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 Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:49 am
Mchele gave a little jump away at Kiburi's playful batting. She was always doing that, but at least this time he wasn't trying to sleep so it wasn't so bad. He trotted around Danzi's other side and watched as the older lion lifted his sister onto his back. It looked rather high! Not as high as Mum's maybe... but close enough.
"Me too me too!!" He chirped and danced around the older male's legs. However it seemed their trip to Pride Rock and to find Bakhti was too slow and their mother came bounding up with a much larger male on her heels. It wasn't his dad and Mchele instinctly cowered, despite his mum's nuzzle of reassurance.
He didn't run behind his mother though, her presense was a comfort and so too was his new-found brother's, whom he was being to take a liking to. He sat down close to Danzi's leg and peered up at the new adult male. A friend of mum's? She had so many! Would he have some too one day?
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:41 am
Dama watched in awe as the King hefted her prize up onto his back. Her own muscles already ached; the waterbuck had been a bit more than she should've handled on her own. But it wasn't as if she had anyone to help her in her hunts, and she had been hungry. If Kit had been around, he might've helped... Shaking her head to dash away that thought, Dama raised her head to stare straight ahead as she fell into step at Mufasa's flank. Her friend had abandoned her, called her words nothing but rubbish. He'd left her to her own devices, disappearing off in fear he would be captured again. The delicate silver lioness would not long for what she apparently never had, which was his trust. It was him she had to thank for getting away from the terror of the Firekin pride. But now it was herself she could thank for her own survival.
A brief sigh escaped her as she closed her eyes for a moment, relying on her sense of feel and sound to guide her at the King's side as she limped along. Barely did her injured paw hit the ground, though she winced when it did. She tried to shift her thoughts to more pleasant things, but the idea seemed futile. If it wasn't one thing, it was worry on another. Would she be accepted and allowed to come near the King's home by his lioness'? Or would she be driven away? Would Mwezi be there, waiting for her? Perhaps it was just best not to think of anything at all, that way worries and heartache wouldn't well up inside of her. Thus, she limped in silence, head hanging low as she hobbled step by step beside Mufasa.
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:11 am
-Her silence kept him relitively silent as they traveled, and as they neared the rocks his eyes went back once again to the silver female, trying to judge the trip's effects on her. And as the edge of the rocks appeared, Mufasa stopped, carefully manuevering to drop the heavy weight from his back, giving himself a minut shake as he streched his aching legs once again.- "What would you like done with your kill? I can have some of the lioness' help me carry it up the rock if you'd like."
"If we leave it here though, others might be tempted."
-Pausing briefly, he added suddenly.- "There is something I'd like to show you up there.. if you care to see.. and listen."
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:21 am
 Kiburi felt strange being so high up off the ground and she quite liked it. One day her legs would grow longer and she'd be a big lioness who no one would mess with! A purr rumbled at her throat as she moved to rub her chin against Danzi's orange shoulder. The sound was interrupted as she was picked up by her mother, a small squeak of surprise leaving her throat.
Suddenly she was on the ground again, and she felt small despite the fact that she was showing signs of growth.
It was only when her mama spoke that she realised there was another lion with her. A huuuge scary lion that was definately not her daddy, and definately not someone she knew. Her nostrils flared as she drew in the strange scent of the lion and she backed up until she was between Danzi's forepaws, feeling safe between the strong pillars of orange.
Her slate-blue eyes blinked up at Sukutu and she gave a small mewling sound, gaze darting between her mama and the new lion.
"You mama's friend?" She tilted her head and curled her tail about her hind leg as she tried to decide whether to stop being a coward or not. "Suuu~ Sukooto." She blinked and stuck her tongue out in attempt to try and pronounce his name correctly...and failed.
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:55 am
 Sukutu's eye's widened immensly at the sight of the cub's, but his smile grew aswell, he turned to Bakhti and smiled back at her before turning his head to look at the cub's and Danzi, taking a moment to recognise their scents and faces.
This place was gonna get over run, especialy when Koho and Mwali came with the new born's, but I suppose it would be for the best if there where more populating the land's.
At the sound of the little pale creamy and orange female, he blunk and smiled softly at her, lowering his body till he lay down infront of the cub's, so he didn't look too big and scary to them.
He himself knew how terrifying an unknown adult male was.
"Yeah" He said softly to her. "I've been her friend for a while now...it's nice to see she's started a family"
It was nice, Bahkti deserved the best, she was kind and nice, plus he knew it wouldn't be a matter of time till she hooked her claws into a male, he'd have to meet her mate after he introduced Bahkti to Jasiri.
However at the way the little female tried to pronounce his name he let a soft chuckle go through him and nod.
