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LANGUAGE WARNING FOR THIS CHAPTER!!!

This chapter is gonna be a bit longer due to some circumstances in the previous chapter...

ENJOY!!

Previously on The Lion Guard:

He then fell back down onto the ground, as his fellow Baboons doing the same. Giggling at the Baboon's antics, Sauda turned back to face the group of her new 'friends' she knew that she was going to have to stay close to for the duration of the plot of the show. Not only because she didn't want to be killed but she didn't want her presence to affect the plotline of the show. She padded forwards to stand beside Kion as he began talking to the group.

"Hey, guys. Thanks for meeting with me," he smiled. "I wanted to talk to you because... Well, I need your help"

Kion ended his sentence with a slight frown and based upon the look on his face, Sauda could tell that the lion prince was worried about his friends' reactions to the news they were about to receive. Internally, the inter-dimensional traveller standing beside the second heir to the throne was quite interested in watching this scene from this end of this screen. Although she'd seen the return of the roar movie before, this was a new experience in itself due to being present while happening.

Beshte stepped forwards, "What's the kerbubble, Kion?"

Kion didn't hesitate to respond to his hippo friend's question. "I haven't quite found someone to fill the spot for the slyest yet, but the five of us are the Pride Lands' fiercest, bravest, strongest, fastest and keenest of sight," he answered. "And that's why I want you all to join the new Lion Guard. Together, we'll protect the Pride Lands and defend the Circle of Life!"

........

Bunga didn't have time to answer because at that moment Fuli decided to chip in with her point of view. "A Lion Guard? Figures," she scoffed. "Always the lions lording over the Pride Lands. I suppose Simba put you in charge of this little team, Kion?"

"Excuse me?" Sauda asked under her breath.

She was shocked at Fuli's insolence for two reasons. One, it was one thing to question Kion in front of her. But seriously, how can she stand there in front of Simba's son and insult his father like that!? I mean, sure the lion could be a little arrogant, but the guy saved the pride lands from Scar's tyranny!! And two, wasn't she supposed to Kion's friend, regardless of what she thought about the lion's father? Sauda didn't know why she was getting so upset about Fuli's questions, but she did know she didn't like the fact that she was pretty much outright insulting Kion and his pride...

Sauda was brought out her little inner monologue when Bunga chimed in with, "You bet your spots he did!"

"Fuli, the Lion Guard needs you!" Kion tried to negotiate with her. "You're the Pride Lands' fastest."

"You got that right," she said with pride. "And you're supposed to be the fiercest?"

Sauda was beginning to question whether this Fuli and she were going to get along...

"Well, he is a lion..." Beshte commented.

"And lions are fierce," Ono finished. "It's kinda common knowledge..."

Bunga then jumped down and landed next to Kion, Fuli, and Sauda. He seemed excited for some odd reason and soon as the honey badger opened his mouth she knew was he was gonna say.

"Show 'em the Roar, Kion," he cheered. "Show 'em the Roar!"

"Yep," Sauda thought. "There it is..."

"What's Bunga talking about? The Roar?" Fuli then asked. "You think you're somethin' special just 'cause you can roar?"

In all honesty, when she had first watched the movie and tv series, Selena or now 'Sauda' had liked Fuli's character and feistiness. But now as she watched the cheetah interact with the others, Sauda knew they weren't gonna get along. She didn't know if being transformed into a lion caused her sense of loyalty to be elevated even higher than it had been as a human or not, but at that moment the human part of Sauda was close to cussing the young cheetah out. Sauda knew that it wasn't proper to react that way, however, especially since she'd just met the cheetah and held her tongue. It still didn't stop her from thinking about it, though. She changer her mind, though, when she noticed that as Fuli was talking she begun to get closer to Kion's face. The cub had begun frowning and furrowing his eyebrows and Sauda could tell that he was beginning to question himself. That was crossing the line! So, Sauda decided to finally take action...

"Alright, Fuli," she stated icily. "That's enough!"

"And just who are you??" Fuli said, turning her attention to the unknown lioness standing next to Kion.

Kion was slightly surprised that his new friend was coming to his aid like that and he then decided to return the favour. "Her name's Sauda," Kion stated, smiling as he stepped closer to the said lioness. "She's new to the pride...Bunga and I were showing her around when we got caught up in some trouble with the hyenas and well something happened to my roar."

