Part 3: The Coming Twilight

[magiccat]

The two sibling's gasped along with most of the pride as Kirsui announced Xena's death. Onto started shaking. He was no good at fighting and only the fact that he could set up defenses with his ice powers had kept him alive so far in this war. Now they would be even fiercer, and no slippery ground was going to stop them. As Kirsui finished speaking the two stayed silent for a while, taking in the surprise. Xena...dead...it wasn't possible. However a sense of urgency overtook Oreo and she stepped forward, she was the first one to speak.

"If Sumai hurts anybody in this pride...His flames will start fearing mine!" She declared. Sparks began tingling in her fur and she just managed to control herself before she was forced to set the lands on fire. Her powers were nowhere near as strong as Sumai's, but she was determined and nobody was going to hold her down. Even if she had to fight her way out from their grasp.

Panting heavily she turned and began to pace. Muttering curses upon Sumai and Feraga, and praising the success of Auri. She was obviously trying to figure out what Feraga was planning. She didn't like to loose control and she didn't like to know that they could be attacked at any minute. Onto looked at Lorien and walked over.

"I'm guessing you told Kirsui. So thank you Lorien. If it weren't for you we would all be in even graver danger than we currently are...and don't you try to deny it" He warned. Oreo, hearing her brothers words, also nodded.

"If I may Kirsui. I would like to take to the air and check the borders soon. I do not feel all that safe right now and unless Pulsar is doing a bit of flying, I should be out of their line of sight." She asked. Stopping and looking at the long haired lioness with a pleading look. Onto nodded.

"And what shall we do about these newcomers? They are in danger here and one of them....well let's just say I don't wish to be near him" He said with a cold look at Arjuna and the blue cat.

[Zorayda]

Reicheru was relieved when the horned lioness widened the rock-cage a bit, but she still didn't like being put there.

"Maybe you guys should have guards out front," she suggested when Pulsar seemed to worry about the den's safety. "And make them switch shifts for nighttime."

Maybe then nobody else would end up in a stupid cage like she did...

[KanuTGL]

OOC: Guys, just so you know - I'm gonna be very swamped in schoolwork now for a good few weeks, so the time between my replies might grow again. I'm gonna try and post once a week at the very least, but don't expect more than that.

IC: Kirsui made her announcement and a whisper of fear seemed to sweep through the gathered pride. Satoba gritted his teeth, quivering slightly. He was afraid. Terribly afraid. He didn't want to participate in a battle, but if Feraga attacked he would be forced to. This 'Sumai' was unknown to him other than by name, but Satoba imagined him as a huge, fearsome beast who would stop at nothing to get his way. Yes, kind of like Xena... and anyone clever enough to think and reason would be smart enough to stay away from her if they'd been made her enemy. The young male shivered again. This was not good. Not good at all.

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"Huh, compassion m'lord? How unbeiffiting of someone who embodies the essence of fire.."

Sumai glared at Pulsar. He was not quite in the mood for witty remarks. He turned back to the lioness, Reicheru. "I am Sumai. Leader of the Feraga Pride, and you are unwise to tread on our grounds during these times." But it probably couldn't be helped, if her story was indeed true... He decided to believe her for now, but wouldn't let Inlasta release her until he was sure that she was no Burja spy.

"Apparently... This outsider stumbled into our prides land somehow... Oddly enough she said she had observed me and the other outsiders earlier on when I was escorting them out of our land..."[/b] Pulsar said and his reasoning was fair. Sumai nodded slowly but didn't remove his gaze from the new lioness. This was something he had been worrying about too. If strangers could walk about freely, who could know that Burja could indeed not do the same?

"Sir, with permission, I'd like to scout the area around our borders... Check to make sure that this female is the ONLY unexpected visitor we have..."

Sumai couldn't help but let out a slightly annoyed sigh. Wasn't that exactly what they both had just returned from doing? None the less, the borders needed to be checked and Pulsar, Inlasta and Mwezi were the right lions to do it. "You may go, Pulsar. And so may you, Inlasta and Mwezi. But make it quick - I want all three of you back by sundown. I have... important matters to discuss with everyone." He glanced at the other pride members who had by now gathered around him, the intruder and the others. "It is very important. Now go."

[Kirsui]

"You may go -- But make it quick - I want all three of you back by sundown."

Mwezi grinned in delight and bowed to Sumai.
"Thank you, Milord", she said as she lifted her head back up.
"I will return as soon as possible, and report what I found out..."

Swiftly she padded away from them, stopping only when she had come a suitable distance away from the Den. Sumai had told to be quick, and so the dark cheelion indeed intended to do exactly that. Unfortunately, that left out the option of travelling as a mist cloud.

A wind picked up around her, throwing her hair around wildly. The grass swayed as Mwezi commanded the air to obey her will and form a whirlwind around her. Momentarily the dark cheelion looked back at Pulsar and Inlasta, an excited shine appearing to her eyes when she felt the wind rage around her.
"Happy hunting", she called the two who would go to look for Burjas...

And then, with a delighted laugh she shot up to the sky like a large, fluffy bullet - though of course she had no idea what a bullet was. She laughed all the way up up up to the sky. It was wonderful on the move again, and to do it by soaring at the sky, even if it'd be for only a brief time. Mwezi stopped going higher when the Feraga members below looked like tiny ants, and she knew if someone looked up they would see her as such as well.

She circled around the Feraga den in a large circle for a few times, and then she commanded her wind to dash her towards the Burja lands. It was true that controlling the air to form a wind like this would take more of her energy than going there simply by walking or floating in the mist form..

But as she watched the land below change rapidly, lands that were still Feraga lands, she knew this was the only way she could do her little spying trip to the enemy lands. She would change to mist once she reached the border, and what ever spying she would do she would have to do it quick so that she could return before sundown. Something in Sumai's voice hinted that what ever their leader had in mind was indeed urgent...

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"If Sumai hurts anybody in this pride...His flames will start fearing mine!"

Mentally Kirsui sighed, though to the outside her expression remained the same.
"Calm yourself, Oreo", she told the liger gently and yet firmly. "Sumai has much more experience with controlling fire and doing that on battle than you - or I. We can not afford to loose anyone now."

"If I may Kirsui. I would like to take to the air and check the borders soon. I do not feel all that safe right now and unless Pulsar is doing a bit of flying, I should be out of their line of sight."

Kirsui nodded, very slowly as she thought what Oreo had said. She had been patrolling on the Feraga border, but things might have changed since that...
"All right", she finally agreed.
"But please, be careful. If he is indeed on air, do not engage him in a fight if you can avoid that."
She could still remember all too well what had happened to all living plants on the clearing where Pulsar and Inlasta had crashed, and when she had gotten the two feathers now tied to her hair.

