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 Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:56 am
Kavu laughed, swatting at her playfully with one front paw. "A-hey! Well, I haven't been here long enough to learn the laws, but father will teach me! Just you wait!" He then nodded, flopping back onto his rear end.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:53 pm
((If Makadari doesn't know about the cubs yet, I'll change the post. . . but I think that it makes things easier.))
Kiu’s heart felt as if it were torn in two, split right down the middle.
The scene before him horrified and shocked him. Kiu had grown up around slaves. He had grown used to them. He felt little for the strangers. The Firekin, (as stated by Dust), had severe superiority issues. However, Kinja, he supposed, had grown up differently. His dear mate had lived her life as a free creature, and had never encountered slaves before. Even in the Firekin pride, she had little to do with them. But, Kiu had just thought that owning slaves was the way that things were. He knew no other way of life. He had never thought that there was another way of life.
But, if Kinja wanted the slaves set free, he would have to oblige her. . . one way or another.
Teeth bared at the scene before him, the magnificent lion charged forwards, abandoning his cubs and the glade, yelling back at the seven as he darted towards his father, brother, and mate. “Kavu! Kimeti! Watch your sisters. Let none enter.” Though he knew that the little cubs could not really protect themselves, or their siblings, he had to leave them. What else could he do?
Hackles raised, Kiu stepped forwards, the blazing sun above shining down on his glossy pelt. “Stop this!” he roared, glaring around, though his gaze lingered on Mwali. After all, he wasn’t mad at Kinja (though he thought her a bit insane), and he did not wish to disrespect his father. “If you do not stop arguing with my mate, brother, I’ll have to silence both of you. Now, what’s going on?”
The heir did not wait for a response. After all, it was perfectly clear what was going on. “Kinja,” he whispered, as he passed her, “stay out of this.” No one else heard him.
Trying to ignore his fury, he stepped forwards, lowering his head in respect to his father. Makadari was, after all, still king. “Father, before you pass judgment, remember that Kinja did not grow up in the way of the Firekin. She has no experience with slaves. She doesn’t know. Not only that, but. . . perhaps maternal instincts? You know how mothers that have recently given birth treat their cubs with extra tenderness. Could some of this maternal instinct turn into pity for the slaves? I propose a compromise, to stop a fight. Kinja will apologize for disrespecting you. She was nervous, and does not know our ways completely yet. Maybe you could give the slaves to us? They would be a great help with our family, father. It might help Kinja to adjust. We would share them with you, of course, but if we could train them. . .”
His voice trailed off, and he glanced at his mate, a small glint in his eye. If he and Kinja trained the slaves. . . then they would be spared some of the hardships of life under Makadari. “Besides,” he said, “the young ones are not experienced enough to be of much use. They need training. You are too busy to worry about such things.”
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 2:15 pm
The female fox gulped and stilled as he whispered to her.. she had trusted a large cheetah, why not some lion that had just captured her? The fact he hadn't been using his claws suddenly was remembered as she tried to calm her breathing.
Her ears flicked as she listened to the scene behind her, squeaking as she was suddenly pulled into the mouth of the lion that had caught her. Though her logical mind paniced she didn't feel to threatened, so she didn't bother to try to excape, instead hanging there. Black eyes darting around so.. many lions..
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 3:07 pm
Mwali snarled under his breath at his brother’s arrival. Had he not had a mouthful of fox at the moment, he might have snapped back and started an argument - one that probably wouldn’t have ended up pretty. His own hackles rose off his shoulders and neck… he hated this, hated having Kui as the older brother and heir. He insisted on strutting about with his proper attitude, throwing his weight around, and speaking all glorified about matters of the pride… that and since he had met that snot-nose of a female, he’d changed. No longer the cub he used to romp about with and sleep beside, he felt little attachment to him anymore.
With an aggravated huff, he began back for the den, his head lowered so his mood was obvious, the massive shoulders lifted off his back to give a bit of a storming effect to his stride. He was sure to snap his tail in his brother’s face before continuing on. Just who does he think he is? Give all the slaves to him?! Greedy little snot… prancing himself out there to play the hero and stick up for that outsider female. It was irritating that he had no say about it either. He wasn’t anything when compared to his brother and his father was more likely to listen to him anyway.
