Mheetu

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Mheetu

General Information

Name: Mheetu
Age: 7 years
Gender: Lion
Species: Lion
Alliance: Pridelander/Loner

Personality

Mheetu is not your typical lion, rather is a seven year old loveable lug. Never one for serious business, Mheetu can always be found trying to make the ladies laugh and keep the energy of the pride up. Never one to see another sad, he will go out of his way to help others. Loving toward cubs, he tends to be around the cubs of the pride, playing and lounging with them.

However, this lion has a darker side. Once he left the pridelands, he did a lot of growing up and is more than capable of holding his own against another lion. When pushed, Mheetu is a completely different lion, but never around cubs. He will force a cub away from him, before he allows the poor little thing to see him hurt another living creature. Save for Zahir, Zahir is always the exception to everything.

Overall, Mheetu is a rather calm lion that has a soft spot for cubs, whether they are his or not, that takes part in a pride life very little. When he isn't around lioness or cubs, he is a quiet, calm, wise lion that hardly anyone knows if they had seen him two seconds before.

Appearance

As far as appearances goes, Mheetu is your average colored lion. With his tanned body fur, light creamy belly, and dark brown mane, her could pass for Simba any day, save for Simba's mane always seems darker than his own. His years of traveling as a nomad has left him scarred, but no more than most lions are. Gentle brown orbs watch all around him, while a gentle, almost goofy, face tracks everything. Due to his years of roaming the lands, he has built himself a nice muscular build that he uses only when needed.

History

Born a year behind Nala, Mheetu spent a lot of time tagging along behind his sister and the other cubs of the pride. Yet when Mufasa passed and Simba disappeared, Mheetu found himself to be one of the only males among all the lioness and he began to do as much as he could to keep the lioness happy. He found he had his work cut out for him, as Scar caused so much trouble for him. On more than one occassion he had been attacked by hyenas, and Sarafina was always there to protect him.

By the time Mheetu was old enough to grow out his mane, Scar had already ravaged the land and the pride. His once beautiful home was destroyed, but Simba brought that all back to him. When the young King returned and finally took a stand, Mheetu was right there, ready to help. Once the fun-loving cub that all the lioness knew, was now a nearly full grown lion defending his home and family members. Of course, when the fighting was over and Simba stepped forward as King of the pride, Mheetu was happy to see his sister step up as his mate. Sadly, just after Kiara was born, Mheetu decided to leave the Pridelands for a short time, disappearing into the Outlands for several years.

For a short time, Mheetu traveled the lands, both Pride and Outlands, until he found himself trespassing on a pride's land. When he met with the leader of the pride, he found it to be a young mother, who had two cubs and an adult son. He stayed with the young mother's pride for a very short time, just a few days. It was in that short time, that Mheetu found that Zira was not a lioness to be trusted and young Kovu was too nice to be in such a harsh pride, yet he ended up moving on, not taking the young cub with him.

After leaving Zira's pride, he traveled a bit more, until he was about five years old, at which time he heard rumors that were being whispered about a young lion that had been banished from the Pridelands that had a scar over his eye. By the time he reached the Pridelands, Zira had already attacked the Pridelands and Simba had already fought and won the Pridelands once more. This time he didn't leave from the pride again, instead he stayed around to watch his niece and the young Kovu grow together.

Once Simba and Nala decided to step down, Mheetu had already begun venturing back out into the Pridelands, until he was sort of apart of the pride, but more a figure of myth. He would always seem to know when the hunting was bad, for he would show up with meat, or he would suddenly appear whenever someone within the pride was having a really bad time. He was just a nomad, that stayed around a certain area.

Shortly before his seventh year, Mheetu was walking along the edge of the Pridelands and noticed a young female who was walking with her head down. As he approached, she entered the Pridelands from the Outlands and dropped something to the ground. From his position, Mheetu watched as the young mother looked up at him. As the lioness held his gaze, Mheetu slowly nodded his head, watching as it seemed a heavy burden was lifted from her shoulders. She lowered herself, nuzzling and licking the young cub, then very hesitantly turned from the cub and disappeared back into the Outlands. With enough distance between them, Mheetu went down and found the cub just where the mother had left him. Of course, the young thing was screaming his head off, but Mheetu silenced with a calm voice. It was then that Mheetu noticed why the young mother was forced to give away her cub. The youngling was a beautiful white color that would never get any darker.

From that point on, Mheetu and Zahir, as the cub was named, were always together. And just like with Mheetu, Zahir became like a ghost, appearing just a little more than Mheetu, but the older lion was never far behind.

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