[Firedancer77]

Username: Firedancer77
Lion name: Theluji (swahili for "snow")
Lion gender: Lioness/Female
Pride: Isle of Roses
Pride Status: Oracle
How did they get their scar?: Theluji got her scars through a battle with her grandmother. Before she had even joined the Isle of Roses under Nasaba, Theluji had been close to her ancestors, at times getting messages and guidance from them. However, she was uninterested of joining up with other lions, and when her grandmother informed her that her future would be with a pride, Theluji tried to flee her fate. Instead of going where her grandmother told her to to meet the lion she would be joining, Theluji ran in the opposite direction. The next night, seething, her grandmother returned, and the two ended up brawling. By the end of it, Theluji had scars, though she probably would have left some on her grandmother too had her grandmother been alive. However, as they had fought her grandmother had worn Theluji down, and the lioness reluctantly agreed to turn back and see the pride that would supposedly require her help. That is how she met Nasaba and ultimately took up the role of being the Oracle, never forgetting the lesson her grandmother taught her.

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Username: Meekins12345
Lion name: Degotoga
Lion gender: Lion/Male
Pride: The Pride of Wikimak
Pride Status: Insoniti - Scout
How did they get their scar?:

"How did you get that scar, Master Degotoga?" A young cub asked curiously, looking up to the strikingly light-colored male as she motioned to the scars strewn along underneath his eye.

The question only had him chuckling, he soon folding his paws over each other as he looked to her with a small smirk. "Are you sure you wish to hear the tale, little one? It is rather scary in some parts," He'd warn her, looking her over and watching as her eyes lit up.

"Yes! Yes! Tell me, pretty please?" She'd beg.

"Alright, alright. If you so insist," He'd state with a smirk, soon moving a paw over only to bring her closer to him, and she nestled against him as he began to tell his tale. "It all started in the spring, about four years ago. I was younger then, barely had much to amount to the mane I have today..."

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The pride I had then was very different from this one. We lived in the mountains, where the wolves, moose, and snowfeathers (ptarmigans but they call them this instead) reside. It was a day like any other. Fresh snow was falling onto the rocky cliffs where there was so much snow that a cub like you wouldn't be able to see above it. A couple of friends and I were running across the sturdier slopes, being the young cubs we were...

"Come on, Elsu, keep up! You're gonna be chewing the frozen chipmunk* with how slow you're going!" (*An expression, pretty much the same as "you're gonna be the rotten egg")
"I'd like to hear you say that with your tail between your legs, Ogima!"
"Well, maybe if you'd actually catch up then maybe Ogima would."
"Shut up, Dego!"

Laughter could be heard amidst the crunching of snow beneath our paws as we climbed the snowy slopes, leaping and bounding from bolder to ledge. We finally made it, to our "hideout" as we liked to call it. In reality, it was just a small den carved into the side of a mountain, big enough to fit all three of us inside. No more, no less. We were plum tired by the time we reached, it was a long trek there, but at the time, we thought it worth it.

"I won! I won!"
"Oh, sure. Just bask in it, Ogima. You'll see, I'll beat you next time."
"Elsu, you say that every time we get up here."
"Well..."
"That's enough, you two. It's time for a meeting."
"What sort'a meeting, Degotoga?"
"You'll see. Let's go inside."

You see, we tended to speak about all kinds of petty things. From the females back at home that we stared at a little too long to the things we wished we could do to those who did us wrong. We talked about all sorts of things in our lives, mostly because we saw the adults do it, too. And that's what we wanted to do; be adults... We talked all afternoon until evening. That was usually when we tended to call it a night, but I was feeling daring and so suggested,

"Hey, fellas. Let's stay the night once."
"Are you crazy, Dego? The wolves come out and night! And, and owls, too. Besides, my mom wants me home when the sun's halfway over the horizon."
"You sound like your grouse* to me." (Or "chicken")
"Am not!"
"You totally are, Elsu. But fine. Go be a cub and run back to your momma."
"Mmph. Fine! I'll stay... but only if Ogima stays, too."
"Ugh, fine... but if anything happens, I'm blaming you guys. My mom'll kill me if she sees so much as a tuft off my mane."
"Ogima, you barely have a mane!"
"I know, but it's growing!"
"Alright, alright. We'll all stay up here for the night. No going back until morning."

