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 Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:17 pm
Lucianus had been getting out and about around the pride alot lately. He'd met a few new characters and was learning more and more about them and the pride and their status.
Today he felt he needed a break from all this activity so he had decided to just take it easy and curl up in the family den for an afternoon nap. This was something this leopard cub never did, ever. For those that knew him well, Lucianus was always trying to better him self and stand apart from the rest of his siblings.
Taking a nap was just not something you saw him do often. Only, he wasn't asleep. The purple blue cubs eyes were open a little, to the point it was hard to tell he was awake. It was good to know what was going on in ones surroundings though. For one, he didn't want a passing sibling to use this time to alert mother of his laziness today.
Nope, so he kept his eyes slightly open. Part of him was really hoping none of his siblings passed through. Doing nothing was rather enjoyable.
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:08 pm
Amaranta pranced around very proud of herself. She had accomplished a lot today. Meeting with some of those she felt were important members of the pride including playing with some of the Caesar's sons, because well lets face it although they could potentially lack the ability to be full on mates later in life it was never a tie that was bad to have.
Amaranta stopped to look at her reflection in the lake, she took the time to groom her self all the time it was very important she kept up her apperance, she counted on it getting her a great deal of places in life, and it was never early enough to start caring.
After taking her time grooming herself to perfection she began to saunter towards home, it was getting on later in the afternoon and she wanted to be home when her mother got there practice one of the newest skills she had been taught, because as all her siblings new Atia loved to see her cubs being diligent in their learning.
As she made he way to the cave she spotted one of her siblings laying inside. Once she rounded the corner and was able to see more then just the shape the blue pelt was enough to give it away that it was Lucianus inside. She walked in getting very close to him... she was sure he was watching her, she sat down beside him, intruding upon his personal space, something she felt others didn't always deserve. "Why is it you are laying in her brother." she asked cooly.
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:47 pm
Lucianus didn't move at first. He just laid there still pretending to nap. He didn't hate his sister, she'd never done anything so terrible to deserve such a harsh emotion. He didn't really like her though. Amaranta was competition for Atia's full attention. Not only that, but Amaranta was just as cunning as he was and not to be underestimated.
So there he laid for what seemed a good long while.
Finally, he couldn't take it. She was in his bubble after all. His personal space was not quite so personal right now and it irked him bad.
"What do you want Amaranta?" He spoke before he opened his eyes. The boys voice was a soft hiss, he was not a happy kitty. Not a happy kitty at all.
Though, admittedly , Amaranta may have done him a favor by being the first to find him. If Atia had found him, Lucianus was sure she'd make an example of his laziness. Being one of Atia's cubs was not fun and games at all.
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:33 am
Amaranta smiled she knew her brother hadn't been asleep all this time, she was also well aware that being in his personal space would bug him to no end, but really in her eyes he should be honored by the fact that she would let her pristinely cleaned pelt be anywhere near his.
"What do I want dear brother?" she asked quietly, "Well I guess I want all the same things you want." she smirked. "You know being in charge, being all mother sees and cares about. To be someone important." Amaranta had no shame in admitting what all her and her siblings desired, Atia had a great way of building this drive into her children.
"Of course dear I am going to be much more sucessful then you will be, particularly if you leave yourself time to lay about and do nothing at all." she smirked. Really Amaranta wasn't nasty she just didn't know any other way to communicate with in her family. Atia was all about missions and training and becoming something better, he siblings focused on competing with her, everyone always try to out do the next. And her father well he wasn't always around but when he was he was often going around with his head stuck in clouds in a complete blissful state or he was busy with her mother."
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:23 pm
Lucianus yawned and just listened to his sister for a few moments. Amaranta wasn't shy about saying what she wanted. Nope. Not to her siblings at least. Lucanius didn't mind that so much. It was true, they were battling for the affection of their mother after all. Still, she hadn't answered his question fully and that annoyed him.
"We aren't gods now are we Ama dear?" His voice was still a soft hiss of displeasure, "If I was , then I'd have no reason to laz around. But since I'm a mortal... a perfect mortal but still a mortal, every now and then I have my moments." He shrugged and rested on his haunches watching her.
If she didn't want anything from him.. why had she come to bother him? It wasn't like Atia was around right now to compete against. So the blue leopard rolled his shoulder blades and asked his question again.
"What is it you want with me, Ama?" This time he was clear to put the me in his question. The boy opened his maw and yawned.
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:51 pm
Amaranta smiled, her brother was being rubbed the wrong way by her and she had barely said anything to him, she hadn't been trying to bother him... mind youw hen it came to her siblings most of them were fairly temperamental.. it came from the high stress environment that they were raised in she guessed.
"I didn't want anything with you Lucianus, I was merely waking you up. I had actually came home early today to practice some of the tatics mother had been teaching us earlier and when I saw you sleeping I thought I would wake you before you got yourself in trouble. I see now it wasn't worth my trouble." Amaranta looked at her brother with a superior type of look in her eyes.
"Perhaps I should just tell mother how you are spending your afternoons... lazing about." in truth Amaranta knew telling her Atia about her brother sleeping was bounded to get her in trouble more so than her brother, as she would be stooping to tattling which seemed low.
