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Character(s): Kiara and Kovu
Content: Kiara and Kovu accidentally find each other.
Setting: Jogo da Crianca (The Park - G6)
Time: Evening?
Warnings: Not that I know of?

Giving up hope wasn't something Kiara ever did easily, but everything seem so... bleak. It was like a horrible strange nightmare, except she didn't think she could ever dream up something THIS strange. She had nothing to compare this place to. It was all so... surreal.

She'd managed to cross much of the city since her arrival, although she'd had a funny feeling she'd doubled-backed on herself several times, but still she hadn't found any sign of Kovu, only things she couldn't begin to explain.

Apart from being essentially lost, she was tired, having not slept well at all when she tried to rest and hungry. Oh she was hungry. The lioness could hear her stomach whine again at the mere thought of food. She'd not seen anything she could possibly hun nor even a single bug. Even the grass and trees weren't even real! This wasn't right at all. There was just something terribly, well, wrong about this place.

Kiara sighed sadly as she walked into a wide area of "grass" and "trees". It was a park, but Kiara had no idea of that. It was just another part of this place she didn't understand. She padded along, glancing around half-heartedly, but not really expecting now to see anything that meant something to her at this point.

Ever since she'd left Pride Rock the other night, all she'd wanted to do was find Kovu, but now... now she had no idea what to do.

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It was all slipping away - the dark energies that had been infused into Kovu were losing their potency. Although he had been trying his best to concentrate and focus on the darkness once again, he could feel himself slipping back to normality. It was very distressing. The darkness had made him strong. He didn't want to go back to being just a normal lion again. Unfortunately, resistance didn't seem like it was helping, so he really didn't have any other options, besides getting a fresh infusion of darkness, and he had no idea how to go about doing that.

This course of events had left him tired, depressed, and uncertain as to what he should do next. The lion had taken to slinking around the city aimlessly, finally making it to a place that he had noted before as being different from the rest of the city. There was something peaceful and familiar about the park. True, it was just as manufactured as the rest of the city, but it had more open space and few structures. It was probably the closest thing to home that he had found underneath the domes of Paixao. If he tried... If he REALLY tried, he could close his eyes, tune out the distractions, and just imagine he was back in the Pridelands once again.

It wasn't always something he tried to imagine. He had found life in the city to be more pleasant in many ways than the life he had lived back in his homeland. But he still missed certain things... Or more specifically, a certain someone... As much as he tried to distract himself with the wonders of the city, there was no way he could ever forget where he'd come from, and what he'd lost.

Kiara... He thought about her smile, her bouncy enthusiasm... the complete faith she seemed to have in him. A sigh escaped him as he pictured her bounding towards him, showing up out of nowhere to tell him everything was going to be okay - give him some reassuring words of hope. Maybe it was impossible now, but it was a nice fantasy... and so real he could just about smell her scent on the wind...

He blinked, suddenly snapping out of his reverie to glance around in amazed curiosity. It couldn't be... could it? He turned, walking at first, and then running as he recognized the lioness walking through the park. It was her! It was really her! He shouted in utter joy as he bounded towards her.

"KIARA! KIARA!"

Hmm, which way? Kiara glanced around trying to figure out which was to go, although really she had no idea. All ways seemed to lead to just more of this strange place. No direction seemed any more likely to lead her home than the other. Up in the sky she noticed the stars starting to appear in the sky, but she'd realized the night before their positions were different. Stars that could serve as a familar guiding point weren't there. Did these stars still have great kings looking down from them or was she truly alone?

This place even smelt different. The various smells were impossible to describe she hadn't smelled anything like them before, much as the sights and sounds were so foreign to her too--Wait! That scent!

Kiara froze instantly. It couldn't be... Could it? Was she dreaming? It could just be a dream. Wait, could you even dream smells though? She couldn't say she'd remembered dreaming a smell before, but right about now she could believe almost anything.

She was snapped, however, from her thoughts when the familiar voice reached her ears, confirming what she wasn't daring to assume on scent alone.

