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 Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:29 am
Ripuka had been keeping herself away from the rest of the pride as of late. In fact she had barely shown her face since her pregnancy had begun to show. After her mating with Danzi, or Makaa as he had called himself, she found herself often thinking of that orange lion, so beautiful and handsome. So perfect. Her mate none-the-less. Well truly, Danzi wasn't hers. He wasn't even a Firekin. But no one would ever know that. Not even Ripuka knew that he had fooled her.
What would she have thought about the lives inside of her if she realised they were not purebloods? That in fact they held within them half of the genes from pridelanders.
She stretched and her swollen belly touched the ground. "Ready for a walk, little flames?" She enquired as if they would speak to her. "We'll show ourselves to the world, you and I." She had been pregnant only once before, back in her adolescent years, but the cubs had not lived past their first day. These ones...these ones were different. She would cherish them with all the love she had.
She waddled more than walked as she moved across the sand, pausing by the waterhole to lower her head and drink.
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:12 am
Ny hadn't much to do, her cubs were off somewhere doing something. She worried about a couple of them they seemed too well nice and she wasn't sure what to do to help them realise what they were. They were special because they were of the Blood but it didn't make much of a difference to them.
She was glad to get time alone, though she didn't have her cubs with her all the time she seemed to always worry about them. The curse of being a mother. She was heading to the water hole to bath. She wanted the sand out of her fur. It clung to it like something rotten and she wished to be clean of it but as she saw the water in front of her she saw a figure in a way she would have never expected.
"Ripuka, your pregnant?" Her voice was in utter shock as she reached the female. She didn't need telling as she doubted the lioness would have put on that much weight that quickly.
"What males cubs do you bear?" She had to ask, she was sure all the males were mated off, at least most of them were. Who had blessed/cursed her with cubs? It seemed Ny's mind would still be towards cubs even now meeting an old friend.
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:15 am
Ripuka looked up and peered at Ny down her blunt, orange muzzle. It was Ny. If any other lion had approached her in this condition she probably would have snapped or snarled. Ny was different. Ripuka loved this lioness like her own daughter. She was true of spirit and heart and untainted by those who had turned from the old ways.
"I am." She noted the shock on the female's face. "Pregnant for the Pride in aid of it's recent losses." She sat and stretched out her forelegs slowly. It was becoming difficult to move in this condition.
"My mate was a wandering Firekin..." She whispered as if it were another story to tell. "He puts fear into the hearts of rogues about our kinds. His name...his name is mine alone but Ny...he was the most beautiful Firekin I had ever seen. Strong, bright pelted and loyal." She didn't say that she hoped he would return to her.
"They are close to birth. I feel them move. But I was parched. I had to drink."
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:34 am
A wandering Firekin? Ny kept her thoughts to herself but she worried Ripuka was slowly loosing her mind or something with age. Firekin's didn't seem to come for a day or to and go again. She worried for her friend but just had to trust her judgment, the colours of the cubs would tell her the truth anyway.
Ny just nodded at her mentors words and then looked at the females large belly. "Ripuka when do you think they will be born? You should keep out of the sun if you can find shade. It will do you no good birthing in the hot sun." Ny was just passing advice. She had found birthing in the den was so cool that the babies were born without a problem but she did believe birthing in the hot sun wouldn't do anyone any good.
Ny was worring for Ripuka maybe for no reason but she saw her being so old that she couldn't have imagined her having cubs. Maybe it was just Ny's mind but she still couldn't help but to worry for the older lioness.
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:03 am
Maybe it was because she was a Firekin. Or maybe she was just rather healthy. Either way, Ripuka wasn't crickety yet, though some days she woke up and felt too weary to stand. Other days, like today, she felt young again...just like that time with her mate... She sighed as she thought of him and wished he were here to witness the birth of his cubs.
"Soon. Soon I think. I hope their father will return someday to see them. If he does, I shall introduce you. I thought the orange trait of Firekin had all but been wiped away. Even I didn't inherit my father's orange pelt." She sighed. "I gained a hue between mother and father's. An orangey-red that I am proud of."
She laughed. "Don't worry young Ny, I'll return after my drink. I can feel them move. The time will be soon. How do your little ones fare these days?"
To think, she was having parental chats! She never thought this day would come. But inside, finally, she held purebloods to continue their line. Her line. Her pride's future.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:03 am
Ny listened and nodded she wouldn't question the lioness she looked to as a mother and in some ways was a little sad that she would have other cubs to look after. She hoped it wouldn't mean that she could no longer go to the older lioness for advice.
"As long as you look after yourself Ripuka!" She smiled and then thought about the question.
"My children are mixed. Some are wonderful and know what they need to about the pride and some are too cub-like to take things too seriously at the moment. They will grow and I am sure their minds shall to." Her cubs were growing and already she was missing them when they were tiny and so reliable on her.
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