blow.
Then, as she was just knocked over by a well placed swoop from her opponent, Umeme saw an opening. In a swift and sudden motion, the lioness curled up, after which she forcefully thrust forward both her back-paws, scoring a major hit on Bidii's chin. Sticky streams of blood and saliva flew from the lioness' mouth as her head was thrown backward. In a stroke of misfortune, Umeme's hit had caused Bidii to bit of a small tip of her tongue.
Counting on her opponent being temporarily knocked out, Umeme got up and ran towards the river's edge, where Vitani was starting to overpower Nala, beating her down into the mud time and time again. However, she suddenly felt a sting of pain in her back, and lost her balance, falling face down in the dirt. She looked back, and saw Bidii digging her teeth in her hind-paw, which hurt hideously. She hadn't knocked her out after all, even though Umeme, as she looked into the other lioness' groggy, hazy eyes guessed her opponent was still pretty close to collapsing.
Bidii's persistence shouldn't have come as a surprise to her though; after all, Bidii was fighting not just for her queen, but for her daughter as well. And whomever gets between a mother and her child is in for a world of hurt.
At that very moment, however, a hairy paw suddenly appeared around Bidii's neck, violently pulling her back, then pushing her down onto the ground. It was Kucha, who had seemed to have gotten up again from her previous unconscious state, notwithstanding the fact half her head was still covered in blood from her previous fight with Bidii, moments earlier.

“Go!” shouted the lioness to Umeme, sounding awfully dazed as she did. As a matter of fact, Kucha felt so light-headed she could hardly stand up on all fours, but she had rejoined the battle nonetheless. Irony had it, however, that Kucha thought Umeme was about to spring to Vitani's aid, while in fact she wanted to try and keep Vitani from taking down Nala. Otherwise, she would have never sprung to Umeme's aid.
But that didn't matter ti Umeme, who now saw her chance to try and maintain some sort of balance between the two belligerents. And no moment to soon, it seemed, as Vitani now towered out above Nala, already lifting her paw for what seemed to be about the final blow as Nala tried crawling away desperately. Umeme sprinted forward, took aim and then leaped at Vitani, who stood with her back towards the approaching Umeme. Teeth and and claws bared, Umeme leaped closer as Vitani was aiming at Nala's vulnerable neck.

*

“Watch it!”

“Wha...?”

Before Dakly could even turn his head around, the lioness had already come able to breathe back in again. He quicly fell down on the grass, convulsing as he struggled to draw breath.

“Oh no you didn't!” yelped Shenzi as she in turn charged the lioness. The feline, not expecting such a brazen charge and still focused on her first target, was caught by surprise. Before she could even growl in surprise, the hyena had already caught the lioness' neck in her yaws.
Of course, Shenzi's first reflex would have been to simply chomp down and shatter the lioness' spine, but at the last moment she remembered the promise she had made to Vitani: no killing. But she still had the lioness between her yaws, and if she'd let her go it would be Shenzi who would be on the receiving end to much more severe consequences – the Pridelanders had, after all, not made the same pledge to prevent fatalities among their opponents. Lacking inspiration, she couldn't come up with anything better than to use the enormous strength she had in her neck and yaws to try and knock the lioness out by banging her head to the ground. That wasn't an enormous success, though, and before long the lioness had wrenched herself free from the hyena's grip.
Here, however, the hyenas' numerical superiority came into play, as she was immediately mobbed by two fresh opponents. This freed Shenzi to check up on Dakly, who still lay down in the grass.

“Come, on get up already!”

“Give... me... a... second...” coughed Dakly.

“Please, don't tell me you're letting them beat you that easily,” chuckled Shenzi, “I'm almost twice your age, but I'm still up and running...”

“Well kudos to you,” huffed the still shocked Dakly, “But I'll have you know that... Ow crud!”

“You wanted to let me know that?”

“No, look! Over there!” Dakly shouted, pointing down at the river's edge. Shenzi turned around just in time to see Umeme grabbing Vitani, pulling her away from the downed Nala who was crawling away to try and recover. As the former queen wasn't hurt too bad, chances were that wouldn't take incredibly long.

