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Boomslang wasn't born as Boomslag the name his mother gave him was Moyo. His cubhood was normal , he was born to the lead hunter of his pride, she was a stunning tawny lion, Boomslangs mother adored her solo cub, unusual for the pride Boomslang was born without any siblings most of his pride tended to have 3 cubs, this lead to his mother spending a lot of time with her son and praising him alot.
Once his eyes and ears where open he was allowed to meet the other prides cubs ,two other litters had been born , Boomslang befriended them quickly and they spent most the day playing, when it came time for the mothers to start helping the pride again one would look after the cubs while the other two worked, Boomslang hated the days when his mother didn’t look after them, the others didn’t praise him for doing good things. One day he lashed out at one of the mothers in anger that she didn’t tell him he was good for taking food to one of the older lions.
Instead of scolding young Boomslang his mother told him to take his anger out on something else, like a tree or something ,she wouldn't want her son to be shunned by the pride for lashing out at a lower ranked female. Boomslang thought long about what his mother told him and the next time he wanted to lash out he stormed off looking for something to get his claws into. The first thing he found was a defenceless rodent, his prey. He didn’t eat it but just left it to rot, but he felt better why should he care.
This behaviour continued , the pride unknowing that he was taking his anger out on smaller animals , many of his pride mates had found the dead animals but nobody knew who killed them , the pride started to think it was a stray lion. When Boomslang and his friends became young teens they were allowed to roam their prides lands but had to stay together in case the stray lion showed itself. Boomslang knew this would never happen so he was more relaxed the the two of his friends he spent most his time with, they were called Havi and Nyoka . he would often lead them around the lands, Havi was always jumpy and tried to fight Boomslang on where they went, this just angered Boomslang.
One day the trio was hanging around some rocky cliffs, boomslang enjoyed the warm sun and lazied about , Havi after some time begged for Boomslang to let them return to the dens, when Boomslang said no the first got into a physical fight, the two scuffled for some time, then without warning Boomslang was able to shove Havi down, the impact on the rock killed Havi. Boomslang didn’t feel bad about it,he looked at the body of his friend without any feelings about his death, Nyoka let out a scream, this bought over pride mates, Nyoka told them of how Boomslang and Havi got into a fight and it was a mistake, so he got away with it, most the pride thought his lack of reaction was shock, many gave him attention, which he enjoyed.
Overtime the attention stopped, Boomslang needed more, he tried many ways to show off but nothing felt the same as when Havi died and so Boomslang started to plan, he knew he could never take on an adult and win so he knew he would have to attack one of the lions he grew up with,he would go out with two of them and make sure they split up ,once nobody else around he would come up with a way to complete one of the others circle of life.When he was a young adult it was only he and Nyoka left, this is when he messed up, he had planned for her to join the others but , when it came time he couldn’t , he let her get away and she told the pride.
Boomslang was attacked hashly by the pride, he got away but only just, wounded he searched for a place to rest ,he soon found a pride of lions that took him in. he only has a few foggy memories of his first days in the pride as he recovered, but he was soon back to normal and this new pride welcomed him,but it was to late for Boomslang he had found him self hating other lions all together, with that he started to plot.Boomslang would tell the pride his name was Boomslang, trying to be rid of his old name,he thought it would fit with these lions as they liked to live in the trees. The king's son started to try and teach Boomslang about the pride and its rules, Boomslang just ignored the annoying lion , he knew who his target should be to cause the most problems for this Pride, the king.
It wasn't hard, the King liked to sleep at night in trees and so did most the pride, all he had to do was find a night the king would be sleeping alone, it took to long the queen was always by his side ,so Boomslang faked running into a messenger and told the queen a lion had asked for her and so she left to look for it, that night all Boomslang had to do was attack while he slept and it was done, before the pride awoke he left, he knew they would do the same as his old pride, but Boomslang was content with the drama he had just caused for that tree loving pride and its new annoying king.
Boomslang would do this for other prides, join up work out how to cause the most problems then leave before getting caught, it was fun to him , he didn’t mind the blood on his paws, He would come to find the tree of life and was greeted by two lions and a younger one,likely a cub of the pair , he asked to join and they told him no. Boomslang was put off by this, nobody ever told him no , he attacked, taking on the younger lion frist, he pinned her down but before giving her a killing blow the adult male shoved him off and the two fought, Boomslang knew he had hurt the younger lion, she would live but be scared , while fighting with the male he thought the best way to hurt her would be to deal with the male, and so he did, he stood planning on running once again when the female attacked him, Boomslang dealt with her as well.
He looked at the young lion and thought about killing her too but that thought was soon interrupted by a voice coming from the path the lions had come from “Sahasi! Ananda!” it called, Boomslang knew he couldn’t take another adult and ran. Boomslang continues to roam as a lone male causing chaos wherever he can.
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