Long ago, when Victor was a young boy, life wasn't easy. Victor used to be the weakest kid in the pride, he was so weak he could barely lift something with his mouth.
Due to him being weak, his parents disowned him. To them, a weak lion cub meant nothing, strength is what they needed, Victor would just be an obstacle in their path.
How do you get rid of an obstacle? They threw him into the lake in the jungle before he learnt how to swim, hoping he would die and be forgotten. This world is a scary one, one where you could not trust even your parents, Victor had just realized this fact after he was thrown.
He sank down in the deep blue lake, it slowly got darker and darker then he saw a silhouette approaching him, he wanted to know what it was but oxygen was running low and his vision started to darken.
After a while his eyes widened, rays of bright light shone into his eyes. 'Where am I?' Young Victor thought.
Beneath Victor was a plush bed, it's soft mattress indenting slightly beneath his light weight. This was the first time Victor had felt something so soft and relaxing, it's surface was warm and kept getting warmer the more he laid on it.
"Ahh, you are awake" A rough voice came from next to him.
Victor jumped in shock and ran towards the edge of the bed trying to hide from whatever made the noise. "Don't hurt me please" Victor said frantically.
The person who made the voice was a middle aged man, he was a high ranking lion, Victor could tell by the fact he was in his human form. The man was sitting on a chair facing the bed, his skin was as smooth as glass, it had no imperfections.
"Don't worry youngling, I'm the one who saved you from drowning, I am Alexander, but you can call me Alex" Alexander said.
"Alex, do you promise not to hurt me" Young Victor said.
"I promise" Alex promised.
Victor stopped trying to hide and sat on the bed. Victor was small, he was approximately the size of the pillow on the bed. "My name is Victor" Victor said shyly.
"I can see you are pretty weak, do you want me to help you become stronger?" Alex asked.
When Victor heard these words his eyes lit up with excitement, it was his dream to become strong and prove everyone wrong, prove that he wasn't some weak cub, he was going to become strong.
After a couple of day of training with Alex, Victor learnt the basics of hunting; Stealth, Strength and Agility, since he could hunt on his own to level up yet he needed to train his Agility and Strength.
Alex mad Victor lun laps around his den, he kept encouraging him to continue running until he couldn't anymore. Day after day, Victor got stronger and faster until a couple of months later Alex decided to take Victor hunting.
"You should focus on catching rabbits. even though you grew a bit deer are still bigger than you and can get you seriously hurt" Alex explained.
Victor approached a rabbit sneakily, unfortunately the rabbit sensed him so he started running after it. Victor's small size wasn't helping, each step he took was only a fraction of what a normal lion would take so he was much slower, however he was still smarter than the rabbit.
He ran in a straight line anticipating the rabbits next move, he hoped he anticipated it right, otherwise he wouldn't be able to catch it.
The rabbit moved right where he expected it to, with a small leap he caught onto the rabbits skin using his claws and started tearing it. The rabbit tried shaking him off but couldn't because of their size difference, even though Victor was small he was still larger than the rabbit, more than double its size even.
The rabbit started loosing blood, and each tear caused more blood to be lost. After a short while, the rabbit stopped trying to shake him off and dropped dead.
He had done it, he had hunted his first rabbit. He had turned around to look at his master Alex but he saw something else.
Victor felt his stomach turning, infront of him was Alex, but he wasn't in normal condition. A large black pincer was protruding from his body, it was covered in blood, so much blood.
What killed him was a large black and red crab, it's eyes glowing with a crimson colour. It was a demonic beast.[1]
Alex's mouth was slowly filling up with blood, then it started dripping out onto his clothes. "Run away" Although he was choking on his own blood he managed to utter these words.
Victor started running away as fast as he could, his small size helping him hide in the bushes along the way back to the pride, thankfully he returned safely, but Alex did not.
The pride had lost one of its high ranking lions, so they sent a number of other high ranking lions in a group to hunt down that demonic beast, otherwise they would be in danger.
Some of the demonic beasts were smart, and could target them one by one, so they had to send a group out to take care of it since they didn't want to take any risks. They managed to do so without any other casualties.
The day Victor lost Alex was the day his life changed, he started training every single day, He wanted to get strong, stronger than Alex so he could avenge him later on.
After many years, Victor became a middle ranked lion in the pride , and after that he met Leo.
The day Leo told him he was weak and got reminded of his old self so without hesitation he decided he was going to help Leo become strong.
On a fateful day later, The jungle pride massacre had happened, the demonic beasts ravaged the dens and pride Keating nothing.
That was the day Victor realised that the demonic beats were truly the root of all evil. He was going to revenge everyone, but he needed to get strong first.
In the present, Victor was laying on a soft bed in an inn in souther city, he was thinking of ways to get stronger, the most obvious one was to hunt and level up, but he wasn't sure what to do now.
Knock
Someone knocked on Victor's door, he went to open it and saw Leo standing right infront of him. "Do you want to go check out the city" Leo asked.
"Sure, let's go" Victor responded.
[1] A demonic beast can be any species, demonic beast just means it's a type of evil creature