Only own OCs, I do.

Yeah… I shouldn't try to sound like Yoda anytime soon.

Eli H. Lee

When they got to their stop, the whole circus saw two lions and a golden furred, blue-green eyed female fossa waiting for them on the outskirts of the city. The young teenage lion who Alex introduce as his cousin Ayo carried a small bag over his shoulder with a Cheshire grin across his face, unnerving some of the circus residents. The lioness who was introduced as Rosella carried a huge box and bag within her paws. Aya, the female fossa, had with her a little box. A very little box decorated with feathers on the side.

As the three newcomers were being greeted by the rest of the circus, Vitaly stood back and observed their behavior. Aya, while not able to speak prefect English, seemed to be very chatty, especially with Stefano, as she gladly told of the three's adventure of New Orleans to Las Vegas and the family of white lions that they stayed with while they waited for the circus to come1. Ayo was showing off his juggling act for the others while giving the same Cheshire grin. The grown tiger rolled his green eyes at this, getting the impression that the young lion was just as much as a show off as Alex, probably even more. Rosella on the other hand (or paw) actually seemed more distance, giving small, quick and uneased glances at everyone unlike everyone else. Vitaly perked up an ear when Gia held out her paw to shake the lioness's unbandage one only for the lioness to hesitate at the gesture. Her wounded paw also popped up question, the only answer she was giving being that she cut it on some broken glass.

All of the sudden, Rosella snatched her bag from one of the dogs who were trying to see what was in it and growled at them. Everyone stared at the scene as Rosella's fully black marked ears went back in embarrassment.

"I'm… I'm just going to put my belongings away," she quickly said, running off before anyone could say anything.

"What's her problem?" Freddie said, crossing his arms as he made a face. Ayo, no longer having his grin on, looked to which car his sister had ran off to as Alex leaned towards him and whispering something. Ayo nodded and shrugged at the same time.

Vitaly also looked to see which cart the lioness had took off and went into before seeing it was Gia's and supposedly Aya's. While everyone else was starting to go back to talking to the other two new members, which Vitaly thought was odd giving the question of why Alex and Ayo go after the lioness, the tiger went to go and tell her which cart of hers.

However when he opened the cart door, the Siberian saw the reddish brown golden lioness taking out small vials of odd liquids and… smoke? Ok, he had the idea that she was probably into… voodoo by her accessories, but this was really pushing his great dislike of such things. He coughed deeply to get her attention.

Her face lifted up as if in fear and he noticed that she shifted herself away from him. His eyes shifted to her blind eye and then to her wounded paw before back to her face in general.

"I.. I was just-"

"Vrong cart. You are closer to back of train," he said as she began to quickly pick the vials back up. One with a purple liquid dropped however and broke. Vitaly stood for a moment as Rosella seem to begin to panic as she picked up the pieces quickly and saving what of the liquid that she could. He didn't hear many stories of where 'magic' did any good, so keeping his distance was probably best. However one of the glass shards cut into the bandaged paw, making Rosella hiss in pain. He began to question in his mind if this lioness just happened to be Alex's sister instead of Ayo's and someone just messed something up around the time.

"Here, let me see zhe damage," he said, walking over carefully to her. When he nearly touched her though, she quickly cringed away, almost jumping to the other wall as she took short, quick breaths. "Vhat?"

"Hey, Ro, you should probably know that…" Alex stopped as he stood in the doorway, staring at the sight in front of him, Vitaly on his knees in front of some vials and his cousin holding her paw and cringing against the wall. It seemed to take only a few seconds to realize what had happened. "Vitaly, you probably want to leave."

"Vhy? And vhy is she-?"

"Just go, I'll handle this."

…

Rosella, after being convinced to let Melman bandage her paw, kept herself in her (proper) cart for the rest of the day and half-way through the next. In the meantime, plans for the show to get them to Russia were underway.

"So what is-a Rosella's act-a?" Stefano asked, as everyone, except the lioness in question of course, was gathered around the table that had the penguins and the plans. The penguins looked at the sea lion with raised eyebrows.

"Excuse me?" Skipper said, raising an eyebrow at him.

"What's-a Rosella's act-a? Because-a Ayo is going to-a juggle and Aya is-a going to dance with-a Gloria and-a Melman, shouldn't Rosella get-a an act?"

"She doesn't have one," Alex said, earning stares from many circus members. Seeing this, the grown lion sighed deeply before explaining. "Rosella's not…," he paused for a moment as if trying to find the right words. "…Comfortable with crowds."

"Then why is she here then?"

Alex's silence took over as he glared at one of the dogs. "It's…"

"Complicated," Ayo finished, playing around with a small pen nearby.

1) I want everyone here to put in their reviews of who those white lions were. Just guess. Really. I'm totally serious on this.

So that was the 3rd chapter and it is now two day until the next expansion for World of Warcraft comes out. Yay! Please review!