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 Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:19 pm
Flicking her striped tail Imara huffed as she lounged on her rock, hers, no one elses. This was the same area where she had seen Mrost, she had even ran her claws over the stone in an attempt to mark it as hers. Imara was protective, strong, looked at herself with pride, an would someday be the strongest lioness ever, the best huntress ever. Rolling onto her back her paws in the air, claws extended, her golden eyes peered up at the sun.
She was golden, with her heart, in her own way. Her pelt, her father had told her, reflected that of a Queen her father knew, and she felt some pride in that, she wanted to make the past Queen proud.
She would be the strongest ever, and no one would be able to stop her.
Just sometimes, it was so lonely training by herself, but feeling a weakness in herself meant she had weakness, she knew it was there but, she never wanted to admit it to herself.
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:51 pm
 The flick of a tufted tail, a low grumble of a snort, a forepaw raised to his muzzle. He had chosen that afternoon for a bit of cubbish mischief, digging into what he had assumed was a badger burrow, thinking to torment the poor creature until it fled in frustration, or at least until he grew tired of it.
What he had not realized, was that the burrow's previous occupant, which had indeed been a badger, had left it's den to avoid such tormentings. This would have been fine, he would have simply grown bored and move on to another likely burrow, that is, if the burrow had remained empty and not become home to a nest of rather angry wasps.
They had emerged from the den in an angry swarm, pursuing the young lion who quickly fled from their reach as quickly as his paws would carry him, but not before one of them had managed to sting him directly on the nose. Stupid bugs, that hurt, not that it would stop him from nosing around other burrows in hopes of finding a small creature to antagonize.
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:29 pm
Rolling onto her stomach Imara huffed as she saw a moving figure not too far away. How dare someone come this close, close to her spot. Urg, pushing herself to her paws, the adolescent moved onto the the earth in an instant, abandoning her post, for a mere moment, to investigate the intruder (though he had not touched his rock like that other boy....boys, ugh). Flicking her tail and crouching down to maneuver herself as if hunting prey, she stopped a few meters away, poised for attack if needbe.
She knew how rough boys could get, though, she suspected, and liked to believe boys would count her out 'cause she was a girl...she sometimes wished for a good wrestle with another male every other day, just to prove herself, prove her point.
What is he doing?
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:56 pm
Another snort, louder than the last, the lion pawed at his muzzle as if he could erase the sting with a simple bat of his paw. Stupid bug, he'd like to see it try that again, he'd squish it and see how it liked that. Hmph!
He might have missed the lioness, and certainly didn't care about whatever rock she thought she was guarding. But movement from the corner of his eye caught his attention, ears twitching at the sound of rustling grass, gaze shifting to fall on the pale figure. Oh, great, another girl, probably just as crazy as the last. Well if she thought she was going to pounce him, he'd show her just what it meant to pounce.
"What are you looking at?"
His voice was touched with irritation, a statement more than a question. Why did he always run into so many girls, and why were they always so crazy.
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:59 pm
Imara slashed at herself inwardly, he'd seen her, damn, she had to train harder, be sleaker, more cunning, she sighed, she thought that she had made some progress. Standing up so that she revealed most of her form though her legs were partially covered by hte grass blades she huffed, quirked a brow, and grinned, "Nothing much evidently if you lose a fight to a bug," she said with a grin, flicking her tail, taking a step closer, provoking him.
"I just wanted to make sure you stayed this far away, and kept away from my spot," she turned, and gave a look back, "or else you'd be in for it," her rock, her spot, hers, and no one elses. There was even a tree nearby with a small hollow underneath she was planning on making into a den one day.
"Understand?"
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:33 pm
Orange eyes narrowed in irritation, tail flicking, the sting of the wasp forgotten in the words of the young lioness. Why that little--did she just--oh he'd show her! Little girl wanted to test him did she, well then, bring it on.
"Oh really, this is your spot then is it?"
There was a mockery in his tone, like a school boy taunting a classmate. If she had thought to drive him away with her words, she would quickly find she had only encouraged the opposite. Casually, with mischief in his step, Shin'Jougen strolled to the very spot she had indicated, deliberately place all four paws on the grassy earth.
