Elsa, the jungle girl
The She-ape
A great sunrise from the east of the jungle. The burning orb of light and warmth slowly rose to the sky above, the darkness of night was so lowly swept away by the early morning light. There came the sounds of chirping so from the many birds that took flight from the trees. Near the open plains, Hathi and his herd grazed upon the tall grass. Giving a load trumpet, Hathi raised his long noses high in the air. High in the trees deeper into the tropical wet forest of Africa, Bagheera the panther laid atop the high branches of the trees. The panther opened his green eyes and raised his head from his paws, gazing out toward the rising sun.
The black leopard continued to observe the rising sun from the branch where he rested for the night. He sighed aas he stretched out his front legs before he stood upon then and reached his left leg out and then right. The panther then leaped down from the tree and down to the ground. It was the start of another day in this wild land of Africa. Another day in the new life of Diata's adopted daughter. Far back to the lions den, as the sun beamed from over the tops of the trees, it's light slowly climbed up the den of the lions, by then it passed a over the mouth of the cave. From inside the cave, the pride still slept within their stone layer. The light of the sun had entered the cave, slowly it traveled till it came upon a familier white lioness and a young girl cub with light blond hair, clad in a blue loincloth who was curled up at her side, still fast asleep.
As the suns light came upon the face of the white lioness, she quinged her eyes before opening them. Diata turned to the mouth of the cave, seeing the morning light had returned once more. The white lioness smiled with anticipation for the new day. She then turned to her adopted daughter who slept up against her white fur. Slowly the lioness mother decended her head down to her girl cub and nudged her with her muzzle.
"Elsa?" She whispered in the girls young ear.
The young girl moaned in response before she opened her blue eyes.
"Elsa, wake up." said Diata.
Elsa contined to moan as she leaned off of the Rock and stood up beside her mother.
"Mama, it's still early." Elsa said, still feeling extremely tired.
The young girl let out a yawn and stretched out her arms before she lowered then and rubbed her right eye.
"Can't we sleep a bit longer." Elsa asked, turning to Diata.
Diata only chuckled to her daughter. While it was also something tha she too wanted as much as Elsa, it was today that she would show Elsa more of the jungle, as well as meet more of the animals who lived among them, as well as a particular that Diata wished to visit, an old friend since the time of being a cub.
"If we sleep any longer we'll waste the day away." Diata said.
"Besides, I thought we were going to explore the jungle today?"
Elsa was then suddenly reminded of what Diata had said. It was yesterday that they both said they would go off exploring more of the jungle.
"Oh!" Said the wild girl in sudden memory.
"I almost forgot!"
Diata chuckled to her adopted daughter.
"Well then come on." Said Diata, before getting up off the cave floor.
Afterwords the lioness turned to her adopted daughter. She crouched down upon her four paws, position herself in a way for Elsa to climb up on her back.
"Clime on now." She said.
The wild girl crawled up to Diata's side. She them stood up off the ground and climbed up onto her mother's back. Once she sat as a man on the back of a horse, Diata stood up from her croaching position. She then walked out of the cave entrance to the jungle outside. Elsa gazed up above the trees to see thr morning sun growing in the distence like a flower from the earth.
"Mama, look!" She said, pointing ahead to the sun in the distence.
Diata looked ahead to where her daughter pointed. She saw the burning orb of light slowly rise up from the east, it's light growing ever so brighter as it always had each begining time of the day.
"It's so bright." Elsa commented, looking down to her mother.
"I know." Diata said, looking up to her.
'You should see it on the earliest morning sometime. It's even more amazing then."
Elsa nodded her head as she thought of the oppertonity. She had never seen the sun rise from the meer crack of dawn. Thinking of it now, the wild girl was so Curious and eager for when the opportunity would come. Being able to watch the sun rise at it's very start was all but a sight that she found herself desiring to see.
"Really?" Elsa asked.
Diata nodded her head yes to her daughter.
"Yes." She said, her mind reflecting on the very first time she had saw it for herself.
"I saw it once. The sun rose from the east at the break of dawn at ceremony rock."
"What was it like?" Elsa asked, curious of the event.
Diata smiled as she thought back to when she herself had witnessed the early sun rise. It was the day of presentation of Simba, the pride had all gathered at the ceremony rock in the outer plains. For it was tradition in the jungle for all to be witness of their new king. When Sarabi was near her time to give birth, the pride walked all the way to the outer plains to prepare for the ceremony. It wasn't long before the break of dawn that Simba was born into the world. Mufassa had gave out a mighty roar that echoed through the jungle.
