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Episode 11 – Teamwork
"Out. of. My way.", Zira said angrily and looked at Baska. Everyone didn't move an inch and kept staring at the dark lioness and the bear who were standing in front of each other.
"If ya didn't notice yet, I won't let you pass me. So if you really want them....come." Zira smiled and charged right at Baska. He swallowed and jumped with this knee right at her to hit her head. When they both clashed against each other, Zira's power got stronger and pushed Baska into the air. The lioness pushed herself into the sky and reached out with her right claws. Baska crunched his teeth and spun himself in the air, to avoid her attack and kick her back on the ground.
Before she landed, Zira pushed a large amount of energy out of her feet to cushion her fall. When she looked up again, she saw the bear coming at her with his fist reached out. Right before he could hit her, she moved to the side and kicked him back into a large rockwall.
Kiara was worried watching the fight and looked up to Simba.
"Is there no way you can help him? It looks like he can do this with a little bit of help! And if we defeate Zira...everything's back to normal."
"I don't know...Baska is still an enemy..."
"Dad, please!"
"I can help!", Kovu said and walked between them.
"Excuse me, I'm talking to my father."
"That's it!", Simba said and looked at Kiara.
"This my chance......I help Baska and you break up with Kovu."
"Hmm.....it would be worth...", she thought and looked up in the sky. Kovu angrily roared at both of them and ignited his power by himself.
"Enough! You would really do this, Kiara?! I'll show what I'm capable of!", he said and jumped right into the fight. Baska stood in front of Zira and cleaned the dust off his fur, until suddenly Kovu jumped next to him and bared his teeth at his mother.
"What are you doing here?", Baska asked confused.
"I'll show Simba and Kiara how much of a lion I am!"
"Heh, better hurry up. I can't garantee that there's enough Zira for both of us." Zira laughed and looked contemptuously at his son.
“So you do have the courage to come. Looks like I have to battle the sidekicks first.”, she said and unloaded a huge amount of dark energy around her, which damaged the area under her feet. Suddenly a lightingbolt striked right in front of her and almost hit her head. Zira looked angrily up in the sky and saw a lioness laughing at her.
“Sarabi!”
“Looks like you didn't get hit by my hello. Let's see if you survive our goodbye!”, she said and disappeared to power up Kovu. Six lightsphere's appeared around him and his tail became spiker than before. Baska smiled and looked at his new teammate.
“You know, it's an insult you didn't use that against me.”
“To be honest...we wanted, but you didn't give us the time.”
“Heh, that's what I wanted to hear.” Suddenly both of them attacked from different sides. Zira waited for them until they were in her reach. When Baska was about to punch her, she disappeared and appeared above both of them again.
“Eat this!”, she yelled and shot a huge blast out of her mouth and hit Kovu & Baska. While she was still in the air and dust was covering them, Kovu jumped in front of her with all of his lightsphere's which were ready to shoot.
“This...isn't you. Right, Kovu?”, Zira asked paralyzed.
“NOW GO TO HELL AND STAY THERE!”, Sarabi said in Kovus mixed voice and shot out of his mouth, together with the sphere's, a blast at her and hit Zira from a close distance.
Kiara watched the battled with wide opened eyes.
“Wow, my mother is really impressive.”, Simba said. When Kiara heared that, she got an idea and smiled.
“Oh yes, looks like she's about to be stronger than you.” Simba nodded surprisingly.
“In Kovu's body.”, Kiara added.
“Out of the way!”, Simba screamed and unloaded all of his remaining power. While Baska recovered from her blast and Sarabu waited for Zira to appear again, Simba jumped through the air next to them and roared.
“Finally! Where have you been?!”, she asked.
“You know, if you chose Kiara back when I was training and you were fighting with her body, Zira would be already history!”
“Don't wanna interrupt ya, but there's still some business left for us.”, Baska said and looked through the dust at a smiling Zira.
"Simba! Looks like you can't wait to die!", she said excited and made the dark aura around herself even bigger than before.
"So what's the plan?", Baska asked and looked at Simba.
"Hit. And don't get hit.", he said and charged with full speed at his opponents.
"Hey! Wait for me!", Sarabu yelled and followed him immediately. Baska sighed and looked after them.
