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Here is another short story! Hope you guys like it, tell me what you think!

 

Acorn shifted her paws nervously.

What if he doesn’t like me? The words rang menacingly in her head. Her tail was twitching uncontrollably.

“Relax!” came a voice behind her.

She turned around seeing her two brothers looking at her. The bigger one, Blaze, seeing her tail twitching, crouched and was about to pounce when the smaller one, Golden, swiped him with his paw.

“Stop, Mom’s coming,” he mewed.

Blaze straightened and started licking his paws nonchalantly. Acorn wrapped her tail around her paws and tried to act uninterested. But Golden ran to meet the golden, brown, lioness on the trail.

“Mom, Mom can we go now?” he asked excitedly.

She let out a deep rumbling purr and rubbed her cheek along her son’s head.

“Of course, my little cub,” she responded.

He yowled enthusiastically.

“Come on guys,” he called to them. “We’re gonna go meet dad and the rest of the pride!”

Acorn rolled her eyes. She knew where they were going and didn’t need any reminders.

Why can’t life just stay as it is? 

Blaze pushed past her running to catch up with Golden.

“Dad’s gonna like me better,” she heard him say.

“No, he’s not. He’s gonna like me better!” Golden answered.

Her brother’s voices faded away in the distance and she was left behind. Her mom slowed her pace to fall in step with her.

“Nervous?” she asked Acorn.

She nodded.

“What if he doesn’t like me? What if The Pride doesn’t like me?” she mewed.

Her mom laughed,

“I think he’ll like you” she assured her, “after all what is there not to like?”

Acorn rubbed her head against her mom’s jaw purring loudly.

“Thank you.”

Feeling more confident she rushed ahead, joining her brothers.

Acorn stood with her brothers on the outside of the circle. The Pride had gathered to welcome the new cubs. They weren’t the only new cubs and the other litter was being welcomed first.

She watched as the King of The Pride received the cubs into his pride and they met their father for the first time.

Acorn was glad for the cubs, but her uneasiness had returned and she was feeling nervous once more.

Then her mom nudged her from behind,

“It is time my dear ones.”

And she walked into the circle with her brothers.

The King approached them,

“It is an honor to welcome these three new cubs into my Pride,” he said, “and I know they will contribute to it with all their hearts!”

There were a few yowls of agreement. Then The King stepped back and nodded to another lion.

Acorn felt a shiver of excitement run down her spine.

Because she knew the lion stepping forward was her father.

Her father laid his head on each of theirs in turn.

“I, Kiniun, (these cubs’ father) welcome them as part of my family and will protect them for as long as they’re under my paws!”

Then the whole Pride erupted in yowls and roars, receiving them as their own.

Acorn felt her brothers stand taller beside her. She felt warm all over.

They had been accepted.

 

I tried to put a picture here, but it wigged out and wouldn’t let me lol!

A Few Lion Facts:

The Swahili word for lion is, simba.

The Yoruba word for lion is, kiniun.

The leader of a pride of lions is called a king.

Lions are the only cats that live in groups.

Lions are the second largest big cat species in the world (behind tigers).

The average male lion weighs around 400 lb.

The average female lion weighs around 290 lb.

The heaviest lion on record weighed an amazing 826 lb.

A lion’s roar can be heard up to eight kilometers away, about 5 miles!