Lucid Time!

I was walking down a forest nature path. The forest was rather dense, and it looked as though it would be difficult to walk if you were not on the path.
I became lucid out of nowhere. I walked for a short while, and summoned my dream guide, Manei. She was walking in front of me, and slowly started to get ahead. I awoke after awhile.

I later had a much longer (or not really longer, just better recall) dream. I was in like a grasslands, or African looking area, like the Serengeti. I walked over to a large tree isolated in the middle of a grassland.
I heard the voice of a young girl. She told me a story about how she was a spirit, and that her body had been blinded to the tree by an evil witch. As she told me this, I began to make out the vague outline of a child's body in the tree.
She then asked me if I would be willing to set her free. I began to claw and kick at the portion of the tree. Eventually I managed to bust apart the wooden tomb, but when I opened it, a skeleton fell out. Her bones were brown and covered in pieces of rotten flesh. It was a rather frightening sight, really. A child's bones scattered across the ground.
I slowly walked away from the scene. As I did, I began to toy with the idea that I might be dreaming. Rather quickly, I came into a group of lions. I can remember there being a male (identifiable by his maine) and two female lions.
I became fully lucid around now, and began to take command of the dream. The male lion began advancing toward me, growling. I yelled at him that I was dreaming. I told him not to roar. He stopped and looked at me.
Around this time, a group of people started to gather around me. They were some kind of tribal group because they were all wearing animal pelts, and one of them had some kind of spear or scepter. I should also note that they were all adult men.
The Lion began undergoing a transformation. His head got longer and his mouth opened, his head looked more like a crocodile now. His fur began to shed revealing a spiked black form, and the eyes began to glow red.
I was not sure whether the tribe men were friendly or not. They were just approaching me. I felt overwhelmed by the threats, so I decided to try dream spinning.
I started to spin, and I could see the environment changing from the hot dry African plain to the outside of a small white house built on the side of the hill. I didn't get a very good look at the environment I was entering, but the whole place felt enclosed and sheltered by tress. I think that my dream guide, Lia was there agian.
Afterwords, I was getting told a story by my younger cousin. He was telling me about how he built a house out of 3,180 bricks, but it all came down because he didn't use any cement. I lost lucidity and woke up.

I am intrigued by one thing: The lion's transformation into a black monster. This has happened before, in fact it happened in my last lucid. And I've seen the same variety of monster several other times, even in other dream journals.