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 Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:24 pm
Life wasn't bad for Bandele. It was true he was young, and most who were young wouldn't really know the difference between a good and bad life just yet. There were still many things Bandele didn't know, mind you, but he was equipped with the knowledge that he didn't know things.
What he did know, young or not, was that life could get bad. Unlike his brothers, who just, in his all-wise opinion, fluttered around with no urge to accomplish anything, never listening to what anyone told them, Bandele refused to be that way. He would get things done and he listened to everyone. Mostly his mother.
And she had told him the stories of what had gone on with her family. So Bandele knew life could get a lot worse than his. Which is why he didn't mind putting up with his bratty brother Bidii or living with such a large family.
Determined to provide for said family--or at least help in doing so--the cub had found his way to the body of water. He was too small to kill any land beast, but fish couldn't fight back.
All he had to do was catch one.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:41 pm
Pity for the little brown cub, though, that there already was another cub at that same pool of water, already doing her thing. Which, in actuality, was nothing. She was too caught up in her game of trying to catch the bugs around that she didn't notice someone might actually want to use the pool for something. Instead of just, y'know...running around it, bit by bit.
Konya was definately as dense as what her name meant. A rock. She never let that stop her from being as happy as can be, though, especially since her mother always told her to do what she wanted, and make sure that no one stopped her from it either.
After another quite unsuccessful jump at a beetle, she fell a bit sloppily, and laid there, catching her breath. Bugs were such tricky things, she really had to learn to get tricky to catch them!
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:48 pm
The company had not gone without notice. Bandele just chose to ignore her. She hadn't approached him, so it worked out well. It wasn't that he didn't like girls. Because, you know, Mom was a girl and he liked her. He just didn't like loud, bossy, (too) outspoken, and overly-peppy girls.
And in the case of strangers, there was always a risk they were one or (may the sky and Earth itself forbid) all of those types. The thought would have horrified him if Bandele, the great individual he was, ever really got scared.
Fish!
He lifted his one paw, ready to strike the creature and hopefully knock it out of the water. His focus was so intense that he forgot about the other cub... Up until she made so much noise he jumped, squeaked (because as adult as he acted he was still a cub), and due to having one paw in the air, lost his balance, tripped over a rock in the water and fell flat on his face with a SPLASH!
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:08 pm
Konya blinked when she heard the splash, wondering if it was just a really big fish that decided that real air was the way to breathe. No way! She swirled around to see this amazing, huge fish just to see no fish at all. Maaan, what a bummer. Her tail flopped to her side, ears folded in disappointment until her eyes caught what really made that noise. Apparently some other cub had wandered around and fell in! What a silly cub.
She bounded over to where she saw bits of the cub poking out of the water. Oooh, brown! She made a yelping noise at the cub, hoping he'd pop up around and be so happy to see her. Yay! Instead, though, she'd probably be in for something a biiiit different.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:15 pm
Just a tiny, little, smallest bit different.
By time Bandele surfaced, he was shaking. One could have thought it was from the cold, considering he was soaked to the bone now. But the weather was sunny and there were no passing winds. Which meant he was probably shaking from anger instead.
Still, the cub never raised his voice. Ever.
So it was in a very angry low voice he hissed, "Do you mind?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:23 pm
Konya blinked, wondering if what she just heard was just something that rustled out of the leaves of the trees. It coooould almost sound like one. her green eyes took another moment to stare at him, before a bit more emotion peeked through her face.
"Ummm. Mind what?" she asked, clueless as to what he meant. She hadn't done a thing, just came by to see if he was alright or not. There wasn't any harm in that, and she knew it!
"Oooohhhh." She got it! He was trying to bathe himself in the water and she was in the way? "You could of just told me you were trying to bathe, I would of left! Really!"
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:28 pm
"I am not trying to bathe," the cub curtly told her. His eyes were drawn together and his face scrunched up, and no matter how many times his grandmother told him he would get wrinkles as a cub and no girls would ever like him (psh), he couldn't seem to stop from doing it when he was aggravated.
And let's just say he was more aggravated than not. How could he help it with lions like this around?
"I was fishing. Until you made such a loud racket and scared them all away."
Him falling in the water probably didn't help either, but he was skilled in the art of ignoring and was practicing it actively with that matter.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:41 pm
Konya wasn't bothered by his attitude at all. Instead, she found it nothing but 'cute' and 'fun'. She probably wouldn't understand how annoying she could be, but hey! All she cared about was having some fun. Yay!
"Nooo, I wasn't that loud. I was just trying to chase a beetle, that's all. And they aren't very loud." She nodded to herself like she knew just what she was talking about, but instead she really had no idea, since it was probably her crash onto the ground that led to him being spooked by her.
"And besides, I bet it was that loud splash of a giant fish that startled you!" Yes, yes, that idea was still glued into her mind. "I betcha it was as big as yooou are! Really big!"
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:51 pm
Bandele was a bit over-sized for a cub. He supposed if he was to see a fish that size, he'd consider it big as well. There was no way a fish that big could live in the water, though. It wasn't deep enough if he could stand in it. Duh.
"That wasn't a fish, that was me. Your obnoxiously loud behavior made me slip and all the noise scared the fish--the normal-sized fish--away." He trotted onto the shore and shook, not bothered at the thought he could splash the annoying cub near him.
"A fish that large couldn't live in that water," he voiced allowed. "It isn't deep enough for such a big fish to breathe."
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:00 pm
Konya wasn't put down by his attitude though, not one bit. "Nuh-uuuhh," she teased. "I betcha one could, you just can't see it." Her smile brightened before she spoke up again. "Plus, there's no way I was loud! If you ever go beetle hunting, you should know that you've gotta be reeeeally quiet to catch anything, right? And I was reeeeally quiet, so I'm sure it wasn't me!" She beamed at him, quite pleased with herself.
She wasn't faced by the water splashing at all, and just shook her forepaw that managed to get a little wet, wiggling it as fast as she could to get most of the water off before bouncing after him. "I'm Konya, by the way!"
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:17 pm
Bandele made a face an adult observing the situation probably would have found funny. Beetle hunting? Beetle hunting? Who ate beetles? To Bandele, there was no reason to hunt but for food, and if one was hunting something, he assumed they wanted to it.
He shook his head and walked away from this awful girl.
"Bandele," replied the cub automaticaly, then froze. ...Waitasecond. He turned sharply. "Why are you following me?"
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:26 am
"Wooah!" Man, that was close! She was following him pretty closely when he suddenly turned around, and really close to her face! She blinked at him with her big green eyes, wondering again why he was asking such a silly question.
"'Cause I want to follow you!" she exclaimed, followd by a bright smile. He was so funny. She sat down where she was, still smiling at him, expecting him to be happy with what she told him. He was silly, she liked that.
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:03 am
The almost-collision did little to change the stone expression. Bandele stared at her silently. Seconds ticked by. Finally, he turned away and continued walking. How annoying... "I'm not going anywhere interesting, you know."
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:58 am
Konya waited for a moment, watching the strange little black and brown cub walk off from her. She was a little slow in taking everything in that just happened, but there wasn't any way that she was going to let it get her down. None at all!
"Weeeeeeell," she started, bouncing back up on all four paws. "Why don't we go somewhere interesting then! That'll fix that problem!"
Yes, she clearly didn't get the underlying message of GO AWAY.
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:05 pm
"There is no interesting place to go here." Bandele was positive of that. He'd been born in the Rogue Lands, and then Mother had brought him and his two brothers here. Out there was interesting. This peaceful, quiet, boring place was not.
And the lions here were bothersome. "Don't you have a sibling you can bother?"
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