"Ko..vu...?" Kiara turned around, eyes widening as she beheld the lion bounding towards her, calling out her name. Astonishment came first, then excitement bubbled up inside her and took off towards him, trying to close the gap between them that much quicker. "KOVU!"

It was everything that Kovu had dreamed about since being trapped in the city months ago. Kiara had really made it there and they were finally together again! He felt like new life had entered into him. Up until this point, he had been on the verge of losing all hope of seeing her again, but now... she was right there!

He bounded up to her, practically pouncing on her in his glee at seeing her again. He just wanted to nuzzle her and cuddle up next to her and convince himself that this wasn't just some amazing dream, because it almost seemed too good to be true.

"It's you... It's really you!" he exclaimed. "I was so worried about you! Are you okay?"

Kiara slid to a stop, just barely avoiding plowing right into him as he bounded up to her in the same way. Dipping her head down, she nuzzled her head beneath his chin then into his mane. He was really here! Somehow she'd found him. Everything suddenly felt a lot less frightening.

She let out a sigh of relief as she mumbled his name again, before lifting her head back up to meet his gaze. "Of course it's me! Why wouldn't it be?" she replied, a little confused at his worry. She wasn't the one who'd been chased out of the Pride Lands.

"I'm fine. Just... kind of lost and confused. I'm not sure how I got here at all, but I'm so glad I found you," Kiara admitted a little sheepishly, but left out the whole hungry, tired and getting kinda frightened part. They'd all faded the moment she'd seen Kovu.

"I'm glad you're here," Kovu told her, resting his cheek against the side of her neck in a sort of lion hug. Even though it meant she was trapped in the city too, the lion couldn't help but feel encouraged by her presence. It was better than being alone, and besides... it wasn't like they couldn't make a new life for themselves in Paixao. "I missed you so much..."

Something still seemed a little strange to him, though... She said she was lost and didn't know how she'd gotten there? He blinked and backed up a step, remembering events from a long while back. "Wait... You just got here? Then who did I get messages from a couple months ago? They said they were you, but I never managed to find you... them... whoever it was..." Kovu frowned, wondering if someone had been playing a nasty trick on him. One thing he did know about the people behind this place... They really seemed to like to mess with people's heads.

She only had a look of confusion written on her face. "Um... yes?" Kiara replied slowly, explaining what little she did know. "I ended up here last night. I was looking for you after Daddy... you know, and then I was here."

Kiara was pretty sure she'd have remembered being here if she'd ever been here before, much less sending him messages.

"So, I don't know how--Wait," Kiara paused as several things Kovu had just said hit her. If skin had been visable, she would have turned pale. He'd just said he'd missed her and that he'd been here-- "M-months? You've been here... months, Kovu?" she questioned, eyes wide.

She'd seen him only the other day, so the idea he could have been here that long baffled her utterly. It was almost unbelievable, but he'd just said it so casually that there was no way he could be making it up. Kiara didn't doubt him, just... it made no sense.

Kovu sighed, resigning himself to the fact that Kiara had been caught up in some sort of time lag. It was nothing new to him, really. The same thing had happened with Timon, after all. He supposed he should just be grateful for the fact that she was from the same time that he'd last seen her at, and not whisked into Paixao from the time she was a cub. That would have REALLY awkward.

"Yeah, months," he confirmed. "There's something wrong with this place. People come here from all sorts of strange places... and times... Timon and Pumbaa are here too, actually. Pumbaa's from the same time we are, but Timon... Well, he didn't even have a clue who I was. He's from a couple years back, before your dad challenged Scar." Kovu had to smile just a tiny bit at that memory, "On the bright side, he never met my mother, so he doesn't hate my guts."

"That's... weird," she answered after a long moment of not being sure what to say. To say the idea of time travel was a foreign concept to the lioness would be an understatement.

Kiara filed the knowledge of Timon away for future reference however, as she'd obviously have to deal with that at some point or another. "I guess that is on the bright side," she then added, with an awkward smile, gazing at him quietly a moment not sure what else to say.

Months...

She finally just leaned over and planted a soft lick on the side of his muzzle.

