups* #Since I ain't Scar's kid, they say the king flipped his lid
When he selected me to carry the crown

Hyena: % Oh, the ignorance!

Kovu: #But what they aren't getting is they're lucky he did,
'Cause I'm Kovu - I'm the baddest around!

*Kiara looks intrigued and curious about Kovu, breaking away from the throng of hyenas and trying to follow him as he leaps out onto the "rocks" in the middle of the swamp*

Kovu: *sounding melodramatic and arrogant* #It really isn't easy being so smart and strong,
it seems like everyone's depending on me!

Kiara: *fascinated* % Really?! #I'm trying hard to figure out just where I belong,
Could you help me be more like you?

Kovu: *turns around and gets in her face again, sneering* % Hah. Fat chance, wannabe.
*he leaps ahead of her, teasingly always just out of her reach as she follows him, looking like she's trying to get closer to him*
#A big job fell on me when old King Scar hit the wall,
Mother says I have to walk his path proud and tall.

Kiara: *sighs longingly* #He doesn't care about anybody at all...

Kovu: #I'm who Scar wishes he could be!

Kiara: #He's so brave and cool and free...

Kovu: *stares at his reflection in the water narcissistically as a crocodile rears its head* #'Cause there's no one half as awesome as Kovu...that's me!

Kiara: AAAUUGHHH!

Kovu: *laughs evilly* Yeah, now you're getting it! Quiver with fear, PRIDELANDER!

Kovu: *turns around and sees the crocodile* AAAAAUUUUGHHHH!