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:23 pm
Lucianus wasn't scared by the threat. If it had been a feline who didn't really know Atia's ways, maybe it would have worked. He assumed that Ama knew better though. At least better then to tattle to Atia. Atia was a freaking scary leopardess who barely loved her children... her current children at least. At least, Lucianus felt unloved by her. Conditional love wasn't really love, still, Lucianus wanted it.
"Sorry to disappoint you," He grumbled under his breath. "But hey. . instead of playing these tiring old games of power, why don't we both .... " The leopard growled a bit as the next phrase made its way up , "Just be c-c-civil to each other and just forget that we are rivals."
Lucianus straightened his posture and worked his arrogant mask back on to his face. "After all, I don't think we've ever really truly been... that word." It wasn't that Lucian couldn't say 'civil'. He just didn't like the fact he was using it with one of his siblings.
The leopard cub licked his paw and cleaned his face acting as if Ama hadn't just bothered him.
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:54 pm
Amarata was shocked by the idea that any of her and her siblings could be civil. It was a new concept. Could it be possible, her and one of her siblings get a long, be civil... allies even?
She looked inquisitively at her brother, was he just pulling her leg, joking wither her. Attempting to make her look foolish or was he serious did he want to get along.
Amaranta was sadden by the fact that there was this much thought needed to decide whether or not to be on friendly terms with one of her own brothers. "Civil eh?" she asked out loud the thoughts rolling around in her head. "I guess maybe that would be possible." Amaranta didn't want to admit not being able to do anything so this would just be a challenge. Now the next question... how to be civil.
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:03 pm
Lucian continued to clean his face with his paw, doing so in a slow refined sort of way as he watched his sister. Honestly, he wasn't sure how being civil would really help them in their long time goal but he was tired and didn't feel like putting up airs right now. Home was where you relaxed... wasn't it?
"Sides, if you think about it. We are practicing by being.. C-C-civil.." That word was just hard to spit out to Ama. He didn't like his siblings... but he could try to be civil. The game was no big secret after all.
"So. Its like practicing our... public faces if you will. Pleasantries, " He grinned as he turned his head and started to clean his shoulder blade. It also helped to be clean and neat but Lucian knew his sister knew that already.
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:16 pm
"Well when you put it that way yes I guess being civil would be useful" finding a useful purpose to it helped Amaranta see a reason to do it, it was now becoming a skill, skills should be fine tuned.
"Well in the spirit of being civil do you want to practice some tactics with me. There are a few that I though I cold work on." Amaranta was upset as soon as the words left her mouth, she disliked admitting that there was something she wasn't perfect at.
She didn't wait for him to answer instead she stepped out of the den into the opening. Setting herself up targeting a rock that she was sopping as an enemy. If her brother chose to join her then so be it."
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:42 pm
Lucianus was glad his sister saw the reasoning so easily behind his proposal. The only reason the two disliked each other was the rivalry they were born into. A simple understanding that the two would always be rivals made things... alot simpler.
The cub wasn't surprised that Ama invited him to practice, what had surprised him was the fact she admitted a fault. Atia's cubs usually didn't do that. Normally, he'd have said something snarky about the slip up, but not today. They were practicing being civil right now after all. So Lucian swallowed his witty comment and followed after his sister.
"Tactics? What sort of tactics. I have a few I need to work on too," It was like acid leaving his mouth admitting that. But, now the two were even. Sides, it was Civil time.
The cub eyed the rock. Curious, very curious.
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:07 am
Amaranta edged her way around the rock looking at it from all veiw points. She was attempting to learn about observing, it was difficult to do with a rock.... it didn't exactly have several sides to it.. nor was it able to evade her when she finally jumped on it. Finally she leaped in the air and came down on the rock.
She turned back towards her brother, "What did you need to work on?" she was surprised that her brother had said anything to her about needing work, even after she had.... perhaps he was quite good at this civil thing.
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:05 pm
Lucianus watched her with his half amused half bored look. She wasn't half bad admittedly, but a rock wasn't really a proper target now was it. Lucanius was being civil but he wasn't about to offer him self up for a better target. The trust issue still was a little... flaky.
"Not bad," The cub mumbled giving his sister a nod of approval. "I .. Well, I actually need to work on my calculations....." He looked up. Honestly, that was his best thing and his favorite thing to study, but, he was aware he needed to improve some. Specially after the rock tossing event where him and Octavian were both shamed in front of mother.
"I.. .. " He closed his maw and looked thoughtful for a moment. "I'd like to work on that some.."
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:06 pm
Amaranta thought about what her brother had said, calculations was something she could actually help him with. She was fairly good at it, and it would leave them on equal grounds, no one would have a leg up, they could even use the rock that she had been using as a target earlier.
"Ok then Lucianus . We could use this rock... get ready and try to toss this rock into the puddle over there. Don't forget about all the things, wind... other lions around.... distance obstacles." As Amaranta said all of these things she had already worked out the path the rock would have to travel.. it wasn't an easy route there was a lot of things in the way and quite a few members of the pride walking around. She pushed the rock towards her brother. "Take your shot."
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:31 pm
Lucian looked over at the puddle she was talking. It was a good distance off but with the right smarts he'd be able to make it. Still, even an older well practiced feline would probably have trouble with this shot.
"Oh wow," The leopard blinked a bit. How was he gonna pull this off. Well, he could always bounce it off something and have it hit something and then go over.. and then there was this and that and up way and damn.
The leopard licked his maw as he thought over the ways he could make this work. You could see the intense thought behind those eyes of his.
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