A/N: Hi all, I'm back with chapter 14!!!!!
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Chapter 14:
The young lioness kept running away from Jabari for she could hear his voice in the distance calling after her.
'Never never again!'
Vitani thought as other voices entered her range of hearing.
"Help, help, someone!! Anyone help us!!!"
Vitani halted and picked up her ears, listening for the voices again.
"Heeeeeelp!!!!!!"
'Kamaria?' she thought as a part of her fought for her not to go and help them.
"No," Vitani said out loud, "that's what the old Vitani would've done, not me, not now."
The lioness turned and began running to where she heard the screaming.
"Jafari, no one is going to come," Kamaria's soft voice stated as she hung her head in sadness.
"Don't say that, someone will have heard us," Jafari said, nuzzling his mate, "I remember when I first saw you." The king began, changing the subject, "you were so beautiful, you were what made me believe in love again. After Roula died, I didn't think that ever would happen again."
Kamaria sat down on the stone floor and leaned forward and began kissing the lion that had stolen her heart, many years ago. Jafari wrapped his front paws around her as the lioness began crying in to his mane.
"At least," she whispered, "I'll die with the lion that I love."
The king of the Mukoma lands purred as the both of them heard the pounding of paws on the surface.
"Jafari, J..."
"Hey, hey, we're in here!!!"
Kamaria shouted as Vitani stopped, looking down at the trap that Kamaria and Jafari were in. The lioness growled and ran back; however she tripped on a lose rock and tumbled in to the cave, right along with the king and queen.
"What the, are you alright?" Kamaria asked, breathing hard as the rocks had nearly fell on the both of them.
"What, Hazaa," Vitani said, after looking at the situation that all three of them were in now.
"Why were you running?"
"I heard your screaming, and even though I'm angry with you for your little arrangement that you had going with your son and me..."
"What arrangement?"
Jafari asked innocently as Vitani glared at him, "you know perfectly well what I'm talking about, Hazaa told me."
"She did?" Jafari inquired, "How..."
"I don't know, how could you?"
"Look Vitani," Kamaria began, "we wanted you to stay, not only for you to get to know Jabari, but for me to get the chance to know you."
"Yeah right," Vitani said but Jafari cut her off.
"It's true Vitani, although we'd be honored for you to become Jabari's queen, my wife wanted to know you and try to convince you to give Nala a chance."
"Anyways," Kamaria added, "you would make a wonderful queen and..."
"Flattery isn't going to work, that's what made me stay and get in this mess," Vitani replied as she looked around.
"Look, we're sorry," Jafari said as Vitani sat up.
"Look, you can beg at my paws for forgiveness later; but right now, we have to think of a way to get out of here."
"How are we going to do that? The entrance is blocked, and the cliff is high and if we fell..."
"Kamaria," Vitani began, "I've already come up with an idea, but I'll need your help."
'Of course she needs our help..' Jafari thought as Vitani continued with what she had in mind.
"This may be embarrassing; but get over that," Vitani began, "I need you two to mount one another; then I'll stand on your backs and jump to the hole that I fell through. When I was up there, I saw this low hanging branch that I can grab onto."
A moment of silence fell between the lions before Jafari spoke, "you're crazy."
"How so?"
"There's no way you can make that jump," the king stated, "and what will you do whenever you get out of here?"
"What do you think? I'm going to go hunting and catch a wilderbeast; and then I'll drag it all the way back and eat it, allowing the smell of fresh meat to taunt you!"
Vitani yelled, frustrated with how the king was acting towards her.
"Look, Zira may not have been my mother, but she did train me to take over pride rock; and one of her exercises was jumping high over things, what are you laughing at?"
"I just I just can't believe how calm you are in this situation," Kamaria said as Jafari smiled.
"It never pays to panic," Vitani replied as she cleared her throat, "are you ready?"
The royal couple didn't answer as Jafari mounted Kamaria, and Vitani stood a little ways back.
"What happens if you don't make the branch?"
"Then the rocks fall on top of us and we die," Vitani answered as she took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
"Ready?"