Upon entering the pride’s main territory, he gave everyone a warning snarl. He wasn’t in the mood to be bothered and they would have to respect him as the prince. If there was one thing it was entitled to- it was his privacy when he wanted it. He retired to his own little cavern that was among the many. Each lion had chosen out their own den and this was his. It wasn’t the largest but it was larger than many of the others. A few bones laid about from meals before but aside from that, the stone floor was only scattered with piles of sand that had blown in from outside.
The fox was laid on the floor. Mwali circled around and laid himself in the back of the cave, his head resting on a paw and a deep scowl covering his face, wrinkling his nose, and showing a bit of his teeth. He trusted the kit knew that this was his home now and that he was his master and there was nothing that needed to be said. He was angry and needed a moment to cool his temper.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 3:14 pm
Jasi swated him back, and pounced on a imaginary bug infront of her, trying to urge Kavu to play with her, maybe it would cheer her up a little more. She peeked out of the thicket again, and saw that the number of liones had doubled. She had never been around so many at once before.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 3:31 pm
Kinja glared at Mwali but didn't get a word in before Kiu came. As Kiu walks past her his words don"t go inheard but she wasn"t happy with them. Not letting her guard down she allows herself to relax a bit, letting Kiu know that she would do as he ask, but as Kiu began to speak she began to grow angry again. She would NOT becomes these cubs master, her main purpose for comming to their aid was to free them, not make them her slaves. A small growl escaped her voicing her idea about Kiu's plan. Plus, to top it all off, he wanted HER to apologize to Makadari! There was no way she was going to willingly appologize to such a heartless, and ruthless lion, whether he was king or not.
Kimeti looked at his brother and then the stranger. "I like her coat color." he stated. "It makes her different." he added as an after thought before sitting by her. "I want to be different." He spoke boldly and thoughfully, as if he was thinking of a way to pronounce himself as different compared to his siblings.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 3:32 pm
Kavu bent down, eager to play... Then paused as Jasi looked out of the clearing. At the same time, the smells of the others hit his nose, and it sent his mind reeling. One... no, two! They smelled like his father. And his mother and father were there, and some unknown smells... He peeked out, curious as well, and his eyes grew wide.
Holy COW, so many of his kind! eek
"I think... I know those lions..."
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 3:44 pm
It felt as though Jasi's insides did a flip. For a moment all she could do was stare at the arguing bunch. After a moment, she shook it off. Atleast they werent hurting each other right? She perked her ears up at the sound of another cub. "Thank you." she smiled. "You can still be different, even if you look like someone else. In the way you act towards others." she said grinning a little. She then got back in play position, promising herself that she would go easy on the younger cub.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 3:50 pm
After hearing Kinja’s agitated growls, Kiu winced at Makadari. “Excuse me for a moment. . . do you mind if I discuss things with my mate for a moment, father? Thank you. Hopefully, we can come up with an agreement that we can all live with.”
Hurriedly, before his father could say no, Kiu trotted off towards his mate and stared at her. Once he was close enough, he whispered into her ear. “We’ll set them free somehow. . . Makadari won’t stand for them going free. We’ll think of a way! But, for now, do as he says. They’ll be better off with us than with him, at least until we can do more for them. It’s no use trying to persuade him to back down on this! You’ll only gain his ill favor. Think of our cubs!”
Kiu knew that that last sentence would get her.
Kinja cared about her cubs more than her own life. Even if she didn’t fully approve of Kiu’s council, she would care more about her own brood than the strange cubs, even if she did pity them. Though Kiu did not understand why Kinja cared for the strangers, he loved her, and was determined to. . . well. . . make her happy.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:04 pm
Kinja looked at Kiu and turned her head away to look back to the thicket. He had made his point, her cubs were they're main priority at the moment though she wasn't happy with the decision she would have to make. "Fine, but I refuse to make any apology to him." She growled out quietly. "There's no way I could subject myself to groveling before him and apologizing for something I feel so strongly about." She was determined about this and it showed in her voice, even if she was speaking quietly.