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"Well, yeah," Kion said, before smiling. "I was just talking to all my friends about it..."

Simba then practically glared at his son, "Your friends?!". The adult then narrowed his eyes continued with a frown, "Kion, I asked you to assemble the new Lion Guard. Instead, you're just playing with your friends?!"

"Simba-"

"Not now Sauda," interrupted Simba.

Kion squared his shoulders somewhat and then lowered his stance in defiance, "I'm not playing, Dad! My friends are the new Lion Guard" He turned his head as he continued. "Fuli is the fastest. Beshte is the strongest. Ono is the keenest of sight. And the bravest, it's Bunga," he concluded with a smile.

"And where is the slyest?" asked the King of Pride Rock.

Kion rubbed his head as he replied, "I... I haven't figured that one out yet. But I know I will find the slyest guard member soon!"

"Kion, the Lion Guard has always been made of lions," Simba stated angrily. "Do you think a Lion Guard with only one lion can protect the Pride Lands?!"

"Excuse me Simba..." Sauda tried to interject. "I mean, your highness..."

Simba turned his head sharply in Sauda's direction when she tried to stand up for her friend and the gleam in his eye was enough for the lioness to shut her trap and step down. Sauda was honestly shocked by how harsh Simba was being with Kion at that moment. It didn't make sense to her. Kion had heard her and smiled softly before looking back up at his angry father wearily.

The lion cub's ears flattened slightly before he spoke up, "Well..."

"Son, listen," the king started. "The Lion Guard isn't a game you play with your friends. It's real. The Circle of Life, and your life, will depend on who's on your team. Please, Kion. There are plenty of good lions for the Guard. I need you to take your new responsibility seriously. Just as seriously as Kiara takes hers...."

Without another word, Simba left the distraught cub and his friends. Kion felt heartbroken and tried to hold back the tears beginning to form in his eyes. "But I do take it seriously..." Kion said under his breath, gaze pointed at the ground.

Sauda had known that this part was coming, but it seemed a whole lot more serious now and she got the odd urge to console Kion.

"Kion..." she started softly with a worried tone. "Are you ok?"

Without looking up, Kion murmured, "Leave me alone Sauda."

"Look Kion, I'm sure everything will be-" Sauda began again, raising a paw to put it on his shoulder.

Kion's head snapped up and he slapped the lioness's paw away, accidentally hitting the former human in the face and knocking her to the ground. "I SAID LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Sauda's eyes widened substantially as she sat up and she quickly backed away from the angry lion cub. The others, including Fuli, all let out a sharp gasp at what had just happened, shocked at the fact that Kion yelled at one of his friends. Said lion cub cut off his yell, panting with anger before stopping when he'd suddenly realized what he had just done. The former human lifted her paw to her cheek and then raised her head and forced herself not to show her emotions. Simply looking at Kion after she stood from the ground she turned tail and ran off into the African Savannah. Everyone looked on with worry as Sauda ran away. Even Fuli looked slightly worried about the strange coloured lioness. Kion also watched on as his new friend fled from the scene.

The young prince then just sighed with melancholy when his friends looked back to him expectantly.

"Please, I... I need to be by myself right now." he pleaded to them quietly.

He then turned tail and ran away from his friends, not daring to look back.

"Kion..." Bunga said sadly.

"Lil' B, I think Kion needs some time to himself," Beshte stated, nudging Bunga to follow him.

The rest of the group left, and a solemn atmosphere began taking over the pride lands.

[Part IV]- Crocodiles and Kings
3RD POV

"Don't cry, Selena!" Sauda mumbled to herself as she fled from Kion and the others. "DON'T FUCKING CRY!!!!"

It didn't matter how much Sauda yelled at herself as she ran, for tears started to slip down the former human's furred face and onto the ground as she rushed through the African Savannah grasses. Sauda eventually slowed to a walk as she continued to cry, despite continuing to yell at herself as she did so. Sniffling as she continued walking, Sauda finally looked up at her surroundings as she began to finally calm down a bit.

