Disclaimer: I don't own lion king but I do own Nimba, Kisha, Furaha & Nama!

WARNING, this is a bit brutal, especially the italics, so if you don't like reading brutal things, I suggest u skip it and start reading at the non-italics part ok.:D Otherwise, Enjoy!:D

The Kiara Chronicles: Trials Of Torment: (Chapter 9 Edited)

Weeks turned into months as Simba and Nala had their son and named him, Nimba, and he was now a little older than adolscent! Nama was also now a young lioness.

Back in the Outlands, for the past few weeks, he has been having nightmares at least three times a week. Sometimes the nightmares were about his pride being attacked suddenly out of no where by hyenas, but mostly it was about the blue eyed lions and lionesses. It was early morning and Kovu, yet again was having a horrible nightmare, this time it was mostly about Kiara.

It's now afternoon in the Outlands, and Kovu has just walked out of the den. He scanned the Outlands and all of a sudden, in the distance, he sees that Blue eyed lion and his rogue Pride attacking his pride!

Kovu raced as fast as he could to where the fight was, and sees Kisha fighting a rogue lioness.

The rogue lioness jumped on Kisha's back, and sinks her teeth into her back, but Kisha was able to throw the lioness off her, and she jumped at the lioness, and sunk her fangs deep into the lioness' neck, breaking the major artery and soon enough she died. So Kisha shook the rogue by the neck just to make sure she was dead, she was, so Kisha dropped the dead lioness. But Kisha had no time to react as, the blue-eyed lion, attacked Kisha. Kujo jumped at her and sunk his teeth into her neck, as Kisha roared in pain, Kujo just kept sinking his teeth deeper into Kisha's neck, blood pouring down her neck. Her eyes widened one last time and soon her head fell back onto the ground and was finally dead, her jaw was slightly opened with blood running out of her mouth. So Kujo dropped the dead lioness to the ground, blood dripping from his mouth out. But just to make sure Kisha was dead, he twisted her neck until he heard the lioness' neck crack. He smiled evily, blood dripping from his mouth, and left Kisha to lay in a pool of her own blood, satisfied with his kill.

Kovu looked horrified at what had just happened, he then heard the voice of Kayla say, "Kovu, look out!"

Kovu looked, and just in time, Kayla intercepted a rogue lioness and pinned her to the ground, and without wasting anytime, Kayla sunk her teeth deep into the rogue lioness' throat. A puddle of blood began to form around the rogues neck and head as the lioness, gasping for air, tried to get free, but Kayla kept a firm grip on her throat and slowly but surely, her breathing ceased and the rogue died. Kayla turned around, but a lioness had tackled Kayla and shoved her to the ground and sunk her teeth deep into Kayla's neck. She began gasping for air, but all the rogue lioness did was sink her teeth even deeper into her neck, blood pouring out of her neck, forming a puddle of blood next to her. Kayla's eyes widened one last time and finally her head dropped on to the ground, dead, her jaw hung open as blood continued running out of her mouth! So the lioness dropped Kayla's dead body out of her mouth to the ground, smiled evilly as Kayla laid in a pool of her own blood, with blood still gushing out her neck. The rogue lioness walked away, satisfied with killing another member of Kovu's pride.

Kovu looked with horror on his face, and saw many lionesses of his pride dead, blood covering their bodies. He was so horrified, it was like he was stuck in one spot.
Just then, Tina jumped and pinned a rogue lioness to the ground, and said, "Times up!" The lioness only smiled as Tina sunk her teeth deep into her neck and soon the lioness' breathis ceased and died!

But out of nowhere, two lionesses jumped and attacked Tina agressively, clawing and biting into her flesh. One lioness sunk her teeth and ripped open her chest, causing blood to gush out, and soon Tina hit the ground hard. The other rogue lioness got on top of her, smiled evily and began sinking her teeth deep into the flank of Tina's neck. Tina began gasping for air and coughing up some blood, but all the rogue did was sink her teeth deeper and deeper into her neck until Tina's breathing ceased. So the rogue shook her a bit by the neck then dropped the bloody lioness to the ground, her jaw hung open with blood running out of her mouth . But to make sureshe was truely dead, she twisted and broke her neck. The two lionesses looked at each other and smiled evilly, blood dripping from their muzzles, satisfied with their kill!

