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Character(s): Kovu, Priere, Onion Knight, Terra Branford
Content: Kovu gets a thorn in his paw ;.;
Setting: Pride Lands, somewhere in the grasslands
Time: Sunset
Warnings: None expected

Talking with Mufasa had helped Kovu relax more than he was expecting. Especially since the last time that old lion was here everything had gone a lot differently. He didn't know why everyone got so up in arms over things whenever he explained about how he grew up, or why everyone he talked to seemed so interested in it, but Mufasa wasn't even worried about it. Kovu wasn't like Scar. Mufasa definitely wasn't the first one who'd said that, but how long was it gonna take Kovu to really believe it? The only one who'd ever mistaken him for Scar was that idiot human, and Urd had stepped in to help him then...she didn't even know him. No one here knew him, and they were helping him anyway. No one would ever help Scar like that. Kovu just had to kep telling himself that. Nothing that he was supposed to do had ever really happened, and none of it was ever going to. The only thing he really had to worry about now was just making sure people knew which lion was which.

"Hey Priere, wanna see a place that I always liked? It's almost sunset, and the stars should be out pretty soon." If she said yes, he'd just have to make sure not to think about that stupid thing he'd said to Kiara right before he'd shown up here in Paixao. That wouldn't be too hard, right?

But scarcely a moment later, Kovu let out something of a strangled roar. "NGGH! What did I just step on?!" He held up his paw to look at it, and something shiny and metallic was sticking out of it. What was something like that doing here in the Pride Lands? The metal stuff was all over the city, but Kovu'd never seen it anywhere near here.

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The collective bad mood both of them felt a while back finally seemed to have stopped. In her case it didn't take much except tell herself she needed to go slap some sense into whoever was King at the moment, it was Kovu she was a bit more worried about. His mood turned sour all of a sudden... and then suddenly, he looked okay again. Well, whatever, she wasn't one to pry into others business like this. In any case, she was glad her guide was back to normal... maybe a bit too much.

"Kovu, are you showing me around... or taking me out on a date?" she asked, somewhere between a sigh and amusement. However, whatever was supposed to happen next got cut short rather quickly. "... is that what I think it is?"

The Onion Knight and Terra had just set their stuff aside for a moment so they could take a break at the watering hole without the burden of carrying it around. The Knight didn't think there would be a problem with doing that, it wasn't really in the way and they wouldn't be gone long.

The Knight was relaxing by the water, well, relaxing as much as he could while being stuck in this form, when he heard the strangled roar. His ears perked up and he looked at Terra, "Did you hear that?"

Terra was near the waterside, taking a much needed drink. It was definitely going to take some getting used to, having to lap up water with her tongue like this... she frowned, feeling as though she hadn't quenched her thirst amongst all the effort it was taking just to get some of the water in her moouth...

As the roar sounded in the distance, her head shot upwards, ears perked in the direction it came from. "Did it come from over there?" she took a few steps over, and crouched down, trying to conceal her form in the grass while at the same time attempting to peek over it for a better look. "A lion? And..."

The slightly wounded lion kept his paw in the air, staring at the little metal object embedded in between the pads. How'd it even get up here?

"I don't know, I don't think I've ever seen something like this before. Nnngh!" He tried to get his teeth around it, but he couldn't quite reach. "How am I supposed to get it out?"

His ears swiveled as they caught the sound of voices, and he sniffed the air. Hyena...and meerkat? And he didn't smell any blood other than his own. He spotted them at the watering hole, not far away at all, but he really didn't think it was a good idea to try to walk with this thing stuck in his paw like that.

Was that a sword? Well, okay it was much smaller than usual, but yes, it looked like a sword. What the hell was it doing here in the first place? It's not like lions just randomly carried swords around... especially not one that could probably be used as toothpicks.

"Oh just yank it out, that should do it," she said, moving to grab it... wait... with what? She sometimes kept forgetting that she wasn't human here, with a definite lack of anything resembling a hand. "Err... we might be in trouble here."

The Onion Knight scampered up on Terra's head so he could get a better look at the two other animals. "What are they doing?" He looked into Terra's eyes for a moment before looking up at the two animals again, trying to make out what they were saying.

"Should we try and help them?" He continued. He wasn't about to approach the two very large animals in this tiny form he was in, not without Terra.

The girl considered for a moment. She thought back to Scar's words of advice... about how the hyenas weren't very well liked in this world. If they helped these two, then maybe -- it would get the gears in motion for a change.

"Let's go see if we can," she said, raising herself out from the cover she'd sought only moments ago. She stood there, studying the two of them now that she had revealed herself... and waited a moment to see how they would react.

"Um. Are you all right?" she asked, raising her voice to cover the slight distance.

"With what?" was Kovu's immediate response, looking a bit annoyed until Priere figured out it was pointless. "Right, that's what I thought."

His grumbling was cut short by the hyena stepping out into the open. Was that...green? On her head? And a bow? Well, that explained why she wasn't being cautious...

"Who're you?" Accepting help from a weird-looking hyena (who was probably from the city) wasn't exactly the highest thing on Kovu's list of concerns. Making sure she wasn't going to do something stupid was a little higher.

"Hey, no need to get snippy," Priere snapped. She was just trying to help after all.

However, maybe someone could help after all. She spotted the two smaller animals... one which seemed to have paws that actually could be considered hands. One of them had something on her head, so she assumed at least one of them used to be human... or at least someone in town. And anyway... as big as she was, it's not as if any small animals actually scared her. "Hey, think you can take this sword out of his paw?"

