[Request] Absolute Freedom

[Alicia]

"Missions?" Mipa said. "You both must be important in your pride then."

She waddled back and checked on the injured lioness, who appeared to be asleep. There wasn't really much Mipa could do for her; she examined her for broken bones, licked at the wounds to keep them clean.

"My pride never gave me missions. Nothing more than, oh... 'go get some exercise you lazy cub!' or, 'learn to hunt like a real lioness.' That's why I left. To show them I could make it on my own.
"So what are your three missions?" she said, glancing sideways at Songo. He looked like he was ignoring her. "Or is that private knowledge?"

Carefully, she settled down onto the sand by the injured lioness, putting her tummy down carefully, as it was still overfull. As it pressed on the sand it spread out to the sides, making her look even bigger, from the top at least, and only the paws of her front legs poked out of the folds of fat around her chest and neck.

[KatieLovesTLK]

Amyz had been trying to find a different way out in a different direction, instead she walked slap bam into a lion. Amyz cried out in pain for a moment, for this lion had stepped on her paw. She backed away, in her experiences, other lions meant trouble. He looked like a decent guy, but Amyz couldn't be sure. "Who...are you?" she asked quietly, sitting down, watching his every move.

[Songo]

Luna raised an eyebrow as she watched Mipa’s fat encircle her body on the ground. She chuckled to herself, “Yes, well if you excel in certain areas your chosen. I was chosen by my King but Guerra was born into what he does.” she stated softly. Luna’s paw played in the sand as she made paw prints before looking back to Mipa. “Well I can’t say more then I’m a skilled Tracker and I’m tracking a missing female from our Pride. Well, Guerra over there knows his own missions. I don’t really ask.” she said a frown crossing her features. The lioness heard a noise behind her and quickly turned around to see another lioness stumble in the sleeping Guerra. Luna didn’t move right away, instead she sat back and watched closely.

Guerra was sleeping soundly until his ears twitched at an approaching sound; he opened one mossy eye to see a lioness walk into him. Guerra growled in warning as she disturbed his sleep and he stood up to his paws angrily. “Watch where you’re going next time.” he warned at Amyz, annoyed as his ears flattened back to his cranium.

Luna’s forepaw covered her muzzle lips and she let a loud laugh escape and she looked back away from Guerra.

Hearing Luna’s laugh caused Guerra to grumble and growl more as he laid himself back down under the tree. Guerra looked to Amyz and stared at her, “Who am I? Who are you?” he said defensively. “You ran into me, how do I know you weren’t trying to attack me.” he added eyeing the lioness in front of him. His tail swished by his side and ended up sitting comfortably by his back paws. The lion took his forepaw and dusted some sand from his black mane as he waited for an answer.

[Alicia]

"Thank you!" she said, beaming at the compliment. "And you have a king? That's very cool. Our pride just had elders. A bunch of them who go off and chat for hours before they made any decision. You must be very important to be on a mission for the king. And probably strong and clever too."

Just then, another lioness entered the clearing. Guerra immediately started yelling at her. Mipa watched on in awe, with a little horror too.

"I've been alone for so long... now we've got a small pride forming," she said, then looked back at Luna. "Say, would you like to come with me? I've got a few more traps set about the place that need checking. We could drag the kills back for all our new 'friends.'" She winked.

[TheLionQueen]

Ari awoke from a nap, he was under a large and leafy tree. *Ugh* He groaned his mane flopping into his eyes. Ari lifted a paw and pushed his mane up letting it set to the side of his face. The young lion looked around while walking slowly through the tall grass he didn't need to go anywhere so why walk any faster. Ari's black paws stopped as he soon saw the waterhole. "Yes!" Ari shouted running to the water. Africa is hot Ari likes water with his dark brown and black mane the days just seemed hot some times. Ari jumped into the cool water and relaxed in the shallows his paws only touched the ground slightly. "Well this is the life. No work of what it takes in a pride, no responsibility's only running around doing what I want. No orders, No one to tell me what to do." Ari said. Masking some of the pain he stood felt about losing his parents. Ari dunked his head under the water and then popped it right back up and shook it cleaning some of his dark mane. The Lion lied down on his back letting some water flow over him. "ahh" he sighed in relief of the warm sun.

