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

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga nodded. "I guess that makes sense...but what can we do?" he asked, looking to Uhuru. If anyone was going to have any game ideas, it would be her. "You know any 'relaxing' games, sis?"

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Nala decided to bring up her own thoughts. "Who says is has to be a game? Why don't we just relax in the sun and talk for a bit?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Uhuru nodded in a no, but maybe what Nala offered could be okay. "We could."

[AustralianChaos]

Nala nodded, before trotting a short distance to a particularly soft patch of grass on the hillside, settling down as everyone gathered around, Tanga also finding his place. As everyone found a comfortable spot, Nala starting to purr lightly as she soaked in the sun's rays, she turned to Uhuru. "So, Uhuru...what's it like, growing up here?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Uhuru lay down on a small patch of grass as Marini settled herself next to Tanga and Simba lay down next to Nala. "It's pretty quiet around here. Well, it was, now you're here." she said, remembering how curious she was about their home, and she felt like she had to ask. [b]"What's your home like?" she asked.

Simba sighed as Uhuru mentioned Pride Rock. "It's a... it's a very special place." he said, a picture of Pridelands as nothing but a barren land floating his mind

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga sighed as Uhuru mentioned the Pridelands, but decided to give her something, seeing the pained expression on Simba's face as he thought of his homeland. "It really is a wonderful place, Uhuru. There's the massive rock formation in the middle of the land...Pride Rock. I can't really tell you what it looks like, because I don't have the words...you really have to see it for yourself to understand. But from the top of it, you can see the entire Pridelands, it's brilliant! The plains are always filled with herds of animals, and there's tons of rivers, lakes and waterholes, a few woods to explore, gorges...it really does have everything."

But as Tanga's thought hit Scar, and what he had seen of the south-eastern Pridelands under the tyrant's reign, he realised that his words were no longer fitting. "But..." He sighed, his face falling as he, like Simba, began to picture what the Pridelands were becoming, and what they were going to become as they went through their training. He just hoped they would get back in time...before the Pridelanders starved.

[TheWhistlerify]

Not noticing Tanga's and Simba's thoughtful Uhuru became excited about the Pridelands, completly forgetting that they had to fight for it. "Wow, I can't wait to see this place! Do you think living there will be better than here?" she didn't know that the lands were dying. Even though they would recover at some point, the sight might not be pretty

[AustralianChaos]

Nala decided it was time to inform Uhuru of the catch to their wonderous vision. "What Tanga was about to say before he went quiet, Uhuru...is that, well, the Pridelands aren't what they used to be. The land is dying. By the time your mother has trained us, and we're ready to go back...there might not be much left."

She sighed, forcing herself to continue. "Which is why we have to go back. If we don't, the land will just keep dying...the sooner we return, the sooner the lands will start recovering..."

[TheWhistlerify]

Simba sighed as Nala spoke about the Pridelands dying. And the thought that right now they couldn't do anything was eating him from the inside. If he could just do anything he would have done it... But there was nothing he could do but try to do his best at Kali's training so that they could go back as sooner as possible.

Uhuru then understood why they wanted to go home so early. The Pridelands sounded like a very great place, and she wanted to see the lands that Simba mentioned, and not a barren land. "Well... I will help" she said in an attempt to cheer her new friends up.

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga smiled. "I doubt mum's gonna let you come with us when we go back...but thank you anyway. It's going to be very dangerous when we go back." Uhuru's words did have the effect of cheering him up a little, at the very least. The fact that a young cub, his little sister who he barely knew, was willing to help them, was a nice gesture in his mind, even if she was not allowed to help in the end. "But thank you, sis...it means a lot."

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Nala also smiled at Uhuru. "Thank you Uhuru," she said, before giggling. "You and Tanga certainly do seem to be siblings...you care just as much as he does."

[TheWhistlerify]

Tanga's words confused Uhuru a little. She didn't get it, if she was going to go through the same training as him and his friends, why wasn't she to go back with them and help them? She decided to do this so she could help them go back home, but now she was confused about this whole thing. She was going to have to talk to her mother about this.

But her smile returned as Nala spoke, even though her words didn't have a lot of meaning for the young cub, she could see that she managed to cheer them up a little.