After of which the sun had began to rise from the east. The sight was so breathtaking when Diata had first witnessed it. Slowly the whole jungle was given light as all the animals by law all came before ceremony rock to be witness of Simba's birth. Diata had always remembered that time well. When she witnessed the early sun rise. It was a sight of magnificence and beauty as know to the jungle itself.
"Well, try to imagine this." Diata said, putting it in a way that the girl would understand.
"Try to imagine that you are standing in the darkess of night for a time. There's nothing that can be seen from all around you except for the stars above. Then suddenly from the east, there's comes a round orb of fire that rising up into the sky. All the darkness is then pushed away as light begins to take it's place."
Hearing all that she was told, Elsa could picture herself in the place that her lioness mother had told. She could see herself, standing on the very edge of Ceremony rock, gazing out to a night covered jungle. For a time it was dark and cold, but what seemed to be a long while, her patients were rewarded with the pressence of warming and shining light of the sun. She could just picture it now, seeing the sun rise up from the far distence of the east. It's light touched upon her young skin, leaving a warm tingling sensation.
"Will I ever see it someday?" Elsa asked, eager to witness what it was of this early morning sun set.
"You will one day." Diata said, knowing well that she would be given a chance in the future.
The wild girl was filled with such excitment and anticipation for when the day would come. She herself was imagining when the time would come that she would see the early sunrise.
"Come now, my daughter." Said Diata.
"Let''s be on our way."
The white lioness the walked down the pathway from the cave entrance. The two came down to the line of jungle below, before they disappeared into the lush, green, jungle vegitation and into the dense tropical forest.
Elsa and Diata continued to journey through the jungle. It was by how they could tell time in the jungle to be someway later in the time of the jorney. The sun was already at a very high point in the sky above. No longer was there the pressence of a cool breeze but instead the normal humid jungle air. As the young girl ast atop the back of Diata, she gazed up at the high trees where she could see birds standing atop of some the branches. Some of them spreading their wings and had then took flight higher above the trees. She could aslo see monkeys, leaping off from the high tree branches to the next branch.
Elsa looked to her mother. It had been a while since they had last left the layer and she was all so curious as to where they were going.
"Where are we going, Mama?" The Wild girl asked curiously.
Diata looked back with a smile upon her face. She was too was eager to get to the place they were going. There was someone there that she wanted to introduce to her daughter and knew that they would get along just as well as they had been.
"We're going the nesting place of the Gorilla's." Diata answered.
"Don't worry, it shouldn't be too far from here."
"But why?" Elsa asked curiously.
"Why are we going to see the gorillas?
"Because there's a special friend of mine there that I wish for you to meet."Diata answered.
"Really?" Asked Elsa.
"Who is it?"
"Her name is Kala." Diata said.
"She's been a friend of mine since I was your age."
Since the time of a cub, Diata had been friends with many of the other cubs of the pride. However they were not the only company that the white lioness had. She had been equainted with many of the other animals of the jungle. One of them being the kind she-ape that was Kala. The two had been close friends since the day they had met one another in the open Savannah. The tribe that was now led by the silver back, Kerchek had been passing through. At the same time, the pride had been out relaxing there in the hot Savannah. Diata had been wandering through the grass when she had came face to face with a yong brown fur Gorilla that was a bit younger then her.
The two had become close friends at that very moment. They chased one another, explored the jungle together. When they had grown older, they would sometimes relax near the nesting sight together. That or when the pride was off on a hunt and the Cubs needed to be looked after, she and Kala would often stay with them at the layer while the others. If there was anyone that Diata could trust, even in the case of her new adopted daughter, Kala was one of those fellow jungle folk that could be counted on.
"I want for you to meet her." Diata said as she came to a stop, still facing her daughter.
"There's very few in the jungle that you can trust. That's why the best place to start are the ones that I trust. You understand?"
Elsa nodded her head, knowing that her foster mother was right. She was new in the jungle and had very companions here other then the pride members and Simba and Nala. If she was going to live in this jungle and be accepted by all those around her, the best place to start was with those that he mother deemed as being a friend.
"I understand, mama." She said.
Diata smiled to her girl cub. She leaned in and began to nuzzle her daughter from under her chin. The young girl chuckled, as she felt the tickling sensation from her mother's nose.
"Mama, that tickles." Said Elsa, chuckling.
Diata pulled away as she continued to gaze upon her cub with a smile. How blessed she was, to be given this child as a daughter and to be given a second chance to be a mother. All that Diata wanted for her adopted cub was to have a safe life here in the jungle. For it to happen, she need for all the animals of the jungle that she knew to accept Elsa as her daughter.
Diata turned and continued on toward the nesting site of the Gorilla's.
(I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It was a small idea I had in my head for a while and like the last one there will only be two chapters. So I hope you liked this first on, and as always, please comment and review.)