She sighed, then smiled faintly at Oreo.
"Good luck... And return safely."

Then she turned her attention to the strangers. She could see that Aquila and Moona were at the nearby tree, though she couldn't figure what the two were doing. Aquila wouldn't be a problem, she though, and Moona was still a cub.

However, as her gaze turned to Timbre and Arjuna... She frowned. Timbre had been rather nice so far, but...
"What comes to Arjuna", she replied to Onto's question.
"I have stated him the options he can choose from. He will be given a brief moment to ponder the options, and then he either stays and stops interrupting... or leaves."

The young leader then looked upon the pride.
"I call meeting finished", she said.
"Remember what I said... stay alert and be careful everyone."
She then walked down from the stone as the pride begun to scatter, troubled thoughts running through her mind.

[Pulsar]

Pulsar nodded to his leader once permission to disembark on patrol was given.
"Come Inlasta, let us take our leave..."
The male said motioning his head for the horned lioness to follow suit.
"M'lord..."
Pulsar nodded to Sumai before turning around and walking away.
Inlasta after also nodding to Sumai, trotted along till she was behind Pulsar.

The black and white lion hoped that his concern was just that.
At that moment, Mwezi jogged past both of them a bit ahead.
Pulsar nodded to her gesture of 'luck'.
"You also my friend..."
At that moment a sudden gust of wind picked up and the Cheelion was shot into the air with incredible speed.
<Heh, that Mwezi...>
Pulsar chuckled to himself.

"Are you ready to get going Ini?"
Turning around he looked to see if Inlasta was ready to head out for a patrol.
"Uhmm, I guess...."
The shy lioness replied as she looked back at him.

"Good good... Let me just bring some energy with me in case I end up needing to combat some Burja..."
The male siad as the ground around him started sparkling as the energy from his surroundings began gathering around him, forming into small spheres of pure energy that gave off a yellow glow as distinctive as the males mane.
"You mean, in case you end up having to battle 'a' Burja?..."
The lioness said as she watched her friend gather up power.
"I choose my words very carefully..."
He replied to her with a smirk on his face.
"Ok.. that should be enough.... Seven reserve energy orbs should be enough to ward off any Burja stupid enough to venture near our border..."
The male continued as he relaxed himself.

"Alright Ini, take us up!"
The lioness nodded in reply to his order.
"Uhmm.. hold on..."
She said as she spread out her stance.
"Hold on?"
Pulsar exclaimed.
"To what!?"
he continued as he quickly scanned the ground.
"The dirt!?... How fast are you going to-"
But before he could finish his sentence, the ground around them cracked and just seemed to sever itself from the earth. Before the male knew it, he was practically fused to the ground as the pressure at which they rose into the air pushed him down.

After a brief moment the slab of earth they were both on came to an abrupt hault, launching the male up slightly before he fell back down onto the slab.
"Oh! I'm SO SORRY!"
Inlasta said rushing over to him to help him up.
"It's fine.... "
The male said letting out a grunt.
"Really..."
Standing up, he shook himself off and began walking to the ledges of the round slab of earth floating in the air.
"I've survived plummeting several hundred feet through a jungle, trees and branches only to crash in enemy territory... what would a little thing like an abrupt moment of having my face imprinted in the dirt do?..."
The male mumbled to himself as he looked over the edge.
From what he could gauge, they were pretty high, not a bad hight to speed ratio.
"Although a bit more rough then i'm used to..."
He continued mumbling as he scratched the back of his neck.

Pulsar looked around to see if he could see Mwezi anywhere, but it seemed the Cheelion was out of sight.
<Damn that girl and her air type powers>
"Cut me some slack, I only got four wings, I can't compete with that.."
He continued his thought aloud.
Turning around he walked over to Inlasta.
"Alright, start taking us toward the border... and if you could, not too fast, while I enjoy making friends with the dirt with my face, it's not a pleasant feeling..."
Inlasta said nothing to his comment, but only tried to hide the fact she was blushing from embarrassment.

[magiccat]

Oreo nodded to Kirsui and turned, walking away already. The prospect of flying exciting her greatly. Onto followed her, there wasn't much good he could do at the den. Eventually they had walked a short distance. The den was still in sight but Oreo liked to have a big take off, and she preferred not to do it so close to the den. Onto sat down as his sister stretched.

"Good luck sis and be careful" He said, as she prepared to spread out her wings. She looked at him with one eyebrow raised.

"And you're such a careful, smart and able lion, that you have the right to tell me to be careful" She said mockingly. Onto growled and sent a touch of frost her way.

"Take that you joker" He said with a grin. Oreo however jumped away.

"Stop it Onto. That's cold and I'll get cold enough flying." She warned. Onto muttered about her having fire powers to which she grinned and bit his mane lightly. "Ha, ha, ha. So funny" She mocked. Onto grinned.

"Goodbye Oreo. I'll see you when you get back" He said with a smile. With that Oreo smiled and spread her wings. She ran forward, preferring to soar into the sky. As her wings picked up wind and she picked up speed, she felt her paws leaving the ground. Soon she was soaring upward. Then she turned and kept herself hovering so that Onto could just make out her shape. She waved a paw in farewell and turned to fly. She went at a moderate speed as she flew, Kirsui had given her no specific time by which to be back and she did love to fly. She could feel the wind blowing the tiny, lioncubish mane on the top of her head. Had she looked more like her father she would have been mistaken for a boy by now.

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Onto watched his sister go and smiled. He turned round to head back to the den. When he got back the lions were still more or less scattering and talking. The guards were back on duty and they nodded at him as he walked past the den. he didn't know why, but it looked like a 'we feel sorry for you' nod. The worry inside of him grew and he gulped audibly. He turned and lay down a good few meters in front of the den. Watching for Oreo.

[kyto7878]

Moona woke up from his nap with an ache in his head and his eyes hurting. Moona began to rub his eyes and splashed his eyes with the water from the water hole. "Ah that felt good." Moona sighed with relief.

Moona began to flick his tail when out of the corner of his eye he noticed a grasshopper. Moona grasped the grasshopper in between his paws and then let it go.

[Zorayda]

Aquila noticed that the cub had woken up and had gone to play with a grasshopper, not far from her.

She also noticed that Timbre and the electric stranger were approaching, while Kirsui had apparently stopped the meeting. Good, now they could talk.

She glanced back once at Moona to make sure he'd stay for awhile, then walked over to Kirsui.

