Legends of Chima: Wild Lands

Chapter 2 The Laval's family tragedy.

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Laval and Eris arrived in Lion City and searched for Lagravis. He just talked with Lavertus about that base in Outlands.

- So, you are proposing to make a small outpost out of your base to monitor the Crawler Tribes? - Lagravis clarified.

- Since I live here now, the my base must be monitored, and the insects can use it for their own purposes. - answered Lavertus.

- I'll think about it and send a detachment there for protection, but let's solve all this tomorrow. I'm tired of the day. - said Lagravis and saw his son with Eris. - Laval. There you are! Li'ella want to walk with you in the moonlight.

- Dad, do you remember our conversation today in the morning? Tell me what happened to my mother. Eris also somehow had a dream, and for some reason she brought with her evil tribe from distant lands. - Laval asked.

Lagravis understood that sooner or later this conversation would happen. He still could not come to terms with the loss of his beloved wife that night.

- Leave us, please. - asked the King, turning the Elders. They left the throne hall, leaving lions and the eagle alone. Tears flowed from his eyes. - Son, it's time for you to find out the truth about the disappearance of your mother - Leona. Then you were two years old. - Lagravis began to tell a story, plunging into his memories.

Flashback

Chima. A magical world still untouched by war. In the Lion Temple, Lagravis walked along the corridor to his room in a jacket and tunic. Then he had a brown beard with a few gray hairs and a mane of the same color. The guards, seeing him, worshiped the King and went on about their business. He went to his room, where the bed sat a lioness with big blue eyes and a small lione cub, wrapped in a sheet. She was dressed in a long blue dress with bare shoulders and wore a tiara on her head. The Lion King sat down next to his wife, kissed her and looked at his son.

- He's so cute. - said the lioness, showing her son. - He will grow up to be a worthy Lion and King. His life will be a lot of adventure and true friends.

- You're right, Leona. Our son will grow up not only as a worthy lion and king, but also as a protector of the weak and all of Chima. Laval is our pride. - Lagravis smiled, looking at his wife.

The couple looked at each other with loving eyes. Lagravis always amazed eyes of his wife. In them it was as if he saw the Sacred Pool of Chi and something unknown to him. The Lioness Queen put her son in the crib and began to put him to bed. Baby Laval yawned and fell asleep.

- Shall we go for a walk? - suggested Lagravis.

- How is our son? We cannot leave him alone. - Leona was scared.

- Don't worry, Longtooth will look after him. - answered Lagravis and called the older foot soldier. Then he had no scars on his chest, but he had an eye. - Look after our son.

- But sir, I need to command patrols, not babysit the kids, with all due respect. - Longtooth objected.

- We'll just walk in the garden for five minutes and then we'll be back. - said Lagravis.

- Okay, your majesty. - surrendered to the soldiers, and sat down next to the crib.

The King and Queen left the room, walked down the hallway, and headed into the garden, not noticing that this action changed Lagravis's character forever.

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Black figures with wings, dressed in all black, ran up to the wall of the in the Lion Temple. The only feature that gave them away was the giant beaks and crest on the head, and on the shoulder they had a square of a certain color: red, gray, yellow and blue. Behind them stood, apparently, the chief. Only he was without wings and with an elongated face. On the shoulder depicted square green.