"Oh boy, this is not looking good.", he said to himself, before he jumped at Zira, too. Everyone punched and kicked at her at the same time, but she avoided every single one, without moving away from the place she stood.
"My turn!" While everyone attacked her, some parts of the darkness around her grabbed their legs and smashed them together into a huge wall. Zira jumped backwards into the air and shot a giant blast at her three enemys at once. Simba and Sarabu set themselves free and roared together against her attack to block it. Baska closed his eyes and meditated shortly to gather some of his strength in his right hand. Suddenly he pushed himself out of the rock and jumped right next to the blast up to Zira.
"Get ready for my pocused fear-bunch!", he shouted and punched her into her face. The blast disappeared and Zira crashed with fullspeed into the ground. Slowly she stood up again and got punched immediately from the bear who was waiting for her.
"Mom, come!", Simba said and jumped into the air. Sarabu followed him and casted together with him the attack that was able to defeat Tamilia before. Baska felt what was going on behind him, so he reached out smashed Zira right into a wall and jumped away from her.
"Now!", he yelled and gave Simba & his mother the signal to shoot.
"You...you fools....", Zira said quietly, before she saw the upcoming attack hitting her perfectly. The attack caused an explosion which stirred up dust all over the ground. The rock Zira hit collapsed and burried the spirit of the lioness. Everyone was waiting for her to come up again, but nothing happened.
“Is it over?”, Kiara asked Ken and watched the battlefield. Zerrath couldn't believe what happened and that he saw his friend fighting together with lions to save him.
“Haha.....we all know which one of us was the leader the whole time....right?”, he said to himself and stood up slowly.
After a while, Vitani, Kiara and Ken walked back to the rest of the group.
“Did we win?”, Vitani asked and looked at the mountain made out of rocks above Zira. Simba nodded and sighed.
“It looks like it.”
“So the Girl Rock is saved!”, Ken celebrated and jumped around Kiara. Simba walked in front of him and looked over Baska's shoulder.
“Not yet. There is still one last treat we have to face.”, he said and looked at Zerrath. Baska's eye went right at Simba.
“I know we fought together. But don't even think about it.”
“I'm sorry, but as long as your friend doesn't give up his dream to kill all of us, there is no way he'll stay alive.” Without saying a word, Sarabu walked next to her son and looked seriously at the bear.
Zerrath crunched his teeth, but didn't want to go back and show Simba that he was actually afraid in this situation.
“Please, step aside.”, Simba said to Baska and walked forward.
“Is this your last word?”, Baska asked and closed his eyes.
“Move. Now.”, Simba said and prepared himself. Baska smiled and opened his eyes again.
“As you wish”. Baska jumped out of his stand backwards behind Zerrath and landed with his feet on the wall.
“Kiara, run.”
“But Dad! Maybe Zerrath isn't...”
“Your father said RUN!”, Sarabu screamed and powered herself up. At the same moment, Baska pushed himself away from the wall and kicked Simba with his knee right under his chin. The lion king flew high into the air, while Sarabu started attacking the bear with her claws.
“Heh...it's really fun...to fight you guys.”, Baska told her while dodging. How easily he was talking, while dodging her fast attacks, just made her more and more agressiv.
“But when you really try to kill my best friend...it's not a game anymore.” Baska threw himself on the ground, so Sarabu attacked the air and he could kick her into the stomach. Kovu's body flew high and Baska jumped right after her.
“Father....I know you already gave me all you've got, but....are you sure there is nothing more you could give me?!”, Simba asked Mufasa in his mind. Suddenly his body started to glow brighter and he felt stronger than before.
“I won't waste it...thanks.”, he thought and charged up all of his new energy in the sky. Sarabu tried to attack again, but Baska attacked her from all sides in the sky with no space for her to counter.
“You...ah...will...uh...could stop hitting me for atleast one fucking secound?!”, she screamed. Baska punched her into the kidney and then stopped, to watch her face.
“Aaaaaand that's a secound.”, he said and started punching her multiple times again.
Zerrath watched the fight in the sky and swallowed.
“How....did he became that strong?”
“E...xcuse me?”, Kiara said from the side, with Ken and Vitani behind her. Zerrath turned his head to her and bared his teeth.
“Please don't! We....we want to talk with you!”
