WC: 2053
Summary: The rp, is Zhen's joining rp and how she entered the Kuroi'Nera lands. She was basically sorta bribed in to coming- well not really. A nice way of cub napping. Giving a big waterbuffalo calf to a half starved lionness cub.. D8! So yea. Now she will become a slave. Have fun reading!
It was fate showing her how different life was on the other side. It was giving her a chance to redeem herself for the things she had down to lions in her past. The hate she harbored for them.. This event to come was the test to see if she could face the past. Her shoulder blades spiked with the rythum of her body's steps. Synced for if anyone to just appear but it was years that carved it in to her. The cheetah was different. Nyoka knew herself well back then but now it was like she was starting her life over from the very beginning. Finally. She had was going to have cubs that were expected. Though she wasn't allowed out in the roguelands while being pregnant, she needed some fresh air. Someplace where she knew the pridelands couldn't give to her.
Free thought and not constantly thinking on what the pride needed and how to run it- and scouting. Though Nanashi tried to keep her in the den as much as possible. It was likely futiled. Her tail waved and somehow she seemed. Older. Wiser and now... kinder looking. Her face had soften as she finally forgot her prior litter and their failures to make her happy. Now- with that in the past now forgotten. She was 'lighter' feeling and believing this was her calling. To have Nanashi's cubs. It was.. a bitter sweet ending to the fairytale that Dysi had lead her to believe was their 'love'.
She walked almost endlessly.. not even once noting where she was going.. Just. Walking. She saw the sun change the course of her shadow.. and took everything in. The sets- the shadows. The landscapes. When had they become so .. beautiful? Why hadn't she seen them before. When did they become? These insights were becoming more clearer.. as she finally stopped at a rocky hill. To overlook the roguelands with different eyes.. the twinkle in her eye. She breathed in the air as if she were taking her first breath. "Goodbye." Finally saying this as though an ending to their story. Dysi's lovestory. It wasn't until she was about to turn and leave before seeing a pool of blood. The smell- was sickening..
The cheetah turned her head.. and the smell lead her to the scene that almost horrified her. It was.. a feline alright. She moved the bush slightly to see a cub. Passed out and dead looking. But the chest moved which signicalled its only movement. If she had left the cub there- it would either have died or even worse. Get eaten. Getting eaten by vultures was one thing but when your half dead and the little piece of you is alive and gets eaten by hyenas. You'll know the difference.
Green eyes scanned over the body a few times and she even saw the similar tail to a lion and upon further examination. It claimed true. She was a lion. She sneered for a moment at the thought but.. her paw slowly lifted the head of the cub.. and she couldn't help but feel bad. How about if someone found her cubs- even if this was a lion. If her cubs were out and looking as if half dead. She would want someone to help them.. since now that she finally cared about a litter for once. Unlike she did her first litter. She cared for these unlike she ever did.
Nudging the cub slightly.. ears pinned back. Then. It was decided. This lion- she will take in this lion. No matter if others would ask- it needed to be saved or taken care of. SHe only saw mashed green inside some of the wounds but they were worn down. A healer? She lifted her head up but saw no one around. She turned her head and called out to her grunt that followed her.
"This one." She said was a very distinct strictness in her voice. "Lady Nyoka.. It looks...sick." He tries to not touch the cub and examines it. "I said.. This one." She looked at him.. thoughs green eyes slightly threatening. "Not all the time does one need explaination. But if you must." She sighed. "If you had cubs- and they were ever to vanish and become like this one. Would you not want them saved?" The male gruffed and shook his head. "No 'mam. I rather them die." Nyoka shook her head as she leaned down and grasped the lion cub in her maw- then softly put her across the fur that was on the grunt's back. She was heavy but Nyoka didn't show any sign of it.
"I will assure you that my cubs will be loyal grunts and never find themselves in this weak of state." Nyoka hissed at him. "As if you were never in that weak of state you overgrown log. I will make a note that you assured me your cubs will be loyal.. and if they are not..." She stepped closer to him and went nose to nose with him. "I will make sure they have the same fate as this cub. Broken. Alone. Beaten til they can no longer move on their own." She shifted. "And you will follow along with them- or be bared to watch them suffer.
Do not tempt me to ever think that you would ever be something greater than what you are now. A grunt. As a grunt.. I hope to never hear your opinion about anything again. That is what I have my right paw for. Understand me." Her voice seemed deadiler than a rattlesnake.. and she was always serious about her threats. "I will make sure you will taste the everless pain if they fail me." Then she turned around. "We have to find another pelt to cover around her face.. in case she wakes up."
