Username:minifun990
Lion name: Liju
Lion gender:Female
Pride: Mystic IslePride status:Apprentice trapper
Prompt: Liju has idolized her brother for as long as she remembers. He was always there for her whenever she needed him, when another cub pulled her tail, when she fell, when the darkness of night scared her. He was always there, cracking jokes and lending a helping paw. He was everything Liju wanted to be some day, brave, kind, courageous and confident. Once an adult had been rude to her and even though Ladon was so much smaller than the adult he had puffed out his chest and demanded an apology for his little sister. There was never any sibling rivalry between the two, or at least only playful teasing.
She respected her parents too, they were kind and confident too, but they didn't support her as much as Ladon did. It seemed he would never let her down.
He did though. One day Ladon and their parents went for a walk, and that night as lightning struck Ladon wasn't there to reassure her that it held no harm. He wasn't there the next day when she needed help getting a thorn out of her paw pad and he wasn't there as another lion approached, tears in her eyes and her mothers favourite scarf in her maw.
They said the river got them, or the fallen tree, or perhaps it was the lightning. Either way they were gone, Liju's parents and her brother. She was alone, and an orphan. She wouldn't believe it, couldn't believe it. Out there somewhere had to be her family. She just had to find them.
It gave her strength, a goal and she quickly became everything she idolized in Ladon. She became brave enough to hope they were out there, kind enough to care, courageous enough to stride out on her own to find them and confident enough to wave off the warnings of others. She would find her role model again, and show him who she'd become.
(323/Im not sure what word limit sorry)