Note: This chapter and all continuing chapters are by Macora prime

Albin then got back up and walked over to Shere Khan. The tiger growled aggressively. He bared his white canines at the man. After getting cut by Jack's silver tooth, he became wary of the humans in this freak show.

"Calm down, Shere Khan," Albin said, holding out a piece of meat for the Lord of the Jungle. "I won't hurt you." But the tiger just slashed his claws at him. He knocked the meat out of Albin's hand. Shere Khan crept toward him slowly. The tigresses watched in fear. Albin moved back to the cage door, seeing that the tiger has shown his motives.

"Okay, okay," Albin said nervously. He backed away from Shere Khan, knowing that the tiger didn't want him anywhere near him. Albin had Shatari lie on the floor of hay, hoping that it would ease the situation. Shere Khan was outraged after seeing Shatari with one of the humans. As much as he promised to her not to harm any of them, his hate had grown for them after what they did to him – after Jack had given him a scar from his knife. Seeing Shatari with Albin upset him even more. Shatari watched the vicious tiger. Shere Khan was angered at the presence of Albin. She wondered why he was acting like this. The white tigress got up from lying on the hay and came up to Shere Khan.

"Hey," she said.

Shere Khan didn't answer her.

"Is something wrong?" Shatari asked.

"I saw you with that human," Shere Khan said.

"What about him?"

Shere Khan stood up and looked at Shatari intensely. "That human, all of these humans are evil!" the tiger exclaimed. "They're all the same – murderers. I hate them!"

"What do you have against humans?!" Shatari asked.

Shere Khan paused for a moment, staring at her. He sighed, thinking of his past and when his hatred began. "It's because they took the lives of my family." Shere Khan explained.

"What?" Shatari asked. Her eyes widened by what Shere Khan had told her.

"A couple of hunters came into the jungle and killed my mother and father with their sticks of fire." Shere Khan said. "One shot at me, but I managed to escape. They took everything from me."

Shatari felt bad for what happened, for she knew what that was like.

"I can never forgive them." Shere Khan added. "Not after that. I don't expect you to understand."

Shere Khan looked away from the tigress. Shatari, hearing everything that had happened to Shere Khan, did feel bad for what happened to him. She understood what that was like.

"I do understand," Shatari said. "I was stolen from my family."

Shere Khan's eyes widened in shock; he looked back to Shatari. He was surprised to hear her say that. Losing your family in that kind of way was hard to take in. "I'm sorry," he said, hearing of her past.

The white tigress sat beside Shere Khan. "I was taken away from my home when I was just a cub," she explained. "But Albin took me in. He gave me a new home here at the circus. If it wasn't for him I would be dead like my parents."

Shere Khan thought to himself. After what Albin had done maybe there was some good in humans.

"I guess there is something we have in common," Shere Khan said.

"Yeah," said Shatari as she scooted a little closer to Shere Khan.

Shere Khan sighed. "All my life I've been attacking humans," he said, "just to make sure that no one else had to go through what I had. Then I end up here," Shere Khan stared into Shatari's eyes, "with you. I'm glad that it happened to me."

Shatari blushed a bit. She knew Shere Khan loved her, and in truth she did too. Shatari began seeing Shere Khan in a new way. It wasn't her instincts telling her, but her heart. She knew now that she was ready. Shatari nuzzled the mighty tiger. Shere Khan at first was confused as before, but soon the feeling, something he hadn't felt before until he met Shatari, had returned. Shere Khan's eyes closed in bliss. The two tigers began to purr. Agrata watched Shere Khan and Shatari falling in love. She smiled seeing the two happy together.