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 Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:00 am
His whiskers twitched but nothing else moved. He was too tired to move! His body wasn't used to all the exercise, his muscles were aching his body tired beyond belief. He had walked and walked, found himself walking in a circle and growing more and more agitated.
He wasn't getting anywhere.
Yen Ha had always been a wimp, his stamina and physical strength poor compared to others his age. It had worried him and it still did, because he wasn't turning into a lion that he wanted to. Yes he was intelligent - or so he liked to believe - and he had spent his days creating theories and practising his knowledgeable verses instead of his hunting and fighting techniques.
He did not play fight, not even as a cub, and he certainly wasn't going to start those childish games now.
So it was that he lay in the shade of an overhanging rock, panting and thwacking his tail against the ground, stirring dust that tickled his nostrils and made him sneeze.
"Brilliant..."
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:18 am
Vikali grinned as she bowed down in a playful stance, small rump wiggling as she prepared to pounce on the large beetle just ahead of her. She wasn't far from the spot Yen Ha had chosen to rest.
And she pounced! She growled playfully and leaned her face close to her paws, opening them up. "Yeep!" She bounded to her paws again and looked around frantically. The bug wasn't there! "I'll get you yet.." She muttered to herself as she spotted it, flying now!
"Oh, think you can out smart me?" She sneered as she tottered after it, picking up her pace. It was flying right over the rock Yen Ha must have been seated behind.
"Gotchya!" She yelped pretty loudly and fiercely as she jumped onto the rock and into the air, trying to get the beetle.
But suddenly she felt someone under her and gave another yelp, though this one was of surprise as she scrambled, trying to get herself away from whoever she'd fallen on!
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:22 am
Yen Ha's first thought was that the sky was falling. Then, after a moment he realised that this was a completely ridiculous theory, and after his yelp of surprise, opened his eyes to see not bits of the sky, but a cub.
Well she wasn't exactly a cub. She was a little older than that, but still, as far as he was concerned she was a baby and shouldn't be out here all by herself! He had never strayed from his den at her age, and if he hadn't been argued into this travelling lark, he'd still be there!
"Do you mind playing somewhere else?" He muttered, pinning back his ears. "I'm trying to rest." Then as an after thought he supposed he might as well warn her. "It's not safe out here you know."
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:29 am
She tumbled away and rose back to her paws, shaking off. She stared at her paws a moment, stance spread as she tried to ward off the dizziness that had come with the fall. She shook her head after a minute and looked to who ever was speaking to her.
With each word her defiant nature was kicking in and that impulse to say 'no' was strong. He looked like a wimp anyways! Vi had no concept of younger or older or manners, she'd not really... been taught that sort of thing by her mother or father.
"What? Free lands! I can play where I want dung-beetle." She cried out, sticking her tongue out at him. Indeed, she was very childish. "Who cares if you're trying to rest? What are you, a wimp? Need to rest every five minutes... poor, poor baby." She rolled her eyes and turned away from him, ears flicking back as she took a few steps away. Not safe? Who did he think she was?
She glanced back and made a disgusted face. "If it was so unsafe I would be forbidden to travel here." She grinned cheekily at him. "And since my mother and father did not say I could not go here than it must be safe." Or she must have sneaked away with out them knowing, though they were pretty loose in where their three daughters went.
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:46 am
His face was a picture of horror, much like a snob being harrassed by a peasant. He looked shocked and his face portrayed it perfectly. What had he called her? A...dung beetle? He bristled and set his jaw, knotting his brows in a frown.
Little, stupid....grr.
"Don't talk to me like that you little brat." Yen Ha replied. He would have stood to look more imposing but really, his legs were too wobbly and weak. Yes, he truly was a wimp and she had hit a nerve by mentioning it.
"No lands are free lands. There are pridelands and roguelands, rogues are dangerous, understand? What did your parents teach you, eh? Psh..." He rolled his eyes, obviously quite hurt by her comments.
"I've been walking all day, I think I'm entitled to a rest." He had been walking all day, so long as you didn't count the frequent rests he had been taking.
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:51 am
"I'm not a brat!" She looked appalled at this and wondered how some stupid boy could ever be that... well, stupid! "And don't you dare tell me how to talk to anyone, I can talk how I want to talk!" She growled, her fur was beginning to puff up.
She blinked and her little tough act faltered as he shot something out about the difference between rogues and pridelanders. "And who says?" She said in the snottiest tone she could muster. "I am sure I can whoop and rogue's butt who even tries to mess with me.." She trailed off and eyed him suspiciously. "Are you a rogue, is that why you're such a baby?" She hissed and then began to cackle in a childish laugh, throwing her head back as she teased him.
Oh Vi was liking this, teasing the older boy. It made her feel... powerful!
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:03 am
His frown deepened, listening to the little juvenile blabber on. Boy, no wonder her parents hadn't warned her about the dangers! They were probably hoping such a blabber-mouth would get spirited away, just to give their ears a rest.
He was almost tempted to clamp his ears with his paws to dull the tone of her voice.
"How about you go find a rogue and "whoop" his butt then, better yet, let me come and watch." Oh, he could be awful. "Then we'll see how tough you are." He flicked his tail and growled at her question. What was he? He certainly wasn't cut out for being a rogue but he couldn't go back...there. That horrible place full of stupid idiots. Though, judging from this girl, rogues weren't much better, though he had to admit she could be a pridecat herself.
