Avatar: The Journey Book I

Tahala

A dawn sun in my eyes. Again, with the sun

   Now that I thought about it, today was one of the strangest yet coolest days of my life, so far at least. I mean, I met the one who started it all, Avatar Wan, then Aang, then Korra… And then, the Avatar spirit itself, Ravva! Not to mention the bizarre story behind it the creation of the universe- er, universes.

The thoughts raced through my mind a hundred miles a minute, and it was only sunrise. I looked down towards a puddle and saw a flash of light brown.

Wait a sec, brown? I exclaimed in my thoughts.

I took a closer look, and right before me was the huge light brown-furred green-eyed face of a lioness. I yelled out loud and jumped backwards, knocking into another lion. It was tan and its mane was a dark brown. It grunted and turned over, laying its eyes on me.

"Please don't eat me!" I exclaimed, bowing down. There was a huff of laughter. It sounded very familiar.

I looked up, to see the lion again. Now that I looked at it, it was very similar to Wan. "Wan, is that you? I ask in my stupor.

He laughed again. "I should've known Ravva would do this, always ha strange a sensee of humour. Are you okay?"

I nodded, embarrassed. Wan padded behind me, in which two other lions lay- a very pale, young male lion, and a darker lioness, a bit of a sooty brown. He nudged both of them. "Aang, Korra, get up. We need to get moving to that rock over there," Wan jerked his head towards a rock formation in the distance. There was a dark mass surrounding it, both sky and land.

I looked at it curiously. Aang yawned loudly, and Korra slowly got up, shaking her sleep off.

"Whatever is going on, we'll probably won't make it," Korra joked. I giggled at her remark and looked to see if Wan and Aang were ready. Aang, although looking rather sleepy, was up on his feet, and Wan right next to him.

"Shall we go?" I asked. They all nodded, and we all headed towards the big rock formation.

As Korra predicted, the event that was supposedly taking place was long over. However, soft echoes were bouncing off from a crevice in the rock formation. I looked towards Wan, who nodded and flicked his tail towards a rock that was big enough for all of us to eavesdrop hidden.

"-at the presentation of Simba." Called a strong, even voice.

"That was today? Oh, I feel simply awful..." croaked a highly sarcastic voice. A long, ear-piercing screech followed soon after. We all flattened our ears, and I clenched my teeth against the sound

"Must've slipped my mind."

"Yes, well, as slippery as your mind is, as the king's brother, you should've been first in line!" Cawed a shrill chirp of a bird.

There was a small click of teeth. I peeked over the boulder, ignoring the hiss from Wan telling me to duck down. A scrawny-built lion with a black mane had his teeth showing to a small blue bird with a large bill, whom was cowering behind a large, golden brown red-maned lion.

"Well, I was first in line, until the little hairball was born," A negative emphasis was added to the word hairball. I immediately loathed him and I didn't even know his name.

The other lion ducked his head to the smaller, meeting eyes. "That 'hairball' is my son, and your future king."

"Oh, then I shall practice my curtsy," the lion said half-heartedly, turning away.

"Psst, what's going on?" Aang nudged my leg. He was too small to look over himself, and was partially being held down by Wan.

"Hold on," I whispered back.

"Don't you turn your back on me Scar." The bigger lion warned.

The other lion looked back, now Scar. "Oh no Mufasa, perhaps you shouldn't turn your back on me." Scar started to pad away.

Now Mufasa, the other lion bared his teeth and ducked down in front of Scar, roaring in the process. "Is that a challenge?"

"Temper, temper. I wouldn't dream of challenging you."

I suddenly ducked down to see how the gang was doing. They were all looking to me quite nervously, startled by the sudden roar. I nodded to tell them it was alright.

Just then, a flash of black appeared around the corner. It was Scar, padding away. He didn't look in a good mood.

Wan nudged all of us onto another side so that Scar and Mufasa wouldn't see us. A few oofs and nudges later, we toppled together onto a narrow side.

It was Korra who spoke up first. "What was that all about?" She said too loudly.

Everyone glared at her, including me, and she popped a paw onto her mouth. It was too late though.

"Reveal yourselves, outskirts." Cawed the shrill voice.

"Korra," we all groan, and she flattened her ears in embarrassment, but we all complied and walked out of our hiding place. Mufasa looked at all of us, intrigued rather than furious. Okay, I thought,  maybe we're probably of the hook.

"Where do you come from?" he questioned, his voice even once more.

"Well," I start, but Korra butted in, evidently trying to make up for her mistake.

"We come from somewhere far far away, past the badlands" she stuttered. At least you can give her some credit for trying, I thought sympathetically

"And we're very lost. We were trying to find our pride but woke up to them being gone." Aang added, I smiled Aang always knew when to improvise.

"All we need is a place to rest for a few days," said Wan, "If it isn't too much trouble," he added.

Aang shyly spoke up again, "And uh… you do have a cute cub."

I couldn't help a little smile escape my jaws but I looked to Mufasa for the answer. He lifted an eyebrow. Mufasa looked skeptical, but I felt he could trust us by the way his eyes twinkled.

"Alright. But only if you do not cause trouble." He said sternly. We all nodded enthusiastically.

It's a good thing he doesn't know the force of chaos and darkness itself is after us.