||||| Moon Pride was, of course, going extremely well. The Pride was always well-fed, healthy and protected, even after the droughts and hunger spasms of the dry season and the Rabies outbreak shortly after the wet season's incoming. Sakura was also well-known, and well-liked, by the other fellow Pride members, especially after he gave free Devil Claws (a herb that cured rabies) to whoever that needed them.
||||| Now, it was getting a bit chilly, after the warm fires and chanting of the Shaman lions who decided to live here for a while, and now Prides were starting to huddle close to eachother for warmth. Some kings had bought fire-sticks from baboons for a small amount of golden beetles, but it wasn't quite worth it and Sakura told his Pride that they didn't essencially need it so they could just cuddle with eachother. This turned out to be a good idea, because everybody was feeling particularly merry at the moment and were all glad to cuddle.
||||| Moon Pride embraced the new changes in their territory: one day, cold, soft, light and white flower-shaped carvings had floated down from the silver clouds. Flora, Sakura's main mate's remaining-in-pride cub, found out that they were called 'snowflakes' and they were a formation made by raindrops becoming slightly freezed. Next, new prey-like reindeer had walked into their lands; but a fellow king told them that reindeer were extremely bitter and it was best not to hunt them for food. And lastly, new decorations and applicators had sprung up in a new shop named Mantis Shop; you would collect Stink Beetles from exploring and hand these in as currency for various goods. Sakura had bought an ample amount of cute decorations and a few applicators for both his pride and for selling: he gave a small yet adorable mistletoe earpiece for Flora, a squeaky Albino Pygmy Owl for Gale, an obiedient and helpful male cub, fluffy pink earmuffs for a young cub, Hala, a beautiful Christmas Rose Garland for his main mate Blossom and much more presents for his pride.
||||| After the season of gifting had passed, a new hunger season had came. A sudden hunger wave had spread across the lands: prey was suddeyl scarce and the prides had to work together to scavenge and pile up food for the lions in their pride to eat. And since Sakura's pride had been hunting and burying their food for a few months already, they donated half to the Food Pile, a quarter for those in need and ate the rest themselves.
||||| Once the event was done, the next one came. Prey had sprung back up in all places, and new shops came up too. Yet this event was not quite as same the others. It seemed like love was floating in the air, and all lions were quite dreamy. New, pretty lionesses have appeared in the lion's lands, giving heart shells to those who either succesfuly flirted with another king's lioness or slapped a to-be-flirt.
||||| The two shops were, as named, Flirt and Slap Shop. The Flirt shop was owned by a smitten lioness named Daisy Petal, and she was especially smitten with Sakura for some unknown reason. She collected Heart Shells and gave lovely decor and applications in return. The other shop, Slap Shop, was owned by a very low-reputance loner king. He was known to have tried to flirt with a hundred lionesses in a day, but failed in each in turn (slapped by both angry kings and exasperated lionesses) and now had at least a dozen scars. He was a grumpy, grudging lion, with not much talk.
||||| Sakura always visited the Flirt shop but never the other one, because kings said that the scarred shop-owner would sometimes take a bit more heart shells than the item should be worth. He was also known to steal your heart shells, and try sneak to your lionesses when you weren't looking.
||||| Sakura traded well with Daisy Petal: she often gave him huge discounts and free items. Although he had sold a lot of his items and got a lot of GB, he already knew (himself and Blossom) that in only a few years or so he would have to retire.
||||| At the ending of the event, he strode off into the Route to find some suitable heirs. He planned to try a piebald lion this time, instead of a ferus like the tradition. He also wanted something rash, trendy and valuable: and he knew that rosettes would fit in snug.
||||| So Sakura searched for lions with at least three rosettes, because he had the money. He also found a place that sold MODS (mutie-on-demands: they give the user the mutation of the application: for example, a Daedal MOD would give you a daedal mutation if you had no mutation on; it didn't give you a daedal lioness)
||||| Sakura bought the cheepest prettiest piebald MOD he found (a piebald dappled MOD) and he bought a g1 groupie w/ 300 stats as well to put the daedal MOD on. He also watched all the to-be trades with a 3 rosette lion; and in the end, he brought home a frisky and snarky male adolscent with 3 rosettes, dawn eyes, a spiky mane (savage) and two BO (breed-only) traits.
||||| He also bought some demanding applicators for the heir: a Gilded, Haliotis, Rose Gold, and Protea. He also bought a base applicator, Haliotis (because it was cute and it was a combo factor).
||||| Sakura added all thsoe applicators to his heir. He looked amazing: sharp and punky, with a bit of twist here and there. Sakura hadn't decided his name yet, but he didn't have to--because the adolscent had told him that he had found a great name already and he needed no help whatsoever. Nodding with a little bit of respect and amusement, Sakura left.
||||| The retiring day was still far away, but both Sakura and the heir were quite impatient. Sakura was bored of the ferus king tradition, he wanted to see how his heir would be like as a king, he wanted to see how kings and lionesses would react to him. So Sakura saved up some GB by selling his valuable cubs; then, finally, he had 25GB, enough to king early AND skip the cooldown.