"Kirsui, I don't know if you have the time now, but I'd like to speak with you...and it may take a bit of your time," the fish-lioness said apologetically. "If not, I will wait for you."

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Rey lay down, finally calmed by the space in her rocky prison. This really sucks, she thought. She played with her powers, moving pebbles to and fro with her mind. If she wanted, she could probably use her mind projectiles to chip away at her cage, but she'd get caught before she'd accomplish what she wanted.

The lions around her left, getting permission first from their scary leader, Sumai. Maybe they'll see that I'm not bad soon, and I can join the pride, she thought suddenly. A smile came to her face. At least she could belong...somewhere.

She turned in a circle twice and flopped down, laying her head on her paws, and drifted off to sleep.

[Kirsui]

((OOC: Kyto, to point out... We don't really do even as small time jumps as that unless about every character is asleep. xD I'd estimate the time is about mid day, and Pulsar, Mwezi and Inlasta from Feraga have to be back before sundown, so the time jump to next morning is sort of impossible at the moment.))


"Kirsui, I don't know if you have the time now, but I'd like to speak with you...and it may take a bit of your time."

The long haired lioness nodded with a faint smile.
"Of course, Aquila", she replied with a slightly curious expression.
"What is it that you wish to talk about?"

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The wind around Mwezi subsided in a instant when she saw the Burja lands open in front of her, and right away she felt the gravity begin to pull her down. She laughed as she fell, clearly not caring that what she was doing was extremely dangerous. She was one with the air, what could possibly happen to her?

And so, as the ground came closer and closer, the dark cheelion concentrated.
<Not yet.... wait... wait... wait... NOW!>
Her form shifted into mist right when she was about to hit the ground. She continued to fall, but instead of splatting flat to the ground it spread evenly against the ground, taking the form of a thin mist cloud. She made sure every part of her was hidden under the long grass blades so that if the enemy happened to have scouts on air they wouldn't be able to see her.

And then Mwezi slowly begun to head towards the Burja lands, looking very much like a regular cloud of mist.

[Zorayda]

Aquila took a deep breath, readying herself.

"Have you thought of the questions I asked you before we were interrupted? Have you thought of some way to come to a truce with the other pride? I am afraid that all animals will flee from here, and your battles will cause needless bloodshed that will kill many of the 'talented' animals."

Aquila's lovely violet eyes became unfocused.

"I am not young, Kirsui, and I have seen my share of war. I have watched this one from afar, heard whispers of it from the fish of the rivers. This one...if it is not stopped, this land will be changed forever. Have you thought of migration, perhaps? Maybe the other pride would allow a meeting and a negotiation of some kind? Have you sent a messenger?"

Aquila stood taller, her seafoam scales glittering in the sun and reminding one of waves.

"If you are afraid that the other pride would become violent, perhaps...well, perhaps you could send me. I love all creatures, Kirsui...I have lived in these lands for so long...and I would hate to see it die."

She met Kirsui's eyes again, hers filled with sincerity.

"Already I have become attached to your pride--you, young Lorien, the feisty liger, and even these newcomers. Please let me help you to end this war."

[reichtwix]

((OOC: Yay for new people!))

The graceful bird glided through the midday breeze like a fish through water. It's long, orange tail fluttered and whispered soundlessly through the breeze, it's dark, gleaming eye reflecting pinkish sunlight.

It swerved in the air, hovering like an unsteady hand, then dipping low to the wide canopy of trees. The light rays of sun caressed it's creamy feathers, leaving beads which blanketed it's form like dew on a lily.

Finally, the perfect, angelic creature settled on a thin baobob branch. It daintily arced it's neck to observe the surrounding haven of peaceful trees. The forest seemed to sigh and heave as the sun's descent lulled all life into a soft rest.

And as the wide, orange sun delightfully embraced the lip of the night with it's outstretched arms of ever-burning flame, the great bird raised it's head high into the sky with a victorious cry.

It continued crying until it's call echoed throughout the forest. It bounced off the very walls of mountains, shook great streams to the core, until --

"SHUT UP, YOU STUPID BIRD!!"

An ungraceful wumpf ensued soon after this event, and the hoatzin, along with it's blood-rattling shriek, fell to the floor of the jungle.

A dark gray paw, cuffed with a steel band like the other front one, slowly lowered back onto it's nest in a branch, near it's owner.

Syran, the white Black-Footed Cat, huffed and lay still, the offending noise having been removed. For a moment, peaceful sleep took him and made him calm, but as buzzing gnats began to gnaw on his snout, he twitched and swatted them away. Droopy lids slid back and revealed electric-green eyes.

Flicking his dark gray tail (more emphasized by the weight that two steel bands caused), he rose, albeit unhappily, and shook his short, fluffy mane.

How he hated the forest.

For a moment, his form was blurry because of a bright, white flash of light. Then, as though nothing had ever even been there, he vanished.

He felt the weightlessness of traveling through space, as though on a cloud, and then he arrived. The weightlessness left him.

With growing horror, he realized gravity was pulling him to the ground. As he opened his muzzle and let out a tomcat-like scream, he plunged towards the earth.

As he squinted and focused on his destination, he realized the fall was going to be blocked.

By a blue lion-thing.

((OOC: I landed on Timbre, BTW))

[kyto7878]

Moona began running towards all the birds near the tree and tried to scare them. Moona scared a few but alot of the birds began pecking at him. Moona jumped into the water hole hoping that the birds couldnt get him there, but the birds dove into the water and began scratching him. Moona ran at his top speed into the lions den but he tripped and rolled into the wall. Moona thought at least the birds arent chasing me any more,

[magiccat]

Oreo had been flying for a while now. the border was getting closer. Going forwards with a burst of speed she stopped before she went over the border. She continued hovering there, flapping her wings violently and kicking her legs to keep herself still. She surveyed the lands with a careful eye, watching for any signs on Feraga. Or Pulsar.

"It'd be just like that lion to ruin my fun. Any sighting off him and I'll have to go back" She growled to herself. A bird flew nearby and looked at her curiously.

"Keep on moving" She said with a nod. The bird glared and flew off. Oreo laughed, she loved encountering birds. Some got a bit territorial and tried to knock her out of the air. None succeeded of course, and once or twice they had become her latest kill. Deciding there was nothing there she gradually moved along the borders edge, watching the ground carefully. Before snapping her head back up to check the air. As she moved, she spotted a cloud of mist and shivered.

"Glad I'm up here" She said, thinking of how cold things must be down there. She sighed as she kicked thin air.

"This is B-O-R-I-N-G" She groaned, spelling the word instead of saying it. However she had a strange sense she wasn't alone and froze.

