New Start, New Heart (Private for TheWhistlerify)

[LeopardessGracie]

Plot -

A young lioness named Gracie, falls into a bad relationship of which she gives birth to a cub which was the result of being mated against her will. Her abusive mate, Roark, who had done this to her, leaves for a short while, and she makes her escape with her young male cub, named Chaka, and her young female cub, named Shani.

She lives a hard life as a rouge for a while, before finding Mheetu's Pride). They accept her and she makes a few friends. She becomes close with Mheetu and she finally opens up to him about her previous relationship.

They begin to fall in love, but....guess who catches up with them? Along with his new found pride...

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Character list -

Gracie (viewtopic.php?f=38&t=22022) - LeopardessGracie
Mheetu (My version of Mheetu is a cream coloured lion with emerald green eyes and a black mane, pridelander appearance, son of Scar) - TheWhistlerify
Roark (viewtopic.php?f=38&t=22023) - TheWhistlerify
Chaka (viewtopic.php?f=38&t=22025) - LeopardessGracie
Shani (viewtopic.php?f=38&t=22026) - TheWhistlerify
Tavu (viewtopic.php?f=38&t=22075) - LeopardessGracie
Amara (viewtopic.php?f=38&t=22076) - TheWhistlerify
Alana (viewtopic.php?f=38&t=22077) - LeopardessGracie
Tara (viewtopic.php?f=38&t=22133) - TheWhistlerify
Dalani (profile coming soon) - LeopardessGracie

EDIT: I've decided I'd be better of playing Chaka. I will keep my first post the same, just change the names around.

EDIT: In case you didn't get the PM, those new characters are the cubs that Shani and Chaka make friends with, and they are essential for the sequel of this RP ^-^
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We begin with Gracie introducing the cubs to Roark for the first time. They are able to walk and talk at this point.
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"What if he doesn't like them...what if he hurts them...", the worried lioness thought to herself as she waited in the cave for her mate to arrive. Her cubs both in her arms, Chaka, the male, was first born and inherited his father's red eyes, but her face markings. Gracie was panicking about that, her mate hated her face markings.

Shani, the female, was born second and inherited most of her father's fur colours, and Gracie's eyes. Chaka looked up to his mother and smiled nervously,
"Mom, will I like father?". Gracie tried to hold back a frown and she bent down to lick her cub's head.
"Just remember what I told you, you two. Be polite and only speak when you've been asked too...and call him father and father only, unless he says otherwise". She added the last bit on after a while, knowing Roark wouldn't want to be called 'Dad', or certainly not 'Daddy'.

Gracie looked outside for a moment, it was late afternoon, he was going to arrive any minute now. She gulped and momentarily looked at her cubs, who were anxiously waiting to meet their father. Oh how disappointed they'd be...

[TheWhistlerify]

Shani, unlike her brother, was mostly focused on her mother rather than on the entrance of the den like her brother who anxiously waited for their father to finally arrived so that he could meet him for the first time. There was something in her mother's behavior and body language that the cub did not like. Unlike her brother who seemed nervous as a result of excitement, her mother seemed just, well, nervous. Not only that, but there were also the countless number of times in which she told them to be polite and not speak unless spoken to. Did a cub need permission in order to speak to his / her own father?

Roark himself, was nowhere near excited about meeting his cubs as his cubs were about meeting him. Cubs meant that Gracie would be busier than ever rather than being able to focus her attention where it should be focused, on him. The only reason he was going to arrive when he should was because he hasn't seen Gracie not to mention been with her in a long time now. And because of that 'long time', he was more impatient than ever. The male eventually arrived at the cave in question, telling to himself that the only positive thing about those cubs of him was that there were only two while there could have been three or even four. He approached the three without saying a word, a frown on his face as he looked at the two cubs in Gracie's arm.

[LeopardessGracie]

[OOC: This is gonna be good, just by that first post you made ^-^]

Chaka's face lit up when he saw his father at the entrance of the den, he had waited for ages to see him and now he was finally there. Gracie watched Roark carefully, her eyes full of fear,
"R-Roark...", she addressed him quietly. Chaka now standing up between his mother's too arms, gave his father a wide smile. He wanted to say something, but remembered what his mother said and really couldn't find the words.

