[PRIVATE] A Rogue's Light

[VitanisMate]

Mufalfa laughed. "Hahahaha. Your home! Your home!" He stopped and said, "My friends I hope you will not make me wait long for this presense is eating me alive."

He started having the headaches again. "Please let me go!" He started laughing and looked at Auni and Tanga. "Boys Kioja and Imani are out of your league."

He then had another one. "I apologize I cannot control myself anymore! Please make me leave! Let me leave for the sake of us all!"

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga nodded at Auni's suggestion...one way or another, they were going to have to inspect their land to see what had been left behind, and whether the land was still capable of sustaining them, although Tanga figured that question was already answered.

Then Mufalfa started variously taunting and pleading with them, and knew that his two personalities were waging a war inside him. "Mufalfa...don't make us force you away. You're free to leave of your own will." Tanga desperately wanted to avoid a fight, not only because he hated fighting, particularly with someone he knew, but be because he was well aware that the 'evil' Mufalfa could tear him to pieces in the blink of an eye. "If you just leave, we'll go our seperate ways. I don't want to hurt you, but if you threaten us any more, you'll leave me with no choice."

He sighed, looking to Imani, Auni and Kioja for assistance. "Please...just leave peacefully, Mufalfa..."

[VitanisMate]

Mufalfa couldn't see Tanga but he knew where he was from hearing him. He started to laugh. "You fool. You will not hurt me! You weakling! You pathetic maggot! I will hurt you! I will make sure you get as much pain as your parents did before they died! Hahahahaha!"

It was then he leaped at Tanga and crashed into him. "Know this boy! Neru was under my command! Your sister...I would have taken her from your mother's womb and put her out in the sun for you to eat! I would have made you eat her and then make Neru eat you!" He laughed and said to Imani and Kioja, "You stay back fools! Imani for sparing me for Ra to see you are a fool! Kioja for not killing me when you had the chance you are a fool!" He laughed and then looked at Tanga. "When this is over you will kill me!" He then bit down on his neck like Neru and said, "Your parents were stupid fools too for that was how they died you fool!"

He then pushed his body toward Imani and Kioja trying to make Tanga crash into them. He then tried to run as fast as he could. It was dufficult for he fell over a lot. He still kept running. "You fools will always know me!"

[oXButterflyKissesXo]

"Tanga!" Imani sounded as she got in front of Kioja and let Tanga bowl her over. Kioja jumped over them and darted towards Mulfalfa. She was the silent killer and now Mulfalfa could possibly get it through his head. Once she was close enough to be right beside him and she jumped over him, taking his neck in her mouth and slamming him down on the ground. "You coward" she coldly told him. Once he was down and out of motions, she let loose of his neck, seeing the blood slowly start to come out and spat out the taste as much as she could. "Some leader you claim to be".

Without him being able to get a word in, she clamped her jaw down on his making the force too much for him to keep so his jaw broke. Her specialty: leaving a prey broken, cold, and sore. She had no sympathy for the weak nor did she have the patience or the time.

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"Tanga, are you alright?" Imani questioned her mate who still lay on the floor. She stood over top of him to make sure nothing would come close to him again.

[AustralianChaos]

Before Tanga knew anything he was on the ground, Mufalfa over him, taunting him mercilessly, before feeling his jaws strike his neck in a similar manner to Neru, causing him to whimper as the wounds from two months ago reopened. It was that time with Neru all over again.

But before Tanga could do anything to stop Mufalfa, he felt his small frame flung into the air, crashing into Imani and sending them both to the ground, dimly aware of Kioja chasing Mufalfa down as he lay on the ground, panting hard. He could feel the blood on his neck once more, but knew it was not as bad as last time.

As Imani asked about his condition, Tanga looked at her, standing over him protectively. "I'm..." his reply was lost to a strangled whimper as his wounds flared, but he forced himself to keep speaking. "I'm alright, Imani. It's...it's not as bad as last time." He tried to smile at her to show her he was okay, but a pain growl did everything it could to ruin the effect.

He managed to turn his gaze over towards Kioja and Mufalfa, noting with a visible wince that Kioja was leaving him alive. "Does she really have to cause him that much pain...rather than just kill him and be done with it?" he asked.

[VitanisMate]

Mufalfa put up his paw to Kioja trying to say no more. He felt like a wretch. He was badly burned, blinded, his jaw was broken and his neck was bleeding. It was enough to kill another lion but Mufalfa knew he was strong! He looked at Tanga knowing his work was done.

He looked at Kioja unable to talk. All he did was point at him, point at her, point at the sun to show the passage of time, and then pointed at her claws and at her again trying to say, 'You finally got your revenge on me.' He then turned and walked away unable to speak. He then smiled and pointed to his claws and himself saying to her, 'You don't know how dangerous I can be.' He walked away then knowing he was content on the destruction he caused.

He suddenly stopped knowing that his old self emerged again. He was ashamed of this recent mess he caused. He walked away without saying a word. He cursed knowing the journey was going to be long and hard especially considering he was older than all of them and couldn't see.

How was he even going to catch prey to survive?

[oXButterflyKissesXo]

Kioja walked back to the others to see Tanga in complete pain and Imani in pain of seeing him this way. None of this ever would have happened if they never kept that stupid Mulfalfa away from the pride. How could they be so stupid as to let it go this far? Kioja asked herself. Like always, she wore no emotion on her face and she strolled over to them, Imani lifting her head up for only a moment before she looked back down at her love and watching him over.

