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Chapter 7 - Chapter 7: Unfortunate Incident

Rambo saw the most dangerous species which was a human being in front of him staring at himself with a menacing smile since this was the very race which has captured so many of his elders and brother lions and other jungle species and liked to kill the animals just for the fun which he had heard from his elders.

Rambo thought: "No! The thing which I feared the most had finally happened. I have encountered a human being."

He was just a little cub of a lion who had come out of his own world which consisted of his parents and the pack elders just a few days ago so he has still not seen the cruelty of the world. 

When previously he used to listen to the stories about this human race from his pack elders that how they used to kill the good and innocent animals of the jungle just for their fun or capture them and take them to the zoo for their own entertainment to continuously torture the ones who were captured then he just used to have a slight lingering fear in his heart but mostly he used to get furious as to how dare these humans come to their territory and capture their kind or the other animals from the jungle at all.

He had always told his elders how he will go and hunt the only humans for food when he grows up but now when he actually faced this human alone without the back up of his elders and truly felt the ruthlessness of the situation. He sensed grave danger and a lingering fear from the Human being in front of him as he sensed the gaze of the human which was filled with heat as if the human had discovered something priceless when it saw him and understood that the human wanted to catch him at any cost and will not give up on him.

He instantly regretted his decision to come out of the clearing which was reminded by his parents again and again to not cross the boundary and this happened to be a strict rule placed upon the kids by the elders of the other species also and the area where he was in near the flowing river was also a prohibited area by the elders of the jungle since most of the hunting and capturing of the animals took place around this place only.

Rambo thought: "Should I attack this human since the way it is walking and the way it looks it doesn't seem to have much strength of agility or should I just run because my elders have always said that these humans are the creatures which are the most dangerous out there and not get fooled by there weak appearances so I should always run when I see them whatever happens."

He did not know and was not able to decide whether to stay and confront the human or to run away since this enemy seemed very formidable because it had covered its skin in weird stuff because no other animal had to cover their skin. But other than that this one looked very weak and fragile and seemed to be lagging the strength and agility of any other animal species in comparison so he did not understand how could this weak race which had such a lesser strength when compared to his elders could capture and kill them for its own fun. 

Rambo was a lion kid with a brave heart he decided to confront and scare the human and roared at it: "Grrrrrrr Grrrrr Grrrrrr".

Even after roaring several times it didn't seem to have quite the impact if his elders roared because rather than getting scared the human seemed to get excited and come towards him more eagerly than anything.

Instantly he felt sorry as to why he tried to provoke the human in the first place and then decided to run for his life to escape from the clutches of this human.

The human was a Britisher officer from East India Company a white man named Albert, as he thought with a greedy light in his eyes : "Wow! Look at this cute little thing. I am sure I will get a lot of money or a good reward if I take this thing to my senior officers in the East India Company. This is a cub of an Indian Lion so I should not let this one go out of hand. Since Mr. Walters who is a general in the East India company wanted to have his own pet lion so this is a good chance that I can take this one and present it to him to curry favor with him and even if he doesn't like this small gift I can always return it to the zoo."

While Albert was lost in his pleasant thoughts for a while the little cub started to growl and come towards him.

Albert said: "Wow! Look at this creature trying to scare me with this growling which is equivalent to meowing. I am already in love with this cub. Mr. Walters is surely going to like this little thing which I am going to present to him."

With this thought in mind Albert simply went ahead to catch the little lion cub which turned around and started running towards the jungle however it was just a cub so did not have much speed.

Albert simply ran and took the little cub with one of his hands like holding a baby cat. Though Rambo tried to struggle a bit but that simply did not make any difference and then Albert put him in a small cage which he brought with himself to fill different animals which he was going to capture but now Rambo ended inside of it which was enough of a reward for Albert as he decided to return in a very nice mood since this trip to the jungle had such a great reward for him.

On the other hand for Rambo the greatest fear of his life had come true. The stories which he heard from his pack elders had become true and Rambo himself ended up being captured by a human being which was his greatest sorrow.