Sunset glanced over. "I can see the passion in your eyes. Do you seek glory?" Feral was a bit taken aback by the question, but eventually nodded. "I... want to prove to that other pride's lioness that muties can do great things, that we AREN'T weird! Although, she might attack me if I do something that even slightly ticks her off..."

"Why, don't worry about her. Who's to say that Rustymane won't pick you as his heir?" The leopon spoke. "He's already seeking a heir? He's only 5 years old! He's got another 10 years at the least!" Feral looked over.

"Why, what if something were to happen to him?" Sunset asked. Feral thought for a moment. "Surely you'd be able to train up another male to take the place yourself instead of him?" The ferus male saw Sunset laugh. "How? I'm not the leader!"

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Akirl jumped from the high point of the territory and Flameburst was the first to come over to him and say; "That was some speech, veery eventful, don't ya think?" She giggled and Akirl chuckled. "It wasn't much but I feel a whole lot better about taking in pretty-looking cubs I know I'd want to have cubs with when they grow older."

"Some patience." She smiled and turned, her tail lightly smacking his face. He watched the lioness go to the others for a few moments before laying down, closing his eyes.


After a satisfying nap he was woken up to the ground rumbling and Valentine pulling his tail, hissing; "Get up you fat chub! Giraffes are coming this way, a bunch of 'em!"

He shot his head up and looked around before seeing the ground being kicked up by a small bunch of giraffes coming their way, roaring in the distance. Akirl scrambled up and hid behind a boulder, watching from behind as the massive creatures ran by. He heard a small bundle of lions coming right behind them and Akirl suddenly felt a sting of anger. Lions! On his territory! Right in the HEART of his territory! He ran as the last giraffe came by and roared; "What are you doing on my territory?!"

More of his lionesses and Sunbeam showed themselves, growling and snarling. A dark red lion, seemingly the King of the rival Pride, roared and sprang onto the bunch, the lionesses of his fighting with. Akirl felt a sudden flash of shock. Only the King should be fighting! Yet he roared command; "Akirl Pride, do what you must!" There was no time to be fair, especially when this Pride wasn't to begin with.

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Sunset suddenly flinched. Feral looked over. "What's wrong?" Sunset shook her head. "Star Pride sent me a message! Cmon!" Sunset ran off, Feral seeming confused but following the wiser leopon. She lead them to the heart of the Akirl territory. Feral saw the red lion and charged, roaring loudly. he sunk his large fangs into his shoulder before the rival king pushed him aside.

He looked to the entrance. Sunset had vanished, her pawsteps could be heard distantly growing farther. Maybe she's going to get more help? Feral shook his head and growled as the red rival king crouched, ready to pounce at him.

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He ran towards two lionesses that were targeting his bunch of pregnant lionesses; of course they'd try to keep away from the fight. Root was hidden behind them, her newborn cub shaking.


Akirl roared and forced his way past the two, turned and roared. "Get away from them!"

They snarled and jumped over to him. He grabbed one by the claws and tossed her away, yet the other was sinking her teeth into his fur. His mane protected his neck from her teeth yet when he tried to pull her away his mane pulled also, which was very painful. While he was trying to push her away the other yanked him by the tail, knocking him to the ground. He felt the lioness on him also be affected by the pull; she lost her grip and fell also.

He kicked the lioness behind him then scrambled up to his paws and dug his teeth into the others' back and tossed her away. He sniffed to see who was next and smelled familiar scents. He looked over and saw Feral fighting the King. He refused to spend precious seconds relieved that help had come and ran over to help; he dashed towards the lion and gave his back a hard shove, knocking the rival King down.

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Feral roared and dashed towards the rival, sinking his large fangs into his paw. The king let out a loud roar of pain before clawing Feral's cheek all the way to his mouth. Feral ran his claws along his ears, biting down harder on his paw. He clearly had no experience lmao, though he was trying.

Sunset let out a yowl and Cobra, Moon, Hyperion (I won her in that primal girl raffle!) and Rustymane entered the battle! Feral looked over. "You sent an adolescent?!" "A PRIMAL adolescent! To help guard the cubs, is all!" "You've gotta be kidding-" The king had pushed Feral off his balance while he was distracted and was aiming straight for his chest, him now being on his back.