“What should we be talking about?”
“Your goal...what are you trying to do? And why?” Zerrath laughed and looked up to Baska again.
“I could explain it. But you wouldn't understand....noone does.”
Baska reached out again and punched Sarabu as hard as he could into Kovu's chest, that even the lioness from the Girl Rock could hear a crack.
“Aaargh....”
“Wasn't smart to come back to life at all, wasn't it?”, he said and looked dead serious at into her eyes. In that moment, she remembered what fear felt like. Even for an already dead spirit.
“Time to do what you did the first time we met!”, Simba screamed and came with fullspeed at his opponent. Baska turned his head to him and saw Simba glowing stronger and brighter than ever before.
“How did you...”
“I'll end this right here!”, he screamed and was about to hit him with his head. The bear swallowed and looked with one eye down to Zerrath.
“I knew this would happen at some point...heh.”, he said to himself and turned his head back determined at Simba.
“Okay! Rear-B.....”, Baska started to scream, when suddenly an enormous fountain of dark energy came out of the earth and Simba freezed together with Sarabu in the air.
“What is this?....Vitani do you.....Vitani?”, Kiara asked and saw her friend obviously unable to move next to her. Baska looked down and slowly landed on a high rock.
“Finally! I knew you got more than you showed me, Simba!”, a voice screamed out of the fountain. When the energy slowly disappeared, Baska saw Zira standing on her grave and absorbing the spiritualpower from everyone around.
“Do you really think I would lose to some spirits limited by physical bodys? Haha, I told you I'll have my revange! And there is no going back for you now!”, she laughed and finished her plan. When Zira was done, Kovu and Simba fell almost unconscious from the sky, while Vitani fell to the ground.
“Daddy, no!” Baska looked up with one eye and sighed, before he jumped to catch both of them.
Kiara started to smile and looked up hopefully.
“Hey, don't think I did that for them. You never came in our way...so I guess I could do atleast that for you.”, he said and threw both of them next to the princess.
“Argh...you dick.”, Simba said and tried to stand up, but couldn't.
“He saved you, dad!”
“I know...I was talking to Kovu. I think I didn't insult him for almost five minutes.”
Baska smiled and jumped down from the rock. Zira grinned at him and drove out her claws again.
“So....I guess it's just you and me now, isn't it?”, the bear said.
“Haha, do you really think this is going to be a fight? Absorbing these spirits fully recovered me. And you are still exhausted from the fights before, right?” Baska crunched with his teeth, but covered it with a smile.
“Fully recovered? Whatever. More fighting for me, right?” Zira smiled. When Baska went into his fightingpostion, Zira unloaded all of her new powers and disappeared. Zerrath's friend stood still and tried to sense her.
“To slow!”, Zira yelled when she appeared out of nowhere behind Baska and stroke him with her claws through the whole battlefield. Before he could hit the wall on the otherside, Zira appeared in front of him and smashed him into the air.
“Oh no....”, Kiara said and looked panicly to Zerrath who was trying to follow the fight.
“Baska will win....right guys?!”, Ken asked. Everyone turned their heads to Zerrath as good as possible, to hear that his friend will win the final fight.
“Baska....has no chance. He never got anything like that as an opponent.”, Zerrath said frustrated and roared painfully through the whole Outland.
When Baska heared Zerrath's roar, he clenched his paw to fist and spun himself to kick Zira before she could attack. But she already appeared in front of him and blasted him with a huge amount of energy intro the ground.
“Die!”, she screamed and watched him hitting the ground, what caused a giant crater. Zira slowly levitated down and walked laughing towards her prey. Zerrath started running as fast as possible for him towards the spirit and jumped at her back.
“Don't touch him!”, he screamed and bit at her, but got stuck on the dark aura around her.
“Oh yes, the pathetic lion who thought he could control me! How could I forget you!”, she said and turned herself around.
“Let me do you a favor, so you won't see your friend dying.”, she said and shot a blast at him.
“Didn't you....hear what I told the other two lions?...Same goes for you.”, Baska said when he grabbed his friend and jumped back to the rest.
“What was that about, boss?”
“Baska, stop that! I won't let you die here!”
“Die?” Everyone looked at him confused, while Zerrath slowly got angrier.
