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Part Three- Forgotten Promises and Broken Diamonds
She ran as fast as her legs could move. Her throat started to tighten as her lungs began to burn. She could feel the pads of her paws scrape and tare as they constantly pounded against the hard ground.
She knows it's life or death. Just as she leapt through some dying grass, she watched with wide fearful dark blue eyes as a barely month old cub was harshly lifted off the ground.
"Let me go!" the creamy gold cub cried while swiping his small colorless paws at whoever grabbed him.
She watched as Kambili chuckled before snarling in the cub's face. "Don't count on it." then he nodded to a pale gray lion.
The pale gray lion growled before tossing the cub. The cub flew through the ground before landing hard and tumbled across the dusty ground.
Kambili avanched before striking the young cub, sending him rolling before he stopped in a cloud of dust. The cub looked up with a busted lip and his right eye was shut as four claw marks ran down his face.
Kambili laughed before he hit the cub again, his claws digging deep into the small's side. The cub rolled through the dirt and glass, landing on side uninjured side with a moan.
The cub could barely lift his head before Kambili walked up and gave the young male cub a hard swipe, killing the cub instantly.
"Nooo..."
"Nooooo," Via woke out of her sleep with a shocking start.
Soon as her heart returned to slightly normal, a familiar vile taste began to creep up. Just as she felt like she was going to vomit, the pale cream lioness bolted through the cave in a quick haste.
Barely making it to the kopje edge where what felt her entire insides were erupting from the inside, out.
"Via..? Are you alright?"
Via coughed before wiping the vile taste of vomit from her muzzle. With a shaky breath, she turned to see the king and queen looking at with concern.
Via looked away. No she wasn't alright but how could she ever bring herself to tell them that she let a cub die.
"Via..." Alina apporched the older lioness. "What's going on? We saw you vomit. Something is going on?"
Via took a deep breath before facing the royal pair. "I'm pregnant. The cub is no doubt sired by Kambili. Who we all know murdered Yennefer and Amell. I'm worried about my cub's life. They're in danger."
Alina turned to her mate with a pleading look. Mohatu sighed deeply before looking at Via.
"I'm going to be honest, I'm not thrilled about having children of my mother's murderer in my kingdom. But I'll look past their parentage. After all they have nothing to do with all the death and destruction Kambili caused."
Via smiled lightly. "I'm truly thankful that you'll accept my cub but they're still in danger."
Alina frowned. "If you don't mind me asking. From who?"
Tears were streaming down Via's face. "Kambili. He'll do everything in his limited power to get his paws on this cub. Be it female, he's going to sell her and a male..." Via broke down in sobs. "I won't let him taint my cub!"
"Those words sound awfully familiar."
The three turned to see a heavily pregnant Kalo walking out of the cave. The light orange lioness glanced at the three younger lions before finally stopping back on the king and her adopted nephew.
There was a sadness in her brown eyes. "Yennefer had the same fears for you. If you turned out to be Tamu, Narcissus was going to either kill or sell you off. But luckily you turned out to be you and she tried her best to keep you from walking in your father's pawprints."
Mohatu's greenish-blue eyes widened. "But..I'm nothing like my father."
Kalo smiled before taking a paw and moving the curl from the king's face. "No you're not like Narcissus. You have your mother's soul. And your grandfather and great-grandfather's heart. You know what to do in this situation."
Mohatu looked away while thinking about what could he possibly be able to do. When his eyes landed on his queen. Beautiful, strong, kind. Everything a king needs from his queen, his partner to rule by his side.
With every great king is a even greater queen.
With a deep breath, the king knew what must be done.
...X...
Months passed and the big day came. The birth of King Mohatu and Queen Alina's cub. But today is also the day that Lady Via went into labor.
Since Via went off sight to give birth, something about wanting to deal with everything on her own. Causing the pale cream lioness to miss the royal presentation of the new heir.
Not long after finding a den, Via collapsed from the intense pain. She shouldn't be alone but it was the only way to get the bonding.
If she ever could. After all, they're father took so much from everyone. When she looks at them, all she's going to see is Kambili's face.
A agonizing pain ripped through her. Via closed her dark blue eyes as she felt darkness claim her. To blink her eyes open at the sound of mews. She moved her tired eyes to her side to see two tiny bundles nursing.
Via wanted to smile but she didn't have the heart. Until the the little pale cream male looked up with gray eyes.
As Via looked at the cub she birthed, she couldn't help but think about the cub she watched Kambili kill.
"Simba," Via sobbed lightly at the memory.
"Mew," the pale cream infant mewed.
Via smiled earnestly before nuzzling her son. "Simba it is."
More movement by her side caused the pale cream lioness to snap her dark blue eyes on the little whitish-cream infant. Her first born and her daughter, being that she is a bit bigger than Simba.
"What to name you?" Via thought on countless names until her daughter sneezed, her leafy green eyes opened wide. Shining bright like diamonds, "Uru."
Little Uru mewed before snuggling with her brother before falling asleep. Via smiled before nuzzling both of her cubs and laid her head down and fell into a peaceful slumber.
At Priderock
After the ceremony, Queen Alina took her cub by the scruff and headed for the main cave, where her mother and friends awaited.
"He's beautiful, Alina." Kalo smiled once the pale brown lioness laid down.
A nine month pre-teen light beige lioness nodded in agreement as her gold eyes was on the new addition. "He is definitely going to be a heart braker."
Alina smiled with a small giggle so not to wake her sleeping daughter. "Thank you, Kalo and Tamu." Alina moved her amber eyes to a a tawny orange lioness, lying in a corner bathing a creamy brown cub. "Hey, Nalani. You been awfully quiet."
Nalani looked up at the queen and instantly returned her attention back to her son. The tawny orange lioness had distant herself from a lot of the pride, mainly Alina. She too was in love with Mohatu but wasn't the one he chose to be his queen.
Jameila walked over and smiled proudly."Have you and Mohatu thought of a name, sweetie?"
Alina looked at her dark reddish brown son with a smile, "Yes, we decided on naming him Ahadi."
Jameila smiled and said with proudness in her amber eyes. "A perfect name, he's our promise for a brighter future."
A new generation has began in the now peaceful Pridelands. But not every happy ending, last forever.