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 Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:20 pm
Kali could feel it in her bones. She was going to get bigger very, very soon. The knowledge made her prideful and confident; she strutted around the area with a snobbish air about her. Her siblings were all going to get larger as well, but they weren't nearly as important as she.
Of course.
So it was natural that she didn't really pay attention to where she was going. Because older lionesses never had to do anything they were told, and her mother specifically told her to watch where she was going, especially outside the den area. Which she often left to spite the older lioness.
But her paws found a natural path that twisted through a clump of trees, and Kali enjoyed tracing it around and around. She never expected to find something bigger than her get in the way, though. All that ever crossed her path were little bugs and fallen plants.
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:41 pm
Too many things had been happening to her; too many distracting things. She had met too many others along her path for vengeance. All of them had filled her head with different thoughts. All she wanted to focus on was Chardon; memories and visions of him and what he had done to her. He had slept with her and left her.
He had slept with her and left her.
She was pregnant and alone.
Yes, that was it...She just had to focus on that. When she focused on that, she could feel her anger burning deep in the pits of her heart and stomach. It felt comforting. It spurred her on and kept her going. It was like poisonous medicine. She could feel it helping her along, but was unaware that ideas of revenge could drag one down into a pit that one could not climb out of.
Ama's wanderings had let her to a jungle area. It was pleasant-looking; soothing in temperature and scent. She walked its twisted paths and slithered through the trees. She jumped over a fallen log and into a small clearing, planning to continue down the strange path until it led her out of the trees. But something caught her eyes.
She was now walking next to a lion cub...?
She hated cubs.
Ama glanced at the tiny lioness and raised an eyebrow. Well, she had no plans on changing her path...Maybe it would...Go away?
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:57 am
Kali was busy walking around the path, dragging her paws and thinking. Perhaps this was the jungle that Hadaya had mentioned before after his vision? Was this where she would learn about her future? It was a curious thing, this vision. She wasn't entirely sure what to make of it.
Though she knew for a fact that she still hated males. Her father had deserted her family and she despised him for it. If she went along with her sibling(s) to find him, she would probably end up tearing him to pieces in anger.
A new pair of paw steps interrupted her thoughts and she glanced up to see a new face.
"What are you doing?"
Kali had been walking there first, after all. It wasn't every day that a random lioness came and suddenly began walking along the same path with you. It just wasn't...done.
The cub eyed the older female with a wary but insistent eye.
"I was here first. Step aside."
It didn't matter if elders needed to be respected. This was a battle of rights, and Kali won paws down.
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:22 am
Well, how perfectly...Disgusting.
This cub reminded Ama of how much she hated children. In fact, this cub was probably the epitome of why Ama hated children. She was quite a blunt little thing, using commands and acting like she owned that jungle.
But she had no idea who she was talking to.
"What am I doing?" Ama echoed, still walking and glancing at the cub through the corners of her eyes. "I'm walking." Then her eyes widened and her mouth opened with a tiny gasp, her expression full of sarcastic worry. "Or are you blind?" But she didn't stop walking. She didn't move off the path. She would never give in to a cub. Or even a full-grown lion, for that matter. As far as Ama was concerned, she was WAY above that cub in levels of importance. There was no way she was stepping off that path until she was out of the jungle.
"Actually, I was here first since I'm older than you, child." she pointed out, adding a belittling kind of emphasis on the title she used for the cub.
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:35 pm
"I'm surely not blind, but you might as well be if you can't see that I was walking here first," Kali retorted indignantly. She was rather proud of herself for thinking that one up.
She hated stubborn lions. Especially older ones, too. They didn't know how to be nice and just share. They always had to have their way. They always thought they were better than her, and that's just not true.
"Just because you're older than be doesn't mean you get to win." Kali turned her head to glare upwards at the stranger. "I'm not a child, either. I'm due to get older any day now, thank you." With that she turned her head up into the air again, tail balancing gracefully behind her, and trotted a few extra steps faster to get a head of the female.
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:09 pm
"Tch," Ama looked away from the cub and glared ahead, speeding up so they were at the same pace again.
How could cubs act like that? All of them were exactly the same. Selfish, annoying, irritating, angry little brats who tugged and poked at you, demanding their way until they got what they wanted, and screaming and crying when they didn't. Ama despised every single one of them. She couldn't believe that she herself had been a cub at one point, but she was never like any of the cubs she had met, no, no, no. She had been a perfect little cub, of that she was sure.
"I always win." Ama said flatly, her words resounding with an absolute truth that no one would disagree with. That was just the way things were.
"Grow any day?" Ama repeated excitedly with a feigned surprised smile. "Into a bigger brat?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 4:00 pm
Kali made a face and sped up her pace as well, going as fast as her still-cub-sized-paws would go.
Cubs were bad? Adults were even worse! They thought they knew everything and demand respect just because they're older. And most of the time they're even stupider than the cub in the first place! So they definitely do NOT deserve respect just because of age. It was a ridiculous notion and Kali despised whoever had made that thought a tradition in the world.
"Oh? Well, there's a first time for everything," Kali retorted. "At least when I'll grow I'll be bigger than you. Are you that size naturally or did you get squished when you were little?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:36 am
"Bigger than me? I haven't finished growing, sweetheart." Ama retorted slyly, eyes narrowing to slits at the cub. She sped up her pace, anger building. "And I have a naturally small build. Which, I'll have you know, males prefer." Or so she had been told. "But," Ama added, smiling 'sweetly', "I'm sure you'll find a nice, fat male who'll just LOVE the bulky body you plan on growing into." Amalahle lashed her tail, as if emphasizing her harmful intentions.
