The Phantom Lions

Chapter 1
Amanda rose back up and turned around, straight into the faces of three mean-looking wolves. "Aww, look at that! Amanda saved a baby bunny! Too bad it's my BREAKFAST!" The middle one sneered, and, surrounded by the witch-like cackles of the two female wolves on either side of him, he snapped up the bunny. The sickening sound of crunching bones ran through the canyon. Amanda gasped in horror at the blood dripping from his jaws. "How could you be so cruel to Sam!?" She screamed, and ran through the canyons crowd, shiny tears dripping from her brilliant green eyes. Her white and lilac fur, patterned by dark purple flames, flew all around her.

"Amanda?" Amanda silently rose from the soft sand and looked at the golden-brown fox, Pancake. "I saw what... Happened... At the canyon. Are you alright?" Amanda shook her head and flopped back onto the sand, burying her face in her paws. Although the day was hot, Amanda felt ice-cold all the way through. "Amanda! Look!" Amanda looked up, and saw the same three wolves, silhouetted against the rising sun, cornering another bunny on top of the massive canyon.

"Stay back if you want. No idea how they got up there, but if I have to get up loose rocks onto a tiny ledge... Actually yeah that sounds bad, I'm not doing it. You go!" Amanda looked back, and saw that Pancake wasn't there. With a reluctant sigh, she continued scrambling up the rocks, getting bruised all over by falling stones. Finally, she got into a pattern, and the climb almost seemed like a dance! Except, the wolves above were still torturing the bunny before they went in for the kill.

"Leave the bunny alone!" Amanda growled at the wolves as she jumped in between the bunny and the wolves, and prepared for bullying about how she was a vegetarian. Somehow, none came. Instead, she heard a whisper of thank you, and the sound of running paws, then silence. Such silence seemed to be worse than the bullying, and the wolves stared at each other, both sides having eyes like daggers. Suddenly, the female on the right lunged at Amanda, and Amanda suddenly found herself screaming and falling. The ground got bigger by the second, and the whole of Jamaa seemed to be silent except for Amanda. After what was only seconds but seemed like hours, Amanda hit the ground, and there was a dead silence.

Chapter 2
"Ugh, five more minutes, mum." Amanda groaned. "Actually, make that five more hours... Or maybe years..." Voices seemed to be miles away. She felt someone shaking her, but she kept her eyes closed. She reached out to bat the person away. "Ugh, go away Sam, I told you to leave me alone. And mum, I said five more- OUCH! I think I broke my... Eh, who cares." She finished, and fell back into a deep sleep.

Amanda sat up slowly, and found herself on a bed. "Hey, I'm on a giant jellybean!" She giggled, and looked at a figure moving into the room. "AHH! GO AWAY MR. HOT DOG! I TOLD YOU, I'M A VEGETARIAN!" She got up and began walking towards the figure in the moonlight, and collapsed. She closed her eyes for a moment, head pounding.

"Is Mr. Hot Dog gone yet? If not, ask him to turn off the sun." Amanda yawned, and stretched all four legs, and felt her back left leg hit something. "I said GO AWAY Sam. Wait, Sam, aren't you dead?" Amanda jolted up and opened her eyes, and although her vision was swimming wildly, she spotted three figures looking down at her. "Hi mum, I'm getting up now, stop bugging me." She crawled up and hugged the figure's legs.

"Hold on, your not mum! Your... Your... I recognize you! Your... A panda named... Lime? Lizzy? Eliza?" The middle figure, now becoming a panda in front of Amanda's eyes, smiled at the arctic wolf and spoke softly. "Liza. This is Cosmo, and this is Sir Gilbert." Amanda rubbed her eyes and opened them wide at the three alpha's. "You were, uhh, either asleep or completely bonkers for three weeks." Cosmo chuckled. Amanda let go of the panda's legs. Peck entered the room. "Amanda, you have visitors!" She heard the pad-pad-pad of running feet and just as a flash of golden-brown and white turned the corner into the room she heard: "AMANDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Recognizing the two voices, Amanda squealed and ran up to the bunny she saved, Bobble, and Pancake, squeezing them in a tight hug. "I can't believe we are in Cosmo's den! And that your alive! In Cosmo's den! And alive!" The hyper fox grinned. The bunny nodded. Amanda sighed, still a little tired, and hugged her friends even tighter, with a grin spread on her face like jam on half a piece of toast.

Chapter 3
COMING SOON!