Chapter 50: Panting lion

Asafa allowed them to encircled him as he could figure out what they were about to do.

"The rest of you, continue and attack the pride rock! We'll soon catch up and help you deal with the injured lions after dealing with this annoyance!" Moto shouted.

Hearing his command, the rest of the 10 Hippopotamuses and 10 corocdiles continued towards the pride rock.

Asada was fine with this, because if all 80 of his enemies tried to reach the pride rock, there was nothing he could do to stop all of them.

The battle field would be moved to the pride rock and that would make all the lions more involved than necessary. He hoped that his pride could avoid as much of the battle as possible since theyr were still injured from the battle a few days ago.

But it seemed like Moto used a large force just on him so that they could kill him fast, before catching up with the small force and taking over the pride lands.

Asafa looked at all of them. A force of 20 went past him towards the pride rock, and of the remaining 60, 5 of them died in the first attack.

Asaffa didn't wait, he started attacked them with full force, he didn't hold back at all.

He would slash one crocodile and give a deadly gash that would either instantly kill him or would leave him incapacitated.

As for the hippopotamus, they were harder prey, he had to use his biting force on them to kill them.

He did use his claws to blind them but it was not enough to kill them.

The battle continued on, it took way longer than expected.

Asafa was strong, but that doesn't mean that he's made of steel.

If a crocodile or hippopotamus gets their teeth on him, he might, at best break a bone, and at worst lose a limb. These animals were known for their bites.

So Asafa had to use his senses to the maximum to dodge attacks from blindspots and constantly sidestep or swerve attacks, while finding moments to attack in-between which made this ordeal take way longer.

Soon, 10 enemies were killed, then another 10, and then another 10.

At this point, the Moto, the enemy leader, started to understand something.

It was rumoured that Asafa, the king of the pride lands could take on 10 lions on his own and win whilst unscathed.

During his rein as king, the pride land had been invaded multiplebtimes and these rumours started to spread to big parts of Africa, not only because these stories were so legendary, but also because it regarded the biggest territory, the pride lands!

Then Moto, started to understand that all those rumors were false. Asafa was way stronger than than any of the rumors he had heard.

Moto saw Asafa jump off one hippopotamus towards another, pushing him down, then he slashed his stomach and all of the hippopotamuses's guts spilled out.

Asafa stood and bit another crocodile, effectively killing him.

Moto felt fear for the first time and he started regret coming here.

'The damned crocodiles enticed me and tricked me!' he felt bitter about it all.

But it couldn't be blamed on the crocodiles alone, no, he himself was a person that loved showing off his strength and capabilities, that's a major reason why he had chosen to agree with the crocodiles. If he could conquer this land, he would get any lady he could ever dream of!

Moto was thinking about retreating as he noticed that 30 of the soldiers had died already.

Asafa kept an eye on Moto while fighting, he was slowly getting closer to the leader while attacking and dodging.

That's when he noticed Moto's facial expression and realised that Moto was about to give up.

But Asafa wouldn't allow this. He needed to set an example for all future enemies.

So he jumped over a hippopotamus and pushed himself towards Moto, using the force of his push, he continued bouncing on from different enemies, until arriving in front of Moto in less than 3 second and taking him by surprise.

Before Moto could react, Asafa jumped Moto and bit his neck with all his power.

He had never before used all his might in his bite force before, so he wasn't expecting what happened next. Moto's head fell off.

The battle stilled, but Asafa continued and killed even more.

In the end, there were only less then 5 enemies left as they escaped in fear.

Asafa allowed them to escape so they could spread what had happened here today.

He looked around and saw the dead bodies of 55 enemies, the sight was gory as intestines, brains, spine and other organs had spattered everywhere.

Asafa himself had blood all over his face as it dropped down from his mouth.

His eyes were clear but his face, paws and mane were filled with blood.

Asafa looked around and found that in the distance, many animals had kept their distance and observed what had happened.

Even the birds in the sky were flying in circles to observe everything.

Asafa took a big breath and roared so that everyone would know who he was.

King Asafa, and his roar echoed into the horizon which shook the souls of everyone that heard him.

He turned his sight toward pride rock and took a step, but that's when he felt a great pain in his leg.

Looking back he saw that he was gravely bleeding. He saw his injury and realised that at some point, a crocodile must have bit his back leg.

He hadn't felt it because of the adrenaline, but now that he calmed down he felt the severe pain that was coming in waves from his leg.

Asafa realised that he must have broken a leg, but he didn't care as pride rock was in danger.

So he hurried forward and ran with all his might.

When he reached he pride rock, he was panting. At first he sprinted to his enemies, then he had his war with 60 enemies, which had taken a long time.

Although Asafa didn't have a clock and couldn't tell how much, he was guessing that it took 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Then he ran back with a broken leg, even he felt tired after all that. After all, lions weren't known for their stamina, yet he could do all this which showed how much superior he was to not only lions, but all other predators.

But running wasn't what made him pant, it was all the fighting. Fighting takes so much more stamina than running, you have to be fully focused, constantly move, react, attack, defend. It was a constant pushing of all his senses.

When he arrived, he found that his pride and won against the 20 enemies, which surprised him.

The pride were celebrating their overwhelmimg victory.

Tukufu adviced Mohatu and come up with a great war tactic which led them to win without any death on their part.

They were still tired after their battle, after all they still had to fight, but it went way easier than they expected.

But soon they come to realisation that Asafa was still out there, and worry overtook them.

They were thinking about taking their numbers and helping Asafa, but in the end, Mohatu denied them and followed Asafa's command to wait here.

It didn't take long before Asafa reached the pride rock while panting and slightly limping.

When they saw all of them ran down to him in worry, Nala, Ayana and Zahara were the first ones down, followed by their children.