"I am not a baby, if you hadn't noticed, I'm bigger and smarter than you so go annoy someone else."
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:14 am
She made herself as tall as she could as he went on and on about all the stupist crap! "Why don't I just whoop your butt and then you won't need to watch!" She scoffed and mock eyed him up and down. "I could definitely take you." She proclaimed, completely sure of herself. Well she obviously wouldn't feel any other way, even if he was a grown adult male.
"Hmph you may be older and duller but that sure doesn't mean you're not a baby, mr. dung-beetle." She thought about staying just to keep annoying him, this was amusing. She should tell her sisters about it and then have them come out to these so-called 'dangerous' rogue lands!
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:20 am
Okay so Yen Ha was maybe a /little/ bit afraid. Okay so he was bigger but this girl certainly could talk the talk, as it were. What if she did beat him up? He was tired, never been in a fight in his life and did not have the strength to stand let alone wrestle off an irritating cub. Besides he couldn't hurt her if he wanted to. If he did she'd go running to mummy and daddy and he'd have two angry lions on his paws.
No-sir-ee! Yen Ha was not going to end up getting himself killed cos some little brat liked to shoot her mouth off.
"You could, but there'd be no point. I'm not a mindless brute." He huffed, finding himself falling to her level, so much for being smart. "I use my brain, not my claws." His ears twitched.
"So, run along to mummy, little one, before the rogues get you." He laughed.
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:25 am
Mindless brute, she liked the sound of that! But wait.. was he implying that she was whatever that was because she wanted to fight and he did not? She bared her teeth at him and rolled his eyes.
"Maybe not a mindless brute but you sure are a dunder head." She spat out before turning and stalking away, tail twitching. "Obviously you don't use your brain well enough if ya've forgotten already that cubs don't snitch like that." At least, she and her sisters didn't. Sometimes they boasted to other cubs that they'd go tell.. but that was only when the other was a really big threat.
What a dumby whatever that boy's name was. She hopped a hippo ate him!
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:25 pm
He leaned his head back as she bared her teeth, imagining her little body coming at him, attaching to his face and clawing out his eyes. His pretty eyes! His eyes were the only little bit of colour he owned and he certainly wouldnt have them damaged by this thuggish little brat.
"I use my brain the proper way." He replied, standing stiffly. Oh how his legs hurt him. He took a small step, winced and raised a paw. The pads - that had not been used so much in their entire lives - were sore and splitting from all the overuse. Ouch.
"Just leave me alone, kid, I'm not going to fight you, so you being a 'snitch' doesn't come into it." He shook a forepaw and placed it gingerly back to the ground. Then he raised his other paw, ears drooping as he looked at the chapped pad.
His paws couldn't take much more of this.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:06 am
She blinked and made an ugly face. Of course whether or not she was a snitch came into it! He'd just implied she was one! She huffed and snorted, watching him a minute. He was pathetic. "Whatever." She finally mumbled, sourly.
She turned and moved away, glancing over her shoulder with narrowed eyes. "Hope the hyenas don't get you." She said snottily before running off to go find a new game to play and vent how angry she was!
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:29 pm
Glad to see that she was leaving, Yen Ha released a deep breath and was about to sit when her words halted him, mid-action. His head had snapped up, his eyes wide.
Hyenas?
He swallowed back a lump in his throat and flattened his ears, gazing around him, suddenly sensing a thousand hyena eyes glaring at him from imaginary shadows. His tail curled up against his stomach, his head dropped and suddenly he looked very small - though he wasn't really that big for his age anyway.
Then, realising that he was looking rather pitiful he sucrried forwards a few steps, wincing each time a paw set down. "What do you mean, hyenas? There aren't any around here. I would have smelt them." But he didn't sound convinced.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:02 am
She slowed and looked over her shoulder and groaned. What was with lions these days? Leave 'em alone when you finally feel like it and then they have some sort of attachment issue or something. She slowed down only a little and gave him a devilish grin. "Maybe not out in the open but one place I ain't allowed to go is full of 'em." She finally had stopped and turned around. She knew something he didn't!
"It's the graveyard pride. Didn't your mom or dad ever tell you 'bout it?" She said, suddenly looking confused and a little suspicious. "That ways a bit.." She turned slightly away from the direction of the pridelands and pointed with her paw. "Usually they stay in the elephant graveyard but sometimes they're around." She didn't know that for a fact really, she'd never even seen one. "You can see it from priderock." Though for some reason her mother didn't want her on priderock! She'd went there one day anyhow.
She just started to laugh suddenly. "You aren't chicken are you?" She teased.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:08 am
"Of course I'm not chicken." He spluttered, glaring at her with his piercing green eyes. "My mother told me all about those slobbering mutts. They smell as bad as their mind works. Stupid creatures. Why would I be scared of them?" He was gaining his high and mighty tone again, holding his head higher with each word.
"They'd be too stupid to know how to track a lion, so they'll never find me. Besides, I'm not sticking around these parts much longer." He laughed. "Unlike you, I don't have to do what my mother tells me." He flicked an ear.
"And, I'm far bigger too. You'd be a little bitesize snack for those dirty beasts."
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