Roleplaying

Rashka headed into the den for the night, Elska hot on his heels. He layed down and she curled herself up in the oval shape he made with his massive body, and she fit almost perfectly. Rashka slowly drifted in and out of sleep, almost too love stricken to be able to even doze. He looked down at his mate, whom was sound asleep, and smiled at her. His ears flicked forward when he noticed Scar, the leopon dash away out of his den. 'He certainly has a knack for disappearing in the middle of the night. Wonder where the old fellow is off to.' Rashka thought, pondering the idea of where Scar was always off to, and even chuckled at some of the ideas in his head. Rashka then curled his entire body around his lioness and finally drifted into sleep.

Kitsune, opened her eyes as Scar walked by. 'Where is he off too?' She wondered. She waited a moment, looked around to make sure everyone was asleep, and then got uo. She stretched before trotting off after Scar. She stopped at the edge of the woods and sniffed around. Finding his scent she walked along the path for some ways. She looked around and sighed when she lost his scent. She continued straight and came upon his scent once more. She followed it before hearing what sounded like humans. They shouted and yelled, as they seemed to be coming closer. She jumped being a bush quickly and layer down, as they ran by. They weren't going in the direction of the pride, so she jumped back up and continued to walk. "Scar?" She called out looking around...

Elska awoke at dawn. She didn't want to wake up Rashka so she crept outside to stretch her legs. Elska was still full from last night. She decided to take a walk threw the jungle. Elska nodded a greeting to Scar as he walked back to the clearing. She stopped at what must've been a train track. She spotted a train and crawled inside. Elska looked around the train and couldn't image Rashka in this. The train was full of crates, not animals though. Elska opened a crate and gasped. Animal skins, elephant tusks, and rhino horns were in the crate. Elska fell over as the train started to move. 'Oh no!' She screamed in her mind. Elska ran towards the opening in the train and looked out. The train was moving threw the jungle with an amazing speed! Elska jumped out the train and hit the ground. She looked around before getting up. Elska was fine, except for a few scratches. Elska ran towards what she thought was the clearing but realised she was lost. "Don't panic..." Elska whispered to her self. She realised Rashka and the pride would follow her scent and find her, so she hid in a cave and waited.

Rashka woke as the sun grazed his eyelids. He looked to his right where Elska normally lyed, sleeping next to him but she was gone. Rashka figured she was outside waiting for him, but when he exited the den, Elska was no where to be found. "Elska! Elska! Darling?" Rashka called out to her, but to no avail. "Where has she gone?" Said the liger to himself. Rashka looked towards the dense jungle as he picked up Elska's scent. "Why on Earth did she go into the jungle?" He cantered off into the woods after her. Rashka put his nose to the air as he came to a railroad track. He knew what all these utensils are because of his time with the humans. Suddenly, his mind flashed back to day his mother was taken from him...."No. I have to find Elska." Shaking the thought out of his head, Rashka continued to follow her scent. Rashka heard the sound of voices, human voices and then a gunshot rang throughout the jungle. His heart dropped in horror. "Elska!!" He roared. He heard a "click" and saw the shot gun pointed at him. The liger swung his massive body around, striking the gunman with a mighty swing of his paw. He let out a booming roar as he stood over the dead poacher. Rashka continued off into the jungle, following Elska's scent till he came to a cave. "Elska?" Rashka whispered.

Elska heard Rashka's voice and ran towards it. "Rashka!" Elska gasped when she saw him. "I went to take a walk, but I found a train. I decided to investigate it, but it started moving. Luckily, I jumped out in time." Elska explained. She leaned into Rashka and whispered ,"I'm sorry that I scared you.". Elska stood there for a while and looked into Rashka's eyes and thought he would be mad. Elska looked at the scratches she got from jumping off the train and said ,"Atleast I didn't break anything.". Elska thought Raska would hate her for sure after this.

