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 Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:50 pm
He could picture it just so eeasly, waking up with his mother and his father, then going and eating the fish his father always caught and swimming and his mother.. He'd never see her again, would he? It just didn't feel like it was true. Picturing her here, with him, nudgin to wake him up.. He could just know she was here. And yet, when he opened his eyes, all he saw was this vast, stupid, dumb place. Just that stupid yellow grass. Those few trees..
He wanted to go home. He just needed to stop a bit, he needed to think. Nothing was right. It just felt like it would be again, but some itching feeling in the back of his mind told him it wouldn't. It'd never be the same. It wouldn't work that way. She was gone. What would his father think?
The miserable ball of fur uncoiled a bit, leaning against the tree as if it could possibly comfort him, his fur a terrible mess, but not half as bad as his mind. Thought soared by, everything he'd known...
It had all just vanished.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:02 pm
 Unusually large paws crossed the lands. Why was Sukari heading back to the jungle on her "vacation" from the family life? She wasn't entirely sure. Perhaps to reminisce, or to bring back some souvenir from Jani's past home. Maybe some jungle blossom... For the only creatures she cared about.
She still felt odd about the whole thing. That deep down was a soft, squishy soul. Still, that was only a fake her. That was what she'd told herself time after time.
The reason she'd told her family was that she was going on a training trip. There would be no stops. She had to keep her muscles fine-toned, and the family life didn't do that. Being on the move, nonstop for a few days could make up for it.
She moved confidently towards the jungles, eyes ever sharp. She turned her thoughts, now, to the whelp in her camp. The insolent swine- he didn't deserve the protection she gave him. She was merciful- he could eat a rabbit a week and sleep about an hour a day. Who needed much else?
Until he could fight for himself, he most certainly did not.
Her thoughts were interupted by a sight in the distance. An unnatural lump up ahead. She ducked low and approached- getting horribly close to it. Close enough to tell it was a leopard she had seen. She snuck around to the other side of the tree, then strolled out of the tall grass, head held low, tail tip twitching.
"What's a youngster like you doing out here all... alone?" Sukari asked, her fake smile showing her gleaming sharp teeth.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:15 pm
He, at first, almost seemed to jump out of his skin, and backed away from the tree, around it, then soon realising she was there too, and looked back. He frowned, and folded his ears back. It was one of those monsters. Maybe it'd come to finish him off. That actually seemed sorta nice right about now.
"One of you just killed my mom. " He sneered, and slumped against the tree again, too tired to really do anything other than talk. Maybe she could just do it quickly. But then you sort of made him think.
Had it really been that lion? It was his fault. He knew it.
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:17 pm
"Oh, is that so?" She asked slinking around to the front of him. A lone cub... Just like the position the whelp had been in. Irresponsible parenting had led to an opportunity for her personal gain. She sat down in front of him, her well defined muscles ready to move if need be.
"It'd be easy to do the same to you... But if you know anything about strength, you never take the easy route. It'd be much harder for you to work the rest of your life, wouldn't it?" She smiled that grin again. The beginnings of her own personal bodyguard... Although the whelp would probably have to be disposed of. He was too... annoying. He'd make a nice moresel though.
"Why didn't you... save her?" Sukari asked, trying to weaken the juvenile. She rose to her feet and cycled around him once more, this time she was standing behind him. "You hated her?" She pressed, bringing up what had happened to her to the forefront of her mind. That horrible secret... It made her stronger. "Maybe you," she paused, "wanted her to die?" She smirked.
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:16 pm
"W-what? " He gasped, but turned around, last time some lion came behind him, his mother got killed. He backed away around the tree, but found in frustration that she was following.
"No! " He whined, and shook his head, partially to convince himself. He had been angry at the time! But he didn't want to get her killed. "S-she was teaching me how to hunt! " He started, not seeming to realise he might be gheiving this lioness precious information. "And she fell asleep! So I tried to hunt on my own! " He stumbled backwards a bit, but scrambled to his paws again, before finding himself against the tree.
"Then it tried to kill me. And she saved me! So I ran to get help. " He wailed, suddenly seeming to think of it more and more as all of his fault. "And I got lost and now I gotta find the jungle to tell my dad! " This was partially an angry sort of scream, but his voice was sort of croaky; he'd screamed to much earlier, and his throat couldn't bear the strain. His force seemd to by dying out, and he was tired.
Usiku wanted his mother.
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:27 pm
Sukari immediately realized that the way she acted out these next moments would determine whether taking this leopard would be easy or difficult.
She immediately jumped between him and the jungle. "You don't want to go searching for your father," She said in a hopefully convincing tone. "You see this scar under my eye?" She turned her head to show him the 7 shaped scar under her eye. "My father gave it to me," she lied. Nobody, not even Jani knew where she got it, it was her darkest secret. "He gave it to me after I came back, looking for forgiveness after loosing one of my siblings. It was horrible!" She mocked sadness. Truth was, her father died in Sukari's childhood, and her mother went fairly frantic, spending nights with various males around the pride and forgetting all about Sukari and her siblings. This, again, was a deep dark secret that she wouldn't tell anyone.
Either way, she continued. "If my father could do this to me for loosing a brother who ended up coming back later that night... Imagine what your father would do to you for killing his mate!" She said, hoping to scare him in to coming with her. She'd have her way even if he caught on, but until then, all was well, and she was sure he'd buy it.
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:09 pm
"No! " He whined, and pressed against the tree, his first idea would be to scramble up; but his limbs were too sore. They'd never manage this tree.
"He wouldn't... " He insisted, but seemed to be looking at his paws, as if in thought. He wouldn't.. He couldn't.. He.. He would. His father had always been so clingy to Karama.. Usiku had never seen Keone mad. But maybe this would be just enough.
"Would he? " His father was all he had now. And yet, now that seemed to be a closed option aswell. What ever would he do? He looked up at the lioness, but more in her direction then truly at her, his eyes blank. "There's nothing more for me to do. " He muttered, wich came out sort of like a croak, and he curled up now, closing his eyes tight and covering them with his paws.
Oh.. What ever would he do now?!
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:31 am
"Well," Sukari began, trying to imitate the motherly voice she talked to her sons with. "You could come home with me. It'll be our little secret, or even better, we could both just forget it ever happened!" She tried to sound, again, as sincere as possible. "I've got four sons, they'd love to have a playmate." She said convincingly. In her head, she was urging the juve to take the bait and do things the easy way.
The hard way would include Sukari whacking him into the tree trunk to knock him out, and carrying him away- she was already devising the plan should this fail.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:39 am
The leopard listened for a moment. Four ons? Could one even have that? Usiku was the only born. I would make him large someday, but for now, he was just a sorta-big juvenile.
He quietly rolled to his paws. And itching feeling in his mind told him she was pretending to be nice right now. Her entrance didn't enforce any of this sudden motherlyness. But nonetheless, he was on his paws, eyes looking blankly at the space infront of him, infront of the lionesses paws.
He nodded, quietly.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:50 am
"Splendid," Sukari said with a smirk. "The boys will love to meet you, as will my mate." She added, genuinely honest about this part. She knew the boys would be curious to meet a real leopard, and Jani could teach the little one about the tree tops- she was sure he'd be more than happy to.
"Walk with me, I'll take you there," She said, pulling up beside the leopard. Too bad this would benefit the whelp...
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:57 am
"Okay. " He muttered, and moved alongside the lion, head down, just barely following her movements. He was broken down good, and there was nothing he could do about it. He had no other choice than to follow this creature.
The leopard pushed away his exaustion and kept moving.
(( Wanna end it here? :0 ))
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