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

[AustralianChaos]

Nala was also gobdmacked, her jaw hanging wide open. "That's...where did you learn this?" she finally asked, impressed beyond words.

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Kali smiled. "I was once part of a pride that was mainly a warrior society, and learned most of my tricks from there. Now, judging by your reactions, you have naturally noticed that the way I twisted my body, and flexed my joints during the swing improved it's power immensely. And that is an important thing to remember. When using your claws, most fighters think of the claws, and the claws only, but your entire leg, and to a certain extent your entire body, plays a part in the swing. If you use each part of your body to its fullest ability, you will find yourself landing strikes far more powerful than your body strength would normally allow."

She then got to her feet once more. "But I'll leave you to think on that, and we will train on that some more in the coming days. For this afternoon, I want to test your raw skills, and see just how good you are. I am going to get you to wrestle each other today, as long as there are a few ground rules. One is no drawing blood, so I don't want to see any claws out. Two, the winner will be declared when one of manages to get your jaws around the other's throat...softly...or the other fighter gives in"

"Now, since we have an odd number of us here, one of you is going to have to fight twice, unless Uhuru volunteers not to wrestle," she said, although she gave her daughter a look that clearly showed she did not believe that would happen. "Since I am the only one who is the same size as Sarabi, I will have to fight her, but that will come later. We will do this one fight at a time, so I can watch. Now, would Tanga and Simba like to go first?"

Kali had initially thought about putting the couples together, but stopped herself short, realising they would probably end up going easy on each other...she wanted to see just how much skill and talent these adolescents had.

[TheWhistlerify]

Uhuru knew she stood no chance against any of those, because of her small size and lack of experiece in wrestling, but she stayed quiet for now.

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Simba as expecting Kali to makehim fight Nala, but was glad he didn't. Pinning Nala down was next to impossible, and he never beat her, not even once. He didn't show his relief at all, but was glad that his mother wasn't going to see Nala beat him with ease like she always did. "Sure, let's do it." he said. Despite the fact he had always beaten Tanga before, it always became a little harder than it was the previous time, so he was going to to give ths one his best shot.

[AustralianChaos]

Kali watched as Tanga and Simba lined up for their brawl. "Okay, you know the rules, let's see what the two of you can do. Ready...GO!"

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On the yell of go, Tanga did not charge, but rather made a false jump in an attempt to scare Simba, before pacing, watching his wrestling rival carefully. "Come on, Simba!" he jeered, getting right into the spirit of the brawl. "Or are you afraid I'm gonna get you this time?"

[TheWhistlerify]

The last time Simba and Tanga had wrestled was four months ago, a few hours before Scar sent both Tanga and Marini into exile. That time he managed to beat Tanga easily after Tanga lifted him and walked for a moment, that walk had tired him out completly. But now tiring him out wasn't an option, since the runs they've been taking in the past week have most likely improved Tanga's endurance as much as they improved his. The easiest way of getting his jaw around Tanga's throat was to knock him off his feet, and use his weight to keep him down long enough untill he could 'finish' the brawl.

Simba did not take Tanga's taunt like he usually did, since the point of this was for Kali to see where were they all standing, "What makes you say that?" he taunted back, thinking that if Tanga made the first move, then he might be able to find a weak spot and knock him off his feet

[AustralianChaos]

"Come on!" Tanga taunted right back. "We both know that I almost had you last time...and we both know I'm gonna get you this time!"

With those cocky words, Tanga sprang, closing the short distance between the two of them rapidly. But he did not pounce, knowing that his size was his biggest weakness, and that throwing his body weight around would result in Simba's jaws around his throat very quickly. Instead, he used Kali's advice about using your body to its fullest in an innovative way, using his runnign start to add force to his attack as he lashed out with a forepaw, going for Simba's muzzle, hoping an early strike to the jaw, even without the claws, would disorient the prince for a moment. As he lashed out, he ducked low and off to the side, intending on rolling past Simba as his blow struck. Maybe he could wear Simba down by using his smaller, more agile frame to run circles around him for a while.

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Nala turned to Marini and Uhuru, a small smile forming on the face as the two adolescent males began their brawl. "Who do you think's gonna win? I hope Simba does, but if Tanga's improved the way he always did each time he brawled, we could be here a while."

[TheWhistlerify]

Simba was about to taunt back when Tanga finally moved. Only this time he didn't pouce like they usually did when they wrestled each other, but instead took Kali's advise and used the wing she demontrated. Since Simba hadn't anticipated this, all he managed to do was move his head towards the direction Tanga had swung jus a bit before his jaw wa hit. The swing was powerful, and if Simba hadn't moved slightly and along with the swing, it could have been much worse. Simba's ear could sense Tanga roll aside him, his plan was obvously to tire him out before going for his throat, and Simba decided to play along with it.

