. 1st, Manada means pride ... in spanish... actually, it probably means herd, flock and whatever else you call a group of animals.
2nd- Thx to Schindler and Whitewolf17, for helping me with the names of the prides
3rd- I LIKE PIE!
4th-Thx for reading.
Taisaku was hiding in a bush, watching as his mother and a lioness fought. He and his mother, Acacia , had left their previous home, after a horrible disease had hit the lands, and as Tai was the only cub in the pride, so to keep the blood line going, they left. Now, his mother was fighting this lioness over food, and for Tai’s safety. Tai was sure that Acacia would win; she was a great fighter, but very kind when not fighting. Acacia then pinned the lioness, and attempted to slit the lioness’ throat, but as she did the lioness slit Acacia’s throat too. Tai watched in horror as his mother fell to the ground next to the lioness, he knew what had happened. Tai ran to his mother, hoping in vain that she had fallen to the ground out of exhaustion, but his first assumption was right, she was dead. Tai burst into tears; he had seen dead lionesses before, mainly the ones that had attacked him and his mother, like this lioness did.
Taisaku stayed near the area his mother had died at, only because the wildebeest was there, and as he was only about 9 months old at this time, he couldn’t hunt. About 4 days after his mother died, a few hyenas showed up, as Tai returned from taking a bath in a nearby oasis, he noticed them eating what was left of the wildebeest. When they were finished with the hyena, they went over to Acacia’s body, and began to eat it. Tai, disgusted by what the hyenas were doing, snuck off, and headed east. From what his mother had said, the “Pridelands” were in that direction. She had also told him that it was a wonderful place, full of peaceful, loving lions and lionesses.
After a week of traveling west, he came across a waterhole, he hadn’t had anything to drink in 2 days, and he hadn’t eaten since he’d left the wildebeest. Because of this, he was becoming very exhausted and he collapsed under a tree. He woke up to water being splashed in his face, he opened his eyes, he was still at the oasis, but there were figures surrounding him. He looked up at the nearest lioness, and said, “Who are you?” The lioness replied,” I am Adrianna. I am the queen of the Masasi Pride . And what is your name?” Tai replied, “My name is Taisaku.” Adrianna looked at the lion cub, he was too young to be out here alone, so she asked, “Where is your mother Taisaku?” Tai looked up at Adrianna and replied, “My mother died about a week ago, a lioness attacked us and my mother, Acacia, fought her off.” Adrianna just stared, Acacia, of the Manada clan? That would make him royalty… “
Tai, is your mother Acacia of the Manada clan?”
Tai just stared at her How does she know where I’m from?
“Yeah, why?”
Adrianna said, “Just wondering… oh, I bet you’re hungry.” As she said that, a lioness cub showed up from behind the group of lionesses.
Tai didn’t notice the cub and said, “Yeah I am.”
The cub looked up at Adrianna and said, “Mom, what’s going on?”
Adriana looked down at her daughter and said, “Well Nanati, we found Tai asleep under this tree, and were about to get him something to eat.”
(this post looked WAY longer in Microsoft word... lol.. I put this up for tonight... i'll obviously keep updating until it gets to the point were The Pridelands RP starts... Cuz the two parts go hand in hand.. I only made this to explain Tai and Nanati's back story for that RP. However, i'm obviously going to use him as an RP character.)