Good Haunted's Den

You’re lost
This place is called the blood waste
So evil that even the sand left, leaving behind only rocks
Staying here is certain death
But turning back and the Poachers will get you!
You walk for almost an entire day, until you smell Lion
How could a Pride survive here?
You enter the territory cautiously. The setting sun casting your shadow long and far before you, just as the sun vanishes behind you a sound echo’s around at such a volume it hurts.
A howl
Not from a hyena
You’ve never heard a noise like that before, it sounded almost like those strange wooden sticks humans blow through to make noise. Just louder.
Soon you come across the three den set up. Several lioness’ lay about with cubs playing between them, eventually one Primal lioness roars as she spots you and all the cubs vanish down the burrows with the Lioness’ following. Each burrow had two male lions waiting at the mouth. You know if you dare try to enter that they’ll rip you apart.
You carefully walk around the dens, six pairs of eyes watch your every move. You come up short after passing the last one.
Before you stands a Primal Lion. A heart shaped scar marks each shoulder. His blue eyes glare into you hard enough to burn. You wisely bow to this King, knowing that if he wished his pride would tear you to shreds.
“I am the king of this pride” he states, as though it wasn’t obvious. Behind him is a tree by a pool and large, flat rock, you can hear something shuffling around over there. Perhaps his mate is there?
He snarls and you refocus on him “you would be wise to do as I say while you’re here” his claws unsheathe “understand?”
You nod swiftly and the king turns to look behind him “what of this wanderer?”
Peering around this living mountain you spot a strange creature laying upon the rock.
It has a brown face, the top of its tail is the exact same shade. The rest of it is dark as the night sky, but starless. With pale blue highlights to stop the starless meeting with the deep blue under-lights. Truly fascinating...
This strange wolf-like creature must have been the source of that howl! A gentle breeze stirs the animals’ fur and for a moment you think a silver Lioness takes its place, suddenly the eyes snap open to reveal that they too gleam silver. The wolf yawns and stretches in a very Lion-like way before casually walking over to the King. They stand side-to-side as the lion watches the wolf and the wolf watches- YOU
Those silver eyes stare through your fur to your very soul. Then the wolf speaks. The voice is so soft and sweet you are taken back to your time as a cub being nursed by your mother.
“I am known as Seraph, I rule over this land” you make a confused noise, why would a lion obey a wolf? She laughs like a hyena at you “I am no mere wolf, Mortal”
With that she turns and walks silently to her rock “they’re safe, Blood”
The King bows before turning to you.
“Our Pride has lasted in this land only because of her” he nods towards the wolf as the rest of the Pride return to what they were doing before. You notice the Sub Males start patrolling as though you weren’t even here. Strange…
“She is something that…” The King looks lost on how to explain what that creature is. As though sensing his trouble the wolf speaks without seeming to wake up “I am something older than Apedemak, older than Bast” one silver eye opens lazily “something as old as time” then she apparently goes to sleep again.
You turn back to the King who smirks “I am Blood Coat, I only rule here with her blessing” he sits and sighs heavily “the first King, Storm Born was nursed by her” you sit beside him and let him continue “as a result he forged a home for our Pride, he bested beast after beast, rogue after rogue and showed all his strength” Blood Coat locks eyes with you “and his kindness” he indicates around him “most all of the Lionesses here, and cubs…” He pauses and sighs “and males were found in the waste abandoned” he seems almost shy as he adds “including me”
You spot that Primal Lioness from before lying beside a regular Lioness who is clearly her mother, save for the mutation they’re identical. Following your gaze Blood Coat smirks “those are mine, Dusk Death is my daughter, obviously” you nod, of course she’s his, they’re the only Primals in the Pride “and her mother, Dark dusk she is a descendant of the great Storm Born”
You turn back to Blood Coat as he watches the sky begin to lighten “dawn approaches” is all he states. Seraph jumps up to alertness and starts laughing. The cubs are rounded up into the dens and you watch as Seraph starts to sing
“The Lions outside of your door
The Wolf’s in your bed
The Lions claws are sharpened for war
The Wolf’s teeth are red”
She smirks as though to show bloody fangs
“And what a monstrous sight he makes, mocking mans best friend”
At this she pranced on the spot wagging her tail like a dog
“When both the Wolf and Lion want the same thing in the end”
She sits and smirks at you
“The Wolf he howls, the Lion does roar, the Wolf lets him in
The Lion runs in through the door”
She almost whispers the next line
“The real fun begins” she walks in a circle around you, as you realize that to her, you’re a human, weak and vulnerable
“As they both rush upon you and, rip apart your flesh” Blood Coat joins her in circling you
“The Lion eats his fill and then, the Wolf cleans up his mess”
Suddenly you’re a lion again and not trapped. She softly sings
“The Lions outside of your door, the Wolf’s in your bed”
She turns to the rising sun, one of the Sub Males sits next to you. He has a Celestial Mane
“Watch this” he says softly
You watch the Wolf suddenly change, growing larger, and more powerful.
Soon a beast you have never seen before is standing there, the beast lets out a roar loud enough to rattle the heavens
The blue and brown are gone completely, now there is just that dark starless colour and those big, silver eyes.
"Go home, kitty cat"
After seeing that thing you turn and run, not because you feel threatened… Not exactly but-
MY PRIDE NEED ME!
As you run, you hear the voice of Seraph, singing on the wind
“Take care and have a nice day, Mortal”

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