A TLK Story; Torn Apart

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the two woke up in the same place, but both curled up with each other. they both awoke at the same time, and when they did, they quickly pulled away from each other. "u-um," maisha flushed deep red. dawn did the same. "it's fine." she just said, beaming like it was no big deal. maisha suddenly saw his father coming across the moor, and ducked down. "quick!" he whispered, and scampered under a tree, his neck low. his father passed, and maisha breathed a sigh of relief. "what up with him?" dawn suddenly asked. "its... he's just... abusive..." maisha sighed and turned away. dawn nuzzled his shoulder.

months later, while practicing hunting with his father, his father went mad. he began to chase maisha. they soon tumbled into an empty road and maisha ran into the woods. a thunderstorm had started, and he was surrounded by wood. he dodged the trees and dashed onto a packed motorway. the cub jumped from car to car, his father following. maisha jumped off of the cars and into the queue. he hid under a huge car and moved along with it, praying he wouldn't be seen. meanwhile, the old friend and his group of young lions were in their lair. suddenly maishas best friend, dawn, rushed in. she had seen all that had happened. she panted, and told them maisha was in danger. the old friend was quite close to maishas family, so he commanded the young lions to go find them, and for the old friend's favourite lion, raven, and dawn to help him with the safety rope so the old friend could go down. they all rushed ahead, and at that point maishas father had found maisha. he was pawing under the car, trying to grab maisha. the cub trembled, and finally dashed out and made a giant leap onto a lorry. he knew his father would make it, so he jumped down and held onto the wing mirror for dear life. meanwhile "the old friend" was lowering himself down on an old safety rope he had found. dawn suddenly let go, and he fell down. "you okay?" raven asked, glaring hardly at dawn. "yes," a reply echoed up. "the old friend" ran to the lorry and held out a paw to maisha, and when he climbed onto him, he ran to the hill and tried to get up. he couldn't, though. rocks tumbled down as he scraped at the ground. "over there!" maisha pulled him over to see a pickup line truck. so they ran over, but they were too slow. maishas father, william, pounced at the old friend, akili and he went flying, banging against the hillside. maisha gasped silently and backed up under a truck, watching. akili grabbed maisha and ran for the pickup truck. he knew william was on their trail, so he kicked his back feet out to hopefully get some dust or rocks in his face. they leapt up onto the pickup truck and ducked. unfortunately, william jumped on it as well, and they knew they were done for. before he could slaughter them, akili said to maisha with little tears in his eyes, "run. don't ever come back. you will be killed." maisha shook his head, but akili pushed him off and all maisha could hear was screams and shouts. when the road had cleared, maisha could see akili laying there, dead. he slowly walked over, and then saw sikes running away. the cub bent down and lay beside him. soon raven and dawn came down. "m-maisha?" dawn stuttered, taking a step forwards. she heard her mother, and then ran. "you.." raven whispered. he then scratched maisha on the cheek. "agh!" he shouted and glared at raven. "it's your fault." raven growled. "i couldn't help it. he was the one who chose to save me," maisha growled deeper. "maybe you should go... now." raven looked away. maisha ran, and loomed away in the mist. "go on boys," raven laughed. the young lions began to chase him. he ran up the cliff himself with difficulty and ran through bushes of brambles. the cub saw a beach, and thought: sea. the lions were on his tail, so he had to move fast. he raced down to the shore and jumped into the water. the cub swam delicately, his paws flipping up and down. he could hear the young lions groan from back at shore.