Chapter 1 The Coastlands

The sun rises upon the Coastlands a place known for it's beauty but it holds a dark side, in the Pridelands it will become known as the "Birthplace of Hate," this is the story of why it is known by such a name. The cool breeze blew against her skin as the salty mist splashed her face, she had sunset orange eyes, thinly drawn build, dark tan fur with a light brown stripe that starts at between her eyes and flows down her back, a black angular nose, and a light cream underbelly. Little did she know the Great Kings have toyed with her fate, "Uzuri!" She heard the voice echo off the rolling waves she tried to ignore the voice but it came back to her again. "Uzuri, Uzuri darling?!"

"Yes Mother?" She said as she turned noticing that her Mother was limping. "Did he do it again?!" She said as she rushed to her mother's side. Uzuri noticed that her mother was in pain her shoulder was swollen and discolored.

Her mother was quite old for a lioness her canines were practically flat, her emerald green eyes were sunken deeper into her skull with a dark purple bruise ringing her left eye. They shared the brown stripe down the center of their heads, but she has lighter fur than her daughter, she a dark nose, a similar cream colored underbelly, and she has three dots under her eyes. "You don't need to defend me anymore." She said embracing her ageing mother her frail figure felt as though it might fold in half in her arms.

She felt her tears wetting her back. "You need to leave, Kreb w..." Her mother began to choke on her words.

"He is a cancer you just have to cut him out." She said as her mother pricked her in the back. "He is right behind me isn't he?" Uzuri asked even though she knew that it was pointless.

"Hi. step-daddy," She said in a happy voice, even though she knew it was probably useless.

"Cancer, huh?" he said, snarling at Uzuri, his yellow eyes looked like a fresh puddle of piss. His mane was a sickening gray color causing Uzuri to gag every time she looked at him, while his coat was a reddish brown color that had seaweed and algae clinging to it.

He lunged out after her only to be met by a back hand. "Nice try." Uzuri taunted him as he landed in the sand.

She spat at him striking him between the eyes. He lunged again he erupted from the soft sand with surprising agility, pinning Uzuri. "The current will be in any minute, I will kill you like how I killed your miserable shit of a father." Uzuri's eyes dilated in fear as the cold tide wetted the back of her head.

Uzuri struggled under his superior size and strength. Her mother rushed to her daughter's aid, biting Kreb behind his shoulder. He released Uzuri turning to attack her mother. He shook his body trying to rid himself of Uzuri's mother, blood poured began to spill out from behind his shoulder. He managed to get an angle on her as he began wailing on the old lioness's head with all his strength trying to free himself of the lioness's jaws. Snap! Uzuri's mother fell into the sand motionless, "Pion, this is all my fault... No it's her fault." He said shocking Uzuri.

Uzuri couldn't avert her gaze of the calamity that had befallen her mother, Pion's body laid there her neck bent at an unnatural angle, blood flowing from her nose and mouth pooling up saturating the soft sand. Kreb turned toward Uzuri his eyes turned red around his piss colored corneas. "Oh, shit." She said as she ran as long as she could, but her attempt to flee was futile Kreb caught her back left paw causing her to stumble and crash into a sandbank. He quickly flipped Uzuri onto her back, his claws sank deep into her hide as Uzuri began to thrash furiously.

"A King needs a Queen and since you killed Pion you will have to pay for it dearly." He dragging his disgusting tongue up her neck.

She bit into his tongue as it reached her face, his tainted blood spilled forth into Uzuri's mouth. "I didn't kill my mother you did." She spat the part of his tongue and all of the blood in her mouth back into his face.

"You ungrateful brat!" he roared as he struck her in the side of the head knocking Uzuri out cold.