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Chapter 4: To Die For

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I just realized it’s been nearly a full year since I made my first post on this site!  The amount of support I’ve felt from this community has been overwhelming, and I just want to say thank you.  Without your kindness, I doubt I would still be doing this.  A few side notes with this post:  First, I’ve updated my profile with an FAQ.  Nothing groundbreaking, but it’s there if you’re curious.  Second, I’ve renamed all of my pools as chapters since the stories build on each other.  I think this will make it easier to keep everything in chronological order going forward.  Now on to the fun stuff!

This next chapter will be quite different from what I’ve posted in the past.  This will be heavily story-driven, with a darker plot and a lot more action.  I actually considered drawing this chapter as a comic, but ultimately I decided to publish it more like a storyboard with the key moments of each scene illustrated.  Unfortunately, this means some posts will likely be more visually interesting than others.  To help alleviate this issue, I plan to increase my post frequency to approximately once per week, usually on Saturday or Sunday.  I realize that many probably don’t come here for the narratives, but if you bear with me, I promise there will be a few scenes that can be enjoyed as standalones.  In any event, here’s the intro to Chapter 4!

Chapter 4: To Die For
Part 1: Intruder

Simba would later ask himself how he never woke up the night his young life changed forever.  Maybe if he and Nala hadn’t gone on that adventure the day before, he wouldn’t have been so tired.  Maybe if they hadn’t slept so close to the den entrance, one of the adults would have noticed that something was wrong.  Maybe if he had done any number of things differently, the whole event would never have happened.  But it did, and it would haunt Simba for the rest of his life.

It was an unusually warm night across the Pride Lands.  The air was heavy, and a thick layer of clouds cast the grasslands in complete darkness.  This was the type of environment that usually preceded a heavy thunderstorm on the savannah, but there would be no cooling rains this night.  Instead, the land was left to swelter under the oppressive humidity, so much so that not even the nocturnal animals of the Pride Lands dared to venture from their homes.  Even the crickets fell silent, leaving Mufasa’s kingdom completely, eerily still.

Simba and Nala had long since fallen asleep next to each other after their intimate fun earlier in the evening.  After struggling to get comfortable in the humid air, the prince had eventually ended up stretched out on his side with his back turned towards the young lioness.  Nala had then leaned her head against Simba’s shoulder, happily snuggling against her friend despite the warm den.  Only the sound of Nala’s mother quietly snoring a short distance away interrupted the peaceful night.

It was shortly after midnight when the stillness was abruptly shattered.  Had Simba been awake, he might have seen a dark shadow seemingly materialize out of thin air in the den entrance.  In the absence of any moonlight, the figure would have appeared to the cub as a disembodied pair of eyes sitting atop a row of razor-sharp teeth dripping menacingly with drool.  But the prince slept on, and so he never saw the ominous specter slowly floating towards him.  He never saw the figure growing larger as it moved through the darkness, and he never saw it abruptly envelop him and the girl sleeping soundly next to him.  Just as quickly as the shadow arrived, it vanished without a sound.  No one in the den had any knowledge of the silent intruder, what is was, or why it had come.  No one was aware of the creature quickly sprinting away from Pride Rock towards the far border of Mufasa’s kingdom.  And no one realized that where before there had been two young lion cubs, there was now only one.

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