Akito and the Lion Guard

chapter 3

Simon heard a twig snap, then tackled down Akito and held his knife against the older boy's throat, then realized who it was and calmly backed off. Akito quietly gave him the keep quiet hand, or in this case, paw sign. Simon nodded and came off of his older cousin, putting his knife back into his mouth and lightly growled.

Akito followed Simon after the two lions, both sensed these two could not be good. Rafiki was in his tree, speaking of the birth of Kion and Kiara to the late Mufasa and about how another Circle of Life is complete and the pride's future is once again secure.

Simon and Akito were not going to let these two get away they were going to find who these two lions were and why they were in the Pridelands. They kept following and appeared to end up in a dark, deserted part of the jungle which looked very scarce on food and survival. There was a small brown cub with a small tuft of black mane with emerald eyes who nearly looked like a cub version of Scar.

'This must be a bad part of the Savanna.' Akito thought to himself.

Simon gestured for Akito to follow and shushed him. Akito nodded as he followed. The cub then saw a bug and then pounced on top of it with a smirk. However, he smiled gently and let the insect go out of his paws.

"KOVU!" a sharp female voice called.

'That must be the mother.' Akito thought to himself.

The cub nervously looked up as a rogue lioness came up with a torn ear and eyes red as blood.

"Don't let it go..." she snarled to the young cub. "What's the matter with you?"

"But Mother!" the cub spoke up. "He wasn't hurting anyone--"

"There is no room for weakness here, my son," the lioness nearly sneered, pulling the cub closer toward her. "Remember... Scar took you in and accepted you as his own son."

"Took him in?" Akito whispered to himself.

The cub seemed doubtful of his mother's statement. "But he wasn't my father."

"No... But he chose you to become the next King," the lioness replied. "When you rule, we shall no longer be forced to live in these dry, barren, disgusting, pathetic, termite-infested Outlands!"

The lion cubs were now rushing over to the lioness to tell her the news from the Pridelands.

"Are those two her children as well?" Akito whispered.

Simon slowly nodded, it was ambiguous, but he noticed that the cubs were calling the lioness 'Mother'.

"We were there, in the Pride Lands," the male cub said. "We saw the whole thing!"

"At Pride Rock, we saw everything!" the female added in.

"We saw Simba's cubs!" both of the cubs told the adult lioness.

'Why would she send her own children out to the Pridelands just to find out about the baby cubs?' Akito thought to himself.

"What?" the lioness asked. "Vitani, what did you see?"

"Simba's new cubs are a boy and a girl!" the female cub replied.

"What could she be planning by finding out about what gender the cubs are?" Akito whispered to himself.

Simon put his hand up and gestured for Akito to be silent as they were spying on the rogue lioness. He could tell that she was dangerous. The lioness seemed delighted that one of the new cubs in Pride Rock was a girl and she spoke to Scar her 'beloved'. The male cub was nervous at first of the mention of Scar, but the female cub who was named Vitani reminded him that Scar was dead.

Akito gestured to Simon, telling him that they should go back to the Pridelands and warn the others. Simon nodded to him, he then crawled back with Akito. Akito kept a close eye on the rogue lions in the Outlands and went off with his younger cousin.

"Look... at the Pride Lands, my pets," the rogue lioness told her cubs after it was set to train the youngest cub named Kovu to fight for Pride Rock like Scar did against Simba. "So green... so inviting. That is our home... that is where we belong. And soon, my beloved Scar... we shall reclaim your kingdom."

Akito and Simon glared to this lioness as they were on their way back to their camp and to the Pridelands where Simba was the rightful king and Kiara would even be queen by his side, but something else would become of Kion to fulfill his destiny another way.