"Then I guess I shouldn't do this then should I?"
He made a point of jumping, hoping in a circle around the lioness, certain to touch every blade of grass he possibly could.
"And you probably wouldn't like this either, would you."
A quick jump and he was on top of the very rock she so insisted no one touch. Jump, jump, touch, touch, ha! I'm touching your stuff!
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:38 pm
"Yes," she said matter of factly, watching him, hating him for how he was looking at her, judging her already. Boys! Her eyes narrowed at him as she lowered herself to the ground, fangs gritting together to stifle a growl that wanted to erupt from her throat. She didn't like playing games, being taunted, she was supposed to be the one in control, not him, no male, none.
"Stop it."
It was a demand, a command, not a suggestion, though he was pushing her with his next step, taking a spot on ehr rock, hers, hers! She felt her blood set aflame and she snarled, launching herself up at him knocking her bodyweight into his. Though she wasn't an adult, she knocked him, and herself off the rock onto the ground, snarling all the while,
"I said to not touch it! Are you that idiotic you can't listen?!"
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:03 pm
Oof, the sudden impact of the strike knocked him off balance, falling from the rock to tumble across the grass. His own weight shifted to counter hers, swatting with a talonless paw as he rolled to flip the smaller lioness onto her back.
"Yeah, well I don't see your name on it!"
His own growl erupted from his throat, tail lashing with a snap. What an irritating little girl, not that he hadn't provoked her or thought she wouldn't react in some way to his tauntings. But it was a rock, a stupid, boring rock just like any other in the middle of the pridelands.
"You can't claim a rock, stupid! It's in the middle of the pridelands, it belongs to everyone!"
What a sight, two lions who should have known to act like adults, bickering and taunting each other like a pair of a children. Oh how he wanted to touch that rock again, and with each moment that passed, he only wanted to touch it more, to further annoy her.
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:03 pm
Imara snarled at him and tried to lash her claws at him but his weight was keeping her down, she writhed and failed her legs to try and kick him off, for a moment she contemplated calling for her father, but no, she wanted to do this, prove herself. "I marked it you idiot if you would look! or are you as blind as you are idiotic?" she said with a glare as if to burn him with her eyes. Imara had inf act trailed her claws over it in several places as if that was her mark, this was her place, hers.
"Yes I can! Others can claim a den right? For their families, children? And that den is theirs, this is my rock, mine! GET OFF!" he didn't understand, boys didn't know how to act smart, be smart, be strong, and this wuss of a lion had already lost a fight to a bug.
Idiot.
"Your such a weakling, are you even a lion?" taunting him again hoping he'd mve his leg just slightly so so that she could roll to get free.
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:12 pm
"It's not a den, it's a stupid rock! What are you going to do, sit there all day so you can guard it like an idiot? Oh no, I think there's a bug touching your rock! Why don't you find something worth protecting!?"
Despite his often childish behavior, Shin'Jougne was indeed an adult, his build made strong by the games he had often played. A large lion, taller, yet lankier than most, he had grown into at least a fair hunter, taught, as were his siblings, by his skilled father. Weak was something he was not, hah! He'd like to see how she liked it when a wasp stung her nose.
A snarl tore from his throat, an angry hiss as talons touched his hide. She was actually trying to hurt him, she had slashed at him with talons. Despite his own irritation, and though he had himself started such a childish fight, he would have never sought to truly harm her. Wrestling was one thing, but talons and jaws were reserved for prey, not silly little squabbles over a stupid rock.
"If I'm so weak, then why are you the one pinned to the ground?"
A low growl, emphasizing his words with a snap of his tail.
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:45 pm
"Because your an oaf! You don't know what honor and respect is, and what an honorable fight between two is!" she said with a snarl, so tempted to try and crane her neck up to latch onto his neck until he'd move off from her. Too bad someone wouldn't want by adn see what was happening, she grinned, then he'd get in a whole heap of trouble,and she would slink away with a grin plastered on her maw.