The grunt tried not to flinch when she made her threats. He knew that, if he did. It would only give her reason to kill him on the spot. SHe didn't need any of that in her pride anyways. Nyoka watched as the sun went passed them. They found a small jackal that they easily killed and started to wrap around the cub. As she was setting her up while the grunt was away- the child awoke.
"Where... am.. I?" Her voice cracked.. and her eyes hazed very much . So sight to her was vague and blurred.
"You are in safer care than you were." Nyoka spoke up.
"Wha.. who are .. you." She lifted up her head and shifted on the ground. Her paws were greeted with soft pelt from the grunt that Nyoka came here with. But the pelt was soft.. and with that sore body it was really really a gift and blessing..
"I'm a leader of a pride... a pride that I will take you too. They may heal you- and get you up to speed to make something of yourself. Instead of rotting and letting the vultures eat you." SHe looked down and then huffed slightly. She WAS a lion- it was apparent but she was so beat up she couldn't just LEAVE it. "Though I rather you not move so much- your only going to make things harder on the ones trying to fix you up." Her eyes softened and she tried to suck up her disgust over them to softly pet the head of the girl. Slithering through her hair but wary of any blood.
"Ow-" She commented lowly, as where the pride leader touched was a slightly sore spot but she didn't outright cry. No- she was stronger than that and she looked up- her birght orange eyes to those seafoam green ones of the cheetah. "Pride? No- I can't."
She retorted her paw back and almost hissed as per hearing the rejection. She wasn't one for rejection and especially from a cub, but even if that slightly angered her- it didn't stop her generosity. "Either come with me or let the hyenas or wolves eat you alive. Its the only safe place here and on top of that... you are bleeding. Too much- continue like this and you will bleed to death without even trying to let another know of you. I don't know what happened to you..." She lifted the girl's chin.. to look at the face. She wasn't ugly looking if it wasn't for the wounds but more like she just needed to get cleaned up. This cub, could mean a better slave system after all. More slaves.. and at least the other lionness won't be alone. The one that was with them for a while- since the days of old and still loyal.
While she thought about this.. only the few gasping moments before her head was let go, and she wnet again to laying down on the pelt. It was then that the male came back with a giant calf of the water buffalo. Her mouth watered... delightfully looking at it as her claws itched for the chance at tearing in to the flesh and eating to her stomach's content. Her body lifted and her tail wagged helplessly- the want in her eyes.. Hunger for it.
"It is all for yours. So eat up." Her voice was almost strict sounding, as the male gave her a look. As to WHY he was giving a whole calf to the lion cub but he quickly understood she had reason. He just didn't know why and it was just tearing him apart. HE was even hungry! Those teal legs lowered and laid upon the ground as she started to groom herself. Waiting for the girl to eat the meal- for she knew it would be some time before she would eat again. Wanting the lion cub to be full and show herself in to the pride.
Zhen's body quivered as she jumped on the meat and started attacking it but after ripping it apart with her claws.. she stopped and looked up. Face bloody.. but she didn't lap at any meat. As no food touched her stomach. "You will eat too?" Her ears down and her body huffing and gasping for breath. Itching to just eat and tare it apart but she wanted to know.. what really was this cheetah about. The beautiful slender body and the mysterious face that probably hid every nook and cranny of a cheetah whom really was just as bad as the demons. But. Zhen didn't think that far- she just watched in adoration and wonderment.
"No.. I shall not eat dear." She calmed and kept grooming herself.
Her paw dipping in to the hip 's curve. "Why not-" She blinked and tilted her head as her stomach growled in anger. It wanted to eat but the cub was denying herself food before knowing what she was getting in to. She was smart after all. Not too smart but smart enough to smell a trap from a mile away.
"Because. I am not hungry and I would like to show my ... handy men where his place is. Now. Eat up, get your filling and take your time. The breeze is beautiful right now, and missing this before being in the pride does well for the fur." She turned and looked out in to the land.. expirencing the freedom for just a short while before having to go back to in to the pride.. and maybe announcing the good news to her Boss Man... His cubs. She turned to watch the lion cub eat to her hearts content. After she gave her the explination which intruigued her slightly. She thought about it? Even lured in to a hungry meal. It was odd but at least the cub asked.. it was delightful. It even gave her points.
"...Alright." She decided and let her mouth venture to every part of the body the calf had to offer. Its thick muscles and the ribs were just a savory meal. She hadn't had such a kill since father had hunted.. She missed them so much. She missed a family. She even missed Cami. Which most wouldn't understand. She missed the friends she had- well rivals. She missed the beatings- but all that disappeared as she ate and ate and ate.. like a glutton.
