It's a cloudy day in the lands far away from the known lands of the pride lands, where the lands is not as powerful with a lot fewer lionesses but just enough to be called a pride. The pride sleeps in a wide rocky den on the edge of the Earth's surface, about the quarter of the size smaller then pride rock with the roof being lumpy but the roof at the surface is flat and low to the ground like if it's the ground it's self which is beneficial for hiding cubs when life threatening danger occurs since it's difficult for outsiders to tell whether it's the cave or ground, with a wide entrance that leads down into the cave facing South.
As the sun starts to slowly descend on the cloudy day a young adult lioness with a bright cream tan fur color with blue eyes, walking with a young adult male lion with his thick fluffy brown mane and light tan fur with greenish eyes as they walk from the waterhole after finish mating. "I had a great time tonight Chuki" says the lioness giving her lover a loving look and then nuzzling him, Chuki: "oh, Sarafina my childhood best friend sweetheart, you know how to make each day special to me" says as they approach the cave. Sarafina:" only a matter of time before the cub starts to show, how are we gonna hide it from your queen Kuzimu?" says in a slight worried tone of voice;?: "hide what?!" says a voice coming from the desert grass next to the path they were taking as a dark tan lioness with brown eyes comes out of the grass scowling at the two, Chuki: "Kuzimu? What are you doing here?"
Kuzimu:" I was coming back from a walk when I seen my king and my best friend walking to together, I was going to come and join but I heard you both were hiding something…. From ME" she says getting aggravated Chuki:" we're not hiding anything from you" he says lying Kuzimu:" you liar" Chuki:" Kuzimu why would I lie to my queen?" Kuzimu:" because I know you, ever since we were announced as mates you would always lie to me if the subject relates or leads with Sarafina, and not a very good liar " Sarafina:" Kuzimu , I'm your friend and you know I wouldn't lie to you and trust me when I say that we're not hiding anything from you" she speaks to her as Kuzimu looks deep into the eyes of her best friend and sees her pupil change size when she spoke which is a way to indicate if Sarafina is lying or not.
Kuzimu:" wow, even my best friend for who knows how many years lies to me" Sarafina:" Kuzimu fr-" Kuzimu cuts her off " don't call me your friend anymore you lying sack of dead ants, I know you two did something and we're not leaving the spot until I know what you're hiding!" she says sitting in the path that leads to the cave as the sun disappears into the horizon with all of the lionesses in the den sleeping with the exception of the three lions. Kuzimu:" we can wait all night if we have to" she says scowling at the two not moving from where she sits, Chuki:" Kuzimu, my queen and lover I'm telling you the truth we're not hiding anything" Kuzimu:" Chuki, my king and lover you are still lying and you know I can detect liars pretty easy" she says scowling.
They stay silent for a few more hours before Kuzimu finally breaks the silence, Kuzimu:" fine, I'll just have to force it out of you" Chuki:" what do you mean force it out of us?" Kuzimu:" Chuki if you don't tell me the truth I'll have no choice but to banish your sister Abby into the outer lands" Chuki's eyes widen in both shock and fear Chuki:" you can't do that!" Kuzimu: "indeed I can and indeed I will unless you tell me the truth on what you're hiding" Chuki:" Kuzimu, you know she'll die out there!" he says with a tone of worry and fear for his sister which who is just a cub Kuzimu shrugs her shoulders "it won't be my problem, my father is the former king and he told me to be ruthless if it means to sniff out the truth"
Chuki looks at Sarafina who is still next to him just listening to the conversation, Sarafina looks at him as he whispers to Sarafina Chuki:" I'm sorry Sarafina, I can't have my sister to be put in danger" he says as Sarafina nods understanding then closes her eyes not wanting to see her reaction. Chuki:" fine I'll tell you" Kuzimu looks deep into the greenish eyes of her king Chuki:" me and Sarafina…. M-m-mated" he says while looking at the ground as a face of disgust and shock slowly fills the face of Kuzimu.
