[PRIVATE] A Rogue's Light

[oXButterflyKissesXo]

Imani snapped out of Tanga's fur and swung her head to look at him before Kioja got in front of her and stared him down. "Or more like a tactic" she replied. The crowd was silent before Kioja prepared herself to talk. "If you did indeed start the fire, it would only be logical for you to make yourself look innocent, so you would have to somehow make it look believable along with your words of lies". She walked around him, circling and looking over his 'injury'.

"Another thing that drives me to wonder is how does it look so perfectly planned?" She looked at the others, "a normal burn would be shifted in two or more parts at the location of injury. His is just in one. Also, Mulfalfa," she looked him straight in the eyes, "the stance you take when you're confronting us does not seem innocent in the least. Nor do your eyes. You appear to be hiding something. As well," she looked away and walked back to them all, sitting down, "how is it that there is fire surrounding us, and you are in no way scared? Sure, you could try and say you're scared, but you would just be lying. Face it, as good as you are at lying through the disgusting teeth in your jaw, you're still always going to be too easy for me to figure out". She smirked and cocked her head, "just like the good ol' days, eh...buddy?" Her tone was sinister, and low, a light purr and snarl mixed in.

Kioja wasn't the co-leader of one of the largest prides in the Pridelands for nothing. She was bored, built, and trained to notice even the finest of key details. And though she was certain some of them would be skeptical at first, they would soon come to realize their leader, Imani, would side with her. It was obvious that Mulfalfa wasn't the most popular...nor any kind of leader. The dark lioness turned her head to the two leaders, Imani and Tanga. "But, that's just my opinion".

Imani looked from the female to Mulfalfa once more, her eyes narrowed. "And those are some great ones..."

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga looked from Imani to Kioja to Mufalfa, his jaw dropping in shock as he pieced it all together. "You?" he asked Mufalfa weakly, scarcely able to believe it. "But...you...why?" he asked, rather pathetically. He could not believe that the lion he had spared after he had killed his parents...the lion he thought had changed, could do something so destructive, that would endanger so many lives. Even by Mufalfa's standards, this was just plain evil.

"You're putting so many lives in danger, and have almost certainly killed more than few...and for what?" his voice was rising, steadily growing angrier, even as he held himself back. He could not pick a fight...his small frame simply did not have the ability to fight as effectively as anyone else, and he knew Mufalfa could be vicious at his worst.

[VitanisMate]

Mufalfa started to laugh amazingly at the situation. He turned to Tanga. "Why and for what? So that you may finally leave Mufalfa's territory! So that I may make fools out of Kamau and Kioja! I told you Tanga you would regret not helping me!" He laughed again and said, "Luckily for you I did not come here to go after any of you. Except Kioja that is." He laughed and said, "You actually were to believe Neru's ghost did this you imbeciles!" He laughed not being able to control himself.

Mufalfa then did something almost unbelieveable. He jumped into the fire burning himself even more. "Does that make you happy?" He then jumped at Kioja pushing her into the fire where he faced her. He scratched her across the muzzle and said, "Well my pet you sure did not 'figure out' that I would scratch you." He laughed again and said to the rest of them, "Leave and stay out of this!"

[AustralianChaos]

As Mufalfa attacked Kioja, Tanga's mind went into a panic. "Stop it!" he cried out. "If you did not want us in your territory then why didn't you say so? And why are you doing this to Kamau and Kioja...they've done nothing to you!"

To Tanga, it was the incident from two months ago all over again. Mufalfa was terrorising them once more, and Tanga felt completely powerless to stop him. He did not have the strength or size to fight Mufalfa, and if the series of events from when he had first met this group were any indication, words were going to be next to useless. But words were all he had.

"Mufalfa, if this is about me and my refusal to help you, then make it about me! Don't take it out on the others!" Despite the fact that Kioja was strong, and the fact that he barely knew her, Tanga wanted to help her out...Mufalfa had gone dark again, and Tanga needed to find some way of stopping him before someone got killed. But he kept himself close to Imani, making sure that he was ready to step in should Mufalfa turn his attention on her...nothing and no-one was going to hurt Imani...not while he had a say.

[VitanisMate]

Mufalfa laughed and looked at him. "You all think Kioja is so innocent?! You think she would just love you all and lay down her life for you! You are more gullible than I thought!" He looked at Tanga and said, "Now shall I tell you of HER horrible crimes just like I have mine! Do you want to know you fool?!" He snarled in anger and looked at Kioja. "Sorry my pet but you know I am tired of everyone trusting you around here." He laughed. Now he turned toward Auni. "Say goodbye to your girl." He laughed and started to get closer to Kioja. "Can you 'figure out' what will happen next?!"

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Kioja smirked and purred lightly, "I can ask you the same thing" she replied, leaping at Mulfalfa and scratching him across the eyes to blind him. She knew her job was completed when the pupils of his disgusting and pitiful eyes were gone and he was screaming in pain. Afterwards, she went up to him and pushed him back into the water, "and I never asked anyone to trust me, my pet" she said with a sinister smile and walked back to the others.

Imani watched the entire scene but she couldn't say she was upset over it all. Mulfalfa had finally got what was coming to him and Kioja wasn't afraid to be the one to deliver it to him. She looked at Kioja and gave her a small smile while Kioja gave no look back to the rest. "I don't suppose Ra is going to favor you" Imani lightly joked, while Kioja licked her burns.

