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Leopard the Warrior of Africa

3 months later…

Vitaly sighed. Not out of sadness, but out of tiredness. Even after stretching, he was stiff and sore from practicing before the show they put on that day, putting up the equipment, helping Alex figure out how the heck to get a chocolate covered fish taco covered with sushi (the lion got Gia pregnant), and making sure the cubs had everything they needed for their sleepovers with Julian's and Sonya's new adopted son, Julian Junior, or as the little polar bear liked to be called, J.J (he still laughed at how Julian gave in when Sonya brought up the subject of kids).

Maluuni smiled and kissed her boyfriend on the cheek. "Amazing, how fast they grow, huh, Mon?" she said, nuzzling against the tiger. Vitaly chuckled and placed an arm around the lioness as both of them laid down in the hammock. "Da, zhey do grow fast," he answered, kissing her on the forehead. She giggled and cuddled up close the larger feline and started to scratch his chin. Vitaly smiled and nuzzled her still.

"How do you have good experience vith cubs, anyways? Zhe moment Anton, Ahote, and Tanya came; you immediately act like mother zo zhem. I zhought it vould have zaken longer," he commented, looking at Rosa with curiosity.

"Well, someone had to keep Alex acting his age. And both he and I, along with our parents helped our older sister Shani, care for her newborn son after her mate left her. Then the three of us ended up babysitting Ayo and his litter mates, Kerneels, Asita, and Deka. And last but not least, my youngest baby sister Wema was born some months before Ayo and I left Africa. It's a tradition, you could say, for us lions to help our families to raise the young," she said, smiling sheepishly a bit. Vitaly stared at her for a moment. He had totally not expected that. Maluuni noticed how the tiger was looking at her, making her ask, "What? Don't the tigers also do that?"

"Nyet. It is rare for children to help zheir parents raise younger siblings when zhey reach adulthood. Even zhen, it is even rarer for us male tigers to even actually zake part of cubs' life in raising zhem," he admitted, his ears a bit lowered. To his surprised, the lioness in his arms chuckled and rolled onto him.

"Well, I guess you are one of the rare tiger fathers then, Mon."

Vitaly felt himself blush as his girlfriend kept nuzzling him.

"You know, with the kids out at their little sleepover, Mon," Rosa began, her smile small, yet enough to make Vitaly smirk a bit. She kissed him and nuzzled him, her arms wrapped around him. The tiger couldn't help but grinned. All of the sudden, he wasn't so tired anymore.

….

Few weeks later…

Tanya, Anton, Ahote, and J.J. all looked at the three new cubs of the circus that was kept warm by Gia. One was a bronze golden male with blue eyes, a lion's nose, and golden spots, and clearly loved to eat as he kept suckling his mother's milk. The other male was a light golden orange male with brown eyes, a jaguar's nose, and dark brown spots who seemed to keep trying to crash into Ahote's nose. The last cub was a female, who had Alex's fur color, one blue eye, the other eye brown, and her spots were a medium brown. On her forehead was a spade-shape spot and her nose was brown like her mother's, but shaded like her father's.

Alex smiled proudly at his and Gia's cubs as he lay next to his new family. Tanya giggled at she watched the female look around in curiosity while Ahote kept trying to make sure the cub that kept trying to crash into his nose wasn't going to fall. Anton watched the eating cub silently, his head titled as he wondered how a cub could eat so much.

Teenage Ayo looked at his nephews and niece before asking the question that always comes. "What are you goanna name them?"

Alex chuckled at his brother and looked at his daughter. "Vanga, spade, defiantly for the girl." Gia smiled and licked her nursing son. "Mangiare, eat, for this little feeder," she said, nuzzling the little boy before everyone looked at the "crasher" of the three cubs.

"Ok, we already used two Italian names, what is Swahili for 'crash?'" the new mother said, picking the boy up to keep him from doing so.

"Um… Ajali, I think," Rosa said, giggling at her brown-eyed nephew. "He will surely live up to it."

"Hopefully not soon," Aya said, scanning each of the cubs over. J.J. laughed at the foosa's remark and sniffed Mangiare. "Why is Mangiare bronze gold?" the polar bear cub asked, his brown eyes looking at the cub.

"Because Alex's, Rosa's, and my mother is bronze gold. It's happens a lot in the family where a child takes after a grandparent. For example, one of my littermates, Deka, looks like a female version of our mother's father, Jua. Rosa here has our father's father's fur color though, and a distant relative's back stripe," Ayo explained, his blue eyes setting on the white cub.

Vitaly chuckled and held Maluuni close to him as the teenager continued. "The thing is, where's there's one in a generation, there's usually another. Rosa and Deka are a good example. I wouldn't be surprised if Vitaly and Rosa had a cub that took after our father Zuba."

Everyone stared at Ayo at that. Anyone who heard of Rosa talk about Zuba in the circus, Vitaly especially being one, knew that the lioness clearly did not have a good relationship with her father. Tanya was the first to speak up after everyone was silent. "So…. vould now be bad zime to say zhat Mama's pregnant and zhat vhat Uncle Ayo said vill most likely happen?"

"Little late for that, Sis."

"Do not zell me you did not know she vas pregnant, Ahote!"

"I didn't know Moma was pregnant. See? I said it."

Me: ... I know it's short, but, honestly, I was bored and I had a short time to update.

Alex: Can I kill Vitaly now?

Rosa: Depends, do you really what your nephews and/or nieces to be fatherless?

Alex: Good point.

Marty: Everyone, just review. *face palm*