Kovu turned around and saw that Kiara had just attacked a rogue lioness. The rogue lioness jumped at Kiara, but Kiara was to quick, as she jumped on the lioness and sunk her fangs into the lioness' neck aggressively and slowly but surely, the rogue died!

Just then, out of no where, a rogue lioness named, Micka, attacked Kiara and sunk her teeth into Kiara's shoulder blade. The young lioness roared in pain, let go and slammed her paw into Kiara's face and Kiara went sprawling into a big rock. Micka was just about to pin Kiara when she kicked her in the stomach as hard as possible, knocking the air out of Micka, and flipped her over head and she landed hard on the ground.

As Micka was on the ground breathing heavily, Kiara said angrily, "Now, you will PAY for what you did to my friends and family!"

Kiara then sunk her teeth aggressively into Micka's throat and ripped her throat out, and threw her in the air and died almost immediately, blood running out of her mouth. But as Kiara was about to walk away, another rogue lioness jumped at her and slammed her paw into Kiara's face, causing her to loose her balance and fall to the ground. As Kiara got up, the lioness snarled angrily and slashed Kiara's shoulder, causing blood to spill out of her. The lioness jumped at her again, Kiara ducked, extended her claws, and slashed the lioness' throat! The lioness roared in pain as blood began spitting out of her throat! She began coughing and gagging and soon, she fell to the ground and after a few last breaths, her breathing ceased and died! And as Kiara began to walk away, a big male rogue lion jumped at her and slammed his paw into her face, that easily sent her sprawling across the ground!

Kujo then walked up to the dazed lioness, who got up very slowly, her leg was bleeding pretty badly as well. Kiara snarled angrily, and leaped Kujo, but as she did that, instead of meeting her in the air, he ducked, which caused her to go over him, extended his claws and ended up ripping Kiara's stomach open as he sliced her stomach open. Kiara roared in agony and fell to the ground, blood gushing out of her stomach, creating a big pool of blood underneath and in front of her stomach. She painfully rolled onto her back as Kujo smiled evilly, She painfully looked up at him, saw him approaching her and sunk his large, deadly teeth into her abdomen, causing Kiara to roar in more pain and unexpectantly, put both paws on her abdomen, extended his claws and shoved them into her stomach, ripping her stomach open! Kovu saw Kujo crouched over Kiara's belly, his teeth yanking and biting deep into her abdomen! His teeth were so far into her abdomen, that his muzzle was sinking into her as well and all of a sudden, with all his strength, yanked a mouth full of stomach fat from Kiara's stomach out of her, causing her to roar in complete agony...she lifted her head weakly and saw some of her stomach fat hanging out of her and she also saw Kujo eating her stomach fat he pulled out of her!

Kovu was so shocked, he couldn't move!

Kujo looked down at her, beneath the stringy and thin muscles, he could see her inner organs! Kiara put her left paw on her abdomen, trying to keep her organs inside her. Kujo smiled evilly, walked over to her, pinned her right foreleg with his and her hind legs, and said evilly, "You know Kiara, I never knew a lioness could actually taste so good. Here, let me tell you a secret, after you are dead, I'm going to drag you away and have you for my dinner. I'm going to start eating the stomach fat first and once I've eaten everything in your stomach...well, I guess you know the rest."

And with his left paw, extended his claws and dug his claws deep into her throat and swiftly, shot his head down and began biting very deeply into her throat as well...he wanted to make sure she paid for his brothers death! Then another rogue lioness jumped on Kiara and sunk his extremely long teeth into her lower abdomen and ripped it open even more until there was a gory hole in her stomach and put her mouth in the gap and wrapped her jaws around the stomach began pulling her stomach fat out of the hole in her stomach! Though unknown to the lioness, Kiara kicked her in the jaw and she went flying through the air and didn't move, her jaw had been broken and she fell unconscious.

By this time, Kiara was in a large pool of her own blood, as it just kept growing bigger and there were multiple streams of blood seperating from the larger pool of her own blood! Surprisingly enough though, there wasn't any blood running out of her mouth yet.