The rival king landed, but very quickly got pushed off by Rustymane as he roared.

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aaa its been soo long))

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this be hella dead))

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(mmm my bad, left this to rot for awhile cuz of the sudden hiatus lol but I'm back.)



Akirl growled and raised a huge paw to strike the rival again, but a loud crack of thunder made all the lions stop for a moment, the sounds making the cubs shriek and rush over to their mother's. Akirl flicked his eyes from the lionesses, both rival and ally, then growled; "The sky is sending a warning. You all need to leave before you regret it."

These lions had clearly never been in an environment that let lightning be heard, since the rival lions looked scared, backing away then running off. Akirl watched them go, his breathing slow, then he turned and roared victoriously. The lions around him followed, and as he lowered his head he saw Moral attempting to roar also, her small body only able to seem intimidating to the smallest beetle, but watching his cubs do anything was a great sight. He looked over and noticed Meadow upon a rock nearby, her eyes set on Moral proudly. Akirl padded over to her. "What a little warrior. She's got potential."

"She does." Meadow muttered, her body relaxing against the rock, clearly in the middle of trying to sleep. Akirl then looked over at Feral and the others, the Primal's sudden age and physical power made Akirl narrow his eyes a bit. He wondered if the Spotted Pride thought his Pride was too weak to take on the rival's themselves, but kept his jaw shut of it and instead dipped his head at the Primal. "...Thank you for the help. I.. appreciate it."

Valentine gave a mocking mutter and Akirl forced his eyes closed, sudden fury burning in him until he roared, giving Valentine a furious look. "STOP THAT ALREADY! Stop mocking me, I'm your King, act like you respect me with the tiniest ounce of your body! I could kill you if I wanted to! Refuse to let the lionesses feed you, but you don't seem to care, do you?! Be like the good Lionesses and SHUT IT!" His eyes were small but showed so much anger the Lioness looked shocked for a long moment, then padded away silently, slumping alone against dead tree bark. Akirl shook his fur and growled; "Go back to your Pride, Feral. You didn't need to come here; I'm powerful. I could have taken them all by myself." He didn't look at the rest of his Pride as he left to settle down on the ground.

Sunbeam looked at the Pride; the cubs looked frightened. He heard one speak to his mother; "Will he say all that mean stuff to me, too?"

"No, no. He'd never. Bad lions get punished, and if you're a good lion you'll never get punished."

The cub still looked concerned, but the Lionesses seemed less upset; a few new ones looked shocked but Kindness and Queen looked calm still, the rest of the Lionesses continuing to go about their tasks after the King settled down. He hoped the Pride wouldn't take a horrible turn, but something about the King's sudden anger told him otherwise.

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The Spotted pride turned to Akirl's pride and started wishing them luck before gathering at the entrance to leave. Rustymane approached Akirl. "If you ever need our help again, we're welcome to help anytime." He dipped his head in respect for the older king before turning to Feral. "Cmon now, let's go back to our territory."

Feral was catching his breath still, but nodded. He nodded a goodbye to Akirl and followed Rustymane out to their territory once more. Feral then looked at Hyperion. The adolescent had potential, as seen by her seeming relatively okay.

The lions returned. Harley got concerned and ran to Feral. "You're wounded! What happened?"

"A rival king's pride tried attacking Akirl and them, we went to go help Akirl's pride out. That king's a beast..." He huffed. Cobra looked over and snarled. "They're weak, we got em down good! You doubt our ability?" "You didn't fight that king, just his lionesses. Keep your jaws shut and let me speak for my experience."

Cobra dug her big claws into the ground, but Blizzard Bays led her off, Hyperion following behind. Seems Hyperion was admiring Cobra and somewhat learning from her. Feral sighed.

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Akirl felt his gaze hit new sun as he recognized he had slept through the night and it was a new day now. He heaved himself up to his paws and padded over to the hidden prey, taking a big portion of a baby elephant and ate until he was satisfied, standing to see Valentine whispering to a few cubs. Growling the King let his gaze sit on the Lioness until she noticed he was watching, he stepped away from the cubs he could now see as Valentine's shadow left them; Moral, Jugular and Aqua. He personally liked his daughter Moral and Jugular showed some power, even as a lion that had yet to become an adult yet, so the thought of Valentine trying to trick them into doing anything made him angry. He stepped over to the small group, leaning down and snarling. "What did she say to you all?"

