Our New Joy

Our New Joy is a story by PrinceBalto.

Premise
This is part of the story focusing on Vitani as she announces her pregnancy to her mate Hakara, as well as worry about if she will be a good mother to her coming cubs. This is in Vitani's POV.

Story
Makini's words took me by surprise.

I was going to be a mother. I was going to bring cubs into the world. I had gone to the Mandrill when I wasn't exactly feeling well. I thought I might be getting sick. However, she declared that I was going to be bringing cubs into the world. I began to worry a bit. Yes, I had Nala and Meetra as role models for motherhood, but, before that, my only role model for motherhood was my own mother, Zira. Yes, the lioness who gave her own daughter a severe, claws extended thrashing just for trying to stop her from doing the same thing to Kovu.

It filled me with fear.

I feared that I would end up like her. However, I knew that I had one lion to tell. That would be my mate, Hakara, the father of these cubs. He and I had met not long after my mother's death. He was a rogue lion that Simba had allowed to stay. He and I hit it off, and, after a week or two, we became mates. Now, we live at Pride Rock, in the den. He is such a handsome lion, with a thick mane and everything I heard that lionesses found attractive in a male. I find him resting on one of the rocks. I approach and he comes to greet me. We rub heads, expressing our love.

I smile and tell him what I have to say: You're going to be a father.

A moment of silence ensued, followed in short order by him becoming excited and rubbing heads with me again. He was more excited than I had ever seen him. He vowed that he was going to carry for our sons or daughters when they came. Next, we told the rest of the Pride. Nala and Meetra, who had allowed me to stay with her when I ran away from my mother as a cub. She said that she would give me advice if I needed it. I accepted.

Soon, there would be new little lions running and playing through the Pridelands.