"Like I care. He got what was coming to him and at least I didn't kill him" she looked over at him still in the water trying to figure out his surroundings, "just make sure he knows not to cross me ever again". Kioja looked at Tanga and then back down at Imani. "Your sister is an idiot for allowing him to get so close to her and even more of one for keeping him around. What kind of mother will she be if she doesn't realize that its better to have no father at all rather than one who will poison them from the moment they come out of her womb?"

Imani thought on her words. Was she right? Were they to rid the pride of the annoying and dangerous Mulfalfa? Imani being the leader would have rid them of him a long time ago if her sister didn't care so heavily for him. But now that she had witnessed first paw what he was going to do and would do if he was crossed in a way that didn't suit his fancy, she couldn't put her future nieces and/or nephews in that kind of predicament. She looked to Tanga and sighed out heavily, thinking about how she was going to go about this when the hype of the fire settled down.

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga was shocked as events unfolded wy too fast for him to react to. Before he knew it, Mufalfa was blinded and struggling in the waterhole, while Kioja was explaining to them why Mufalfa had to be seperated from Ra...and her future cubs.

He eventually looked up at Kioja. "I..." he tried to think of something to say, but it took him a few more moments. "I really thought he had changed," he looked over at Mufalfa. "In the last two months, it had really looked like his life had turned around...was it all an act?" He sighed, looking at his paws as he kept going. "He killed my parents when I was barely old enough to fend for myself...and I spared him. He was at my mercy, and I spared him because I believed he had changed. Now...now he tries to kill even more of us...including Ra and his unborn children!"

As he said the last part, fury welled up within him, his gaze turning very cold as he looked over at Mufalfa. "How can a lion be so evil that they would willingly destroy the lives of unborn children...twice over! My sister never made it into the world because of what he's done, and now..." he forcibly stopped himself there, knowing mentioning Ra and her unborn cubs while the fire still raged could not be good for Imani's emotions. Sighing one more, he looked to Kioja and Imani. "What do we do with him?" he finally asked.

[VitanisMate]

Mufalfa stumbled around totally blind until he felt water. He as ashamed that his old self emerged only by the arrival of Kioja. He promised not to make the mistake again. However he could hear them talking about him and getting rid of him.

To show his foolishness from last time he burned himself even more. He knew this would be a reminder of everything he had done. He however quickly felt that with his abuse of his body he could die so he quickly got in the water. He looked at them all and knew they would show him no mercy. He knew Imani hated him no matter what, Tanga hated him for killing his parents and Kioja hated him for their past. He laughed knowing he might as well voluntarily leave before they all herd him out taunting him. He knew that is what at least Kioja would do if given the chance since she very much taunted him already. He was amused though that at least he burned her a bit and scratched her muzzle....No! No more of that thinking!

He then came before them. He was so deformed you would hardly know it was Mufalfa. He had burns that looked like spots on his body from where he burned himself, his mane was completely burned off and his eyes were bloody, yet stone cold from Kioja's scratches. He looked more like a leopard than a lion but the voice showed them that it was indeed Mufalfa. "That will not be necessary. I will leave by my own accord. Goodbye Imani, Tanga, Kioja. Good luck my friends." He started to walk away. "Make sure my children know nothing about me!"

[Skittakallista]

Auni watched in horror and sadness as Mufalfa came out of the water. The fire and Kioja's claws had deformed him terribly, so that he no longer looked like a lion. But he was definatly the Mufalfa of the last three months instead of the callous murderer he had been moments before.

"Wait!" Auni shouted. He blushed slightly as everyone turned to stare at him but ploughed on. "That was the evil Mufalfa that did this... He's fine now! And he's blind! We can't let him go! He'll die!" He looked imploringly at the assembled party.

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"And what of my sister?" Imani voiced in before he could leave completely. The pride was silent before Imani turned her head to look at Mulfalfa though she knew he couldn't see her. Kioja looked from Imani to Mulfalfa and waited for things to unfold. "You think we can just pick up all his troubles and move them away because of a simple blindness?", Imani turned from Auni to Mulfalfa, "You think that just because you're hated by us all that you can walk out on the one lion who probably held faith in you and kept me from slaying you on the spot? You think you're too good enough for her to at least explain yourself as to why you're being banished?" She took in her breath, "you think you're too good to wear those marks that have been given to you with shame?"

Kioja looked from Mulfalfa to Imani once more, and studied her. She was showing more of her leadership than she ever had. And it was obvious in some way to the other pride members that were there that she was truly the one who kept them all together and made sure they were safe. "Your children will only know of whom you are when the time is good and ready for them to ask. They will know of the coward and fool you are, and how I did them a favor by getting rid of you. With a little help from Kioja" she looked at the lioness while Kioja looked at Mulfalfa, "I finally have the courage to see you in a totally different light, and I have enough courage to put it into action and rid you of the obvious responsibility it is to waste your life on trying to make others miserable. As a pride, we stand united, and united we will be for the rest of time, so don't waste mine".

Imani turned her head and looked up at Tanga, seeing the anger in his eyes and she licked his cheek. "I love you" she whispered.

"Mulfalfa, when Ra is found and you tell her all the events in which have happened, then you are free to leave. It is obvious Imani wishes you to see that much through". She shook her muzzle and rubbed it with her paw lightly. She turned her head to Auni and then back over at the male who scarred her muzzle for a temporary amount of time, and gave her a small burn. Nothing compared to his injuries, as she was still a flawless killer in the lack of Mulfalfa's eyes.