"... That she wanted to play." Aqua's stutter made him narrow his eyes, then roar out, the cubs backing away as he repeated himself loudly; "WHAT did she say?!"

"Okay, okay! She was telling us she was thinking of making her own Pride and that she wanted to-" Moral's snitching was cut off by Jugular's tail, but Akirl had heard enough. He turned to the Lioness, her eyes blazing with fury and fear. "I'd make a better Pride than you ever have here..."

Before Akirl could speak she continued loudly for the entire Pride to hear; "Akirl's no King! He's not the same King as before, can't you all see? He used to be better than this, but he's aging and getting worse at his job as King! I'd make a Pride like never before, better than what Akirl's pitifully bringing to us! Will anyone join me?"

The Pride was quiet, and Queen stood up among the unmoving lions around her and spoke; "Valentine, you don't understand, dear. This? This is a safe place for Lionesses. A Pride is only ever a bad Pride if the King isn't protecting us. We hunt for the King so he can keep us safe. Don't you see? Akirl isn't a bad King. He's doing his best, like all of us."

Jugular stood up and added quickly; "Valentine should be kicked out, don't you think? She's only causing trouble."

"You little-"

Akirl rounded the red and black Lioness. "Yes, she's a horrible part of our Pride, but she's a beautiful thing." He locked eyes with her, his gaze cold as he spoke to her directly. "I'll give you a choice. Either you leave now and get chased off with little to no injury, or you can stay and redeem yourself. If you decide to stay and continue to harm the Pride's faith in me I will kill you on the spot. I won't give you a chance to run away."

"What'd you choose?" Jugular said, snickering like a hyena. Valentine's heart pounded with fear, and she was almost set on leaving then, but she stopped, looking around for only a moment she could see all the other Lionesses giving her sympathetic looks. Was Akirl the only one truly mad at her? "I'll... I'll change my ways." She muttered, watching the King as he sat back and gave a huff before he turned. "Pretty, Future, Cocoa, Kindness, Frigid, you have hunting to do. There's cubs to be fed."

Valentine sighed, seeing Jugular's gaze fixed on her, his gaze almost venomous before he stalked off.

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Harley sighed. "Here, I'll help you with those wounds. I was taught enough to help pride members with their wounds like some lionesses are." Feral nodded and layed down with Harley. Harley smiled. "Atleast you're okay."

Feral looked over. Sunrise had approached Rustymane and was giving him the same treatment that Harley was giving him. Sunrise then stood. "We need some lionesses to help the lions who'd went out into battle!" She'd shout the words and lions obeyed their queen quickly. "I also need a hunting party with any free lionesses."

Matomona stood. "I can lead a hunting party with a few of the other lionesses?" "Sounds good to me."

Feral looked back over at Harley. She was quickly licking his wounds clean and checking for any infections, a bit urgent yet passionate. He gave her a small smile of appreciation. His mind then wandered. How's Akirl's pride dealing with all this? How's SUNBEAM dealing with all this? He sighed.

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Jugular stalked past the Pride and leaped up onto a rock, settling down until he heard a roar and jumped back up, seeing Bristle turned to him, him teeth showing in a snarl. Jugular huffed and waved his paw. "Go somewhere else and sleep. This is my spot now."

The other adol male opened his jaw to protest, yet Sunbeam came over and only shook his head. "Keep those claws and teeth to yourself." He looked over at Jugular and his eyes darkened; he'd noticed Akirl had giving him some rather nice things to wear. Was he thinking of making Jugular the next King? No.. this one was obviously too careless to take care of everyone, and he also hoped that the King would pick him to be the new Heir, but...

Sunbeam took a deep breath and nudged Bristle away, who still looked like he wanted a fight. "Go and drink some water from the pond; it's pretty hot out here today. Maybe it'll cool you and your temper."

