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 Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:58 pm
 The little cub lay on his side, the sun beating down on his brown body as he sniffed at the ground directly in front of his nose, tickled slightly by stray, dry grass that moved in an out with each little whiff of breath.
There wasn't much of interest to smell there, actually, but it gave his nose something to do while he rested. He found himself somewhere strange. The edge of a boundary he couldn’t' find the name for but knew existed. The whole world seemed like that, things he knew but didn't understand. Boundaries, friendships, enemies. There were whole assortments of things he had never learned about but instinctually knew.
It didn't, however, ease his interest any, so here he was, testing a boundary.
He couldn't, however, bring himself to go any further. He wasn't sure he was afraid, so far he had found no reason to fear, but he would feel bad if he did something wrong. Perhaps no one was supposed to go there?
The little lion snorted once more before rolling back onto his stomach, studying the surroundings.
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:37 pm
 Like the cub that lay hidden in the grass from the view of the ever so (un)observant adolescent, Yua as well was a border tester, swaggering back and forth on different sides of a border, while chatting things up. It was, to say, a very amusing and fun-filled life. Nothing was ever boring, for sure.
And if it was? Well, there was bound to be a spirit of some sort happy to spice things up and toss itself into the fray to make him be an absolute idiot/ make a fool of himself in some way.
He had no REAL problem with that, however.
But, today was one of those nothing days, where Yua did... absolutely nothing...
Except trip over innocent little cubs in the grass who were minding there own business.
"OOMPH!"
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:47 pm
It could be said that it was good to pay attention to your enviroment. That if you did so you would never be lost, and that it could even save your life. Somewhere it might also mention that if you absorbe yourself in this attention-paying you might end up paying a price. Such as being violently attacked by someone much bigger then yourself.
If Sora had ever been told this he might not have ended up in his current predicament.
"Hey!"
The cub gasped as a large paw went into his side, tripping itself over the little brown lump, who reacted as quickly as he could to get out of the way. He wasn't angry, but man, was he surprised.
"Why did you do that?!" the cub asked genuinely as he backed up again, ears slightly back, watching the thing that was aparently another lion. Sometimes things just didn't go the little cubs way.
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:00 pm
Yua just kinda lay there for a moment, pondering when the ground had gotten so close to his face, and why, for cripse's sake, he had the wind knocked out of him, and, furthermore, why his ribs hurt. Ears flattening back against his head a bit at the voice squeaking protests of his 'assault' in his ear, or what seemed to be a semi-negative take on what had just happened, Yua pushed himself over onto his side to look at the offender whom was both interrogating him....
and most likely had been what he'd tripped over.
Staring for a moment, he studied the cub curiously, checking, for his sake, for any 'damage' he could have done (he was a scrawny boy who tripped, the worse thing that could have happened was he hurt the kid's pride, but he had to be sure) in his little moment of grace.
Frowning, he finally addressed the question that had been posed to him when he'd been up to his teeth in plant-life, thus unable to answer (he wasn't much of a vegetarian).
"I did that, because gravity hates me, thus decided it was a good idea."
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:13 pm
Sora's brow furrowed at the long wait, until finaly the expression he bore was one that would put guilt into the heart of the strongest warrior. Lip slightly out, eyebrows lowered severely, looking up with intense pout-tastic practice.
Finaly, however, the stranger, who Sora had decided was quite strange, seemed to find it proper to answer him. Although it was not quite the answer he was expecting.
"Well, then maybe you should trip over this Gravity person. They dont' sound very nice anyway," he said, matter-of-factly, standing up straight again and rounding about to face the perpatrator.
"Oh, my names Sora," he said, out of nowhere and greatly cheered up, "who're you?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:27 pm
While Yua himself was not exactly a bright persona, even -HE- knew that gravity wasn't a person. Or at least... he was -pretty sure- that gravity wasn't a person. Maybe it was. Ah snap, his train of thought was... "Oooh.. butterfly." Distracted.
