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 Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:42 am
 Alana had been looking after her cubs perfectly fine without Chui being around, she missed him there was no doubt about that. She thought she had found a mate in him, someone she could trust but then he left and she had his cubs. She didn't mind though, she had four beautiful cubs and they were all learning well.
She had taken her little boy out with her today while the others were still sleeping. They were known for waking up and following her every now and then but she would she would have some mother, son time while she could, after all with three girls and only one boy he didn't get all that much attention and wished that he would feel that she loved him the same as the girls.
"This way!" She smiled happily before picking him up in her mouth and climbed up a tree, putting him down on one the branches.
"Hold on tight, thats it." She smiled looking down at him proudly He was going to be good with the tree's she could see that.
The little cub loved his bonding time with his mother and so happily let her pick him up and put him on a branch where he clung to it for dear life. He was high up, really high up but he wanted to show his mother just how good he was at all the tree thing.
He moved along the branch a little and then clung to it, did he just hear something? It must have been his mother, he couldn't have heard anything.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:57 am
 The trek back to the jungle had been short, though still longer than it should have been. Chui was worried for his son, who had decided to follow him instead of stay with his mother. He was much too young to be separated from her, but there was no way he could force the cub to stay. It was his choice to leave...and, quite frankly, Chui did want a good reason to see Kweupe and the others every now and again. The male heaved a sigh as he looked over his shoulder.
"No going back now.." he murmured to himself. The father looked down at his son, who was busying himself with chasing something green and very quick, and smirked.
"What have you got there Han?" he asked, the smile lingering on his maw. But only for a moment longer. He heard something, though he wasn't sure what, moving up above them. It was the jungle, after all, so it could be another leopard. But on the off chance that it wasn't, Chui focused his attention upward, only occasionally glancing down at Han, who he had pulled toward him just in case. One, two....three! He hopped, but to no avail as his prey hopped away faster still. He looked over in the direction it had gone, a deep frown on his face. Why did it have to be so quick and small? couldn't it be a bit bigger, and maybe a bit more sluggish? ...But then where would the thrill of the chase be? Han pondered this for only a moment before proceeding with his hunt, his frown being replaced by a more determined expression.
One...two......three! He hopped again, but just like what had been happening for the last hour, the little thing got away again.
"Man!" he grunted in frustration, then with brows furrowed he followed again. And again...and again. Still nothing. He would have kept at it too, had his father not interrupted him. Before then he'd completely forgotten that he was supposed to following the much larger male. Now with eyes looking up at Chui he grinned.
"Just a bug dad, but it keeps getting a..." and his ears went back, body lowering to the ground, when he saw his father suddenly become alert. He had been pulled closer, and as he looked up where his father was looking he noticed a white figure in the higher branches of the trees. The young cub squinted a bit, but couldn't make out what it was.
"Dad...over there.." he said slowly, trying to get Chui's attention.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:12 am
Alana saw her sons ears twitch and looked at him curiously,
"Everything ok sweetie?" She wasn't bothered by anything on the ground, she would kill any leopard that tried to harm her son or any of her daughters and so she wasn't really bothered what was down there.
She walked over to him and gave him a soft nuzzle and licked his fur.
"Your ok, now come on up you get and turn around for me ok?" She smiled at him. He was the only one of the cubs that would obviously show who the father was. The others were lighter and Alana saw herself in them more then she did in her son.
He wasn't so sure about not being worried about the other leopard and the strange looking cub that he could see on the ground but his mother didn't seem worried and he was sure she would have seen them to.
"I am okay mother." He smiled and shakily stood up before turning himself around. It really wasn't very easy but he managed it and then ran towards his mother hiding between her legs when he got to her.
"I did it mother, I did it!" He smiled softly up at her before turning again.
"Who are they mother?" He was talking about the leopard and the strange cub but he didn't know his mother hadn't seen them.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:25 am
He had his eyes already in the trees, that was certain. And Han didn't have to say a word, he had already spotted the white pelts against the green of the leaves. Since the other didn't do so much as move along the branch, Chui lowered his guard a bit and took a seat, still making sure Han was right beside him before looking back up, squinting.
"Other leopards.." he said quietly to his son, just to reassure him it wasn't a mindless, hostile creature. But something seemed familiar about the pelt...something he couldn't quite grasp just by looking. So he stood, tugging Han after him so he didn't lose track of the cub, and went toward the tree.
