No longer than Nala sat waiting at the water hole, when she felt a prick of something at her neck. Sure she was frightened and got up to try to run away in any direction from whatever had stung her but the dart tranquilizer did its work on her. Made her groggy and soon she slowed and stopped then promptly fell onto the ground.
What happened next was all a haze. Being lifted but unable to do anything, then put into the back of a landrover and jostled as it drove to its intended location.
The rest was a blur as her world eventually faded into darkness.
Slowly she was coming to as her vision returned to a blur and her hearing came back to her not long her vision cleared and slowly Nala managed to lift up her head wearily. And to her shock and amazement, she had woken up in the middle of something as there was five humans in side this man-made place, what looked like to her as a cave. Nala couldn't get up to her feet yet as the grogginess was slowly being purged out of her system.
The four taller and older men surrounded a younger man and they were punching the young man in the gut, smacking him with rod of some kind that emitted a shock like lightning, thrashing the young man with leather whips, beating him to the floor with strange objects that were police officer clubs and even stabbing and impaling the young man with blades from knives. All of which caused the young man to cry out in pain, shreiks of terror and torture as the older men brutalized the young man. The older four men would ask the younger man
something in the local African language but the young man didn't seem to understand as he just remained
silent. When they stopped, each of the four older placed a well made kick at the young man in different areas, spat on him then took their weapons and left. The 'cave' entrance being sealed shut. Leaving her alone with the young man. Gradually, her limbs were getting the feeling back into them. And Nala moved to push herself up to stand on all four paws. It was looking like the young human male before her was in the same position as she was. They were both trapped in here with no way out.
What was she supposed to with this young human? Eat him? Not even if her life depended on it. Humans had a bad taste in their meat after all. Maybe she could somehow get this young human male to cooperate with her and together they could find a way out. They'd have to work toegether. But she'd have to work on getting his trust and to do that, she'd have to help him recover from the wounds he received from the brutalizing. Nala made a thought for later to make sure that if they did get out of here, she'd take him with her back to the Pridelands since the other humans appearently didn't want him here. Nala sighed and walked over slowly to where the prone young human male lay. Being careful but she already knew that he was harmless cause he didn't have any weapons. And besides, without the sustained injuries, he was cute for a human. Lean and nicely muscled but not overly muscled. Of what looked like an averaged weight of possibly 110 to 130 pounds.
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