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 Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:46 am
The morning sun shone brightly through the cave entrance, caressing the sleeping family in soft golden light. The light brown lioness opened her pale eyes, blinking gainst the light for a moment. She untangled herself from her young cubs and mate, smiling at the sight of them all asleep together. Tana stretched her front paws out, uncurling her claws for a moment as she did so. She shook herself off and padded from the cave slowly, making sure not to wake them.
Silently she made her way to the small river by their home, leaning forward she began lapping at the cold, clear water. As she finished she looked up, watching an outcropping of trees for a moment. The sun shone brilliantly on the water, almost blinding the lioness. But she continued to watch, for she saw a shape appearing through the trees and light. At first she thought it may be Matifu, since he was large like her brother. But as he came into the light fully, blocking out the sun, Tana felt her heart almost stop. Her breath caught and her eyes widened.
"Mother... I'm home." Tamariku said softly as he gazed down at her. Tana felt herself shaking, her limbs felt like jelly. For a moment she stood stunned, until Riku came down from the light, followed by three others she didn't recognize. But as Riku nuzzled his mother in greeting, Tanashita felt tears rolling down her cheeks, and everything else was blurred out of her mind. Her son was back... after all those long years... he was back. She couldn't believe it. "Riku..." She whispered, looking at him in awe.
Riku smiled softly at his mother, his tears mingling with her as they nuzzled. He couldn't believe how happy he was at that moment, and his mother shared the feeling with all her heart.
Tamariku was home.
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:32 am
Young and bored, that was what Paki was. Young, bored and completely without any playmates. Muttering to himself, the vanilla and chocolate striped cub trotted out over the grass and....
Right... into.... the leg of a lion he didn't know?
Squeaking lightly and toppling over, Paki stared blindly up at the sky for a moment and sniffed in the scent of the lion he'd smelled all over the cave walls for the past week or so. He wasn't sure who this was, but it certainly was someone that he knew from before they'd ever met, that much was sure.
"Helloooooo?" Paki chirpped up at the other in his cub-like voice.
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:05 pm
Happiness. Joy. Tears. Relief.
That is what she felt at the exact moment her mother saw her eldest sone for the first time in years.
Even from miles and miles away, Moyo could not help but blink and freeze at the sudden emotions churning in her and the links of her family.
Riku? Her muzzle widened into a large grin, which caused an amused, puzzled look from Kiwi. It's about time, you runt, she joked happily, smiling up at the stars with the silliest grin.
Her excitement could not be contained, as the stars above her twinkled along with her sudden sprint on the hill and leap into the air, tumbling down and into a flower bed below. She could feel Kiwi's worried surprise at the sudden, rash action, but she laughed to reasurre him.
Riku, you have no idea what you've just done. So much happiness is now here. I will see you soon, big brother.
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:23 pm
The young lioness stopped a distance away to let them celebrate alone for a moment. Tears glazed over golden eyes as she watched them reunite. After all the anticipation of the journey here it was well worth it to see them together again. She looked down towards the ground not wanting to stare but it was hard not to and she still glanced up every moment or two. All the joy and excitement almost made her jealous, wishing for a mother of her own who would be happy to see her again. Shaking those thoughts she lifted her head again with a slight tilt to one side, wondering if she should introduce them yet... She was so bad at this kind of stuff and it was starting to make her a bit anxious. Deciding she would wait for his call she whispered to the cubs still watching ahead, " Be on your best behavior for mommy... ok?"
A small calico cub peered out from one side of his mother who he hid behind. His yellow eyes danced about as he watched the scene before him unfold. Everything was still a bit confusing and scary but, it kind of looked like fun. As he watched his father and the other lioness nuzzle, his attention quickly shifted to a pale cub at their paws. A smooth smile spread across his face and his tail began to sway. He had never met a cub his age except for his sister and it would defiantly be nice to have someone new to play with.
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:27 pm
Kifijo slightly shifted a paw which--up until this moment--had rested across his mate. When the limb only touched air, one of his eyelids cracked open to find another male standing at the entrance with Tana.
Another male that smelled stragely familiar.
"Gods," Kif breathed, rising to a standing position and slowly walking towards the entrance. "Riku?"
Gods! His son had grown! He was almost as big as his father, now, and just as handsome as his mother was beautiful.
If only Bakari and Moyo were here: what a reunion that would be!
And now Riku was here--with cubs and a mate of his own, by the looks of it--to be involved in his younger siblings' lives--all of them.
Kifijo could not be happier.
He quickly trotted up to Tana and Riku, joining in on the sniffing and nuzzling and welcoming him back.
This was the most joyous day.
His cub was home.
And as soon as the thought crossed his mind, the lioness and cubs behind Riku glimmered in the corner of Kif's eye. With a sly smirk, he nudged his oldest cub and nodded toward the other three lions.
