Peace for the Soul ~ A Lion King Fanfiction

Chapter 8: A Restless Mind

(Kion's POV)

The Moon is hidden by the night sky. Ever so slowly we creep into the outlands, I look to my right, and see my Father, clearly conflicted with what the night will bring. I look to my left and see Umeme...

My Father calls the pride to a halt. He has his eyes focused on a small clan of hyenas. But something is off, these Hyenas are young, too young to have been behind the attacks recently. "Dad, what are you doing?" He gives a growl to the rest of the Pride, the signal to prepare to attack...

"Dad, what are you doing!"

"What I have to do for my Pride, son! Do not question my judgement!"

"Father, this is unjust! These hyenas..."

"Silence, Kion!"

He glares in a way which I've never seen before, except for one other lion...

"Father, No! This is wrong!"

He leads a charge against the young Hyenas, I pull the guard aside and we begin our race to get to the volcano. This was wrong, those Hyenas had nothing to do with the attacks on the Pridelands, and my Father had to have known that. He had to...

My surroundings fade to black, suddenly I feel hot, and getting hotter fast. I start running into the darkness,

'Oh Kion...'

I hear a charred voice,

'You don't realize you've already lost...'

I keep running, my heart pounding furiously in my chest,

'You don't even realize, the Pridelands will soon burn and be reduced to ash...'

'Get out of my head Scar!'

He chuckled maniacally,

'And Kion...'

I freeze as I hear a horrific shriek,

this time from an unfamiliar voice,

'She will suffer because of you!'

Unable to see anything, until I crash into a rock. I find myself in a dark cave, and I slowly pick myself up and navigate myself through the caverns. Then, a bright opening appears, an escape?

I creep slowly to it, only to see a familiar situation, and a dreaded one. I look out of the opening to see myself faced with a lion of fire. This was the day I fought scar.
I watch a younger me stand face to face with the lion of fire, a violent fight breaking out, all the while I see my guard fending off waves of hyenas. I can barely watch after Scar knocks me to the ground,

"Ushari, now!"

An Egyptian cobra slithers over to my body,

"I will enjoy this." He lunges to me and leaves me scarred, and in the searing pain as if my eye was flayed,

Scar then makes his way over to me,

"As will I Ushari..." he raises his paw to strike me down,

"No Kion!"

I hear a sweet voice call out, I watch myself shut my eyes in anticipation as I see this horrible moment with open eyes for the first time,

"Stop, No!" I scream, but my voice goes unheard,

My world turns swiftly to black again, as I fall to my paws, fighting back tears. "Why is this happening to me!" I scream to the air, only for the sound of fire to respond. I open my eyes and watch in horror...

The Pridelands, it was on fire. I couldn't believe it, my home whom I had fought so hard to protect, gone. I race around, looking for anyone to help. I see Kiara, but when I run up to her, she greets me with a fighting stance,

"Kion, stay back. I'm warning you!"

I stop, surprised she would say that with a look of such terror plastered on her face,

"Kiara, what has happened?"

She slumps to the ground and I race to her side,

"Kiara, what is happening?"

She rears up, glaring at me,

"Stay away from me, and my..."

She passed out, or hopefully not worse, just then, I hear a snap of a twig. Reacting by spinning to face what could be my sisters attacker, a small cub walked to me, I could tell it was a little girl. She walks to me, and falls into my paws, and she spoke in such a soft whisper...

"The dark lion came, it came with the ferocity of the underworld, the blue mane tried to save us, but it took away everyone... but me." She falls back, there is nothing I can do for her,

I hear that sickening laugh again, as I turn to pride rock and see scars head floating above it,

"You cannot fight it Kion, remember, I always get what I want."

The world becomes black again, leaving me in a darkness blacker than night...

"No! No! No!!!"

I cover my head with my paws,

"Imagine you are in a dark cave, how do you escape?"

The answer somehow suddenly became clear to me,

I wake up, heaving for air and stumbling around, clearly losing my sense of awareness I stumble through the cave until pounced by something, what ever it was, it held me down until my breathing returned to normal. I looked up to see the female cheetah whom I had been placed with, and her eyes, I got lost in them again.

She held her body close to mine, I don't know what to think of the gesture. I couldn't control the tears that escaped my eyes having relived all of those horrible memories in one night again. She brings her head and rests it on my shoulder, I couldn't think much about it before her subtle purrs let me drift to sleep.