Many years later, Mia's POV

Ever since alekay disappeared, I fell into depression. I was already in my teens. I grew bangs which had two shades of pink in it. I was at the watering hole, when I heard a voice. "Hallo!" The voice said. I looked to where the voice was coming from and saw a lion, a giraffe, a hippo and a zebra walking together. The lion looked exactly my age and familiar for some weird reason. "Hallo. Me, Alex. Me and me friends fly, fly, in great metal bird. Then plummet (whistles) smash ground go boom. Then here we emerge, we offer only happiness and good greetings." 'Alex' explained while dancing. "Is he dancing about a plane crash?" My hippo friend asked. "Yeah we just yeah I thought sorry." 'Alex' explained. "You mean you came from off the reserve!?" Another friend of mine asked. "Yeah way off from the Central Park Zoo actually." 'Alex' explained. Everyone started to murmur, whispering things about the group. Zuba came in as I stood next to him and we roared causing everyone including the group to look in our Direction. Zuba started coughing cuz he was old. "Don't strain yourself." Alekay's mother said to zuba. "What's going on here, what's all this hubba." Zuba asked. "They say they're from off the reserve." One of the elephants explained. "That's impossible, only people come from off the reserve." I said walking toward the group. "You look familiar, do I know you?" 'Alex' asked, looking at me. Then I noticed he had a familiar glint in his eyes, that was the exact same glint as Alekay's. Then I got a shocked look. 'I-It can't be...' I thought. "How could you possibly survive the hunters?" Zuba asked. Everyone looked confused while 'Alex' was still looking at zuba. "What are you looking at!?" Zuba asked, getting angry. "Me? Nothing." 'Alex' said. "This Watering Hole doesn't need more mouths to feed. So just skedaddle back to wherever you came from." I said, finally getting out of my shock. "Okay well is there maybe like a manager we can talk to?" 'Alex' asked. "Oh I see you're here to challenge." Zuba shouted. They started arguing about that 'Alex' wasn't here to challenge him. "Hold on, zuba. Wait." Alekay's mother said, pushing them apart getting a closer look at 'Alex'. Then she called him the one name I never thought she would say again. "Alekay? Is that you?" She asked, grabbing his paw. Then he started to say that his name was Alex and not alekay. That's when I finally noticed the similarities between him and alekay. I started to cry. We noticed the mark on his paw, it was the exact same one too. I started to smile like an idiot. "The mark.." Zuba said. "All right this is a little weird." 'Alex' said, to his friends. "Honey, he's come home." Zuba said, realizing that it was really him. "What?" Alekay asked, surprised. "You've come home." Zuba said, showing him that he had the exact same mark. That's when Alekay started to realize that he was finally home. I decided to just walk off and well, maybe sing a little, as they celebrate his return. 🎵"When did I become so numb? When did I lose myself? All the words that leave my tongue, felt like they came from someone else. I'm paralyzed." 🎵 I sang, not noticing that alekay was watching.

Alex's POV

I noticed that my own childhood friend wasn't around to celebrate that I was home, so I decided to walk around and see if I can find her that's when I heard singing. I saw her just sitting on a rock and the song she was singing was really sad. 🎵"Where are my feelings? I no longer feel things. I know I should. I'm paralyzed. (I gasped, when I noticed there was no shine in her eyes.) Where is the real me? I'm lost and it kills me... inside. I'm paralyzed...... When did I become so cold? When did I become ashamed!? Where's the person that I know!? They must've last, they must've left, with all my faith!! I'm paralyzed. Where are my feelings? I no longer feel things. I know I should. I'm paralyzed. Where is the real me? I'm lost and it kills me... inside. I'm paralyzed. I'm paralyzed, I'm scared to live but I'm scared to die. And if life is pain then I buried mine, a long time ago but it's still alive. And it's taking over me 'where am I?'. I wanna feel something I'm numb inside. But I don't feel nothing I wonder why. I'm on the race of life and time passes by. LOOK! I sit back and I watch it. Hands in My Pockets. Waves come crashing over me but I just watch'em I just watch'em. I'm underwater but I feel like I'm on top of it. I'm at the bottom but I don't know what the problem is. I'm in a box but I'm the one who locked me in. Suffocating and I'm running out of oxygen! I'm paralyzed. Where are my feelings? I no longer feel things. I know I should. I'm paralyzed. Where is the real me? I'm lost and it kills me... inside. I'm paralyzed. (I'm just so paralyzed!) Where are my feelings? (Yeah, I'm just so paralyzed.) I no longer feel things. (I have no feelings.) I know I should. (How come I'm not moving!? Why aren't I moving!?) I'm paralyzed. Where is the real me? (Where is the real me!? Where is the real me!?) I'm lost and it kills me... inside. (I'm paralyzed, I'm paralyzed.) I'M PARALYZED!!!"🎵She sang, crying her heart out. She must've been really, really depressed about my disappearance. Well now that I'm here, time to make up for some lost time.