As soon as Zira was in range, Kupanga immediately swiped at her side, Zira responded with the same, then she slammed Kupanga in the face, this hit did not seem too phase the small lioness and she pushed Zira off balance, biting and clawing on the insane lioness, try as she might, Zira could not throw the small lioness off her.

"I may be smaller than you, but my strategy is smarter, give up?" Kupanga taunted.

"Not yet" Zira said through her teeth.

Meanwhile the rest of the lionesses were jumping on and getting thrown off Zaidi he was so large that none of the lionesses could bring him down or knock him off balance, instead they resorted to clinging on and biting, though this method often ended up with them being thrown against each other.

Not too far away Nuka stood between Vitani and Kovu, confronted by Riadha.

"You'd better step back" Nuka said "you're half my size" he added.

"Come on then, run at me" Riadha said confidently, noticing the dead tree trunk in the corner of her sight. Nuka did as she expected and took off towards her, in a lightning fast reflex she moved away at the last moment only to hear the splintering of wood as Nuka's head collided with the tree trunk.

"Nuka" Kovu worryingly said as he ran towards his unconscious brother.

"The fool" Riadha said under her breath, "they are making it easy for me"

Riadha ran up behind kovu and struck him in the head, sending him flying across the ground, Riadha followed and struck him on the head again with her clawed paw to finish him off.

At the other end of the battle Zira saw her cub and chosen one lying unconscious with blood pouring from his cheek. With a sudden urge if strength she threw Kupanga off her and she landed right onto of the pile of lionesses. Luckily she was quickly thrown off by her own mate before she was hit.

"Kovu are you alright" Zira asked. There was no reply.

"Vitani, take this little sod down immediately" Zira bellowed with anger. Vitani did as instructed and rammed claw first into Riadha. She got upon Riadha's back and sunk her claws in hard. Riadha was not affected though and threw Vitani with great force and she awkwardly landed in the ground. With an injured leg, Vitani could not fight back and Riadha quickly made short work of her, slamming Vitani with brute force on the head.

"How dare you do this to my children" Zira shouted and left Kovu as she charged straight at Riadha. She did not have time to react but she was saved as her mother sideswiped Zira and jumped on her back. With Kupanga clawing from the back and Riadha clawing from beneath Zira soon discovered she had no choice

"Run away! Run away" she shouted as all the remaining lionesses got away from ugh (male) and ran towards one of the mounds, leaving Zira's cubs and some unconscious lionesses behind.

"Shall I finish these off?" Zaidi asked bleeding from both sides.

"They are not worth our energy" Kupanga spat as she set off away from the mounds.

"This is a terrible place to shelter Riadha added as they all began to continue their aimless walk.