He sat there, watching the insectoid for a few minutes before blinking, and remembering, indeed, there -was- another lion there, looking over Sora with a look of pure-dumb on his face, his mind fumbling over why he was sitting there, before remembering that he was a stupid... stupid-head, and it -was- his fault that he'd tripped over the poor little bugger..
So he could be stared at for a while.
"... Gravity is really good at evading me sometimes.. while getting me face-down in the dirt the next moment." he explained, frowning a bit, while hoping that would be a sufficient explanation over why he'd tripped over Sora, and not ... well..
the mass-less Gravity.
However, this kid seemed to change his mentality like news anchors changed subjects.
"....Er.."
Starting blankly for a moment, Yua took that as a cue to introduce himself as well (he'd -only- been flat-out asked who he was.) ".. Yua. That's my name. Yua."
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:38 pm
Sora's gaze broke for a moment, glancing as a small butterfly drunkenly dodged about before swiftly turning his attention back to the other lion.
"Ah. I've never met him. He still doesn't sound nice though," he added, a little seriously.
"Well, Anyway, I don't see him around so you should be okay."
The cub sat down crookedly, right leg splayed out oddly from under him, backbone arched almost uncomfortably. Although somehow the rather rediculous position looked strangely fitting, the small cub seeming to adapt effortlessly to it.
"Yua?"
He flicked his tail, face turned thoughtful again, "that's a strange name. Not bad though. And nice and short, which is good. I can't remember long things, can you?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:44 pm
Well, seeing as back home everybody had ginormous names of super doom....
"Yeah. I can. Takes a little bit of work, but it's the SAYING the long things that takes forever to remember." How many times, as a cub, had it taken him to remember how to pronounce his own name? Only a billion and a half, it felt like. It was funny, however, to imagine himself being unable to say his own name.
Yeah..
He stared at the cubs odd sitting manner, wincing a bit at it. It seemed like an oddly painful way to be sitting, in that if -he- had tried to sit in such a way, he'd probably have shoved from part of his body's symmetry out of place and would've been unable to walk.
Amazing how flexible cubs were getting, but he wasn't about to comment on it, for fear he'd be 'trained' in the ways of child-like sitting.
So instead, Yua looked about, frowning a bit. They -sure- were out in the middle of nowhere, it felt. "Rather lonely out here, isn't it?" Yua mused, crossing his paws over each other.
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:39 pm
"Oh right, that makes sense," the cub said cheerfully, trying to think of long names, and being completely unsuccessful. He hadn't heard many names, so perhaps that was his problem. Or maybe he just didn't want to think of things that were made specificaly to cause problems.
"Lonely?"
The cub looked around. There were some shrubs and other brush. Dirt. Bugs. It didn't seem lonely to him. In fact, it was quite like the other places he had been.
"Is it lonely here? It seems to be less lonely then other places I've been. Afterall, there's me and you and then everything else. Usualy there's just me and everything else. I don't really know though," he mused, shifting slightly before looking up at the other lion again, "are you lonely?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 4:58 pm
He couldn't help but laugh a bit at the cubs logic. "No... I mean in general.. this place is... lonelier then the previous places of my travels."
There was plenty of LIFE around.. just not the... well.
Eyeing the cub next to him, be shrugged nonchalantly. It wasn't that bad, he presumed, before heaving a sigh and pushing himself back up to a sitting position. "I'm used to there being more then just me and another person around, I guess."
Putting a paw on the cub's head, Yua smirked a bit.
"Besides, wouldn't it be funner for you to play with other cubs yer own age instead of frolicking about in the grass alone? It's easier to play hide and seek that way, in the least." he offered.
Ah man, his 'little lonely kid' concious was striking at him.
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:35 pm
"Oh, I see," he responded, as wisely as he could. He didn't really see. Mostly because he didn't know what kind of un-lonely places Yua had been.
He tilted his head, confusion on his face. He could only remember two other lions. Mfuto, his friend, and his mom, who he really didn't remember.
"I get it. So you have lots of friends usualy. That makes sense."
