At the next day Kopa insisted that I met Asante. He woke me as the others where still asleep. Kopa made me to leave the Cave without being caught.
We walked through the savannah to the Elephant graveyard. Simba was there at the second day I spended here after the helicopter crash. And Simba was scolded out from his father after that because Simba was forbidden to enter this place. And I guess it was the same with Kopa. And now I understood why. It was a very creepy place with bones and skeletons of elephants all around. But this was the place where the hyenas life and I was pretty scared about that.
"Asante! Asante! Are you here?", called Kopa for his new friend.
Then, a hyena cub came from the inside of an elephant skull.
"Kopa, you are here? What is THAT?!,", Shouted Asante at me as she saw me.
"Don't worry she is a friend of my family and..."
If this place where not so creepy I guess Asante seemed kind of cute because well, every Cub is cute, even a hyena cub.
But I recognized faster than Kopa that we where not alone... The Other Hyenas came to us and We where fast surrounded.
"Kopa... I knew this is not a good idea to come here by our own.", I said, trembling in fear. I knew this was a bad Idea. Why on earth did I follow him??? I saw me already death as a mighty Lion roar from the outside scared the hyenas and they fleed back in their hideouts.
We looked around but we saw nobody. But we took our chance and run. As we where back in the savannah we stopped to catch our breath.
"That was close... And very silly! When your father knows about that...", I began to scold at Kopa.
Kopa looked sad at me and let his ears hang down.
I sighted. He looked so cute at me: "Ok... Ok you got me! I won't tell him.", I said, " But it was very close after all. Let's go home. I bet your Parents are already missing you."
We walked through the Savannah and I loved to see the nature and all the animals. It was beautiful after all. The sun stood high in the Sky, it must be noon now. On our way home we've been suddenly stopped as a Lion ran towards me. But it was not Simba or Nala. I didn't recognized that Lion. He barely overrun me, as the Lion passed, I saw a human. I was not able to move so fast as things happened now. A Human hunter raised is gun and pointed at Kopa. I cried: "NOOOOOO!"
But before I could reach Kopa to save him I heard a shoot and Kopas terrible cry. Kopa laied there, almost dead.
I ran to him, kneeled down and took him in my arms.
"No... No... How could you!?", I shouted at the Hunter.
He looked angry: "Damn it! I wanted the big one!"
The hunter turned around with an angry growl and leaved.
I sat there in the grass with the barely breathing Kopa in my arms.
"Kim... tell Daddy... I'm sorry...", then I felt that Kopas heart stopped moving. Tears ran down my cheeks and I couldn't stop them. So I only barely see another silhouette of a Lion who slowly moving backwards and leaved.
It was sunset as I returned with Kopas dead body to Pride Rock. I was still crying, as Simba came towards me. It seemed all where looking for us.
"Kim! Where have you been? What happened?", Simba asked me as he saw Kopa in my arms.
"A man... killed him.", I sank on my knees I was not able to walk anymore.
"No!", Nala came too.
I layed Kopa on the ground.
"I'm so sorry!", I cried again.
It was terrible for me to see how Kopa was shot. But how terrible must it have been for his parents to loose their child? This night was a very sad night for the Pride Lands. And no one knew how this was happened because except of me, no one human ever set a foot on Pride Lands. Someone must have lead this hunter here. But who? And why?