Chapter 14

Epilogue part 2

Ruqaya

Disclaimer- I do not own the lion king, but I own Eshe, Ruzuna, Linje, Ruqaya , Rifaa, Maliha, Tumbo, Banga, Silika, Tau, and Kisasi

Somewhere in the darkness, far away from here, a sad looking lioness stood hunched over, her eyes unseeing. She slammed her paw on the dirt, growling, waiting impatiently. Where was Ruzuna(rooh zoo NAH, calm and composed)?! She spat, that Tau will pay one day. She would have her revenge, and she would kill Kiara. Blind, she could not do it herself, but luckily she had a spy, and with time she would have an army. She didn't care about Kovu following Scar's path, she just wanted to make him live with the fact that he was the one who let her in.

"Ruqaya." Ruzuna's voice hissed from behind. "I'm here, it was hard to, but with a fight, I was able."

"Oh Ruzuna. . ." Ruqaya smirked. "That fool of a cub blinded me, you will have to take my place, warm up to Kovu, get inside his head, distract him, make him feel like everything will be all right. And when the time comes-" She crushed a lion skull. "-We will kill them all save for Kovu."

"Why Kovu?" Ruzuna asked disgusted.

"He's the weakest, our best target, he'll feel more pain as a survivor." she grinned.

Ruzuna nodded still unhappy that she had to warm up to Kovu, to her, he was an outsider, and needed to be banished from the pridelands. Simba should have never allowed them to become one with the pridelanders. Ruzuna was a very attractive lioness, her slim build and soft colors, she would be perfect.

"I'll do my best, Ruqaya." she said, willing to do anything to get rid of the outsiders.

Ruqaya smiled, it was too easy to play these dim-witted lions.

Silika tossed and turned in the den, nightmares of Ruqaya coming back to finish what she started haunted her. Small tears dripped from her eyes as she groaned and rolled over again.

"SILIKA!" Someone rammed into her, she stood up, panting. She turned her head to see little Eshe(EH sheh, life) looking up at her. Eyes wide with fright.

"Vitani wanted to talk to you!! It's about Ruqaya!" Eshe ran off, Silika chased after her.

When she came face to face with Vitani, she knew this was serious, even though she didn't doubt Eshe, she wasn't sure how serious it was. Silika knew what Vitani was going to say, Ruqaya was coming back. She shuddered as Vitani told her to sit.

"Silika, as you might have guessed, your mother is still alive." Silika let her breath go, sad that she was right. "We found scent traces of her nearby the watering hole, it trailed off somewhere in the outlands, so we couldn't follow her."

Silika looked at Vitani, wouldn't that be a good thing that her mother left the pride lands?

"Where you trying to find her?" Vitani asked her.

"No . . ." Silika said slowly. "I didn't know that there were scent traces left."

"Then she has someone working for her." Vitani said gravely. "Silika, I want you to hunt her down and kill her. So long as she is alive, she's a threat."

"I'll do it." she turned around before Vitani could ask her why she decided so suddenly.

She was so confused with emotions and such that any quest could help her out. Silika ran into Kisasi and Tau, Tau didn't look her in the eye.

"Silika, it's dawn, Tau has to leave, I didn't want you to miss him." Kisasi said, looking sad. "He'll be leaving soon, the whole pride is going to bade him goodbye as a hero."

Silika nodded, looking at Tau, he didn't seem to feel like a hero. She felt bad, she wanted them both to be happy, but she couldn't help Tau in that way. She sighed, truthfully she always thought of Tau as a big lazy brother. Silika followed them to Pride rock, to watch Kovu preach about honor and how brave Tau had been, how brave they all were, and how they should one day look to the stars and see his star up there somewhere, and reminded Tau that there would always be a home here for him. But through the entire thing, she could not concentrate, she was going to miss him, and she hoped that through the see of strangers he was about to go into, that there would be someone to take her place in his heart.

