Yeah, back from the dead with a Ginga Series fanfiction. I needed something else to work on. 'The Hitchhiker' was kind of boring me. Title:
Rating: M
Description: When a travelling circus loses one of its cars, Ohu is plunged into darkness once again as a new terrifying menace ravages the land. The menace is something Ohu has never seen before, great cats from around the world who want one thing: revenge.
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Prologue: Unexpected Gifts…
It was a dark and stormy night, the rain sounded heavily against the inside of the old steel truck. The truck was from an increasingly popular travelling circus. Outside the truck were the words Master Onigumo's travelling circus. Come see the world's great cats jump through rings of fire and ballet dance.
From inside a beast lay in his cage he weighed nearly five-hundred pounds and was seething in frustration. "Why, why can I not be free?" He thought.
No matter how many times he travelled on the road he would never get used to the rumble of the trucks. He couldn't see anything, but he wasn't a fool. He knew others were here as well. His mate, Abeni, was also awake. He could tell from her breathing patterns. Had it not been dark he might have known she was looking in his direction.
"For how long must we suffer in here?" He continued to think. For a long time he wondered how to escape the clutches of these demons known as humans. He didn't want to kill any during an escape because he knew that if he did, there'd be a more pressing search for him.
In frustration he let out a loud roar. "I can't take it anymore! We must figure out a way to escape!" "Yes we must, but every time we try, we fail." Abeni replied. "Does that mean we give up? No, we try harder!" He continued to roar. "Hlatshwayo, I understand your point of view but, we never win. The best we can hope to do, is never have cubs so that Onigumo devil doesn't take them and put them in this life." She sighed.
"Then he'll just get some more lions to replace us, use your head woman!" Hlatshwayo roared and an unusually loud crack of thunder could be heard. The entire truck rattled and made a strange screeching sound. "What is that?" Abeni rumbled tensely. "I don't know but it doesn't sound good does it?" A lioness named Folami wondered aloud. Hlatshwayo just sat up in his cage and angled his ears around so that he might be able to hear the cause of the sound.
He suddenly felt as though he was falling over. Slammed into the side of the cage he heard the horrible sound of metal on metal rang in his ears. His cage even began to topple over and he was slammed into Abenis' cage. The lioness roared in surprise and pain. "The truck's falling!" Folami screeched as her cage was also slammed into Abenis'. The lions felt the pull of gravity as the entire truck went careening off a mountain side. All ten of the lions inside the truck screamed in fear as they fell. Hlatshwayo wouldn't dare hope of freedom, so instead he roared in anger, guilt and disappointment. "So this is how I am going to die, without ever tasting freedom, I knew there was never a god!" Was his final thought before the truck came to a frightening crash at the bottom of the mountain.
He could feel the vibration inside his chest. He was laying on his side in agony of the impact. He swore he heard the sound of other trucks crashing but he could not be sure. He even assumed his pain meant death but when none came he opened his eyes. Blinking once he saw the lightning from the open end of the truck. They were in some forest. He licked his lips. A strange screeching noise occurred right in his ear and he growled in frustration until he realized that screeching was the opening of a cage door.
His mouth dropped in amazement. He couldn't believe it. He was finally free. Standing up, he made his way towards the light; completely unaware that Abeni and Folami were also free and were walking up beside him. He breathed in the scent of the forest. For once in his life there was no scent of popcorn, belches, or farts. No sound of noisy children and of equally annoying adults. There was not one single human thing on the forest level, except another truck. He smirked to himself. He now knew what he was going to do. "Hlatshwayo, what do we do now, do we free the others or do we leave. Perhaps we should explore first or maybe-"
"Abeni, quit your bitching, I know exactly what I'm doing!"
He walked further outside of the truck and turned his head to look around. The lightning flashed and he saw two mountains in the distance. "Sir?" Folami asked. "Yes, I know exactly what I'm doing." He nodded, not even minding how his now soggy mane stuck to him. "But first, we must gather our comrades." He announced with a sly smirk as he approached another truck with a picture of a tiger on it.
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Yeah, the Ohu dogs won't make their appearance until the third chapter. I know because I've already posted it somewhere else. If anyone out there goes on Ginga_Board you can go to the fan section you can read the rest of what's there. Updates on fanfiction will be slower!