~Alone~

[[R].ebel]

Lightning
"Run With Me & Feel the Power"

Lightning pranced in place, tossing his head, acting as if he hadn't heard Simba's words. He looked to Simba, stopping his elegant prancing.

"Why? I always stay here and play and nothing's never happ-"

His words were cut off by the roar of a cougar, who exposed his sleek, predatory body from the bushes behind the black colt. Lightning whinnied in surprise, turning quick to see the cougar's outstretched jaws and claws coming for his exposed neck. Lightning was suddenly taken back deep in his mind to his past...

~Flashback~

Lightning stood under his mother, a beautiful black mare, Star Dancer. Her eyes were filled with worry and uneasiness. Lightning was just a few days old but was surprisingly well formed in his legs. His mother looked nervously around, whispering,

"Come on, dear...please hurry...."

Lightning was oblivious to the problem but soon knew when a familiar roar entered the plains and a large cougar leaped from the cover over a boulder. He landed on Star Dancer's back, who whinnied in fear, rearing up above her son.

"Run, Lightning, run! Run as fast as you can and don't look back!"

Lightning whinnied in nfear but did as his mother said, turning and running as fast as he could away. He ran for a ways before getting the thought to look back. He looked back only once and regretted his sight....Star Dancer lie on the ground with the cougar latched onto her neck but soon a black stallion appeared and the cougar was crushed beneath his hooves. Lightning feared this stallion and heard the stallion shout his name but he ran on and on just as his mother had told him....

Keep running....just keep running.....

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Lightning suddenly was pulled out of his memory and found himself running through the Cimarron forest at an alarming rate. He couldn't remember how he had escaped and looked back to see if the cougar was following but could not see him. Lightning, during his memory, had bolted off into the forests just before the cat could land on him only now he didn't know where he was.

Lightning suddenly tripped over a root and fell hard on the ground, letting out a scared, pitiful whinny. Hot tears filled his eyes as the memory of the flashback burned in his head. The tears rolled down his face and he sobbed alone.

"Mama......"

The black colt stretched his head across the ground, calling for his mom, hoping she would answer but heard nothing. In anger and sadness, he slammed his head hard on the ground and cried, his voice echoing through the forest like the wail of a ghost child.

"Mama.....mama!"

He didn't know how far he had wandered from Simba and Esperanza but he knew that he was alone once again.

[[esperanza]]

t h o u g h [t h i s] m i g h t [j u s t] b e [t h e] e n d i n g

Esperanza whinnied, rearing fiercely as the cougar. Her hooves hit the feline and knocked it from the colt's back. The cat turned and jumped at the palomino mare. She started bucking at kicking, then she realized that the colt was gone. "Where's Lightening?" she asked Simba as she fought to get the cougar off her back.

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{{OOC//*Sigh*}}

[Simba Maliki]

Simba watched as the cougar came out of the bushes. He went into his battle stance and was surprised when Lightning zapped right by him. "Wow the kid moves fast" he thought to himself. He turned back and shoulder slammed slammed the cougar. The cougar was sent back and then jumped back onto Esperanza.

"Where's Lightning?" he heard her ask. Simba turned around to look at how far he ran. "I'm not sure," he said as he was successfully able to get the cougar off of her," You go look for him while I handle this cat."

[[R].ebel]

Lightning
"Run with me & feel the power."

Lightning's body shook with fear as he sat alone on the forest floor. His eyes were closed as he pulled his head and legs close to his body, forming a tiny ball, whispering under his breath the one person he longed for.

"Mama.... mama.... please, mama....."

He sat alone, crying, hoping. But the soft cry of an eagle, pricked his ears up and Lightning shot his head up to look at a young eagle perched on a fallen tree right in front of him. The eagle c.ocked his head, watching young Lightning with curiosity but then the colt lay his head back down. The eagle ruffled his feathes and hopped down beside the colt, c.ocking his head in the bird fashion, his big golden eyes looking at the colt. The eagle stood erect, fluffing his feathers and then settled down beside Lightning who hadn't seemed to notice. The eagle tucked his head under to rest beside the colt, as if to be there to comfort him when he needed. Lightning felt at least he wasn't alone now...