Lion King's Adopted Son Chapter 1

On the gra.s.sland, several lionesses are quietly approaching the gazelle that drinks water by the river, which is their target goal today. They gathered their feet, quietly approaching their prey through the cover from the gra.s.s and made a sudden attack less than two meters from the lone adult gazelle.

Soon the gazelle fell into the pool of blood, and the lioness put their front paws on the gazelle, making a deafening roar, calling the lions and their children to come to eat.

The male lion Ghana is a strong and st.u.r.dy lion. He and his younger brother Ryan are the rightful rulers of this nine lioness. When they arrived at their prey, Ghana and Ryan enjoyed the prey without hesitation, chewing the gazelle with fresh blood, and the lioness stood beside them, waiting quietly for the two lions to finish their meal before enjoying their own share. By the time for the cubs to eat, there is not much meat left for them.

At this time, the strong and old lions rushed up and pushed their weaker brothers and sisters aside, chewing on the prey, and even the dregs would not be left for the younger siblings. A young lion was reluctantly rushed to his brother's side, trying to stop him from eating a single meat, and fighting for his own welfare, but his brother didn't hesitate to open his paw, even the lion mother didn't say anything when they saw this scene.

The lions Ghana and Ryan are full, leisurely wandering in their own territory, and patrolling their territory like a pampered king. The lioness is responsible for hunting and breeding. The lions are responsible for defending the territory and defeating intruders. The way lions divide their work has always been like this.

In a bush not far from the lion pride, suddenly a small fluffy yellow head emerged, round ears were propped up, a pair of round yellow-brown eyes were looking warily around it. Moving it ears from time to time, and even a gust of wind and gra.s.s is unwilling to let go.

Gerald[1] is also a cub among the Ghana and Ryan lion pride, but he can't enjoy the treatment like the other cubs. Gerald's mother, Lily, is not the lioness of this lion pride, but a foreign lioness. No one knows where she came from, but she is indeed very different from the lioness of Ghana's lion pride. Lily was once shunned because she was not related to other lionesses in the lion pride. Fortunately, her ability to hunt is very strong. Ghana likes her. Other lionesses, despite reluctance, still accept Lily for the sake for increasing food.

Soon, Lily became pregnant. Unlike the other lioness, which had two to five cubs each, Lily gave birth to only one cub named Gerald. Now, Gerald has been born for three years, he should be an adult by the age of the lion, but he is still a skinny little lion and doesn't look like growing up, even his six month old sister looks stronger than him. Lily is different, and Gerald is a complete freak. Because of this, the mother and the child were once again rejected by the lion pride, even Ghana no longer favor Lily and began to leave her.

Despite the loss of affection from the male lion, Lily's hunting ability is still there. Lily still can support her and her cub even if she is foraging alone from the lion pride. With Lily, Gerald would never be hungry. Gerald never had to worry about food until he was two and a half years old. The good times didn't last long. During a fight against rhinoceros, because the other lioness in the lion pride failed to cooperate with Lily, she was surrounded by three adult male rhinos and broke her belly.

Lily is dead. Losing his mother's shelter, Gerald, who did not have the ability to survive alone, soon followed his mother. And just at that moment, an unfortunate person caught up with the tide wore Gerald's body who had just died. People who used to sit in the office now have to run around for their own livelihoods and carefully follow the lion pride every day in the hope of finding out what he has missed. It's not glory to eat someone else's leftovers, but in order to survive, everything can be tolerated.

Gerald knows that Ghana's lion pride are undoubtedly not welcome him. The lioness have their own cubs, who would like a cub who is not related to them to grab food with their own children? What's more, at the age of three years old, it is enough for Ghana and Ryan to kick him out of the prides and fend for himself, regardless of his appearance. But with Gerald's young body and the young and tender little claws, if he is expelled from the lion pride, it may not be long before he became a good meal for hyenas. Although Ghana doesn't like Gerald, he was not cruel enough to deliberately let his children leave the prides to die. He turned a blind eye to Gerald to protect himself from other creatures, and from time to time followed the prides from behind, and he turned a blind eye to them.

But some lioness felt the little tails behind them and began to whisper, "Look, that little one who hasn't grown up is coming followed again. He is already three years old, but there are no sharp teeth and claws, and cannot hunt. I don't know how long we'll keep him!"

"Dear sister, just say less words. After all, he is Ghana's child." another lioness licked her paw and said lazily, "Unless Ghana speaks, I think he'll have to follow us all the time."

Ghana's lion pride finished their meal and left slowly. Gerald looked at the pile of broken bones not far away, knew that it could not be eaten today. The smell of lions is fading away, but the smell of blood has not dissipated. Gerald carefully left the place along the gra.s.s, and sooner, there should be some animals attracted by the smell of blood come to try their luck. Now, even a jackal can easily defeat Gerald.

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Gerald's little paws are not too sharp, not much better than the kitten's claws. It's still very difficult for him on his own. Based on his experience of survival for nearly half a year, Gerald chose an area where hares often moved, and dig a pit his forepaws. As the strength was not well controlled, a piece of ground sc.r.a.ped on Gerald's small head, and Gerald shook his head to throws the dirt off. Now, he looks like a grizzled cat.

After scratching his head with his front paws, Gera leaned on the ground and began to digging again.

Digging a trap on the ground, and then sprinkle the soft soil and gra.s.s on it makes the land look no different from other places, luring unsuspecting bunnies into the trap, which Gerald has often done recently. In addition, Gerald clumsily knotted some gra.s.s with his paws beside the trap. If the rabbits did not pa.s.s by his trap but walked along the path where the gra.s.s knot was located, they will be stumped.