Kimeti looked at Jasi a bit puzzled at first before he lept into a playful position. "Bet I can pin ya." He stated as he pounced at her.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:07 pm
[; ; Bleh, sorry for the late-ness]
Teule gasped as the events unfolded before him an his mother brsitled up even further. She was backed against the den that now only the two brother's were hidden in. Teule was also slowly starting to bristle and looked at Wokovu warily and questioningly, his tail winding around the den impatiently and causing the walls to slowly start to cave in.
"What do we do? They..said we're gonna be slaves!"
Taka was huffing heavily in distress now, eyes each lion with her emerald and blood red eye, taking note as Yakuti was taken by another lion. Too many... Perhaps the new lion's reasoning of them being slaves was the best that they were going to get out of this situation. She tried to calm herself but the sense of loathing that she had for these lions wasn't about to disappear, making her concieve the probably fatal idea of attacking the lion while he was distracted with the other. She flinched as she heard the lion's sentence end with, 'Something we can all live with.' He probably meant that literally.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:12 pm
wokovu watched in horror was his 'mother' was taken away, quickly he hurried into the high grass that his brother had pointed out earlier, hoping they would not be found..
His ears pinned back as he glanced at the pure white cub, knowing his bright color wouldn't help them in hiding.. atleast he himself was the color of sand and dead grass. He shifted a bit tryign to cover him more whispering in responce"I don't know, i guess we just hide here... m.. maybe they won't find us? w.. what do you thinks going to happen?"
The fox trembled as they entered the den, the wave of lion smell hitting her nose like a poison making her fur try to stand up and want to flee the place of death Though being surrounded by large teeth kept her still, their sharp points pressing lightly into her skin.. it held as a firm warnin not to struggle.
She glanced around as she was set down, eyeing the bones.. much most bigger than her, she would only be an apitizer for these lions, maybe a small treat for a slave or whatnot. She gave a shudder at the thought looking at the lion trying to build the courage she had been introduced to while being around the other large cats of her 'pride'.
She sat down, holding her chin up and looking to the prince. Holding back a stuter she shifted to a different paw "W..why did you bring me here?" ok so maybe she didn't hold back the stutter too well.. but it was close enough. Atleast she wasn't trying to make a break for it like many of her other kind would have.
(edit: whoo exalla posted, hold on and let me read hers and edit my post alil XD
Edit 2: ok fixed. o_o)
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 5:20 pm
((O___O Holy CRAP! So, so sorry guys. o.o I just got my internet back today. x.x So, uh, this is all okay for you owners of the prospectice slave-to-be's, right? o.o))
Makadari stared after his impertinant son. Give his finds to him? He growled silently. Well, perhaps what Kiu had said made some sense. Besides, it would do Kinja some good to whip new slaves into shape.
Oh, he would deal with his son's mate one way or another, but not now.
((I have... no idea what else to say. o.o I guess I'll wait 'till Kiu finishes talking to Kinja?))
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 5:23 pm
Jasi grinned slyly 'Betcha cant" But before she could move she heard some growling once more, she looked over her shoulder, and then turned back. "ah, one minute." She pocked her head outside the thicket, trying not to go out of bounds. She was not only obeying Kinja's orders, she knew she had to stay there to make sure the cubs wouldnt wander off. She could see Teules white head gleaming in the sunlight, he was not far off, and she could see a scared expression on his face. He turned his head, and hoping he could she her, Jasiri winked, hoping it would be enough to calm him and convince him that the lioness was trying to help. She then turned back, and got in play postion for a third time, letting out a low growl. "Come get me."
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 5:30 pm
Kiu nodded sympathetically at Kinja before returning to his father. "Kinja agrees," Kiu said in the most nonchalant, relaxed tone that he could manage. "She thinks it's a good idea too."
He grinned. "Might do her some good, getting the slaves into shape. Might help her get used to our ways, and throw off that maternal instinct thing. And, our cubs can learn right from the start. That's a plus. . ."
Knowing that Makadari would agree, simply because of his strong argument, he bowed low. "Do you wish to see our cubs, Father? You might enjoy seeing the children that so resemble you in greatness. . ."
Kiu glanced at Kinja, warning written in his eyes. "Kinja, go and tell the cubs Makadari might be dropping by. . ." Hopefully, Kinja could hide the cub that had sheltered in the bushes. . .
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