"Are you going to introduce us or what, cub?" he growled playfully.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:19 am
Tamariku watched as his father joined them, and a huge grin spread across his face. "Dad!" He said smiling, and he banged his head against his fathers, as they did when he was very young.
When Riku noticed the pale cub below them, sitting on his paw, he blinked in surprise. "And who is this?" He said with a purring smile, noting the cubs markings he grinned. "A lot has happened it seems, since I've been gone." He chuckled and smiled down at the cub. "Hello there, small one. I'm Tamariku, your big brother." He noticed the cubs blindness, and he set his head aginst the small pale one, smiling.
Riku blinked and chuckled, turning around to look at Kichea with an apologetic gaze. "How rude of me." He said, trotting over to her he nuzzled her gently. "Mother, father, cub, this is Kichea. My mate." He said with a smile, then looking down at his cubs. "And this is Nakawa and Tui'lian. Cubs, these are your grandparents." Riku said smiling. He bent down and whispered to them, "Go ahead and tackle 'em." He grinned, a glint of amusement in his eyes.
Tui'lian looked at her father strangely. Had he gone mad? He seemed so... happy! She had never seen her father like this before, he was usually so serious, aside from when he played with them. She looked to her grandparents - she didn't even really know what grandparents were! - and smiled sheepishly. She walked over, helped along by her fathers nudging, and smiled up at them. "H-hello."
Tanashita watched as her eldest son and the love of her life reunited. In her heart she thought of Moyo, and knew their daughter was celebrating, wherever she was.
As Riku introduced Kichea and the cubs, Tana smiled brightly. "Greetings, Kichea." She said, walking over and placing her head against the females in greeting. "Welcome to our slightly crazy family." She said with a soft smile. A few tears still ran down her cheeks, but they were of joy.
Looking to the cubs, Tana smiled softly. "Hello, cubs. I am Tanashita, I'm your fathers mom. I'm your grandma." She nuzzled each cub in turn gently. She couldn't believe how happy she was.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:47 am
Bakari hadn't been the same for the last couple of days. He seemed to shift from Dr. Jekel to Mr. Hyde all in one afternoon.
The adolescent had staggered from where he collapsed towards the jungles that was his pride's territory. He hid in the foliage, secluding himself and hunting alone. He needed comfort, but wouldn't show it or tell anyone so. He seemed to be a blender of emotions; Angry and enraged at Kiwi, hurt because of his family 'kicking him out', and weak because of his older brother not being there.
But in the morning, as the sun rained through the leaves, Bakari felt very different. He felt at-home with the overgrowth, hiding and covering him from anything he thought would hurt him further. The adolescent padded through the foliage, and heard familiar voices.. as well as unfamiliar ones. He felt his ears shoot up as the word 'Dad' rang from a strangely familiar voice.
"Riku?" he whispered, and began sprinting through vines and ferns and tree roots, before bursting into the joyous scene.
All could plainly see he was a bit unkempt; Bits of leaves stuck to his legs and poked from his mane and tail, as well as a few sticks. But that didn't matter to him, his brother was around here. His eyes silently scanned everyone, noting the spotted lioness and small cubs he'd never seen. Finally, his lilac eyes fell apon his brother; He seemed older now, taller, even. The scar across Bakari's eye seared with pain, and he felt a wave of embarassment wash over him as he remembered it; Nice way to greet your brother, dirty and battered up!
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:58 am
"Big brother!" Paki parroted back at Riku and snuggled against his older brother's significantly larger leg happily. Of course Paki knew that he had two older brothers, but Bakari was always gone and seemed to not like him at all, so the most that Paki could do was smell his older brother.
Though in some cases that was enough, knowing that he also had Nitesh and his sisters. Grinning and thunking his mocha puff of a head against Riku's larger one, Paki rolled off of his sibling's foot and landed on his side playfully.
Bumbling into a lump of body that was the same size as his, or at least from the aura that Paki could feel was the same size as his, the cub chirpped again and batted at it. Obviously this wasn't one of his siblings, because he could tell the other was male and since it wasn't Nitesh, who would have bowled Paki over in an instance, he could only assume his older brother brought him some friends.
"Hey!" Paki said brightly to the other his age, his blind eyes flashing playfully as his tail swished in the air behind him.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:15 am
Tamariku caught the scent of someone familiar. He looked over his shoulder and spotted his younger brother, and a wide grin spread cross his face. He crely noticed the scar that dorned Bakis eye, as he ran to his brother and tackled him to the ground. "Baki!" He said, digging his paw into the lions head playfully.
A scar adorned Rikus right shoulder as well, a triple V marking. Riku looked over Baki, and shook his head. "Looks like without me you've had some issues, eh Baki?" He said teasingly, laughing as he nuzzled his brother. "It's been far too long."
