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 Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:24 pm
She was tired. She always seemed to be tired nowadays. Her bright yellow eyes looked around, waiting for that dream to come true. It was to real not to come true. Her father had tried to explain it, but for some reason, she didn’t quite understand what he was saying to her.
Kota’badilifu sighed slightly, jumping off the rock she was perched on as she yawned. Maybe today she could get a little more sleep; an afternoon nap during the day might help.
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:32 pm
Hadaya was plodding along without any particular weight on his shoulders. He had found a nice home, with a new family, and he was a part of a pride now. He had something he could work to improve himself in and, with that, use to prove himself. He was determined not to mess this up, as he had with his family when he was so much younger. Though, he still wasn’t quite sure what he had done back then, he was more than used to all the goofy things he had done since.
He really needed to work on not being a complete failure in everything he tried.
Wrapped up in his thoughts, he didn’t spot the cub until he was practically tripping over her, coming to a dramatic halt by digging his front paws into the earth beneath him. His clip had been a fast one, and the sudden stop sent him falling backwards. Flopping on his bottom, the adolescent lion blinked and stared at the cub, then offered an apologetic smile. “Almost stepped on you,” he pointed out useless.
Her eyes seemed to widened again, but this time at the form about to squish her. She gasped, quickly moving out of the way of the male who had suddenly stopped. She couldn’t help herself in giggling as he fell backwards, shaking her head at the rather clumsy male before her. “My brother’s have a little more grace than you,” she said with a high voice, sniffing the air to gather this other’s scent.
She shrugged, however. “You didn’t. I guess that is all that matters.” It was a simple matter of fact tone as she circled the male with utmost curiosity. This was indeed another lion, but the looks of the partial mane forming on his head. Perhaps he wasn’t as old as her father was.
“Who are you?” It was blunt.
“And have you seen a rather…large lioness roaming these lands?” When she spoke of large, she meant larger than life. Being such a small size, anything could be that for her.
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:45 pm
Hadaya frowned and tilted his head. He really didn’t have any grace, so he couldn’t argue with her about the possibility of others having more than him. It was near impossible to have less, after all. One ear down, the other perked forward, he smiled and nodded.
“I probably would have hurt myself more than I would have you, anyway. Knowing my luck. Er…” he watched her as she circled, having to spin his head around the other way to catch her when she emerged from behind him. His mop of a mane flopped into his eyes and he shook his head to clear it away. Her abruptness took him by surprise. Suddenly uncomfortable, almost threatened, by a thing only fraction of his size, he began to paw at the earth to distract himself.
“I’m Hadaya,” he answered, with a gulp, “I haven’t seen any… uhm… larger-than-usual ones around, no. I mean, they all kind of look the same size. Not that I know that many, anyway. I don’t really… meet a lot of people. No more than… anyone else.” He cleared his throat, shaking his head again, this time for a different reason, “No, sorry, I don’t know. Why do you ask?”
Kota shook her head at the other’s rambling. She listened intently on it however, hoping to hear an answer that would help her. Hearing none after he had cleared his throat, she sighed. “It’d sound silly to you if I told you…”
But she ended up speaking anyways. “Have you ever had a dream that seemed so real?” She asked, using the same opening she gave her father. The only difference was she didn’t elaborate on the subject. This male was a stranger to her, so any details would come later. The bright crimson cub didn’t want to seem like a nutcase to a total stranger.
“Hadaya’s a nice name. I’m Kota.” A little out of order, but nonetheless, the formalities were now out of the way.
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:58 pm
“Well, not a dream,” Hadaya said, nodding furiously. Sometimes his excitement got the better of him, and he was no better than a cub in his actions. He didn’t act as mature as he might have looked, though he was often saved by his lanky limbs and perpetually youthful eyes. He stood eagerly, watching her as if she had said something profound, “but I know what you mean.”
“I’ve had visions before. I mean, I still have them, but I’m getting used to them. When they first came, though, they freaked me out and I was a mess. I mean. More of one. Anyway, I talked to my friend and she kind of told me what they were, so now I know and I think they’re pretty okay. Even if I can’t use them for anything, or whatever.”
He noted that he might not have been making sense to the newly introduced Kota, so he cleared his throat and slowed himself down, nodding sagaciously to cover up his childish outburst. “I just mean I know what you’re talking about. I think I do, anyway. Is it like, something you just know in your body that it’s real?”
Did he now? Kota was even more curious now.
“So…” she said as she thought, “these dreams are called visions?” Her father had mentioned that word before. She nodded as he continued to speak. That certainly did sound like what she was experiencing, but why did it have to happen to her? “Another told you about it?” So that meant that these ‘visions’ only happen in a select few. It also seemed that they weren’t gender specific, as she had them as well as her father and now this adolescent.
She grinned when he began to slow down, reaching a paw up to her brow in relief.
“Yeah. It’s like…I know it’s a dream, but this dream is so real that I can’t seem to wake up from it. I try and try over and over again, but it continues on until the ending point.” She explained. “But I haven’t seen this lioness before. Her face is never clear to me. All I know is she is big. Really, really big.”