The liger sighed in relief as he saw Elska's form come walking out of the cave. As she explained what had happened, he couldn't help but wrap his paw and neck around her. Rashka was unimaginably relieved to find his mate alive and for the first time all day his heart rate finally came down. He took a couple deep breathes to calm himself "Oh Elska, I was so worried! Are you alright?" Rashka searched her for any bumps and bruises, but only found a couple scratches on the lioness's white coat. He wasn't mad at her, he just was confused. "I heard a gunshot and....I feared the worst had happened to you...why did you leave this morning?"

Elska told Rashka ,"I was going on a walk threw the jungle. I swear I was going to come back, I just got lost!". Elska leaned into Rashka and breathed in his scent. "I think the train was owned by poachers. One crate was full of elephant tusks, animal skins, and rhino horns...". Elska stared into Rashka's eyes and continued. "I heard the gunshot too. I got worried but gunshots have become a regular thing in the pride's life, so I let it slide. I'm so sorry, Rashka...". Elska stopped and whispered ,"I promise it won't happen again. We should get back to the pride...".

Rashka let out a heavy sigh and nodded to Elska. "Yes, let's get back my love. We need to get someone to look at your scratches. Some of them look rather deep." Rashka examined. He licked her ears and muzzle to show her that he accepted her apology. As they were walking, Rashka thought about what Elska said concerning the animal parts on the train. "I believe you were right about that train belonging to poachers. I remember seeing that sort of stuff while they kept me for a while." Rashka looked over at his shoulder and showed Elska a thick, long scar running from the top of his shoulder blade to his paw. "The tried to skin me. They wanted my pelt." Rashka said.

"That's terrible, Rashka! But I have to admit, your pelt is beautifu." Elska said. As they got closer to the clearing Elska heard the voices of cubs playing and adults doing their daily things. Elska almost ran into Scar in the clearing who asked ,"Would you like to go hunting with Fireclaw and I?". Elska smiled and said ,"Anything to make myself useful, can Rashka come too?". Scar nodded and said ,"Why not?". Elska nodded and looked at Rashka and asked ,"Where should we go hunting?". Elska remembered her scratches and said ,"I think these scratches can wait, I'm sure it's not as bad has some inguries some of us have gotten in the past.".

Rashka looked around surprised that he'd been asked to go on a hunting trip. "Well, uh, of course! When I was looking for you, I saw a herd of bongo eat some thicket bushed by the river." Said the huge liger. "And don't worry, i an be surprisingly stealthy for my size." Rashka said with a goofy grin and Elska chuckled at him. "I suppose we should be off then?" Rashka questioned. The male leopon Scar nodded and the four of them were off. Rashka noticed a golden colored male he hadn't seen before. Rashka knew he was an adolescent because of his short black mane. He was probably around the age of 2 or 3. "Elska, who is that?" Asked Rashka.

Cynder sighed she was always a bit bored without her brother. Ashpen has gone off again off to who knows where. Half-heartedly Cynder padded to a near-by stream that trickled slowly, Cynder saw some creatures on the water. Cynder crouched down to see little water striders zooming across the surface; some of the little creatures even looked like they were diving under the surface before emerging again. It was like they where playing a game! Cynder picked out a little bug and acted like it was game of tag. The bug she picked "tagged" another bug so she followed that one instead. She kept this up for a long time.

Elska whispered ,"That's Fireclaw.". The four stopped and Scar said ,"We should split up, as long as we don't go too far we should be fine.". Elska went towards a place that was always full of prey, a huge pond. Elska stopped to watch fish move in the water. She then turned her attention to  a bongo. Elska stalked towards the bongo and pounced on it's back. The lazy thing didn't notice it was in danger until it was too late. Elska bit into it's neck, killing it. She dragged the bongo back to where the group was susposed to meet. Elska was the first one there so she waited for the others.

