Once upon a particularly bland, boring time, three hundred years before the present time of Chima would come to be …
"Hey, what the hell are you kids doing?"
"He found us, like, damn!"
"I thought you said that no one was around!"
"I tried, dude, but it's not that easy sneaking around like that!"
"Guards, stop those thieving, meddling kids!"
Nine guards were viciously chasing three lion teenagers outside the temple. "Don't drop that stuff, Logan," one of them yelled. "We have a lot of ground to cover, you know."
"I can't believe we actually did it," another one shouted. "We really went ahead and did this!"
They were making their way down the stairs, one of them carefully holding onto the stolen materials between his arms.
For the guards chasing these kids, this wasn't a first time. In fact, it was actually pretty damn common. They were well known throughout the lion temple as a small, stealing, troublemaking group of teenagers that always put everyone in a bad mood. And, unlucky for them, one of these guards, going by the name of Lamar, had had more than enough of their shenanigans. "Stupid damn kids, just eat shit and die!" he hissed, carelessly throwing his spear down towards the little thieves as they made their way down the steps.
One of the teenagers took notice just in time. "Hey, Logan, watch out," he bellowed. "There's a spear heading directly for you!"
"What?" Logan responded, barely noticing the spear had already impaled him in his left shoulder. "Holy fuck, that hurts!" he hollered, cringing to his side in pain as he dropped eight orbs of chi down the steps.
"God damn it, Logan. The mission's a failure, everyone!" the leader yelled.
"Larro, it's just us now! Logan's a goner, but we can still make it …"
Larro frowned, giving him a stern stare as they raced down the remaining twenty steps. "So we're just leaving Logan like that?" he questioned.
The leader, Lerod, responded. "Yes, as bad as it sounds, the mission's still a failure, but we can still snatch some of that chi and make a run for it!"
Gasping for breath, Lerod and Larro had finally made it down the temple stairs and snatched about three dropped chi orbs to themselves, occasionally looking back to see how close the guards were.
"Oh, another thing, Lerod …" Larro started.
"What?"
"Where the hell are we going to go now?" he asked.
Lerod took in a deep breath, and exhaled. "Honestly, Larro, I have no idea," he said. "The main success of this mission depended on Logan not getting caught. And now that he's out, I don't know what we'll do."
About three guards had stayed up the stairs to tend to Logan's wounds. Meanwhile, the other six were continuing their pursuit of the remaining two thieves. "Oh, you two are definitely going to get it when we catch you, you little assholes!" one of them shouted.
Larro put his paw above his nose. "We might as well turn ourselves in, Lerod."
"You can go ahead and do that, you big wuss, but I'm not giving up so easily."
"And just where are you planning to go, you fool?"
"Wherever the wind takes me."
Larro angrily threw the chi he had with him on the ground. "Well, you can do that, then, but I'm not a damned idiot like you, Lerod."
"That's about fine with me. It's not like we actually had anything going with this little group of ours, too."
"Hey, get the hell over here!" a lion guard yelled. Meanwhile as the two were conversing, they were standing still. By this point, two guards were even within range to tackle one of them down. Larro jerked his head back, instantly taking notice of the trouble behind him.
"Holy crap, dude, they're right behind us!"
One of the guards tackled Larro down. Lerod took off instantly, picking up two more chi orbs and making a run for it. "You and your friend here are going to regret doing what you did, you little shit sack," a guard said as he pinned Larro down. "And for your little friend getting away over there, we'll catch him, too."
"I'm all alone on this one, I guess," Lerod said to himself, trying to reach a tree just ahead of him. "I don't care what happens, though, but I'm not turning myself in!"