We all agreed and ultimately nestled up to each other in that cave, soon falling asleep... But Elsu woke up to some strange noise. I didn't hear it at first. Neither did Ogima.

"G-Guys... W-What was that?"
"Uhn, what was what, Elsu?"
"T-That sound... There it is again! Guys, I'm scared."
"Goodness gracious, Elsu, you're such a cub."
"Fine, then I am one! I'd rather be at home with ma than out here. I wanna go home."
"You are not going home! I'll go check and see what it is. Ogima can stay here... he seems to be asleep yet."
"Fine, just... just don't be gone to long. Come right back."
"Yeah, yeah."

I went out to check on the sound. To be completely honest with you, I was a bit concerned myself. For one, I couldn't see for nothing. The moon didn't even appear to be out, and the stars were hidden within the darkness of the night. The snow didn't seem to reflect anything that night. Nothing at all... Nevertheless, I could smell the creature. It wasn't too far away. In fact, it was close... It smelled familiar, but I couldn't put my claw on it... I rounded the corner and my head collided with something solid, and it caused me to fall back onto my rump. I reached a paw to rub at my head as I looked to see what I had run into. I could barely make it out in the darkness, but then it turned it's head toward me. With small, glowing yellow eyes staring into my soul, I knew immediately what it was. I had run right into a Great White Bear.

"Then what happened, Master Degotoga?"

The bear let out a mighty roar that nearly shook the whole mountain, and I was quick to get onto my paws and skedaddle out of there as fast as I could. I could hear it's thundering paws mercilessly running after me as I ran back to the cave. I just about got there,

"Guys! It's the White Bear! Run--"

It was just then that I felt something pull me by the tail, and off I went, colliding with the fur of the bear once more. All I could see was dark and my limbs seemed to just flail, trying to get me out of the close proximity I was to the White Bear, but unfortunately I was at a loss for what to do. Frantically, I tried to claw at the thing, but it only seemed to claw me back. I clawed at an eye, and it clawed at mine. Thankfully, it missed my actual eye, mostly just got underneath it, but it was close. It then clawed at my shoulder, mercilessly scraping it's long claws along me as if I were a tree to be marked. It hurt something fierce, and I could smell the blood. That was what got me going. I didn't want to die by some bear if I could help it. So I clawed at it again, and tried my best to move out of it's way. It moved back for just a moment and I took that chance to run back home. I knew it was still following me, it followed me all the way back home. By the time I got to the spot where our territory began, I felt weak and could go no further. I fell into the snow. I could go no further. I was a goner...

I could feel it's breath on my neck as it loomed over me, and I closed my eyes tight in anticipation of what was to come before... I heard another roar. A roar from my own kind. I could feel the multitudes of my pride coming closer, and the bear moving back. Before I could listen to what was about to go down... I blacked out.

I woke up the next morning, in my pride's cave, with most of the family huddling around me to keep me warm. My mom was the closest, so I asked her.

"Momma... What happened?"
"You were attacked by a bear, Degotoga. We came in our numbers and chased it off... My poor child, why didn't you come home last night?"
"...Because we wanted see what it'd be like to be far away from home, Momma. We wanted to be like the adults."
"My child, that is not what adults do. Promise me you will never do such utter nonsense ever again."
"Yes, Momma."

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"My mother never let me leave the pride grounds without an adult until I grew up into a proper one. I still have the scars to this day, as you can clearly see, little one. That is how I got my scars."

"That was scary." The cub whined softly.

"Yes, but it was true," Dego spoke. "Promise me, little one, never leave the grounds without an adult with you. For you will never know what lurks in these woods. Not until you are older."

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[Firedancer77]

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