strolling around the jungle. She sprinted towards him and stopped in front of him. “If you dare scratch me again then I’ll…” she began. “Don’t start because even if I do you’ll never be able to catch me” Panthera-Leo laughed. “Oh yeah?” Vitani challenged she chased Panthera Leo through the jungle but couldn’t catch up with him. They soon came to a narrow ledge of a cliff. Panthera-Leo did some fancy footwork across it. Vitani struggled to keep her balance but managed to get across. “Vitani leaped on Panthera-Leo. He pushed her off but she wasn’t badly harmed. Panthera-Leo put his head against Vitani’s and started to push her towards the edge of a cliff. Vitani rolled out of the way. They started to fight seriously. After a few minutes of clawing, kicking, scratching and biting. Panthera-Leo and Vitani both tumbled into a thorn bush and screamed. “AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Panthera-Leo emerged unhurt and ran away from Vitani. He wasn’t looking where he was going and slammed his head into a wall and fell off a cliff unconscious. He landed on a narrow ledge of a gorge. A dam close to it broke and the water started to rise.

              Chapter eleven: the moonbeam pride

Kovu dreamed he was at the summit of Mount Fare. He saw the soil, which had a golden light shining on it. Kovu sprinted towards it but was blocked by three familiar looking wolves. Tosibu was there with his mum and dad and the gang of hyenas behind him. Zira emerged from the shadows. Tosibu prowled towards him then pounced at Kovu knocking him off the side of the mountain. Zira roared with pride while Tosibu his parents and the hyenas howled along with her. That was all Kovu heard.