"Tanga...?" Imani questioned, looking him over while she was still standing over him. The lioness got off from over him and layed down in front of him, once in a while shifting her movement like a child would if it were anticipated or anxious. Kioja looked over at them both and stared. She was simply amazed that the two of them were so close and so little time to become that way.

Imani looked at the wound in her love's neck and placed her paw firmly over it to attempt and stop the bleeding while the others watched her and could only do that. They didn't know what to do in a time like this and there was nothing they could do to make him better other than to watch and hope for the best for their friend.

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga sighed as Imani lat down in front of him, placing a paw over his wounds. Her protective, caring nature made him feel even more guilty about their troubles from this morning, and he needed to voice it before it consumed him.

"Imani...I'm so sorry about this morning. I just...I just wanted you to be happy, and I didn't realise that you didn't want me to know. It hurt to see you so troubled, and I can see after today that I went too far. I'm sorry...and I promise not to pry any more in anything you want to keep to yourself."

He also decided, while he was at it, to admit one more thing, to make sure that Imani knew he was not keeping secrets. "Kamau has told me a little about what happened, but only the smallest, barest of facts. And I won't ask for the details...I know you don't want me to know."

Sighing again, Tanga shifted his neck slightly to ease the discomfort. He felt a little better now, having gotten his regret and apology out in the open to his new mate...but was slightly fearful of her reaction. He knew she could get mighty angry at times...but he knew that, if he did not apologise to her, this day would hang over them forever, and always be a sore point. He figured getting it cleared up and out of the way now was the best course of action.

[Skittakallista]

Auni wanted to bound over to Tanga to see if he was alright but could see that he and Imani were sharing a moment, so he left them alone. He watched the figure of Mufalfa, broken and pitiful, walk away.

He knew that his good personality had returned to him by the way he stood. He wondered what would become of him, blind and injured as he was. If he was able to catch any prey he probably wouldn't be able to eat it as Kioja had broken his jaw so badly he couldn't even talk.

Thinking of Kioja, he looked over at her. She was standing near to Imani and Tanga with an expression on her face that resembled suprise. He went over to her.

"Are you alright?"

[oXButterflyKissesXo]

Imani looked down at her mate, listening to him talk to her. He sure didn't know when to give up that was for sure and it made her smile mentally. He's such a goof, she thought to herself lightly. Although he and she were trying to keep the mood light, it was obvious in her eyes and probably everyone else's that he was hurt and in so much pain that he could barely even talk. Seeing him this way, hurt and bruised, not to mention bloody, it made her rage towards her older twin's mate even stronger. She knew things were probably going to get ugly when Ra found out what happened and went after them for it. Was Ra going to go after Imani for this? She didn't know, but she knew that she did what was best for her pride and she couldn't please everyone with the actions she saw fit for the situations.

Still with her paw placed on her mate's neck to keep the blood from gushing out to a death she refused to see, she sighed out and closed her eyes. "Ra and I were cubs, but Kamau was a teen," as her eyes were closed, she could vividly see images, almost in a third lion point of view as the words progressed to tell the story, "I loved brother very much, as I'm sure Ra did as well, but the difference between us twins was that Ra knew to leave Kamau alone whilst I was the one who was always trying to play with him. But Kamau...he didn't want to play with me most of the time, and the times he did play with me was when mother told him to, and even then he was so distant".

She took in a breath, "father was very ill. We didn't know why, we just knew he had something that was deadly. And soon, we found out that mother caught it as well. Soon enough, father was dead and mother was slowly dying. Because Ra and I were the only cubs in the pride, mother instructed Kamau to be our parental figure for the time of her death and take care of us. But..." she opened her eyes and looked at her paw, seeing blood was seeping through the openings of her toes. She blinked and kept them open, "he ran off with his mate and he started his own pride. Ever since then, Ra and I were rogue cubs, getting the help of some lionesses and lions while we adventured through the Pridelands for the time until we were old enough to have learned how to make it on our own". She looked down at Tanga and then the others where she gave a nervous laugh and opened her mouth to say something more, "we must have done a pretty good job at caring for ourselves" she laughed.

Imani knew why she was the way she was now--- she barely had a childhood to be a child, and it was when she was a cub that she was forced to grow up. And since the cub nature of her was never lived out, she reverted back to it when she was old enough to know she was in no danger of having something terrible like this happen to her again. The wind blew among them and she looked up to the sunset sky. The lioness took in a breath and closed her eyes once more.

"Take me somewhere nice
To some tired island
In your heart called
Paradise

Though we wander home
We both feel alone
Like escapees with nowhere to go

I can think of a thousand ways
To get good and lost
Beyond these hopeless days

Where we'll rendezvous
Out of the blue,
And take a deep breath,
Just we two.

And we'll be so far gone,
The oars will roll on
And we will happily
Wave so long.

If we hook a dream,
And it tows us back down
This open stream
We'll say hello.
Oh, oh,
Take us wherever you go."

She sang for the others to hear, not afraid to have anyone hear the song she would sing to Ra sometimes. Mostly, she sang it in private to herself seeing as how she didn't have much confidence in her voice in the first place.

Kioja looked at Imani singing, and listened to her, taking in all of the history she already knew about Kamau and his siblings and parents. She knew it...but Imani didn't know the whole story. She wanted to tell her so badly to make sure she didn't get the wrong image of her leader after all this time, but she kept silent. Perhaps it would be better if she told Imani while Ra was there with her as well. Kioja turned her head to Auni and studied him for a moment before she gave him her answer. She saw what was running through his mind just by looking through his eyes. Sighing out, she nodded her head. "And you?" She did her best to give a soft smile, but she didn't do it often.