As he continued to shove his claws and teeth deeper into her throat, some of her blood flowed into his mouth, but unknown to him, Kiara surprisingly found enough strength in her to free her paw out from his grip, extended her claws, and with a weak, but loud snarl, swiped at his throat and ripped it open. Kujo immediately let go of Kiara's throat, roared in pain, but Kiara grabbed his mane with one paw, while placing her other paw, that she had on her abdomen, on her throat to at the very least, slow the bleeding down a bit, pulled him closer so that they were face to face, and said weakly, but angrily, "I may be...about dead, but...it doesn't mean I can't...still kill you! This is...for my pride...and KOVU!"

At that moment, she shoved her claws further into his throat, causing Kujo to roar in even more pain, blood spitting out of his throat and with her hind legs, extended her hind leg claws and shoved them into his belly, then curled her claws a bit in his stomach, causing blood to spit out and said again, "Now...get out of...my site...you disgusting piece of crap!" And at that, Kiara kicked him with her hind legs and Kujo went flying in the air and hit the ground and a few seconds later, he died, blood rushing out of his mouth and pouring out of his throat!

Kovu stared in shock, it had seemed like Kujo, with the help of the rogue lioness, was going to walk away from the fight a live and well, but somehow, even with all her serious injuries, Kiara was able to free her paw and cut his throat open, which eventually he would die from blood loss. But finally, he got out of his shock and ran to Kiara!

Tears were streaming down Kovu's and choked, "Kiara, please...please don't die on me, please."

Kovu roared over to Kisha and said, "Kisha, hurry get some medicine so we can slow down the bleeding!"

Kisha nodded and ran to get some medicine! Kovu looked around him, everyone was dead, there were already vultures feasting on the dead lionesses, no one was there but him and Kiara! Kovu looked back down at Kiara and he saw that Kiara had one of her paws on her throat, in which dark red blood could still be seen gushing out of her throat. Kiara choked and coughed up some blood, and said forcing her eyes open to look at Kovu, "I'm sorry Kovu...I'm to badly injured...to survive this. My...throat is bleeding...uncontrollably and there's...no...way to...stop it. He...sliced my...stomach open...and...ripped a...chunk of flesh...from my body...and...and ate it! And...a rogue lioness...joined in and tore...into my stomach...even more and pulled out...some of my stomach. I can't...survive these injuries."

Kovu looked down at her, she had one paw on her throat and the other paw covering her abdomen.

Kovu choaked again and said, "Kiara...can I see your stomach wound?"

Kiara nodded painfully, removed her paw and what Kovu saw, horrified him...how could she still be alive? Kovu could see Kiara's inner organs, he had never seen anything this horrifying.

Kiara replied weakly with tears streaming down her face, "Kovu...please...please end my life. This is...to painful to go through...the Great Kings of the past r making me suffer this."

"No Kiara, I will not end your life." Kovu whispered sadly.

"Kovu, please...end my pain...it's the best...thing you could...do for me. I will...always love...you."

"No, I will not kill my mate."

Kiara gargled up some blood and said, "Ok...just know this, I...love you...always will...be...with...you...in your...heart...always."

Kovu completely broke down, fell to his knees, and replied, "I love you to...I will have no other...you are my one and only, no one can ever replace you."

Kiara smiled weakly, per her paw weakly on his, and replied, "Thank you...that means...a lot to me. Goodbye...my love...I will always...be in your heart...always...re-remember...that."

"I will." And as soon as he said that, Kiara smiled, then her eyes closed and her body lay limp in a large puddle of her own blood, blood still pouring out of her throat

"Kiara, KIARA, NOOOOOO!"

