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 Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:58 am
She had spent the morning planning a trap for Chewy. Not a horrible trap, of course, but a funny one. Something that would get him all grouchy and mean. Somehow seeing him like that brought her incredible joy. And who knew, maybe he'd laugh.
How often had she heard him laughing anyway?
She shook her head and stepped aside as her bonded, a blue vulture, hopped up with some leaves and twigs in her beak.
"Excellent!" Jahina peeped. "We're almost done, Ngeu! I just hope he doesn't come this way before we're finished."
They had dug a shallow pit that morning - or, Jahina had dug a pit that morning - and they had fed some water from the stream into it to make a nice muddy soup at the bottom. Fantastic! Mr Pale Paws was going to be in a right state after he staggered into it! Now, with the soup at the bottom, the vulture and the lioness had covered it over with a framework of branches and padded out with leaves. They'd even gone so far as to spread leaves out across the path so that their trap blended in.
"Finishing touches..." Jahina spoke, pushing the final clump of leaves onto the branches with her snout.
"Done!" Ngeu chirped, flapping her wings and then hopping backwards to admire their handy work. She bobbed her head and neck in an amused fashion and then gave a squawking laugh.
"This is going to be hilarious, Jah-Jah! Come on, let's go and lure him over here and watch the chaos unfold!"
And then the vulture stiffened, the feathers on her back ruffling. "Listen!" Her voice was suddenly frantic. "Paws coming! Is that Chewy? Quick, Jah, hide. Hide!" She gave the lioness a shove and then flapped quickly to the undergrowth, giving a muffled cry as the lioness scuffled in behind her.
"Shh." The vulture warned, huddling closer to the ground in their hiding place. "Someone's coming."
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:50 pm
It had been hard to remember every inch of the world he had left as an adolescent and his world, his pride had changed so much since the world had collapsed in on itself that he never was entirely sure where he was going or where he had been. Luckily the keen eyed Fai was always at hand. A lion and a vulture down one of the walk ways, maybe they could help him. He really needed to find Ngao today, he was down with lazing about.
"Hello?" He calls, raising both brows, his soft tan and beautifully spotted coat shimmering in the sunlight, he had become a very slender, lanky lion in his time away from the aka'mleli but his coat was perfectly recognizable, it had never changed and was heavily marked by spots whorls and stripes, he was actually a striking lion to look at with his silky duel toned mane.
"You sure you saw someone Fai? All I can see is some leaves."
The little falcon swoops from the sky, her slate blue wings folding as she landed on his head, nestling in to his mane and taking up a strand of his mane in her beak, as she always did. "Yup, they jumped behind that rock over there. Don't know what they were doing, collecting leaves maybe?" She blinks stretching her wings and pulling on the strand of his mane almost like a reign. "Come on, they might know where Ngeo is, I'm tired of flapping about in circles." She huffs.
"Alright, okay!" He shakes his slender head his silky mane falling in his eyes as he took a tentative step towards the leaves "Hello? Anybody down here?" He calls taking a few more steps, his toes now dangerously close to the soggy pit.
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:31 pm
(( Just so you know, Jah was an adolescent at the time of the quake.))
Jahina huddled in the leaves, pulling back so she was all but hidden from view, her hazel eyes not giving her away. She was unaware, as of yet, that the little falcon had already spotted them and was fully aware that someone was in the vicinity - hiding and secretive.
She smothered a giggle into her paw and hunkered down, keeping pressed against the vulture.
"Someone's coming!" She repeated, barely able to contain her nervousness and excitement.
"I already said that, now shh!" Ngeu warned, shoving her shoulder against Jahina's side and then extending her neck so that she could peek out.
The paws were louder now and suddenly a lion came into view, calling out 'hello' as he came. He'd clearly heard them, but had he seen them and did he know about the potential hazard only a few paces away.
Distance closing...closing...
"It's not boring old Chewy." Ngeu confirmed a moment later. "Not any of the family, in fact." She shuffled forwards a little. "Hmm, striking pelt indeed!"
"Move aside, Ngeu, let me look." Now it was Jahina's turn to shuffle forwards, lowering her head so her chin was pressed to the dirt as she peered out from beneath the leaves.
"Oh!"
Her eyes widened in recognition and she gave the vulture another nudge. "I know him! I know him, Ngeu!" And in the next second, she bounded out of the undergrowth towards him. "I can't believe it!! Lor'dah! You're back, too!"
"Jahina!! JAHINA! Watch out!" The vulture came crashing out from the undergrowth after her, skidding clumsily along the ground as her wings flailed about.
SPLAT~!
The vulture groaned, covering her face with her wings.
"Oh, Jah..."
The lioness had charged straight into her own trap, sending branches and leaves into the air as she sank deep into the muddy, watery soup at the bottom of the trap she had meant for Chewa.
"Ewwww..." She blinked, looked up sheepishly and then...promptly burst into laughter.
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 1:56 am
((hehe yesh I know, he was adol when he left which was a bit before the quake but not so long ago that he is an old adult or anything.))
