Remember Who You Are

Chapter 19: Explanations and Confusion

"Kion stop!" Jasiri cried, running onto the scene with Madona right behind her.

"What are you doing here hyena?!" Kion snarled, glaring at Jasiri.

"Stopping you from making a terrible mistake!" Jasiri declared. "You can't use your Roar on your parents Kion! They don't deserve it!"

"Why do you care?" Kion asked, glaring at Jasiri. "I thought hyenas and lion hated each other?"

"Like I've tried telling you before," Jasiri said, a slight hint of annoyance to her voice. "We're friends. So I do care what happens to your parents. And to you. And I'm not going to stand by and let Reirei manipulate you like this! You don't deserve it! And I know she's the reason why you attacked me and Madona the other day! And I'm damn sure going to see to it that she and her family pay for what they've done! No one goes after my friend and gets away with it!"

"Your mate won't like that," Kion stated.

"Ugh Janja is so not my mate," Jasiri groaned, rolling her eyes. "I can't stand him in the slightest."

"But Reirei said.." Kion began.

"Reirei's been lying to you!" a voice cried out. The group turned and saw Kiara racing towards them with Tiifu, Zuri and the Guard right behind her.

"What are you doing here Kiara?!" Kion cried out, shocked to see his sister and their friends there.

"Getting you to listen!" Kiara cried. "Look Kion I know you're really confused right now and you probably don't wanna listen to me after what happened earlier but you've gotta here me out!"

"I don't gotta do anything!" Kion shouted. "You tried to kill me Kiara! You said you wished I was dead!"

"I know I did!" Kiara shouted back. "And I'm sorry Kion! I really am. I was just so angry at the time and yeah maybe I did mean it at the time but I regretted it as soon as I did it. I've been feeling guilty every second of every day ever since that horrible day. I would have never forgiven myself if you had actually died. You're my little brother. I should have been protecting you not hurting you. I'm so ashamed of myself." Kiara hung her head in shame as she spoke as the tears threatened to come once again. Kion just stared at his sister, shocked at how upset she was.

"Don't believe her Kion!" Dogo cried out, running over to the Prince. "She's tricking you!"

"The only one around here that's tricking anyone is you and your family Dogo!" Fuli snarled, glaring at the jackal pup.

"Yeah everyone knows that jackals are the biggest liars there are!" Bunga chimed in.

"Kion?" Beshte said, noticing that Kion had a really strange look on his face. "You ok there Ky?" the young hippo asked, the concern clear in his voice.

"I..I'm not sure," Kion said, shaking his head. "I'm..I'm so confused. I don't know what to believe."

"Look Kion I'm gonna tell ya the truth," Zuri said, stepping forward. "You know me and you know I don't like you very much and you don't like me much right?"

"Yeah," Kion said with a nod. "That much I remember." Reirei and Dogo exchanged worried looks as they realized the hydro piper hadn't been as effective as they thought.