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 Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:56 am
Just a place for Leth and I to let the twins get some quality time together. x3  Name: Kiuma Age: Juvenile Personality: Snobbish and rambuncious, she's the opposite of her brother in most ways. Blessed with all the health her brother lacks, she loves to explore and travel. One day she dreams of visiting all the lands that surround her home, and collecting something from each. Still too young to hunt, this little princess isn't used to fending for herself. With so many siblings to compete with, she's become fairly good at whining, begging, and bullying to get what she feels she deserves. Which is just about everything. A character flaw with potential for trouble in the future, this cub likes to torment those creatures that are weaker than herself. Mchele already got a taste of that when he found her with a bird that was half dead and in a great deal of pain. She's very devoted to Uumi, and will protect him with tooth, claw, and all of her strength.
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:47 am
Uumi was devoted to his sister in some sense, and he did love her. But he more or less knew he needed Kiuma. Currently he was laying at the edge of pride rock, the very edge, and peering out upon his father and mother's lands. His crimson eyes were half lidded, a low, broken purr rumbled from him. Every now and then the purring stopped, as it would become and irratation to his throat.
His black-tipped tail flicked idly in his calm state, for once not irriated with one thing or another. Cream-tipped toes flicked at a pebble right near him, he watched it fall until he could see it no longer. Falling all the way down pride rock, down onto the lands. He went back to gazing across them, perhaps even gazing past them. He'd like to leave, some day.
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:53 am
Spying a familiar and welcome red form, a matching red cub bounded up the jutting outcropping. Her little paws pat at the rock, the soft sound accompanied by her excited breathing. "Uumi!" She called ahead of her, finally coming to a bouncing halt next to her brother's supine body. She plopped her little behind down on the rock, raising a low puff of dust. "What are you doing? I've been looking everywhere for you." Kiuma's voice wasn't quite a whine, but it was close. The snowflake on her forehead flashed as the light caught it as she tilted her head, her red eyes serious for once as she looked at her twin.
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:40 am
One ear flicked toward his better half, but he did not take his gaze from the scenery. "Can't you tell what I'm doing? Im simply looking." He stated in his calm manner. Kiuma was always looking for him, what was new about that? Though they were often apart rather than together, too much for his liking.
"So why have you been looking for me?" This time his words were gentle, a tone he could only really manage for his mother or Kiuma. Finally his matching gaze flicked and met hers. Why was she being all serious all of a sudden? It seemed to him that he was usually the more serious of the two.
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:25 pm
Kiuma flashed a smile, settling down next to her brother. "You were going to tell me something, weren't you? I was looking for you, so you could tell me." Her bright eyes flicked out, sweeping the landscape. Nothing in particular caught her eye. All she saw was what was always there, as regular and unchanging as the rock they sat on. She frowned, wondering what he had been looking at.
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:04 pm
He blinked, eyes closing for a moment as he dove back into his memories, trying to think on what it was he wanted to tell her. With in seconds his mind was playing him flashbacks of meeting that red lion, a much darker red than the twins, and that was what he'd wanted to tell her about. There could be others like them! "Oh yes." He said, taking his sweet time about it.
His tail flicked a little, and he looked back to the direction of the elephant grave, he believed that was where the elder lion had been from. "I met a lion recently. And you know how everyone is colored around here, even some of those scum rogues who're accepted into mother and father's pride. Anyways, he was not that way.. he was like us." And he'd leave it for his sister to puzzle out, because he knew she was intelligent enough to.
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:12 pm
Her ears fell back against her head as she frowned, thinking. Most of the lions here were yellow or golden in color, though a few ranged through brown to white and cream. She and Uumi were the only two that were a bright, vibrant red in color. "The lion was like us... He was red?" Her rounded ears swiveled forward and her eyes brightened, shining like drops of new blood. "A red lion... Uumi, where was he from? There aren't any red lions, save us and Danzi, in the entire Pridelands! What was he like?" A purr rattled through her chest, sharp and hard. She flicked her black tuffed tail excitedly, inching closer to her twin on her creamy belly.
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:18 pm
Now he had to play his cards just right, he wanted to leave the pridelands. But he had to make Kiuma want this too. Or to say it, anyways. "Yes, he was red." He smirked slightly, see she was a smart girl. As she inched closer to him he listened to her questions, and after a moment he moved closer to her as well, pressing up against her side. "Im not certain exactly. I know that he lives in the graveyard, but I don't remember where he is actually from. I did not get to speak with him long, which is a pity. We could always seek him out and find out... I really would like to see others like us, Kiuma. I don't understand why we don't look that much like mother and father." Ah, Danzi didn't count! He was.. more orangey than red in Uumi's mind, but he didn't blurt that out. "I mean... if you're curious, too."