Lor'dah watched with quiet confusion as Jahina dropped in to the sludgy hole. he pondered for only a moment how the hole had gotten there but let that thought slip as he laughed. He could't help but laugh she looked so silly covered in the sticky oozy mud.
"Jahina!" He chuckles, it was so rare for him to laugh these days, he hadn't laughed properly for a long time but even feeling as serious as he often did, he couldn't help but be amused by her antics. It was at this point though that he realised she had set up the hole for someone to fall in to. "Still up to your old tricks Jah?" He asked, stepping back a bit so she could get herself out of her sticky situation. He remembered the chocolate marked female well, she was always up to something, always playing a game on someone. He remembered being a part of a few of those tricks and even being on the receiving end of more than one of them, she was always the trickster. "Nothing has truly changed has it?" He smiles a sort of weak smile, he was glad to see someone he knew, an old friend but so many had vanished in the quake it felt odd to find even one whom he still knew.
Fai pulls at a tuft of his mane "Hey, don't forget me." She whispers, her voice laced with a whistle. She looks at the sticky lion and her vulture co-hort and bobs from Lor'dah's mane "I'm Fai and as the young lady seems to know Lor'dah, that probably means he knws you too." She pecks his head to wake him up from what ever daze he had fallen in to remebering.
"Oh, uhm, yes, Fai, this is Jahina, we grew up together virtually, I don't know her bonded though." He smiles weakly at the muddy lioness. "It's good to see you, you survived!" he wrinkles his brow, stating the obvious was becoming a bad habit and usually meant he needed to edit his sentence "I mean, I'm glad you survived." He looks at her in a confused manner and chuckles. "I'm very out of practice with conversation." he sighs shaking his head.
Fai tightens her claws in his mane a little and clacks her beak ""he mostly means 'hello'" she chuckles tugging a strand of his mane "I think you're getting worse at small talk Lor'dah." her dark eyes smile as she settled down a little eyeing the two 'strangers', well strangers to her, someone else that Lor'dah knew,s he knew him so well, so well as the loner but it seemed before he had left to become that loner he had been known, liked, friendly, she hoped being back here would one day make him that lion he was before. Time would tell, she knew, time would tell.
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:56 am
She nodded sheepishly as she clambered out from the pit that had been so beautifully put together in order to trap that old grumpy Chewa. "Well, this one was a new trick." She replied. "But yes. Someone around here has to bring the smiles back, so it might as well be me." She looked down at her dripping, muddied paws and made a face.
"Oh no. A lot has changed. More than I could have thought. But...I figure, we can either let the change affect us, or we can simply go along with it. I chose the latter."
She threw him a grin and then looked up to where the little falcon sat perched amongst his mane. "Nice to meet you, Fai! Glad you finally found each other at long last."
She craned her head back to her vulture who was hopping up to join them, sparing a pained look at the now ruined trap. "And this is my bonded, Ngeu. My partner in crime!" And she flicked a paw towards the bird, sprinkling the blue feathers with mud.
"Watch it, Jah!" Ngeu muttered, shaking the mud off of her as best as she could. "Just because you were silly enough to fall for your own trick doesn't mean you have to share the misfortune with me!"
"And yes, I'm Ngeu, the smarter one of the pair of tricksters." She laughed.
"In any case, don't worry about being out of practise! I'm not, so I can help you out." She chirped, waving her paws in Lor'dah's direction so that more mud flew up into the air.
She giggled. "And, if you like, we can forget about the small talk and you can help me rebuild this trap before Chewa comes along." She blinked. "You remember Chewa?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:53 am
The wall eyed male shakes his head, he remembered those old days, days so far gone by that he couldn't believe he remembered them. Well he could and he knew the reason was because he missed those days, at least on a small level, he missed being carefree and childish. Of course he didn't miss Fai, he was so very attached to his bird bonded. Jahina was attached to her bird too it seemed and he couldn't help but laugh. There was no clash in personalities here they were two peas in a pod, tricksters, pranksters, a pair of jokers.
"A new..Oh, OH, I see." He couldn't help but chuckle,s he had laid this trap to get someone, to get Chewa? He remembered Chew, another lion from his youth, it seemed more had survived the quake than he thought. Perhaps he could pick up where he left off after all? No, he had changed too much to be who he used to be, he just wasn't carefree enough any more.
The little falcon clacks her beak proudly "Well perhaps if he had stayed in one place I could have found him sooner." She chids, her dark eyes smiling, truthfully she hadn't known why she had found Lor'dah on that bleak day so long ago, she doubted she would have found him if he hadn't been so far away from the pride but she wouldn't leave him. "He need a teacher miss Jahina" She clacks her beak looking down at the trap.
He sits slowly avoiding the splatter of mud and chuckles "Well I don't know if I would be much good at setting up a trap, but you can tell me, uhm, how you are, uhm, besides feeling tricky towards Chewa." He grins a little foolishly, his odd eyes glancing between the vulture and the chocolate and white lioness. It seemed Jahina had become more advanced in her trick playing the older she had gotten. He wondered why she was trying to set a trap specifically for Chewa but he let this thought go, he wasn't sure if it was, well, appropriate for him to ask such a question.