He tilted his ears back as the other boy's paw met with his head, looking up at his new friend.
Man, Yua was aweful big. How cool.
"Yeah, probably. I played with Mfuto once, it was really much more fun then playing with no one. But I don't know what a hide and seek is."
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:15 pm
(( HEE! MFUTO! <3333 ))
Yua chuckled. This kid attempted to have a same degree of wisdom as he did (and he had none, so acting wise was all he could do), which was rather impressive, as it would've been more convincing if the cub hadn't had the oddest look on his face. Ah well, all had to start somewhere.
Sitting up, the adolescent heaved a bit of a sigh. What a lonely existance. This one didn't even know what hide and seek is. So, he guessed he'd have to help. Yua ducked down into the grass and spoke in a hushed whisper;
"Alright.. I'm gonna count to ten, and while I'm counting, I'm not gonna be looking so go hide. Then when I'm done, I'll come running to find you. So basically all your doing is trying to not be found by me, gotit?" he inquired, a dorky grin on his maw.
Yua could -so- play the 'little kid' part, if he had to.
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:36 pm
Sora hopped back a bit, on his feet again and eager to see what his new friend (that would be friend number two, for those counting, and he was proud of that number) was up to.
Suddenly, another game was being explained to him. He stared at the crouching Yua and concentrated as hard as he could on the explaination. Mfuto's game had been very complicated, so Sora had to rethink about it alot before he got the rules right. Luckily, this game seemed more easily learnable.
"Okay!"
Sora tromped off, looking around for a place to hide. Remembering the tree in the general direction of that way he began to run, getting a little over-excited perhaps, as the next thing that happened was unexpected to him.
An abandoned burrow, perhaps a meerkats or rabbits, tripped him, sending him through the thin earth and into a slightly complex hole-filled-with-tunnels.
He lie there a second, wind knocked out of him and wondering what had happened.
"Ow," he whispered, then realized this would make a wonderful place to hide. Grinning happily he stood, albeit shakily, and wormed his way into one of the tunnels, thoroughly unseeable from above.
It was a good thing he was young and inexpirienced in this particular game. If he hadn't been he might have been prone to think Yua would just walk off and leave him in what might become a relatively precarious place.
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:48 pm
"Nine... ten..."
To say the least, Yua wasn't, exactly, a gifted finder of 'little cubs under the earth'. In fact, it wasn't something he had to do on a normal basis. Thus, when he'd spun his head around to see if he could find the little whipper-snapper, the ela seemed surprised to not find the cub, but rather, a lot of nothing.
".. Sora?"
The lack of the cub seemed to concern him, as he looked about the rather small area, figuring that in ten seconds, the boy couldn't have gone farther then he could, no matter how fast his little legs had taken him. Then his slight paranoia kicked in....
one of the spirits HAD to have kidnapped the poor cub. And it was his fault.
"Soooorrrraaa?" he called again as he walked about, peering around the base of the same tree the cub had ran for, and finding only, to say the least, a hole big enough for him to get his leg stuck in. How lovely, was it not?
Grumbling as his leg settled where it was, the ela flexed his claws a bit, before yanking the limb back out to freedom.
"Blasted hole.." he grumbled, then continued his search, unaware of how close he'd actually been to the one he was seeking.
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:29 pm
Sora had to bite his tongue when the other lion called his name, being as he was unaccustomed to being called and wanted to answer before the other lion left. But this was a game, right? And he was supposed to hide himself and not come out.
Setting his brows lower in concentration he wiggled a little father into the hole, once again avoiding answering the now even more desperate yell. When the older lion’s foot went smack dab down the hole in front of him he wasn't sure what to do, especially since there where flexing claws right in front of his eyes.
Darn, those were big claws.
Luckily (or unluckily) the other lion seemed unaware of Sora's location and pulled the leg out, complaining to himself.
Feeling confident again, the cub wiggled back even more, in the process managing to knock a small rock off of the ceiling, causing the earth above him to crumble down on him, leaving him a little squished under a few inches of soil.
"Augh!"
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