Tui watched as her grandmother nuzzled her and her brother, and she grinned. As she saw the blind cub their age roll into her brother, she smiled nd walekd over to him. She didn't understand wht was wrong with this cub just yet, but she knew there was something different about him. She walked over and sniffed at him, then flopped on top of him playfully. "Hi! I'm Tui. Who're you?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:25 am
Not feeling the warmth of her mother's body any more Mvita opened her eyes to investigate. Her mother was no longer in the cave, neither were her father and little brother. She jawned before getting up on her feet and trotted towards the cave's entrance. She could hear voices on the outside, some of them unfamiliar to her.
Being as curious as she was Mvita just had to walk out of the cave and investigate these new lions. She crawled towads a small bush, her belly touching the ground, keeping her eyes on them. Once she reached the bush she laid down and spied on them, her tail wagging, unaware that it was in fact visible to the others. She stayed there for a while watching the guests, happy no one had noticed her crawl out of the cave. Across Mvita's face was a big smile showing how satisfied she was with her "ambush".
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:36 am
Sniffing the air before him so that he could smell the two cubs in front of him and his sister Mvita off behind some bush somewhere, Paki made certain that he could feel everyone around his bubble before he looked in the direction of the female that had said hello.
"I'm Paki." he said with a bright smile, squished under her body as he was, Paki could only see one way. So he twisted under her and used his chocolate pawed feet to shove her a little into the air above him, letting her hang off of his feet as he giggled. "It's nice to meet you Tui. Where're you from?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:16 am
Johari for once was not the last to rise, noticing as one by one the bodies of warmth left their bundle (not that they really needed it in the pridelands, even the caves that lined the rock wall within the pride's forested valley were quite humid. The youngest female bounded out to the rest of the group, only slowing her pace once she reached her mother, weaving between her legs to stand behind one of her forepaws, peering up, shyly curious.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:36 pm
Bakari barely had time to think as his older brother bowled him over, temporarily knocking the wind out of him. He blinked at Riku's shoulder, before yelling as he felt the paw shove at his head.
"Watch it!" he called, a smile trying to creep along his face.
He sat up, nuzzling back. "A few.." he said quietly, thinking back to Kiwi. His eyes fluttered apon Kichea and the cubs, and thought for a moment. Suddenly, he felt his face grow hot. His brother had a mate and a family? And then Moyo had one as well!
The adolescent pawed at the ground embarassedly, a shy smile on his face. "Seems everybody but me's found their place with someone else, huh..?" he said quietly to Riku, his eyes now on Kichea. She was downright beautiful, but she was his brother's mate. His mind settled back to Latifu.. Where was she?
Bakari snapped back to reality as he watched Paki nudge Riku's leg. Watching the cub roll and play with Mvita and Tui, he then turned to Johari. She sparked his curiosity, and he carefully and calmly padded towards Tanashita and the small girl, a smile forming. "Hello, sis'," he said, a purr rumbling in his chest. She seemed so shy, compared to Moyo and the rest.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:49 pm
Tamariku watched as Bakari spoke, and he grew solemn. So Moyo had mate too, then. Riku watched his little brother as he padded away, and sighed. Baki sure had grown angsty.
Pushing the thoughts away, Riku rejoined Kichea and smiled at her, nuzzling her as he sat down beside her.
Tui smiled asPaki spoke, "I'm from a long way away. Mommy and daddy and Nakawa and me went with a scary lion and he led us here! Mommy and daddy call this 'home' though, so I don't think we belonged where we were before." She said smiling.
As Tui caught the sight of another cub - a female like her! - she grinned and crawled off Paki, running through Bakaris legs to get to the young cub. "Hi!" She said, smiling brightly, her tail swaying back and forth behind her.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:43 pm
Kichea’s glazed eyes sparkled with pride as Riku introduced her to his family and all the excitement rushed to her at once. She smiled with joy as Tana nuzzled her in greeting, she loved the idea of finally completing their family and making it whole. A tear fell down her cheek as she closed her glazed eyes in a soft chuckle, “ Oh, I’m sure we’re only adding to the craziness.” After a moment she opened her eyes again. Smiling softly as she watched as Tana nuzzled her new grandchildren and watched the cubs make new playmates. Watching the old playmates reunite was just as sweet, as Riku seen his brother. Kichea sighed with overwhelming happiness as Riku joined her again and leaning into his nuzzled she whispered, “ I love our new home. We are going to stay aren’t we?”.
Nakawa was a bit surprised by the big lioness nuzzling him. Sure she was his grandmother but what was that supposed to mean anyways. His golden eyes grew wide as his father pushed him forward. He wasn‘t ready just yet. A small smile spread across his lips as the pale cub fell into him and his tail began to sway again. He listened to his sister speak to him so easily and wondered how she could ever get the strength to do that. He wanted to make a new friend but, every time he began to open his mouth another thought of how it could sound stupid crossed his mind and he closed his mouth again. As his sister moved to speak to the new cub he took his chance with words. “Hey… I‘m Nakawa… That was my sister Tui… Where are you from?” His soft voice got softer as he spoke, as he slowly began to lose his confidence and feel shy again .
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