
Akel was the strongest among his siblings, he grew faster in size rather than in weight. The two month mark for the cubs was approaching them rather quickly. All of them were pouncing about, full of energy and spunk, using their mom as a jungle gym to play upon to pass the days. With a low roar she would reveal her impatience with her children; she got up from the ground to begin their journey home. The black tip of her tail acted as a flag that guided her cubs in a neat little line, almost like cute little duckies.
Soft wisps of air helped keep them cool while making their way across the tan stained plains. The peaceful journey suddenly being abruptly interrupted by the sound of a cracking laughter.
Hyenas.
If she was with her lion pride then a pack of hyenas would be no threat at all to her or her babies. Tucked down underneath her was Akel along side his siblings just hissing away as they got surrounded by the cackling pack. With deep rumbling roars erupting from her after each snap of her strong powerful jaws toward any hyena trying to grab one of her cubs. Swatting her large paws to land a hit against their jaws. This went on for quite sometime which brought exhaustion to her body. In one quick motion a hyena locked his jaws into her hind quarters causing her to turn her body to attack in retaliation. This was only to be a distraction as another hyena snagged a cub by the back and quickly took off across the plains. An echoing roar erupted out of the lioness filled with sorrow as she knew she couldn't chase after her baby. As that would mean death for her other three cubs. Exhausted and heart broken she stayed over her babies only for the stubborn male to jump in for another bite of distraction. Before he could even make impact he was slammed right in the jaw by another angry lioness.
It was the pride! Thank god!
The mothers heart broken roar echoed so loud and so far that it caught the attention of her family, of their family. With scared cackling whines the pack quickly ran with their tails tucked between their legs. Bloody and exhausted she tucked her head down to lick the heads of the cubs as they were being greeted by the family. After a moments rest they all headed back to the safety of home.
Night spread across the land as the hyenas made it back to their territory. Tossing the frighten young cub onto the ground allowing their pups to 'play' with their dinner. Soft little roars escape the cub as he continues fighting off these attackers until enough was enough. The pups were knocked away as a well fed hyena made her way over to see what all of the commotion was about that disturbed her slumber; her eyes made contact with the banged up cub covered in bite wounds, claw gauges and even part of his tail missing.
"It's far to late to be bringing so much attention to the dens, knock it off."
She snapped at her pack for such foolishness. Once they all back off she slowly leaned her head down to sniff at the cub only to be greeted by his little paw scratching at her snout.
"No need to be scared, little one. You're safe now. They won't hurt you again. Glaring back to the adults whom allowed this to continue. Scampering from under her was a small little pup that was about the same size as him, the pup looked excited at seeing someone so close to her size.
"Hi! I'm Denahi, what's yours?"
The cub looked around cautiously before uttering a response.
"Akel. My name is Akel."
To be continued
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