The scent was familiar too.....but whose was it? He circled the base of the tree as he thought it over, his son watching with a curious look.
Han had only been watching his father, well...for the most part. Other times he would look back up at the white in the trees, tilting his head curiously. Would he ever be able to climb that high? Would he want to be up that high? He smirked and shook his head. No, probably not. Then his attention went back to his dad, who was squinting up at the white pelts as well.
"Other leopards?" the cub asked when his father mentioned it. "So there's more leopards here?" Han asked, but got no reply. Instead he got tugged forward, almost falling face first into the dirt. He caught himself though, and followed hastily after Chui, who was circling the base of a tree when he got there.
"Dad..?" His tone had a touch of worry in it as he watched his father circle the trunk more than a dozen times.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:41 am
Alana just nuzzled and licked her son untill he mentioned the strangers she knew was beneath them but hadn't been bothered by them.
"I don't know, one second." She stood up and looked down and it didn't take her more then a second to work out who it was and with her girls not far away and possibly waking up she wasn't going to allow him to go anywhere near them.
"Stay here okay? I will be back in a minute or two." She whispered gently before nuzzling her son and then jumped down the tree landing infront of Chui.
"So you returned." Her voice was harsher then normal. She had been ditched with a cub before and Heu was wonderful to bring up but now she had four and bringing up four on her own was no where near as easy.
Wituri watched his mothers reaction change the second she saw the strangers and it confused him. He had never seen his mother like that before, she was always so sweet and gentle but this was her being protective? Wow.
He laid himself down and looked down at his mother, she was acting so strangely but he watched and strained his ears. He wanted to know what was going on!
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:49 am
Almost as soon as she landed in front of him did he want to knock himself upside the head with something very very...hard. Of course! He smiled warmly, though her tone of voice didn't sound all too welcoming, and he couldn't really blame her.
"Alana..." he said. "Of course, who else would want to venture that high up a tree." Chui it wasn't a good time for even the smallest of jokes, but the atmosphere had gotten tense so suddenly, and with Han sitting right nearby he didn't want him to be too uncomfortable. That was really something he couldn't spare the cub from, given the circumstances he was walking into though...
It took him another moment to acknowledge her would-be welcome, and he nodded slowly in reply. "Yes, I have..."
The sudden appearance of the other leopard startled Han, and as an initial reaction he went straight for his father's back legs, not wanting the new company to see him. She didn't attack, so she wasn't violent, and when his father started speaking to her, Han poked his head out from behind his hiding place and listened.
'Alana, huh? So he knows her..' the cub thought to himself. He was too young to assume that the two were anything more than acquaintances, so he listened on, not wanting to ruin the conversation with his presence. He figured if his father wanted to introduce him, he would, so he sat and listened patiently, both eyes intently watching the leopardess.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:58 am
Alana was glad she had left her son high up and out the way, she didn't want him down here meeting his father, nor did she wish for any of her daughters to, especially when she had noticed the cub behind him.
"You get around a bit. Leave his mother too did you?" She was being harsh but she was angry, not just angry but hurt. She had four cubs which were fathered by him though she wouldn't call him much of a father. The cub behind him may not have been obviously his but the spots and she knew a hybrid when she saw it. After all heu had been one.
Alana then looked up in the tree at her son. He was still safe. Which is all she wanted. Her children meant everything to her.
He wished he could have been down there trying to work out what it was his mother was saying. Unfortuantly he knew that she was good at talking in riddles and as he was so young he didn't quite understand what was going on those his blue eyes didn't leave the three below him. He did contemplate jumping down to join them but he knew and his mother knew though he could do it, he could also risk his life so he stayed put.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:08 am
She spoke harshly, but he understood why, and Chui sighed a long sigh, wondering where to start. It was a bit of a story, really, so it took him more than a moment to gather his thoughts and clear his throat. The male then looked at Alana, a small, apologetic smile on his maw, and he spoke.
"No," he started, just to answer her question. "She and I chose to part ways. She wanted to lead one type of life, I wanted to lead another." He broke his gaze only for a moment to look up into the trees, his eyes not catching the white on the cub just above them. "Her pregnancy wasn't something either of us planned on, her being a traveler and all." He sighed again. "But it happened, and I couldn't find it in myself to leave yet another female carrying my cubs.."
