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laefe

PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:52 am


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Dawn broke quietly over the savannah as she walked, her mismatched paws dotted across the grass as if she were hardly there. Blood ran down her muzzle from the rabbit that had hung there only a few moments beforehand. It ran down her tan chest in rivulets, dancing along her fur.

Warrul wished that she was dancing right then, rather than walking in a fit of silence. She didn’t know where she was going just yet, didn’t know when she’d get back or what would happen if she couldn’t find that way back. What if she got lost forever this time? No story would ever cover that up, though she had her suspicions that her family could live without her arrogance and self assuredness.

Maybe her own sisters would finally be happier without their annoying younger sister constantly harping on them. Constantly claiming that she was the better of all of them. Surely they got sick of that, as Warrul had to admit she sometimes did get sick of it herself.

Maybe just once she would find her way on her own. That would be a nice twist.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:54 am


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A nice breeze fluttered the black wisp of hair about the head of the Halloween marked cheetah. His impossibly blue eyes danced in amusement at everything he saw before him, from the smallest bug to the largest water buffalo. Ithayiga couldn’t find a thing in the day that could be wrong or bad. Couldn’t find anything wrong with the amazing breeze that would make him lament his trip outside the cove just this once.

Cracking his small orange paws, Itha trotted along faster and swished his tail in rhythm with his steps, nearly singing out his happiness to the sun above as it rose in it’s jittery path across the sky. It almost seemed as though the sun was watered down a bit, though Itha knew that wasn’t true.

What could water down such an amazing thing?

Truthfully he found the sun hot, just as his twin Athi did. It burned his black fur and made it difficult to breath for the painful heat that was wrapped around him in a constricting way. Yet it warmed him when he was cold, brought happiness into his life as he looked up at it. What could be wrong with the sun?

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laefe

PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:55 am


If only that stupid sun would die down some, Warrul huffed to herself as she walked along her angry way. She was still lost, unable to follow her nose to find her way to her home any faster this way. As if the fact that the sun was coming up wasn’t enough, Warrul could hear other creatures beginning to waken from their slumbers. That spelled out bad things for her. What if she met one of those rapist lions that went around with the explicit intentions of merely making cubs from young cute lionesses?

She fell under three of those requirements, even if one of them was only her ego telling it to her.

What if she was captured and… and…

Heart leaping into her throat instantly, Warrul threw herself into a barrel rolling run, legs working as fast as they could take her in the hopes that she would outrun any of the lions that might want to have their way with her the way her mind told her they did. It assumed more than was going to happen naturally but that was the way of vain and easily excitable females. Overreacting.

This time to the extreme. Warrul smashed into a smaller form as she ran, tumbling head over heels and landing on her nose. Honey colored tail flicking in the air above her, the lioness lay stunned for a good long moment, confused.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:55 am


About to start consulting the sun about what he should do next in his day, the sun chose that moment to make up his mind for him and hurled a lioness at him. Whether or not it was the sun remained to be seen, but regardless a rather large lioness slammed into his much smaller side and sent Itha tumbling across the ground in a bone jarring way.

When his body finally came to a stop, Ithayiga lifted his blue eyes and glared at the lioness in a manner that had never come from him before. If it wasn’t for the fact that his elbow had nearly been shocked off of his body then the odds were good that the cheetah would have never even considered leveling that stare at her. She seemed as though she were as stunned as he was that this whole escapade had even happened.

“You don’t watch where you go do you?” Itha said, his voice level with no amount of anger or amusement in it at all. The shy side of him slid to the side as he glared at the lioness, knowing full well that it wasn’t entirely her fault. If he had been paying attention then he wouldn’t have gotten railroaded the way he just had.

Of course it was mostly her fault for running like that.

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laefe

PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:57 am


“Ouch..” Warrul finally let the word escape her muzzle as she lay on the ground in a heap. What had she run over and why was it talking to her as though she were some type of cub?

Twisting her tribal marked face and leveling green eyes at the creature before her, the lioness stopped before she said something very stupid and put her rather large paw in her muzzle once again. He was cute.

Of course most boys couldn’t hold a candle to her, they had to be gorgeous for her to even consider them as being flirt worthy. Face Value and all.

This one was pretty in that he was dainty and striped in contrasting bright colors with darkness seeming to pool across him in dancing shadows. It reminded her of darkness swallowing the sun at night, creeping across insidiously and taking it from the sky.

“I was… afraid.” Warrul’thun admitted before the male, watching him to see if he would simply scoff or if he would show her some sort of sympathy and try to soothe her worried and frightened female heart. Males were so easy to predict when they saw a pretty female.

Surely this one, even if it was a cheetah, felt the same way as most male lions out there. Wanted to help lionesses in their chivalrous ways. Unless HE was a rapist, but he was smaller than her and she was fairly certain that nothing bad would come from him other than that rather grouchy looking glare he was fixing at her right then.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:58 am


“Fear…” Itha knew all about that sadly, he’d always known about fear. He’d had it ever since he was a small cub and his brother Athi still had it. The two of them were mostly inseparable except at times like this where Itha’s heart made him wander to find other things, to find fun.

Maybe this female was the same but she’d gone and gotten lost?

