The Lion Guard Meets Selena Burns

Return of the Roar: What's Baobab ball?

Author's note-)
Soooo, I'm SO FREAKING SORRY! I had a very serious case of writer's block for well, nine months. I have a chapter here that is practically 5000 words long so I hope it was worth the wait!

Also, there is cussing in this chapter! Be warned!

Enjoy!

Chapter 3: What's Baobab ball?

It had been a long two hours since I had woken up in the Pride Lands and was taken to King Simba. Now, as I walked alongside the character that I had always admired, I couldn't help but wonder if I would ever return to my world. It was lonely, I had discovered, being here alone with no actual knowledge of why I was even in this world. There seemed to be no purpose for me being here and it was becoming ever clearer in my mind that I was not meant to be here originally.

Simba strolled ahead of me as I slowed in my pace. I decided to walk behind the fully grown feline ruler to leave me to my thoughts. It wasn't until King Simba spoke aloud that I was brought from my self imposed trance. We had arrived in a field where there were Lionesses and cubs laying and playing about. There seemed to be all females in the area, aside from the king himself.

A greeting was made to the king as I looked up from the ground and saw the one and only Nala herself approaching. I quickly looked back down to the ground, my bashful side showing. There was no way that I was going to be able to look my favorite Disney royal in the eye. However, when Simba decided to introduce me to his mate I had no choice but to look her in the eye.

"Nala, this is Sauda," Simba said. "Akina found her alone on the outer edge of the Pride Lands."

Nala looked down at me and smiled. "Hello, Sauda."

"H-hello, your m-majesty I'm Sel-sauda" I greeted. "I'm S-sauda."

Crap! What the hell's wrong with me!?! Did I just stutter, not to mention almost say my actual name!?

"Well, it's nice to meet you Sauda," Nala said. She looked up from me to Simba who was still standing next to me.

"Simba, I have to go find Kiara and her friends for their hunting lesson," she said. "I'll have to get to know Sauda at dinner time."

Simba nodded and walked over to Nala and nuzzled her. "I'll see you at dinner."

"Likewise," Nala said before she took off running in the direction of Pride Rock.

Simba watched his mate run home and then turned back to me. "Now, you are free to do as you please until dinner time. Until then you can play with the other animals or with the other cubs your age. However, if you go exploring be sure to stay away from the Outlands, they are forbidden."

I nodded. "Thank you, your majesty. I will do as you say."

I then ran down pride rock and into the savannah where I explored. I found various piles of rocks that had geckos and other lizards sunbathing, there were tons of acacia trees with giraffes eating off them. I saw a herd of zebra along with antelope and elephants. I even found a watering hole where I decided to stop to take a drink and calm my heart rate down from running. Now what was a challenge was trying to figure out how to drink with no cup and no opposable thumbs. Of course, in the end, there was only one option: drinking like the animal I currently was.

I reached my head down until my muzzle reached the water. I immediately jumped back, though, because it turns out you're not supposed to stick your nose in the water when it's on top of your mouth. The water had gone up into my nose. I quickly figured out after that that I was supposed to let mu muzzle hover over the water instead of delving my mouth and nose completely inside the water.