"You judge too soon anyway, you say it is just a rock, but what if you had something special, someone special, would you let someone say 'its just a thing, just a person, not worth anything,' too quick to judge, thus you are weak in pride and self."
Boys, they really didnt know anything did they?
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:27 pm
If only he could have heard the thoughts in her head, accusing him of being weak when it was her that had thought of calling for help, lecturing him on honor when it was her who had thought of using the dirty tactic of the tattle tail. She spoke of honor, yet she had judged him by his gender even been he had seen her, and while he himself may have thought along similar lines not so long ago, he had never thought girls to be unintelligent or weak, he simply thought they were weird and crazy, a fact he had yet to see evidence to contradict.
If he had heard those thoughts, he might have been tempted to actually bite her, not that he wasn't already tempted. But in the end, it just wasn't in him. No matter how she infuriated him, despite that she had used her own claws on him, he just couldn't harm another, it wouldn't have been right. Instead he just sat on her, his weight pinning her smaller frame to the earth, forepaws resting heavily on her shoulders to keep her claws at bay.
"You don't know anything about honor. Honor isn't about fighting. It's not about stalking and waiting to attack anyone who dares wander to close to your rock. Honor is about friends, it's about always standing by those you care for, and not abandoning them no matter what happens and what they do. It's about loving and protecting, and it's about doing the right thing."
He snorted, eyes narrowed as he gazed down at the lioness, firm conviction in his words. Perhaps now he understood, understood why Kani had chosen to take a mate in Bushido and why she had started her own family, and perhaps now he even understood why his own bitterness had been wrong. Change was hard, a change that had hurt him greatly, yet that didn't mean it was wrong or that he shouldn't accept, it didn't mean that it wouldn't be better than it had been before. And suddenly he couldn't remember why he had been so angry in the first place.
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:36 pm
"Don't tell me what I do and do not know, you don't know anything about me at all, again, you are too quick to judge another, honor is about family, friendship, loving and protecting, but also defending what is important to you, defending what means the most to you, you may not understand, but this place is a part of me, who I am," she probably sounded stupid, like a typical female, she smacked herself mentally for that, she wanted to be anything but typical.
She wanted to be fierce, strong, intelligent.
"Doing the right thing? Then why don't you get yourself off from me," she said with her eyes narrowed, though no snarl this time.
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:21 pm
"Really, are you sure you're not talking about yourself? Do you even hear the words that are coming out of your mouth? I'm sure you know how to use your brain."
He was furious, anger burning in brilliant eyes. She had the nerve to lecture him, to threaten and accuse him of the very same things that she had done. She knew nothing of him, and yet she had immediately threatened and insulted him, assumed he knew nothing simply because she wanted to, assumed that he would care about her stupid rock, a rock he wouldn't have even noticed and done nothing more than walk past had she not said anything. What the hell was wrong with her? How could she possibly think it was okay for her to be a brat and no one else? Shin may not have been right, but he was not the only one.
But worse, she had actually clawed at him, she had really tried to hurt him. It had angered and hurt him more than just the blood that trickled down his muzzle. It was something he would have never done, never would have dreamed. He was simply too kind hearted, and to him it was wrong.
"If you really knew anything about honor, you wouldn't threaten without a reason, and you wouldn't strike to harm someone who never meant harm to you." A low snort, "Maybe neither of us really knows."
His voice had calmed, though the flame still burned. This fight was stupid, there was no reason for it. It should have been nothing but a game, childish taunting, and yet it had turned into rage and aggression.
"So you can claw my eyes? No way. Chill out, and maybe I'll think about it."
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Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:37 am
"Oh, and how am I supposed to know you wouldn't harm me when you are SITTING ON ME!" she said with a wriggled of her body, but to no avail, she huffed, look a breath and sighed, turning her head to not look at him, just look away at her rock, it was hers, she had fought for it once before, she had. "Guess we don't..."
She wriggled her legs, sighed, adn was getting annoyed, "Okay, look, if I promise to not embed my claws into you, will you get offa me?" she asked in all seriousness, she just wanted to get out from under him, get out of this mess.
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