Tombie (Hueyslinger's Fanfics)

"Oh sure, pick on the guy with Stripes!"

Tombie is a striped hyena born from a spotted hyena.

Backstory:

"The master says that his Big brother treated him badly because he was Different."

-Norok explaining to Jasiri about Tombie's relationship with Janja.

On the day a pair of hyenas gave birth to a litter of pups, there was one who came out different. While the rest of the litter had spots, this cub had stripes, along with red fur and a white mane. I'll give you a hint, that's Tombie. Now Tombie didn't like big meat like antelope, Gazele, etc. Instead, he preferred fish. For this particular fact, his older brother, Janja, Picked on him the most. Despite Janja's teasing, and the way Tombie looked, his parents loved him like they loved the rest of their cubs. One morning, Tombies parents didnt wake up. After an hour of trying to wake them, tombie soon realized they would never wake up: A fact that Janja found out as well. Something changed inside Janja that day, causing him to lose something: His respect for the circle of life. But he kept it well hidden. Janja gave Tombie the idea of following him into the nearby forest to find baobab fruits, which was something Tombie liked to eat so he could take his mind off the tragedy. But while Tombie wasn't looking, Janja ran off and abandoned him, hoping he would die out there.

"They're not only my clan, they're my family!"

What Janja didn't know, was that things would not go the way he planned it to go. For in that forest, tombie walked miles and miles, searching for janja. That was where he met a clan of striped hyena puppies, slightly younger than him. Seeing he loved fish as much as they did, and he had a lot in common with them, they made him their leader.