"Who's there?" She called, not expecting an answer, it was a reflex you could say.

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Onto jumped to his feet and growled as a new lion landed on top of one the other newcomers. It was the blue cat that was no currently squished under a newcomer.

"Kirsui!" Onto called urgently as he ran over to the new lion. He smirked slightly.

"You know, there is such a thing as the ground. You might want to try landing on it sometime" He said with a smile. However he was far from happy. That made five newcomers today. That wasn't normal or good news. This was going to cause trouble if Feraga was really going to attack.

[Pulsar]

As the slab of rock Pulsar and Inlasta stood on, made its way closer and closer to the border, both the lion and lioness stood more and more on guard.
Inlasta continued to maintain the platforms speed and structure (were it to fall out of the sky if she didn't)
Her crystals floated aimlessly around her, none making a sound, knowing that their master needed to concentrate to keep the platform held together and levitating.
"Do you see anything?"
She said to her male companion as she stared at the platforms base.

Pulsar, who had been standing still at the edge, was keeping an eye out as they got closer to the border.
"Nah..."
Was all he replied as he let out a sigh and looked back at her.
"Seems the Burja might be staying in their own territory..."
He continued, his voice in a tone of relief at the fact.

"We'll approach the border soon Pulsar... what would you have me do?..."
The horned lioness questioned as she looked up at him.
Suddenly she let out a slight gasp as a sight in the distance caught her attention.
"What is it Inlasta?"
Pulsar asked curiously as he turned his head back, only to see a dot not too far ahead of them.
"A Burja?"
Inlasta said confused. As she focused her view she could see the dot moving up and down in the air, but it was a detail about the unknown creature that attracted her attention.
"Does it have wings!?"
Her voice more worried then confused this time.
"No... can't be... the Burja don't have a winged creature, do they?"
She continued, all the while Pulsar remained silent, even to her questions.

"Inlasta hold the platform here, i'm going on ahead..."
The male said in a plain tone of voice as he walked away from the edge toward Inlasta.
"But Pulsar! WHat if it is a Burja..."
Inlasta exclaimed back to him.
"Inlasta... please, a winged Burja's got nothin on me in the sky..."
The male said as he grinned at her. Then with a quick turn, he dashed toward the edge and dived off, his wings flapped out and immediately took flight.

As the quad-winged male got closer to the dot, he could start to make out detail, but what he seen was something very interesting.
<What kinda animal is that?...>
This winged creature deserved caution to be taken. But...
<It's close to Feraga Land, scratch that...>
The male looked at the ground below to gauge where the border was.
"huh.. it's just barely on the Burja side of the border..."

Pulsar held out his two front paws as he flew along, the orbs of energy that had been following him suddenly gathered in one ball which was now being held by his paws. However he only merged 3 of the spare orbs together.
<heh... this should get interesting pretty quickly.>
He thought to himself as his flight speed increased.
With orb in paw, he gave his arm a fling, instantly, the orb pulsated and a beam of energy shot from it at the winged creature in front of Pulsar.
But the beam missed the creature by mere inches. The energy of the beam pushing the air apart as it shot past letting out a humming sound as it did.
"You're approaching the Lands of the Feraga Pride!"
Pulsar's voice boomed out as he final got to the border.
With a shift of his wings he came to an immediate halt in the sky, only a few meters from the unknown animal.

The male's two main wings flapped slowly to maintain the his position in the sky, his smaller supporting wings flapping shortly after his big ones to help assist in the maintaining of his position.
"That first shot was a warning, should you progress any further, such action will be met with more extreme force..."
The male warned.
He didn't wish to be so hostile, however these terrible times of war gave him no other choice but to be over protective and aggressive in the defense of his Pride's land.

[Kirsui]

"-- Have you thought of some way to come to a truce with the other pride?-- I am not young, Kirsui -- Have you thought of migration, perhaps? Maybe the other pride would allow a meeting and a negotiation of some kind? Have you sent a messenger?"

Kirsui inwardly sighed when Aquila begun to speak of a truce and sat down. Her mood sunk lower than it had been when messengers were mentioned. To the outside she remained unchanged, however, her attention was fully focused on the mer-lion. She nodded every now and then to signal she had understood what the strange feline was telling her.

"If you are afraid that the other pride would become violent, perhaps...well, perhaps you could send me. -- Please let me help you to end this war."

The young leader closed her eyes and shook her head.
"It is not that simple, Aquila", she replied calmly.
"You say you are old, and I do respect the wisdom your years may have given you... But..."
She opened her eyes, looking at the mer-lion with the confidence of a leader.
"You do not know the recent situation. You have not lived the past few weeks of this war, I could see that when we firs met. You asked 'Who might you be, and what is Burja?'"
She sighed, this time aloud.
"You may have heard rumours of the war, but those are usually different from the truth... And the truth is, Feraga will not negotiate. They have lost their leader, to no other than a Burja who stood his ground against the whole pride so that his companion could inform us of the attack. Do you seriously think they will accept our messengers now?"
She paused, and then...
"If you do, then I may have to re-consider my respect towards those who have lived far longer than I or any other who lives here."

"Kirsui!"

The long-haired lioness turned her gaze from Aquila to Onto, only to see that another stranger had appeared among them. She frowned slightly, but upon realizing the newest stranger was but a small feline, and after coming to the conclusion Onto could take care of it for her, she turned back to Aquila.
"Have I sent messengers, you ask?"
She chuckled bitterly.
"I haven't, but Lady Ina, our former leader, did. If you wish to see said messengers, you are free to go to the small valley a short walk away from the Den. Their bodies, or what little was left of them when we found them near the border, are buried there."

She smiled tiredly.
"Please, don't be offended by my words... As much as I hate the whole idea of a war, there isn't much that can be done. A truce... that would be a wonderful thing... However, there are Burjas who have lost their friends, relatives, mates and even children to the war, and some of them want revenge. Feraga... It is near to impossible to speak with them even of the weather, let alone of a truce."
She took a deep breath.
"Go to them if you will, Aquila", she said. "You are not a Burja and so I have no power to command you not to approach them. If you do go, however, do not speak with the voice of my pride. You are not one of us, and only a Burja who has my permission may speak with our voice."
She watched the mer-lion closely for a moment.
"And if you go... Be careful. Feraga do not tolerate any Burjas, and they are not much better towards wanderers. I know, for before I joined this pride I came across them and fought them only so that I could stay alive and not get killed."

She nodded slightly at Aquila, dismissing the mer-lion and showing she no longer had anything to say to her. Without another word she walked away from the scaly feline, and approached Onto, Timbre, Arjuna and the small feline stranger. She stopped when she stood side by side with Onto, looking at the small feline with a lifted eyebrow but without saying anything.