Then just like that, he woke up, and once he caught his breath, he said, "Oh, it was just a nightmare." He then heard a scream and looked outside to see Kiara get pinned by a mysterious lion! This Lion looked different than in his nightmare, he had golden fur, brownish, orange mane, which was still coming in, he was younger than Kiara, then it hit him, the mysterious lion must be the prince of the Pridelands! From what it looked like, her hind legs were cut open, with blood streaming down them, she also had a bite wound to the neck that was bleeding pretty badly as well! He rushed over to try and save her, but ended up tripping and his hind leg ended up getting caught in-between two rock, but then, he saw the lion, who was standing right on top of her, both his hind legs spread out against the side of her stomach and both his foreleg right next to her neck and face, in which his claws were covered in her blood, Kiara on her back, opened his jaws and sunk his teeth aggressively into her throat, she screamed in pain and saw that she was looking at him, tears in her eyes! Then with one swift movement, yanked his head upwards and pulled out a long, huge chunk of Kiara's throat, in which he got rewarded with blood spraying his face. Kiara immediately died as her paws fell from the lions shoulders back to the ground as well as her head, her forelegs spread out to the side away from her body! Her eyes wide with fear staring behind her at Kovu; her face had bloody scratches on it and there was a stream of blood flowing out of the top of Kiara's mouth! Blood could be seen gushing out of her throat and down both sides of her neck, forming a large puddle of dark red blood in front of her eyes, face and underneath the top of her head...there were blood splatters on her chin and she also had a bloody nose as well.

He got off the dead, bloodied up lioness, he looked at Kovu and sank his teeth into Kiara's neck again and dragged her dead body towards Kovu and just dropped Kiara's corpse in front of him, and as soon as he was about to kill him to, once, again, his eyes shot open, his main and fur all soaked and sweat dripping from his muzzle. All of a sudden though, he heard a voice in his head say, "Kiara's time is near, you can't save her."

Then it went away before Kovu could respond. He was almost nervous to look beside him, but he did and saw Kiara sleeping on her back with one paw on her chest and the other next to her. He studied her over just to make sure she was okay, she was.

Before he laid back down, he heard Kiara giggle a couple of times and said in her sleep, "Kovu, heh, stop it, that tickles."

Kovu chuckled silently, she was talking in her sleep, and said, "Oh Kiara, you are so funny and cute."

He leaned down and gave her a small kiss on the cheek and as he did that, Kiara giggled again and said, "Heh...I love you to Kovu."

For a second, after she said that, he thought that she was awake now, but saw that her eyes were still closed, she was just talking in her sleep again. So he laid back down, and cuddled as close to her as possible, put his left forepaw on her underbelly and rested his head and face lightly in Kiara's soft, white fur of her belly and rested his other paw on her chest. And, as soon as he was about to fall asleep, her heard Kiara giggle again, he chuckled quietly, he had guessed that is was probably his mane tickling her. When it came to how ticklish she was, Kiara was very ticklish on her belly. Kovu chuckled once more then soon fell asleep.

It was now morning and Kiara was just now waking up, but just as she was about to get up, she felt something resting on her belly, so she lifted her head up and saw that it was Kovu just staring at her, smiling while resting his head on her soft fur..

She smiled and said, "Well, good morning Kovu."

He replied, "Good morning beautifull, u feeling better today?"

"Why, yes I am feeling better today handsome."

"Well that's good."

Kovu leaned over to nuzzle her a little. After a few tender moments, Kiara told Kovu, "Well, I'm going to get some water, I'll be back before you can say my name."

"Well, ok, just be careful."

"Don't worry, I will...say, do you know where Nama might be?"

"She might have gone to get something to drink to as well, not sure though."

"Okay, thanks, I'll be back."

Kovu smiled and watched her leave.

As Kiara was walking slowly to the watering hole, she came to a stop as she thought she heard something in the distance, after a few moments of listening, she just thought it was her mind playing with her, so she continued walking until she heard a scream! Kiara gasped as she said to herself, "Oh no, that sounds like Nama, she's in trouble!"

So Kiara ran as fast as she could to where the scream came from and in a madder of moments, she came to a clearing and saw that Nama had four bloody claw marks on her shoulder and an injured hind leg. She approached her and asked, "Nama, what happened to you?"

Nama had tears in her eyes as she said, "A rogue lion attacked me while I was getting...a drink. It hurts Kiara, we need to get out of here before he comes back!"

Kiara was about to answer till she was interrupted, it was the rogue lion, "I think it's a bit late for that, don't you think."

Kiara turned around quickly and stood over Nama, protecting her with her white-creamy belly and underbelly, and said angrily, "Why did you attack her? All she was doing was getting a drink!"

"Because, that was my watering hole and she was drinking from it, I don't allow that."

