Read Fanfic : Journey of Destiny (Page 3)

a long while afterwards and almost caused ruin upon the part of the pridelands that was not decimated by the wind.”

Ahadi thought about this for a second and decided because his sons were now in priderock, he was safe from this curse. Just to make sure though, he looked around for Mufasa and Taka. He couldn’t understand it. They were gone AGAIN! Maybe they had just stepped outside to feel the true wind. They weren’t out there either.

Ahadi was panicking now. Maybe history would repeat itself and Taka would have some sort of curse. Ahadi at this point would have accepted two possible outcomes of the curse. The first would be that Taka didn’t get a curse, and the second, much darker hope, was that Taka would die quickly leaving Mufasa the uncontested throne.

The First Winds: Chapter 4

Rafiki was forced to sleep in the den tonight instead of continuing his search for a suitable home for himself. While he was sleeping, a vision came to him in the form of a lion that was fairly small but more imposing than almost any other lion. The face swirled around and said something that would leave Rafiki pondering for several seconds until the truth was revealed.

“My name is Dhiki. I will show you what happened when the winds blew stronger than they ever had before, maybe you can learn something from my memories.” With that message, the voice faded out. Soon after, the entire lion started swirling around in a multicolored rainbow.

Rafiki was lost in wonder staring at this whirlpool for what seemed like a lifetime. It just kept swirling until he remembered that something was going to be shown to him. He focused on the center of the rainbow until a tiny dot in the center expanded to fill his vision with two young lions that looked strikingly similar to Mufasa and Taka.

They were laughing and rolling around playing some game lost to the ages. There was a lone tree nearby. Everything else was a flat savannah. In a few moments, the herds came thundering by. The cubs were scared half to death. Fortunately, the animals went straight past them. As the two cubs pondered what happened, the grass started swaying and what appeared to be a wave in the grass was approaching.

They were frozen in terror watching this line of dirt approach. The larger one that looked more like Mufasa acted first he wind. If they were not behind the tree, it was almost certain that they would have been blown away.

“Gutua! Hold on the tree,” yelled the larger cub.

“I’m trying Hodari! I can’t find anything to hold onto except this little twig and I will blow off very soon.” Gutua presumably was screaming in terror. “I can’t hold on any longer Hodari. HELP!” he managed to scream at the last second.

Hodari let go of his perch on the tree to bite Gutua by the scruff of the neck just as he was about to be blown away. Gutua was given the branch that Hodari had, while Hodari huddled by behind the tree resisting the wind as best he could.

To Rafiki it now appeared to jump several years in the future to when Hodari and Gutua were adults. They were good friends and still loved playing with each other as adults but Gutua had scars all over his body. Somehow, he managed to escape with his life after each one. Rafiki wondered what would be so important right now. There were just a few clouds in the sky with no danger anywhere. He watched for about an hour when something finally happened.

The clouds had been slowly developing into storm clouds when all of a sudden now, all the clouds seemed to spring to life. The sky was suddenly filled with dark towering monstrous clouds. Hodari and Gutua didn’t even notice. Rafiki knew this wouldn’t turn out pretty.

As Hodari pulled away from the playful scuffle, the most unlikely, freakish accident happened. Gutua also pulled back near a tree and it happened.

Rafiki was never sure if it was just if it was his imagination, but he always thought he really smelled the smell to come because at this exact moment back at pride rock, all the lions and lionesses smelled this horrible burning smell which immediately faded.

Back with Gutua, it was that moment that the first lightning of the storm hit. The very first bolt hit the tree right next Gutua and a small outreaching streak hit Gutua in the back. Hodari couldn’t believe it. There was a great big flash of light that singed even his fur fifty strides away. He hadn’t seen this phenomenon up close before and it terrified him.

The next thing he knew was the smell of the singed, burned flesh of his brother. Hodari ran back to his father Dhiki immediately and told him about this accident. A large portion of the pride ran down to the scene.

Hodari was saying as much as he could as fast as he could. “We were playing the normal game and we didn’t notice that the black clouds had arrived again and we kept on playing and then there was a great big flash where Gutua was and I could feel the heat of the flash fifty strides away and I think I’m burned a little and there was this horrible smell coming from the area where Gutua was and I don’t ever want to smell it again because I think I will have nightmares about for the rest of my life anyway do you think my brother is alright?”

When they finally got to Gutua, they heard nothing. They saw a tree that had fallen and then they smelled the smell Hodarid the larger cub.

As Hodari pulled away from the playful scuffle, the most unlikely, freakish accident happened. Gutua also pulled back near a tree and it happened.

Dhiki was too afraid to answer. On one hand, his younger son might have been freed from the curse finally, but if he wasn’t, it would be a horrible life. But still, he had to check on his son to was talking about. They all continued, but several lionesses had to stop and vomit once or twice. When they got to the fallen tree, they found Gutua, still alive but just barely. He could still easily survive, but he could die even easier.

Dhiki had to rescue him. He would have never been able to face any other lion ever again saying he had virtually killed his son.

However, a rescue was complicated by the matter that the tree had fallen directly on Gutua’s tail. Dhiki ordered all lionesses and lions to help roll the tree off of Gutua. However, it was still rooted and the roots were too strong and deep to tear through.

“NOOOOOOOOO!” Dhiki gave an anguished cry across the pridelands. There was no easy way to save his poor son. He saw only one option. He would have to bite and chew through Gutua’s tail as close to the tree as possible. This was something that he never would imagine himself doing.

He did it quickly but immediately after he was done went away and slept by a water hole for a few nights. It had plenty of water in so he could drink while not moving from his place. He repeatedly threw up over the next few days until he could walk away and see how his son was doing. Gutua was not doing much better. Most of his hair had been burned off, his tail stump had become infected and it was

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