Ok, so I FINALLY got a new chapter all written. Man I was on a roll with my writing yesterday. Whoa, that probably won't happen for a while! Oh well, here it is. Enjoy it all!

Chapter four: Friendly faces

*The next morning*

Leon slowly opened his eyes, to see the sun shining through his window. He sat up and rubbed his eyes sleepily.

Then he hopped out of his bed, quickly made it, then ran over to his toy chest and pulled out his dark blue ball. He walked over to the middle of his room and started bouncing it on the floor.

After a few minutes, one of the Lions came to see if Leon was awake yet and Leon accidentally bounced his ball at the Lion. His ball hit the Lion in the face and he became infuriated.

"How dare you hit me!" the Lion roared to the young cub.

Leon, in his state of fear, curled up into a tight ball and stared up fearfully at the Lion towering over him. Then the Lion grabbed Leon up off the floor, by the scruff of his neck. Leon let out a frightened yelp.

He wasn't at all used to people being so hateful towards him. Leon hung limply from the Lion's tight grasp. He was to scared to do anything, but stare.

"Well? What do you have to say for yourself?!" the Lion roared.

Leon cringed and quietly stuttered, "I-I'm sorry mister Lion! I-I swear I d-didn't mean to hit y-you!"

The Lion glared at the young, trembling cub. He could see he had Leon scared half to death. He smiled evilly to himself. Then without a seconds warning, he roughly threw Leon to the floor. Leon hit the floor hard and started sobbing.

"Don't hit me again, or else your punishment will be much worse!" the Lion snarled.

Then he turned and huffed off, storming out of Leon's room. Leon sat there for a moment, then he leapt to his feet and ran over to his bed. He curled up in the corner next to it, buried his face into his arms and sobbed uncontrollably.

He was in a place that was unfamiliar to him. Everyone, but a small handful of people here, hated his guts. No one seemed to understand that his big sister and best friend were out in the woods somewhere, lost, hurt or even possibly dead.

Only a few even seemed to care that he was here, everyone else did everything they could, to show him how much they hated him. Everything as so different from his home in the Kin-Do Valley.

Everyone and everything was different from his home land. And he didn't like it one bit. He only wanted a place to call home. Someone who would love him. And maybe even a few friends! Was that to much for a young, orphaned cub to ask for?

After a while, Leon heard someone opening his door. He gasped fearfully, scared that it would be someone else who would hurt him.

He quickly crawled underneath his bed and hid under it. He could hear someone walking around, then the covers that hid him, were slowly lifted up. Leon covered his eyes fearfully. Afraid of who it would be.

"What are you doing under here, young one?" a gently voice asked.

Leon slowly removed his paws from his face and looked to see a male black Panther, staring worriedly at him.

Leon sniffled and said, "O-one of the Lions g-got mad at me, b-because I a-accidentally hit him w-with my ball!"

The Panther smiled kindly at Leon. "Well I'm sure you didn't mean to. Sometimes the Lions and Wolves are really grumpy, is all." he reassured the frightened cub.

Leon stared at him for a moment, then slowly nodded and crawled out from under the bed. When he crawled out, he saw the female black Panther from the other day ago, and she was holding the same bundle in her arms, and there was a year old Panther, sitting on her lap as well.

She was looked down at the new born in her arms, but when Leon crawled out, she smiled kindly at him.

"You must be Leon." she said.

Leon gulped and nodded nervously. "Y-yes ma'am, I am!" he said.

The two chuckled quietly and the male said, "You don't need to be afraid of us, little one. We won't hurt you. We just came by to say hello and introduce you to our two little ones."

Leon nodded and smiled at them. He looked up at the female and asked, "What are their names?"

The female let out a quiet laugh and said, "This is our daughter, Tanani. And this is our adopted son, Strak!"

Leon nodded and smiled at them. The new born was sleeping soundly, but the one year old wanted to play. The female gently set him on the ground and he slowly crawled around.

Leon walked over and sat down on the rug, next to his ball. Strak smiled and crawled over to Leon and sat near him. Then Leon gently rolled his ball to Strak.

The young cub quickly caught on to what Leon was doing and rolled the ball back. Leon smiled and they continued to play, until Strak got tired and curled up and fell asleep.

Leon chuckled, then the new born woke up and started to softly cry. The female gently rocked her, while Leon jumped up and held out a paw to the little one.

She opened her bright green eyes and smiled up at Leon. Then she gently grasped his and cooed.

