[PRIVATE] A Rogue's Light

[oXButterflyKissesXo]

"Shut up Mulfalfa, or you're next" Kioja snarled, silencing him. What a coward, she thought, looking back over to Auni. "Figured I'd come and check out Mulfalfa's new pride. After all, he must have had something very important to come for if he was to leave Kamau". The new lioness had definetly asserted herself. She wasn't looking for the dominant factor, nor was she looking to be picking a fight-- she was showing them she was not to be messed with.

Kioja looked back at the male who was unoccupied with a mate. Loner? She studied him and she was sure her way of looking at him was making him a little jumpy, but she didn't look to inspire anything less with her presence. "Who are the leaders of this pride?," She questioned, looking behind her to the two lions she had met earlier, "those two?"

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Imani's eyebrows raised and her voice ran from her. It had been two months and finally he was asking her to be his! Say something, Imani! SPEAK.

"...I like butterflies" the brain-dead choked out. All she could think of what was happening before the question reared its head to her and Tanga. "I mean! Umm," she shook her head and looked back up at him, "I'm not good at this, but...". The lioness regained her exposure and smiled softly like always, "of course, Tanga."

[VitanisMate]

Mufalfa laughed. "Next as in what Kioja and what do you mean by leave Kamau?" He then made sure he appeared dominant in this situation. "I am the leader of this pride. This fellow you keep staring at is the sp...I mean Auni and this lioness who is still sleeping is Ra." He made sure to leave out the other parts till later. He was going to mkae sure he would take control of the situation not this new lioness and he made sure she would not be the boss here.

Mufalfa looked toward Kioja and said, "I must apologize for my horrible manners of greeting you. You see you just can't be too careful these days and in fact you have to be extra cautious as you sure well know. I have you see changed my ways. Whatever stories you heard about me I have turned my back on that."

[oXButterflyKissesXo]

Kioja stared at him, but was not in the least intimidated by the old companion she once found in Mulfalfa. "Leader of what? Ants?" She replied, looking back towards the two that she met earlier. Her seafoam eyes returned down to Ra, seeing she was still sleeping. In a way she was envious of how well the lioness could sleep through anything, but at the same she knew there would be trouble if that habit of hers kept up. The bulging belly of the female by Mulfafla came more into view and she examined it.

Kioja started to burst out laughing, smoothly and gravelly. "Mulfalfa, you fool" she spoke, "you fell in love". Indeed, what a fool he is, she thought. "Assuming those are indeed your children. Because of course, how can I truly believed you turned the other cheek on your past for good" Kioja spoke before she looked over at Auni. She was finding herself annoyed from his constant stares at her but she ignored him once more and looked towards the two, Imani and Tanga. Imani looked like she had just been asked to be Tanga's mate, assuming they weren't already since she looked so happy.

"They seem to be the leaders" she stated on her own. The dark lioness sat down and looked over the small pride one last time before setting herself down much like Ra was and resting her body. Still young as she was, the lioness was a lazy one.

[Nakisisa]

Get lost Ra thought to herself, building a mental image of who the lioness was. Hearing she was close, and sleeping the unfamiliar scent, Ra bolted uprigt, and sped towards the lioness, ignoring the rest of the conversation. "You..." she hissed, "Hae no right to be here, now get away, before I drop the nice act", a growl escaping her throat, and her claws unsheathing.

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga felt himself struggling to stand, his limbs were shaking so badly as he waited for her answer. When she gave her comment on butterflies, Tanga was completely thrown, but she quickly began to correct herself, and realised that Imani's nerves had taken hold as well.

And then he heard her answer, and his world stopped. He looked up from his bow, his eyes meeting hers. She had accepted him! Imani had accepted him as his mate! He was euphoric, he had always hoped, across those two months, and in the last few days, had dreamed...but now it was reality.

His body moving almost of it's own accord, Tanga got up from his bow, moving with forced steadiness, and licked Imani's cheek, with every bit of love and devotion he could pull together, before wrapping her up in a big bug, feeling himself just about ready to cry from the sheer joy flowing through him.

"I love you," he said softly as he held her, briefly looking up to the skies, knowing his family would also be ecstatic at his new place.

[VitanisMate]

Mufalfa laughed at up. "Kioja my fool. You think those two lovebirds are the leaders. You know what they are along for? Entertainment! I am entertained by their constant antics and fights. You see they fight like old birds. And they smooch like they are going to die tomorrow. It is sickening." He then laughed at her sitting down. "Lazy aren't we my young lioness. You know we are still technically on MY territory."

He then saw how she kept looking at Auni and how he kept looking at her. He laughed saying, "If you like eachother go ahead and say it!" He laughed hysterically unable to control himself. He held his tongue however for a little bit until he was sure he could speak again. "So have you come to enter the pride? Are you here to join? If not why are you here?"

[Nakisisa]

(( Thanks VM, great post ))

"She's here because of me" a deep booming voice resionated out from behind the lioness

[VitanisMate]

Mufalfa roared and said, "Whoever you are get out of here and show yourself you coward! I will rip your head! You will not live!"

[oXButterflyKissesXo]

Kioja got to her paws, and looked down at the lioness named 'Ra' and yawned in her face. It was true that Kioja was a disrespectful being sometimes, but only when she was challenged like that could she find it unnamusing. Like always, she had nothing to say to someone as pathetic as this lioness was. She feels threatened. It shows in her voice, body language, and eyes, she thought. Kioja stared down at the lioness, not taking her eyes off like Ra wasn't since it was a way of revealing the intent to fight. Though, if Kioja could avoid it, she would but if this Ra lioness were to start something, she would finish it.

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The mood was broken between the two as Imani swung her head around to look over to Ra challenging Kioja. "Ra!" She called out, bolting away from her mate and over to the two of them. Just in time to hear what Mulfalfa said, she turned her head and looked at him. Her looks signaled that she would deal with him later, and turned her attention back to Ra. "Sister, please don't fight" she pleaded like a child and affectionately licked under her sister's chin, her ears were pinned back.

Kioja looked down at the small creamy brown form of Imani. She was truly this soft all the time? And she knew there was nothing she would say to Mulfalfa that Ra probably wouldn't. But why would she let Mulfalfa talk to her like that? Kioja was a lioness of higher respect for herself, and since Imani was dealing with her sister's apparent wild temper, she turned her attentions to Mulfalfa. "I have no opinion on anyone here except for you. And like always, you're pitiful like a mouse" she calmly spoke. Her eyes were a window into nothing. They were so blank that you could stare into them and see your own reflection perfectly and descriptively.

She focused her head back to Ra. She was taller than the two sisters, but she didn't use that tactic as one to strike fear into anyone. It was something she was born with, and if they didn't choose to back down, she would use her words or her claws-- whichever came first.

The seafoam eyes of Kioja were drawn from the sisters to the voice.

[VitanisMate]

Mufalfa laughed. "Kioja my love that is not what you thought when you got in the back of the cave with me!" He laughed enjoying himself. He showed her his claws and said, "I have to wonder why you have an opinion about me? I have done nothing. Deserved nothing. And yet everyone hates me. They are in fact willing to kill me when they just hear the name Mufalfa. Now why do you think that is so?" He smiled and said to Kioja, "You may join this pride but if you try to kill me I will drag you down. Actually wait you may not join this pride until I know who that voice is behind you! You will tell me who that voice is!"