"Well since you now know my name, do you mind if I know yours?" He asked in the same kind, soft toned voice he always had with little kid's now adays, he was just getting so mature and fatherly over things.
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:10 am
The male lay down and the little cub moved forwards a little, a couple of steps at a time. She paused to glance round at her brother and sniffed quietly before turning back to regard the older male.
He was huge and he had the most fuzzy mane she had ever seen! He would make a good pillow that was for sure.
"I'm Kiburi, but fluffy lion call me Kib if likes." She was getting better with speech now, her words flowing more smoothly than they once had. "If you know mama for a while, where you been all this time?" She spoke with a twitch of her pale ears.
She moved forwards more cautiously and stood up on her hind legs, paws resting upon a great brown shoulder as she pressed her nose into Sukutu's fuzzy mane.
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:16 am
The older male smiled warmly at the younger female, watching her grow more courageous and daring infront of this intimidating male she just met, she was gonna be such a sweetheart, what was her thinking, she was one.
Sukutu purred softly at the name, fluffy lion? Oh well, he gussed he'd have to get used to some names now that he had a mane you could lose a honey badger in.
But he enjoyed being around cubs, it made him feel like an older brother or...a father, but it was a fatherly feeling, maybe soon he would be a dad...yeah...but he'd be a better one then his real father ever was.
At the question he snapped back to reality, one of his chocolate brown ears flicking softly.
"I've been travelling with some friends...very far away in a dangerous place, where very dangerous lions are...but then I came home...and I'm very glad to be back..."
He didn't want to go into the details of death and the plague and everything, seeing as she was still too young.
The large male gave a small 'oof' sound under his breath as a pair of small light orange paws placed themselve's on his brown shoulder.
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:57 am
"Traffling?" She tried the pronounciation of the strange word and tilted her head, smiling at the male lion from her upright position, tail swishing behind her. "Dangerous place?" That sounded sort of exciting, and Kiburi knew she could go for some excitement right now.
"Kib want Fluffy to tell her bout this place." She lowered her paws from his shoulder and padded round to gaze up at his face, a look of curiosity glazing her eyes. She loved to hear stories, espeically true ones.
"Was Fluffy scared of bad lions? Did you fight!?" She almost bounced with excitement.
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:24 am
Watching carefully, Mchele let Kib do the approaching and testing of this new male. Perhaps not the bravest thing or the nicest thing to let his sister risk herself first. But hey! He wasn't going too close if he could help it.
But the other male lion seemed nice enough. What was his name? Zookootoo? Well he hadn't eated his siter yet and so Mchele decided he might get a little closer. "I'm Mchele!" He suddenly piped up and took a couple of cautious steps closer. He stopped still close to Danzi though, one front paw raised in uncertainty.
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:02 am
The orange male watched the two cubs, amused that they'd sought to hide under him even though Bakhti was right there. But it was their choosing.. Ears flicked towards Sukutu, he smiled a bit as the cubs introduced themselves. He was distracted, though, when his hair got in his face, tossing his head back to get it out so he could see. It was starting to get to be a problem, this hair of his...
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:28 pm
The flick of mane by Danzi caused Mchele to whip his head around at the movement. Instinctively he leap up on his back legs to swat at it, his claws retracted though. "Whoah! You have big manes! Like dad. Is mine going to grow too? I don't have one!" He stopped and lowered his head to scratch the very small tuff of longer fur on the top of his head with one of his hind legs.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:29 am
 Bakhti just smiled and watched her children with Sukutu. She laid down and licked at her paw, a smile stuck to her face. She looked up at danzi and winked before turning back to Suku. He looked happy around the youngsters, maybe one day and he and his mate would have their own little ones, they would be adorable, that was certain.
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 4:45 am
A large golden lioness walked into the pridelands, her gentle movement suited her slender body. She had just returned from the jungle, and had a sickly feeling in her stomach. She blinked in a confused manner, before bounding happily towards the large fluffy adult in view. "Sukutu?" Her voice had lost all of its child-like qualities, becoming soft and calm. Maawio was fully grown, and she hadn't seen her brother for ages. "Suku..." She whispered in awe. "You're finally back!!"
Another figure appeared near to Maawio, this one male and larger, with a great chocolate mane and equally chocolate markings on his paws, tail, and around his scarlet eyes. "Hello love." He nuzzled Bakhti happily, and looked to Maawio. "She looks so happy..." Grinning again, he licked Kiburi and Mchele happily. "Hello kids!" He was now getting used to family life, and couldnt help but notice his beautiful children were starting to grow already...
