Welcome back dear readers. I'm sorry about the late update but here's the next chapter, enjoy.

On a hill sat Vitani's son, Barram as he watched the whole thing between his promised bride and the queen of the Pridelands, when he seen that Elena wasn't going to attack he ran back to the Outlands where Vitani was waiting on a large rock.

"Did my sister complete her mission?"

Barram shook his head and the light tanned lioness gave a loud roar before looking at his son.

"Are you sure?"

Barram nodded and said, "Affirmative, I seen it with my own eyes."

Vitani turns away snarling. "Elena can not betray us!"

At Priderock, the next morning

Elena stormed out of the cave and paced by the peak. Her mind is racing with alot thoughts. She can't go through with the plan, she loves Torrent to much to hurt him. She decided to come clean. About her intentions to kill Kiara and tell him about her brother's part in the plan. With a deep breath she turned and headed for the cave. Where Torrent was walking out with that bright, beautiful smile of his.

"Torrent...I need to talk to you."

"Torrent! I don't want you talking her!"

The two young lions looked and seen the stern Kiara glaring at Elena. Kiara will admit to any one that she was hoping to have a daughter in law in Ayana. But she seen the love in the former rouge's eyes for her son.

"I would like to speak with her." then the golden orange lioness turned to the young goldish lion. "Find your sister. She didn't return to the cave last night."

Torrent nodded before he smiled as he watched the love of his life and her his mother descend down the rocky steps and into the savannah.

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Elena stood frozen from fear as she watched her mother's followers attack Kiara. Sending the golden orange queen into the dried up gorge below. Her heart raced knowing that there's a possibility that her mother and her allies may succeed. Climbing higher the tawny beige lioness got a scary better look. Kiara was climbing a pile of logs with her mother and her followers. Alyssa caught sight of the chosen one up top and sneered.

"Elena! Get her now!"

Elena turned and headed for a slope leading into the gorge. So when Elena seen the cluster of dust and the logs piled on top of the other. She panicked thinking it was Kiara but as she tried to moved the logs more fell. Elena was harshly shoved aside by her mother. Her green eyes widen when she seen who was under the logs.

"Nalini..."

The whitish-beige lioness was gasping for air and coughing. "I'm sorry, Mother... I tried..."

"Ssshh."

"Well... I finally got your attention, didn't I... "

Alyssa smiles tenderly at her eldest and cradles her face in her paw.

"Didn't I..." Nalini managed one last time before closing her eyes.

Vitani appears next to Zira on the edge of the logs. Tears fell from her purplish eyes as she mourned for her half sister.

"Nalini..."

Unknown to the rest but to her remaining daughter and followers, Alyssa was crying. Nalini looked so much like Akan that she tried to shield her and now she was gone.

"Akan... watch over our poor Nalini." she turns on Elena. "You!"

Elena wasn't expecting her mother's rage. So she was lost when Alyssa swats her across the face with outstretched claws.

"Eeaugh!"

Elena looks away in pain, but soon turns her head, glaring at her mother. Alyssa recoils at the sight, shocked; Elena now has a scar over her left eye just like her father's. Alyssa recovers quickly, growling menacingly.

"What have you done?"

"I-I-I didn't mean to... it-it-it wasn't my fault, I...I did nothing!"

The creamy beige lioness growled. "Exactly! And in doing so, you betrayed your pride... betrayed Akan!"

"I want nothing more to do with him!"

"You cannot escape it! Nalini is dead because of you!"

"No."

"You've killed your own sister!"

Elena's face paled as the words of Kiara resurfaced. How Akan killed his brother for the throne.

"No!"

Elena turns and runs out from among her mother's followers, many of whom are growling and snarling at her departure. She has to reach the Pride Lands and explain, to tell Torrent everything. But first she was find her brother.

In the Pridelands

Barton opened his greenish-blue eyes with a yawn. He looked at his side to see the russet red lioness sound asleep. He smiled, Sherise was already a beautiful creature but as he watched her sleep she was so peaceful and it made his heart throb with a lot of emotions, one of them being lust. The cold beige male shook his head before looking at the princess when she started to stir.

Sherise blinked her pretty purplish-blue eyes open and looked up at the handsome lion sitting by her. "Well hello handsome."

Barton smiled charmingly before bending down and nuzzled the younger lioness. "I had a wonderful time last night. Truly refreshing."

Sherise stood with a stretch and Barton had advert his eyes. The russet red lioness giggled before licking Barton across the cheek. "I have to patrol and report to my mother. I'll see you later."

Barton nodded and nuzzled Sherise who returned the affection. The two soon shared a cat like kiss before Barton watched the lovely lioness walk away with a heavy sigh. Barton inhaled and exhaled before heading towards the watering hole before exploring the Pridelands, the home he had when he was a cub but it was nothing like this. Perhaps, his mother is wrong. If Kiara was such a awful ruler than why was everything green and plenty. But he remembers the Pridelands gray and dead, causing the lionesses to starve.

"Barton!"

The cold beige lion turned his head to see his sister running towards him. But as she got closer his eyes widened at the scar across the tawny beige lioness' left eye. "Elena? What happened to your eye?"

Elena lowered her head and shook it. "That's not important right now. I was with Kiara and mom ambushed us. We have to go back and explain...the them truth."

Barton's eyes widened. "We need to go. Now."

Elena nodded and walked alongside her brother as the siblings headed to the speck of priderock in the distance.

Author's Note: I want to put out that there's a prequel to the Innocence stories up. Called The First Sunrise, if given the chance check it out and let me know what you think.