"That's a pathetic and sad reason! You can't claim a watering hole, besides, you're a rogue and rogues don't own anything."

"I'd watch my mouth if I were you Kiara...you never know, you might get seriously hurt, worse than you're precious Nama."

Kiara snarled at that comment and got in her fighting stance and said angrily, "You're going to pay for what you did to her."

The rogue grinned evilly and replied, "Well then, come and get me!"

Kiara then tried to pounce on him but the rogue was to quick as she sailed past him, giving him the chance to attack back, and as Kiara was recovering, he sunk his teeth into her shoulder, causing blood to flow freely, while also shoving his claws into her stomach! Kiara roared in pain as he slammed his paw into her face as hard as possible and Kiara hit the ground hard! He then ran at her and clawed the inner, upper part of her left hind leg right next to her belly, causing more blood to rush down her left hind leg!

He allowed Kiara to get back up, but he had no time to react as she racked her claws across the side of his stomach and immediately slammed her paw into his face, causing him to stumble a bit! Kiara then leaped at him and tried to sink her teeth into his neck, but his main was really thick as he easily threw Kiara off him! He then slammed his paw a couple of times in her face and she fell to the ground. The rogue wasted no time pinned her on the hard ground ; he then sunk his large teeth into Kiara's throat! Kiara tried to get her hind legs loose so she could kick him off her, but she couldn't as he shoved his teeth deeper into her throat, trying his best to drain the life out of her! Blood began pouring out of her throat and and her neck, some of the blood seeped into his mouth!

The rogue heard Nama yell, "NOOOOO!"

But unknown to him, Kiara refused to give in to death as she got her foreleg loose and racked her claws across the side of his face, causing blood to rush out of the claw marks! As he roared in pain, she finally got him to take his teeth out of her throat, and she got her hind legs loose and kicked him in the stomach and he fell to the ground breathing heavily!

Kiara weakly, slowly but surely, got up on her paws and stood protectively over Nama as the rogue smiled evilly and said, "Kiara, why don't you just give up, it's amazing you're still alive, but you're dying, just give up."

Kiara answered weakly, blood dripping like rain drops from her throat and neck some blood coming out of her mouth, "I...will never...give up! I...I made a...vow to protect Nama...when she was...just a cub from...danger and...and evil lions...like you! I will...continue to do that...until my...last dying breath!"

Nama was amazed at what Kiara just said, she had made a vow to protect her at all times, even if it meant death. Still underneath Kiara's belly, she looked at the ground and saw a puddle of blood forming, it pained her to see that. She painfully looked up and saw the bite wound on her throat and blood was dripping from it pretty fast. It was amazing that she is still alive, she has multiple wounds and on the throat as well and she's still standing, Kiara was and is one strong lioness to beat

The rogue then said, "Well then, your last dying breath will be now!"

Nama heard that and crawled out from underneath Kiara, yelling "No," and Nama then slammed her paw into his face and he hit the ground hard again! Nama ran up to him and began pounding his face until she saw that he was out cold!

Nama turned around in time to see Kiara fall to the ground and roll onto her back! So Nama ran back to her panicking and said with tears streaming down her face, "Aunt Kiara, please don't leave us, don't leave me. You're like a second mother to me and if you were to die, I would feel like half of me is missing...please don't go Kiara, don't die on me, don't leave me."

Kiara smiled a weak smile, put her white-creamy paw on Nama's paw and said, "Thank you Nama...that means...a lot to...to me. You're...like the...daughter I...I never had. I won't...leave you...completely, I just...won't be...around in this world sadly.

Tears just kept coming and coming down Nama's face, the inner part of Kiara's hind leg was a bit bloodied up, her shoulder was bloody as well and of course her throat to, blood was still pouring out of her throat. Seeing the bloody wound on Kiara's throat was just to devestating for her to look at. There was a medium sized puddle of blood around her head and neck, there was also another puddle of blood where the inner part of her hind leg was slashed.

Kiara looked at Nama, seeing that it was hard for her to not look at her throat wound, put one paw on her throat so she didn't have to see it.

"I'm sorry...Nama that you...have to...see this, I...just couldn't...allow him...to hurt you."