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:43 am
((REALLY SORRY FOR NOT ANSWERING STRAIGHT AWAY GUYS!!! >.<;;;;; *hates brainfarts*))
The large lion smiled warmly at both the cub's, well, they where bigger then cub's, but still, they where so playful and cute.
His soft violet eye's watched the two before he relaxed some and watched over both of them.
At the little male suddenly popping out of nowhere he chuckled.
"It's nice to meet you Mchele" But, at the younger male's awe in Suku's big fluffy mane, he chuckled more and nodded.
"Yes, one day you will have a mane like me, maybe even fluffier"
Sukutu then turned to Kiburi and smiled.
"Alright, alright, calm down Kib', I'll tell you all about the lands I went too...now sit down and listen close..."
Suku' never had been much of a story teller, but the way his mother...his real mother, had told them, he couldn't help but let his ear's flatten a bit.
"Me and some friends, journied(sp?) far away from here, where the ground is made of sand as golden as any Pridelander...and the sky seems to stretch on and on forever...
One of my friends, Mwali, came from this land, he found love here...but he had to go back and check on his family...you see...
His father was king of the Firekin, a group of lions with pelts as red as the blood that flows through our veins, heck even redder...but when his father died, his brother took over...only for him to die from the plague...
The plague was a disease, it came here once, but now it's gone, gone for good, it took a few lives from the Firekin...and that meant he had to go back..."
Suku watched them, seeing if they where getting all of this.
"Now, his mate, my foster mother, went with him and so did I and many others and we where very afraid, Firekin didn't like other lions being in their home...they where too proud...Mwali wasn't like that, because his father never taught him the way's of their pride...
But we didn't have to fight, two lions, Kimeti and Kinja, we already knew...especialy Kinja...
You see...in this world, there are more then the ancestors, ofcourse Pridelander's don't believe in the God's...but me, being a former rogue...learnt things...and the way I hear it...Kinja, used to be a Pridelander, called Kimondo and one day she fell in love with Mwali's brother.
Now she knew he'd never fall in love with her, because she wasn't from his pride, so she asked a god, I don't know which mind you, to change her colour...so she could be with him forever...
Kimeti is her son...
And because those two and Kimeti's sisters where the only one's left...we wen't back...and that's all there is..."
The large lion took a small gasp of breath from his story, sighing a little before the sound of his name, he turned his large head, eye's widening at the form of his adopted 'little' sister.
She wasn't looking little anymore.
Still laying down, ofcourse, sitting up a bit, making sure she didn't hurt the cub's, he kept his eye's focused on Maawio.
"...M-Maawio?"
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 4:38 am
At Suku's comment of Mchele's mane she couldn't help but glance back at her golden brother, imagining the small tuft of fur as a great mane that wreathed his white-nosed face. He'd look really weird, but she was growing to like manes, a shame that she wouldn't have one!
Then newly dubbed 'Fluffy' started speaking and she sensed a story coming on, so she settled down too, looking up at him in wide-eyed anticipation. Story!!! She nodded and brought both of her pale hears forward, attention solely on the male lion.
As he went on with his story her eyes widened further, sand as golden as the lions here, as golden as her brother!? It sounded like a truly beautiful place, and one she suddenly craved to see for herself. However she held her tongue and listened to the rest, noting down the name Mwali for later reference.
They had fur that was red? Just like Rocky did! She nodded again, intently listening and hanging upon every word. The plague sounded scary however, and her fur bristled up around her shoulders at the very though of death caused by something that was impossible to fight. Atleast she had not been around during that time, else she might have caught it and died too!
Mwali sounded like a really nice kind of lion, but the pride he had come from sounded intriguing, their pride and strength awe inspiring to the youngster. She had not yet learned what true fear was and was naive to it, however for such a large lion to be scared must show something of their strength.
Then there was a mention of Gods and she gave a slight tilt of her head, wanting to question but deciding against it, she'd keep a hold of her curiosity for now. This lioness Kinja sounded intriguing, she had her fur changed with magics so that she could live within the pride? That sounded like a lot of fun!
Then when it was time for the story to end and another lion came into view she slunk back between Danzi's forepaws, mind whirring with a hundred thoughts. How far was this place? Was it really as dangerous as people said?
She was in mid-thought when she heard her father's voice and with a small mewling sound of delight she skipped forwards, tail and head held high. "Daddy, daddy, daddy! Fluffy lion tell stories! Where you been? We go hunting? Kib hungry..." She glanced to her mother expectantly, never having seen her in action before. She'd heard whisperings of her mother's skill at the hunt and her desire to see it for herself made her tremble with anticipation.
She wanted to learn to hunt! Be big and strong like mama!
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