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 Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:39 pm
 Hadaya was having an interesting few days. He had just returned to the Simbafutaji with his son.
His son?
He couldn't really fathom that. He and Lee had brought two lives into this world, and one had stayed with her mother in that all-female pride. The other, the boy, had to come with his dad back to the Simbafutaji. But what did Hadaya know about being a father? He was worried that the cub was doomed to growing up a failure, just like his dad.
The worst thing about that was Hadaya had grown up alone. It almost made sense for him to be the way he was. He didn't want to be the CAUSE of it on his son, because he was actually TEACHING the kid how to be like this. He frowned.
He was wandering in the rogue lands, not too far from home, while Dura was playing with other cubs in the pridal lands. Hadaya said he was out hunting, but he wasn't really. He was just thinking. He sighed, a little bird sleeping on his back. At least he could take care of this little thing. It made no sounds, and seemed to like him regardless of what he did.
Maybe Dura would be like that...
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:20 pm
 He still hadn't found them. How could he not have found them?! It was at once infuriating and disheartening. Was it not his mission, his destiny? To find those who had done so much wrong, and deliver unto them God's justice? He'd begun to doubt himself when they had not been revealed to him soon after his deliverance. Now that slow creeping of hesitance had begun to return. Perhaps he'd been without company for too long. Maybe he should break a while and find respite in the care of others until his spirits were restored.
That was the mindset with which he'd begun to journey to where he'd heard tell of a pride. An accepting one, so it was said, he presumed to take lodging with them for a time, and get his bearings. The pride was by the sea, which was cause for a bit of unrest in his soul, but nothing that could not be suppressed. The sea was at once his love and his fear, having nearly claimed his life on that fateful night so many moons ago.
As he neared where the pride should be he noticed a yellow speck against the relative green of the terrain. Something about it seemed familiar, and for one moment he dared to hope, but no. It wasn't him. It was, however, someone he knew. Or at least thought he did. Had he really been traveling so long? He shook his head and smirked. This will be interesting... Without a word he began to head towards Hadaya, his pace slow, his stature calm and at ease.
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:38 pm
The lanky adult lion yawned and shook his head, having gotten a bit lost in his daydreaming and reverie. He blinked, looking around. Why was he getting the feeling that something bad was about to happen? He didn't think anything of it. Knowing himself as well as he did, he couldn't help but shrug it off. He generally always felt like something bad was about to happen.
The little bird on his back stirred and poked its head up, chirping a bit as it stretched its wings. He looked back at it, smiling softly. It seemed to be healing okay, though he didn't know if it could fly. He didn't know if it had a name, or if it could even talk. He had taken to calling it 'him', and had named him Pekua. It stuck Hadaya as a bit rude to be naming other creatures, but the little bird responded to it, and never told him otherwise.
It never said anything.
Still smiling fondly, he strode a few steps with his head turned, looking back to the road in front of him just in time to see a blue lion coming his way. A very familiar blue lion. Hadaya stopped. How had he managed to find him, after Hadaya had spent so long running? No. This was coincidence. Cruel, meanspirited coincidence. A karmic joke. Maybe, if Hadaya had any luck at all, the other lion wouldn't recognize him.
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:58 am
Of course Hak had recognized the lion. He was bigger, certainly, but there was still that clear look to him that made Hadaya stand out like a beacon. The stance, the uncertain posture...it could be no other lion than the one from long ago.
Head held high, he continued down the road, not looking directly at the poor fellow, but certainly starting to smile ever so slightly. He managed not to increase his pace. Part of him felt badly that even after so long the boy was still fearful. Had he been so terrifying that long ago? Perhaps...
He met the lion on the road. He passed him. Only once he was perhaps ten feet further, behind the lad now, did he slow and stop.
"It's been a while, hasn't it? Found your family yet, boy?"
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:55 pm
Hadaya swallowed hard, watching the other lion carefully. He remembered the images vividly, and the days he had spent running. Traumatized. But he wasn't that little boy anymore. He was an adult. He was a male. He was a father. He knew he had to stand his ground, and for some reason he wasn't as scared as he thought he should have been. His eyes moved to the floor, his expression fairly bland, his tail flicking behind him warily.
