The small felis approaches the large king, he's quite tall like a primal... Might have primal descendants or just ancient blood lines... "Why have you called me here ares?" She sits down besides the king and sighs
"I've had a tiring day, one of the cubs and her mother is sick... It's hard to take care of both..."
She trails off into a yawn, her large teeth clearly visible as she opens her mouth to yawn... A felis her size has never once been seen, it's quite the interesting find-

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Ares’ tail flicks in annoyance.
“Not many lionesses of yours would see you coming to your enemy as a good thing. You’re... brave to accept my offer, to say the least”.
A low growl escapes his throat as he eyes Opal warily.
“You and I both know the endless rivalry of our prides has become too tiring. So, I have an offer for you. You and your pride are leaving these plains and I’ll accompany you to make sure no one hurts your lionesses”.
This was strange even for him. He’s not generous and willing to go with the rival pride. He’s a ruthless monster...
“You’ve got half a day to think about it. If no...” — he bares his fangs.

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Ares’ tail flicks in annoyance.
“Not many lionesses of yours would see you coming to your enemy as a good thing. You’re... brave to accept my offer, to say the least”.
A low growl escapes his throat as he eyes Opal warily.
“You and I both know the endless rivalry of our prides has become too tiring. So, I have an offer for you. You and your pride are leaving these plains and I’ll accompany you to make sure no one hurts your lionesses”.
This was strange even for him. He’s not generous and willing to go with the rival pride. He’s a ruthless monster...
“You’ve got half a day to think about it. If no...” — he bares his fangs.

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*the baring of his teeth scared opalescent to her core and she agreed "there's a rainforest near about 6 miles south west... It's a long journey for the cubs though..."

She's always worrying.. sometimes it's unhealthy the amount she worries in one day.. her sharp claws dog into the sand beneath her nervously not wanting to get injured by the large male, she huffs out a sigh and says

"So... You're accompanying us on the journey? Be prepared to carry a few cubs otherwise they might collapse and die of exhaustion and the heat of the sun+"

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Ares stands up, visibly larger than Opalescent. She agreed way too easily... but maybe that’s just her nature.
“Carrying cubs?” — he huffs. — “I’m not a working human cattle, I’m a king. But if there really is a need, then... I guess, it’s fine”.
That “fine” was really reluctant. Even with his own Cubs Ares wasn’t all kind and softy, not speaking about the cubs of the rival pride. But he, unlike the other males, never hurt the little balls of fur jumping around him all the time. They didn’t know about the rivalry - they were too small to fully understand it, at least.

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*we walk back to my pride, he sees the sick mother and her baby which is also sick... Seems like the pride is falling to sickness due to his pride stealing food...

"Their falling I'll each day, we might loose about 5 cubs soon to either starvation or sickness... One of the two- the pride the pride is weak including myself, it might take one time to get there..."

The larger king could tell from the moment the small felis stood up her paw steps were Shakey and unstable, her usual proud and quick steps slowed by the hunger plaguing her stomach, Its clean by how unusually skinny she was that she gave any food she got to her pride instead of herself... We reach my pride and she can see everyone else is healthier and has more energy than me... Jeez-

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“You’ll have enough food if you just manage to get to the territory” — Ares grumbles. One of his lionesses, Ammarika, snarls at Opal, fur bristled.
“Back!” — Ares roars, tail swishing wildly. Ammarika lets out a somewhat pained whine, though the king didn’t touch her at all. Glaring at Opal, she disappears in one of the caves.
Ares follows her with his gaze with disdain, then turns to Opal.
“You know... you might’ve fought back. Might’ve said that it’s your territory and you’re not backing down. You have half of your pride sick and starving... so why did you accept my offer? It’s unreasonable for you, to say the least”.

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"your lions steal food daily, we are weak from starvation... We have to move territory's... Otherwise we might loose even more cubs and lionesses..."

