Remember Who You Are

Chapter 2: A horrible accident

"Kion!" Kiara shouted as she watched in horror and Kion went over the edge of the gorge. Kiara ran to the edge where she saw Kion hitting the side hard. Then she heard a sickening thud followed by silence. "Kion?!" Kiara shouted. Silence. "Kion?!" Kiara tried again only to be met once again with silence. Kiara jumped over the side of the gorge and using her claws to slow her fall made her way to where he brother had fallen. "Kion?!" Kiara called out. The only sound was her own voice echoing back. "Oh Kion where are you?" she whispered as she looked around. Then she saw a horrific sight. Kion was laying on the ground not moving. "Kion!" Kiara shouted, racing over to her fallen brother. When she got close the sight she saw made her stomach lurch. Kion was laying in a pool of blood, not moving. He had a bad gash on his head and it was obvious that his front paw was broken as well as numerous ribs. "Oh Kion," Kiara whispered, tears coming to her eyes as she checked to see if her baby brother was still alive. To her relief she heard Kion's shallow and ragged breathing. "Thank the Kings," she breathed. "He's alive. But he won't be for long if I don't get him help." With that Kiara began to shout for help. After what seamed like forever she heard someone call her name. Looking over Kiara saw Ono flying towards her. "Ono get help!" Kiara shouted. "Kion's hurt! He fell down the side of the gorge!"

"Hapana!" Ono shouted as he saw his friend's state. "I'll get help!" With that the egret took off at full force.

"What's going on down there?!" Fuli shouted from the top.

"Kion fell down the side of the gorge!" Ono shouted as he flew away. "I'm getting Rafiki!"

"I'll get King Simba and Queen Nala!" Fuli said, racing towards Pride Rock.

"I'm going down to see if I can help," Beshte said.

"Not without me you're not!" Bunga cried, getting on top of his hippo friend. With that Beshte carefully climbed down the side of the gorge. When he go to the bottom Bunga jumped down and ran to his fallen friend. "Whoa!" Bunga cried out, his face losing all its color as he took in the bloody sight. Kiara was trying frantically to stop the bleeding so Kion wouldn't bleed to death before Rafiki got there.

"What happened?!" Beshte shouted, after the initial shock wore off.

"We were arguing," Kiara explained as he packed Kion's wounds with mud. "Kion was shouting at me and wasn't looking where he was going. He tripped and fell over the edge! I tried to help him but I couldn't get to him fast enough!" As Kiara was speaking the tears were running down her face as the image of her brother falling replayed in her head.

"Hey its alright," Beshte said, trying to sound as comforting as possible. "It was an accident."

"Yeah yeah can we talk about this later?!" Bunga shouted as he applied more mud to Kion's wounds. Kiara and Beshte nodded and continued to try and stop the bleeding. Just then they heard a voice cry out. "Kings Above! What happened?!" The young animals turned and saw Simba and Nala standing there, horrified looks on their faces.

"Oh Kion!" Nala shouted, running over to her son with Simba and Fuli right behind her. "Oh Simba there so much blood," she whispered, burying her face in Simba's red mane. Simba just stood there, to horrified to speak or even move. A flashback to when he had found his father, Mufasa's body after he had been killed in a stampeded came flooding through his head and the golden King shuddered at the thought.

"We're trying to stop the bleeding Mom," Kiara said as she packed more mud.

"It is good dat I came prepared!" Rafiki cried out, suddenly appearing with Ono right with him.