the Lion King II: Harry's Pride [Hariana]

Chapter 3: The Outlands

Camila walks halfway down the log and she tilts her head proudly high with her eyes closed that she wasn't paying attention to what was ahead of her. She tumbles off into another cub, bowling him over. He snarls at her confrontionally, and continues growling.

"Who are you, Pridelander?"

Camila didn't answer, but she keeps jumping from side to side, staying the cub at all times. The cub keeps growling menacingly, but eventually his curiosity get the better of him.

"What are you doing?"

"My father says to never turn your back on an Outsider!"

"You always do what Daddy says?"

"No!"

"Bet you do! Bet you're Daddy's little girl! Ha ha!" The cub moves away and hopped on logs across the river. "An Outsider doesn't need anybody. I take care of myself!"

Camila looks at him in awe, following him across the river. "Really? Cool!"

The cub looks back at her, and notices a huge crocodile rising up behind her with its mouth gaping.

"Wuhh... waaahh!"

Camila turns and see the crocodile. "Aaaahhh! Run!" The crocodile's teeth crunch just behind us. "This way!"

The cubs narrowly escape, leaping from rock to rock across the river and out of the reach of the crocodiles' jaws as more and more rise up out of the water. They rest on two unmoving "stones" further down, and began to pant and giggle.

"That was a close one."

"Yeah..."

The stones that they are sitting on rise up and reveal themselves as more crocodile heads.

"Whooaaahhh..." they both say with fear.

Camila runs up a tree limb, getting out of reach. However, the cub runs past her, leaping from crocodile to crocodile down the river.

"Hey... what about me?" Camila asks.

"You gotta take care of yourself! I'll distract them. Run!" He said.

The cub slips off the last crocodile into the water. As he comes up, gasping for air, the crocodiles loom over him.

Camila swipes her claws at the crocodiles from her branch then notices the cub in once again trouble. "Look out!"

The cub is paralyzed by fright. The gaping mouth in front of him is suddenly clamped shut by her leaping on top of it.

"Move it!"

They scramble up a branch and up onto bank, out of reach of danger. From the top, they pant and rest for a few moments, then move back to look over the edge. The crocodiles are massing below, furious at being cheated of their meal.

"I did it... I did it!" Camila cheered.

"Huh?" The cub laughs.

They move back from the edge and recount their adventure.

"Whoah, man did you see the size of those teeth? They were goin' rawr rawr rawr!" Camila rolls over her back and laughs. "He was just totally eatin' you up right there, and I jumped on his head and I booped him so good. We make such a good team! And you... you were really brave!"

"Yeah... you were pretty brave too. My name's Zayn." He smiles.

"I'm Camila."

She crouches down playfully, waving her tail then reaches out and bat Zayn.

"Tag! You're it!"

She jumps back, laughing instead of chasing. Zayn looks at her silently. She tries to do it again.

"Tag! You're it! You're it!"

Still no response. Zayn just stares at her.

"Hello? You run, I tag... get it? What's the matter? Don't you know how to play?"

Getting an idea, Camila crouches down and goes back to playing Zayn's style, with bared teeth and growl. He gets the idea and growls back, but suddenly he finds himself growling at Camila's father, Harry's leg.

Harry roars, and a lioness jumps out of the grass and roars back.

This is not going to end well...