[Nitro]

Sulubu sighed; trekking along the dry plains of Africa while searching for his lost pride and any source of nourishment was not exactly how he had planned to spend his day. He was beginning to feel the first signs of starvation and dehydration. His tongue felt heavy and his throat dry, while his stomach pained him with every single move he made. Adding to that, he was already exhausted from yesterday's hunt after getting kicked in the ribs by an antelope - which had began to ache terribly a few hours ago - and his legs felt like lead. Needless to say, he was not a very happy camper.

So when forms in the distance began to clear up, and he recognized them as other lions, Sulubu was not afraid. He was completely terrified at the prospect of fighting them off in his current state. But even stronger than that was resignation. He was going to die, from either getting mauled by the strange lions or just drop dead, he didn't know. Nor particularly care, he noted. Death was all the same, though some ways were albeit more painful than others. He cursed into the air, befouling the names of every single one of his companions who were careless enough to lose the youngest member of their pride in a herd of antelope, before taking a step forward to march into the middle of the gathering and demand death.

Before he could take his second step, the pain and weariness of the last 2 days finally caught up to him and he collapsed to the ground, unconscious. "Great," he muttered to himself before keeling over. What a great way to say 'hello' to his new 'friends.' Dropping dead on their front porch.

[Songo]

Luna turned to Mipa and nodded, "Sure, lets go check them out." she said standing to her paws and stepping by Mipa's side. Her crystal blue eyes glared at Guerra for making such a noise. "I'll be back..!" she called out and slowly followed Mipa through the bushes. Her ears twitched a moment at the sounds of this land and she squinted her eyes to make out one of Mipa's traps. "Impressive.." she said softly.


Guerra rolled his eyes at Luna and his head snapped up as she disappeared into the bushes with the fat lioness, a grumble escaping his muzzle. Shes always running off and then I have to rescue her. he thought to himself as he rested his head back down on his paws. His green eyes watched the others closely and he let out a soft yawn, he planned on taking a long nap.

[TheLionQueen]

Ari got out of the water and shook his mane out splashing some of the water around him he looked around to see if there was anyone and saw a couple of lioness's one of which was very fat! Seeing the other one wasn't fat he walked up to the lioness's, "S'up ladies." He said he then looked at what Luna was looking at, "Whatcha looking at?"

[Alicia]

Very carefully, Mipa gathered her legs beneath her and heaved her bulk towards the sky. Her huge tummy hung pendulously close to the ground as she waddled out of the sandy clearing, but she stopped at the edge. "Oh! I almost forgot my camouflage," she said, then turned around and picked up a matt of grass, throwing it over her shoulders so it covered all of her back and half way down her chubby flanks. The grass fell over her eyes like hair and she peered at Luna beneath them. "This way, I just crouch down and anything nasty will mistake me for a mound of grass." She winked.

They wandered out across the sandy riverbed, towards a thin stream of water - the only part of the river that flowed above the surface. The rest was underground. Mipa's trap was suspended from a tree on the bank, and there, dangling from her vine, hung a large male zebra.

"Impressive," said Luna.

"Woo, a big one!" Mipa said, stepping forward towards the water. "Ok: here's what we need to do. I'll go up there and pull the brute down, then you untie the rope. Don't cut it or break it or it'll take longer to reset the tra-"

"Sup ladies."

Mipa looked further up the river. There, dripping wet, was a male with a brown-and-black mane, and not an unhandsome face. "Err... hello...?" She ventured, a little shyly.

[Songo]

Luna smirked at the sight of Mipa's camouflage and she casually followed close behind her, she kept her crystal blue eyes open and peering side to side. "I don't see any problems.." she whispered softly. Her eyes gawked at the trapped male Zebra and she stepped into the stream and lifted her paw quietly shaking the droplets free.

Hearing a male's voice she quickly lifted her eyes and narrowed them at the wet male, "Who are you?" she asked taking a few steps back. She pushed Mipa a few paces back with her paw and she carefully reclined her delicate body to her hinds; "Stay close Mipa.." she whispered to Mipa.