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Chapter 13:

Sighing as she slunk closer to Vitani and Jabari, Hazaa raised herself from the tall grass and trotted towards the talking couple.

"So that's how my parents met," Jabari was saying as Hazaa approached.

"Vitani."

Hazaa began, her voice forward and direct, "I want to talk to you."

The lioness being addressed turned her head and met her eyes;

"About what?"

"I want to talk to you," Hazaa repeated, "now."

"I'll wait here, go see what she wants," Jabari stated as anger boiled in Hazaa's body for his blayten disregard of her.

At Vitani's nod, Jabari walked away a few paces as Vitani made her way over to the evil lioness.

"What do you want?"

She inquired, sitting down as her tail swished from side to side;

"I want to talk to you, and tell you how I feel about you."

She raised a paw in the air, singleing for Vitani to remain quiet.

"It's bad enough that you came here and just, made yourself right at home in the Mukoma lands, but whenever you began to affect my life, is when you became on my bad side."

"How have I affected your life?"

Hazaa gritted her teeth and spat, "how can you ask such a question? First of all, you stole my rank in the pride, I was the lead huntress and you took it away from me!"

"It was offered," Vitani began but was sharply cut off.

"Shut up! After you humiliated me in front of my pride, you again took away the only lion that meant anything to me!"

Hazaa calmed down as her eyes bored in to Vitani's orbs;

"What are you talking about?"

Vitani inquired as from a ways off, Jabari picked up his ears;

"Jabari, you took my place, I was supposed to be queen, not you! Look at you, you'd make a pathetic queen. You're skinny, irresponsible, ugly, what good would you be for bearing cubs in to the world?!"

For once in her life, Vitani found herself speechless until a thought crossed her mind.

"How am I irresponsible?"

"What kind of lioness abandons her pride?"

Hazaa retorted as she sighed;

"How have I taken Jabari away from you?"

Hazaa smiled inwardly to herself, the plan was working perfectly.

"Right Vitani, as if you didn't know," Hazaa stated.

"Know what?"

Vitani asked, her curiosity peeked;

"Jabari, come here!"

Hazaa called as the lion rose to his paws and walked over to the two lionesses;

"What?"

"Is it true that Vitani is your queen," Hazaa inquired as Jabari lowered his head and if lions could blush, he'd be doing it then. Instead he replied, "yes, I consider her my queen."

"You see Vitani, he admits it! He admits that you've been betrothed all along and that the only reason that they, Jabari, Kamaria, and Jafari, wanted you to stay is so you'll take my place as queen!"

Hazaa roared as Jabari wore a shocked look upon his face while Vitani had anger plastered on her own.

"You, you knew!"

Vitani yelled, disbelief clear in her voice as Hazaa stepped back;

"No," Jabari managed, "Vitani, I swear I didn't know."

His voice filled with awe, shock, and surprise, "I didn't know, you have to believe me I d..."

The future king didn't get to finish his sentence as Vitani lonched herself in the air, swinging a paw out with claws retracted, sending Jabari flying across the ground while Hazaa looked on in shock.

For a moment Jabari laid stunned on the ground, gasping as pain from the blow and impact coursed throughout his body.

With out another word, Vitani turned and began running, not caring where she was going or where she'd end up.

'To think I was starting to fall for him!'

She thought to herself as she ran, fueled by the anger running in her blood.

By this time, Jabari staggered to his paws as Hazaa rushed to his side and leaned against him, so as to support him.

"Jabari, I'm so sorry for this unfortunate," she paused as his eyes narrowed in to slits and he growled low in his throat.

"I did not know that my parents have arranged for Vitani and I to be married," he spat as his heart sped up and he looked in the direction that the love of his life had run.

Realization set in Hazaa's heart as in a flash,Jabari had her pinned to the hard ground, claws slightly extended at the lioness's throat.

"What, have, you done?"

Jabari hissed as he pressed on to the veins in Hazaa's neck.

"Who told..."

"I, I overheard..."

Jabari leapt off the lioness that he had always disliked, but now hated. She was the cause of Vitani running off and if he wouldn't hurry and catch up with her, he'd surely lose her.

Alone in the grasslands, Hazaa sat as a few low growls rose in her throat; as she watched Jabari along with the future of her rising status disappear.

:::End Of Chapter 13:::

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