A Change of Plans [PRIVATE: AC & The Whistlerify]

[AustralianChaos]

Kali sighed. "Remember, Uhuru, I left him alone when I thought he was dying...and now he's back, and he remembers parts of what happened. I'm pretty certain he's not happy with me or dad. I stopped him from approaching you because I didn't know what he was going to do. There's a very good chance he could be dangerous, because he could hate me and Busara for leaving him."

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Tanga hissed as his wounds flared with pain as Busara spread the liquid over his wounds. "Argh! How is that supposed to be..." his angry remark trailed off as the violent stinging was replaced by a cool, soothing sensation. It did not stop the pain entirely, but definitely masked it. "Oh, right, I get it now, sorry."

Tanga stopped as Busara asked him to talk about himself. What was he supposed to say. "Well...after you...left..." he said cautiously, deciding to glance over the subject quickly and move on. "...I was sort of raised by the entire pride, various lionesses taking care of me for a few days at a time. But it was Sarabi and Mufasa that took care of me the most."

"Not long after you left, Marini came into the pride." He pointed back at his sleeping girlfriend, letting Busara know that was Marini. "Her mother was killed when she was very young, and she never knew her father, so I guess we so saw a lot of ourselves in each other. We became good friends, and we also managed to make friends with the young prince, Simba, and his friend, Nala...those were the two others before."

He paused his story there, both to collect his breath...and to emotionally prepare himself for the events that he was about to describe...events that tore at his heart even after all this time.

[TheWhistlerify]

Uhuru looked up at her mother, Tanga didn't seem like he meant any harm, "Well... Can I talk to him maybe later? And have you or daddy to watch me?" she asked, she wanted to get to know her brother, he seemed very nice to her.

Busara listened to what Tanga was saying carefully, he was still rubbing his forehead, but he didn't let that disturb him. Then what Kali said came back to him, if Simba was the prince, and Sarabi's the queen, why were they here? And where was Mufasa? "How come you are all here?" he asked before taking some more gel in his paw, hoping the question wasn't too hard for him to answer, "Sarabi said you were driven away from the Pridelands? What happend?" he then motioned his head as Tanga's chest, asking ihm whether it was okay if he attended to his chest wounds next

[AustralianChaos]

Kali thought on this for a moment, before deciding that she did not really have a choice. If she said no, Uhuru was bound to go find Tanga on her own...and things could go very bad very fast if that happened. "Alright, Uhuru...when he comes back from wherever he's gone, you can see him...but only if either me or dad is there, okay?"

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Tanga winced at the memories as Busara posed his series of questions, as well as indicating that he wanted to place the soothing liquid. Nodding, Tanga lay down on his side, keeping his belly exposed. He knew the initial pain as the sticky liquid was applied was going to be excruciating, and so decided not to risk standing up for it.

Sighing, he decided to answer Busara's question. "A lot happened, Busara...a lot of it hard to believe. It all started fice months ago. There's a gorge in the western reaches of the Pridelands, right next to that massive desert, Simba was in there one day, when there was a wildebeest stampede that charged straight into the gorge, with Simba trapped in it. Mufasa found out, and managed to save Simba, but..." he took a slightly shaky breath. "...but the king did not make it, and was killed."

"Simba was still too young to take over Pride Rock, so Mufasa's brother Scar took the throne while Simba grew up. For a month, everything was okay...then an awful lot of things happened at once. Scar seemed to believe that me and Marini were plotting against him, and had us exiled for it. But that wasn't the start of it..."

Again, Tanga paused. this next part was really hard to tell, talking about Scar's brazen betrayal, and the sacrifices Sarafina had made them, was never easy for Tanga.

[TheWhistlerify]

Uhuru managed a weak smile at her mother, "Okay mommy." she said, but remained cuddled to her mother.