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Mwezi's ears perked up. Or well, would have perked up if she had been on her regular form. She had heard something. She begun gazing up...

"Who's there?"

...and she cursed when she saw the winged creature hover above her. The curses couldn't be heard by anyone else than her though, a cloud of mist couldn't speak on a voice that could be heard...

But she cursed none the less. She hadn't been aware Burjas had a winged... liger, was it? In fact, she hadn't known they had anyone who was capable of flight, if that foolish wind user who died while killing Xena wasn't counted...

The dark cheelion didn't stop floating slowly towards the centre of the Burja lands where the Den was, but she was thinking of some way, any way of making a diversion so that the flying liger wouldn't get suspicious and follow her... She did have the option of causing a strong current either upwards or downwards so that the liger would be thrown off balance.

Mwezi smirked, as much as a mist cloud could anyway. She had played that trick on Pulsar once, many years ago. Her winged friend had not been pleased at all...

Just as she was gathering her concentration so that she could form the strong current, something happened above. A bright bolt of energy, humming as it flew mere inches past the flying liger, and then..

"You're approaching the Lands of the Feraga Pride!"

Perfect! Mwezi couldn't believe her luck! There was the diversion she had been looking for, in the form of Pulsar, who would most likely soon be followed by Inlasta.

With a grin the dark cheelion summoned a wind blowing near the ground, making it take effect on a wider area so that it would look like a normal wind, and so she gave her misty form enough speed to float away from what she thought would soon become a battle ground. She let the wind blow until Pulsar and the flying liger were but small dots in the distance. Then she let it subside, and slowly she continued the approach towards the Burja Den, remaining flat and hidden under the grass blades like any properly behaving cloud of mist would.

[Zorayda]

Aquila rocked back on her heels, taken aback by Kirsui's words.

"It's as if they've resigned themselves to the thought of war," she said to herself. She sighed. "Very well then, I shall go to the Feragas--not as a Burja, but as a friend of both sides." She smiled sadly. "I'm very sorry that you think that there is no other option, Kirsui," she said softly to the wind. "Or perhaps I am just foolish and wish for there to be hope left for all of them."

And then she ran far away from the Burjas, straight towards the Feraga den.

[magiccat]

(OOC: Ooh excitement for Oreo.)

Oreo froze as she could see somebody approaching her. Hmm...four wings...oh great! It's Pulsar. Now I'll have to turn back, I can't engage him and he doesn't seem to be very happy. And who is that with him? She was drawn from her musings by a beam of energy being shot at her. It missed her by near inches and she almost screamed. The fright caused her to stop moving her wings in shock. However she quickly flapped them again, fiercely to keep herself upright. Hang on...doesn't he know me? He doesn't know I am part of Burja! Oh this is rich!! Wait till I tell Onto. So much for the big bad Pulsar, he can't even keep track of the pride he's at war with!

"I am well aware that I am approaching Feraga lands. But I had no intention of crossing the border. I am simply patrolling the side of the border that Burja occupies. " She asked, glaring with hatred.

"And you, happen to be incredibly close to crossing into our lands, Feraga." She growled, using the name of his pride so as to keep up the pretense that she did not know him. Kirsui had ordered her not to engage Pulsar. Now she was well and royally stuck. Just to warn him however, a fireball began to form at the end of her tail. She glared hotly at him. Pulsar didn't need to know what she had been told. Onto will kill me for this later...but I'd best not turn my tail and run. So she stood there, not moving any part of her body except her wings. Daring Pulsar to make the next move.

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Onto watched from out of the corner of his eye as the strange mer-lion began running. Whatever Kirsui had told her, she had taken it badly. However now this newcomer would have to be dealt with.

"So, who are you and why are you here?" He asked it with a calm stance, relaxed but tense, he half expected another new-comer to appear and bite his tail for fun. Although, this new one didn't seem to want to cause harm, that's if you didn't count squishing the blue cat. Which Onto didn't, that could have been an accident. He was glad his sister wasn't here now. She would react badly to this. However suddenly something snapped in his mind.

"Kirsui...that cub is alone now that the Mer-Lion is gone" He whispered to her "He seemed to be cozy with her. I think somebody ought to go and comfort him, he might think that her leaving is his fault. You know how cubs can be" He whispered quickly. Then turned his attention to the new lion. Waiting for it's answer...and for it to get off the blue cat.

[epppe]

Seeing a new lion appear out of no where land right on top of the blue cat made Arjuna roll over laughing. Noticing that the new lion had almost the same ability as he did, but it seemed the new guy didn't have the ability under control like he did.

"Dang, your life must hold alot of surprises seeing that everyone seems to teleport by you." Arjuna said to the blue cat while rolling back to his stomach.

He noticed that the scaly lion looking thing ran off and thought it would be a good time to ask some questions since the meeting was done. Looking over at Kirsui and the other lion, he teleported a few feet in front of the male that was loooking over at them. He was sitting down with a smile on his face trying to not look threatning at all.

"Yo, wanna answer some of my question, or maybe the leader might?" Not caring whether they said yes or no, he continued with asking them. "First, what is this war about and second where is this Feraga clan at?"

[kyto7878]

Moona saw aquila running into the distance "Where are you going!" Moona yelled. when moona didnt hear a responce he covered his fce in shame. Tears ran down the cubs face and fell onto the cold floor of the lions den. Moona cried out "Its my fault. I was a pest. Im a bad cub." The cubs eyes sparkled when the tears hit the light. Moona covered his face and cried. "Its my fault."

[Lorien]

Lorien watched as everything went on around her, yet in silence. She merely nodded when Onto spoke to her, even though she had not seen the liger in a long while. She simply did not feel like speaking to anyone at the moment. Everything was moving fast in the lands of Burja. Everyone now knew of the potential danger that they were all in. Oreo was patrolling the land, the strange lion-fish...thing (Lorien had no idea what to think of this creature) had run off in a hurry after speaking with Kirsui, more and more strangers came, popping in here and there, and it seemed like they had gained the attention of the entire pride.

She sighed slightly, glad to be home, but she had hoped things would have been a little less...chaotic when she had gotten there. She had no time to speak with anybody, seeing as the strangers had to be taken into consideration. It was no matter. She would just take a walk, reacquaint herself with her own lands. It would be relaxing in this time of turmoil. And...she could keep her eye out for anything unusual.