Scanning the area within her eye-line, Sauda noticed that some of the trees looked slightly familiar to her. To get a better look at the area the lioness decided to hop up onto a boulder that was at the base of a tree. When she reached the top of the boulder, Sauda got a better view of where she was since she hadn't been able to see everything from below the top of the grass. There was a watering hole not too far away from where she was and when she noticed it she finally recognized where she was in the pride lands. She was near the crocodiles' watering hole!

Sauda remembered what had happened earlier that morning when she'd unexpectedly been thrown into the universe of Disney's Lion King. She'd been accepted into the pride by Simba and then was told to go find Kion, and then some stuff happened to lead to this moment...But, Sauda remembered something else as well from when she had been searching for Kion.

She had walked past this very watering hole and had had an encounter with a very intimidation crocodile who'd introduced himself as Makuu. Sauda remembered what his character was like from the second episode of the show and was slightly surprised by the fact that he'd let her go so easily after trespassing onto the crocodile land earlier that day.

Flashback Begins:

I reached my head down until my muzzle reached the water. I immediately jumped back, though, because it turns out you're not supposed to stick your nose in the water when it's on top of your mouth. The water had gone up into my nose. I quickly figured out after that that I was supposed to let mu muzzle hover over the water instead of delving my mouth and nose completely inside the water.

As I started lapping up the water with my sandpaper tongue, which to be honest felt kind of weird. I suppose it's to be expected, though, I was after all, technically a human. I was so concentrated on the movements of my tongue to prevent licking water up into my airways again that I failed to see the crocodile swimming up from the bottom of the water hole. In one second I was lapping up water and the next I was pushed up against a tree trunk by a young male crocodile.

"My, my who's this we have here?" he asked. "You don't look to be a pridelander, but you look well-fed so you can't be the cub of a rogue."

I nervously looked around as my chest heaved up and down from my ragged breathing. I sucked in a huge breath and prepared myself to scream, in hopes of alerting one of the adult lions who could defend me, seeing as for some reason I was a cub instead of a near-adult. I began to exhale, but before the sound could escape my throat, the crocodile put his clawed foot over my mouth.

"Ah, ah, ah," he warned. "We don't want you alerting any adults now do we?"

I shook my head ferociously. "Good, good. Now, I'm gonna take my paw off your mouth and when I do you will not scream, do we understand each other?"

I nodded my head slowly, my eyes still wide. He removed his paw from my mouth and I shuddered out a breath. I looked over to him as I stood back down on all four paws and gave him a cold glare. What is the actual fuck?! Why the hell..? You know, never mind. I'm not gonna even bother asking him why he pinned me against a tree if he wasn't going to fucking eat me. At least that's what I thought he was going to do anyway.

"Now, seeing as I can't eat you due to treaties the crocodile float has with the Lion King Simba, and in doing so would cause a war between the lions and the crocodiles, I have a question for you young...?" he trailed off.

"S-Sauda," I stuttered out after a few seconds.

"Okay, S-Sauda..." he started. "First of all, my names Makuu the crocodile, it's nice to formally meet you."

I nodded to him and held out my hand - er - I mean paw. Makuu looked at me strangely before I embarrassedly put my dark fur covered paw back on the ground. I nodded to him and then he nodded back.

"Now back to my question," he continued. "Why are you out here all alone and where's your pride? As I said before, you are too well-fed looking to be a rogue's cub and your fur colour is unique and different from that of the lions here in the pride lands."

"I'm an orphan," I explained to Makuu. "Simba has let me into the pride after one of the elephant leaders, Akina, found me passed out in the elephant territory near the end of the pride lands."

"Ah, I see, well you run along Sauda, but don't come back to this watering hole, some of the other crocodiles won't be as forgiving to intruders as I just was," Makuu concluded.

I nodded and response and trotted off from the crocodile floats watering hole. That Makuu fellow sure was a strange one, that I was certain of.

Flashback Ends...

Sauda still thought Makuu to be a strange one after that interaction. However, she was kind of thirsty from how much she had been running and there was water right there. Deciding to push her luck, Sauda climbed down from her perch on the boulder. She then made sure that she was downwind of the crocodiles' home and began to stalk silently through the savanna grass towards the watering hole. As she crept through the grass, Sauda listened to the sounds of the snoozing crocs that lay on the sand near the water's edge. Noting where most of the horde was, the dark colored lioness crept around them to the other side of the watering hole where she saw notably fewer crocodiles sleeping.

