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Almasi
The Tale Of Little Diamond
(By Lion Princess)
Chapter 1
Almasi was raised in the Outlands, a horrible place with little food and hardly any water and if that’s not bad enough it was dark and dingy, she was raised by a group of rogue lions and Rajali was their leader and although there where no other cubs she always found someone to play with, Almasi was a beautiful little lioness, with dark brown fur, sky blue eyes and a unusual little diamond on her forehead one day when Almasi was out hunting she came across a big grass plane with a lake running threw it and millions of flowers it was the most beautiful place she had ever seen, after she stopped admiring the view she spotted some zebra a few meters in
“Rajali will be so proud if I bring back a whole zebra” she thought to her self as she crouched down and started to stalk her prey,
As she got closer all of the zebra started to run, she looked around but there was no one to be seen, after a few seconds she heard
“WOOHOO”
And seen a group of lion cubs around her age playing and chasing the zebra, it looked like fun but she quickly realized were she was
“Oh no” she whispered to her self and turned and headed back the way she came,
“HEY YOU” she heard coming from behind her,
She looked around and saw one of the lion cubs but she quickly turned back and kept walking,
“HEY LITTLE DIAMOND” he shouted,
This time Almasi stopped and looked round
“Me?” she asked
“Well you’re the only one around hear with a diamond on you” he laughed
“Anyway what’s your name” he asked her
“Almasi” she replied as she stared at the handsome little lion walking towards her, he had light golden fur with a little tuft of black hair on the top of his head but the strange thing about him is that he had a thick black stripe that went from his nose over his head and down his back to were his tale started.
“I’m Mosi, so do you wanna play Almasi?” he asked as he walked up to her and crouched down into a pouncing position
“Erm I can’t” she answered
“Why not” he asked as he stood up again and leaned his head to the side with curiosity
“I gotta go hunt” she told him and she looked so disappointed that she had to go hunt rather than play
“HUNT” he said looking very surprised
“Yes, and I’m not supposed to be in the Pridelands” she told him
“You’re an Outlander, cool” he said, he looked excited and started to jump around crazily
“Yeh” she laughed, although she wasn’t happy you see Almasi hated being an Outlander and she wished she could just play like a normal cub instead of having to hunt for food that she hardly ever got to eat
“I gotta go Mosi” she told him as she ran off,
When she reached the dark murky borders of the Outlands she heard in the distance a little voice shouting “BYE LITTLE DIAMOND”
As Almasi headed back to the den she caught a baby antelope that had strayed from the heard and brought it back to Rajali who was already eating
Rajali was a large lion, one of the biggest in the outlands, he had light brown fur and a black main and four scars on his side from when he was fighting with Radhi (the king of the Pridelands),
“Keep it for yourself little one” he told her
“And well done on catching your prey”
“Thank you” she replied
“Rajali” she said as she started to tuck into the baby antelope
“Yes little one”
“Where is my mother and father” she asked him as she took another bite of antelope
“well you see Almasi your mother was a Pridelander and she was exiled because your father was an outlander” he told her looking sad that what he was about to tell her was going to upset the young cub “after you were born your mother was killed by hyenas” he stopped for a while as he noticed that Almasi had stopped eating and was staring at him as her eyes filled with tears
“killed” Almasi thought her eyes felt like they were about to burst
“And my father” she asked as she rubbed her eyes to hide the tears
“We never knew who your father was” he told her “we think it was Zuberi he was the leader of the Outlanders and after your mother died he just disappeared but Kumali said he can see him every so often in the distance watching you play”
“Do I look like my mother” she asked as she found a comfortable spot and lay down
Rajali walked over and lay beside her “you grow more like her every day” he comforted her as he nuzzled her and she quickly fell asleep.
The next morning when Almasi awoke there was nobody to be seen “as usual” she thought to herself as she walked outside and looked for the sun, that was always blocked by termite mounds, as she walked threw the horrible lands that she called home she ran into a little lion cub, she looked a lot younger than Almasi,
“Hey, were is your mama little one” Almasi asked the cub hoping that her mum was close by
“I don’t know” the little lioness said with a whimper
“Which Pride are you from” she asked the young cub
“We are Pridelanders, please don’t kill me” the cub said with worry
“I’m not going to kill you, what made you think that” Almasi asked
“Radhi told us that Outlanders kill Pridelander cubs if they catch them” the little cub said with fear in her eyes
“That’s not true well not in my case anyway” Almasi told her “what’s your name” she asked
“Naliah” the cub told her
“I’m Almasi” she replied “would you like me to help you find your mother?”
“Yes please” said the small cub as she suddenly trusted Almasi
“Well let’s go then” Almasi said as she looked into a very dark area covered by trees
And with that the two cubs set off, looking for Naliah’s mother, not even knowing if they would find her alive.
As they walked further into the murk of the Outlands the two cubs stopped in there tracks
“what was that” Naliah asked
“I don’t know, I will go and check it out, you wait here” Almasi told the young cub as she shuffled her under a broken down tree
“do not move from here no matter what” she told Naliah as she ran off in the direction that the noise was coming from.
As Almasi got deeper in the Outlands the noise got closer “oh no, what have I got myself into” she thought as she spotted something in the distance, she couldn’t quite make out what it was threw the murky air so she got closer, then she saw the most disturbing thing she had ever seen, a beautiful young lioness fighting for her life against a pack of hyenas and she couldn’t do anything but watch, then suddenly Almasi thought of what Rajali had told her the night before and she knew that if Zuberi was truly her father he would come to her if she called for his help and with that
“HELP, HELP, HELP” the little lioness called at the top of her voice,
Then the Hyenas noticed that she was there and let the young lioness go and turned for her
“ZUBERI, HELP” she screamed in a panic as she seen four hyenas walking slowly towards her,
and then Almasi heard the loudest roar she had ever heard in her life as a shadow appeared above her, she looked up and seen the biggest lion she had ever seen “wow he is bigger than Rajali” she thought, the lion was big and muscular, he had a black mane and dark brown fur with a black underbelly and forepaws with a lot of scars all over his body, Almasi though she was not even a quarter of the size of this majestic lion she wasn’t the slightest bit scared, as soon as the hyenas saw him they scattered
“I am Zuberi” the lion told Almasi as he lay down beside her
“And is what Rajali told me true, are you my father” the curious cub asked him
“Yes young one, I am your father” he told her as a smile appeared on his face
As he told her this Almasi looked furious “then why didn’t you raise me, why did you leave it to Rajali to be my father” the cub snapped at him
“Almasi I wasn’t fit to raise a young cub and I was at war with Radhi if he or any of his Pride had knew I was your father then seen you alone they would have surely killed you, I didn’t want to put you at risk young one” he told her as the smile on his face faded and the mighty lion looked as if he could cry.
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