So with one last glance to the growing group of strangers and Burja, she set off toward the Feraga border, not to go there, but just to walk.
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Asuka stepped out of the mouth of the den as the three went to scout the border. She padded into the den slowly, glad to be back in her home. She glared slightly at the sleeping form of the newly caged stranger. She would keep her eye on her. She thought about doing a mean trick, using her powers to infuse her own mind into the dreams of the lioness, turning them to nightmares at her will, but the ache in her own head heeded her from doing so. She took her place not far from the cage and lay upon the cool, stone floor. She lied her head upon her paws, keeping her good eye fixed upon the den entrance and sometimes straying to the prisoner.

She couldn't wait for what Sumai had in store for them at sunset.

[Zorayda]

Reicheru woke slowly, the cold floor making her ribs ache. Ugh. The cage. She'd forgotten about it.

The scary, one-eyed lioness was back again, lying and watching the entrance of the den and Rey.

The young yellow lioness cleared her throat. "So...Asuka, was it...?" Rey wasn't sure why she was chatting. Maybe she was just bored. "Have you, uh...have you lived here your whole life, or...what?"

Slowly getting over the awkwardness, her voice became louder and more steadfast. "Well, I don't remember where I'm from, I hit my head and now...bam! Nothin'. I wish I could remember...I had a dream, though, with some colors in it that looked like I'd seen 'em before. You know when you forget something, and you almost remember it, but you can't?"

The telekinetic lioness suddenly realized that her mouth was very dry. "Uh, not to trouble you or anything, but...can I have some water?"

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Aquila did not stop running, not when she heard the far-off cry of the cub's wail or when her conscience nagged at her.

She could tell generally where the Feraga lair lay because of recent scents and because of the general direction the Burja lions looked when they spoke of the feared and hated Feraga.

She wouldn't burst in suddenly--no, from what Kirsui told her, the Feragans wouldn't be as welcoming as the Burjans.

The river seemed to come towards her webbed feet, like the world spun under her while she stood still. It was the strangest feeling. She leapt unhesitatingly into the refreshing and welcoming water and remembered why she'd spent so much time there before.

Concentrating, Aquila made much of the river water come above land, like a living, breathing and moving sphere of wet life. She stayed at the center of the wobbling orb, the center of its gravity.

Using her power over water, she gently lighted upon the ground, the watery sphere glistening behind her, like a faithful and protective friend.

And protection it would provide. If all else went badly, she could freeze sheets of water into shields and protect herself.

Hopefully, nobody could control fire in the Feraga pride...

Aquila dashed her way towards the unfriendly clan of lions, hoping to put an end to this war.

[Pulsar]

Pulsar remained at his position in the sky, his wings flapping to keep him aloft.

"I am well aware that I am approaching Feraga lands. But I had no intention of crossing the border. I am simply patrolling the side of the border that Burja occupies. "

<burja scum...>
The male thought as the creature passed it's comment to him.

"And you, happen to be incredibly close to crossing into our lands, Feraga."

"Oh Ho-ho is that so?"
The black and white lion said in a mocking voice as he raised an eyebrow.
"And what if I intend to cross over to the Burja lands?"
He continued with a smirk.
"Do you really think such an animal as you is any competition to me?"
His reserve energy orbs pulsating as he spoke to the presumedly Burja animal.

"Pulsar? Is it a Burja?"
Inlasta's voice called out in their direction as her rock platform finally caught up.
The lioness now not only had the rock platform, but around if were several other floating pieces of earth, no doubt pieces taken from the platform itself to be used as makeshift weapons. At that moment in time, the free floating rock slabs were circling the platform Inlasta was upon, each of the slabs shaped to form a sort of shield. Should this creature become combative however, Inlasta was more then ready to shift the slabs from defensive to offensive use.

"It would appear so... This creature was foolish enough to speak, and either unknowingly or willingly let on they were Burja..."
The male replied, still holding his position, he could have returned to the platform, but he felt no real threat from the two-winged animal before them.
<Unless it can pull something interesting out of it's fur, I still have air supiriority over it due to my extra wings... not to mention that with inlasta here there's extra firepower....>
At that moment Pulsar noticed the flame at the end of the creature's tail.
"How interesting.... What's that?"
He asked motioning his head ever so slightly at Oreo's tail.

"heh, let me guess, you've got some sort of flame ability right?"
The male laughed.
"Come now little one, surely you are smart enough to know that this high up in the sky, that the strong winds will not aid such a power...."
Looking back at Inlasta, he smirked, before looking back at Orea.
"Not to mention you are out numbered."

At that moment, Inlasta's crystals, having sensed their masters emotions and detected the enemy, flew over to Oreo. They flew around the liger some of them spouting out random noise and others just flashing with a low light.
"Oh! No, hey! Stop that you guys!"
Inlasta shouted to her crystals in an embarrassed tone of voice.
"Pon Pon! Moi! Hit'ze! Ent! Stop it!"
She continued.
"In the name of!...."
Pulsar said in a slightly annoyed voice.
"Inlasta...."
He continued with a sigh.
"please control your crystals..."

"O-I'm trying to!"
The horned-lioness blushed from being completely humiliated at not being able to keep control over her crystals.
Pulsar on the other hand was more concerned with weather or not the Burja would see the crystals as an attack or not.

[Kirsui]

"Kirsui...that cub is alone now that the Mer-Lion is gone. He seemed to be cozy with her. I think somebody ought to go and comfort him, he might think that her leaving is his fault. You know how cubs can be"

Kirsui chuckled lightly and turned to look at Onto. Her eyes sparkled with amusement. Was Onto telling her to go look after the cub...?
"Yes, I know how cubs can be", she said, trying to keep the amusement out of her voice and speak as if she was serious.
"Your paws don't seem to be full with anything, and I have our visitors to look after... So perhaps you would go to the cub and see he is comforted?"
She managed to keep the grin from spreading to her face, but she knew her amusement was visible in her eyes... If Onto knew how to look for it, of course.

And then Arjuna teleported in front of them... Again. She wasn't startled, merely slightly annoyed as she turned to look at him.

"Yo, wanna answer some of my question, or maybe the leader might? First, what is this war about and second where is this Feraga clan at?"

The young leader mentally sighed.
"I can answer for you", she replied.
"But before that, I remind you of the two options I gave you. You will have to give me your answer after we are done with what ever you wish to know."
She sat down.
"The original reason for this war... I doubt anyone remembers it any more. Food resources, water supplies...? Perhaps one of the prides was here first and the other settled on part of their lands and claimed it as their own...?"
She shrugged.
"As I said, no one knows the original reason. I do know, however, what lead to the recent heating up."

