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"You'll never hurt Kiara... or Simba. Not while I'm here." Kovu said.

Zira gasp at this remark

"Stay out of this," Simba says as if pleading

"A wise King once told me, "We are one." I didn't understand what he meant... now I do." Kiara said, getitng an idea.

((Man, for some odd reason I lvoe it when Vitani says: "Wheres you preety daughter Nala?"))

"But... they..." Simba started

"Them... us. Look at them... they are us. What differences do you see? Aren't we all part of the Circle of Life?" Kiaar said, she dounsed liek her dad.

Simba pauses; the battle has stopped. As Simba and Kiara look at one
another, the clouds part and the rain stops. Finally, Simba and his
daughter nuzzle.


"Vitani... now!" Zira says to her

"No, Mother! Kiara's right." Vitani walks over to Simba's side, turning around to face Zira "Enough". Zira's other lionesses look shocked.

"If you will not fight... then you will die as well."

Some of Zira's lionesses begin to move over onto Simba's side. Zira's
eyes begin to panic as her whole pride leaves her.


"Wh-wha... Where are you going? Get back here!" Zira panics


"Let it go, Zira. It's time to put the past behind us."

now alone "I'll never let it go!"

More logs pile up in the river, forming a dam.


"This is for you, Scar!" She says

Zira leaps at Simba, but Kiara catches her in mid-flight and rolls
over with her; the two lionesses tumble down the embankment.

"Kiara!" Kovu yelped.

Simba jumps down the slope, trying desperately to reach Kiara, but she and Zira have already fallen too far for him to catch up. Kiara manages to catch a hold on the ledge, slowing her descent enough for her to jump onto a small ledge. Zira clings to the rocks some distance below
Kiara, hanging by her front paws.


"Hold on, Kiara!" Nala calls down

The dam of logs breaks; the river suddenly begins to swell to many
times its normal flow.


"Simba! Simba-- the river!" she shouts to Simba

The river is rapidly rushing to fill the canyon. Simba leaps from rock
face to rock face, trying to reach Kiara. Below, Zira hangs
precariously from the rock face. Kiara is above on the ledge.

"Zira! Give me your paw!" Kiara said, putting her paw down the ledge to help Zira.

Zira swipes at Kiara, growling. She slips further down the rock face; she glances at the tumbling water and logs below. "Ahh... ahhh..." Zira groans

"Zira, come on... I'll help you..."

She slides further down the rock wall, scrabbling for traction on the rock, but is unable to climb up. A change comes over Zira's face; she grins slowly up at Kiara.


"No. ...Never!" (should've kept this line in the movie, but the cut it because it was to dark for disney)

She lets go, and falls back-first into the churning water below. The
water and logs carry her under, and the flow in the canyon gradually
subsides.

Kovu looks down where his mother fell, closes his eyes, and lets out a sigh.