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Kion finally woke up, his eyes opening to see the light of day. He let out a yawn, before noticing something. He was back in the Lion Guard’s lair.. which was a mess. And his scar didn’t hurt at all..
Immediately questions started running through his head. Last time he went to sleep, he was with the Guard on their way to the Tree Of Life, but now he’s suddenly in this abandoned lair that looked like it hadn’t been inhabited in y-
Wait a minute. He remembered this.. “Guys?” He called out before hearing a sleepy groan coming from a blue honeybadger.
“Kion?” Bunga got up, scratching his head, stumbling over. “What’s going o-WOAH!”
He yelped as he almost fell off the ledge and into the pool below.
“Bunga, you okay?”
Bunga gave a thumbs up as he got back on his footing. “Yep..”
“Bunga?! Kion?! What’s going on?” Ono flew over landing near the duo. “I woke up and I saw you almost fall! What’s going on?! Why are we back in the Lair-”
“Wait, you SAW him fall?” Kion was now more confused than he was previously. Looking closer, Ono’s eyes were back to black again instead of the light purple everyone had gotten used to.
“Yeah, I-” Ono cut himself off as he himself realized what was happening. “Hapana! I can see again?!”
He immediately let out a cheerful laugh as he started to fly again. “How is this possible?!”
“But if we’re here, then where’s Fuli and Beshte—”
“I see Fuli over there!” Ono said, flying over and pecking her awake.
”Ow! Ono, what’s-” Fuli then saw where she was. “Okay… what’s actually going on?” Kion and Bunga ran over
“Well that explains that, but where’s-”
Kion was once again interrupted by Beshte emerging from the pool suddenly, taking multiple breaths for air.
“Big B?! Why are you in the water?”
“I don’t know, I woke up like this!”
The group shared equally confused faces about everything. How had they ended up here again? Kion then noticed something strange about all of them. He then frantically checked his shoulder, his eyes widened in surprise and horror simultaneously.
“Hevi kabisa.. our Guard marks are gone!”
The rest of the not really Lion Guard right now checked their own mark-less shoulders, which raised even more questions and panic.
Bunga decided to shoot one off.
“So if we’re not the Guard right now, then who-”
They then heard a sonic roar from far away. It sounded like multiple lions roaring at the same time. And when the crew of animals peeked out the Lair to check, they saw lions far away in the clouds.
Wait. Kion remembered this. This was definitely not possible but, what if it was. He looked at his shoulder to check, and saw his Guard mark had came back before fading away again.
He let out a shuddering breath, backing away.
“Guys..” He said quietly, looking around the depressingly dark lair.
“What’s the kerbubble, Kion?” Besthe asked, tilting his head.
The golden lion took in a deep breath before focusing to say his next words.
“I think we’re in the past..”