Kovu grinned, returning the affectionate gesture. "At least we're together now. That's what's really important..." He already felt about five hundred times better now that he'd been reunited with his love. Any problems he had with the city seemed relatively trivial now. They could make do somehow. And at least this time, there wasn't anybody around who would try to break them up.

"This place may be crazy, but it's not completely bad," he told Kiara optimistically, "Like... uh... Well, they've got some pretty amazing food. Like cake! You HAVE to try the cake..." The lion licked his lips at the thought of the sweet treat.

Food. The hungry rumble in the lioness' stomach at the mere thought of food, quickly served to remind her it had been some time since she'd eaten. She'd not seen anything that she'd consider food since arriving. Kiara couldn't say she'd seen anything particularly edible looking at all, in fact. Well... except the humans, but the idea hadn't really passed her mind. So where was this food she'd been missing?

"Cake?" she echoed the strange word, looking to Kovu curiously. "What's cake?"

From his reaction it sounded like it must be pretty good.

"It's this... well... It's a... hmm..." Kovu tried to think of a good way to describe it, which was hard, because he knew Kiara hadn't ever tried anything even remotely similar. "Well, it's a really sweet kind of food... even sweeter than fruit... It's not really the kind of food you'd want to eat all the time, because it's probably ridiculously bad for you and it's not as filling as meat, but it's really, really good. I'll get you some, if you'd like. Or anything else you want..."

He smiled a little as he thought of his first meal in the city, and how much of a mess he and Timon had gotten into because of their lack of experience. It was probably lucky that he had met up with Kiara so soon after she had arrived in the city... He could help her avoid some of the blunders he had initially made on his own arrival. "See... The humans have these places where you can trade things for food... It's kind of ridiculous, actually... The blond-haired ones will take practically ~anything~, including the stupid shiny leaves off their fake trees."

Kiara listened intently to Kovu's description of cake. It was hard to imagine anything sweeter than fruit, but boy did it sound really good. Her mouth was practically watering... and she was suddenly really starting to feel hungry again. She giggled a bit, "It sounds really good! I'd definitely like to try some!"

The lioness then tilted her head as she tried to understand. Trading things for food? That was a very strange idea. "So... you give them shiny leaves and they give you food? That's....... weird." Weird was a word Kiara was starting to suspect she was going to use a lot here. There were a lot of weird things though. A BIG lot.

"Yeah, it's weird," Kovu agreed. "You get used to it, though. From what I'm told, the trading part is pretty common in other human cities, but it's usually for something that actually has some kind of value. Here they'll take practically any old junk. It's pretty dumb, but I guess I can't complain... Means I get to eat a decent meal whenever I want. There's no hunting around here as far as I can tell. I don't even know where the heck they get their meat in the first place and nobody's ever been able to tell me."

He grinned and leaned over to nuzzle her cheek, "Don't worry though. It seems to be perfectly fine, although they do have the tendency to cook all their meat unless you ask them not to... Apparently they like it better that way..." It was one of those little human habits that amused him. The cooked food wasn't bad, but there were times when he was hungry and had no patience to wait for his meal and he found it a little funny how the humans ~always~ got their meat cooked, even if they were really hungry already.

"Anyway... if you're hungry, we can go to Porfavore's," he suggested. "It's not too far away, and they have some pretty good food - including cake..."

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There was that word coming up again. Weird. Although maybe that wasn't the best word even. Strange? Bizarre? That might be closer to the mark. Humans were weird, that much was apparent anyways, but the fact that the food's origin was unknown was really odd. "That... really makes no sense. It sounds like the food comes out of thin air."

A brief purr rumbled in her throat at the nuzzle and she smiled back, and nodded. "Alright, if you say so." She trusted Kovu's judgment. If he felt things were fine then everything would be a-okay. He seemed to have learned a lot since he'd arrived here. Undoubtedly she'd soon learn the ropes.

Food! Her eyes lit up a bit, "Well, I am kinda hungry, now that you mention it." It was a yes. She rose to her paws, pacing forward a few steps then turning back to Kovu, with a slight chuckle. "Lead the way!" She grinned brightly.

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