He stopped at this point, not knowing how far he should go with Han just behind him. The cub would find out sooner or later..
And so he listened, not at all liking what he was hearing. So...these two were connected in some way? But how? Han looked curiously at the leopardess with a small frown. Who was she, exactly, to his father? Who would she be to him?
'I'll ask later...' he thought to himself, and he continued to sit there and listen, in case there was anything more Chui would say about the two of them.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:36 am
Alana just laughed before turning to the tree and jumping up it.
"I'm sorry sweetie." She nuzzled her cub before picking him up and taking him back down the tree. As she reached the bottom she lowered her son to the ground, licking his head as she did so.
She didn't feel like she had to say anything the cub was obviously related to both the leopards and she wasn't about to hide her son. She was proud of him.
"This is Wituri our son. He has three sisters which you would have known if you had stuck about." She stood protectivly over her son, he wasn't going to get anywhere near him.
Wituri was shocked when his mother came up, aploigised and then took him down the tree. This was turning out to be an interesting turn of events that was for sure. What an earth was going on?
He then listened to his mother but didn't catch the word 'our' as he was too busy trying as hard as he could to just work out what was going on, who the strange leopard was and who the really strange cub was!
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:48 am
Her laugh didn't quite get to him, but he frowned when she left suddenly, only to return with a ball of fur that shared the color of his pelt, and had a mix of hers as well. Chui looked curiously at it, a small smile slowly making its way across his maw as she explained who it was.
"Wituri...huh?" he said, pink eyes focused on nothing else but the cub she now stood in front of. It seemed she didn't want him to get near their son. He didn't say a word about it, and instead took a seat. he used his tail to scoot Han out of the way and push him to his side, still with no introduction. Not yet.
"And...three sisters, you said?"
Han's frown deepened when he heard her say 'our son'. It meant his dad had another family...that he didn't know about? Strange. It threw off the cub for a second, and as he tried to sort it all out he felt Chui scoot him out of his hiding spot and sit him right out in the open. For a moment he froze, not knowing what to say exactly.
Then he saw the other cub, and he smiled a wide smile. Han got up and, without a thought on either of the adults around him, he went to Wituri and greeted him.
"Hi, I'm Han..what's your name?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:28 am
Alana felt sickened by the lack of interest it seemed Chui had of his children. She laid herself down licking her son for a while before the other cub spoke. She then nuzzled him to go and talk to the other cub that Chui had clearly pushed out of this. How did she ever think of him as a father?
"Don't come near my children. You can't even look after the one you brought with you." She didn't move from the position she had moved into. It was vunerable but she knew Chui had more sense then to try and attack her and she was sure it wasn't in his nature but then again, she hadn't expected him to run off and have another family.
She then turned to listen to the cubs conversation. The little one was called Han was he. Chui couldn't even introduce his own son. Alana couldn't believe him. She hadn't been this angry and upset in a long time.
Wituri hadn't expected anyone to talk to him let alone his mother then push him over to talk to the strange cub. He did so, getting up and walking over but he stayed clear of the other leopard. His mother was angry and so he knew that this other leopard had done something wrong. His mother didn't get angry for no reason.
"I'm Wituri." He spoke quietly still unsure of what exactly was going on. He was having such a nice bonding time with his mother as well and then these strangers came along.
"Why do you look funny?" It was an innocent cub-like question. The cub wasn't like any other leopard cub he had ever seen.
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:56 am
An even harsher tone came along, and he winced. He wasn't used to an angry Alana...but again, she had her reasons. But he had his as well, as well as limits to how patient he could be when he wasn't doing anything to make her any more angry at the moment. Or ever again, he hoped.. His eyes moved to the cub's conversation for a moment, and he smiled at Han proudly. He would've given him a good nuzzle, but he didn't want to interrupt the two, so he turned his attention back to Alana. His smile disappeared, replaced by a more serious, slightly apologetic expression.
"Kiuaji'Hanzua, his mother named him," he said, officially introducing his son. "After her late father. He was the youngest of the bunch, and he wanted to come with me." The male sighed, but continued. "I didn't want to separate him from his brothers and sisters, but he insisted...and I really couldn't refuse."
