The Lion and the Princess

Asher waited for Cadance to finish up with Twilight, who left after hearing that Shining and Flurry was back, he gulped and headed towards Cadance. Asher listened to Cadance, who was going on about things about the Empire, he stopped her and asked her about this whole visit.

"Cadance, Asher began, "What was the reason behind this visit?"

"To see if your good friends with Twilight." The love princess said with a serious tone. "Good. Now, do you love her? As a friend?"

Asher blinked at the question and thought for a moment. "Um....Yes?" He fell into a trap didn't he? "Why do you ask?"

"No reason." Cadance smiled, but inside she smirked. Perfect. Her plan was going as planned!" You can go now Asher. Just watch out for Shining."

Asher nodded and ran out of the room, he bumped into Flurry and said hello before running off to find Twilight. Lucky for him, he didn't see Shining anywhere, he sighed and bumped into Twilight, who was going to see him, she blushed when she bumped into him. The two headed out of the Empire, Asher thought for a moment about what Cadance said.

"Um...Twilight?" Asher said, nervously, "Did Cadance ever ask you about love?"

"No...Well sometimes."Twilight answered honestly, "Why do you ask? Did she ask you about love?"

"......Yes....She asked if I loved anyone..." Asher told Twilight, while looking down. Sorta blushing. "I'm guessing she helps with love? Since she's the love princess?" Asher guessed.

Twilight stopped for a moment,"Yup. She helps out at lot. Mostly fixing love with others." Twilight saw Asher nodded in understanding. Asher, about what happened in the Pride Lands..."

Asher stopped and thought for a moment,"We're not talking about that. EVER!" This time Twilight was token back at Asher respond. "I don't like to talk about it."

Asher didn't lie when he said he hated talking about the past, the main reason was because of Mufasa's death. He always thought of Mufasa as a second father, but with the death, he remained quiet and non-active. He tried to fight Scar many times, but the lionesses stopped him from doing so.

"Talk about not giving me a change to battle Scar." Asher said to himself. Twilight was inside of the castle writing to Cadance about something, "Not wanting to lose me isn't a good reason. Sure, I was the only other male in the Pride, but that wouldn't have stopped me."

"Asher? What's wrong?" Asher jumped when Twilight spoke. When did she go outside? "Asher, please, tell me what's wrong."

"Nothing. Just thinking about stuff." Asher told Twilight, with a smile, but Twilight easily saw past that.

"Asher, tell me the truth." Twilight said, giving a serious face.

"Alright, alright." Asher said, he sighed and started talking, " It happened about 5 or 3 years ago...."

"We can't have you doing that Asher!" A creamed lioness with blue/green eyes said to a young adult with a black and brown mane. "We already lost Simba and Mufasa!"

"Nala," Asher said to Nala, who was warning him about facing Scar, "I want to do this! They need revenge on their deaths!"

A black mane lion with green eyes was watching them, he frowned and left back to the cave. Asher didn't like Scar, like all the others, but other than Scar, he was the only male around. Nala and Asher got along great, but Simba and Mufasa were dead and need to have revenge on their deaths.

"But you don't know Scar well, you don't even know his strength!" Nala carried, Asher moved towards the cave but Nala blocked him. "What would happen if we lost you?! We would be alone with Scar!"

"Nala, I think of you as a sister to me," Asher started up, "I'm doing this for our friend and true king."

"True king?" The two jumped and looked to see a lion with a black mane, Scar. "Who's the true king?"

"Y-You are!" The two carried, not wanting to anger their king. "No one else!"

"Good." Scar said as he walked back in the cave, Asher and Nala sighed.

"Your really going to?" Nala asked, Asher looked down at the ground. "Asher, answer me please."

"Nala," Asher started, "Go find help. I'll handle Scar until you do."

Nala nodded and left to find help, Asher gulped and headed for the cave, only for a young cub to run out. He rolled his eyes and went inside. Scar looked at him and sighed, Asher held a straight face on.

"Scar, Nala has left." Asher said, shocking Scar. "She said about going hunting for the Pride."

"Good. Now get out." Scar said, and turned his back, only for Asher to pin him down. "What are you doing?!"

"Getting revenge on Simba and Mufasa!" Asher shouted, and started to battle Scar. But Sarabi came in and pulled Asher off of Scar. "Sarabi?"

"This needs to stop." Sarabi said with a formal tone, "This will help us with nothing! Asher, come with me."

"Of course Sarabi." Asher said, but he growled at Scar on his way out.

"And after that, Nala returned with Simba." Asher finished. "It almost took the Pride lands two full years to return to normal."

"So, you tried getting back your land?"Twilight asked, Asher nodded to her, "You were brave to do that."

"I had to, I wasn't going to let the Pride Lands go into a waste land." Asher said, only for Twilight to put her hoof on his shoulder. "I kept it a secret from Simba."

"You thought you did the right thing." Twilight told the lion, "So don't feel bad about it."