She sighed heavily.
"Before I joined this pride, there was a Burja, named Sitama... She overthrew our true leader, Ina, and lead the pride to a surprise attack on the Feraga. There was a battle, and the Feraga lost. Burja, with Sitama on their lead, claimed the Feraga Den."
She paused, thinking.
"Shortly after this Sitama left Burja. I don't know if she was thrown out or if she left willingly... However, she joined a small group of which I became part of, and that group was lead by a lion named Chaza."

The long-haired lioness' eyes flashed.
"Chaza lead us to the temporary Feraga base, and engaged the Feraga into a battle. We had no idea he would do this to us, and so some of us tried to fight our way out so that we would not be killed... Sitama died that day, by the paws of the former Feraga leader Xena."
She glanced at Lorien's direction, smiling sadly.
"If you wish to know more... as Lorien... However, do not push her to tell if she don't want to."

Then her gaze returned to Arjuna.
"I joined Burja after that battle... And the Feraga attacked the Burja guards at their Den. Ebun teleported back here to tell the Den was lost, but she died shortly after since she had been hit by Sumai's flames. Auri, the other guard, died while defending the Den alone against the whole pride... And as I've been recently informed, he took Xena with him."
She paused, examining Arjuna closely.
"Do you begin to see why we are at war...?" she asked.
"It has become a chain of revenge, a chain that I'm afraid isn't as easily broken as I'd wish... For now we can do nothing but wait, I know Feraga will strike, but what they plan..."
She shrugged.
"Was there anything else you wish to know, Arjuna?"

---

Mwezi couldn't believe it. She had passed the Burja guards around the Den without being noticed. None of them had even paid attention to the slowly moving mist that the slight wind she had summoned carried around...

She chuckled, with the voice of a mist cloud that no one could hear. Curious this was indeed. Besides, she had forgotten how much fun spying the Burjas actually was. They wouldn't even realize she had been there!

The dark cheelion scanned the Den area. She recognized a Burja here and another there... But there were a lot of new faces as well, creatures whom she hadn't seen before she had left to her wanderings.

Mentally she grinned. There was Lorien... She could remember that grey lioness... Oh, and there was Satoba! The blind one, the one who could still see...

Mwezi paused her floating for a split of a second. Could Satoba actually see her if she was a cloud of mist...? If he could...

She cursed mentally. Well if he did see her she could just summon a wind to pull her up and away before any harm would come to her... Right?

And so with calm she continued her search. Her gaze fell upon Timbre, and she was indeed very surprised to see the blue feline there. What was he doing here?! Sumai would be most interested... But...! Where was the leader, Ina...?

Her gaze fell upon a young lioness with long hair... and she recognized the two large feathers she had on her hair. Those were Pulsar's, so this lioness had to be Kirsui. Beside her stood a feline she had never seen before, but by the looks of it he was a liger... And... Kirsui was speaking with a curious looking creature whose one leg was replaced with electricity.

Still she saw no sight of Ina, and this worried her. Where was the Burja leader? She had to find out...!

[magiccat]

Oreo continued to seethe as she listened to Pulsar. Suddenly her stance became defensive and angry.

"If you do intend to cross the border, then do so. But something tells me, you will not. Why would you cross it alone? To spy on us, you're doing a bad job at that by the way." She told him, glaring hotly. Then the lioness he was with spoke. Oh, so she's Inlasta. And those are her crystals I suppose. Great, now I'm knee deep in trouble. Pulsar's comment on her powers caused Oreo to growl even louder.

"Do not EVER call me little one, or mock my powers! If you wish to see a little one you should see my-" She stopped before she could finish that sentence. You really are stupid Oreo. Imagine almost telling the enemy you have a brother! Then suddenly, the crystals around Inlasta flew over to her. Some flashing some spouting random words. Oreo glanced round wildly at them and glared at the two lions.

"You-" She began but stopped as she heard their conversation. Her heart rose with relief, seeing Inlasta could command these crystals and it appeared to be an accident.She can't control her powers? Oh this is too good to be true! Who on earth decided she could have such a special power? But she didn't speak. Because even a Feraga was not worthy of that kind of tormenting.

She watched the crystals carefully, she didn't do anything to them in-case it affected Inlasta. She didn't need to start a fight up here in the air, especially when Pulsar was on the enemy team and she had been ordered not to engage him. In her mind she knew there was only one way for this to go. She would have to head back to the den, regardless of the fact Pulsar would believe she was a coward. But how could she turn back when these crystals were surrounding her?

Then suddenly she got an idea. Inlasta was speaking to them right? So, maybe she could. Although she would have to whisper so that Pulsar did not hear. "I'm not going to hurt anyone" She whispered to the crystals. Then an idea snapped in her head and she carried it out quickly.

She stopped flapping her wings.

And she fell, gravity winning out. Despite herself she found herself losing all thought as she fell. "I'm falling! Not good! I'm falling!" She shrieked. Then she looked at her back and sighed in relief. All she had to do was flap her wings.

How do I do that again?

So she kept falling. Until, just as she was about to smash into the hard ground, she felt her feet lightly touch it. She sighed in relief as she saw her wings were flapping and she was less than a centimeter off the ground.

Carefully and shakily she rose. Until she was hovering halfway up the tallest tree. If she looked up and strained her eyes, she could see Pulsar and the crystals that had circled her. She smiled and turned, heading back to the den so that she didn't have to meet up with Pulsar again.I knew that idiot would spoil my fun.

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Onto's eyes widened as Kirsui told him to go and comfort the cub.

"But- Kirsui I-...ok" He muttered, watching the amusment in her eyes that he had learned to see. He muttered as he walked over to the cub and flopped down beside him.

"Um...hey little guy. Don't worry about your friend leaving. She had to go and speak to the Feraga pride. I'm sure she'll be back in a little while. It's not your fault, you were being a really good cub and behaving nicely. Until she comes back, you can hang around with me." He told the cub and smiled at him lightly.

[epppe]

"Don't worry, I haven't forgotten the options of either leave or stay quiet for the meeting, but I thought the meeting was over."

Still smiling like he usually does, Arjuna flipped over to his back staring at the clouds. Lifting his left arm and staring at it, seeing how it shined with a constant blue glow.
"So, the war is a pointless one that will bring nothing in the end, brings back fond memories," Arjuna commented to the long-haired lioness remembering how he got his arm, remembering what happened to his old pride, "but I guess that enough information for me."

He teleported so now that he was standing up again. All he wanted to do was ask just one more question before he could start having his fun. "I guess the last question that needs to be answered is where are these Feragas at? I might have a funner time fighting them than your slow group of animals, hell, I bet it's would be funner to fight one member from their side than your entire group."