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:17 pm
“I get visions like that, too. Only mine don’t repeat. They’re just these visions from others. Like their futures, and I don’t know if I’m supposed to go and find these creatures and tell them about it, or if I’m supposed to help someone, or what. Not like I can, though. I’d have no idea how to go about finding them. I’ve had a couple of visions when the person that was in them was around… but those are weird and one was… really scary.”
He sighed, remembering Hak and the intense, evil, horrifying image that had followed the attack. Shaking his head to clear it, he offered a thin smile.
“My friend said it’s a gift from the Gods that only a few animals are blessed with. She says we’re supposed to learn from it, rather than try to use it or bend it. I don’t know. My visions kind of suck. But your repeating dream, if it is a vision, it could be something important for you…” he didn’t want to ask what it was about, except for the fact that he really did. Not adept at thinking before speaking, he plowed on without stopping to consider how personal it might be, “like this lioness, is she in trouble or something? What happens?”
Kota didn’t know if it was a good thing if the visions were always different. “How do you know they are visions if they never repeat?” She asked, but then remembered his previous comment about the realistic-ness of them. “Oh…nevermind.” She said suddenly, feeling rather dumb.
“S…scary?” She gulped.
“What I dream…isn’t scary. It’s not really…happy either…I don’t know what it is.” She sighed. Of course she was the one who got the messed up ‘visions.’ “It all starts out the same, I am in my den. Everyone is asleep but yet their eyes remain open, as if they were in some kind of…daze. I try waking my daddy up, but he doesn’t seem to move. “ She lifted her bright eyes towards her, no longer feeling the tiredness, “when I go outside, I see a large lioness coming towards me. I know it’s a lioness because she doesn’t have a mane like my daddy, or like you for that matter.
“But when I try to focus on her face, is when I wake up.”
“The weird thing about this dream, or vision whatever, is the scenery is so different. I don’t know if this lioness means good, or bad, or if she is even real for that matter!” She huffed. “The Gods are trying to tell me something you say, but I can’t figure it out.”
“I just want a peaceful nights rest!” She gonked.
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:32 pm
“Mine aren’t dreams,” he said, looking embarrassed for not having brought it up before, “they happen in the middle of the day, when I’m wide awake. Usually when I’m running or if I’m scared. And I almost always run into something or trip over something, or fall off something, or… hurt myself. Because it’s like I can’t really see anything. I mean, I can, I don’t get blinded, but I’m just paying so much attention to these visions that what’s really happening goes away.”
He rolled his shoulders back and sighed, “and then I’ll run into a tree or something, and remember what I was doing.”
Hadaya was pleased that she referred to his tufts of soft yellow fur as a mane, and puffed his chest out in pride. He listened to her story like that, ears perked forward attentively. He nodded, knowing exactly how she felt, “yeah, I don’t think it’s much of a gift or a message, when you don’t know what it’s supposed to mean and have no way of figuring it out. But maybe, since you know the lions in it, like you dad, you’ll be there when it happens. Maybe it’s like, you’re going to meet this lioness… and that’s just your destiny? I don’t know. Or it could mean you have to go out and find her. Either way.”
Hadaya was always the opposite of helpful.
“You’re lucky then. At least you can sleep well.”
She cringed at the explanation on how he got his visions. “That sounds very painful…” She nodded again. “Yes…very painful.” One eye closed as her head turned away slightly. Luckily for her, she had never actually ran into a tree, but she knew other’s who had (brothers were so amusing to watch sometimes.)
“I wish the Gods would just take it away.” She sighed. “Hey, do you know where I could find these…Gods…?” She questioned with sincerity, as if she was going to do said statement. “Pft…some destiny.”
Her ears swiveled backwards, hearing a voice coming from the den.
“I gotta go.” Kota said shortly. “Sounds like my family is waking up now.” She turned towards Hadaya. “I am glad you almost tripped over me. I never would have met you and known there were other’s like me out there!” After this was said, she turned towards the den, giving Hadaya a wave goodbye, before sinking into the darkness.
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:41 pm
He frowned, thinking about all the nights he had gone without sleep, plagued by nightmares of his most traumatizing vision. He didn’t think he should share that, however. After all, she seemed to only have the one to worry about, so why get her paranoid about the affects of others?
Hadaya blinked. He had, in fact, met a god before, but he had hardly believed it. It had just been out of the blue. Ironically, he had just run into a tree, and a sweet God had fluttered down on bug-like wings to talk to him. It had been the strangest encounter of his life, but the reason why he now knew these visions were, in fact, special and very real. Before he had just felt like he was going crazy.
“I don’t know where they live,” he said with a frown, “I met one, but it… he… he just appeared and then he just flew away. But they are real, I know they are. I talked to one! So. Yeah. I think one will find you, some day, if you need to talk to one.”
He nodded, hearing the voices in the den too. He had probably over stayed his welcome. Slinking back he smiled. “I’m glad I almost tripped on you, too! Though… more glad that I didn’t, you know, actually… anyway, bye!” He spoke almost too late, watching her head inside. Sighing, he looked around and then resumed his aimless journey. Smiling.
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