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Chapter 10:

The next morning donned bright as Vitani stretched under the tree that she
had been sleeping the night before. Rising to her paws, she silently
padded towards the water hole and bent her head, allowing the cool water to
greet her dry mouth. Shaking her head in order to clear the sleep from it,
the young lioness circled the watering hole and layed down on the other
side. Resting her head on her paws, the lioness thought to herself.
'I'll leave today, but where will I go?'
It didn't matter; Vitani somehow knew that she may be running for the rest
of her life.
'What are you running from? Nala doesn't know where you are, not even Kovu
knows; you're safe here'
"You're wrong," Vitani murmured as she raised her eyes towards the slowly
rising sun. However, hearing a soft crunch of paws on the grass made
Vitani lower it again; however she knew the lion's scent.
"Vitani, what are you doing?"
Kamaria's quiet voice floated across the water;
"I'm leaving," Vitani replied bluntly.
"You're leaving, today?"
"Yes, however I'll wait until the others awaken so I can say a proper
goodbye," Vitani answered.
"Well," Kamaria began, standing and stretching, "would you like to help me
with the morning hunt?"
'Do I have a choice?'
Vitani thought; but nevertheless, she stood and walked over to a tree and
began sharpening her claws along it's bark.
"I've seen you hunt," Kamaria commented as she walked over to the other
lioness and started doing the same to her own claws, "you hunt well."
"Thanks, comes from," she stopped, "thank you."
"It comes from what?"
Kamaria urged, "your mother? Nala, she's a very excellent huntress."
"No, I was going to say it comes from all the training my mother put us
threw while growing up in order to kill Simba," Vitani replied, her tone
cold.
"Vitani," Kamaria started, "I'm sorry for bringing that up."
"Fine," the lioness retorted as she retracted her claws, "lets go."
The older lioness nodded her head as the two of them split up, in order to
find a suitable kill. However, Kamaria had a different agenda, slinking
low to the ground so that Vitani couldn't see her, Kamaria watched the
younger lioness's skills at the art of hunting.
'Yes, go Vitani.'
Kamaria thought as her eyes fixed on Vitani as she stocked an unaware zebra
through the tall grass. Kamaria watched Vitani's stealth, slow movements
as she closed in for the kill.
'This is your kill'
Kamaria thought as the young lioness sprung in to action, quickly bringing
the zebra down with one hard swipe of her paw. The queen watched in awe as
Vitani's teeth shown in the sunlight for one moment, then biting with a
savage force in to the animals neck the next.
'Yes, she'll make an excellent huntress leader'
Kamaria thought as Vitani licked her lips and Kamaria raised herself from
the long grass.
"Vitani, you did wonderful!"
The queen cheered, "I mean, when I first saw you hunt, you were with the
others; but seeing you take down that zebra all by yourself, it was
fantastic!"
"Thanks Kamaria," Vitani replied, "we need to take this back to everyone."
The two lionesses picked up the dead zebra and half dragged, half carried
the body back to Jafari and the lion pride.

"I'm telling you Jafari, she was amazing," Kamaria said to her mate as
everyone gathered around.
"You brought down an entire zebra by yourself?"
Jafari inquired, smiling at Vitani;
"Yes, I did," Vitani replied as she smiled.
"Vitani, you were amazing, I have an offer for you," Kamaria began then
stopped, hanging her head, "but, you're leaving..."
"What is it?"
Vitani asked;
"Well, I was hoping that perhaps, you could become our lead huntress,"
Kamaria said.
"But your majesty, I'm the lead huntress," Hazaa began, walking up to the
group, "you said it yourself."
"Well, that was before Vitani came along, believe me Hazaa, you follow
Vitani's lead, your hunting will improve," Kamaria replied and smiled.
"But, she's leaving isn't she," Hazaa's eyes locked with Vitani, "I'm sure
she has places to go."
"Yeah, I suppose you're right Hazaa Vitani, Jafari and I will walk with you
to the boarder whenever you're ready to go."
Vitani sat down in the grass, contemplating on the queen's offer.
'What do I have to lose?'
"It'll be a shame to lose a lioness with such hunting skills," Kamaria said
to Jafari who nodded his head in agreement.
"Alright, I'll stay," Vitani said.
"You will?"
"Yeah," Vitani said.
"Oh Vitani, I'm sure that with you leading the lionesses in the hunts
they'll be more successful and more often!"
"I know you look kind of well, skinny for a lioness but I'm sure you'll do
a great job!"
Jabari commented as he past Vitani, "can I watch you hunt sometime?"
The lion inquired;
"I don't care," Vitani replied.
"I can't wait to see you hunt!"
"I wonder how she'll train us?"
"She doesn't look like she'd be a good huntress; but if our queen says she
is..."
"I'm impressed, she brought down a full grown zebra all by herself?"
As the pride welcomed Vitani as there new hunt leader, Hazaa slunk off in
to the trees.
'You stupid bitch, you've taken Jabari away from me, you stool my rank as
lead huntress in the pride, what next?'
Hazaa thought as she neared a stream and splashed right in to it's cool
water;
"You've taken everything!!"
Hazaa roared as she pounded the water with her paw, picking up rocks with
her teeth and hurling them across towards the other side.
As the young lioness neared the water's edge, she made a silent vile; that
as soon as the opportunity arose, that she'd claim back her position within
the pride, win back Jabari, and exact her revenge upon the lioness that
caused her downfall.

End Of Chapter 10

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