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Chapter 2: To The Rescue...?

Simba's sharp ears picked up on Nala crying out frantically before it was suddenly cut off. His eyes snapped open in dread before he immediately rushed towards her and picked up on the sweet scent. The former prince of the Pride Lands berated himself for letting Nala go off on her own when predators greater than even his father could have been lurking about. He rushed around the tree trunk where he skidded to a stop and felt himself paralyzed with growing horror.

There before Simba's eyes was Nala's upper body being engulfed by the large plant's head with her fore-arms pinned to her chest, both legs flailing about. He could hear her muffled screaming, making every noise imaginable with her mind saturated with sheer terror. The plant seemed to be lifting her off the ground and slowly making a gulping motion as the cub's body was sucked in bit by bit into it. The bulge she created grew with the plant gaining a grip with each slurp.

Simba could barely breath period and felt utterly terrified even as he fully processed exactly what was happening. Nala was being devoured alive by an animal eating plant right before his very eyes. The one he loved was being reduced to nourishment for the local fauna. The lioness cub's screams were barely audible but he could make out, "Simbaaa!" being repeated again and again in her pleadings. They got harder to hear with the mouth sucking itself up to past her paws.

Within the plant's gullet, Nala was completely immobilized by the tight quarters but couldn't keep from acting out in her desperation. She could feel the plant really taking its sweet time to inch her body further into its own while slathering her in what seemed to be what it had for saliva. The cub's heart raced and every breath was uncontrollable fast. She was being eaten. A lion reduced to mulch for overgrown weeds. Tears continued soaking into her furry face frantically.

Simba shook his head in trying to snap himself out of his state of shock enough to rush forth and urge himself to save Nala just as he had vowed. The plant repeatedly sucked up the lioness cub until it gradually left only her bottom half exposed with her tail swished feverishly and her legs kicking wildly. "Sorry, Nala," the disgraced prince apologized in advanced before leaping up to chomp on his crush's tail. He winced hard at Nala's inevitable cry of pain, feeling far too guilty.

Simba braced himself just before Nala's hind-paws kicked him uncontrollably, deciding he deserved it in exchange for biting her tail. The payoff seemed to be worth it as his excess weight was pulling his best friend down along with the plant. He felt his hind paws touched the ground while praying that the plant will give up and release the lioness cub. His highness dug his footing into the dirt for some semblance of leverage and held as steady as he possibly could period.

Simba kept urging himself on mentally as he felt his paws slid forth ever so slightly and saw the plant coming up to Nala's thighs with a few more gulps. He told himself that he had to just hold out for just a little longer and wear out the cub-eating plant. However, what little hopes the Pride Land's former prince had began to crumble when he felt Nala's tail sliding through his teeth slowly but surely. He begged to whatever gods were up there to afford him just one minute.