"Simba, reconsider this, please." Nala said.
"Nala, I did what you said. And as far as I'm concerned, he cannot be trusted."
"I can't believe you'd not trust him so quickly! There's got to be a mistake!" Simba stayed silent, looking like he was ready to strike anything that spoke next. Nala scoffed and walked away, frustrated. Kopa watched his mother leave. He decided to give his father a try so he approached his father. "Kopa!" Nala objected, not wanting her son to get punished.
"Dad, this is no way to resolve things!" he said.
"You're too young to understand, Kopa!" Simba growled. "Don't you realize that he used you to get to me?"
"No! He didn't use me at all! Families don't use each other!"
"Families also don't plot against each other! Which is exactly why he's no longer here! He's following in Scar's pawprints! I must follow in my father's, and you must follow in mine."
"Mufasa'd be ashamed of you right now! You'll never be him and there is no way on earth I'll ever want to be like YOU!" Kopa roared. Simba blinked at how Kopa lashed out like that. What he said hurt, but then he was also supecting it to be true. "And if you're not going to solve this war between the two prides, I will!" Kopa ran away from him. Simba did not watch him leave. He wondered where he was going, but he did not chase after him. There was no way he would face his son after that remark. He'd wait until later when Kopa cooled off.
Kopa ran down the side of Pride Rock and was then stopped by Kala. He wouldn't look at her directly.
"Kopa, why are you chasing after him?"
Silence.
"Please don't. Stay here...with me." she begged.
"I can't." he stated. Mufasa came to mind. "I have a duty." And he ran off. Kala sniffed back a tear and watched him go.
Kopa traveled all over the Pride Lands, but there was no sign of Kovu anywhere. He even tried following his scent, but then figured that Kovu was long gone from here because his scent wasn't very clear. It was late at night when Kopa stumbled upon Kovu with a lioness he'd never seen before. Kopa ran towards Kovu an glomped him, which caught him off guard. The lioness acted very quickly and pounced on top of Kopa with a snarl. Kopa stared up at her and suddenly became extremely embarrassed. She was very pretty and had the bluest eyes he'd ever seen. He felt his heart jump into his throat.
"Vitani, stop! It's Kopa!" Kovu exclaimed. Vitani looked at Kovu, then back at Kopa and got off him. "I forgot you two haven't really met, yet." Kovu chuckled. "Kopa, this is my sister Vitani. Vitani, this is Kopa." Kopa bowed his head in salutations.
"Kovu, like I've been trying to tell you," Vitani said, turning her attention to her brother. "Mother is sending our pride to Pride Rock. We have to get out of here."
"Wait, what's going on?" Kopa asked.
"A war is going to happen between your pride and our pride." Vitani explained. "It's best if we get out of here now."
"We can't leave!" Kopa exclaimed to Kovu.
"Yes, we can, Kopa!" Kovu argued. "Just because we're motivated to stop the war and fulfill Mufasa's wish, doesn't mean everyone else is! You seen how 'understanding' your father was the other day! That's EXACTLY how everyone else will be!"
"We've got to try!"
"We've already tried!"
"We need to try AGAIN!"
Kovu growled. Kopa was just as stubborn as his dad, and it hurt his teeth to admit that he was right. They needed to keep trying until they got what they wanted.
"We have to go back," Kopa said, more gently. "Our place is with our family. And if we run away...they'll be divided forever. And families shouldn't be divided."
The two siblings looked down at the ground then at each other. There was a moment of silence, and they were all letting what Kopa said sink in. Vitani was the first to speak up.
"I'm going back to mother," she said. "I've got to...try to convince her...that fighting is pointless." Kopa smiled, but Kovu objected.
"Vitani! You can't! She'll kill you!"
"I won't let her,"
"Then let me go with you!"
"And what will she do to you? What makes you think she won't kill you on the spot?"
Kovu held his breath, worry and concern displayed on his brow. He sighed. "Just stay alive."
Vitani smiled. "I'll meet you in between Pride Rock and the outlands." She with that, she ran towards the outlands. By the time she made it there, she was approached by her mother.