He breathed a small sigh when the other lion passed however, feeling like he had dodged the lion equivalent of a bullet. He was about to shake his head and move on, but the voice stopped him even before he started to move. He grimaced, hesitant, and remained facing forward. He didn't want to look back, because that meant engaging in the conversation.
But then again, he didn't really like the idea of having his back to the larger, more intimidating and capable lion.
"I made my own family," he replied, conviction in his tone. He had done just that, and he felt a protectiveness for them that gave him enough fortitude to not succumb to his impulse to run. Even if his every muscles seemed to be pulling for that action. He looked down, not wanting to ask how the other was doing, afraid he might not like the answer.
"I never thought I'd see you again."
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:51 am
Oh? That was surprising...obviously with age and size had come some sort of bravery. It was certainly interesting to see the changes. When last he'd seen the cub fleeing from him in terror he'd been concerned he would remain to wimpy to even grow out his mane properly, let alone sire anything.
"The fates push people apart and bring them together in the strangest ways, don't they?" He half-purred, moving to stand before the boy. He'd still think of him as a boy, despite his being grown. He looked down at his lowered head a moment before sighing, and letting out a small laugh. "Raise your head boy. You're an adult now, aren't you? Or is that mane tacked on with clay and mud?"
In all honesty he hadn't come to perturb the lion. He likely would not be staying with this pride now, which meant he should be moving on, and quickly, but there was something he longed to ask. "You won't have long to look at me. I just want to know one little thing. And I know it's something you know. You know it as well as you know your own name...The alst time we met it burned itself into your mind, but you were quite rude...you didn't even tell me how it ended."
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:08 am
Hadaya watched Hak with a creeping impulse to run filtering into his legs. But he stayed in place, a voice in the back of his head ordering him not to repeat the scene from the last time they had met. But that wouldn't happen. Back then he had been a cub, basically, alone and with no where to run from or to. Now he had a family, a surprisingly big one, and he would not do anything to put them at risk.
Bristled, but telling himself quietly that nothing was wrong, it was just a conversation, there was no danger, Hadaya listened to the other lion as passively as he could. Too bad he didn't really believe the reassuring mantras he was chanting in his head.
"I guess," he said noncommittally, looking up not because he was ordered but because he was beginning to understand that he needed to stand up better for himself now that he was a father. He squinted at the mane comment, not letting on that his fluffy, thick mane was one of his favorite things about himself, and that the teasing in that regard was effective.
He swallowed at the question, somehow knowing it was coming. He shook his head, "I don't remember," he lied, but there was no way he was going to tell this lion what he had seen. It would, undoubtedly, do more harm than good from someone out there. Whoever else had been in that vision, "I blocked that whole thing out."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:28 am
Ha! The boy really was staying! Hak nearly laughed out of sheer amusement. Such a brave, brave male he'd become. So surprising! He could tell he'd said something to get the boy's hackles up, but just what he'd done didn't matter just then. It was the fact that he'd gotten a reaction at all that pleased him.
Such a brave boy to keep dodging his questions like that. His amusement was of yet enough to distill his irritation at not being given the information he wanted. "Ah, I see. I've heard before that when some weaker minded females swoon they have no memory of it. Perhaps something like that happened to you. Regardless..." He seemed to shrug carelessly.
"I suppose you must have been quite frightened by it, to need to block it out so..." A toothy grin split his maw. "And that, I suppose, gives me all the answer I need, wouldn't you say? A pity though, that I don't know WHOM..." he trailed off, leaving the boy to decide what he'd been wondering about.
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:26 pm
Hadaya chewed the inside of his mouth in irritation, but did his best not to respond to the taunting. Of course Lee would remember him, damn it. Not that this guy needed to know that. He didn't want to say anything about Lee, at all, lest it get her in trouble. Not knowing this lion, or what he was capable of, outside of that meeting long ago made him paranoid. If that vision had been any indication, the further Hadaya and those he cared about stayed from this guy the better.
Clearing his throat, the generally awkward and genial lion nodded curtly.
"I guess it must have been. Or it was just not worth remembering. Either way," he dared, drawing a breath. He looked around, then back at the other. he wanted to get out of there, but the idea of trying to walk away from Hak was not appealing. Turning his back seemed like a bad idea.
"Well, since I don't have anything to tell you, and I don't think we're destined to be best buddies forever, we should probably part company here."
He looked like he was going to be a bit sick, yet he held his ground and tried to look tough.
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