Nama, tears still streaming down her face, said, "Is what u said true? Did you make avow to...protect me at all times?"

Kiara smiled a week smile and replied, tears in her eyes as well, "Of course...it's true...you are...after all...the future of...this pride...the next generation...of us."

Nama, still crying a bit, said, "Then...I can't let you die on me...you've done to much for this pride to die this early, I won;'t allow it."

Nama looked down, saw, what is now a large pool of blood around Kiara's neck and head, and saw that her front paws were in Kiara's blood. It just devestated her, to know that Kiara put her life on the line to protect her from the rogue lion, only to have it taken away from her...Kiara was still to young to die, this was just way to early for her to die. She felt like it was all her fault, if she hadn't of left to get some water, Kiara wouldn't almost be dead right now.

Kiara saw the sadness and frustration in her eyes, so she said weakly, reaching over and puting her creamy paw on her foreleg, "Nama...hey...look at...me...I know what...you are thinking...it's not...your fault...you didn't know...this was...going to happen. It's not...you fault...okay hunny?"

Nama looked at her with wet eyes, Kiara called her "hunny," she really does think of her as the daughter she never had...and she herself loves Kiara dearly, she has always thought of her as a second mom to her. When she was young...and even now...whenever she was trouble or needed help when her mother was busy with something, Kiara would always be happy to take care of her, whenever she wanted to have fun, Kiara would offer to have fun with her, whenever she wanted to spend quality time, and just talk, Kiara would ask if she wanted to talk with her. Kiara indeed cared so much for this Pride, she was and is a true leader. To Nama, she will go down in history as one of the best queens of this pride...and the perfect friend.

Nama choked and said, "Please...please don't go, I love you as a second mom to me, you've always been happy to take care of me, I feel like I owe you something for caring about me so much. You're always so happy and so wise, there aren't many lioness' and leaders like you, please don't go."

Kiara was amazed by what she just said, her, a great leader and second mom to her, Kiara was very touched, "Nama...as much as I...love you and...don't want...to leave you and...this Pride, The Great...Kings have already...made up...their mind sadly. Tell Kovu...that I...I love him...with all...my heart...and to please...not dwell...on my...death. The Pride needs...him to lead...and...I need you...to stay...strong and...continue to...live, ok."

Nama just fell to her knees and shoved her face into Kiara's white soft fur on her belly and replied, "I will."

"Nama, there's...one last thing...I wanted...to give you...before I go."

Kiara reached out to her with her paw, and licked her cheek as a goodbye, like a mother would, and said, "Goodbye."

As Nama looked at her, Kiara's head dropped, her eyes close and her body rolled onto her side again and finally died. Nama just wailed out in sadness and tears, and yelled, "Kiara, wake up! Please, Wake up, you can't go!"

But Kiara didn't move, Kiara was dead because of her...she cursed herself for this. She looked down at her and saw that Kiara was laying in a large pool of her own blood. Blood was still flowing out of her mouth a bit, as well as her hind leg and shoulder ; Blood was also still flowing freely out of her throat to, Kiara was soaked in blood!

Nama just fell to her knees again, put her paw under Kiara's face, lifted her head a little and weaped in Kiara's soft fur on her neck for the longest time! About thirty minutes later, Kiara's body had gone cold and the blood had stopped flowing out of her. Though Kiara had bled so much that Kiara and her was in a pool of blood, it was everywhere, all around the place. The spots of grass that was there was stained in red blood, you couldn't see the ground anymore, it was all red because blood was staining everything. Nama got up, her eyes still wet from crying, she could even see the wet spot on Kiara's fur where she was crying. Nama felt that a piece of her heart was missing now that Kiara is dead, and with a heavy heart, she grabbed Kiara by the nape of the neck and dragged her back home, leaving behind a large pool of blood where Kiara's dead body once was.

About fifteen minutes later, she arrived back in the Outlands with Kiara's body and once she put it down in the cave, tears still streaming down her face and dripping to the ground. Kovu walked in and stood there in shock...Nama's fur was stained with red blood and Kiara's once beautiful soft fur was now soaked in somewhat of still wet blood. He ran to Kiara, Nama stepped back and allowed Kovu to approach Kiara's dead body. Kovu scanned Kiara's body and saw that her shoulder had four large bloody claw marks on it with blood staining the fur around it, he moved her hind leg and saw four bloody claw marks to and the he looked straight at her and saw that half of Kiara's face had blood splatters on it, blood had also flowed from her mouth and her throat had been ripped open with large teeth marks that had created holes in Kiara's throat! Blood was everywhere, staining her whole neck, throat, chin and some of her face.

