Fireflies

[Nakisisa]

"You are the king, your markings, your voice, your nature. You are nothing less, I can't make you go back to the pride, but as long as I live, I serve you an will protect you" he said bowing low again

[thegunner18]

"I-I don't know what to say. So-wait. Your saying that I'm the king of your pride? That's still around? Are my parents still alive?" A.J looked down at the ground and sighed. "Sorry. I'm asking you too many questions aren't I. Oh and please don't be formal. I feel weird when you do. Just call me A.J."

[xscar10]

"You are the king, your markings, your voice, your nature. You are nothing less, I can't make you go back to the pride, but as long as I live, I serve you an will protect you"

"look bub, back up. If you think you can attack us, scar his paw,and think that we'll let you come with us? Your lucky I don't rip you head off!" He said moving him back.

"I'll give you five seconds to leave here and never come back." He looked in the attackers eyes; he was filled with rage.

[Nakisisa]

"Your saying that I'm the king of your pride?"
"Yes Sire" replied Naki

"That's still around?"
"It was when I left a week or so ago, sire"

"Are my parents still alive?"
"I'm not sure sire, they left about the same time as you did, and they haven't been seen since, that is why i am here, i was asked to look for you while some of the lionesses run the pride"

"I'm asking you too many questions aren't I?"
"It has been a long time sire, please ask away sire..."

"Oh and please don't be formal. I feel weird when you do. Just call me A.J."
"Yes si... A.J."

Naki then heard his kings companion speak, ""look bub, back up. If you think you can attack us, scar his paw,and think that we'll let you come with us? Your lucky I don't rip you head off!"
"Threaten me all you wish, I only serve my king, I will die protecting him, or myself."

"I'll give you five seconds to leave here and never come back."
"Under what right do you do that? Only my King or the King of these lands can make me leave, unless you wish to die trying, i suggest you backup and calm down."

"Now my ki... A.J. what do you wish of me" said Naki towards A.J. Now completely ignoring the other cats taunts.

[xscar10]

"NO! This is not your land, and you have no athority here." He looked up at the sky, and immedeatly stopped.

"We must go, I don't think you understand, we all must go it's nearly night. A.J. if you wish to go with him do as you please I'll tell Umeacha tomarrow; and get back to my mission." He started to leave.

"I am happy for you, my freind; goodbye."

[thegunner18]

A.J turned to V. "Can we just try to get along now? Killing each other isn't going to achieve anything." He turned back to the other lion. "I would like to go back and see the pride I am from. Maybe this will make me remember everything. What's your name anyway? That's one thing I need to know. V, you can come if you want to." A.J attempted to get up but was met with a wave of pain and fell back onto the floor, grimacing. "Argghh! That's going to hurt for a while!"

[Nakisisa]

"Yes A.J. Sorry about that, My name is Nakisisa, if it would appease sire, please call me Naki." bowed Naki, "Please sire, if you wish to depart soon, i shall carry you if you wish?"

[xscar10]

"Can we just try to get along now? Killing each other isn't going to achieve anything." He turned back to the other lion. "I would like to go back and see the pride I am from. Maybe this will make me remember everything. What's your name anyway? That's one thing I need to know. V, you can come if you want to."

"No you don't have to worry about me an more, I must serve my king, now if you'll excuze me." He walked over to a tree and climbed up.

"I knew I shouldn't have let another person into my life, I'm only asking for more pain. Goodbye hopfuly I'll live to see the day we meet again." He jumped to another tree, he walked towards the Wamesahau swamp.

[thegunner18]

A.J looked up at the sky. It was turning dark, V was right. "V! Go! I'll be back sometime!" he turned back to Naki again. "Naki, if you can carry me, then please do so, i will pay you back somehow. We must get out of here though! It is not safe at night."

[xscar10]

V jumped to the ground, and laid down.
"I think I'll stay out here tonight." V laid his head on his paws.

[Nakisisa]

"Yes A.J. I can carry you, i will lie down, and if you lie on me we shall depart, it will be a day or so's journey, have you eaten recently sire?" asked Naki, "if you need anything while we are traveling then please ask me"
Naki lay down waiting for his king to climb on his back,

[thegunner18]

Ajabu got up, avoiding putting pressure on his injured paw, limped over to Naki and lay on his back. "Dont worry about ME just get US out of here."

[Nakisisa]

He felt the king get on his back
"Yes A.J. as you wish" and he got up and started walking off in the general direction The kings companion went. "A.J. may I ask as to who that was with you?"

[thegunner18]

"Him? He was just someone I met while wandering through here. We be became friends and I was going to join the pride he was in. I was out here because I needed to gain the kings trust. I needed to go to the dead lands and bring back a jackal's skull. It was lucky you came along, I suppose." he smiled and closed his eyes. He couldn't wait to get back.

[Nakisisa]

"Hmmm, seems like you've been having quite an adventure, but there's something, i just cant put my paw on it, but i think we'll be back here sooner than you think. If you wish to sleep, please do so, it will be a long day tomorrow." said Naki, as a servant would to a king.