“Crud! Two on one, that ain't fair!” She conveniently ignored the lioness she had just attached and who was still engaged with the two hyenas that had saved Shenzi's butt.
Concerned for Vitani now that Umeme seemed to have turned on her, and eager to finally confront Nala after

“Oh no you didn't!” yelped Shenzi as she in turn charged the lioness. The feline, not expecting such a brazen charge and still focused on her first target, was caught by surprise. Before she could even growl in surprise, the hyena had already caught the lioness' neck in her yaws.
Of course, Shenzi's first reflex would have been to simply chomp down and shatter the lioness' spine, but at the last moment she remembered the promise she had made to Vitani: no killing. But she still had the lioness between her yaws, and if she'd let her go it would be Shenzi who would be on the receiving end to much more severe consequences – the Pridelanders had, after all, not made the same pledge to prevent fatalities among their opponents. Lacking inspiration, she couldn't come up with anything better than to use the enormous strength she had in her neck and yaws to try and knock the lioness out by banging her head to the ground. That wasn't an enormous success, though, and before long the lioness had wrenched herself free from the hyena's grip.
Here, however, the hyenas' numerical superiority came into play, as she was immediately mobbed by two fresh opponents. This freed Shenzi to check up on Dakly, who still lay down in the grass.

“Come, on get up already!”

“Give... me... a... second...” coughed Dakly.

“Please, don't tell me you're letting them beat you that easily,” chuckled Shenzi, “I'm almost twice your age, but I'm still up and running...”

“Well kudos to you,” huffed the still shocked Dakly, “But I'll have you know that... Ow crud!”

“You wanted to let me know that?”

“No, look! Over there!” Dakly shouted, pointing down at the river's edge. Shenzi turned around just in time to see Umeme grabbing Vitani, pulling her away from the downed Nala who was crawling away to try and recover. As the former queen wasn't hurt too bad, chances were that wouldn't take incredibly long.

“Crud! all these years, Shenzi needed only a second's though to break away from the current fighting and storm down towards the river, having little regard for all else what was happening.

“Wait, aunt!” shouted Dakly, as he scrambled to his feet trying to keep up with Shenzi. And 't was a good thing he did, because as soon as Shenzi started running down, she got a lioness on her tail. With half a portion of luck and half a portion of skill, Dakly was able to bite her back paw, tripping the lioness over and ruining her chase. That gave Shenzi pretty much a clear path to the river, although it also meant Dakly would be in for yet another painful beating dealt by one of Nala's lionesses.
As Shenzi ran down the hill, avoiding the various skirmishes happening all over, she observed how Vitani became enraged at what she perceived as a betrayal on Umeme's part and attacked her without any restraint, forcing the other lioness to respond in kind. She could only imagine the bitter swears and reproaches such confrontation would produce. What she also noticed, however, was that Nala had gotten up again without either Vitani or Umeme noticing. Strangely enough, the old queen seemed relatively unhurt, and was obviously preparing to rejoin the fight at the most opportune moment – namely, the moment where she'd get a shot at Vitani's neck. Yet Shenzi reasoned the fight Nala had just crawled out of would have left at least some marks, making Nala a more suitable match to take on.
What Shenzi forgot to take into account, however, was that Nala's spirit had dramatically risen as soon as she had seen Umeme taking on Vitani – there seemed to be some hope after all that Nala's original plan would ultimately still work out as she had intended, even though the confrontation had, at first, turned out a disaster.

“It's time I end this madness once and for all,” whispered Nala, as she prepared to intervene in the fight unfolding between Vitani and Umeme, “Tough luck, Vitani: it seems as if my daughter did come forth to save me after all – even though it wasn't the kind daughter you were expecting.”

Nala readied her muscles, and picked her target: Umeme and Vitani were so occupied with each other, that they hadn't noticed Nala. The old queen now needed but to jump fort, onto Vitani's back, pull back her head and...
Suddenly, her stream of thoughts was interrupted as she noticed, from the corners of her eye, appearing next to her an row after row of enormous yellowish fangs. In an fast and unconscious reflex, Nala was just able to lift up her forepaw, preventing the unnamed yaws from clapping shut around her throat.
Immediately, a searing pain shot through her paw as she felt her tissue being ripped apart. In the blink of an eye, however, the pain moved up through her shoulder as her paw was suddenly and forcefully jerked backwards. The rest of her body soon followed suit, as the force of her

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