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Completely Safe is a German, Lion King comic.
Plot
Completely Safe begins by introducing Simba, the prince of the Pridelands, and his best friend, Nala. Simba complains to his friend that he's bored, and she sulkily agrees with him. Simba then complains about his mother, Sarabi, who was "so austere" sometimes. She would never let them climb rocks or trees, and wouldn't even let them swim in the river! After thinking about it some more, he decides to persuade her to let him play more roughly, and asks Nala to come with him.
Later, Simba is seen begging his mother to let him climb trees, Nala sitting close by, and Sarabi telling him it was too dangerous. She then asks him if he could play something else. But as she's speaking, she comes up with a great idea, and tells her son to listen up. Reaching behind her, she pulls out a gourd, and tells Simba that the gigantic fruit would serve as an excellent ball. She demonstrates the gourd's movement by kicking it with her paw. Simba chases after the "ball", and realizes that this new game was just as fun as rough-housing. Sarabi compliments Simba on his playing techniques, then comments to herself that it was a perfectly safe game, and neither cub would get hurt.
Nala kicks the ball, and Simba catches it in his mouth. But when Nala kicks it again, the ball sails over Simba's head and lands on a log in the middle of the river. At first, Simba and Nala don't know what to do. Then Simba gets a great idea, and begins to cross the river by jumping from boulder-to-boulder. But when he runs out of stones, he looks around for another floating object. Spotting a trunk, he leaps towards it, only to find out that it wasn't a trunk, but a crocodile!
Simba barely manages to escape the vicious animal, and lands on the trunk, grabbing the gourd up in his mouth. But as he begins to drift downriver he hears a familiar roaring noise. With a jolt of terror, he realizes that he's hurtling over the edge of a waterfall! But as he's falling, a huge, golden bird grabs Simba up in its talons and drops him farther downstream. After being dropped, Simba comments that he was lucky he hadn't been made into birdseed!
Simba starts to get dragged downstream by the current. At first, he thinks that the situation is hopeless, but soon manages to struggle his way back to shore. As he makes his way back to the plains, he gets tangled in a thorn hedge, and has trouble getting out of the prickly bushes. But when he finally escapes the thorn thicket, he comments on his appearance, and how he looked like a cactus. But as soon as he stumbles out of the thicket, he runs into a hive of hornets. With a cry, he hurtles away, and the hornets race after him.
Back at Pride Rock, Mufasa, the king of the Pridelands and Simba's father, asks Sarabi where Simba has been. Sarabi tells Mufasa that Simba was playing ball with Nala. She thinks that he was having a lot of fun, even though the game was harmless. But as soon as the words are out of her mouth, she turns around to see a beat-up Simba limping towards her. When she asks him what had happened, he tells her that he had only been doing what she had said, and had been playing ball with Nala! He then asks her if she knew of a different game, for ball was just too dangerous!