[xscar10]

((Yea my 200th post))
"I am a stobborn old fool who refuses to learn, why would I let another person in my life when I know I'll only get hurt again, I thought I'd learn after Mke died." he heard gorillas moving downn from the mountens.
"She was right about me." he said laying out in the open.

[thegunner18]

A.J did as Naki said and went to sleep. It WAS going to be a long time before they got home anyway. I just hope V gets back okay. He's got a good life ahead of him.

[Nakisisa]

Naki felt A.J. fall asleep on him, he also heard a strange noise coming from the mountains, the sound of gorillas, Now naki had faced and killed them before, but he had the king on his back and was in no fit state to fight like that, "Now what to do" naki said quietly as he saw a figure lying on the floor quite far ahead of him,
maybe?... thought Naki ...No A.J. said he had a pride, he would have returned but curiosity got the better of him, he changed course and walked towards the figure lying on the ground.

((Thats you Scar, and congrats on 200 posts, fellow advanced member))

[xscar10]

As V laid on the ground he felt somthing looming over him, a gorilla was stnding above him. He looked at him curiously. The gorilla growled at him.

"Vivuli I thought we told you never to come close to gorilla teritory! Didn't you learn your lesson last time?" Said the gorilla.

"Oh go tell it to somone who cares, oh by the way how's the leg?" He said mocking him.

"Fine no thanks to you, come on boys lets teach him what happens when you mess with gorillas." V just laid on the ground as if he didn't care.

[Nakisisa]

"Oi, Leave him alone" shouted Naki, running in front of the gorillas and the figure lying on the ground, slowly putting the king down next to the figure and saying to both of them, "Keep out of sight" he turned his attention back to the gorillas,

"If you want him you'll have to go through me." He said firmly, as that all to familiar feeling of europhia came as he unsheathed his claws and barred his teeth.

((Scar you wanna temp play the gorillas for this bit of a stand off before the fight ?))

[xscar10]

((shure I'll have to add them as NPCs))
"What who are you, and what buisnes do you have with us." He turned to see the the lion threatening him.
"Well what ever you whant go away, you don't want to see what we're gonna do to em." The group started laughing.

[Nakisisa]

"And you don't want to see what im going to do with you if you move any closer to those cats" Growled Naki

[thegunner18]

A.J groggily opened his eyes to find that he was lying in front some Gorillas. Not really the best position to be in. He looked right and saw that Naki was standing there, teeth bared and claws unsheathed towards the Gorillas.

"Naki, wait. Let me try to talk us out of this. I don't want anyone to get hurt here, including the gorillas."

[xscar10]

"Ha ha ha, talk? What world do you live in? We're five times your size. We talk with our hands, and we are only the first; wait until the others get here." One of the gorillas grabed V.

"You care to test your speed? I don't think you can kill me before I kill him." He squeezed him harder.

"Just Go, leave me be, my life is not worth yours." Said V.

[Nakisisa]

"Sir this is not the time for negotiation"
he crouched down and lept forwards with amazing speed, getting two unsheathed paws and his teath around the gorrilas neck, easily puncturing the gorillas skin. Within seconds he would be dead, but would it be quick enough to save the cat?

[thegunner18]

"V! What are you saying about yourself! That you don't deserve life? No...that's not true, because if you did not deserve life then why would you be here right now? Why!" by this time, A.J was standing up, his paw being the least of his worries right now.

"Your time in life is FAR from up. Why let it end prematurely! Whatever it is that is getting you down, you can bounce back from it! I know you can. Your a great friend, who'll do anything to help those you care about. Nothing can be the same without you. YOU can change history for the good. You just need to give yourself another chance. A great life is ahead of you V. Don't let go of it."

[xscar10]

The gorilla fell to the ground droping V, but another gorilla bashed Naki on the back and grabbed him.
"No Kale!" One of the gorillas yelled.
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"I told you what happened to my family *cough* but I didn't tell you everything. MY mother, father, brother, and sister, were killed by Mwiba and my other sister kidnaped, but I did not tell you of Mke my wife." V said in a raspy voice.

[Nakisisa]

"Grrrr" exclaimed Naki from the gorrilas hit, but he still rounded on the gorrilas ready to protect his king.

((Ok slightly confuse by Scars post, can you put --- or something of the same description to break up your post between the gorrilas and V, thanks))

[thegunner18]

A.J watched, helplessly, as Naki was hit on the back by another gorilla. "Godammit V! They're gone! You can do NOTHING about it! But you are NOT gone! Don't make this worse than it already is!" A.J turned to the gorillas. "You see what's happened by fighting?! Death! Your friend is dead! Did you want that!" he was practically screaming now.

[Nakisisa]

"Dont underestimate me, I was an assassin for many years, I would happily kill again to save my king..." he turned his body slightly now also blocking V "And the ones he cares about" he said, turning his head quickly and nodding his head once. "V, are you alright?" he said caringly, not attempting to hide the anger and pain in his voice.