“Why do you keep playing me?!”
“Hey, I'm not playing you. Just....go away with the others.”
“I won't.....” Baska sighed and hit his friend's neck. Zerrath instantly fell down and could not get up by himself.
“Wha...Baska you....” The bear turned his head to Kiara and whistled.
“Hey, princess. I catched your family. Now grab mine and run. He won't be able to use his muscles for a while.”
“B..but noone here wants you....”, Kiara tried to argue, when Baska started to sigh.
“Seriously, what did I do to you? Could trust me for once? I just need some space. And now go away, all of you.”, he said and looked forward at Zira. Kiara hesitantly lifted Zerrath up and walked as fast as possible away.
“Hey, who is carrying, Kovu?”, Simba asked exhausted. He looked around and stopped at Ken.
“Hey, Ken! Wanna have Kovu on your back? Unconscious?”
“Oh yes!”
“Here he is!”, Simba said and threw lion number fifteen to him. When everyone was going away, Simba went back for a short moment to Baska.
“Hey.”
“Oh come on, leave me alone now!”
“Wow, chill. No scar, no problem.”
“So why are you still here?!”
“Because.....first, I wanna thank you. And secound of all....you have no idea how this feels like. I would really like to...just rip her apart. She got father, mother...and she's a bitch. So please....fuck her up for me.”
“Heh, I wanted to do that anyway.”, he said and smiled forward. Simba smiled at him and slowly followed the rest of his herd.
“Oh and...Baska?”
“What?”
“As long as....you guys really don't try to kill us, you can stay here. As long as you want.”, Simba said over his shoulder and kept walking forward again after a short moment. Baska just smiled for a secound and then looked back to Zira.
“If you think you saved them, you're wrong! I can catch them whenever and whereever I want. I just wanted to give you guys your little....last moment together.”
“To bad you won't meet them again.” Zira smiled and powered herself slowly up to her maximum strength. Baska closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
“I knew that at some point....I would need that. If you would be the strongest person I can beat, how could I ever protect you from something stronger, boss? Heh...looks like the training will finally pay off.”, Baska said to himself and remembered the time after Zerrath absorbed his first spirit.
“Okay, boss! I'm ready!”, Baska shouted and went into his fightingpostion. Zerrath hesitated with his actions and looked at his partner.
“I have no idea what happens when I try to use these powers. Are you sure you want to fight me like that?”
“Of course! Now come on! Letting me wait is way more painfull, than everything you could do with me.” Zerrath sighed and started to unleash his new power. His body started to glow and some kind of mist appeared around him. With every moment, more and more birds were starting to fly away from their place.
“Ready, Baska?”
“More than you think.” Zerrath unloaded his power and charged right at his friend. Baska crossed his arms and got hit with all of the lion's spirtual power. Zerrath twitched when he realized, how strong he actually attacked.
“Are you okay?”, he asked while he kept pushing against the giant bear.
“Stop caring, boss. It just.....ruins our training!”, he said loudly and grabbed his paw. Baska spun himself and threw him into the air.
“What?!”
“And now fight with everything you got! Here I go!”, Baska said and jumped right at him.
At the same day, when the sun was going down, Zerrath walked up to him and lay down.
“How?”, Zerrath asked and looked at his friend.
“How what?”
“The power I got....it's insane. How could you fight on my level?”
“Heh, just normal training. Nothing special about it.”
“But I saw you training. There is no way you can be that strong from just that. We both did the same, right?” Baska smiled and stood up slowly.
“Yeah, but....let's just say I don't sleep as much as you think.”
Zira looked at her prey and laughed. The dark mist around her became more with every moment and was slowly moving towards Baska.
“I can't believe you are still in front of me! How Pathetic!”, the lioness laughed.
“Pathetic? Listen I....will give you one last chance. Disappear and free the spirits again.”
“Hahaha what?!”
“I won't repeat myself.”
“You just saw how powerful I am! I am immortal!” Baska smiled and went into a strange fightingpostion he never made before.
“Heh. Lemme prove ya the opposite.”
“Then show me!”, she screamed and unloaded all of her power, what caused a huge crater under her. Baska closed his eyes and lowered his head before he quietly whispered to himself: “Rear-Bage.”