Kovu whispered, stroking the fur on her once beautiful face all the way up to her ears, tears welling up in his eyes, "Kiara...Kiara sweety, wake up...you gotta wake up...please hun, wake up."

But as she didn't, Kovu wasn't the one to cry, but wasn't strong enough to hold it in, and broke down, crying into Kiars's fur on the side of her stomach. He couldn't believe it, Kiara was dead...his Kiara was dead...the lioness that had changed him and filled his heart with love , kindness and joy. Kiara was his all, Kiara had loved him more than anything, and believed in him awhile back that when he was controlled by his mother, he had the potential and ability to change hearts! Kiara had changed his whole life and made him a very kind lion, took a chance on him and believed he could change when no one else did.

Behind him, everyone was staring in shock, they couldn't believe it, Kiara was dead, their very kind, gentle, and generous queen was dead. Furaha, who was one of Kiara's greatest friends, approached her as well, licked her best friends cheek, she loved Kiara, she was the best friend she could every have and now she was gone, Kiara had been taken away from them, now it was up to Kovu to lead everyone. Everyone was mourning her death, she was so young, and had a long life ahead of her with Kovu, only to have her life cut short and taken away by a mysterious lion.

Furaha hear Kovu whisper, "I don't know how I'll be able to live with out her, She was my companion, the love of my life, and my queen, and now she's dead...I don't know how I'll be able to lead without her...she's the best thing that could ever happen to me."

"Don't worry Kovu, it's going to be tough, but you're a strong lion, you'll be able to pull through and lead us."

"But the only reason why I was strong was because of her, because of Kiara, I was strong. She loved me with all her heart, she was so understanding, whenever I was having doubts or problems, she would always want to talk about it with me, she never said "no," she always wanted to talk to me. She said that talking about your problems and letting out, would help me, Kiara was such a strong-willed lioness, she wanted to be there for everyone, help everyone, give them advice. Kiara stuck with me through all these hard times, made me a better lion...she was my everything. How could anyone, kill such a sweet, loving, and kind-hearted lioness like her? She cared so much about this Pride and everyone in it and was very helpful."

"There was no bad with her, just all kindness and love...she never let anything bring her down, she always kept her spirits up, thinking positive and not the negatives, there was no such thing as "can't" she said everything and anything was possible, even when things were bleak, she tried her best to keep our spirits up by saying that, "we will pull through this." She always knew how to have fun, she taught me a lot of things, without her, I would be nothing and now that she's gone, I feel like half of my heart is gone...Kiara was my other half. She had such a...a sweet smile, she didn't have to say anything to cheer me up...that...that smile and those beautiful brown eyes she had was just enough to cheer me up...just how...how could anyone want to kill her, she never did anything wrong, she was a happy, cheerful lioness who was full energy and joy, full of love and kindness, she made life so much easier and never, and I mean never let anything bring her down.

Furaha leaned over and Kovu just broke down again and cried into her fur, she herself had tears in her eyes as well as everyone else did.

After awhile of grieving with Furaha, he said in an unstable voice, "Lets get ready for...the proper buriel."

Furaha nodded and turned to everyone else and told them to get ready for the buriel.

Kovu then said though, "Can u help me clean Kiara off first?"

"Sure."

So the began cleaning her off, Kovu licked all the blood away off her white-creamy muzzle and away from her throat while Furaha cleaned her hind leg and shoulder. Once all the blood was cleaned off of Kiara, Kovu took Kiara's creamy paw, held it close to him, licked her muzzle and said, "I will have no other, just you. We are one."

Kovu gave Kiara one more kiss and got up as Furaha finished up. As soon as Kovu left, Furaha began to cry again, tears streaming down her face, she loved the gentle, kind-hearted Kiara. She was a good role-moddle to her, Kiara had so many good qualities in her that she had actually wanted to be like Kiara. Tears just kept coming and coming as and slammed herself into Kiara and weeped some more, but something caught her attention after that, she thought she heard an heart beat. She listened again and there was another, and another. Kiara was alive? But how?

