"Yep. Benjamin Kilby. Do you know her? Do you know my mom?"

This question! A mere sentence of five words, sucked  life out of Lia's body. She stared at those familiar blue eyes with blank expression. With an unknown emotion, she felt her heart tear apart.

She opened her mouth to reply but her lips trembled." I...um...I-"

She was about to reply when her mouth closed involuntarily and eyes widen with fear. She swallowed her fear and looked at Ben who was equally terrified. Then again it came- a roar which unfortunately belongs to a lion.

Lia got up suddenly and started searching for something which could protect them while Ben was shivering. He folded his legs and propped his head on his knees. He looked up at Lia and asked," Hey! Can't you fight the lion as they show in movies?"

Lia fixed her attention on him and bent so that they were having eye contact and replied, " Yes! If you want that 'I will handle this,you run and save your life. Then I will jump from a cliff to another and the lion will fall off' or 'I can kill this with my bare hands because I'm an Amazon ranger' then yes!"

Ben looked down loosing hope and Lia straightened her back. But then, something sparked in their tiny brains and they shared looks. Ben got up and took a deep breath while Lia went to the tree in front of her. It was a tall tree but not with tall trunk. It had branches spread and leaves dense.

Then there was another roar, but this time louder.

Her eyes widened and she gestured him to climb up. Ben acted on impulse and started climbing up the tree. The trunk was a bit tall for Ben so Lia bent down and Ben climbed on her back. He got up to a broad branch and climbed on it successfully after a long struggle.

But then, another roar was audible and this time the owner was also visible.

The lion in its golden yellow fur with a huge mane stood in all its glory twenty feet away from Lia. They were having eye contact while lion was coming towards her slowly and gracefully and Ben was yelling at her to hold his hand.

Then everything changed from slow motion to fast forward. Lion sped up and charged at Lia while she turned and struggled to get up. She clutched his hand and both of them tried to get her up. She was about to reach the top of the branch when lion got her leg.

It scratched fiercely causing her to scream in agony. But this agony was not in favour of lion. Her eyes became bloodshot and she kicked the lion which flew to another tree trunk five feet away.

Blood was dropping off her left leg but she was staring the lion who was in return staring at her. Her deep blue eyes had a tsunami of blood and her chocolaty curls were spread like a diety. She was breathing heavily and eyes were fixed on the target.

If wildness could be described in one word then it's LIA. She was looking like a wild injured lion .

She broke the contact and lion went defeated not before a loud roar of praising Lia. She turned to see Ben who was now scared of this wild lioness in front of him. Once innocent and charming looking girl had now changed into a wild tribal girl, well if tribal girls hunt.

He backed off and Lia clutched his hand. No, it was not his hand. It was something else, something alive. It was a long reptile decorated with light green skin. Its glorious scales tensed and it hissed showing the bloody tongue.

The snake hissed and bit her left palm in order to save its life but it was of no use. Before it could slightly pop his head to the side and inject venom in her blood, its life escaped its body.

Survival is the real truth.

She took it out of her palm clutching its head and crushing the bones of the head of poor snake. She threw it away and yelled,
"I am not an animal food. You bloody animals!"

Create your own destiny.

Blood was falling off her legs and her palm which caused weakness but before she could enquire her dizziness, there was something more important.

She jumped off the branch and followed the sound. Then she saw something incredible in front of her eyes.

There was a boy with raven black hair who was staking the lion with a pointed stone.  The lion died giving the last roar of final defeat. Its body collapsed revealing the complete view of the boy.

He had raven black hair with brown eyes just like the lion he killed now. His fair skin was painted with drops of blood and his breathing was unevenly calm.

She was staring him when Ben nudged her shoulder from behind. He stood there with mouth hung open, "Wow!"he murmured and went to check the boy. Lia wanted to follow him but her legs refused. She searched the ground for something and then took a stone with pointed end.

She took it in her palm and checked it by cutting her finger which at once started bleeding. She looked down at her legs and tore her skinny jeans apart. Now, the remains of her jeans that one could call shorts ,who doesn't knows about this situation, are exposing her legs revealing the wound.

She walked to the boy who is looking far better and humane now and raised an eyebrow at him. He noticed her staring and chuckled, " Since when you started going to fashion school?"

Lia smirked at his remark and looked down at her legs. Those shorts are really looking awesome. But only she knows how she made those shorts. She smirked and teased, "I can see why you always were in top 2 in survival tests."

He got up and checked her wounds." Since when the innocent fairy started killing those innocent creatures for her survival?"

She looked at Ben who was staring them innocently and confused.
"It's not a test now Aizan Rizvi. It's reality!"

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A/N

So how's my gift?
Have you ever imagined that there will be two updates this week?!

Not even I had imagined.
But here it is!

So guys!
How's the wild side of Lia?
It's pretty cool na.

And....and.....
Aizan! My God. He's here. Remember : Aizan is the biggest mistake of Kilby.

Okay! Okay! I'll stop babbling now. 

Next update on Sunday....

Hope that you liked it.

Thanks for rank#18 by the way.
:p

Bye.....see ya next week