Episode 11 – Teamwork
"Out. of. My way.", Zira said angrily and looked at Baska. Everyone didn't move an inch and kept staring at the dark lioness and the bear who were standing in front of each other.
"If ya didn't notice yet, I won't let you pass me. So if you really want them....come." Zira smiled and charged right at Baska. He swallowed and jumped with this knee right at her to hit her head. When they both clashed against each other, Zira's power got stronger and pushed Baska into the air. The lioness pushed herself into the sky and reached out with her right claws. Baska crunched his teeth and spun himself in the air, to avoid her attack and kick her back on the ground.
Before she landed, Zira pushed a large amount of energy out of her feet to cushion her fall. When she looked up again, she saw the bear coming at her with his fist reached out. Right before he could hit her, she moved to the side and kicked him back into a large rockwall.
Kiara was worried watching the fight and looked up to Simba.
"Is there no way you can help him? It looks like he can do this with a little bit of help! And if we defeate Zira...everything's back to normal."
"I don't know...Baska is still an enemy..."
"Dad, please!"
"I can help!", Kovu said and walked between them.
"Excuse me, I'm talking to my father."
"That's it!", Simba said and looked at Kiara.
"This my chance......I help Baska and you break up with Kovu."
"Hmm.....it would be worth...", she thought and looked up in the sky. Kovu angrily roared at both of them and ignited his power by himself.
"Enough! You would really do this, Kiara?! I'll show what I'm capable of!", he said and jumped right into the fight. Baska stood in front of Zira and cleaned the dust off his fur, until suddenly Kovu jumped next to him and bared his teeth at his mother.
"What are you doing here?", Baska asked confused.
"I'll show Simba and Kiara how much of a lion I am!"
"Heh, better hurry up. I can't garantee that there's enough Zira for both of us." Zira laughed and looked contemptuously at his son.
“So you do have the courage to come. Looks like I have to battle the sidekicks first.”, she said and unloaded a huge amount of dark energy around her, which damaged the area under her feet. Suddenly a lightingbolt striked right in front of her and almost hit her head. Zira looked angrily up in the sky and saw a lioness laughing at her.
“Sarabi!”
“Looks like you didn't get hit by my hello. Let's see if you survive our goodbye!”, she said and disappeared to power up Kovu. Six lightsphere's appeared around him and his tail became spiker than before. Baska smiled and looked at his new teammate.
“You know, it's an insult you didn't use that against me.”
“To be honest...we wanted, but you didn't give us the time.”
“Heh, that's what I wanted to hear.” Suddenly both of them attacked from different sides. Zira waited for them until they were in her reach. When Baska was about to punch her, she disappeared and appeared above both of them again.
“Eat this!”, she yelled and shot a huge blast out of her mouth and hit Kovu & Baska. While she was still in the air and dust was covering them, Kovu jumped in front of her with all of his lightsphere's which were ready to shoot.
“This...isn't you. Right, Kovu?”, Zira asked paralyzed.
“NOW GO TO HELL AND STAY THERE!”, Sarabi said in Kovus mixed voice and shot out of his mouth, together with the sphere's, a blast at her and hit Zira from a close distance.
Kiara watched the battled with wide opened eyes.
“Wow, my mother is really impressive.”, Simba said. When Kiara heared that, she got an idea and smiled.
“Oh yes, looks like she's about to be stronger than you.” Simba nodded surprisingly.
“In Kovu's body.”, Kiara added.
“Out of the way!”, Simba screamed and unloaded all of his remaining power. While Baska recovered from her blast and Sarabu waited for Zira to appear again, Simba jumped through the air next to them and roared.
“Finally! Where have you been?!”, she asked.
“You know, if you chose Kiara back when I was training and you were fighting with her body, Zira would be already history!”
“Don't wanna interrupt ya, but there's still some business left for us.”, Baska said and looked through the dust at a smiling Zira.
"Simba! Looks like you can't wait to die!", she said excited and made the dark aura around herself even bigger than before.
"So what's the plan?", Baska asked and looked at Simba.
"Hit. And don't get hit.", he said and charged with full speed at his opponents.
"Hey! Wait for me!", Sarabu yelled and followed him immediately. Baska sighed and looked after them.