Soon, she saw Kiara open her eyes slightly, smiled a weak smile and said, "Hi Furaha...did you...miss me?"

Furaha was in shock for a moment, she felt like she was going to pass out from shock, but got out of it and yelled basically, 'Only a whole lot! We thought you were gone for sure!"

Furaha licked Kiara's cheek and nuzzled her soft fur ; Kiara smiled and replied, "Well, I did to, but...the Great Kings...decided to...give me my...life back. I didn't...understand, I guess...they saw how sad everyone was...and poor Kovu...I saw...the whole thing...I guess that they...decided to give...me another chance."

Furaha was so excited that she yelled out of the cave, "Kovu, everyone, Kiara's alive!"

Everyone came running back in, in complete shock though, Kovu came through, kneeled down as said, "Am I asleep, or is this real?"

Kovu prayed that it was real as Kiara giggled a little, but said in a weak voice, "You're not...asleep, it's real!"

Kovu was so excited that he nuzzled Kiara's soft neck deeply and kissed her a few times and said quietly, "I knew it, just knew that you were a tough lioness to beat, nothing can stop you. I love you with all my heart."

"So do I, now, be careful of...my wounds, they still hurt some."

"Oh, right."

"Furaha, get some medicine and let's get some on Kiara so she can be on her way to getting healed again."

Kovu smiled and said, " I want to make sure you are clean, is it alright if I clean you off a bit, you have dust on your beautiful fur."

Kiara giggled her girlish laugh and said, "Oh Kovu...you can be...so sweet and...such a softy...sometimes. Sure, I give...you permission to." Kovu chuckled and began grooming his mate, her belly and stomach had dirt on it, so he began licking the soft, white fur on her belly and underbelly and moved on to clean her golden fur.

After Kovu was finished, he looked at Furaha and she applied it on the wounds, especially her throat. After they were done, Nama came over slowly, stood there for a moment and broke into happy tears, nuzzling her soft neck while crying into it.

"I'm so sorry Kiara, this won't ever happen again!"

Kiara smiled her usually sweet and understanding smile and said, "It's alright...everything's going...to be fine, I promise."

Nama smiled, her eyes still wet, but wiped them dry with her paw, and slowly walked back to her mother.

Both Kovu and Kiara smiled at Nama, she was a very sweet young lioness who cared deeply for Kiara, and that's something Kiara always likes about her. Kovu looked back at Kiara, took her white-creamy paw and said, "I love you so much beyond words, I am thankful the Great Kings are giving you another chance."

"Me to, I love you so much to...as...I said before...you can't get rid...of me that easily."

"Yep, you did."

Kiara smiled warmly at him, which made him tingle inside a little. Kovu said, "It's nice to see you're beautiful smile again and beautiful eyes."

Kiara blushed slightly, smiled sweetly at him, and said, "Thank you, that means a lot to me."

"You're welcome."

They shared one last nuzzle and Kovu said, "Now, you get some sleep, you'll need plenty of it, okay. We don't want your throat or any of your wounds to bleed again."

Kiara giggled slightly again, and replied, still feeling a little weak, "Okay, I will."

Kovu watched as Kiara closed her eyes and almost immediately fell asleep. Kovu, once again thanked the Great Kings silently for not taking Kiara away from him. Kovu was about to continue his duties, but told Vitani to handle things while he sleeps with Kiara, wanting to be beside her for as long as possible.

So, he walked back into the cave, laid down next to her, stroked her face and golden fur on the side of her stomach, wrapped his paw around her waist and rested his head protectively on her soft neck and fell asleep.

Okay, I know it was a bit brutal, but overall, I think it turned out good.:) Anyway, I'm SOOOOOOOO SOOORRRYYYY for the long wait, I'll do my best to Upload as much as I can, ok.:D

Thanks for reading and don't forget to R&R! Remember, i accept any reviews and contructive criticism...I'm just now getting back to it, so it will probably be awhile before I'm as good as I once was, ok.:P

~Kovu 01