The female smile and said, "I think she likes you!"

Leon laughed and grinned down at the baby. Then the male walked over and gently picked up Strak. He walked over and smiled down at his family and the young Leon.

"You know, I just thought of this, but you never asked our names!" he said to Leon.

The young cub nodded and said, "I didn't want to be rude."

The female chuckled softly. "That was very kind of you dear. But you don't have to worry about being rude! My name is, Ivy, and this is my husband, Hunter."

Leon turned and bowed his head. "It's very nice to meet you both!" the young cub said.

The two older Panthers laughed and said, "It's nice to meet you, too!"

Then the female stood up and walked towards the door. Leon frowned when he saw they were leaving.

But Hunter turned back to him and said, "Come along, Leon. It's breakfast time and I'm sure you don't want to miss that!"

Leon smiled and hurried after the two. They lead him down the many halls of the Hideout and down to a large Dining Hall.

Leon looked around and saw Lions and Wolves everywhere. Then the wonderful scent of tasty food, made it's way up his nose. He sniffed and then right on time, his stomach growled.

He held it and giggled. Ivy and Hunter smiled at one another and showed him a long buffet area. They showed him some of the different things that they liked to eat.

Leon tried a small bit of them all. Except for the raw fish. Leon wasn't that brave yet. The Panther couple led the young Tiger cub, to a table in the corner and they all sat down to eat.

Leon wolfed down everything on his plate, and ended up going back for seconds. The two Panthers weren't very surprised by this. He most likely hadn't eaten much since he got here.

After they all had finished eating, Ivy took Strak and Tanani to put them down for a nap, while Hunter took Leon outside. He was going to show him one of his favorite area's and past times.

He showed Leon a large Outside Training Ground Area and walked over and set up, three big pots, and stacked them, so that they made a triangle.

Leon watched in wonder, as Hunter walked over and pulled a long bamboo stalk from the large barrel, then walked out to the pots. He told Leon to stand back, and just watch.

Hunter stood back, about 20 feet away and closed his eyes for a moment. Then his eyes flashed open, and in the blink of an eye, he had leapt high into the air and came down just as quickly, smashing the pots to bits.

Leon's eyes went wide, as he started on in amazement. He couldn't believe what Hunter had just done. He was simply amazed at that.

Hunter spun the bamboo staff around his body, then he held it out in front of him, in a finishing stance. Leon grinned from ear to ear, as he clapped loudly for the Panther.

Hunter took a bow, then put the staff away in the barrel. He walked over to Leon and smiled down at the young cub.

"Tanis taught me how to do that, but just between you and me, I changed it up a little bit!" Hunter said, winking at the cub.

Leon beamed at him. "I wanna learn how to do that! Just like you did!" Leon cried out excitedly.

Hunter let out a hearty laugh and nodded his head. "Tanis can teach you how to do it. But if you want to learn it my way, I'd be more then honored to teach you!" he said.

Leon then began to jump up and down happily, clapping his paws together. Hunter couldn't help but laugh, at Leon's excitement. After Leon finally clamed down, Hunter took him back to his room.

"Alright, someone will be by later, to take you to lunch." Hunter said.

Leon looked down sadly. He had wanted Hunter and Ivy to take him. Hunter saw he was sad at that and knelt down in front of him.

"Don't worry. We'll be there and we'll save you a seat!" Hunter promised him.

Leon grinned and nodded. "OK! Thank you mister Hunter." he said.

Hunter chuckled and said, "You can call me, Hunter, lad. I'll see you later!"

Then he stood up and ruffled the fur between Leon's ears and walked off. Leon sighed and looked around his room. After a moment, he ran over and crawled up onto his window seat.

He looked down into the courtyard and saw Tanis. He was walking up and down, in front of a group of Wolves and Lions. At one point, he quickly spun around to face them and they all snapped to a smart attention.

Leon continued to watch as Tanis drilled his troops, until he slowly started to feel sleepy. He yawned wide and tried his best to hold his eyes open, but he couldn't any longer.

He laid down, curling up into a tight ball and fell sound asleep, with the sun shining brightly on him, keeping him nice and warm.

But what he didn't know was, his life was only going to get crazier...

Whoo. Finally got that finished! So yeah, I hope to have a new chapter up soon, if I can. And it looks like Leon had made some new friends! But how long will that be for? And what about all these Wolves and Lions that hate him? Will he survive them? Guess we'll find out more next chapter! But until then, don't forget to review and yeah. Talk with you later all!