Chapter 6 Stelle
"Wake up, cuz." Uzuri rolled over to be met by Stelle's topaz like eyes with her signature series of dots beneath them.
Stelle was in her awkward stage of life she wasn't a cub anymore but she definitely wasn't a lioness yet either. She was leaner than the rest of their family, but she too had the brown stripe on her head but it came to a cross right above her eyes, but she also had a lighter color to her fur it was a creamy yellow color. "You up yet." she said rhetorically. Uzuri shook her head and grunted "I take that as a no." Stelle said as she picked Uzuri up in her mouth.
"Ouch!" Uzuri yelped as Stelle took her out into the sun. "Where are we going?" Uzuri asked rubbing her sore eyes..
Stelle didn't respond she just carried her cousin till they were at the coastline. Stelle set Uzuri down on the soft sand, "There." Stelle said as she pointed at a cove that appeared as the tide receded.
They went into the cove that was only light by the reflection of the leftover water. "Where are we Stelle?" She asked splashing a stagnant pond, making the light in the room flicker.
"This is my own little cave, but that isn't important I have a bad feeling." She said checking the entrance to see if they were alone. "I had a dream, but it wasn't really a dream... I don't know… I saw the tide turn red, the fields were ablaze, and then I was chased out and an apparition didn't stop till I was in the Wastelands... where I saw the bo…" She choked on her words.
"What did you see?" Uzuri asked "Stelle."
"Bodies everyone we know and love, some of their bodies were mangled and fresh while others looked like they had been left in the sun for months." Stelle said as she began to tremble. "But we escaped." She paused for a second to compose herself. "Do you remember that legend of Pride Rock?"
"Of course, Uru, Mohatu, and the Rogue Prince but isn't that just a fairy tale?"
"No, we are descended from the Pride Lands, your father was born in the Pride Lands and he was betrothed to Uru, but the Rogue Prince challenged him for Uru. I am guessing you know what happened after that."
The scene melted away, "Help!" Uzuri woke up to Kreb attacking Kiu. Kreb nailed Kiu in the side of the head and was moving in to finish him off.
"Stop!" She shouted shaking the cave causing the ceiling to surrender some sand. "I will marry you if allow Kiu to live."
Kiu shook his head, "Deal, but Kiu for treason I hereby banish you from the Coastlands." Kreb looked dignified in what he had accomplished.
"Let me say goodbye at least, think of it as a wedding present." Kreb just scowled and turned away, Kiu walked up to her. "There is a cove to the South that can only be seen at low tide I have an idea." She said embracing him in a hug.
Kiu walked to the mouth of the cave and turned toward the others in the cave and winked, Uzuri giggled and Kreb smacked her and chased Kiu out of sight. 'At Least he got the message.'
AN: Work has been eating into my time sorry that I have been publishing late at night, I would like to know what you think of Stelle. Any comments on my history that I made between the Coastlands and the Pridelands. I am also gonna wait till I get at least two reviews on this chapter before I will post my next one. And I have got 300 views so thanks