The Tale of King Moto the Mighty (For TheWhistlerify)

[KingMoto]

Damoja looked deep into her eyes with his red ones, he continued to trace her ears,
"You can go inside", he said lowly. "Right after you give me a lick back, and say, 'Goodnight sir'...", he then added. "Do it". He smirked at her, she would know just by the way he looked at her that if she didn't comply, she'd get hurt again.

[TheWhistlerify]

Laini, despite how hard it was, forced herself to remain still and not run off again, not after what happened last time. Again it took her a few moments to react to what Damoja said to her. After those few seconds, ignoring the sick feeling in her stomach, she licked his cheek slowly. After another few seconds, she said in a not so loud tone, "Goodnight sir." she continued to sit there in front of him though. While he did say she could go inside after doing what she was told, she wanted to hear his approval just in case.

[KingMoto]

Damoja smiled widely and his red eyes gleamed with success.
"Good girl...now, go", he replied. Damoja stayed outside for a little while, pondering about the following weeks to come, and hoping that little Prince wouldn't come back. "Even if he did", he thought, "He wouldn't be able to kill me".

[TheWhistlerify]

Laini, as soon as Damoja ended talking, quickly headed back inside before he could get a chance to change his mind. She went ahead and lay down beside Tulivu, her being the only one she felt like she could trust at the moment considering she was one of her best friend's mother. She didn't say anything to Tulivu or anyone else though, she was in no mood to talk. Placing her head down on her paws with, she found herself looking at Lumo in the corner of her eye for a few moments. Confused, she closed her eyes and surprisingly fell asleep rather quickly.

[KingMoto]

Lumo yawned and stretched out his paws, while he was starting to close his eyes, they darted to Laini. Lips curling into a slight smile, he fell asleep. Damoja yawned loudly as well, he shook his body, getting rid of any flies or savannah dust that may of gather on his coat in the past few minutes. He entered the den, smirking slightly as he made his way over to Laini and Tulivu, both being now asleep. He lay next to them, lying on his side and falling asleep. Dreaming about what he had done that day, and the worse thing was, they were the best dreams he had ever had.

[OOC: Time skip, it's been a week since Damoja's rule and Moto's exile. We'll start of in the early morning, where the lionesses are returning from an unsuccessful hunt and Kali is out hunting with Marini and the two other lionesses]

[TheWhistlerify]

(( Alright, I'm making the next post at the point where they return to Damoja empty handed then ))

Laini let out an annoyed sigh as she, Tulivu and the rest of the hunting group made their way towards the den. Damoja would not be happy at all to see that they failed to catch anything on their hunt. In the past week Damoja, despite Laini not putting up any arguing against him, was still as cruel as he was during the first day. He often abused her, and he didn't care about biting her or clawing her in the process. She and the other lionesses were tired and hungry, and of course that it was making things more difficult.

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Kali, Marini and the other two lionesses exchanged short nods of agreement before spreading out. They have planned to work together in order to ensure the success of their hunt. Unlike the lionesses who remained behind with Damoja, they ate enough and did not have their fright of Damoja on their heads. It was a quick and successful hunt, like most hunts that went on when the huntresses were under humane conditions. "Alright, good work everyone." they began carrying their kill back to where they and Moto were now staying.

[KingMoto]

Tulivu was anxious, the second hunt they did failed and Damoja was angry, but this was now they're third hunt in the week and they hadn't caught anything. Two of the reasons where that the prey had scattered about, sensing a change in monarchy and that the lionesses were simply nervous. Being nervous during the hunt is always a bad thing.

As they approached the main area of the territory the Pride lived in, Damoja saw them. Anger knifed his eyes as they were finally standing in front of him. He snarled and stormed over to Tulivu.
"Where is my food! Stupid lionesses....don't even know how to hunt! Call yourself head of the hunting party", he roared at her. Tulivu was shaking from her head all the way to her tail,
"B-B-But...they prey...they have m-moved...".

There was silence, and then a loud thwack of a paw against a cheek. Tulivu back away, her cheek streaked with blood and claw marks. Damoja hissed and then turned to Laini,
"I want you in the den in 10 minutes...I need a good time after this... disappointment", he looked at Tulivu as he said the last word.
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Moto was waiting for the girl's to return, he was going to ask Kali if she wanted to go on a run after they had eaten. He was keeping the 3 females on a little routine, just to get stronger. Normally, other older lionesses would prepare them for adulthood, but he decided that it was his responsibility, seeing as he had learned most things already.

There was another reason he was going to ask Kali for a run, he had become a little closer to her, and he enjoyed her company. It was nice to have someone who he could trust and talk to.

[TheWhistlerify]

Laini closed her eyes when she saw Damoja raise his paw, already knowing what was going to happen. She only reopened them a few moments after hearing the noise of the paw hitting Tulivu's cheek. Her ears went flat against her head when Damoja turned to her and said what she knew he was going to say. Despite him calling Tulivu a disappointment, Laini wasn't blaming Tulivu despite the fact that Damoja was about to take his anger out on Laini herself. Neither Tulivu or any other lioness was to blame, they were all hungry and tired. She nodded at what Damoja said slowly, knowing what would happen if she argued.
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Kali and the other lionesses arrived back after a minute or two. "We're back." Kali said from beneath the dead antelope which was on her and the other lionesses' backs. After they placed their catch down, Kali smiled at Moto before walking over to him and giving him a short nuzzle. They have both grown closer to each other in the past week, and while it was a little confusing for her a little in the beginning, she was really happy about it.

[KingMoto]

Damoja smirked before turning around and making his way back to the den, looking forward to the next hour or so. Tulivu however, was rubbing her cheek with her paw slightly, trying to stop the blood. She looked at Laini and walked over and sat next to her,
"It should be me going in there...not you". Even though Damoja had made his way around most of the lionesses, including Tulivu herself, she felt gulity about the way Damoja was treating Laini, and how she was unable to stop him.
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Moto smiled happily when the lionesses returned,
"I was beginning to miss the company, well done, rather big antelope there". He gave Kali a nuzzle back, before waving his paw at the dead antelope,
"You ladies eat first, it's only fair".

[TheWhistlerify]

Laini smiled slightly at Tulivu, "It alright." she knew that if there was anything Tulivu could do to help her then she would have done it already. She couldn't blame her for feeling as hopeless as they were all feeling. After a minute or two, she let out a long sigh and stood, heading over to the den. She reached the entrance and gulped, hoping that it wasn't going to be as bad as all the previous times. But who was she kidding? Of course it was going to be horrible.
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Kali smiled and did not argue. "Thank you." The lioness began eating, but of course that they were going to make sure to leave just the same amount they would each get for Moto and to not eat only from the better parts of the kill. The lioness did leave a good amounut of meat for Moto, and once they were all done Kali looked at him with a smile, "There's enough for you too." she would never even think to be so selfish and to leave someone even half hungry.