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:28 pm
"Of course I am!" She blurted out, fairly wiggling with excitement. "I want to see others too... others that aren't Pridelanders." She sighed, her bright eyes flicking out over their home. Much as she loved it, her heart and paws told her there was more to the world than the small bit of it they could see from where they perched. She pressed her shoulder tight to her brother's as her purr sharpened. "I want to see the world, Uumi. I want to see things that I've never seen before, meet lions that have never met our parents. I feel like I have wings, but have never had the chance to use them." She rose and padded to the very edge of Priderock, leaning out into the updraft from the rocks below. Poised as she was, it seemed as though all she'd have to do is take one step, and that wind would carry her away, take her to those places she wanted to go. Then she stepped back and came to lay next to her twin again, pressing against his side seeking comfort. "I can't spread my wings here Uumi, much as I love our home."
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:33 pm
Ah, this was playing out nicely. He knew that they didn't only share the same colors. They both had wings that could not be used here, if he wanted to put it as Kiuma would. He began to purr, it was light and broken every now and then by a small cough. He gently nuzzled into her neck. "Do you mean... like... leave the pridelands, darling?" He did not like playing stupid, but something told him it had to be her decision. He hadn't any idea why, it just had to.
"Im sure there is so much more out there.. things we may never know of.." He sighed, trying to make himself sound sad.
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:41 pm
Kiuma's ears drifted backwards, a frown hovering around her eyes. Why did she get the feeling she was being led along by her whiskers? "Well... we certainly can't see the world from the Pridelands, Uumi. I always kinda knew that we'd have to leave someday if we wanted to travel." She accepted the nuzzle, the tension in her ears easing. "Still... we can't leave quite yet..." She scuffed her paws in the dirt before her, watching intently as she made little patterns in it. "I've been practicing my hunting... Mother thinks its nearly time for my first real hunt. I... need to do that before we can leave." To Kiuma, her first real hunt, her first real kill, was to be the fulcrum that her life turned on. The point where she went from stalking to pouncing. She just felt that... she needed to prove herself here, to both her family and herself, before she could make her way in the world outside the Pridelands.
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:03 pm
"But we can certainly see quite a view from these lands." He mused, being witty. And then he almost got pissed when she said they could not leave, not yet. He was about to throw a fit, until the next words caught his ears. Right, her first hunt! He'd forgotten all about it. "Well you've been practicing, haven't you? I'm sure you'll do fine on it. When is the next hunt planned?" he glanced toward the den, to where their mother may or may not be at this time.
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:25 pm
A sadistic little smile pulled at the cub's face, her wicked claws snaking out to scrape over the rock. "Soon, I think. I'm so excited for it... I've been able to catch just about all of the animals I go for. But they're just little things, they don't really count. The hunt will be a big something... like a zebra, or a water buffalo." Her purr started up again as her heart beat fast, adrenaline pumping through her veins as her eyes faily glowed. She kneeded at the rock with her claws, watching them flick in and out of her velvet paws. Paws that could knock a good sized bird unconscious, if she could get close enough. She huffed sharply, her laugh rasping in her throat. That bird had been fun to play with... until Mchele showed up. Her smile ubruptly changed into a snarl, and she made the rocks screech with her claws over it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:28 am
Uumi smirked, giving his sister his own twisted smile. "That is wonderful, who will be going with you?" He really was interested, though he wasn't sure why. Perhaps just because it was his twin.
He winced though at the quick mood change, secretly thinking that he did not like those at all. Happy to pissed in one second. At least Uumi was half pissed all the time, perhaps that was why he did not like those who were moody?
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:23 pm
Kiuma blinked, coming back to herself. "What...? Who? I'm not sure... Mother can't really, but she said she'd watch from Priderock. Bahkti will probably take me, since she can hunt." She smiled, pushing the memory to the back of her mind again. "First the hunt, Uumi... then we'll go." The cub bounced to her feet and circling her brother with little bouncing steps. Finally, overcome by her excitement, she pounced on him (though gently, ever aware of his health) and wrapped her paws around his neck, purring sharply as she gently bit at him.
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