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(Simba & Lil’ Lightning)

Simba still felt as if the world was rotating around him when he slowly regained consciousness. He tried to open his eyes but the headache which he hadn’t noticed so far now was so splitting that almost made him cry. The teen lion wanted to get up, however, he couldn’t because something hit the top of his head. Simba opened his eyes finally and realized: he was in a cage!

“What?” He whispered to himself while looking around in despair. It was not the jungle around him, nor the savannah! Simba was in a dark room into which sunlight penetrated under the door, making his surroundings visible a little bit.

Ear twitched as he heard two humans talking to each other on the other side of the door. Simba couldn’t understand everything, although he could comprehend some things like something about a movie where dogs would save a boy from a lion - probably from him.

“Wh... what are they talking about?” The teen lion muttered to himself, not understanding at all why he was here but wishing he could go back to his own jungle, to his best buddies Timon and Pumbaa who he missed so much...

...Oh how desperate they might be...

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After days of wandering aimlessly through the countryside, Shadow had come upon a large field, full of sheep that seemed to be grazing peacefully. It was a sight that she had grown used to in her days of wandering, however she was so tired now that she couldn’t bring herself to walk much farther. Perhaps the sheep could provide a clue as to where she was going...

  The little bunny stared at the stranger through the bars of the hutch, he was panting harshly and curled up in his sitting position. He'd encountered humans before, he knew these ones... maybe didn't really mean any harm since they put him in a cage and placed some strange dried up food in with him.

Sterling walked quietly through the large fields and grassy plains, each step making his sore muscles flex painfully. Exhausted, sore, and hungry, the young loner had simply given up trying to hunt altogether. After being chased away from every single meal he had either caught or found over the last few days, as well as being violently repelled from other wolf packs, the true weight of his difficulties was beginning to take a large toll on both his body and mind. 

Reaching a fence, the large male didn’t even have the energy to try and find a way around it, even with a small herd of livestock on the other side. Lying down, he laid his chin upon the earth and simply just watched them graze, his mind wandering back to times when he had once had a family to return to. 

“     Rex?”

     The little pig looked almost shy as he approached the sheepdog.  True, Rex had found him when he ran away, and he hadn’t tried to bite him in some time, but Babe still thought it best to give Rex a bit of space.

     He stopped a few feet away from the dog, and her pawed his foot through the ground a few times out of nervousness.

“     I - I, well I...I just wanted to thank you for helpin’ me and gettin’ the password.  It’s an awfully long run back to the farm and, well...”

The pig hesitated a moment longer as he glanced at the old dog.