Jafari and Kamaria nodded as the young lioness backed up as far as she could go, and took a running leap and jumped onto the lions, then as quick as lightening she sprinted upwards, the rocks nearly falling as she craned her neck and grabbed the branch between her teeth. Vitani inwardly smiled as the cheers of the king and queen filled her ears, as she made her way down from the tree being careful to avoid the hole she had made.
"I'll be back, just don't go anywhere!"
The lioness actually laughed, relief and adrenalin running through her vanes as she began running to alert the Mukoma pride of the situation.
"Komo, where is everyone?"
Hazaa approached the eldest child of Jafari and Kamaria.
"I don't know, on a hunt I think."
"Oh god, I just can't believe that Vitani would do something like this!"
"Do what?"
"Hey guys, we're back!"
Kalona, Jabari's half sister said as Seege and Rachida each helped her carry a dead zebra as Hazaa burst in to tears.
"I'm so sorry, I tried to help, but I c..."
"What's wrong with Hazaa," questioned Chimio, the last of Kamaria and Jafari's children to arrive, as more pride members gathered to eat.
"Where are our king and queen?"
Lyza inquired, being careful to call them that for she had recently joined the pride.
"All of you, I'm so sorry but, I, I have bad news."
"What?"
Rachida inquired as Hazaa began sobbing.
"Tell us Hazaa, what's wrong, is it our parents?"
Komo asked as several gasps went up in the pride.
"Yes," Hazaa replied softly, "Vitani found out that they wanted her and Jabari to become king and queen. Vitani didn't want to become queen and she got really angry at them. She she, killed them."
"She what?"
Komo inquired, stepping up to Hazaa, "how can one lioness kill two lions?"
"She trapped them and made a bunch of rocks fall on them, they were crushed to death. I saw the whole thing! I ran, I tried so hard to save them. I'm sorry, I'm sorry I couldn't save them!!"
Hazaa collapsed on the ground, whaling and began begging for forgiveness as Rachida began sobbing and many angry growls arose amongst the pride.
"Where is she?"
Chimio growled as Hazaa raised her head.
"I don't know I just can't believe..."
"All of you, I need your..."
Vitani ran up, panting at her run from the king and queen's cave.
"You," Seege snarled as the lions/lionesses began circling around her.
"How could you, you murdering bitch!" Kalona yelled as insults began in the pride.
"Throw her off a cliff!" one lioness screamed as Hazaa growled and Vitani looked up and noticed her standing there.
"Listen to me, whatever she told you is a lie! She's the one that..."
"Exile!!!" Lyza shouted over Vitani's protest.
"Kill her!!" Hazaa shrieked as Kalona, Seege, Rachida, Komo, and Chimio all lunged themselves at the other lioness.
"How can," she was hit hard over the head by Komo and she staggered back in to Rachida's claws who began tearing fur and flesh.
"Believe her!!!" Vitani shouted as she tried to fight back against the on slot of lions and lionesses.
A little ways off, Hazaa sat on her paws, smirking inside as the fight continued, Vitani losing momentum.
"Go for the eyes, break her jaw!!!!" Hazaa yelled as Vitani fell on the ground, surrounded by a flashback...
:::FLASHBACK::::
"Get him!!!" Zira's voice rang out orders as Lionesses began following them on Simba, "do what you must!!!!"
:::END OF FLASHBACK:::
"Vitani? Vitani?"
Jabari stood over Vitani's bloody body on the ground; as he glared at his brothers and sisters while Hazaa slunk away.
"Vitani please," Jabari began, "wake up, wake up!"
Vitani raised her head and opened her green eyes and stared at Jabari.
"J.. Jabari, I'm, I'm so sorry," she said as she closed her eyes and her head fell limp on the ground.
"You, all of you!!!!! How could you? How could you believe her!!!!" Jabari roared as he lashed out at Komo, swiping his head and back kicking one of his sisters.
"Oh no, oh no, did I, did I kill?"
Rachida's eyes widened in horror as she walked over towards the lioness.
"Where is Hazaa?"
Komo asked as they all looked to see where she had been.
"Go look for her, I'll stay with Vitani," Jabari said as his brothers and sisters split up in order to find the evil lioness.
Hazaa ran, needing to get to the cavern and if the rocks hadn't fallen on top of the king and queen, they certainly would when she got there.......
:::End Of Chapter 14:::
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