"Oh boy, this is not looking good.", he said to himself, before he jumped at Zira, too. Everyone punched and kicked at her at the same time, but she avoided every single one, without moving away from the place she stood.
"My turn!" While everyone attacked her, some parts of the darkness around her grabbed their legs and smashed them together into a huge wall. Zira jumped backwards into the air and shot a giant blast at her three enemys at once. Simba and Sarabu set themselves free and roared together against her attack to block it. Baska closed his eyes and meditated shortly to gather some of his strength in his right hand. Suddenly he pushed himself out of the rock and jumped right next to the blast up to Zira.
"Get ready for my pocused fear-bunch!", he shouted and punched her into her face. The blast disappeared and Zira crashed with fullspeed into the ground. Slowly she stood up again and got punched immediately from the bear who was waiting for her.
"Mom, come!", Simba said and jumped into the air. Sarabu followed him and casted together with him the attack that was able to defeat Tamilia before. Baska felt what was going on behind him, so he reached out smashed Zira right into a wall and jumped away from her.
"Now!", he yelled and gave Simba & his mother the signal to shoot.
"You...you fools....", Zira said quietly, before she saw the upcoming attack hitting her perfectly. The attack caused an explosion which stirred up dust all over the ground. The rock Zira hit collapsed and burried the spirit of the lioness. Everyone was waiting for her to come up again, but nothing happened.
“Is it over?”, Kiara asked Ken and watched the battlefield. Zerrath couldn't believe what happened and that he saw his friend fighting together with lions to save him.
“Haha.....we all know which one of us was the leader the whole time....right?”, he said to himself and stood up slowly.
After a while, Vitani, Kiara and Ken walked back to the rest of the group.
“Did we win?”, Vitani asked and looked at the mountain made out of rocks above Zira. Simba nodded and sighed.
“It looks like it.”
“So the Girl Rock is saved!”, Ken celebrated and jumped around Kiara. Simba walked in front of him and looked over Baska's shoulder.
“Not yet. There is still one last treat we have to face.”, he said and looked at Zerrath. Baska's eye went right at Simba.
“I know we fought together. But don't even think about it.”
“I'm sorry, but as long as your friend doesn't give up his dream to kill all of us, there is no way he'll stay alive.” Without saying a word, Sarabu walked next to her son and looked seriously at the bear.
Zerrath crunched his teeth, but didn't want to go back and show Simba that he was actually afraid in this situation.
“Please, step aside.”, Simba said to Baska and walked forward.
“Is this your last word?”, Baska asked and closed his eyes.
“Move. Now.”, Simba said and prepared himself. Baska smiled and opened his eyes again.
“As you wish”. Baska jumped out of his stand backwards behind Zerrath and landed with his feet on the wall.
“Kiara, run.”
“But Dad! Maybe Zerrath isn't...”
“Your father said RUN!”, Sarabu screamed and powered herself up. At the same moment, Baska pushed himself away from the wall and kicked Simba with his knee right under his chin. The lion king flew high into the air, while Sarabu started attacking the bear with her claws.
“Heh...it's really fun...to fight you guys.”, Baska told her while dodging. How easily he was talking, while dodging her fast attacks, just made her more and more agressiv.
“But when you really try to kill my best friend...it's not a game anymore.” Baska threw himself on the ground, so Sarabu attacked the air and he could kick her into the stomach. Kovu's body flew high and Baska jumped right after her.
“Father....I know you already gave me all you've got, but....are you sure there is nothing more you could give me?!”, Simba asked Mufasa in his mind. Suddenly his body started to glow brighter and he felt stronger than before.
“I won't waste it...thanks.”, he thought and charged up all of his new energy in the sky. Sarabu tried to attack again, but Baska attacked her from all sides in the sky with no space for her to counter.
“You...ah...will...uh...could stop hitting me for atleast one fucking secound?!”, she screamed. Baska punched her into the kidney and then stopped, to watch her face.
“Aaaaaand that's a secound.”, he said and started punching her multiple times again.
Zerrath watched the fight in the sky and swallowed.
“How....did he became that strong?”
“E...xcuse me?”, Kiara said from the side, with Ken and Vitani behind her. Zerrath turned his head to her and bared his teeth.
“Please don't! We....we want to talk with you!”