The leopard stopped, then looked up at her again, and he went on. " Look...I understand why you're angry with me. I can even understand why you don't want me to be their dad...but couldn't we talk it over before you completely push me out?" He was taking on a pleading tone.
"Please..?"
The cub blinked at the question, though his smile remained. He thought it over for a moment, glancing at Wituri's mother every now and again, before he finally came up with the answer.
"Oh, well my mom's a cheetah. That's why I look different," he said, then puffed his lower lip. "But I don't look funny." Han looked over the other cub with a curious eye, wondering what he could say to retaliate. When he came up with nothing, he decided a quick change of subject would be a better choice.
"So you were high up in the tree earlier huh? How'd the ground look from up there?" That was one of the things Han was most excited to learn, how to climb a tree, especially since Chui had offered to teach him once they got to the jungle. "My mom and dad can climb trees, but my dad says that he won't teach me until I'm a little bigger."
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:17 am
Alana just looked at him.
"What is there to talk about? How can I trust you not to go off and have yet another family. for all I know you could have three or four already!" She turned from him again and looked at the cubs. So his mother was a cheetah, well thats interesting.
"Tell me Chui..." She turned back to him "Tell me why should I trust you? Why should I give you a chance?" She didn't want to because though she didn't mind hurting she didn't wish it upon her children, who would?
Wituri looked at the cub not really understanding how his mother could be a cheetah and his father a leopard but he would ask his mother about it later, she knew everything.
"Yeah the ground looks weird up there. Mother has a special time for me where she helps me learn to climb trees and get use to the height because I am the only boy. She does it with my sisters too but they have each other and stuff." He could ramble about his family for days, he loved them. His sisters, well they could be annoying but then what sisters weren't?
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:13 pm
Chui sat in thought, wondering how he could answer her questions to make her believe that he meant it when he said he wanted to be a part of the cubs' lives. So...he decided to simply just answer her questions as straightforward as he could possibly manage.
"For starters the only cubs running around with half my blood inside of them are our cubs and Han and his brothers and sisters. And I'm not about to go off and accidentally have another family. I don't want another family.."
He sighed and lowered his head. And in a whisper he finished his sentence. "I want this one...and I wouldn't have come back if I didn't.."
"Weird?" Han replied. It wasn't exactly what he was expecting to hear...but everyone had their own way of seeing things...he figured. And he had 'special time' with his mom? It wasn't something Han was used to, usually preferring to stick to his dad all the time. And he wasn't the only boy in the family either. So they had pretty different lives...very different families.
"Well...that's interesting. I'll have to see for myself when I can manage." His smile didn't falter, but it was at this point that he chose to look upward into the tree that Wituri and his mother had come down from and back at the cub. If he could do it with his mom...Han could surely manage with his dad right?
"I usually hang around with my dad, but my mom pulled me away whenever she wanted to bathe me or something like that. There aren't any trees out there, so none of us could really learn how to do that." Han padded over to the leopard. "You're pretty lucky y'know. I've always wanted to learn. My mom says it's really fun, climbing and stuff."
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 4:31 am
Alana just looked at him and then at the cubs. Could she trust him? Part of her wanted to just because he had been so wonderful and they had such fun together but she had her cubs to think about. She didn't want them to get hurt. However, could she cause them more pain by keeping their father from them?
She let out a soft sigh and looked at him again.
"Okay fine but you leave or run off again you won't ever see the cubs again." She meant it. She wanted to trust him, she wanted to so much but she knew the routine of having cubs and being dumped.
"Please Chui, don't let us down."
She was pleading with him because she did care about him and she loved her children, their children. She just had to hope that this was the right decision she was making.
Wituri didn't know what to say now. He would have loved to have spent time with his father and had that male contact but he couldn't because the cub in front of him had stolen his father. However Wituri was a kind cub and so he just nodded and looked back at his mother who seemed confused.
He then went over to his mother and rubbed against her leg listening to what was being said. He understood what his mother was saying and so he turned back to the cub.
"Looks like I can have time with my father now too."
He spoke softly and then leaned against his mothers leg a little. He wasn't sure what to make of his father or his half brother who was blue which was strange enough to begin with. Well they would have to see what would happen. He would be interested to see what his sisters response to their half brother would be.
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