Tale of Panthera Regina (Remake)

Chapter 24: Rejected

(Bonecrusher)

Time: About 54 years ago (So, 199,968), 

The spotted Hyena with brown eyes was looking at the view of his home. The sun was starting to set but was hidden by the forest that surrounds the field. Oh, how he wishes to see a sunset over the sea. However, he couldn't complain because he was allowed to have a job, and a great one at that. Despite not being old enough to have Ceremony Day.

Bonecrusher was only thirteen years old but was considered brilliant among his peers. So, it was only a matter of time before the royal family, King Arrow and Queen Lily, heard of this and offered him a scholarship. After finishing the requirements, the King and Queen asked him to become a private tutor for the princes, which shouldn't be too difficult.

Bonecrusher sighed as he looked outward to the forest. It's been at least a year ago, and he got to say that being part of the court of a paranoid king wasn't easy. Queen Lily was kind through. She would ask the young Bonecrusher if he needed anything and offer her paw to him. In other terms, she treated him like a nephew.

Bonecrusher couldn't sleep as thoughts filled his head. However, he still laid down on dry grass that acted as his bed. His room was part of the Royal Cave and was designed in Vesper Savanna theme and culture. So, it was like home, but it wasn't.

The private tutor had three students the oldest was Ignis and Terra, who were seven, while Aqua was only three. Bonecrusher had no problems, at first, that is. Ignis and Terra had respect for him once, but it didn't last long, and he wondered if it was because they were too close to the same age.

Something felt off about the twins as they were more aggressive for their age. Normally, this aggression doesn't start in tigers until they reach ten or eleven, but the act only lasted a year. Maybe two, depending on the species and how you were rise. You could also never tell what they were thinking. It reminded him of how some Native People would be silent when they hunt.

It got so bad that Bonecrusher had to go to King Arrow for help. As a tutor of any kind. The Spotted Hyena was meant to serve his masters but was given a position to punish students for misbehavior. Despite explaining his fears about how the twins acted. King Arrow only sent him away believing it was just a phase that all predators have to go through.

Bonecrusher would disagree with this as he believes it wasn't a phase and it was part of their soul. It would only be less than a month before the King would regret not heeding Bonecrusher's warnings.

It was meant to be a good day. No, an awesome day! Bonecrusher just turned fourteen years old, and Queen Lily had offered to have his party at the Royal cave. He was even allowed to invite anyone he choose. Bonecrusher always thought fondly of the Queen and wonder how she bore two cubs with cruel hearts. But going back to that amazing day.

So, Bonecrusher did just that. So, along with his family, and spotted a hyena pack in the west. He invited some of his friends of which, Ramage, an Black Rhino (his best friend), Quinn, a striped hyena that he had a crush on, and Abdu, a Native Person from the village of the Cobra (now Leopard) people.

Quinn's pack borders Bonecrusher's pack territories. So, it was up to the parents or caregivers if they want their cubs to be in their pack's lessons or interspecies pack one. Bonecrusher met Ramage simply by chance as the Black Rhino was the son of the teachers. Neither pack wanted to each other cubs that were outside their pack anything. So, they choose a nearby, non-basis teacher instead. 

Abdu was a strange occurrence as when they met it during a drought, and everyone was suffering. Water was little, and it was ordered by the Royals that everyone has to work together if anyone was going to survive. Abdu's village wasn't even close to his packs, and yet he choose to go out of his way to bring water to us.