“What should we be talking about?”
“Your goal...what are you trying to do? And why?” Zerrath laughed and looked up to Baska again.
“I could explain it. But you wouldn't understand....noone does.”
Baska reached out again and punched Sarabu as hard as he could into Kovu's chest, that even the lioness from the Girl Rock could hear a crack.
“Aaargh....”
“Wasn't smart to come back to life at all, wasn't it?”, he said and looked dead serious at into her eyes. In that moment, she remembered what fear felt like. Even for an already dead spirit.
“Time to do what you did the first time we met!”, Simba screamed and came with fullspeed at his opponent. Baska turned his head to him and saw Simba glowing stronger and brighter than ever before.
“How did you...”
“I'll end this right here!”, he screamed and was about to hit him with his head. The bear swallowed and looked with one eye down to Zerrath.
“I knew this would happen at some point...heh.”, he said to himself and turned his head back determined at Simba.
“Okay! Rear-B.....”, Baska started to scream, when suddenly an enormous fountain of dark energy came out of the earth and Simba freezed together with Sarabu in the air.
“What is this?....Vitani do you.....Vitani?”, Kiara asked and saw her friend obviously unable to move next to her. Baska looked down and slowly landed on a high rock.
“Finally! I knew you got more than you showed me, Simba!”, a voice screamed out of the fountain. When the energy slowly disappeared, Baska saw Zira standing on her grave and absorbing the spiritualpower from everyone around.
“Do you really think I would lose to some spirits limited by physical bodys? Haha, I told you I'll have my revange! And there is no going back for you now!”, she laughed and finished her plan. When Zira was done, Kovu and Simba fell almost unconscious from the sky, while Vitani fell to the ground.
“Daddy, no!” Baska looked up with one eye and sighed, before he jumped to catch both of them.
Kiara started to smile and looked up hopefully.
“Hey, don't think I did that for them. You never came in our way...so I guess I could do atleast that for you.”, he said and threw both of them next to the princess.
“Argh...you dick.”, Simba said and tried to stand up, but couldn't.
“He saved you, dad!”
“I know...I was talking to Kovu. I think I didn't insult him for almost five minutes.”
Baska smiled and jumped down from the rock. Zira grinned at him and drove out her claws again.
“So....I guess it's just you and me now, isn't it?”, the bear said.
“Haha, do you really think this is going to be a fight? Absorbing these spirits fully recovered me. And you are still exhausted from the fights before, right?” Baska crunched with his teeth, but covered it with a smile.
“Fully recovered? Whatever. More fighting for me, right?” Zira smiled. When Baska went into his fightingpostion, Zira unloaded all of her new powers and disappeared. Zerrath's friend stood still and tried to sense her.
“To slow!”, Zira yelled when she appeared out of nowhere behind Baska and stroke him with her claws through the whole battlefield. Before he could hit the wall on the otherside, Zira appeared in front of him and smashed him into the air.
“Oh no....”, Kiara said and looked panicly to Zerrath who was trying to follow the fight.
“Baska will win....right guys?!”, Ken asked. Everyone turned their heads to Zerrath as good as possible, to hear that his friend will win the final fight.
“Baska....has no chance. He never got anything like that as an opponent.”, Zerrath said frustrated and roared painfully through the whole Outland.
When Baska heared Zerrath's roar, he clenched his paw to fist and spun himself to kick Zira before she could attack. But she already appeared in front of him and blasted him with a huge amount of energy intro the ground.
“Die!”, she screamed and watched him hitting the ground, what caused a giant crater. Zira slowly levitated down and walked laughing towards her prey. Zerrath started running as fast as possible for him towards the spirit and jumped at her back.
“Don't touch him!”, he screamed and bit at her, but got stuck on the dark aura around her.
“Oh yes, the pathetic lion who thought he could control me! How could I forget you!”, she said and turned herself around.
“Let me do you a favor, so you won't see your friend dying.”, she said and shot a blast at him.
“Didn't you....hear what I told the other two lions?...Same goes for you.”, Baska said when he grabbed his friend and jumped back to the rest.
“What was that about, boss?”
“Baska, stop that! I won't let you die here!”
“Die?” Everyone looked at him confused, while Zerrath slowly got angrier.