Sauda crept closer and closer to the water's edge and when she was about a foot away, she poked her dark face through the reeds to check if the coast was clear for her to finally get a drink. Sauda turned her gaze left and then right before ever so slowly creeping forward inch by inch until she was at the water's edge. The lioness reached her head down to the water and quietly began lapping at the liquid, swallowing as she did so. While she was drinking, Sauda's guard had accidentally slipped so she, unfortunately, didn't hear the slithering and sliding noises of a crocodile creeping up behind her.

"Boo!" a smooth masculine voice sounded behind her ear.

Nearly yelping out loud, her screech was silenced by a scaly foot pressed against her mouth. Sauda opened her eyes and turned her head to the right, only to let out another muffled scream of a surprise when she discovered whom the scaly appendage belonged to. Directly standing next to her with a single claw over his mouth, silently telling her to be quiet, was Makuu the crocodile. Sauda's breathing slowed as she slightly calmed down from being startled by the lizard but when Makuu finally took his paw off her mouth, she began to whisper certain names at him for scaring the crap out of her.

"Quiet, little lioness!" Makuu whisper yelled at her. He looked around the watering hole at his fellow crocodiles before motioning her to follow him. "Follow me."

Sauda quietly followed the intimidating animal back into the shrubbery and through the grass into a small clearing where there were a log and a few large rocks. Once they were in the middle of the clearing and away from the other crocodiles, Makuu turned to Sauda with a deep frown on his face.

"I thought I told you not to come back here, little lioness." the croc stated.

Makuu looked at Sauda expectantly as he waited for her to respond to him. Sauda racked her brain trying to come up with a response for the crocodile.

Eventually, when she opened her mouth all that came out was, "I was thirsty?"

Makuu's jaw nearly dropped in disbelief at her excuse for risking her life for a drink of water! "Seriously?" he asked incredulously. "That's your excuse for risking your life again?"

Sauda shrugged and smiled sheepishly in response to Makuu's questions. "To be honest, I came back here unintentionally and when I saw the watering hole I just gravitated over here for some odd reason that I can't explain..."

Makuu watched as Sauda's shoulders sagged and her gaze returned to the ground when she stopped talking. The little cub was upset over something and it was most likely naggin' the shit out her. Makuu audibly groaned before doing something he just knew, later on, he'd regret doing: he asked what was nagging at her...

"Alright little lioness," Makuu sighed reluctantly. "What's naggin' at ya?"

"Huh?" Sauda asked, obviously confused. "What do you mean?"

Makuu groaned some more. "What's naggin' ya up there-," the croc elaborated, pausing to poke at the lioness's head directly above her eyes. "- so much that yer actin' so pouty and sad for, huh?!"

Sauda was speechless for once in her lifetime. Even as a human back in her world she'd never been so shocked at someone that she'd struck as silent for this long. Yes, Makuu had let her live earlier that day even though she'd been trespassing and once more when she came back a second time just five minutes ago. But the intimidating, arrogant, and broody crocodile just didn't strike Sauda as someone that would care about the feelings or safety of others if it didn't directly impact him. Sauda had been in her thoughts longer than she expected because she was brought back to reality by a leathery feeling fist knocking on her forehead.

"Huh!?" she said, shaking her head and blinking rapidly.

Makuu frowned at her and grumbled. "I asked ya a question, little lioness!"

"W-what did you ask me?" Sauda slightly stuttered, suddenly reminded of her fear of the crocodile.

"Arghh!" Makuu groaned. "I asked ya what's bothering ya!"

Blinking again, Sauda finally registered his question and answered this time, albeit with a lot of hesitance...

"Well, it has to do with a bunch of different stuff if I'm being completely truthful," Sauda began, casting her eyes down to the dirt again. That's when suddenly instead of staring down at the ground, the lioness was staring up at the sky and laying on the ground with a pain in her back...

"OW!" Sauda screeched loudly. "Are you kidding me! What the hell was that for!?!"

