12 days of Christmas!
NUKA
*that night.
"Word is in boss, that the lionesses have entered the valley pride territory. " good, this was news I had been waiting to hear. "They should have an audience with the king and queen sometime in the evening."
"Good, and they were escorted with three hyenas correct?"
"Yes." this hyena...I forget his name, was filling in my Alpha, while he remained gone escorting the lionesses.
"Perfect. Oh, any news on my dear cousin Simba?" even with the little snag of Simba reappearing out of bumble fuck nowhere. I won't let him damper on my festivities. although, I'll have to play my paw here extremely well. If he's still the same old cousin of mine, he'll blindly bulldoze his way here. but then there is Nala, there's no doubt about it that she'll be informing in on everything she knows.
she just loves to make my life more difficult. Fine challenge accepted.
"No sir."
"Hmm, I have half a mind to send more scouts that way."
"If you want that I can arrange it Nuka."
"...No, not at this moment. you can go now, we'll reconvene in the morning."
"Yes, Nuka. would you like me to escort you to your den?"
"No that will be fine, it's been rather quiet lately." the hyenas nodded before leaving me, I watched him until he became nothing more than a small spec in the moonlight.
"Oh Simba, how are you doing to strike first?"
"Why wait for his move, when you could strike before him?" huh? I turned to see who in their damn mind called themselves sneaking up on me. but when I looked, there was no one. weird, maybe I thought I heard something. I could have sworn I heard the voice, clear as day."That seems to be the move you always play dear."
"What? who said that?" I felt a rise of annoyance grow within me. With this damn eye missing, I have to strain twice as hard to see sudden movement. but as I kept looking, kept straining my eye, I saw nothing, not a damn thing. yet I know for a fact that I heard someone. who in their sane mind would think they could play a fucking joke on me! "Alright, who the hell is there, show yourself."
Nothing, just stillness.
"It seems now that you have your own cub on the way you're playing the game more guarded." spinning to my left and my right I see still nothing, but darkness! and I know I heard a voice, I heard her voice...but hat kept be. it's fucking impossible.
"Show your fucking self or else!"
"I am showing myself Nuka, whether or not you actually want to see me, is up to you." hell there's no fucking way. the moment I tried to take a step forward my body felt frozen in place. there was this sudden sheer weight of my shoulders, that preventing me from taking a single step. The hell is going on...someones, here I know it I can feel it. but it doesn't make sense for who it actually is. shit doesn't work like that. she's nothing but cracked bones and mountain dust. "when you were younger you use to always love seeing me Nuka."
Out of the shadows, zoomed low, piercing red eyes. They narrowed in on me, starring right past me...though me. Fuck. They steadily grew closer. the larger they got the smaller I became. unable to control the movement of my own fucking body out of, fear. Fucking fear! "there's no fucking way...you're dead...I killed you, mother!"
but...there...there she was. m-mother she was standing right in front of me, with all of her terrifying glory. shit, I must be going crazy, I have to be."wipe that look off your face, you make it seem like you've never seen me before."
"No...you...I know this can't be."
"Why? you were constantly thinking about it. You practically brought me here yourself." way! this is bullshit. My mind must be playing tricks on me, or worse...I've been poised, this has to be it- they got to me...shit they actually got to me. But how fucking how! I've kept my foot on this pride the entire time. they gave them no room to be able to fuck with me... m-maybe it wasn't them, maybe it was the hyenas.
That's it...maybe they're starting to turn on me, maybe they teamed with Shanti. They are double-crossing me, those bastards! those fucking mindless bastards! "What the fuck is so funny?!"
"Nothing son, just seeing the bewildered look on your face as you try to piece this all together."
"w...what...is...is this fucking amusing to you?!" my heart was racing, it was pounding out of my chest. It was going to explode. "No no, those hyenas didn't do their fucking job, that's whats happened- and now you're here to kill me!"
" No son, they killed me. in cold blood, and you walked away while it happened."
"...s...s...so you're dead." but still now of this made sense how in the world is she here? " w-what are you doing, you're going to be here to haunt me..."
"Son I think you know the answer to that. you're haunting your own self. killing others was fine, hurting others was fine. but you, you did it to your own mother. the only reason why you're here in the kings' forsaken place at all!" I flinched at the pitch of your voice, but she wasn't yelling...I'm sure she wasn't even moving her mouth. She was just staring at me. "and now you can't unsee the bloodstains you put on your own paws."
"b-bullshit...I'm just tired, I'm imagining this...all of this!" or I'm just going crazy...
" you're not going crazy, but you are imagining this."
"Then go the fuck away!"
"But you want me here-"
"NO, I DON'T I KILLED YOU YTO GET RID OF YOU!"
"Now son, even you can't convince yourself of that. no matter how hard you try. you were always my special prince Nuka. you couldn't break this bond we have even if you try, even after all the wrong to did to others and me. I'm still here with you-" somehow I manage to gain control over my body again. Without hesitation, I attacked the creature pretending to be my mother. I went right through the shadows. FUCK. I crashed hard, falling to my side. " Son I'm a figment of your subconscious, you can't touch me. Remember I'm dead-"
"SHUTUP!" I roared, she was unfazed, unmoved...and she was still here, why was she here...fucking with me. no no...I have to stay calm, keep my head. the great kings of the past are fucking with me, that fine, I can play that game. the dead don't scare me. "...so...what do you want from me? huh. my body? my sanity?"
"Son, those are all yours, if you're strong enough to keep them."
"The hell is that supposes to mean..."
" I'm simply here to prevent you from succumbing you your fears. After all is that why you killed me?"...what..." you knew I wouldn't support you, I'd leave you. then everything you would have done in the name of growing your kingdom would have been for nothing. I mean look around son, you have no one, you are all alone-"
"That's a lie, I have Shanti now and our cub- MY SON."
"wasn't it just a few moments ago you were accusing her and the hyenas of double-crossing you?"...fuck can she read my thoughts too now?
"...I'll still have everything I've ever wanted...fought for, killed for...and you all will be sorry you didn't stand with me!" my voice was starting to crack, what the fuck was going on with me. these...emotions I don't have, I don't feel fear, I don't feel regret. "if only you would have stayed with me mother...then you'd see what greatness I could do. greatness at my scale does not come at a small cost..."
"But it will be a cost now the sell...I hope you are prepared for it."
"Well, I-m-mother" she was gone...she just disappeared, she vanished into thin air like the one she floated in on...no...no! "m..mother...mother come back!- MOTHER!" f-fuck...calm down calm down Nuka. get a fucking hold of yourself... I took a moment to compose myself. Tasting the blood I felt on my tongue, as my teeth bit into it. I'm still here...I'm still sane. I'm not going crazy.
I'm just working myself too hard, everything, worried...Simba just has me worried. After all, he's my biggest opponent. He always has been, but I won't let him get the advance over me. I know his weakness...more so than what he knows of mine. I'll exploit it and use it against him. Hmp, she thinks I'm playing it safe now, I'll show her.
+on the 12th day of December Lionesscreator gave to me, the madness on king NUKA!
KawaiiCutie12, right, when they have this next one I might actually cry...
RyanSquad, yes same I ship very very hard lol.
Iz (Guest), don't worry Nala will tell Simba what happened when she is ready, we still have some talking points to resolve for use. remember they weren't that close as teenagers because they have the blowout, when Simba found out his half-brother. but thank you for the review!