He brought one of his paw up, while pretending to be dizzy and rubbed his jaw a little, staying where he was for a few seconds to make the act more reliable, before turning around to face Tanga. Maybe if he waited for Tanga to try and do the same again, he could pounce at him the moment Tanga had already taken too much momentum and had come too close in order to back off or dodge. Then he might be able to use his size advantage to hold Tanga down long enough to end the brawl

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Marini was staring silently, more busy on thinking how was she going to beat Nala than looking at the brawl. But he looked at Nala as she spoke, "Oh, of course you hope Simba wins, I hope Tanga does." she said, deciding to turn her attention to the brawl and think about hers later.

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Uhuru looked at the brawl, quite entertained by the show, before looking at both Nala and Marini after Marini had spoken, both of them were supporting their boyfriend, and Uhuru was still too young to understand that. She didn't speak, but instead made a sick face, as if she was about to throw-up, before turning her attention back to Simba and her brother

[AustralianChaos]

Nala just giggled at Marini's antics, before focusing on the brawl, noticing that Tanga had improved again...as had Simba. This could actually end up being a close fight, she realised.

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Tanga spun to face Simba agin, noticing him rubbing the jaw he had struck with a satisfied smirk. But he did not go for the same attack style again...he had constantly learned his lesson of being predictable...it was partially the reason he had his scars and missing ear now, so he went for a different approach in his next charge. As the came a Simba for a second strike, he darted back and forth, zig-zagging towards his friend, making it close to impossible to determine exactly which direction he was going to attack from, or what he was going to do. Deciding on a simple trick, Tanga crouched low at one point, looking like he was about to leap high, and possibly have a swipe at Simba as he flew over him, but instead he threw his entire body forward, rolling low, aiming straigh for Simba's leg, in a move that would surely trip his wrestling rival up.

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Kali simply sat back, observing the fight, storing parts of it away to remember for later, looking at where Tanga are Simba had some skills and talent, and where they needed to improve.

[TheWhistlerify]

Simba kept alert for any sign to what Tanga might do now, since there was a chance that he would do. When Tanga crouched low, Simba was sure that he would pounce and decided that if he pounce as well, he might be able to get a hold of him and hopefully end the brawl quickly. He crouched as well, but to his surprise Tanga instead rolled again, this time heading straight towards his legs. He wanted to use the crouch he positioned himself in a second ago to simply leap across, but by the time he realised what was happening, Tanga was already too close. Tanga came with full speed, rolling right on both of his legs, Simba was about to try and free his legs, when all of a sudden he heard a slight snap sound coming from his left paw, and then a huge wave of pain went through his entire leg, causing him to roar in pain as he used his right leg to shove Tanga's lighter weight off from his aching paw.

[AustralianChaos]

As Tanga rolled into Simba, tangling the two of them together, he two heard the slight snap come from Simba's paw and realised what had happened as Simba shoved him away, roaring with pain. "No!" he cried. "No, no, no! I'm sorry!" he cried, guilt hitting him hard as he got to his paws, cautiously approaching Simba. "I'm so sorry, Simba!"

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The moment Simba roared in agony and shoved Tanga away, Tanga yelling and apologising hurriedly, she realised something was wrong. Forgetting about the brawl, she darted forward. "Simba! Simba, what happened?"

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Sarabi also dashed to her son's side, ignoring Tanga's cries as she realised her son had been hurt, badly. "Simba! My son..." she stopped in front of Simba, nudging his head to get his attention. "Simba, what happened, say something!"

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Kali also leapt forward, shoving Tanga roughly aside as she rushed to get to Simba's side, and figure out what had happened. "Back off, everyone!" she yelled, causing the growing crows around the prince to take a hesitant step back...except for Sarabi, who gave Kali a glare that said she was not leaving her son's side. "Simba, what happened? What's hurt?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Simba's leg pained alot, his paw especially. Though this didn't make sense that Tanga's weight would cause pain like this, making Simba com to a conclusion that his paw was hurt. He could hear everyone talking, Tanga's apologising in particular, but he couldn't really understand anything from what they were saying. He tried to move his leg, but that only caused the pain to increase even more.

He forced himself to look at his mother as she came up to him, he nudging caused his attention to actually come back to him, he was about to speak when Kali also came up, andasked what was hurt, "My paw, I..." he said as another wave of pain went throug his left leg