This cub was nothing but a brat. Absolutely nothing but a brat. Ah, yes, insulting the cub inwardly made her feel better...
Despite the cool front she was putting up, inside Amalahle was seething and steaming with embarrassment and rage at the insults the cub has tossed out so carelessly. She hadn't even THOUGH about them. Was it that possible for a cub to be so conniving at such a young age? Ama sneered at the trees ahead.
Where the heck was the end of that blasted forest?!
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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:20 pm
"Yet. When I am finished growing, however, we'll soon find that what I say now is going to be true." Kali, in turn, sped up as well. She couldn't really go much faster; her little paws couldn't move nearly as fast enough as the older lioness beside her. Which wasn't fair. She'd have to think of something else to do instead...
"Ugh, you like males?" She frowned. Yet another reason to dislike this one. "My father left me and my family; I can't stand them. "Well, try not to get attached to a really big male. You know he'll tear you in half. Fat ones, too. It would be sweet of you to save those ones for me, since I'll be able to handle them." Her sweet smile matched the one she was given.
It really took no real thought for the young one to think of insults to toss back to the lioness. The poor cub had been scarred from the start, and her negative outlook didn't help the matter. Her paws nimbly leapt over a big fallen branch in her path, and it gave her a step ahead. Grinning, she continued to lead.
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:35 pm
"That's it." Ama spat, almost flat-out running at that point. Her hair was messy in her face, teeth bared and eyes flashing dangerously. If any normal passer-by had seen the lioness in that state, they would've surely known to walk--no, run in the opposite direction.
Fast.
"I don't have TIME to be sharing insults with a bratty, irritating, fuzzy-headed, whining CUB!" she roared, focusing on the path ahead rather than at the cub who was moving nimbly just ahead of her. "So WHAT if your father left you? I didn't even know my father when I was a cub. My mother left him. And who cares?" she laughed, a frightening grin on her face. But her expression quickly darkened into a sneer. "I don't have time for this." she hissed, tossing the hair out of her face. "Revenge on Chardon is much more important than idle banter with some little kid."
With that, Amalahle slowed her pace. And in slowing her pace, something inside her felt that she had "won" the "fight", even if the cub did or didn't feel the same way.
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:19 pm
Ohh, so Kali won. By default. This lioness had quit, slowing down like that. Proud of her accomplishment and the knowledge that she had, indeed, won, the cub slowed down as well to match the other's pace (except for a half-step ahead).
She frowned, however, when names started flying. Who was this girl to call Kali all the names, huh?
"Oh? Well you're a stuck-up, snobby-nosed, jealous, selfish, mean SHORTY!" she retorted, yelling just as loud as her competitor. "Good for your mother, then! Oh, but you obviously had enough time to trot around in a circle with me, did you not?"
Wait. Revenge on who? That sounded promising. "Who is Chardon?" now her sly intellect was coming into play; if Chardon was a boy, and this lioness didn't like him, then that meant she didn't like boys. Like Kali. So perhaps they did have something in common. What a surprise.
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:26 pm
Without taking any thought to the fact that cubs had some innocence that adults did not possess, Ama replied swiftly, too absorbed in her own smoldering rage to take heed that her revenge was not something she spoke to anyone about.
"He was a lion that I loved. And he was mine for a time...Until," she breathed, eyes narrowing and claws digging deep into the earth with each step. "...I woke one day and he was gone. He left, just like that. And now I'm pregnant with HIS cubs...And he's GONE." she spat, eyes flickering. "But he underestimated me..." she added after a moment of silence. "I'm sure I've spent much more time than him out in the wilderness. I know things...I know I can find him." she murmured, as if coaxing herself. "And when I do..." Her lip curled to reveal a fang. "I'll tear him to pieces."
And she intended to.
Really.
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:34 pm
She laughed.
It was too good to hear! Another like her that simply wanted to rip males (or, in this case, just one particular male) into pieces. It was a good feeling to know that she wasn't alone in the world after all.
Still giggling, Kali stopped and looked up (not so much, since she was almost the same size as this lioness) at the other. And she smiled.
"Then I wish you luck on that quest. I hope the traitor gets what he deserves, and only at your paws." She even went so far as to give her a courteous nod. This wasn't an apology, oh no. Nor was it a peace treaty. It was a common ground for both of them.
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:01 pm
Ama's ears twitched at the sound of the cub's laughter, not at all liking the fact that the cub was somehow amused.
She raised an eyebrow at the girl's well-wishes and respectful gesture.
Well, well, well...A respectful gesture from a cub? That was something new; something very new. Ama smiled haughtily at the cub and gave the slightest nod of her own. This cub was a brat, no doubt at all. But...Perhaps she wasn't so completely like other cubs. Despite her abnormal size (or maybe Ama was just small...), the girl had a bit more in common with Ama than she first judged, now that she thought about it.
They both had plenty of insults to pass out, both thought they were better than everyone, both grew up without fathers, and both had some distaste for males.
Interesting, indeed...
"I wish you the same..." Ama said slowly, as if testing the words on her tongue. "...For the male who sired you."
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:49 pm
With a last smile--perhaps there was a bit of a twinkle in her eye, not to mention a little (a very small amount!) respect with it--to this new "ally," Kali turned away and began walking down the path again, heading on home. As fun as this adventure was, it was tiring.
And she had walked a long way. It was getting late and her mother would start worrying, she knew.
Her tail swayed side by side as she walked, a happy skip in her gait. She had made an enemy, fought, and had found a similarity. Today had been fruitful.
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