Attention please. This one is my first "semi-original" fanfic written in this site. It may contain some resemblances from the stories of another author, TakaPL, but I got his permission for that, and, if you don't believe me, you may ask him. Well, whatever, this one is the prologue for my story. This speaks about things that happened before the first movie, and during the first movie. It isn't fully consistent with the movies, but the timeline is more or less the same, and the main events are the same. Now that's over, let's begin.

Prologue – Life in the Pride Lands

/Attention: This one is supposed to be the script of a song. Try to imagine the song on your mind, going as the scenes are indicated. If you find those boring, you may skip them, but I suggest you to pay attention at least to the didaskalia scenes, because some of those scenes may be important. The parts between "/" are the didaskalia scenes./

/"Reaching the sun" song. Tune can be slightly adopted from "Circle of Life", but a little bit different, according to verses. We see that two lions - one giant and very muscled, with golden fur and bright auburn mane, and the other a little bit smaller, with dark golden fur and golden mane – are walking in the circles around the entrance of the cave on Pride Rock, a little bit nervous. The sun is rising. Capture changes to inside the cave, where we see one lioness with browinsh-grey fur, exhausted from labour, cleaning her newborn cub, and another roaring in pain while she gives birth. Some sunlight enters the cave. Song begins./

Since the sun rises over the horizon

And its light begins day on these lands

/Capture changes to the savannah. We see several animals waking up, like zebras, wildebeest, and baboons./

We must wake up from sleep

For our life-pace to keep

Walk the road that everyone stands

/Camera changes to the edge of a wood. We get a capture of a male warthog with crimson fur trying to protect an already injured female warthog – her fur is pale-grey – and her young piglet – with black fur – from a lion and a lioness. The lion has mahogany fur, black mane, green eyes, and a scar over his left eye. The lioness has sandy fur, a brown dorsal stripe, a long muzzle, red eyes, and a missing bit on her right ear./

Even morning could be so exhausting

As we run to reach the midday sun

/The male warthog charges at the lion and the lioness, who charge back at him. When they are almost colliding the felines jump over the suine, right on the last moment./

Sometimes futile attempt

/When the warthog manages to stop his charge, he turns around to see that the lion already caught the female, the lioness already caught the piglet, and they are running away. The warthog tries to chase them, but he gives up after some steps, and sits down at the shade of the wood, deeply depressed/

Cannot change our friends' end

And some fights simply cannot be won

/Camera changes to the open savannah, and we get a picture of a herd of zebras grazing. Suddenly, a leopardess comes out of the grass, and charges at the zebras, who are still sleepy and take time to react. It's enough time for the leopardess to pounce one of the adult males./

Chorus:But still have to run

To keep heartbeat on

/The zebra is big enough to be a hard fight for the leopardess. But the leopardess is also tough, and the fight becomes more intense. There are some moments when the leopardess seems about to be hit dangerously by the zebra's hoofs./

Ready to chase the sun

Until its light is gone

/The persistence of the leopardess rewards her when she jumps to the throat of the zebra. Camera temporarially goes away, and when it focuses on the leopardess again, the zebra is already dead./

Master at least our race

Running to survive

/The three cubs of the leopardess come to meet their mother, and when they are almost biting the dead zebra, camera goes away./

Laugh the death in face

As we still could rise

/Camera changes to some place much drier than the Pride Lands, and we see all the members of meerkat colony digging in the sand, as usual. A young male meerkat with red hair, a female meerkat with orange hair, and an aged male meerkat with grey hair are among them./

Second verse:You must still move your legs, wish to go on

/Capture changes to an incredibly dry place, only with barren rock, termite mounds, and occasional plants. We get a picture of a lioness with black fur hiding her cub – a small male, with fur as dark as his mother's – in a small rock cave. Right after that, some twenty hyenas appear. The cub is out of reach of the hyenas, but the lioness is in clear trouble./

Every stop could be final and done

Because moment you fall

/The hyenas begin attacking the lioness, she tries her best to protect herself and her cub, but the hyenas are winning. They bite the lioness, like if they are eating her alive./

For other could be call

As your death also brings life to some

/Suddenly, three lions, one of them with grey fur, red mane, and red eyes, and two younger ones: one with brown mane, sandy fur, and brown eyes, and the third iddentical to the second, but with a dark spot on his nose, appear on the place. The hyenas run away with they see them./

As the ones you once have left behind

Those who tried to avoid Nature's call

/The two second males turn to the dying lioness, who looks at them with almost dead eyes, and dies shortly after. The young males seem confused, as if they are unable to know what to do with her./

See - when you feed your kins

Knowing Stars let you win

/The red-maned lion looks at the small cub inside the cave, who hugs him and seems to accept him as father./

But for some They were not large at all

/The two younger males seem confused when they see their leader picking the cub by the scruff, but when the leader looks at them, they simply nod and follow him, leaving the dead lioness behind./

But it sometimes relieves

Us from hardest quests

As the others got worst

You might win what's the best

/Camera changes back to the Pride Lands, and we see a herd of buffalos drinking. Suddenly, a crocodile comes and bites a big male, trying to take him to the water./

Chorus: Even we don't dissevered

For the second chance

/The buffalo doesn't seem to make any particullar effort, and the crocodile, despite trying his best, is not able to move the buffalo not even one inche./

We will win or die

There's no repence

/The buffalo waves his head, releases his head, and slashes the crocodile under the jaw with one of his horns. The crocodile runs back to the water, leaving it a little bit dirty with blood./

There is no second place

Just finishing goal

/The crocodile comes back at the surface, looking at the buffalo with a scared look./

You will run as hell

To reach heavens door

/The buffalo turns back to the camera, and all the herd goes away. Song finishes. Sudden cut to black./