After Tau had left, Kisasi tried to comfort Silika, but that wasn't what Silika needed exactly. Angry, Silika ran off into the den and tried so hard not to cry. Maliha decided it was best to not try to make her leave yet. Wait until she was in a calmer mood. The whole pride seemed depressed, as if Sarabi died all over again, like Simba had died just this morning. Everyone moved slowly and with a heavy heart, all but the exception of a small group of lionesses, who plotted against Kovu and were practically celebrating the fact that Tau left, who were ashamed that Kiara was still alive, she shamed her blood by marrying Kovu. And the leader of the group, just introduced a way to take back the pride lands and cleanse it from the outsiders. Her name was Ruzuna.

In the middle of the night, Kisasi woke up, he saw Silika leaving the den. He trotted after her, following her. She sat down and looked at the stars.

"Silika are you ok? Do you want to hunt a midnight snack?" Kisasi asked, trying to comfort her again.

"Kisasi, stop. I'm leaving too. I'm trying to handle it." she confessed.

"What?" Kisasi asked, suddenly worried. "What do you mean?!"

"I have to hunt Ruqaya down." she blurted quietly.

"Ruqaya?!" Kisasi exclaimed. "I'm coming with you!"

"Shh! No you can't the pride landers need you!" Silika told him. "Everyone is in danger, we need you here."

Kisasi lowered his eyes. The thought of Ruqaya returning made his blood run cold.

"I'll come back." she said, rubbing her face into his chest, hoping to make him understand. "I promise."

With a small lick on his forehead, she ran off into the night. Kisasi did not stop watching her until she was too far for eyesight.

Tau left. Silika ran away. Vintani kept an eye out for Ruqaya, looking for the traitor in the pride. Kiara was trying to heal from her wounds. And the pride tried to begin trying to recover, ever since Mufaca died, the pride had been sliding down a slippery slope.

The End

Short chapter, long wait, no good deal, but it's hard to keep up with everything, and spring is the hardest season for me to keep up with things. I really had problems with the final chapter so. . .

What did you think? Ruqaya is at large, Tau has left them to lead another pride, and Silika ran away to hunt her own mother down, leaving Kisasi alone to grow up and become King.

SNEAK PEAK IN THE NEXT STORY, LION KING III- PART 2

"SILIKA?!" Maliha cried in vain, the lioness was nowhere to be found. "SILIKA!"

Kiara padded over to the meerkat with confusion. She hadn't seen Silika or Kisasi anywhere. And personally, she wanted to spend the day with her son today.

"Maliha, what's going on?" she asked.

"Kiara! Silika ran away! I can't find her ANYWHERE!" Kiara went cold, so her assumptions were correct. If only her daddy was here. She really felt like she needed his council. When she saw him during her near-death experience, he didn't say enough to help her be queen. Since when did her father become wise and mysterious?

"I'll send some lionesses to look for them." Kiara decided, "And if you could get Kovu to hurry with his patrol, that would be great!"

Maliha dipped her head, she always loved the queen Kiara. She scrambled to King Kovu, who was alone, patrolling the borders. She gasped when she saw three silhouette lionesses prepare for an ambush. Before she could warn him, Ruzuna appeared from out of nowhere just as the lionesses were going to kill Kovu. She defended him, and fought until the lionesses left. She whirled around to face Kovu who seemed surprised. As he should be, it was well known that Ruzuna would never give her life for Kovu when she knew no one would know that she didn't help him.

"What was that?" Kovu asked, meaning her sudden change in loyalty.

"A bunch of rogue lionesses who were going to ambush you." she said kindly.

Maliha nearly threw up in her mouth. The lioness was very attractive and was using her beauty as a tool.

"I saved you, doesn't that mean I get a thank you?" she asked, taking another step, her tail moving side to side.

Kovu nodded, he thanked her, and they finished the patrol together, talking. Maliha slapped her face, not wanting to tell Kiara, why were the male gender so gullible when a fancy female was toying with them?!