Bristle gave the Primal an aggressive glare, then gave a lazy nod before turning and trotting off to go to Akirl, most likely to ask for permission to leave. Sunbeam then turned to Jugular, who was still looking as nonchalant as he always did. He cuffed the adol's ear. "You need to stop acting like you're already the new King; sitting here like we don't have a patrol to go on!"

Jugular groaned, then growled; "What happened to you taking Bristle to the patrols? Ever since I was able to leave my mother's side you've been taking me to these dumb patrols! Can't I just relax for a second?"

Sunbeam's shoulders dropped and he felt hopeless for a moment, then gathered himself again to respond. "No. All males need to learn about patrolling. The lionesses hunt for all of us so why don't we make sure the Prideland is safe for the hunting, too? We can't have enemy lions padding around thinking we're weak, now can we?"

This got Jugular from his laziness and the adol jumped up and snarled. "What enemy lions?"

"Oh there's a whole bunch of them that are possibly thinking of taking Akirl's Pride. That hasn't crossed your mind yet?"

"No, but I'd like to see who thinks they can cross our land and think they own the place. I'll rip the meat of their bones!"

Sunbeam cringed. That was a little much, wasn't it? But he was happy he got the adol to want to patrol now. He jumped off the rock. "Well we might find one if we patrol today. Come on."

He heard the adol leap after him.

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Harley finished up the healing on his wounds that she could do. She looked up at the larger lion and chuckled. "You're damn strong, Feral. It's impressive. Not sure why I was suddenly so worried..." She smiled with admiration for the primal male.

Feral gave a small smirk. "Thanks." The two layed under a tree branch as the rain started trickling down. The thunder from earlier gave an obvious warning for some rain.

The hunting patrol came back early due to the rain, the prey looking for any shelter. They still managed to catch a good dik dik for the cubs, though.

Moon, having been helped by Ivystrike, approached Feral. "Heya, primal rage! Once the rain lets up, I plan to go on a patrol to make sure those rival lions aren't still near here. Would you wanna come with?"

Feral chuckled at the nickname. Primal rage, eh? He looked up at Moon. "Yeah, sounds good with me." Moon nodded and smiled, starting to walk off. "You stay safe, Feral."

"You too." Feral nodded back to him as he went back to his spot.

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Albi looked over and found Akirl on the edge of the den, his eyes narrowed and his body bent down, as if he was watching an enemy creep by. The Lioness got up and nudged him, making him back away in shock before he relaxed. "Oh, it's just you. Hello, Albi."

"Hello, my King. What's wrong?"

"I.. ever since those lions came and attacked I've been worried that we aren't doing enough to protect the actual Pride. Maybe I need to force some lions to guard the dens?" Yes after a glance at Albi's concerned gaze he thought it wasn't such a good idea. "I.. guess it's good that we have the patrols, but any lions could stay away until a patrol leaves then come in without any issues."

Albi lowered her eyes, then brought them back up to Akirl. "Well I hope something gets figured out soon. But even if you don't have any solutions I have a good feeling we can just fight and prove to all our enemies that we're strong."

Akirl turned to the Lioness and smiled. "You're right. I should have more faith in you all."

"You should." She gave a satisfied huff before turning to settle back into the den. Akirl watched her go, then sighed. He had to think of something, yet his thoughts were quickly put aside as he heard roaring in the distance. It wasn't hostile, but the fact that a lion he didn't recognize by their voice was nearby alarmed him. He rounded the den and roared back. The trespassing lion wasn't too far away, and was clearly getting closer until Akirl squinted his eyes, seeing the lion step over and announce himself; "Is Akirl here? I haven't seen my brother in years!"

Akirl flattened his ears. The one lion he wanted to stay away from was here... Asurol!

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Rustymane had been sitting with Sunset and Sunrise. "What's the Spirits say about this, Sunset?" Sunset looked at Rustymane. "They've not said much. They do want Akirl and his pride to work things out on their own instead of us cooperating so much with them..."

Rustymane looked at Sunset. "We owe them too much at this point. Our prides' are allies to one another and we can't abandon them. We won't." Sunset looked at him, her face unchanging. "It's your call, although it goes against the spirits and their wishes."

"The spirits aren't used to cooperation from their lives, I guess." Rustymane watched the rain continue. Akirl and his pride still lingered in his mind, especially after that conversation..

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