what?” Toko asked confusingly. “The Great Green Thicket pride.” Shego repeated to him. “What’s your name?” Shego asked her new acquaintance. “The name’s Toko. What’s yours again?” “Shego.” She answered. “I’m one of the princes of the Pride Rock kingdom.” Toko told her proudly. “Do you want to play chase?” Toko suddenly asked with a shy smile on his face as he looked at Shego. “Sure!” “Your it!” Toko yelled happily. They played until Shego’s mother Via came.

“Shego time to go now.” She shouted. “One minute mother! Bye Toko it’s been nice playing with you.” Shego said with a shy smile on her face. “Yup it was fun.” Toko said with a big bright smile on his face. “Shego time to go now.” Via shouted once again. “Hold on!” Shego answered trying to stall her mother from getting her. “I hope I get to see you again Toko.” Shego told him, her shy smile still upon her face and then she left him, down the path.

“Yeah, I guess I’ll see you again.” Toko said with a blushing smile. “Now you come after I call you twice.” Via scolded firmly. But then she smiled looking down at her daughter. “He must have been worth it.” Via replied. Shego blushed. Yep he was worth it. She thought to herself.

Then they both left the grasslands back to their forest home.

The Sudden Tragedy.

         The seasons went by, including winter. But this winter made it Shego’s first and worst, and will change her life forever.

During the winter most animals hibernate and migrate, because of food and climate conditions. It was freezing in the forest. In the savanna though, very little of the climate changed, it was mildly warm. But the lions and other creatures in the forest froze and huddled together in their families and dens to keep warm. Since hardly any prey was out, Via and Shego would have to eat bitter tasting tree bark, tree branches, twigs and sticks, rotten wood, insects, and sometimes if it was available fruit.

         One day, one of the coldest during the end of winter, Via and Shego went out in the meadow. Via and Shego sniffed around eagerly for a hare’s den, since prey was very scare during the winter. Via sniffed, and she sniffed harder. Following the scent she found a well-buried hare’s den. In delight she called to Shego, “Shego, look! A hare’s den.” Shego’s eyes brightened as she galloped like a horse to her mother. “Now, it’s important for you to learn how to do these things, in similar circumstances. Do what I do, after I’m finished.” Via instructed. Shego sat down and watched as her mother gently unsheathed her claws, and dug around the hidden spots of the well-buried hare hole. Via stopped at what she though was enough, and stood beside her daughter that stared at her waiting for the next instructions. “Alright. Now, you give it a try, and try to reach the hare’s den and find your prize inside.” Shego bounced up in excitement and started digging eagerly.

         Via meanwhile stood, her ears on the alert. Then suddenly, Via’s ears perked up in alarm, along with her hazel-amber colored eyes widening. “Shego, Shego run!” She suddenly cried, as she heard the loud sounds of Mrs. Sparrow and her mate cawing out a warning of Man and his hounds.

         Shego stopped what she was doing and raced as fast as she could towards the thicket. “Shego run! Don’t look back! Just run!” Her mother called to her in despair behind her, after she looked behind herself toward her mother. She dodged logs, and upright roots strait home, the sounds of blasts from man’s rifles ringing in her ears. The howls and long dreaded barks from the dogs sounded even louder. Shego smiled as she imagined her and her mother outrunning the dogs. She heard another loud Bang! and the rifles stopped shooting, the hound’s voices slowed.

Shego had stopped when she reached home realizing her mother Via wasn’t behind her like before. “Mother!” She shouted. “Mother! Mother!” “Mother! Where are you?” Shego sobbed. Shego raced around the den in and out, and then in the thicket woods. But it was no use. Via wasn’t anywhere. Shego couldn’t scent her anywhere. Her body was cowered as she continued the hopeless search for her mother sobbing.

Then, Shego knocked into some soft fur hard, and bounced back in fright. She gasped. The Great Prince Henry stood in front of her, as he said “Shego you cannot be with your mother anymore, Man has taken her away. Come my daughter. I’ll take you home” Shego cried as she followed her father to her new home deep in the forest.

Shego grown up.

