Name: Siri

Age: Around Kiara's age

Father: Ni

Mother: Alieleza (Angalia adopted her)

Brothers: Korongo

Sisters: Nyara, Ndoto, Unataka

Uncles: Mansa

Aunts: Maska

Cousins: Desemba, Munira, Dhahabu, Sabaya, Joto, Kaleb, Ziada

Mate: Nguvu

Cubs: Nuru

Best Friend: Joto

Friends: Kuala, Korongo, Nyara, Mosi, Sanaa, Msisimko, Matu, Tala, Wagiza, Angalia

Enemies: Badru's Pride

Pride: None (Formerly), the Canyon Pride

Rank: Spy\scout

Personality: Siri isn't always the nicest lion. When she's talking to someone she dislikes, she can be quite rude towards them, and sometimes does everything to annoy them. She also likes to threaten them, and sometimes she challenges them to a fight, although she knows she can't fight, but always has a clever plan to defeat her opponent.

Siri is very proud of her abbilites. Being the fastest cub in her pride, she likes to show off her speed. She can also hide herself very well, and can easily smell someone's scent. Although these abbilities would make her a perfect hunter, Siri uses her talents for a different purpose: being a spy. But if someone is better at something than her, Siri finds it humiliating. She has to show others that she's the best, even if she isn't.

Although Siri often appears to be grumpy, she is really a very kindhearted lioness. She is known for being very loyal and trustworthy, even if she doesn't seem like it when you first meet her. She also has a very good sense of humor, and loves to joke with her friends.

Likes: Cubs, her family, joking

Dislikes: Danger to her family, being separated from them for too long, disruptions in her way of life

History:

Siri was one of Ni and Alieleza's five cubs. She wasn't like the other cubs, and preferred to be by herself. Korongo and Nyara were probably her best and only friends. Ndoto and Unataka didn't pay much attention to Siri.

Eventually Alieleza realised that they couldn't survive, because there wasn't enough food where they lived. So Ni and Alieleza left Nyara, Korongo, Ndoto, Siri and Unataka in the canyon, hoping Queen Maska and her pride would find them. Siri's cousins found the five cubs, and took them to their home. Maska allowed the cubs to live there, not knowing that they were her nieces and nephew. One of the pride's members, Angalia, along with her mate, adopted the five cubs.

When Siri met one of the pride's spys, she suddenly decided that she wanted to be just like them when she older. She practiced being a spy, and was very good at it.

When Siri was an adult, she became a spy. A while later, Nyara's mate's half sister, Kuala, visited the pride. However, Kuala told Siri and her sisters about what had happened with her old pride. It had been taken over by four brothers named Badru, Jela, Pili, and Hail.

Siri left to help Kuala's friends and family. She when she got there, some rogue lionesses had just joined the pride, and were now followers of Badru and his brothers. Siri met one of them, Wagiza, but Wagiza believed Siri was just one of the original members of the pride, and didn't do anything about her.

Soon Siri found Kuala's friends and family, and helped them get out. However, the borders were guarded. But one of the new lionesses, Kero, helped Siri and the others escape, and they were all able to return to the Canyon Pride.

Some months later, Nyara gave birth to her first cubs. When the cubs were older, Siri pretended to dislike them, but really loved them as if they were her own cubs.

Siri got reunited with both her parents, but at two different times; first Ni, who often wandered about the borders and had occasionally interacted with some of the Canyon Pride's cubs, revealed himself to the Canyon Pride, and was allowed to join. Quite a while afterwards, Alieleza, Siri's mother, returned and joined the pride. Siri acted as though she had two sets of parents: Ni and Alieleza, and her adopted parents, Angalia and her mate. (She called Alieleza and Ni 'Mom and Dad' while she called Angalia and her mate 'Mother and Father')

Siri later got lost outside the Canyon Pride's territory and met a rogue named Nguvu, whom she fell in love with, and became his mate. However, Siri eventually found the way back to the Canyon Pride, and had to chose between her pride or Nguvu, who refused to go with her. She chose to return to the Canyon Pride, but was heart broken of Nguvu.

Siri returned and did not tell anyone what had happened while she was away. But when she was expecting a cub, she eventually told Alieleza everything, who then arranged with the king, Desemba, to have Korongo and Kuala search for Nguvu, whom Siri was still deeply in love with.

While Korongo and Kuala were gone, Siri had her cub: a small son, whom she named Nuru. Sometime later, Korongo and Kuala returned with Nguvu, whom they had managed to convince to join the Canyon Pride. Nguvu and Siri were overjoyed to be reunited.

Relation to TLK: Ni is her father.

Art (c) Me