"Shindi, wake up!" zuri screamed. "no." I groaned. "wake up wake up wake uuup!" I opened my eyes and stared at my tawny cousin. She had the "outlander eyes" like her mother. "fine." I rolled over, stood up, and stretched. "there. I'm up." we walked down to the watering hole where demitri was. Her blackish fur was hanging over her right eye, as usuall. "morning princess bed head." she said. I sleepily walked over to the watering hole and looked at my reflection; my snow white fur was all over the place. I flattened it out and took a drink of the water. "hey guys, did you hear about the rouge cubs spotted?" we all looked over to the voice to see none other than my adopted sister, sylvia. She's a cheetah cub; the same age as me and the other cubs. "the what?" demitri asked, obviously confused. "the rouge cubs. 3 lion cubs and a mystery cub have been spotted around here a couple times in the past few days." "really?" zuri asked. "yup. I wonder if we'll see them." Sylvia said excitedly. "I hope not. You don't know why they're rouge. They could've killed a cub. Or eaten a dead lion." demitri rolled her eyes. "yeah right, the possibility of me being vegan is more likley!" we all laughed and sat under the large tree by the watering hole.
There was a small noise; almost inaudible. It gradually got louder. Eventually, it was so loud you couldn't hear the birds chirping. "what the?" then, a zebra came running around the corner screaming like a maniac. "HELP! HELP!" it ran off in the other direction. "whAt was that about?" I shrugged My shoulders. Then, we found out. A Carmel lion cub came running around the corner, followed by a brown one, then an orangish one with black future mane hair, and finally a dark grey tiger cub with red stripes. Zuri scrambled up the tree; Demitri followed, Sylvia jumped inside a bush, I climbed under a fair sized rock and smooshed myself as far under as I could get. After a few seconds, the cubs gave up on the zebra. "man, another lost meal!" the carmel one complained. "shut up Grandi!" the brown one said. "you shut up!" they immediately began to fight. "Grandi, Garko, both of you shut it!" the tiger said. They both mumbled somthing under their breath. The the orange one got up, shook the dirt off of him, and looked around. He spotted me, squinted his eyes, and said, "hey Dragor, who's that?" and nodded his head in my direction. All of the cubs looked at me. 'oh no.' the tiger slowly began to walk over to me; his gaze was cold. He was close. I snapped my eyes shut. 'oh no oh no oh no!' out of no where, I heard a familiar sound. I quickly opened my eyes. My father was standing in front of me protectively growling at the cub with bared teeth.
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A/N: hey yall, it's Casey. I'll be writing all of shindis parts and ally will be doing all of Sylvia's parts.