Many years passed and Shego had grown up into a beautiful lioness. She now lived with her father and the other lionesses including Tazar. One morning Shego was dreaming about her mother and the dreadful tragedy. “No mother! Don’t go! Ah!” Shego Shouted she was panting fast and heavily. “It was just a dream, a horrible dream!” She told herself. “Oh no! I over slept. Oh father will be angry with me again.” Shego ran over to Ruler Cliff, which was a tall big cliff that her father stood on for patrolling the forest grounds, you could see him from miles around on that cliff in the meadow. Shego ran fast as she could to Ruler Cliff, on the side of Ruler Cliff was a secret underground cave. Shego got in the cave quickly. “Hello, father.” Shego said in a grim guilty voice. “Shego you are late once again, I thought something happened to you and now the meeting in the forest is delayed by an hour. Now explain why you’re late to every one, if you would Shego.” “Yes sir.” Shego said gloomily. “I was late because I over slept. I’m sorry that I delayed the meeting by an hour.” Shego apologized yet again in gloomy tone. “We accept Shego.” Henry said with a smile as he put his arm over her shoulder. “May I go now father?” “I don’t see why not. You may go.” Shego happily ran out of the cave.

“Tazar she’s growing every second it seems to me. Do you believe she can take care of the family tradition?” “Do you sire?” Tazar asked in response. “I don’t know.” The Great Prince admitted and watched his daughter go.

Kiara.

Shego decided to go hunting. She was walking around trying to see where some prey might be, but right when she saw some prey she heard someone scream, “Help! Help me! Anyone please help! Ah!” and then she heard barking from Man’s dogs. Shego raced toward the noises.

Shego spotted eight of man’s dogs barking and leaping up at a lioness who was cowered on a tall rock in fright. The lioness seemed to have never seen a dog before, and kept trying to claw a few dogs that got too close to her, with a swipe from one of her agile paws. The lioness gasped as one of her back legs slipped on the rock, as some unbalanced pieces of the rocks crumpled off. Shego no longer watching then sprang into action.

Shego grabbed one of the dogs with her teeth and claws. She fought desperately against Man’s dogs.

The lioness stood and watched in amassment, as Shego fought the dogs. Shego was injured during the fight; it was her left front paw, she bruised it as she was rammed into a boulder by one of the dogs. Struggling to get back up on her feet, one of the dogs bite her bruised paw. Shego roared in pain and nipped the dog’s ear. With a yelp and shook it’s head. Two other dogs rushed towards her. Shego swat at them each with unsheathed paw. Then the lead dog a huge black hound, that had a spiral curved stomach, with unusual large leg muscles, rammed into Shego and bit into her back. Trying to shake him off, she slammed her back into a tree, causing the dog to fall off. A grey dog jumped onto Shego’s backside. Shego shook her back drowsily and then fiercely. With all her might she flung the dog into the boulder she had been rammed into earlier. Another two dogs came towards her, one biting into the severely injured paw. The other bit Shego’s other foreleg. Shego roared in pain and growled at them each. She bit hard into the dog’s neck that held onto her foreleg. The dog yelp in fright and raced away from her. With her right forepaw free, Shego swiped it across the other dog’s nose. The dog gave a whimper and shook his nose painfully, drips of blood splattered around. Out of all the energy Shego had left, she roared louder than she ever had before to chase the dogs away.

The dogs where frightened by her powerful roar. In frightened terror they raced far away, two of them knocking heads together. One of the dogs faced Shego shaking, and Shego bared her teeth and growl, and roared again. The dog have yelps of fright and join the others, running away in terror.

Shego cleaned her cut on her paw with her tongue. The lioness jumped down several small rocks down to thank her rescuer. “Thank you for rescuing me. Oh no your hurt!” “I’m fine….” Shego told her. “What were those cruel creatures?” “Dogs… Man’s dogs. What’s your name anyway?” Shego asked. “Oh how rude of me not to introduce myself, I’m queen Kiara, queen of Pride Rock.” “Oh I’m so sorry how I acted your highness, I’m princess Shego, princess of the Great Green Thicket pride.” “I’m glad to know you Shego, by the way you fought off those dogs really well.” Queen Kiara paused slightly and then asked Shego hesitantly. “What I’m trying to say is Shego, could you please escort me back to my kingdom? I’m… a bit… well, lost.” Shego smiled and answered, “It would be an honor, but one question, do you know a lion named Toko?” “Do I know him! He’s my son!” Kiara shouted with a bright ditz-like smile, and so their journey began.

Toko and Shego reunite.

Kiara told Shego about her story of her hunting one-day and had followed her prey which had been an antelope, which had run deep into the forest. Kiara followed it and got lost for two days, wondering around in circles. She had become hungry and had gotten tracked down by Man’s dogs.

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