After doing all this, Gerald stood against the wind, and carefully hid his breath. With the wisdom that once belonged to humanity, Gerald managed to support himself all this time. However today, Gerald's good fortune seems to have come to an end.

Five rabbits, a total of five rabbits pa.s.sed the trap that Gerald had set, but none of them fell into Gerald's net.

"Oh, look, here comes the d.a.m.n stinky lion is coming again! The last time my neighbor Ace was dead in his hands! I really don't understand. Can't the food that the lions hunt stop their mouths? Why does he always come and stare at us? G.o.d, I wish he had been s.n.a.t.c.hed away by hyenas! It's such a nasty b.a.s.t.a.r.d!" one of the gray rabbits screamed at Gerald indignantly.

"There is a lion here, even if it is a cub, that's enough to make me uneasy—— will its prides be nearby?" the rabbit mother with her baby looks worried.

"Come on! If he can follow the lion pride, he wouldn't have to keep an eye on us! In my opinion, he is abandoned by his lion pride." yellow rabbit grandfather glared squinted at his old eyes, made no secret of his gloating.

"Oh, he's such a poor unlucky one! But I still prefer he has been taken away by the hyenas earlier, or by the elephants!" Mr. Gray Rabbit said with no sincerity.

"So there won't be any adult lions around?"

"That's true."

"Honey, look at your front. What's that?"

Just then the wind changed direction. A few rabbits felt a dangerous atmosphere of endless bloodshed and violence. They suddenly shrank their necks and stopped their steps.

"Oh, no—— an adult lion!"

The rabbits turned quickly and ran wildly to the opposite direction, no longer paying attention to the Gerald whom they cursed. After being left behind, Gerald looked foolishly at the arrogant adult lion in front of him, eagerly stepping forward, and then stepped into the trap he had dug, and his right half fell because losing balance.

It was an adult lion with a brown mane, strong limbs and strong body looks as powerful as Ghana and Ryan. Now he let out an angry roar, sharper than the sound of a car horn close by. Gerald bristled up and stood up, covering his ears with two front paws.

When the lion locked his bloodthirsty eyes on Gerald, Gerald seemed to see the smile of the death G.o.d, his scalp was numb, and a tremor that even his tail would burst open.

Gerald's trap may be deep enough for the hare, but it's only a matter of time before an adult male lion can break free. Once the lion gets out of the trap, he's finished! Gerald simply threw the useless gra.s.s knots around him to the lion, tripped him over, and found a tree that was big enough to climb up for a three years old boy.

This is Gerald's secret. Among Ghana and Ryan lion pride, only he and Lily, who have pa.s.sed away, have the ability to become human. He doesn't know if it's because of this reason that his growth is unusually slow. Except for the ears and tail can't change, Gerald looks exactly like a human child.

As Gerald climbed up the tree, the angry lion already broke free with brute strength from the troubles that Gerald had caused him fell off and quickly rushed under the tree. He held his head high as if trying to bite Gerald's tail to take him down from the tree. Gerald raised his tail with fright and climbed desperately up the tree. G.o.d knows how to do so quickly with his little arms and legs, and when he think bask about it afterward, Gerald himself also couldn't believe it.

Gerald listened to the constrain roar from the lion in his ear, fear gradually rose to his heart.

The lion he has offended is Pascal?

If Ghana and Ryan had been defeated by this lion, then no one can save him from the lion's anger.

Gerald shrank his belly and lay straight on the tree. His life, no, why is lion's life so difficult? He has not yet enjoyed the prestige of being a lion king, and he will be buried here.

Moreover, he is really hungry.

Pascal lingered under the tree, and Gerald couldn't leave. He had not eaten for two days, and his small belly made a burst of protest. The wind in the night was a bit cold. After Gerald climbed the tree, he changed back to the form of a lion. In order to reduce the energy consumption, he curled up and almost formed into a ball.

Pascal looked at the pitiful little furball on the tree, and most of the anger in his heart subsided.

At this time, a pa.s.sing rabbit was caught by Pascal, and his lion's sharp claws instantly opened the rabbit's stomach. The delicious smell came from under the tree, and Gerald couldn't help but sniff his nose. Such a little rabbit is undoubtedly not enough for the adult lion, but for Gerald, it's a hearty meal. For a moment, Gerald almost wanted to rush down the tree and win the hare. But when he looked up at the dangerous golden eyes under the tree, Gerald wilted again and pull back his front paws back from where they had just stepped.

Whether it was an illusion or not, the male lion under the tree saw Gerald's appearance and showed a funny expression. He stood up and stepped back a few steps. Soon, Gerald couldn't smell the lion. But Gerald knows that the horrid lion must have not gone far. For experienced lions, it's not difficult to use the wind direction to temporarily hide the smell on their bodies. Does this lion think that he is a fool who will be fooled as long as there is a bait?

For some time, the smell of blood stimulated Gerald's taste buds, and the lion never came back. Gerald is like being ripped by countless bugs, and it's difficult to hesitate. Although it's not a good idea to go down from the tree now, the ubiquitous hunger has defeated it, meanwhile, his feelings towards the lion that has left his glory rushed to his heart.

Anyway, if it goes on like this, he will starve to death before being shredded to pieces by the lion. If the hare is just a trap, even if he is going to die, he will be a stuffed ghost.

The cub rushed down the tree, looked around warily at first. After discovering that there was no movement around, then tentatively arch the hare with his nose. After confirming that there was no abnormal situation, he quickly pounced it. After gnawing the hare, he licked his mouth and squinted his eyes with a happy smile. The little thing then followed the borderline and carefully returned to the territory Ghana and Ryan's lion pride.

Looking at the small figure that is gradually drifting away, the male lion's golden eyes reveals a thoughtful look.