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The sun has started to rise, signalling another day has begun. Animals had started their daily routines as the sun rose higher in the bright blue sky. Queen Sarabi blinked her orange eyes open with a yawn. The sound of someone entering the cave caused the dark beige lioness' dark brown rimmed ears to perk before she moved her eyes up to see her mother-in-law walk over towards her.
"Morning dear. How did you sleep?"
Sarabi yawned, which was like a small roar before looking back at the gold-tan lioness. "Like a cub. I can't believe that I slept through the whole day."
Eshe sat in front of her daughter-in-law and smiled. "Actually day and in a half."
Sarabi frowned before looking towards the cave entrance and seen that the sun was pretty high noting that it was a bit before the afternoon. "Why didn't no one wake me?"
Eshe sighed. "Mufasa wanted you to rest."
The queen's frown deepened. "Why?"
"We have new guests. At least until Mufasa passes judgment." Eshe turned her dark red eyes on her grandcubs when they started to stir. "I'm not really surprised that they are just waking."
Sarabi and Eshe looked at the princes just as they started to open their eyes. The princes originally had bright yellow eyes when they were born like many newborns. And like most newborns after a few hours their eye colours change, so the two lionesses were excited to see what colour the brothers' eyes were.
Crown-Prince Simba was the first to open his eyes to look at the two lionesses with his mother's bright orange eyes. A moment later after a tiny sneeze that made his mother and grandmother smiled and awe, Askari blinked his eyes open to reveal unearthly bright green eyes.
Eshe gasped before stepping back, her eyes narrowed and her sharp white teeth bared as a growl ripped from her yellowish throat. "Akan..."
Sarabi was more than confused as she looked at her mate's mother. "Eshe...what's wrong?"
The gold-tan lioness slowly backed up before bolting out of the cave almost running into a light golden lioness who had a small amount of light golden fur sticking up on her head. She stepped aside to avoid a collision, she moved her rich blue eyes from the retreating lioness to the confused queen as she entered the cave.
"What was that all about?"
Sarabi shook her head, she was just as confused. "I have no idea. She called Askari, 'Akan' and ran out."
The light golden lioness' salmon nose twichted. "Akan? Doesn't that mean demon?"
Sarabi sighed heavily. "I know but why did she call Askari that?"
The light golden lioness shrugged. "If anyone might know it would be my mother and Nina."
Sarabi nodded but pushed that aside for later. "Athalia, do you know why Mufasa wanted me to rest?"
Athalia nodded with a small smile. "Besides the fact you gave birth to twins, yeah. Yesterday if Eshe mentioned, Mufasa let some guests in the Pridelands." Sarabi did remembered Eshe saying that they had guests. When Athalia saw the look of understanding she continued. "Well two of them gave birth early this morning. Plus someone has been asking for you."
Sarabi tilted her head with a raised dark brown eye brow. "Who?"
"Me." Sarabi and Athalia looked towards the cave entrance to see a tawny lioness walk in with a small creamy white cub towing behind. When Sarabi flattened her ears the tawny lioness sighed heavily. "It hurts that you don't remember your bestest friend."
Sarabi looked at the lioness before a smile grew. "Sarafina!"
The tawny lioness giggled before running over and head bumped the queen. "It's good to see you. But we'll catch up later. There's some friends of mine that would like to meet you."
Athalia moved the princes over to her as she smiled at Sarabi. "Go ahead. I'll bring Simba and Askari to the bottom den."
Sarabi nodded before standing with a stretch. After Athalia left with the princes dangling from her muzzle, Sarabi and Sarafina headed for the cave next to the one they were in.
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A bit older than a month dark tan cub with a dark brown stripe on her head going down the back of her neck, was playing with the dark brown tail tuff of a pale tan lioness as her tail swished. When she caught the tail she bit it with her tiny teeth causing the pale tan lioness to roar in the cub's face, startling her.
"Ajira!" a light gold lioness scolded quietly before casting her dark orange eyes to the the pale gold cub nursing at her side. Seeing her cub wasn't disturbed she turned her attention back to the pale tan lioness. "Ajira, you need to be more nicer to Azira. Especially now that you are pregnant again."
The pale tan lioness rolled her light purple eyes before glaring at the light gold lioness. "I don't need your preaching Masika!"
A small mew caused a dark orange lioness to growl at Ajira before moving her pale blue eyes towards her fusing tan cub. "Shhh. It's okay my little one."
"Hey girls!"
The lionesses looked towards the cave entrance to see Sarafina with a dark beige lioness at her side. Sarafina smiled at the dark beige lioness before turning her blue eyes to the looking lionesses.
"Girls, this is my best friend I was telling you about. Queen Sarabi."
Sarabi pawed her friend's side with a blush on her cheeks. "Please! Just Sarabi will do."
"Oh gee. Royalty who can't stand formality." Ajira sneered annoyed.
Sarafina sighed as well as the other two. Before the dark orange lioness smiled lightly at the queen lionesses. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Sarabi. My name is Sanora."
The light gold lioness bowed her head. "As well as I. I am Masika, the one with the stick up her ass is Ajira. She's due any moment now."
Sarabi nodded in understanding. "I know what you mean. I gave birth yesterday morning, during the pregnancy I nearly took off Mufasa's head." Sarabi and the lionesses laughed, except for Ajira.
The sounds of mewing caught Sarabi's attention. She stepped closer to Sanora and Masika, where she smiled at the two cubs at their mother's sides looking at her with wide yellow eyes. "What are their names?"
Masika smiled at her cub before looking up with a proud shine in her dark orange eyes. "Malka. I know that it's a girl name but I just love the name and had to name him that."
Sanora giggled before snuggling her cub. "Tojo, after my father."
Sarabi smiled at the cubs. "They're handsome. You all must be hungry, I'll organise a hunting party and come back with my sons."
Sarafina, Masika and Sanora smiled before Sarafina laid by the light gold lioness while Ajira stood and followed Sarabi out of the den they were in. She stood by the slope and out into the Pridelands just in time to see the dark beige lioness nuzzle with the king lovingly.
Ajira narrowed her light purple eyes and growled before heading down the slope, with one thing in mind. Find her mate, Kondo.