Sarafina opens her eyes to see her shocked and disgusted reaction Sarafina: "Kuzimu, I-" Kuzimu:" DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK TO ME!" she says growling at her with a face full of rage Kuzimu:" you know the pride law about mating with the queens' mate" Sarafinas' face slowly turned into fear and horror knowing the law very well Sarafina:" please, don't do this" she says as tears start to build from fear Kuzimu:" you done this to yourself, you are banished from this pride" she growls at her Chuki:" Kuzimu!" Kuzimu looks at him:" You're lucky you're not going with her so keep quiet" she snaps back.
Sarafina:" Kuzimu you can't do this, don't you remember when we were cubs? We were best frie-"Sarafina gets interrupted by a claw slapping her in the face. Kuzimu: " I'm not your friend anymore you lying, cheating piece of elephant dung, and all of that is in the past where it don't matter, now leave this pride before I'll have to kill you" she says with eyes full of flame as Sarafina stands up and starts to head East. Before Sarafina got far, she looks back and sees Chuki looking down at the ground and Kuzimu watching scowling at her, which was the last Sarafina seen them before continuing to head east. She reaches the border of the pride and sees the dry and dead lands of the outlands.
She sighs as she continues her way, entering the outlands which is known to be dangerous if you're not in a pride but more deadly if you're going alone with a high chance of getting jumped by a small pride of starving rouge lion and lionesses without a care if you're another lion or not they want to stay alive. Sarafina is more worried entering the outlands not only because of her well being but because she knows she's pregnant, scared that if she gets jumped her cub may never even see the light of day.
Several restless weeks later Sarafina have grown weaker and weaker as she continues her path in a hot dry desert starving, exhausted and now starting to edge on dehydration as the cub inside of her grown slightly making her stomach expand with more obvious showing of her pregnancy but only by a small bit. Mile after mile she continues strong but starting to wonder how long does she have left before collapsing on to the dry hot desert possibly being the end of her and the cub that's not even close to be birthed.
' there can't just be desert out here, there has to be some kind of life beyond this direction' Sarafina says in her head starting to worry again. Night has fallen once again as the desert temperature dropped rapidly to a near forty five degrees Fahrenheit but Sarafina keeps going restlessly trying desperately to find a pride or some sort of water and food source to maybe live alone with just her and her unborn cub if she don't find a pride that will accept her and let her join.
Sarafina walks several more miles before seeing a small figure in the distance which is hard to make out what it is at night and Sarafina's bloodshot eyes from exhaustion don't help either as she squints trying to see what is ahead but no luck as she picks up the pace to hope it's a pride or anything that will keep her from going under.
Once she picked up the pace she eventually stepped foot onto green fresh grass, feeling the cold moist grass under her dry and blistered paws feels like nothing she have ever felt before on her paws since the grass in her old pride was the dry savannah which wasn't as soft compared to the grass she stands on now, as she takes a second to enjoy the satisfying cool feel on her paws before continuing to get closer to the figure which Sarafina got close enough to identify the figure is a mountain like rock pointed high in the sky with another rock slanted forwards while being supported by another thick big rock beneath of it, the sight of it made Sarafinas' jaw drop in amazement of how the rock looks. But as she gets closer and closer she sees water which seems to be a water hole.
She's relieved to see the water as she approaches it Sarafina:" thank heavens for this area" she says approaching the water as her vision starts to become dizzy and she starts to feel nauseous before collapsing right in front of the water from her body having enough with the sleepless nights as she falls fast asleep in the new land. Sarafina hasn't slept in a long while since she was so nervous of being jumped by rouge lions she didn't sleep once which is the cause of her to pass out now.
End of part 1
Authors note: So here's my new story, this took about three or four months to do (thanks to more ideas piling in) so what you guys think of the first part so far? Like last time I'll be posting each part per day and I hope you enjoy the series :^)
