[Private: rich198 & FlamingBee] Simba's Pride: The Big Gap

[FlamingBee]

Zira stood staring at the heap her son had fallen into; slowly she walked up and stared at the quivering cub. "What do you call that?" She waited as there was silence; he was obviously unsure whether to answer. "I'll tell you! It's what I'd call failure!" She slashed at the cubs back, then turned and walked away; "Sort him out." She added whilst passing Nuka; she knew he would need help to heal fully.

[rich198]

Nuka waited untill his Zira was out of ear shot untill speaking. "Well look how the mighty have fallen oh chosen one unable to even beat a little girl." Nuka wanted to cause his brother further injury but feared his mother would do far worst to him if he tried. Instead Nuka got Kovu some food to eat.

Kovu was far to weak to even raise his head let alone eat. Instead he just lay thier quavering in pain with blood flowing out of him through every exit in his body.

This was the first time Nuka ever showed any care for his brother and took him to find some water, carrying him on his back. Eventully they found and Nuka carefully washed the blood of his brother and helped him swallow what little Kovu tried to drink.

[FlamingBee]

Vitani watched the scene from small cave that she liked to call her 'home' near the riverbank. She felt betrayed by Nuka, but then again knew it was only out of fear that he did these things. She sighed; she knew it had been wrong to hurt Kovu, but it had felt good - was she really a blood thirsty killer?
She started to head over to her brothers, meaning to apologise, but the nearer she got the less she cared; Kovu still had Nuka doing everything for him afterall! She strutted past, throwing over a painful comment: "Look at the almighty King now, unable to walk, let alone fight a real warrior!" She went in the direction of the cave.

[rich198]

Kovu attempted to throw a comment back at Vitani but was still in to much pain to talk instead he just sloped his head and looked down at his reflection. He saw some of the cuts he had recieved and thought what had he done to anger his sister so much to cause here to injure him like that. "Nuka did i really deserve this."

Nuka looked at Kovu and decided to tell him what he wanted to hear for fear of causing Kovu to leave while under his care. "No that sister of ours' is just jealouse that your the chosen one not her." And with that he picked Kovu up and placed him on his back to take him home again.

[FlamingBee]

Vitani had overheard their little conversation as she walked away, but right now she didn't care; she knew Nuka hadn't meant it, they'd always had a bond which meant they could tell what the other was thinking, or at least Vitani knew about Nuka's. She walked into the cave and settled in a spot as far away from her brother's 'throne' as possible. She silently wept, awaiting any criticism that the other lionesses would give...

[rich198]

Nuka walked into the cave with Kovu on his back, Kovu looked at his sister but with no expression shown. Nuka walked over to where his brother usalley slept and put him down so he can sleep. Nuka walked over to Vitani but saw a familier face that he did not want to ris angering anymore than she already was, and so he just walked towards the corner to lay down for the night.

[FlamingBee]

Vitani had stopped her weeping when a large shadow cast itself over her. She turned to see her mother's frosty expression; "Come with me." She walked out the cave, and so Vitani followed in fear of what would happen.
Zira sat by the riverside and waited till her daughter settled. "You know Vitani, I understand you'd make a better leader than Kovu; but you are female! I thought you would understand that..." Vitani was about to interrupt but her mother wasn't done. "However maybe your skills could come in useful. From now on, you will accompany us on training, you will make a great warrior for him... and your fighting might encourage him to toughen up!" Knowing her mother was done, she went back to the cave with her mother on her tail; the two went to sleep where they'd previously settled, awaiting the following morning...

[rich198]

Kovu woke up late that after-noon. Thier was dry blood on his fur and Kovu noticed a number of his cut's had opened up in the night. He was still in to walk and knew he would still have to relie on Nuka looking after him untill he could walk again.

[FlamingBee]

Zira walked into the cave, followed by a very happy Vitani; she was leaping along with a twinkle in her eyes.
"Oh, you're up," Zira seemed less than enthusiastic. "Well you've missed a majority of training, but you can always come now."
"Yeah, we just came to see if you were up!" Vitani had a sickly sweetness in her voice, hoping it hurt Kovu that she didn't care about the previous night.
Zira turned to go. "Coming?"

[rich198]

Kovu tried to stand knowing that anything less than making it to training would displease his mother, and he knew he had lost her favour due to the other night. After several attempts he manged to stand up but collapsed secounds later.