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:49 pm
"Ah well, it might have taken a while for you two to find one another, but you did eventually and made all the waiting worthwhile." Without warning she swept out a muddy paw and scooped the vulture into an affectionate embrace.
The vulture squawked and struggled free, feathers ruffled.
"Looks like I'll need to teach you some trapping skills someday, Lor'dah." She nodded firmly. "But I guess I can tell you how I am. I'm...not sure, actually. I thought I was all fine and dandy being back. And I am happy to be back, but after the quake and getting separated and spending weeks and weeks searching and travelling for the right path home...being back is...sort of weird. And I miss not having my family around so much. Chewa, Yamini, Sikivu and Tilifika. I love them all so much and...knowing they're not right there when I wake up...it's sort of odd, you know?"
She trailed off a little and glanced towards the vulture who was preening and chuffing angrily to herself.
"I mean, I still see them most days, especially Tili, and at the moment we're on a mission to cheer up Chewa. He was always the grumpy one of the group."
"Hence the trap." Ngeu answered moodily, giving her feathers one last 'fluff' before hopping back towards the trap. After a moment of scanning broken branches, she began to rearrange the ones who had survived, pulling them back into place in an attempt to bring the trap back from the dead, as it were.
"Though...by the state of Jah-Jah's paws, I can't wuite imagine how it would have cheered him up." Even still, it appeared the vulture was smiling.
"Come on, Ngeu, he would have seen the funny side," Jahina insisted, glancing across to the stream partially obscured by trees.
"Hmm...just gonna go dip my paws."
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 12:46 pm
Lor'dah couldn't help but smile listening to her, she had a family even though they weren't her biological one. She had gained this family while out in the world, outside of the pride, She had kept her life together. "yes, I understand." or he sort of did, it worried him if he woke up and Fai wasn't there, not that she did that very often but sometimes she left without a word in his ear. She soon returned to him though and that part of him was once again okay. For Jahina though she seemed to have been separated from her family and that was sort of sad to him. He wondered why she didn't just stay in a den with them. Maybe secretly she wanted to be alone? He wasn't sure.
"Chewa, yes, I remember him and Tili, she and I have been, hanging out." He chuckles a little, Tili was the closest thing to family he had left, an old friend whom he had played with, not unlike Jahina really, someone he knew in his past life before he got used to being alone and too straight faced to smile as much as he used to. "Perhaps Chewa wouldn't have been quite amused by it, but I'm sure he would have laughed with you." he smiles a little, feeling almost left out that he wasn't in this sort of relationship with someone. Included in what was clearly a family game.
Fai looks down at the clearly ruined trap and clacks her small beak. It was fun to watch the trap being mended, at least as best it could be, but she thought it was probably a losing battle. "I sometimes htink if Lor'dah had just stayed in one place I may have found him sooner." She chuckles pulling on a strand of his mane. It was strange for her to see her lion bonded pleased. he was just so straight laced up until now. It seemed meeting old friends was improving who he was she was glad of that.
Lor'dah turned and followed Jah towards the water shaking his head. "You know, I'm sure he would have laughed." Though he wasn't sure if Chewa would have. he remembered the other male from his youth, even then he'd been very straight and narrow. Perhaps he had changed while on the journey. Who knew? They had all changed in some way or other.
"At least you can see them every day if you choose to." He sighs lightly, he missed his real family sometimes, the ones he called mother and father, his siblings, but he hadn't voiced that and he didn't have any adopted family like Jah, he had been alone for too long. It was hard for him to rekindle old ties and even harder to make new ones.
Fai nibbles on one of Lor'dahs ears, she knew what he was thinking. "It's nice you're finding your old friends." She whispers, reminding him why he should be happy to be home again.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 12:07 pm
She laughed, glancing back at him. "Oh no, Chewy wouldn't have found this funny at all! He would have been so mad! Stomping off and giving me lectures! But that's okay, because it's all in jest and he's come to expect it now, I think." She grinned. Oh she did so love seeing Chewa grumpy, though part of her hoped he would have found it funny and maybe even smiled...
No. That wasn't going to happen.
"And you're right. They're all close by! I shouldn't worry so much. It's not like me at all." The sound of splashing commenced as she washed her paws in the water, kicking them about to spray great cascades of it up into the air. A moment later and she returned, dripping.
"So you knew Tili, too, huh? She's the most fun lioness around! She and I have been working on trying to cheer up Chewa and she lives close by to me which makes plotting easier. We're always up for having help though if you ever fancy it." She paused and glanced at Ngeu, before moving to help the vulture fix the mess that she herself had created.
"Come by anytime, okay? We're always happy to hang out and do whatever!"
Ngeu bobbed her head, spreading her wings to aid her balance as she leaned over and inserted a new branch into place across the trap. "I hope we can get this looking good again before he comes, Jah-Jah! How about closing that mouth of yours and getting to work?"
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