Makuu had whipped his tail and swept her feet out from under her, causing her to flip over and fall onto her back. Sauda turned her head as she laid there and then started to glare at Makuu only to immediately stop noticing his own. "That was for lookin' down at the ground when I'm talkin' to ya!" Makuu grumbled. Sauda felt there was also another reason for the lizard flipping her with his tail that he wasn't going to say out loud but she didn't question it as she stood back up and then padded over to the log to sit down on top of it.

When the little trespasser just sighed and looked down to the ground once more after moving to seat herself on the log, Makuu groaned in annoyance. He couldn't believe that he was actually about to do this...

"Alright enough whining, little lioness," he voiced sharply. "I'm not sure what's going on inside that little noggin' of your but listen to this: whatever is happening, as long as you take things one step at a time it'll be alright in the end..."

Sauda was stricken silent at what the animal before her had just told her. The lizard was continuously surprising her with the things he said to her. And although the lioness knew that Makuu meant well even with his unorthodox methods of going about it. However, though the crocodile seemed to be worried about her mental state, Sauda couldn't help but be a bit threatened emotionally and psychologically.

"Why do you even care?" she asked numbly, with an icy undertone to her voice.

Makuu hadn't been anticipated this odd little trespassing lioness cub to react in the way that she had. The brooding reptile's eyes widened ever so scarcely and a smirk bit formed on his maw as he thought to himself, "Well this little kitty cat DOES have some fire in her after all." If the little trespassing wasn't any fascinating before, she certainly was now! In the long run, it was slightly unfortunate for her too. After all, when something or someone caught Makuu's interest they usually didn't escape him whether it be prey or just the odd animal with a unique character about them.

Sauda slightly shuddered when she witnessed the look of surprise on Makuu's face slowly transformed into a smirk that told her what she'd just done was gonna haunt her for a while. Either way, Sauda was once again not quite prepared for what came out of the reptile's mouth next.

"You're unique," he stated as if it explained everything. "And I like to keep unique animals close at hand in case of a rainy day later on..."

His answer to her question only puzzled her even more as she became increasingly more curious and intrigued with the broody crocodile herself.

"Whatever," Sauda grunted, averting her eyes from the smirking animal beside her.

The lioness's response only furthered Makuu's amusement with her.

"Why don't you go on back to the pride and think about what I said," he said. "Do we have a deal, little lioness?"

Sauda knew she was going to regret this later on but there was just something about the crocodile that made her want to cling to him like a rock to keep her from going practically insane...

"Yeah, whatever..." she murmured.

A dry wind blew over the grasses surrounding Sauda as she trudged along the natural pathways that cut their way through the savanna grasses, her mind running rampant with worrisome thoughts about her situation. First she'd been thrown headfirst into a show, turned into a freaking lion, made a part of Simba's pride, and now was being swept up into the drama and danger that the prospect of the Lion Guard came with. Simba was being somewhat of a vindictive bastard to Kion for choosing his friends to join the lion guard, purely off of the basis that they weren't lions. In an attempt to comfort her new friend, Sauda had been yelled at and attacked in response by an angry preteen cub with an ancient super powered yelling voice. So, Sauda had run off and came into contact once more with an unusual acquaintance, Makuu the Crocodile.

Now as she walked along the grasslands, she pondered her position and what she was to do. On one hand she could go back to pride rock and potentially confront Simba about his words and actions towards his son about his handling of the Lion Guard member choices. Or, Sauda could try and find Kion and try to reconcile with him once more now that she'd calmed down. Surely by this point Kion had calmed down, the girl surmised. With a sigh, Sauda looked up at the afternoon sun hanging in the sky and decided that she would take the option that would have less consequences for her position as a newly inducted member of the pride.

Sauda raised her muzzle to the air and inhaled long and deep, searching the winds for her Kion's scent among the African grasses. He couldn't have gone far from where they had last been together when Simba had yelled and the prince had acted out violently against her unintentionally. Eventually Sauda caught the male cub's scent on the wind west of where she was after climbing up and into a small tree that stood next to a cluster of large rocks that she had used to get into the tree. Jumping down from her perch, Sauda followed the scent through the tall African Savannah grasses. As she walked past a small stream that wound through the grass stalks, the female lion cub hurtled to a stop hen she heard a voice whisper through the air.

"Sauda....," it whispered.

The young female's ears twitched and turned as she tried to locate and determine the owner of the voice. However, even as Sauda turned around and looked all around here still she could not locate the owner of the voice.

