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                     Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:40 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            Ilori barely had time to gas in pain as the large lioness' claw swept across his face, falling backwards with his father, bleeding, though not as badly as he could have been, considering.
 "Mom..." The cub mumbled, slowly staggering to his feet as his looked over, blinded in one eye by the blood falling in it. Or at least, that was what he hoped it was, "STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM MY MOM YOU FREAK!" He cried out, making a good effort to make his way back to the fight. Though his father's grip made that hard.
 
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                     Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:48 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            Azach interfered not at all with the lion's retrieval of his son, for she had more pressing concerns.  The rogue lioness had managed to get atop her despite her best efforts, and the huntress had no time for distraction, lest she pay dearly for such a mistake.  With a savagely determined bellow, she struggled and fought to roll her opponent, to gain the upper paw.
 After long moments and with more of her own blood darkening her fur, Azachamorel succeeded not only in gaining the higher vantage; as it happened, their rolling had carried them dangerously close to a rock just large enough to prove something more than inconvenience.  Seizing her chance, Aza slammed her paw against the side of the mother's head, forcing it to connect solidly with the rock and render the lioness temporarily unconscious.
 
 ((Ada knock-out with Ary's permission, of course. <3))
 
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                     Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:55 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            Nukta growled at his son's protests, having no patience in situations like these to begin with-- why did he have to get his mother's protective streak of all things??
 He set the cub aside in a hurry and only had time to fix him with a firm warning glare before turning back to the fighting, just in time to see Adanna rendered unconcious. In a blind rage of his own, Nukta charged with another angry outcry. His claws flew with vengeful intentions in two forceful swings, aiming to draw blood. His pale green pupils were practically mere dots in his eyes. His warning almost mirrored Ilori's and Adanna's prior ones.
 
 "Get the ******** away from her, you crazy b***h!!" He snarled, throwing his full weight behind his attack. He only meant to drive her away, however, as he had an injured mate and son to look after now, but he would fight her all out if she forced his paw. They were just about the same size, given that he was male, and she Firekin. He didn't care. He'd have none of this!
 
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                     Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:59 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "MOM! NO MOM!" Ilori screamed, running towards his mother, skidding to her side as her shook her shoulder, ignoring the blinding pain above his left eye, "Mom please wake up! Mom please! What did she do to you!?" Tears stung his eyes as he violently shook his head, "Mom... mom please... please wake up..."         
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                     Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:02 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "Filthy rogue!" she cried hoarsely, running to meet his charge.  Rather than rise up and meet paw-to-paw with the male as she had his mate, she came in low, letting his claws rake wherever they happened to land as she tried to ram him off-balance, fangs flashing and seeking any hold they might happen to meet.
 Aza was already bleeding, already tiring, and she knew it.  This lion, though not so able as a Firekin would be, was fresh.  She needed to make good on what strength she had left, and quickly.
 
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                     Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:09 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            His anger seemed to take another kick into high gear, though Nukta had always been the more level headed between the mated pair. His pained growl was added to the battle cries as her claws scored a fresh hit across his chest, slicing fur and scarring skin underneath. However, he saw what the female was trying to do as she charged in, and did let his weight fall, but wrapped his forepaws around her in what seemed to be a bear hug, and pulled her down with, immediately aiming to top her while biting without any restraint at whatever part of her -he- could now reach. 
 "Backwater, inbred sociopath!" He spat back in insult (he had heard the rumors and stories of the Firekin, after all, particularly from his own mother, who had been both a member of the Mistweavers and a rogue avoiding their terrors at one point in life), trying again if he wasn't sucessful on the first attempt
 
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                     Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:18 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            Aza was discovering the hard way that this male was not quite so simple as she had first taken him to be.  Though she fought hard against it, he had soon wrestled her to the ground, rendering her almost incapable of defense and leaving her at the mercy of his vicious teeth.
 She roared with pain as fur, skin, and flesh tore away, until she finally managed to bunch the muscles in her hind legs and kick with claws unsheathed and all the force she could muster at his underbelly and the general area of his most sensitive parts - not that she as taking any care to aim.
 
 "You don't belong here!" came her strangled yell.
 
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                     Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:23 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "You had no right to attack us!" Ilori snarled from beside his mother, tears filling his eyes, "You stupid crazy b***h!" He copied his parent's language, not really knowing what it meant, but just going with it anyway.
 Hate. This was the first time the cub had ever hated anyone in his entire life.
 
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                     Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:26 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            Yet another pained cry, and this time he had to let go, staggering back. That b***h! Nukta was now bleeding nicely, but he didn't back down, though he staggered a step in surprise by the pain. He wouldn't back down unless she killed him.
 "Like I give a ******** about your pathetic little reject beach! Leave my family alone, or I'll rip your god damned throat out!!"
 
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                     Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:32 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            Azachamorel rolled as soon as she was able, heaving to her feet where she panted open-mouthed, a combination of saliva and blood dripping from her maw to sink into the dry ground of the border.
 "This is Blood land!" she snarled viciously, though made no more move to attack. "And no one not of Blood walks these sands.  No one, rogues, do you hear me?!"
 
 "NO ONE!"
 
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                     Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:46 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "YOU'D KILL MY MOTHER FOR A PATCH OF SAND!?" Ilori looked, honestly, horrified, "NO! You idiotic lion... no... mom..." Ilori could understand fighting a lot of things for a lot of reasons... but just because of him... because he had been wandering absently... she had tried to kill them... because of that!?         
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                     Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:25 am 
 
 
                        
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			            Gods, her head felt like s**t. The pounding of her blood filled her head as Ada slowly began to regain consciousness. Or was that the blood on her face? It reaked and when she moaned and finally tried to pry open her eye she found it hard to see. It took her a moment to remember where they were, to remember what was happening...
 With a jolt she pushed herself up, her memory only recalling herself and Ilori fighting a lioness. Anger and dread gripped her. If she had been out what had happened to Ilori...? But as she jumped unsteadily to her feet with a paniced snarl she saw Nukta. Letting out a small relieved breath she gave Ilori a comforting nudge with her paw and also signled him to stay back. She slid over to stand by Nukta's side, muscles tense and ready for if the fight started again. "We don't want your ******** up sands," she growled.
 
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                     Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:08 am 
 
 
                        
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			            The relief that Nukta felt at Adanna's signs of stirring couldn't be expressed. For a while he hadn't even been sure she was breathing, but now he felt he could rest a bit easier. He kept his glare on the Firekin, still refusing to back down as his mate rejoined the scene at his side.
 "You mess with my family again, and I'll make 'blood sand' very literal, b***h..." He growled, then looked to Adanna and Ilori. It was clear that the lioness they'd just faced off against wasn't going to go anywhere, and they still had a son waiting behind, and Ilori was hurt, and Adanna needed to be cleaned up, and now Nukta was bleeding as well, though his wasn't as serious. He had more blood on his muzzle from attacking than anything else, but it still smarted like a b***h. Thank the gods for the body's various forms of protection.
 
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                     Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:16 am 
 
 
                        
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			            "Then leave them!" Aza roared with deafening strength. "These are the lands of the children of Finar-si, and you are not welcome here!  You will never be!"
 "Get out," she snarled. "NOW!"
 
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                     Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:23 am 
 
 
                        
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			            Ilori was completely relieved that his mother was alright, his eyes lighting up when he saw her move, "Mom..." he whispered, wiping away the tears from his eyes, as well as blood from the small gash above his eye.
 However he glared back at the lioness. She had hurt his mom. She had tried to hurt his dad. She had attacked him for no reason, and now she was acting like they had done something wrong! What was her problem anyway?
 
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