Welcome to Gaia! ::

Reply [IC] Rogue Lands
[VIKING] And so grows the fold [Phlegyas, Ebumnyami]

Quick Reply

Enter both words below, separated by a space:

Can't read the text? Click here

Submit

Puhterodactyl

Ghostly Friend

PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 8:37 pm


User Image
Well, it certainly felt a little odd for the old lion to be taking up new skills at his age. But Viking. Reaving. It couldn't be that hard, right? Not for one as gifted and talented as he, right? He was a Seer. A God Spawn. The Goddess of Decay had taken his demon-father's seed and from it, made life. He was strong. He had powers. His size, his knowledge, his skill and his experience.

Why, perhaps he was made for this pride, this rank. Well no, Captain was his next goal. Phlegyas always had his sights set on something more. Strange, then, that he had dallied while his daughter Delphi became a Reaver before him. But he didn't care. It wasn't a contest between him and his daughter. He was proud of her, rather. His legacy would be strong. His blood showed in many of the Stormborn. His distinct purple was unmistakable, and could easily be attributed to his offspring and grandchildren who had joined the Stormborn before him.

The male's chest puffed out with pride as he strode along the plains on his own first Viking. Delphi was off somewhere, as was the rest of the band and the captain. Her thrall, Dhikkara, was on loan to him. Phlegyas was so capable that he would surely need assistance with the size of whatever bounty he was to gain and take back to the pride.

The regal god-son sent the lion off on his own, however, to find even more treasure. He said perhaps there was freedom in it for the lad. Not his place to promise that, of course. But, for now, the boy was bound and determined. And Phlegyas was on the hunt.
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:55 am


User Image

It was EXHAUSTING. She was exhausted. Dealing with her half-sister Velum really took a tole on Ebumnyami. She did not have any idea just how on earth their mother, Mbalamwezi, had or could put up with Velum for so long. The electric-green lioness was so self-absorbed and selfish and whiny and greedy and vain and self-involved and, well... Ebumnyami could have listed her sister's shortcomings for many moons, but the purple lioness shook her coat, as if ridding herself of biting flies, to try and shake the thought of her half-sister from her mind. She had become too much to bear.

Ebumnyami had taken to walking and wandering now. She and her mother had overlapping territories, and not especially large ones at that. She liked being near her mother and considered her one of her best friends and closest confidants; they shared a very strong bond. Also, her mother was getting older, and, well, Ebumnyami worried about her sometimes. She would always find some convenient excuse to check on her during a drought or a storm or the like. She was not elderly by any means, yet, but it was understandable for a child to feel concerned. Mbalamwezi found it equally comforting to know her daughter was well, despite Ebumnyami being an adult for a while now.

Ebumnyami hardly saw her other half-siblings. Fiume once or twice in the past few seasons, Orco they had last seen when she visited to show her mother the litter of 3 cubs that she had had, Chironex was around a little more often, but Velum...

Velum... That burdensome leech of a half-sister (she hated that they were related) returned to mooch again and again and again. A moon could not pass without a visit. She took prey from their mother's territory, if not taking meals from her mother's kills (which was more routine). And when Velum had had a daughter...

Oh, Xanthippe. They had a one-sided love-hate relationship. Xanthippe adored her half-great-aunt, it was Ebumnyami who could never decide once and for all her feelings about Xan. Though they were related through Orco and not Velum, Xan took altogether too much after the green lioness.

Xanthippe had entered their lives when she was brought as a juvenile to Mbalamwezi by a grey and white male, the juvenile's uncle. He beseeched Mbalamwezi to raise the girl, saying his sister (her mother) was unfit, and that he had been tracking down her family for months after she had been weaned. It seems, too, that Serru was unfit.

So Mbalamwezi raised Xan, with help from Ebumnyami. But Velum's presence rubbed off on the girl a little too much. Or perhaps it was also her mother's nature. Ebumnyami refused to think that perhaps the traits she so despised in Velum that were apparently shared in Serru and Xan might be from Mbalamwezi after all, instead of Velum and Chironex's father...

To put the thought from her mind, she was patrolling her territory. And in patrolling, she spotted a purple lion. Her blue eyes narrowed suspiciously. What could he want? She plodded towards him.

Puhterodactyl

Ghostly Friend


Puhterodactyl

Ghostly Friend

PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:13 pm


Phlegyas had been aware of this purple lioness for quite some time before she was aware of him. But in hunting lions, sometimes stealth and evasion was not the best route. Sometimes curiosity would kill the cat, so to speak. Still, he had spent some time studying her, examining her. The land he had crossed into smelled strongly of her, so he concluded that it must be her territory. Not that of a pride, but a small patch of savannah that the lioness had staked out as her own, come hell or high water, if she were to suffer through feast or famine, the lioness would have to accept whatever the earth offered her. Smells of other lionesses were also present, but less strongly. And they smelled like her, too. Perhaps they were close friends or relatives. What few scent markings he could trace of other male lions were few and rather old as far as he could discern. She must not have a mate, he deduced. Or if she did, the male lion must have been away now for quite some time.

How interesting...

His tail flicked back and forth, his interest piqued.

Though he was well into adulthood (he refused to acknowledge that he might be- gasp- getting old) he had not lost the desire to propagate his genes, or felt that his five or six or seven cubs were enough to satisfy him. Yes, he had many grandchildren and even some great- great-s or something, but that was so far removed, diluted. Unfortunately his wife had not adapted well to the cold and wet climate from their volcanic origins and was too thin and frail to ask to bear cubs. It could spell the her death and that of their unborn cubs.

But this female looked quite healthy...

When she reached him, he bowed deeply,

"Hello, my lady..."
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:15 pm


Ebumnyami regarded him suspiciously.

And rightly so.


"What are you doing in my territory?"

"Why, I'm here to take you back to mine."




the end.
Phle: 609 words
Ebumnyami: 527

Puhterodactyl

Ghostly Friend

Reply
[IC] Rogue Lands

 
Manage Your Items
Other Stuff
Get GCash
Offers
Get Items
More Items
Where Everyone Hangs Out
Other Community Areas
Virtual Spaces
Fun Stuff
Gaia's Games
Mini-Games
Play with GCash
Play with Platinum