“Next time go out with a friend or something so you won’t get lost and afraid then? That’s what I do with my twin brother Athi, he and I go out and explore together all the time. He’s just sleeping right now and I needed to walk. You could find a friend or a sibling to go with you on a walk I bet.” Itha said at last. It wasn’t really a ‘soothing’ phrase but it was his best attempt at being tactful considering the present state of them both.

Lifting himself up from the ground and looking at her, he saw lines and designs and a bunch of other swirls that could have matched his own if they weren’t so solidified in a general pattern. His own danced around him, hers were organized almost. She was no cheetah, judging by her tail even there was no way.

A lioness. He didn’t see too many lions given where he lived most of the time, but he did remember them being hulking beasts that could hurt a cheetah like himself. His father bore a nice long scar down one of his ruined eyes that told of a lion that got the better of him when he was younger. Itha wouldn’t let that happen to him.

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laefe

PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:59 am


Warrul fixed the cheetah before her with two bright green eyes and almost frowned. He was walking all over something that shouldn’t be touched by someone that didn’t know what they were talking about. Surely he didn’t know who she was or anything about her life to assume she could go out with one of her siblings or a ‘friend’ as if she had one of those.

Friends were beneath her.

Or at least that’s what Warrul’thun’s mind told itself when she felt alone and neglected among all her many siblings in their large family. She was the prettiest, but she got the least attention. Though that left some things up to other’s minds in terms of her ‘beauty’ outweighing any others in her family.

“I usually do just fine by myself thank you. My family wouldn’t go with me and I have no friends.” Warrul explained in an almost disdainful voice. “My name is Warrul’thun, do well to remember it… whoever you are.”

That would get him to go away certainly, or it would piss him off and the cheetah would attack her. Though that more than likely wouldn’t happen, cheetahs weren’t known for attacking lions all that often, general size and weight keeping them from being more than a passing threat in the mind. Usually it was only when small game was involved that cheetahs became a threat, faster than lions.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:00 am


A bark of laughter was all she got, rather than anger or attack, Ithayiga merely laughed at the idea of someone that was too stuck up to have friends. Surely there were others out there for this female to get along with, though he was seeming to deal with her fairly well on his own. She didn’t seem to bad, just vain and snotty.

“Well then you’ll just have to keep getting lost and afraid until you either learn your lesson or find your way around. I was going to offer to go with you until you got home, but clearly that isn’t going to go over well with you. Pride and all.” Itha told her bluntly, not sugar coating his words at all for her sake.

If she could tell him to ‘do well to remember her name’ then he sure as hell could be blunt about how prideful and vain she was. Almost annoyingly so in fact she was.

“My name’s Ithayiga. I don’t think you’d do well to remember it as you clearly don’t care about anyone other than yourself in regards to that at least. So don’t remember my name, for all the good it’ll do you anyway.”

A cheeky thing to say.

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laefe

PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:01 am


Warrul was about to snap at the cheetah for that remark at her pride and how she could just go and forget his name. However his remark earlier seemed to strike a chord in the lioness’ heart. He was going to offer to take her home?

Someone was going to take her home when she was already so lost?

“W-wait…” Warrul’thun said finally, her head almost hanging down below her shoulders in her attempt to swallow her own immense pride to ask the question that was all but festering within her heart. “Please… could you take me home? I’m so lost I don’t know where I’m at.”

If the cheetah ignored that then surely he wasn’t one for females or anything in distress. He looked like he was a little kind at least, he didn’t snap at her too hard. Most would have walked away by now too, yet here he still was for some reason. Why he was still here she didn’t know. She’d tried to make him go away hadn’t she?

Sure there was a nice side that Warrul hid most of the time but she hadn’t shown it at all to the cheetah before her. Maybe he was just a sap?
PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:02 am


Tilting his head just a tad to the side, Ithayiga screwed up his face to attempt to hold back the laugh that threatened to spill forth from his muzzle. She was a sad little thing to think that he was going to do that after what she said. Course it would be cruel of him to throw it out there and take it back.

Narrowing his blue eyes at her when she dropped her head, Itha sighed and looked all around him. If anyone saw him be nice to this lioness, if anyone in his family knew that he was being overly kind and assertive, shy little Ithayiga, then he would never live it down. Especially if Kito saw it.

For some reason his sister hated all lions even if their aunt was a lioness.

“Follow me.” He said gruffly, turning on his heels and leading her at an angle from the direction she was going, following the scents coming from her body to the direction he figured her family must be given those scents. Lions were so easy to understand given that they lived in giant clusters across the savannah.

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laefe

PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:02 am


Wanting to sigh herself, Warrul’thun kept her head bowed and followed after the cheetah. She was a prideful and strong thing, not used to having to bow her head and follow a cheetah across the savannah to find her own damn family. Why should she?

All the other times she’d made it there and back… all the other times she’d hunted and survived on her own. However this time had scared her, maybe that was the beginning of the end for her. If she couldn’t hunt and she couldn’t find anything to relate to… what good was she?

Shaking her head slowly, Warrul walked along her way slowly, her head watching the shadow marked sun before her as he moved.

A little sun. A sun to guide me home.

The thought warmed her up a bit as she kept moving, as she headed towards her family and something she felt odd about.
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