Busara gently spread some of the liquid on Tanga's chest, which probably stinged a bit like before. Once he noticed on Tanga's expression that the pain was gone he began rubbing it gently. He listened carefully, and when Tanga mentioned Scar taking the throne he sighed. As he told himm of he and Marini's he spoke out, "Scar... I never trusted that lion..." he said, a bit angry for what Scar did. But from the way Tanga sounded Busara realised this wasn't the end of the story. As he waited for Tanga to move on, if he wanted to, he took some more of the liquid and placed it on Tanga's leg

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga did his best to ignore the pain as Busara worked on his various wounds, trying to continue his story. "You had good reason not to trust him. A day after Marini and I were exiled, Sarabi, Nala and Simba joined us with a terrible story."

"Scar was apparantly behind everything. Even the stampede and Mufasa's death was staged by him to claim the throne. I was exiled with Marini because we were accidentally getting in his way. While we were in exile, Sarabi followed Scar, and found about about his plan to kill Simba, and claim Pride rock for himself."

"In the end, several things happened, and Nala's mother, Sarafina, pretended to be Scar's puppet, faking Sarabi's death, along with Simba's, and pretending Nala had run away after finding out. The five of us ran away, settling in this really nice place south of the Pridelands. We stayed there until yesterday."

And now Tanga reached the final part of his tail. "Yesterday, Marini decided to have a wander in a forest that was near our den. She was ambushed by a rather vicious black leopard. I charged in to stop it from killing her, and it did all this to me." He pointed to all his various wounds, pushing his mane aside to show his half-missing right ear.

"In the end, the leopard escaped and went to Scar for help. Sarafina managed to warn us and let us escape. As far as Scar is aware, only me, Marini, and Nala are still alive. He still believes Simba and Sarabi are dead. so we wandered through the night, heading here because Nala had seen this place once before, and we had nowhere else to go. So...here we are."

[TheWhistlerify]

Busara was shocked, that was quite a story. He then understood why Tanga was there, and hoped that Kali would understand and accept the fact that he didn't intend on finding the, but came acroos them by accident. He looked at his son's missing ear, he felt quite proud of him. He managed to survive, despite being born a runt, he managed to fend off a leopard, despite his age and small size, and despite the heavy wounds he was carrying, especially in his ear, he seemed to be recovering, even though he got them just a day ago. He only now understood what Sarabi was saying before when she explained about his wounds. "I'm proud of you Tanga." he said all of a sudden after he finished spreading some liquid on all of Tanga's wounds, as wierd as it was for him to say this, "You survived, you recover from those wounds so quickly, and you only got those yesterday as far as I understood. And you seem to have dealt with everything that happend in your life so well." he then sighed and looked at his son. By now Kali was probably done telling Uhuru about Tanga being her brother. "I suggest you lay still for a while and let the liquid do it's job." he said, also referring to Marini who was still asleep. "And when you get back, there's someone I want you to meet." he said and gave his son a smile, before he got to his feet, "I'll give you some time by yourself." he said and turned around, even though Tanga wasn't by himself. He was with Marini, but she was still asleep.

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga smiled, but stopped, calling after his father as his caramel form retreated. "Dad?" he called, this time consciously using the term. There was just one more thing he wanted to know before Busara left.

[TheWhistlerify]

Busara smiled at Tanga as he turned around to see what was it he wanted to tell him, "What is it Tanga?" he asked, wandering whether he and his little sister were going interract well

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga sat back up, being careful not to disturb the liquid coating his wounds. "Why...why did you leave me, back then? That's one thing I want to know...ever since you left, I've tried to figure out why you left me behind...I don't really care anymore, I just want to know, so it won't trouble me anymore."

[TheWhistlerify]

Busara sighed at Tanga's question, he knew this question would come up sooner or later. Now that it did, he was going to answer it with complete honesty. "As you probably know... Tanga... you were very weak and very little when you were born, unlike most cubs... We still raised you for a few months... but it didn't seem like you were getting any better, and... it seemed as if you were dying... your mother and I didn't want to be there when that happend, so..." he said, but then stopped. Tanga probably knew the part that he left out, there was no need to repeat it.