Her steps are uneven, almost every time the two go on an uphill slant it's like a huge toll on her body, exhaustion dawn's on her every minute of her miserable life right now

"Our land runs low with food... It's hard to find any now and when we do... Your lions steal it..."
The small felis unsheathes her claws, they are worth thin and weak from lack of food consumption

"Lionesses who have energy hunt while they can while I go for smaller things, my claws dwindle thin..."
She takes a deep breath, looking at the king besides her

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Ares snaps at a green cub of his, who managed to sneak out from his aunt’s watchful eye. The little cub squeals and runs away.

“It seems that I can’t be king even in my own pride. Most of the hunters obey me, then there are...” — he lets out a growl, — “those who sneak out, kill, steal and disrespect the gods”.
Why did he make such “confession” to the felis, leader of the rival pride? No idea, and Ares himself didn’t know. He took a step closer to Opal, just in case she needed a shoulder to lean on. Too soft. He’s becoming too soft...
“I can give you enough food to feed your pride, but... either way, someone has to leave. Your pride or mine. You still have time to think, Opalescent”.

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"... You can visit to make sure we are doing well in the rain forest if you should fancy that, we much move though..."

The lioness falters in her steps and sits down, tired , their close to her pride so she can see a worried embershadow running towards her. It's heart warming really, the way she tries to help opal up- the way three cubs run after her as fast as they can, the cubs greet the king with rubs on his legs and cleaning some fur on him... I taught them to be good cubs by the looks of it

"Don't overwhelm him too much... Ember... We're moving gather the pride and carry any cubs too weak to walk the six miles to our new home.."

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Ares watches the cubs sniffing him and trying to jump and lick his muzzle. It’s half-amusing, really. He steps back, not really used to having so much attention from the cubs of another pride, then stretches a bit, watching how a lioness tries to help Opalescent up.

‘They’re helping each other all the time. Damned Mwezi... had to kill a harmless lioness...’ — he thinks grimly, his mind wandering to the lioness of his who killed a huntress of Opal. He remembered how Mwezi begged him to forgive her... he’d forgive if the prides were both searching for bloodshed and being enemies through years. But Opal didn’t cause any trouble not to his pride not any others. So he had to kill Mwezi himself, while nobody noticed. A cruel decision, but it was needed.

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Embershadow helps opalescent stand up back on his four paws and helps her move to the rest of the pride to tell them herself. "I never meant for any aggression to your pride speaking of your pride what did happen to the lioness that had killed Ofelia? I haven't seen her around in about 3 months now..."

She said these words softly as she leant on embershadow to support her fatigued legs...v as soon as we get near the camp other lioness coming out such as Iverh and the small dwarf that hangs around in my pride The starlight... They greet me worriedly seeing ares, their words are harsh but the elder lioness I have asked a simple question "opalescent, why is that king here, he's bad news to all of us"

I give her a defeated look "he's going to be helping us along our journey to go to the rainforest that's 6 miles away..." The elder lioness looks flabbergasted

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“Mwezi? She’s gone” — Ares said simply, following Opal. He noted in mind that the deceased huntress’ name was Ophelia. What a shame to the stars...

The lions of Opalescent’s pride were quite hostile to him, and that was absolutely no surprise, hence the tension between them was growing with each passing day.

Noticing the elder’s look, Ares narrowed his eyes with flames in them and spat out almost with disdain: “Someone had to come up with a choice, after all”. He wasn’t going to elaborate, or apologize - who ever heard an apology from the great king of Clawbiters pride?!

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"iverh fetch the rest of the pride at the antelope for on the way... The elders and cubs shall eat first then young lionesses, I'll eat when we get there..."

The lionesses faces fill with worry but agree, gathering the cubs and lionesses... Including the sub male stronger than both leaders combined... He's a muscle champ... In my opinion at least.., as we leave embershadow helps me walk, my legs still fatigued from the walk to the pride... I sigh as we leave for the long journey across the savannah, the strong sub male trails near me as we walk, cautious of ares.

Mid walk we stop, 3 miles from the first to let everyone eat and for me to rest, I lie down tired on the hot savannah floor paying no such attention to the burns on my paw pads and the heat emanation from the sky above casting over my back in a painful seerig way... Too little energy to notice at all..., a cub brings me some food left over from the antelope and forced me to eat it, I thank him in the end though.

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