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Kovu woke up with a look of courage on his face. Forgetting about his dream he crept out of the cave and began to walk through the savannah. He walked slower than usual and he felt a bit queasy. Kovu suddenly remembered what Rafiki had told him about the legend of Watini and about him feeling sick on Friday. He quickly decided it would be better to walk slowly today. The brave lion started to walk through the jungle and by the time he had walked a mile he started coughing. “’Cough, cough, cough’ I have to keep going; he said to himself. After a few more minutes of walking he spotted a river and made a mad dash for it. He drank some of the water to heal his cough. Kovu gulped some of the water down and sighed. Then he carried on strolling through the jungle. He emerged from the jungle and collapsed on the dessert-like ground. Kovu looked straight ahead and in the distance he could see a small dot. He grudgingly got up and walked towards it. As he got closer he could see the dot was really a rock just like Pride Rock. “Could it be a mirage?” he whispered to himself. He then forgot about his sickness and darted towards it (For a lion running in a burning hot dessert this was impressive.) After five minutes or so he reached the rock. He started climbing the slope. When he reached the top of the slope two lions jumped out from nowhere. “AHH” Kovu screamed. “What do you want stranger?” the first one asked in a gruff voice. “Well not much just a bit of fur from your kings mane” Kovu explained hoping for the best. “WELL YOU’RE NOT GETTING IT!” the second one yelled, and with that the lions chased Kovu up to the point of the rock and right to the edge. “Back off or I’ll jump” Kovu growled. He looked down at the ground he must have been two storeys high. “On second thought” Kovu improvised. Then he ran towards the two lions and took the leap of his life. He leaped right over the two lions he closed his eyes as he hit the ground. He gave a sigh of relief as he raced forward again. Kovu sprinted up the spiral slope to the summit of the rock. He looked around there was nowhere to hide he was done for. He’d be pulverised in a matter of seconds. The two lions were in hot pursuit. Without thinking Kovu leaped right off the summit just as the two lions came into sight. “Where did he go?” the first lion questioned. “It’s obvious you lost him” “What do you mean I lost him you were the one who saw him first” The two lions started to walk down the rock arguing. Kovu had managed to cling on to a narrow ledge on the side of the rock. Once the sound of the two lions arguing had faded Kovu heaved himself up and looked around. He knew where a king’s chamber was because Simba had told him during his training. He tiptoed down the slope and with every corner he saw he peeked round before carrying on. Thoughts raced through his mind. Maybe the lions were going to ambush him at any moment. Maybe they were watching him. Maybe they had left the rock for a while. Kovu just carried on. It seemed he was so busy running away from the lions he had forgot about being ill. He peeked into a cave where he saw the king chewing on a tasty looking zebra leg. The king was twice the size of him and he looked ferocious. “There you are” screamed a voice from behind him. Kovu turned around and saw the two lions. “You’re not getting away this time,” hissed the first lion. Kovu had to make a choice, don’t go in the cave and meet his doom or run into the cave and risk being seen by every lion in there. Cave or doom. Kovu darted into the cave while all the lions and lionesses stared at him. The two lions dashed after him. The king stood up and roared. “Who is this stranger?” he asked. “We don’t know he said he wanted some of your mane,” the second lion explained. “I’ll handle him; the king told them in a deep velvety growl. The two lions left the cave. “So you want some hair off my mane do you?” the king questioned. Kovu nodded slowly. “What pride are you from?” The king asked. “The pride lands” Kovu answered. The king’s eyes widened with surprise. “Do you know a lioness named Sarafina?” he questioned. “Yes she’s my mates grandmother, why do you want to know that?” Kovu told him. “Sarafina is my sister” the king replied. Then he held his paw to his mane and ripped some hair off. “Any friend of my sister is a friend of mine. “Thank you” Kovu thanked. “If you need any help just call the Moonbeam pride,” the king offered. “Hey I didn’t catch your name” he finished. “It’s Kovu” Kovu told him. “My name is king Lamunu if you need to know” the king replied. Kovu picked up the hair in his mouth and started to walk towards the cave. “Goodbye” Kovu called with a mouth full of hair then he walked past the two lions that were sleeping peacefully. When he made it back to pride rock he went to Rafiki’s tree to show him the hair. “I found ve fair” (I found the hair) Kovu spluttered with the hair still in his mouth. “Put it in the shell” Rafiki instructed. Kovu put the hair into the tortoise shell with the soil of Mount Fare. Kovu spat out a few hairs that got stuck on his tongue then watched as Rafiki mixed the soil and the hair together. “Now the last thing you need to do is add water-,” Rafiki told him. “That’s the best news I’ve heard all week” Kovu exclaimed bounding around. “. From the dessert” Rafiki finished. Kovu froze mid-bound. “WHAT!” he screamed so loud that the ground shook. Rafiki thought he was going to faint. “There’s no water in the dessert” Kovu gasped. “No one knows that for sure,” Rafiki explained. Kovu left the tree and walked to the top of pride rock where he looked at the dessert and tried to spot water. He knew his life depended on it so he decided he would go back to the dessert in the morning.

                        Chapter twelve: the choice

Vitani crawled out from the thorn bush and pulled some of the thorns out. She spotted Panthera-Leo on the ledge still knocked out. The water was less than a foot away from him. “Hopefully he’ll be washed away,” Vitani laughed to herself. She looked down at the unconscious lion again and stared. Then an angel and a devil popped up on Vitani’s shoulders. “Don’t leave him help him” the angel pleaded. “Don’t listen to her, that jerk scratched you twice and tied you to a tree so just leave him” the devil instructed her. “No be kind Vitani he’s helpless look at him?” the angel continued. “Just go back to the pride lands he’ll be dead before he wakes up, just think he won’t be around to hurt you anymore” the devil begged. “Guy’s I’ll sort it out myself” Vitani told them. Then with a puff of smoke the devil and angel were gone. Vitani thought for a few moments then said to herself. “Never do this again”. She started climbing down the gorge. Once she reached the helpless lion she grabbed Panthera-Leo’s scruff with her teeth and started to drag him up the gorge. But he was too heavy for her and they tumbled into the water. Vitani was clinging onto Panthera-Leo and for some reason hoping he was alive. “This is just