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Vi curled up tightly as a strange male lion carried him away from his home, from his mom. He was scared. What would happen to him, would he be killed? Given away again? He was scared, he curled up tightly and watched the landscape pass by. He looked up as the male stopped in front of a darker colored male. He listened to the dark male talk before he was put down. He listened to the two males talk. He squeaked as the dark ale picked him up and took him towards a large group of lionesses. He squirmed when the dark male put him down in front of a brightly colored lioness, she looked older than his mom, about the same age as the male who had taken him from his family for 25 shiny, silvery looking bugs.
He stood still as the lioness licked him from head to tail, only stopping when a female cub around his age bounded over with her chest puffed out. He listened in silence, overwhelmed, as the cub loudly proclaimed her intentions to become king. Vi gave her a funny look but didn't say anything. At the request of a spar Vi suddenly got a bit more confident, he was good at that, he did that a lot with his siblings, maybe this wouldn't be so bad.
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Vi whined as his mentor led him up a hill. "Come on, we've been walking for-ever! I want to go back to the pride and play with the others!" he said pouting and following reluctantly. He was tired of training, it wall all they ever seamed to do, it was getting tiring and boring. He watched as him mentor picked out a small bush pig for him to kill, this would be easy, right? He went out to stalk the pig, this was all he ever learned it seemed, how to kill, how to fight, how to hunt. There was no time to play. Vi pounced at the pig and missed, scrambling to reach out to grab it as it squealed and ran off. "Can I go now?" he wined.
When his mentor signed and relented Vi bounded off back towards the pride, only to stop to attempt to flirt with a wondering lioness who was walking around just outside the rest of his pride. He shrank back as the lioness smacked him and walked off. He really should up his game, but this wasn't a skill he had worked on much. He mentality flinched when Levia yelled a snarky remark towards him. He shook it off and lumbered over to her, plopping down next to her and huffed. It hadn't taken long for him to get use to her taunting, and she was one of the few other adolescents that he enjoyed hanging out with in his free time. He zoned out as she rambled, nodding when there was a break in the conversation. Suddenly she was getting up and walking off, Vi jumped up, following her, trying to remember what he had just agreed to.
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Vi watched over the pride. He had just become the leader of the pride. He was sure he knew what to do. Unfortunately, all the females still seamed to be warry of him. He sighed as he watched them, maybe he would find a female one day that would not cower when he walked by.
Vi flicked an ear as the female next to him, his queen, and most trusted lioness, Levia, lounged around him. He watched her as she practically draped herself over him, as if he was some kind of giant furry pillow. He licked her face, grooming the sleepy female. He put his head down, closing his eyes to sleep away the afternoon as he listened to him ramble.
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