||||| He thought his choices for a few moments before padding to his heir (who was still, strangely, unnamed). His heir was currently ripping a buffalo hide apart with his teeth and looking very concentrated, although Sakura knew that he was actually bored and waiting for Sakura to say something.
||||| "Hello," Sakura meowed. His heir stopped ripping the hide and sat up briskly, throwing his head carelessly and looking at him with interest in his dawn-coloured eyes. That was one strange thing about his heir. He would look up with interest whenever you talked to him, but he would never meow back. In fact, Sakura never heard him talk before. Ever.
||||| "We have all been thinking about my early retirement, and I have made my decision." Sakura looked at him, waiting for any reaction, but the only thing his heir did was sheath and unsheath his claws. "I have chosen the choice," Sakura went on, "that my retirement date will be tomorrow. And after that, you shall be the new king. Deal?"
||||| His heir nodded curtly and emotionlessly, though Sakura could see calculation behind those two dawn eyes as the heir exited the den.

||||| The moon was setting. Sakura yawned in his King den and stretched. Soon the sun would rise fully to view, and it was tradition to king a heir during sunrise or sunset. He gazed at the high moon, then gasped.
||||| His heir was sitting right in front of his den, his shadow casting behind him. The young male looked questionly at him, eyes betraying nothing.
||||| Sakura only knew one thing what his heir might have wanted, since prey was plentiful, there were extra bedding on the sides of the territory and a river swished nearby, rushing with fresh, glittering water. "My heir," Sakura meowed, "I told you before, the tradition is to king a worthy heir during either sunrise or sunset. It is dawn; why do you want to do it now?"
||||| Sakura expected the heir to look at him with unreadable meaning; but, as a shock, he replied.
||||| "I do not care about stupid traditions that commend...how did you say it...worthyness." His heir's voice was deep but sharp and ever so slightly sexy. "Are we forced to follow all those traditions of your's, when you already broke at least two?"
||||| Sakura felt his face flush. "But this sole tradition I have always followed. My ex-king had always followed that tradition, and--"
||||| "Then I ask you: why did you join my Pride, when you were here just to break this Pride's traditions and follow your old king's?" his heir whispered. "Why did you join my Pride just to foul their traditions?"
||||| "I--"
||||| "You know what?" his heir snapped. "I resign. I don't want to be your heir if you keep acting like this. I wonder if Moon Rising was still alive, and I wish he was! He would be such a better king, even though he did all those terrible things."
||||| Sakura didn't know what to do. He stood there, motionless, until his heir half-sneered, "Bees in your brain? I have some stuff to help with that; it's called honey and it'll take the bees out the hard way, I'l have to--"
||||| "Fine," Sakura meowed heavily. "I'll retire, is that what you want?"
||||| "Oh, no," his heir meowed, slightly smirking. "I only accept if it's dawn, and if not, I'll go bye bye. And" his heir continued over him, "there's only a few moments left till sunrise."
||||| Panicking, Sakura fumbled with the golden beetles and threw them at the brightening sky. He saw himself rise in the air as he ascended towards the chorusing spirits, and he saw his heir, silhuetted behind the rays of dawn, look at him with a sort of excitement and apprehension in his eyes before yowling at Sakura, "I am Punk! And I am your successer!"

||||| Punk set things to things when he became King of the Pride. Firstly, he changed Moon Pride to Punk Pride just because he liked it that way. Finally, the young king opened his studding and roared to the lands that he was open for studding: he was generation 1, had dappled piebald mutation, three rosettes and 3BO traits. All the lionesses crowded around him immediatly with excitement; the kings payed hastily and the girls came as well to swoon over him. Punk did not care, but he knew he had good looks.
||||| In only a day, he had run out of studding slots and now he was shopping in the Flirt Shop with the shells the kind Sakura left him. The owner, Daisy Petal, immediatly became smitten when she saw him enter; she questioned him immediatly about which Pride he was in, and Punk answered that his predescendor was Sakura. Daisy Petal swooned even more and admitted, between gasps, that he was way more handsome than Sakura.
||||| Punk bought a few attire: a spiked collar, claw extensions and some punky fur-extensions. He also bought a lab test frog and a snarky pose to use on himself; and before long, his admirers tripled in number.
||||| His many g2 cubs were extremely popular as well: being sons and daughters of a famous king, they were often loved and held. Punk had bred many times and, although he was slightly tired of it, felt like it was worth it.
||||| Punk went through the March Event (poaching) by enjoying himself with poacher-mauling and then abused on the egg yolks during the April Event (easter). He saved some too, in case he ever had a heir (very unlikely).
||||| Near the end of the April Event, Punk was strolling through the Giving Tree to find some good cubs to probably adopt home and find good owners. Then he saw in the chat: somebody had dropped a leopon teen girl in the tree.
||||| Since Punk was hosting the Fatherly personality for the often-valuable cub drops in the tree, he immediatly brought a teen female up. He looked at her: just a potato. He then went to the tree again: there were only five girls left: and, hopes falling, lifted another up.
||||| He gasped. In his arms, was a very young adolscent leopon; g3 and mottled rosette; Punk couldn't believe his luck. Although she was a bit bland, it was okay; he could spice her looks up a bit.
Then came May, bringing small heatwaves and droughts, but it wasn't very sandy. Punk