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 Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:22 pm
Uovu felt like a wet rat. His pelt was matted, dripping, and he looked thinner than usual - his fur pressed close to his skin. The rain was drenching him from top to bottom - and making the ground muddy, hard to trudge through. He chewed on his bottom lip in annoyance, blinking as the rain dripped from his ears and ran into his eyes.
He hated patroling the Southland borders in weather like this. Hopefully he wouldn't meet any intruders, and wouldn't get into any fights. Days like these made him more grumpy and moody than usual.
The sky rumbled dangerously, and clouds swirled angrily above, sending countless drops splattering all over Uovu.
"Damn it," he gritted his teeth. Let the patrol be a quick one. Then, if everything was alright, he could report back to Lord Roho that everything was fine, and would earn the rest of the day off.
Let nothing go wrong.
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:31 pm
Unfortunately things were about to go wrong, very wrong, for poor rain-drenched Uovu. He wasn't the only creature in a sour mood, though the leopardess wasn't about to let it show.
It wasn't the rain, or the angrly, swirling clouds. Contrary to that fact, Tayhira loved water, ever bit of it, for she was born a jungle cat, and water was her life. Another thing she specialized in was aggravating those animals she hated most - lions.
Her life was devoted to stealing, raising, and releasing their own offspring back into the wild against them.
So as she spotted the lion, laughter rang out against the darkened sky. "Having trouble?" she sneered, coming up behind him, her head low, water pouring down her face.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:11 pm
"Trouble?!" Uovu whirled around, and at once he caught sight of a strange leopardess with a black and white flecked coat. He silently found himself admiring it, although he shook the thought from his head, and soon a growl rose, thrumming in his throat.
An intruder! And, oh, just what he needed... it was simply pouring with rain, mud was sucking down his paws - and now this. Why couldn't Lord Roho have sent him on patrol on a nicer day, rather than this great, rainy mess of one?
His nose wrinkling into a snarl, he stared coldly at the intruder, silently willing her with his eyes to turn back. Though, this creature seemed a little stubborn for his liking... and gosh, it sounded like she had quite a hide, too.
"This isn't trouble. Just a freakin' muddy mess," he growled, not liking her tone - it was as if she were making a mockery of him, "I will leave you with a warning, Miss. You're crossing over into the Southlands, which is Tononeka Pride territory - Great Lord and Lioness Hodari'Roho rules this area, and I hope you realise that."
His growl grew louder.
"You're intruding."
The Tononeka, though not well known, was creeping up on the Southlands... even though the large following of lions had not yet established a pride. Right now, the Tononeka was little more than a group - although it's leader, Roho, seemed to want to release it's potential and invade the Southlands, picking off the weak so that only the strong would live. Uovu believed in it's potential for power... and so acted like it was already a pride in the face of 'intruders' in the Southlands.
It was true, however, that the Southlands belonged to no pride as of yet.
But Uovu was not certainly going to admit to that. To him, the Tononeka had perfect right to the place... and so, he'd go out and guard the borders, keeping the riff-raff out of Camp.
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