Not caring that he just insulted her people, Arjuna just stood there grinning and waiting for an answer. He wanted to see if that would get anymore of them to show their powers to him so he would know what he was dealing with.

[kyto7878]

Moona's eyes widened when he heard another lion talking. As the other lion kept taking his fangs grew more and more.

Moona quickly hid his face and listened to the lion and what he was saying. Moona's fangs grew back to normal size instantly.Moona sutuddered as he talked.

"S...Sh...Shell be back. Feraga? Why did she Achoo!!!!!" Moona sneezed. Moona uncovered his face and got up so he could see who this lion was. "Who are you?"

[Lorien]

Asuka lifted an eyebrow to the stranger. Who does she think she's talking to? Her buddy? A slight growl escaped her muzzle, but she decided that she would indulge the lioness in her questions.

"Yes. I've lived here all my life." Her eye squinted, staring out of the den and far off into the distance. And it will be a cold day in Hell when those Burja change that fact. She rose to a sitting position, looking at the rambling lioness, a slight glare on her scarred face.

"Water, you say?" A grin the played upon her countenance. Asuka spat into the cage at the yellow lioness's feet. "That's as much water as you will receive from me, stranger." She exhaled sharply, wondering how the lioness would react. She could probably have a lot of fun with this one, but again, her splitting headache from the morning's excursion of her powers still wracked her body. She'd let this wear off before exercising her telekinetic powers.
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As Lorien continued to walk, closer and closer to the border, she could hear faint voices in the air. She then looked up, into the direction of where they were coming from just in time to see an energy ball fly past Oreo's head. Oh no...It's Feraga... She didn't know what to do. There wasn't much that she could do in the air, seeing as she couldn't fly like the others. The only thing that she could do was watch, and soon Oreo flew away toward the den.

As Lorien watched her retreat, she wondered if she should do the same. However, her young curiousness got the best of her, and she stayed rather, studying the two lions up in the sky. The one with wings she had heard of before: Pulsar. This, however, was the first time that she had seen the black and white lion. She also did not recognize the horned lioness and was quite confused as to what the crystals flying about her were.

Lorien walked a bit closer, almost without realizing it, and the grayish lioness was soon right next to the border, looking up at the two. She soon came out of her curious trance, realizing finally how close she had gotten to the pair, and decided that it was in her own best interest to head back to the den. She really didn't want to deal with two Feraga, especially when she was so alone. Quietly, trying not to make a noise, she turned around and slowly headed back to the den at a slow pace, trying to stay low to the ground (not that her fur blended into it, however). She cursed herself, knowing that she would be spotted, but tried to stay optimistic as she still slowly walked back away from the border and the two black and white lions.

[Kirsui]

"I guess the last question that needs to be answered is where are these Feragas at? I might have a funner time fighting them than your slow group of animals, hell, I bet it's would be funner to fight one member from their side than your entire group."

Kirsui watched Arjuna with a blank expression. Oh she was well aware of the insult... But instead of lashing out at the teleporter about it, she smiled faintly. She had better things to save her energy for than this stranger.

"Head to that direction", she said, pointing with her paw towards the border.
"With your skill I'm sure you'll reach them in no time... However, getting out of there is another thing."
The smile disappeared.
"You probably won't listen to what I say... But I still suggest you would not annoy the Feraga. If provoke is what you want to do with them, that indeed is easily done.. If you want to leave their lands in one piece after provoking them..."
She shook her head.
"That is something you will not do so easily."
She shrugged.
"But.. as I said, you probably won't hear my warnings... Until it's too late. Was there anything else?"

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She could not find Ina! Mwezi had circled around the whole Den area, she had even went inside the Den, floating hidden in the shadows of the caves... And still, the Burja leader was nowhere to be found! This troubled her greatly when the circled around the outside of the Den once more. Where could they have hidden their leader? She had to be somewhere! Unless...

The thought struck her so hard that the mist cloud stopped moving. The only reason why Ina was not there... No, it couldn't be, it was too much to even think! Why would Ina...?

But it was the only explanation she could come up with. Ina had left, and no one on Feraga was aware.

These news would be something that would have to be brought to Sumai's attention as soon as possible! But after glancing at the sky she chose to stay a while longer and try figure out who the new leader was. That would be valuable information as well...

So the dark cheelion continued to float about, trying to see which Burja member the others respected the most.

[Zorayda]

Reicheru shrank back into the cage as the older and much crankier lioness spat at her in an answer to her plea for water.

Uhhh...okayyyy...

Rey may have been in a cage, but she was not going to back down. After all, it wasn't her fault she got stuck here.

"Okay, I dealt with you before, Granny, with your mean attitude, but that's going a little far," the young lioness said, tilting her pale yellow chin up in defiance. Reicheru was not normally this brave or stupid, but her anger gave her some sort of inner power.

"I may be a prisoner--due to your pride's paranoia--but I will not be treated this way." The telekinetic lioness got as close to Asuka as she could behind the rocky barrier. "Got it, sister?"

<I am not powerless...remember that.> The young lioness sent through her mind.

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Aquila had arrived.

Her water-sphere trailed behind her still, a comfort to her. A few hills now were the only things that separated her from the Feragan den. The scaly feline didn't want to barge in unannounced, so she waited outside, where she knew she could escape.

She lay down, alert, and waited for someone to notice her presence outside the cave.

Perhaps...perhaps their leader would be as reasonable as the young Burja leader, Kirsui.

[epppe]

Disappointed that he wasn't able to see anyone's powers, Arjuna was glad that to know where the other group was. He looked in the direction that Kirsui was pointing and looked on with a more sinister smile than what he usually wheres.
"This is going to be fun," he muttered to himself.
He looked back at the other Kirsui with his typical smile.
"See ya later and thanks for the answers."

Arjuna looked back in the direction where Kirsui was pointing and began teleporting. Looking like a single bolt going across the plains, he found the fish-lion and ignored her. Continuing on, he saw that the bird-liger was flying back to the Burja den. Arjuna teleported by her and with his tail, gave her a bit of static shock on her neck. He let out a small laugh before continuing on, proud of his little act of revenge.

Still going towards the border, He saw the gray lioness he saw earlier at the Burja den. He noticed the she was trying to stay hidden from something but couldn't see what. Looking all around he couldn't see what she was hiding from until he finally looked up. All he could see were two figures in the sky, one with wings and another standing on a platform.
<So these must be the Feragas, hope there's more.>

Looking at the one on the platform, Arjuna teleported to the side of the platform and was holding onto the edge. He only had his head and his paws showing.
"Yo, are guys the Feragas?" Arjuna asked trying to keep his grip on the platform and not seeing the weapons he lion had.