The following day, taking advantage of Serena's busy day list, Cain took Storm to the sea canyon...
"okay Storm now you wait here, i'll be back shortly with your mom, oh and Storm...you want to make your mom happy and proud of you?" Cain asked
"Oh yes uncle Cain!" Storm answered
"very well then, remember the sharks right?" Cain started "sometimes some of these mindless bulks of cartilage wander here, especially blue sharks, you could catch one and then show it to your mom as a trophy, displaying your hunting skills"
"Oh yes uncle Cain! I'll catch one!" Storm answered excited
"very well then, good luck" Cain said, with a devious smile coming on his face.
Without him knowing, the same three sharks that tried to kill him the other day, where preparing inside a crack, tying Finn with some dried algae.
"You two remember the plan?" Jezebel asked making the last checks
"...do you Finn?" Razor asked his shark friend.
As an answer Finn blubbered
"ah! You two lure the little blubberball where Cain told us! Then the humans will do the dirty job for us" Jezebel explained.
Finn saluted and then once he was secured he swam out of the crack and started swimming around like if he was wounded trying to obtain Storm's attention.
"A blue shark! I'm gonna get you!" Storm exclaimed noticing him and swimming towards him
Finn then swam up to the canyon but before Storm could reach him he is pulled away without warning, as a fishing net appears out of nowhere, entangling Storm.
In the same moment, Serena and Cain showed up...
"Serena quick! It's Storm!" the dark orca said pointing at him
Serena swam to him worriedly and managed to untangle him, however sadly for her, she remained dangerously tangled with some ropes getting around her throat.
"CAIN!" She yelled to her brother as she felt the her lungs starting to be empty "help me!"
However everything the orca did was smiling evilly...
"long live the queen" he answered before swimming away, while Serena couldn't even answer due to the fact her lungs were already empty...
After some hours Storm gained back consciousness, suddenly realizing something awful.
"MOM! MOM WHERE ARE YOU?!" Storm screamed desperately swimming around until he found her...
"Mom?..." Storm asked looking at her laying unmoving and starting to nuzzle her trying to wake her up.
Cain then dove to him, assuming a shocked expression
"Storm...what did you do?" Cain then asked
"There was a net and... she tried to save me" Storm answered with desperation building up in his body
"She died to save you...don't you see? If you didn't put yourself in danger she'd be still alive! It's your fault!" Cain exclaimed enraged at Storm
"What should I do?" the calf asked with his eyes starting to get watery
"leave the podlands! And never ever come back!" Cain answered
Storm started to swim slowly away, and as he went out of sight, the three sharks materialized behind Cain.
"Kill him" Cain told them in an emotionless tone.
"you can bet your tail on that!" Jezebel answered starting to chase Storm with her two friends.
"this time you won't be so lucky!" Razor exclaimed.
The trio chased the calf around the canyon, until it's end.
Storm sped up his pace until he reached it and then swam trough a crevice filled with sea urchins.
Jezebel sensed the danger and stopped in time, but his two friends weren't as lucky, as they went right trough it and then limped back out...
"OUCH! OUCH! Well at least i'm immune to the poison..." Razor exclaimed starting to get the sea urchins out of his body, just like Finn.
Jezebel then looked trough the crevice seeing Storm swimming away in the open ocean...
"Hey, he's getting away!" The tiger shark yelled, but then she reflected, even if there weren't all these sea urchins Storm was swimming in the open oceans, no algae, no fish, no mammals...only water and rocks.
"He'll die out there anyway, and we can kill him if he returns" Jezebel said in the end
"right! If you come back you are done for!" Razor yelled to Storm who was already out of range anyway.
Then as Razor and Finn finished to un-spike themselves the trio returned to the dark reef, announcing the success of the plan and that now their kind was allowed in the podlands...
That same night, as the other orcas were mourning Serena's death, Cain was giving his throne speech.
"today a great queen left us, as well as her only son, Storm, and as long as our pod will live, their names shall be remembered by us all" the orca said speaking in a solemn tone before starting to swim to the highest pinnacle of podrock "but don't worry my podmates!, as the new king, I shall rule over my predecessor's territories! And with the help of the sharks, a new age will dawn!" he finished giving a deep and threatening orca sound...
At that same time, Nilu looked away in sadness...