Gracie wanted Roark to say something, the silence was killing her. She was anxious enough to see what he thought of them, and Chaka's excitement made her on the other hand, not want to hear what he had to say.

[TheWhistlerify]

Roark's frown didn't seem to even begin to disappear upon seeing the wide smile on Chaka's face. Shani, while looking at her father, was still more focused on her mother, especially after the way she addressed him so quietly and nervously. Her father didn't seem to even acknowledge the fact that Gracie has just spoken to him, in fact the only thing he could think of right now was how to swipe that smile off Chaka's face in a way he would never have to see it again. He next looked at Shani, who instinctively lowered her head a little. The way he was staring at her and her brother was simply too creepy for her, she couldn't understand why was her brother smiling the way he was. After a silence which seemed to last forever, Roark looked at his mate and simply asked, "What are their names?" he didn't care, but he figured that knowing their names would make it easier to mock them whenever he got bored.

(( ^-^ ))

[LeopardessGracie]

Gracie almost let out a large sigh when her mate finally spoke. She looked to Chaka, who was still smiling. She finally replied, voice shaking at the beginning,
"T-t-the boy is Chaka...the girl is Shani...". Chaka still smiled at his father, although he was a little upset he hadn't said anything to him. He was so concentrated on his father, the strong, dark male in front of him, that he didn't notice how nervous his mother was. He took a little step toward Roark, so desperately wanting his attention, he didn't know he'd never get the sort of attention he was seeking.

[TheWhistlerify]

Roark was about to make a statement about how stupid those names sounded to him when Chaka took that one small step toward him, causing the male to shift his gaze from Gracie to the small cub in less than the time it would take to blink. Shani gulped at that, growing more and more nervous by her father's presence. Gracie out of all the lions in the world knew just how cruel Roark could be, and the time she was forced to spend with him probably made her realize that he wouldn't mind hurting his own cubs just like he didn't mind hurting and abusing her. Still, it was amusing to see the cub's smile turn into a less wide and more upset one.

[LeopardessGracie]

Gracie didn't like how fast Roark was able to change his focus on something else, especially his own cub. Chaka however, was over the moon that his father was looking at him again, this time, his urge to speak got the better of him,

"Uh...hello father". It was simple, Chaka thought, but at least his father might talk back to him. Gracie lowered her head.
"Chaka, what did I say earlier about not speaking when your spoken too", she hissed at him quietly. She wasn't angry, just extremely cautious.

[TheWhistlerify]

Shani could feel her own eyes grow wide when Chaka suddenly adressed their father. At first she couldn't under why did Gracie tell them both to not do that before Roark arrived but now, she understood it quite well. Her father was nothing but scary. Roark glared at the cub, "Listen to your mother." it was obvious to hear the growl in his voice, causing Shani to gulp once more. Meeting her father was nothing like she expected it to be.

[LeopardessGracie]

At Roark's glare, Chaka suddenly lowered his head. Much like Shani, he had his doubts about his father now, especially now that he had finally spoken to him. Gracie was meaning to ask something, it might be asking too much and she could see the cubs definitely wouldn't like it, but she had to.

"R-Roark,would you mind looking after the cubs for a little while?", she stopped and took a sharp breath. She knew Roark had been hunting his own food for a while, and he hated that. "I need to go on a hunt...I mean, to get you food...and the cubs...".

[TheWhistlerify]

Roark of course had no intention of staying alone with those cubs. If there was anyone he wanted to be alone with right now then that someone would be Gracie. However, he did hate hunting on his own. He'd prefer to watch those stupid cubs if that meant to have her hunt for him, because it wouldn't take the cubs too long to realize to keep their mouth shuts around him. Shani didn't like the idea of their mother leaving one bit, but she was afraid to unleash her father's fury by speaking, even if she wanted to speak to her mother and not to him.