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Jyotika sat with her back to the dunes, her eyes were closed once again but this was simply because her face was pointed towards the sun, a smile lifted her maw and her tail twitched happily. She did so love the sun, the great ball of fire in the sky which heated her fur and made her feel all the more like a lion of the flames.

Letting out a slow, long puurr of a sigh she shifts slightly, moving her face a little to warm one cheek then the other before she turns her gaze back to her paws, her odd eyes opening to observe her sandy feet. She was nothing if not vein. Lifting a paw she starts to groom, her paw washing over the warm black fur of her face.

By now more recovered from his spar with Bodaway, Kosuke trecked the dunes, dragging behind him the carcass of an antelope unlucky enough to meet his teeth. As he dragged it towards the home dunes, he couldn't help but stop as a scent reached his nose. The antelope carcass dropped and gold eyes turned towards the direction of the scent. What he spotted made the fur along his spine rise a bit. His lips curled in a slight and silent snarl as he stared at the black lioness. Oh... She would pay for her words... He turned, beginning to stalk her as if she were prey.

She'd lived on the sands her whole life and when they shifted her ears always twitched. Unaware of who was coming she stayed still, her profile shimmering in the sun, still grooming her fur, washing away the dust and grime of the day and making her already spotless fur glimmer. Her red eye peered behind her and she grins. It was the cripple again, seemed he was bringing lunch though. Saying nothing she puts a paw on her own hip and starts to groom her perfect white belly.

As he drew closer, he formulated a plan. First he would beat her for her words... Then he would simply beat her into submission... His tail curled as he prepared to pounce. Who knew, after enough... Convincing... She'd be a wonderful subject under his family's rule... He had to admit, she DID have the fire in her for a true Firekin. Bunching his muscles up, he launched forward, claws out.

Jyotikas eyes widened a little as he pounced her but she was ready, falling to the ground she rolls on her back, all four paws in the air and every claw unsheathed, ready to catch any part of him that came even remotely close to her. "Nice to see you again gimpy!" She snarls a smirk on her maw, her odd eyes grinning."Come back to get more insults so soon?"

Snarling at her, Kosuke swiped his claws at her. "I'll make you PAY for your words, FEMALE!" This time, he wasn't hampered by injury. He was healthy, he was fit and ready to fight. "And I'll show you your PLACE!"

Jyotika growls angrily "My place is right here!" She rolls to her paws avoiding his claws, her odd eyes looking over him. He was bigger than her sure, but she was as fit and healthy as he if not more,s he didn't have an old injury to cope with. She glances at his leg, the one she had remembered he had been weak on. It would be his weakness. "I am as much a firekin as you are boy I won't be told other wise by some gimpy who can't even defeat an oldie!" She growls and dives for his sore leg her teeth barred ready to snatch his paw and re-establish his limp that her very own father gave him.

Jumping away, Kosuke growled, silently cursing his still-sore leg. While it had healed, it still hampered him a bit. "Oh, I don't mean as a slave... Oh no.. For all your vanity..." He swatted at her, aiming for the non-vital area of her rump. "You're too pretty to be just a slave. Your mother'd make a GREAT one, though!" Pausing, he glared at her. "No no, your place... Is simply being an obedient female, who listens to her lord's commands!"

Jyotika growled a low, rumbling growl, her eyes narrowed to mere slits "Don't you speak of my mother like that, she is a far greater creature than you will ever be!" She looks to her rump and slashes to smack his cheek away from her rear "No one is my lord, you are just a scummy little gimp." She smirks and lashes her tail "You must realise i am the most beautiful lioness sin this place, you on the other hand are just some mongrel, you should bow to me, I would make a damn good mistress for you little limp one!"

Kosuke gave a snort. "Me, a mongrel? I actually HAVE a pedigree! And you... You're a half-blood." Dancing away from her, he kept his eyes on her. Without thinking, he'd used some of the same steps he'd seen Shula using. He'd have to approach her propperly some time... "And you're NOT the most beautiful. Pull your head out of under your tail some time and look around." He gave a sniff. "My sisters look far better than YOU do."

Jyotika suddenly broke in to a laugh as she watched him prance away, he had seen her sister use exactly the same move. "haha! please don't do that again, I can't take you seriously if you start dancing, you look like an even bigger pansy than my sister doing that." She snorts "My pedigree is perfectly lengthy, it simply confirms that I am not inbred! Get off your high horse, you know I am beautiful, it's okay, you can admit it."

He gave a hard, fiery glare. She dared speak ill words about... Letting out a roar, he charged at Jyotika, seeing red. "I will whipe that smirk off your FACE!" He held nothing back as he went at her, claws out, teeth exposed, intent on doing damage.

Flattening her ears she crops to the ground, her lips turned in a sneer "don't be so sensitive!" She snaps, unable to stop his charge, though her paws push under his throat to keep him from biting at her own throat. "It's not my fault you want to copy my pansey sister, you wanna be a girl go right ahead I'm not stopping you."

Kosuke snarled, turning his teeth to her leg. If she was goign to call him a gimp, she may as well be one, too! But though her paw kept her from biting, it didn't do much to stop his claws from reaching for her. It felt good to fight someone, it really did.

Jyotika growled, she had never been in areal fight before, sure she'd scuffled and beaten on those smaller than her but this was a real fight. She frowns and bites at his cheek as he leans in to gnaw her paw "Get off me you great lumbering beast!" She growls, getting very angry, she couldn't push him off he was too heavy, he had her pinned and he was trying to maim her. "leave my body alone you bloody red monster!" She licks her lips trying to think tactically now "look maybe I can give you something, I was only playing with you, I don't really think you're in-bread, you're kinda cute actually." She licks her lips, feeling her nerves tingling.

He stopped, though he kept her pinned, glaring down at her. "It's not about the inbreeding. You insulted Shula." He wasn't making it that big of a secret - He was intent to, one day, make her his. He paused, though, eyeing Jyotika. "And what would you give me?" He leaned down, pressing his nose to hers. "The satisfaction of hearing you call me Lord Kosuke? Or did you have something... ELSE... In mind?"

Raising a brow Jyotika almost snorted. did the big male want her sister? It was a laughable thought, which she contained, she needed to get out of this alive. "You and I both know that neither of us will bow to the other, however, I'm sure I can perform certain, favours, that you would appreciate." She wriggles her eyebrows, hoping it was a seductive look she was giving, she felt foolish, she didn't know how to flirt, but she did know what every male wanted and she was a very desirable female after all.

He regarded her for a moment, then stepped off. "Deal." He motioned with a paw. "But not out here, not in the wide open. It's not the most ideal place to be doing such a thing." He started to walk, heading back to his antelope carcass. They'd be needing that... "So... Your den, or mine?" His preferred... He really didn't want to come face-to-face with a very angry Bodaway. As old as the lion was, that wasn't a very good thing. He still had fire left in him to spare plenty of young lions.

Jyotika snorted, getting to her paws she thanked what ever god was keeping her alive. "Yours, I don't want my family to know about this." She grumbles following him. She felt humiliated, embarrassed but at least she had learned a valuable lesson, think before you challenge someone bigger than you.