"And where have you been?!" Zira growled.
Panic almost grabbed ahold of Vitani. "I've been...here, mother." she replied, walking away.
Zira made an announcement for her pride to move out towards Pride Rock. Vitani followed reluctantly. As they traveled, Vitani made her way up to her mother's side.
"Mother," Vitani spoke. Zira did not respond. "You know that fighting...won't bring anyone back, right?" Zira stayed silent. Memories of the last time Vitani tried objecting to Zira flashed through Vitani's head and made her feel fear of being attacked again. She cursed herself for being too afraid to stand up to her mother, but that is what happened. She stayed silent. She couldn't do this alone. It started to rain.
Simba woke up to a thunder crash and looked around the cave. Everyone else was asleep, and although he couldn't see anything, he assumed that Kopa was asleep too, possibly asleep with Kala. Just then he heard Zazu shriek out his name.
"Zazu! What were you doing outside when its storming?" Simba whispered.
"Something did not feel right, sire!" Zazu cried. "I flew through the rain to find out what it was!"
"What is it?"
"The outsiders are heading this way!"
"What!" Simba exclaimed. "Why!"
"I have no idea, but they're all gaining ground fast!"
"Everyone, wake up!" Simba shouted. "The outsiders are coming, we have to keep them from doing any damage!" If it was a war they wanted, they were not going to get an easy fight from the pridelanders. Simba knew that Zira was planning on taking over the pridelands and there was no way he was going to let that happen. He ordered the younger lionesses to stay put at Pride Rock. Kala wanted to go, but Simba would not allow it.
The two prides instinctively marched towards each other. The rain poured harder with each mile gained. Once the two prides saw each other, they were in an open field. No animals were around because they were all aware of the bloodspill about to occur. The pridelanders and the outsiders stopped when they were but a few yards away from each other.
"It ends now, Simba!" Zira roared. Killing Simba was all that was on her mind. He had killed her mate and she was the only one who could and would avenge his death. Neither her sons nor her daughter were on her mind at all. Whether she really loved them or not or even if Scar loved her was unknown, but she loved Scar with all her heart and that was all she knew.
"Zira, I'm telling you, go home. I don't want to have to hurt you." Simba said.
"Shut up!" Zira turned to her pride. "Attack!" The outlanders charged towards to pridelanders and the pridelanders charged without order, and they collided with body slams, claws, and fangs. Vitani was doing everything in her power to evade the violence. She even tried getting some to stop fighting, but she ended up getting involved. She spotted Simba's queen, Nala, and tried approaching her to try and get her to cease the fighting, but in an attempt to protect herself, Nala attacked Vitani. The outsiders were more brutal in their fights, but the pridelanders refused to give in. Eyes were slashed, throats to biten, flesh was torn, bodies even fell.
Kovu and Kopa were running everywhere trying to find the battle grounds of the outlanders and the pridelanders. They finally found the field in which they were located, and gasped at the sight. It was lion verses lion and it just looked like an giant mass fighting itself. The two lions ran towards their prides as fast as they could before anything else happened. They ran over the wooden dam that was blocking the river from overflowing.
The fighting only ceased when the fight between Zira and Simba became incredibly intense. Zira slashed her claws across Simba's face. He roared and managed to stand on his hind legs and tackle Zira to the ground. She bit his face and he backed up. They paused and readied their next attack until to lions leapt from afar and faced the two opponents.
"Kopa?" Simba exclaimed.
"Kovu!" Zira growled. "Move...!"
"Stay out of this," Simba ordered his son.
"Dad, this is pointless! It has to stop and you know it!" Kopa yelled.
"You're such a weakling! I can't believe I even called you my son! You have no right to get involved! Get out of my way!" Zira yelled to her son.
"If you want to kill Simba, you're gonna hafta go through me." Kovu growled.
"Kopa, you don't understand what's going--" Kopa interrupted his father.
"No, Dad, you don't understand. A wise king told me 'we are one'. I didn't understand him at first, but now I do."
"But they--"
"They are US." Kopa said. "There's no differences.
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