"Sauda....," the voice whispered once more, this time notably stronger than before and was clearly male.

It sounded closed than before and Sauda just happened to look down to her left before she screeched out, "BY MUFASA'S GREAT MANE WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT!?!"

Looking up at her from the water seemed to be the reflection of a ghostly apparition of a large, tan colored adult male lion with golden eyes and a long flowing mane that looked eerily similar to Kion's grandfather. The lion simply raised an eyebrow in response to her expletive outburst mentioning the deceased king of the pridelands. As Sauda attempted to catch her breath from being startled so much, she glanced back down at the lion in the water and her gazed fixated into an annoyed glare as she quit hyperventilating.

"What the fuck man!?" the female questioned. "What'd you go an do that for!?"

The lion simply smirked at her use of language and chuckled lightly in response.

"My name is Mohatu," he finally responded. "I am one of the Great Kings of the Past."

Sauda stared down at him and met his gaze. "Alright, well what does that have to do with me?"

Mohatu gave the cub another smirk and retorted back with, "Oh it has everything to do with you Selena..."

At the mention of her human name, the former human tensed and her eyes widened considerably. Gazing down at the dead lion king, Sauda inhaled sharply before gulping slowly and asking quietly, "Where'd you hear that name?" Mohatu's slight self-satisfied look dropped from his reflection's face after the dimensional traveler spoke. Sighing wearily, the dead king brought a paw up to his reflection's forehead and wiped his brow line before answering the cub's question.

"It's a long story but unfortunately the council of the Great Kings decided to bring you to our world to fulfill a long ancient prophecy that has been slowly been in procession ever since the lion prince, Taka, turned to the dark and destroyed his own lion guard," Mohatu explained.

Sauda's brow furrowed in confusion. "Who was Taka?" she asked.

The dead king's voice turned dark and somber when he elaborated. "You may know him as Scar..."

The traveler's blue eyes were now the size of dinner plates. "Holy fucking monkey turds...." she gasped. "You can't be shitting me right now!?"

"Alas, this is not a joking matter and that is the unfortunate truth," Mohatu said gravely. "In short you are the final key to the prophecy and in order for it to be fulfilled, the council had to seek out a "champion" you could call it from another world to save the kingdom from the coming evil."

Sauda, who did not know how to process all of this new information flooding through her brain, fell to her hindquarters in shock. In her silence, Mohatu continued, "To keep the balance between the light and the dark, it is paramount that you keep close to the new leader of the Lion Guard, lest he fall the the same evil that the young Taka did so long ago and it result in the reign of catastrophic reign of evil and terror taking root in this world..."

Sauda gulped deeply once more before she mustered up what little bravado she had left at the moment and finally asked, "The Council is absolutely positive that I am the "champion" the prophecy speaks of?"

Mohatu's reflection nodded silently in affirmation.

Sauda's icy blue eyes hardened in somber acceptance and determination. "If it means that Kion and everyone will be safe from harm, then I will do whatever the Council requires of me to stop whatever evil threatens this world..."

Mohatu smiled proudly in a way that almost made Sauda feel slightly more prepared for the journey ahead of her. "Good," the king concluded. "I shall inform the council of your acceptance and I will be available to you whenever you might need me in the future..."

His reflection began fading and Sauda panicked slightly. "Hey, hold on!" she cried out. "What am I supposed to do now Mohatu!!"

"Trust in your heart to guide you..." his called, sounding ever increasingly distant.

The young female cub's heart pounded as she cried out, "Wait don't go!"

"I will always be with you shall you need me..." Mohatu's voice trailed off.

"Just look for me in the water....!!"

That was the last thing Sauda heard Mohatu say before his reflection had completely disappeared from the steady flow of the stream's water. Sauda sighed softly and sat back down along the water's edge and contemplated what she had just learned about why she had been brought to this world. However, Sauda's solemn thoughts of the distant but slightly near future and her role in it's salvation and protection was interrupted when from across the pridelands, nearly a mile away, a shrill scream accompanied by the sound of thundering hooves.

A stampede....

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Well I hope that this was worth the wait!! I'm gonna start on the next chapter right away since I have finished all of my school work for this week!