Rashka was stalking through a dense patch of thorns as he came to a mucky river bank. There was a small, probably newborn, hippo calf grazing on the bank. It's mother was no where in sight so Rashka took his chances and he leaped after the calf, sinking his sharp canines and claws into its back. It put up little resistance due to Rashka's massive size, and the liger killed the little calf with ease. Rashka used his immense strength to haul the carcass back to he spot in which he was to meet up with his hunting party. As he drug the dead calf along, he was suddenly ambushed by two lions, both males. One, a burly brown lion with a chocolate mane pounced on him first while another reddish male with a sandy colored mane stalked him from behind. He had both size, strength, and weight on both the males but there was only one of him. Rashka pinned his ears back, bared his massive teeth, and puffed himself up to make himself look as though he was even larger than he already was. "Scar! Elska! Fireclaw!" Rashka yelled as the three big cats began a brutal fight.

Elska ran towards Rashla's voice and stopped. Scar leaped out of a bush and clawed one of the attackers leg. Elska screamed ,"Rashka!" and jumped on top of the brown lion and bit down into his shoulder. She caught a glimspe of Scar clawing out one of the attacker's eye. Elska got flung off and hit the ground hard. Elska lay there for a moment, catching her breath, and attacked again. Elska felt a terrible pain in her leg and saw the attacker bit into it. Elska tried to get him off but the attacker wouldn't let go. Elska looked around wildly. 'I can't go like this!' She thought to herself.

Ashpen heard fighting near by, very near. He ran partitularly fast through the underbrush. He soon made it to where the conflict was. He stalked as close as he could waiting for the perfect moment, if one came. That is when the lion attacked Elska holding her. Ashpen hurdled out of the underbrush onto that lion holding Elska's leg. The enemy lion let go, perhaps from the surprise of the attack. The lion flipped Ashpen off of him, and attacked Ashpen head on. Ashpen met him in a battle lacerating claws. They both went for each others throats, soon ending up on their hind paws. Ashpen felt every claw mark on his body.

*This lion has unusually sharp claws* he couldn't help but think. The enemy lion brought his head up for an angle at Ashpen's face. Suddenly Ashpen remembered the fight with his father, Ashpen did the exact same thing and it almost killed him. Ashpen drew all his strengh to bite down on the enemies neck. He felt it being crushed. Ashpen let go of the lion, both Ashpen and the enemy were gasping for breath; only the enemy was taking his last. Ashpen collasped on the ground.

The setting takes place in a beautiful jungle. Okapi, Bongo, and rarely elephant calves and hippo calves are your pride's main prey. The forest is full of life, and dangers. The pride faces poachers and their traps, larger animals, and poisonious creatures. The pride lives in a clearing in the heart of the jungle. The clearing consists of dens, a pool of water, and a cave like place for storing prey. The cubs and their mothers sleep in the large den together. Adolescents also share this den, but prefer to stay away from the cubs. Once a cub turns into an adolescent, their mother can leave the den and stay in a larger den. This den is for any adult pride members, but the king, queen, and their cubs. The smallest den is for the leader and his mate. These lions are called the King and Queen. Unlike most cubs, theirs stay with them until they're adults, and then they move to the adult den.

Life of a Lion

Life as a lion is tough! You must worry about poaching, illness, starvation, war, etc. all the time! You must help your pride survive!

(The history is in RP "style")

As the night went on, the rain grew heavier by the minute. Screeches made by unknown creatures echoed in the strange place. The pride wanted to turn around, but poachers had taken over their old territory. "I want to go home!" A tiny cub cried. Her mother said nothing as the cub resting on her back squealed it louder. The king of the pride looked at the cub and said to the little cub ,"Starlight, you know we cannot go back. It's either come here or die." His words didn't help at all. The cub started crying until she fell asleep. The pride were soaked, starving, and weak. Some cubs and adolescents were ill. They stoped in a clearing, thunder waking up the tiny cub. The king looked around the clearing and smiled...

1. No swearing!

2. No mating or giving birth! Just have cubs magically the next day or something!

3. Please listen to the RP "masters" (cheesetiger and I)

4. No character is perfect. You don't have to die but you have to suffer at times!

5. If you want to join please PM me or cheesetiger!

6. You can have up to five characters

7. You need permission before killing a person's character

8. The most important rule! Have fun! :)