Cyo meets Zaire

At the school in the village, Cyo was now in first class at the age of 6. Right now he was walking to the school with his father. Once outside the entrance, Umeme knees down to Cyo's view.

"Son, be a good boy and behave well" Umeme said.
"Okay Daddy" Cyo said and hugs his father. Umeme hugs back and then allows Cyo to go inside the school.
"I'll be back in afternoon" Umeme waved.
"Bye Dad" Cyo waved too.

Inside the classroom, there was fifteen desks and chairs with the teachers desk at the black board. The windows had somewhat dirty glass and slight torn curtains.

The teacher, who was a purple lion with red mane; was ringing the bell to get the students attention to get in the classroom. As they got in, Cyo sat at his desk that was about to the left at a window. He hung up his backpack at his chair and crossed his arms on the desk.

"Good morning class, is everyone in place? Those who are raise a hand" The Teacher asked. Every student did so and the Teacher smiles proudly.

"Good, now today's first lesson will be math. Now take up your math books and pencils. When I write up on the board and I ask what the number is you raise a hand if you know the right answer" The teacher said.

The students took out their pencils and math books and as the teacher wrote down 7+6=.

"Say, anyone knows the answer to seven plus six?" The Teacher asked the students. A dark blue lioness girl raised her hand up.

"It's thirteen" The lioness said.
"You guessed correctly" The Teacher said and wrote down thirteen on the board. Cyo saw this and wrote it down on his math book. The teacher then wrote up 10+15= on the board.

"What's ten plus fifteen?" The Teacher asked the students. A green leopard boy reached up his hand.

"Zaire? Do you know the answer?"
"Twentyfive?" The leopard, those name is Zaire, guessed.
"Exactly" The Teacher wrote down the answer. 

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Later, during break, Cyo was playing with the dark blue lioness and chased after her to a tree.

"You cannot catch me Cyo!" She teased Cyo up on the branch.
"Oh yeah?!" Cyo crouched down and leaps up to try catch her but missed when she jumps out of the way.

"Missed me!" She chuckled.
"Noire! Stop that!" Cyo exclaims.
"You don't get it why they call me Noire, I can turn into shadows" Noire said, blending into the shadows with a cheshire cat smile.

"That is so cheating!" Cyo groans.
"Alright fine!" Noire became visible again. Cyo then pounced onto her and they both fell down the tree with a thud on the ground.

"Pinned ya!" Cyo smirked.
"Actually I just allowed you to catch me" Noire said. Cyo got off her and sees Zaire playing by himself at the sandbox. He has made a sand sculpture of a hippo.

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"They want me to be a good hunter? They got it!" Zaire pounced onto the sculpture and it collapsed when he did. Zaire dusts the sand off him when he noticed Cyo standing there.

"What are you doing?" Cyo asked.
"Pouncing" Zaire said. Cyo looked at the sand heap that was moments ago a hippo sculpture.
"Onto Sand? Weird" Cyo said.

"What did you expect? I pounce onto a rat?" Zaire asked.
"Maybe. By the way my name is Cyo" Cyo introduced himself to Zaire.
"Zaire Leopard. I'm new around here" Zaire smiles and shakes hand with Cyo.
"Nice to meet you" Cyo smiled back. Noire then walks up to them.

"And this is Noire, my cousin. Noire, this is Zaire" Cyo introduced Noire to Zaire.
"Pleasure to meet you" Noire shakes hands with Zaire.
"You too Noire" Zaire said. They eventually heard the school bell ring blare again.

"Yep, time for class again" Noire said.

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After school, Cyo and Zaire was out in the savannah and played tag with each other. The two ran underneath a group of giraffes and zebras drinking from the lake. Zaire was closing in to Cyo and then taps his shoulder.

"TAG! You're it!" Zaire runs away into the high grass. Cyo playfully snarls and chased after him in the grass. As they ran they made long trails in the high grass.

Zaire stops and looks around. He thought he has lost Cyo and chuckled.

"Nice try Cyo. But you never catch me" Zaire taunts Cyo. He walks away whistling until Cyo suddenly leaps at him and pounced him.

"TAG! You're it!" Cyo shouted. Zaire groans as Cyo got off him and runs away. He chuckled and ran after Cyo to continue the play.