"I can try"

The Onion Knight slid down Terra's nose and landed on the ground in front of the two other animals. He looked at the sword embedded in the paw of the male animal and he recognized the painted yellow metal.

"That's my sword!"

He grabbed the handle of it and tried to pull it out of the animal's paw. Though it was embedded rather deep in Kovu's paw, too deep for the Knight to pull it out in his own.

Terra's eyes crossed briefly as the meerkat slid down in front of her snout. As he walked towards the other two, she felt herself stepping forward as well, almost protectivly. It seemed to be pure instinct, as she clearly didn't mean any harm, but wanted to make sure that the same was true for the other pair.

"Ah! We found it!" she was excited, knowing she would even feel uneasy if her weapon was missing -- but quickly relinquished her good spirits when she realized the circumstances of the situation.

The hyena took another half-step forward. She gazed at the knight fondly, realizing that in his small form... he most likely didn't have the strength to pull it out. "Um," she lowered her head down to his level, "maybe I should try?" she asked gently, also looking up towards the lion for consent.

Kovu gave a strangled growl as the little meerkat tried to yank the sword out. There was a reason paw pads were so hard to pierce--they were really sensitive under that rough skin.

He shoved his head down toward the meerkat's level. "Maybe you should just shove it in further," he said with a certain venomous edge to his voice. He looked up to the hyena. "If you can actually get it out without making it hurt worse, be my guest."

Kovu's lack of confidence in the idea wasn't hard to see.

Well she wasn't doing much in this situation, that's for sure. It's not like she could actually contribute to the whole sword removing, though if this continued, she would try to see if they could move back to the entrance so she could turn back into something with actual fingers... though they would have to find a way to get Kovu there without him walking on his paw.

That is... if he could even last that long.

"Kovu," she snapped. "Would you stop whining and be a man about it already!? He's trying to help!" She wasn't angry, in fact, she sounded like a mother or elder sister scolding a child more than anything.

The Onion Knight swallowed hard when the lion shoved his face into his. But he wasn't about to let on that he was scared of him. Not by a long shot.

"No, no. I can get it out." The Knight got a better grip on the sword and pulled with every ounce of his strength. After a while of tugging the Knight finally managed to dislodge the sword in such a swift motion that it sent him stumbling back into Terra's paws.

Terra glanced towards Kovu with a frown -- and then shot a thankful look towards the rhino that accompanied him. At least she -- it was a she, Terra reasoned -- seemed to understand the situation. Though stepping on a tiny sword probably wasn't the best way the lion thought to spend his day, either...

Her eyebrows furrowed together as the knight pulled at the sword, then responded with a surpried, "Oh!" when he was sent reeling into her. "Are you all right?" she asked, looking at him from an upside down point of view.

She looked up again at Kovu -- "Is your paw hurt? I can heal it if you're injured..." she offered.

The first sound to escape Kovu was a roar of pain. It echoed across the landscape before lowering to more of a growl, but only lasted for a second.

"Ngh!" he groaned, glaring down at the meerkat. He shook his paw, watching with something of a scowl as a drop of blood fell from it onto the grass. "...Thanks," he said to the tiny animal, sounding only somewhat grateful.

"And what do you mean heal me? Like that one Dagger girl did for Simba?"

Priere smiled softly, well as softly as she could, to the hyena. At least it looked like both of them were on the same wavelength.

She couldn't help but stare at the small rat as he went flying backwards. Geez, maybe it would have been better to have just left the hyena take care of it... at least it made for a good show... in fact she couldn't help but laugh at the whole thing.

The Knight wouldn't say he had gone flying, and he was certainly not a rat by any means.

He pushed his helm back up over his eyes, and looked up at the lion. "She means with a spell." Which was, unbeknownst to him, how that 'one Dagger girl' had healed Simba. The Knight would have offered himself, but he had nothing in the way of Healing spells.

She shot the laughing rhino a bit of look while blushing. The situation was a litte humerous, Terra had to admit also, but only because the youth was so... cute.

Clearing her throat, she stepped forward. "That's right," she confirmed what the young knight said. "Um. Did she use something called 'magic?'" she asked approaching the lion with her ears back. Beside him, she sat on her hind legs and lifted her paw. "May I? You won't feel any discomfort. I promise."

"I don't know," Kovu answered the hyena. "I wasn't there when it happened." He wasn't too enthusiastic about answering, and didn't look her in the eye. That was the night he'd gotten his scar...and it wasn't a night he was very happy to talk about.

Skeptical, to say the least, he held his paw out to her. If it was the same as what happened for Simba, it would be fine, right?

"Terra's magic is the best, it's even better than mine!" It was rare that the Knight would brag about someone other than himself, but his infatuation with Terra did sometimes get the better of him. "So don't worry about it!"

As she took his paw into her own, Terra closed her eyes concentrating on the spell. Onion's positivity helped to ease any concerns she had at that moment. It wasn't that large of a wound, and so, she chose a lower level magic to do the trick. "Cure!" she cried.

A raised eyebrow greeted the meerkat, but a few moments later and Kovu's paw was back to normal.

"Uh...thanks." That was...weird.

Well then, crisis averted. "How do you even lose a sword in the first place?" she said rather sternly to the rat. She couldn't really help herself, he was so small that she couldn't help but think of him as a little kid, whether or not he was one.

She turned to the hyena and smiled. "So your name is Terra? I'm Priere. Thanks again for the help."

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