Love Beyond Reasons

A New Arrival in the Pride Lands

Love Beyond Reasons

A/N: Sorry for taking a long while on any updates. I'm just trying to get college work done without drowning in it, and I'm also trying to finish a few stories of mine that are almost complete so that I can have some breathing room.

Well, I hope you guys like this chapter. I've been working on it for weeks, bit by bit. Roll it!

Chapter 15

A New Arrival in the Pride

Meanwhile, Timon and Pumbaa were on the lookout for Kiara. The meerkat was scanning the area until he was almost facing Pumbaa's tail, making him yelp.

But then, both of them began looking around for any sign of the teenage lioness, acting like spies, until Timon was hiding inside a large, hollow log while Pumbaa was a few feet away, hiding in the tall grass near some rocks.

"Tango Charlie Alpha, what's your position?" Timon asked, speaking in some kind of war code.

But Pumbaa didn't seem to get it. "Uh, upright, head turned slightly to the left, tail erect."

"Why do I bother?" Timon muttered. He then used his hands like they were goggles and soon spotted Kiara near a small rock ledge. "Aha."

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Kiara was trying again to get close enough to the gazelle herd for her to attack. She managed to not knock over a loose rock, but she didn't count on her back leg hitting it over, making it scrape across the ground. The faint crumbling noise was heard by the herd and they all took off again. Kiara jumped forward and struggled to keep up, but they were already out of reach.

Timon and Pumbaa were looking for her, but they were eventually caught in the herd. They screamed and both ducked for cover. "This must be where the deer and the antelope play!" Timon exclaimed.

Once the herd had passed them by, both of them came back up. But then they screamed again when they saw Kiara standing there, panting for breath and a suspicious glare in her eyes. Both of them chuckled nervously.

"Timon, what are you doing here?" She asked.

"Uh, shopping." Timon came up with an excuse. "We thought of a nice pelt for the den, some throw pillows, a little popurri-"

"My father sent you." Kiara realized bitterly. "After he promised to let me do this on my own, he lied!"

"No." Timon said. "He just doesn't want you to get hurt."

"And yet he's okay with Kion tangling with hyenas and crocodiles at the same time!" Kiara sniped before she sighed heavily. "I should've known he'd never give me a real chance."

With that thought resonating in her head, and maybe just a tiny bit jealous of her brother and that their father would still put a watch on her but not him, she quickly took off towards the western border without looking back. "I'll do this on my own, away from the Pride Lands!"

"Hey, wait! Come back!" Timon called after her as he got onto Pumbaa and they began trying to follow the teenage lioness, calling out her name. But she was already out of sight.

"Oh! She's gone again!" Timon exclaimed. "Somebody's gotta get a beeper for this kid! And yet she wonders why Simba isn't so tough on Kion!"

"Still, Kion had proven to be slippery himself." Pumbaa said.

"Yeah, when those two don't want to be found, you don't find them!" Timon added.

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