Last chapter, as promised. Check it out, read and review for me. Enjoy. Last update for now, but read it anyway. I think you might like it.


Chapter twenty-eight

Jasmine held Chloe up before slowly laying her down on the earthen floor.

"Chloe?" she said softly, patting Chloe's cheek. "Chloe, come on, wake up."

Chloe stirred and mumbled something unintelligible before succumbing back into unconsciousness. Jasmine's eyes clouded with worry and she looked up at Aniche for help. The older woman nodded and went to fetch a pot of cold water. Quickly returning, Aniche dipped her hand into the water and patted it onto Chloe's face.

The blonde stirred once more and opened her eyes. "J-Jasmine?" she asked to which Jasmine smiled. "Hey Chloe, how are you feeling?"

"Scared." Chloe replied, slowly sitting up.

"There's nothing to be worried about, Chloe." Aniche soothed, rubbing Chloe's back. "You are the new leader of all of Nigeria and probably Sub-Saharan Africa. What is it that you needed?"

"I was coming to ask Ugdablo if he could send some of his warriors out to the other Prides so that they can be interconnected with us."

"Well, tell a few warriors of your plan and they will make it happen." Chloe raised an eyebrow and Aniche nodded. "You are ruler now."

As she said this, a large drum-like instrument began beating out a rhythm. "Ah, the egwugwu is signaling to the other tribes that there is to be a meeting in the market. There, the warriors will announce to the other tribes that you have finally arrived. Come, do you have suitable clothing?" Chloe shook her head and Aniche looked to Jasmine, who also shook her head.

"Come with me." Aniche led the to a kind of antechamber and picked up two slim dresses made of striped Jackal fur.

"I would rather not wear that." Chloe murmured. "Do you have anything of leopard print?"

Aniche nodded and picked up a different dress. Chloe nodded and Aniche left so that she and Jasmine could change. Once clothed again, the girls looked each other over and nodded before moving back into the main part of the hut. They found the others waiting for them there in the same type of outfits. Paul was in nothing but warthog-hide shorts, Amy was in a leopard-print bra and skirt, Safire had on the same as Amy, except in elephant-skin, Raton wore jackal shorts, and Dimitri wore the same except his were made of wild dog hide. Meredith and Valentina had on matching hippopotamus skin-dresses. Felina was the only one to keep her normal clothes on.

"Why didn't you change?" Chloe asked curiously.

"I don't know how they would react to me." Felina said with a nonchalant shrug. "I figure, better play it safe than scary."

Chloe sighed, but nodded all the same and Aniche led them to the market with the others. When they arrived, the crowd of Nigerians and people of the surrounding areas of Niger, Cameroon and Benin parted to let them all through.

As they stood on a small podium, one of the warriors form Chloe's village began speaking. "Friends and enemies alike, you have all heard the news of the Uniter coming to our villages. Well, I am very proud to present her to you. From the village of Ambanta, we introduce our new leader, Chloe!" All of the warriors bowed to Chloe as the others in the crowd looked at her curiously.

Chloe ducked her head and blushed. "Hi." She said to them. "Uh, I'm Chloe and I'm from San Francisco. I was wondering if we could have a few warriors from all over so that they could go to the other Mai Prides in New York, Spain, France, Ukraine, Russia, and Hong Kong so that inter-Pride relations could get stronger. I need the human warriors to be careful in France because they tend to eat humans, but everywhere else is friendly. So, any volunteers?"

Numerous hands went up and Chloe looked at her friends for help. Felina, Jasmine and Raton stepped forward. "You three with the long spiky hair," Raton said, pointing to three different warriors.

"You with the long arms." Jasmine added, pointing out a man with large buff arms.

"You with the scar on your eye." Felina intoned, nodding at a man that had a jagged scar across his left eye. For the next thirty seconds, the three of them pointed out different warriors to go on the mission Chloe had assigned.

At last, they were finished and Chloe began speaking again. "Those of you who have been picked, please get ready to leave. Those of you who were not, stay behind to protect the villages and welcome the Mai coming from other countries. Are we all clear?"

Everyone replied in an uproar of 'aye' and Chloe smiled widely. She and her family stepped off of the podium and were escorted back to the village in which they'd come from.

"Does her majesty wish to sleep for a bit before dinner?" Aniche asked, walking beside Chloe.

"That would be wonderful, Aniche. Thank you. Will you send someone to wake me when it's time to cook?"

"Her majesty wishes to cook?" Aniche asked, taken aback.

"Of course, I love finding something to cook."

Aniche nodded and let Chloe alone. Chloe went back to the leader's hut and snuggled onto one of the beds there, falling asleep almost immediately.


There you go. Review and tell me what y'all think of it. This is the last update for now, but I'll be working on their trip to Brazil next. This should be FUN! n.n ;)