“Why do you keep playing me?!”
“Hey, I'm not playing you. Just....go away with the others.”
“I won't.....” Baska sighed and hit his friend's neck. Zerrath instantly fell down and could not get up by himself.
“Wha...Baska you....” The bear turned his head to Kiara and whistled.
“Hey, princess. I catched your family. Now grab mine and run. He won't be able to use his muscles for a while.”
“B..but noone here wants you....”, Kiara tried to argue, when Baska started to sigh.
“Seriously, what did I do to you? Could trust me for once? I just need some space. And now go away, all of you.”, he said and looked forward at Zira. Kiara hesitantly lifted Zerrath up and walked as fast as possible away.
“Hey, who is carrying, Kovu?”, Simba asked exhausted. He looked around and stopped at Ken.
“Hey, Ken! Wanna have Kovu on your back? Unconscious?”
“Oh yes!”
“Here he is!”, Simba said and threw lion number fifteen to him. When everyone was going away, Simba went back for a short moment to Baska.
“Hey.”
“Oh come on, leave me alone now!”
“Wow, chill. No scar, no problem.”
“So why are you still here?!”
“Because.....first, I wanna thank you. And secound of all....you have no idea how this feels like. I would really like to...just rip her apart. She got father, mother...and she's a bitch. So please....fuck her up for me.”
“Heh, I wanted to do that anyway.”, he said and smiled forward. Simba smiled at him and slowly followed the rest of his herd.
“Oh and...Baska?”
“What?”
“As long as....you guys really don't try to kill us, you can stay here. As long as you want.”, Simba said over his shoulder and kept walking forward again after a short moment. Baska just smiled for a secound and then looked back to Zira.
“If you think you saved them, you're wrong! I can catch them whenever and whereever I want. I just wanted to give you guys your little....last moment together.”
“To bad you won't meet them again.” Zira smiled and powered herself slowly up to her maximum strength. Baska closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
“I knew that at some point....I would need that. If you would be the strongest person I can beat, how could I ever protect you from something stronger, boss? Heh...looks like the training will finally pay off.”, Baska said to himself and remembered the time after Zerrath absorbed his first spirit.
“Okay, boss! I'm ready!”, Baska shouted and went into his fightingpostion. Zerrath hesitated with his actions and looked at his partner.
“I have no idea what happens when I try to use these powers. Are you sure you want to fight me like that?”
“Of course! Now come on! Letting me wait is way more painfull, than everything you could do with me.” Zerrath sighed and started to unleash his new power. His body started to glow and some kind of mist appeared around him. With every moment, more and more birds were starting to fly away from their place.
“Ready, Baska?”
“More than you think.” Zerrath unloaded his power and charged right at his friend. Baska crossed his arms and got hit with all of the lion's spirtual power. Zerrath twitched when he realized, how strong he actually attacked.
“Are you okay?”, he asked while he kept pushing against the giant bear.
“Stop caring, boss. It just.....ruins our training!”, he said loudly and grabbed his paw. Baska spun himself and threw him into the air.
“What?!”
“And now fight with everything you got! Here I go!”, Baska said and jumped right at him.
At the same day, when the sun was going down, Zerrath walked up to him and lay down.
“How?”, Zerrath asked and looked at his friend.
“How what?”
“The power I got....it's insane. How could you fight on my level?”
“Heh, just normal training. Nothing special about it.”
“But I saw you training. There is no way you can be that strong from just that. We both did the same, right?” Baska smiled and stood up slowly.
“Yeah, but....let's just say I don't sleep as much as you think.”
Zira looked at her prey and laughed. The dark mist around her became more with every moment and was slowly moving towards Baska.
“I can't believe you are still in front of me! How Pathetic!”, the lioness laughed.
“Pathetic? Listen I....will give you one last chance. Disappear and free the spirits again.”
“Hahaha what?!”
“I won't repeat myself.”
“You just saw how powerful I am! I am immortal!” Baska smiled and went into a strange fightingpostion he never made before.
“Heh. Lemme prove ya the opposite.”
“Then show me!”, she screamed and unloaded all of her power, what caused a huge crater under her. Baska closed his eyes and lowered his head before he quietly whispered to himself: “Rear-Bage.”