Hmm.
Not every line of the prophecy has to be about a person.
Odds are most of them do not, in keeping with the vague and interpretative meaning of prophecies.
There is also the question of what is the purpose of this prophecy? Generally speaking they are either a 'this will happen' or a 'you must jump through these obscure hoops to prevent this from happening'
Chaka was told the prophecy by the snake spirit (Loa?) of Damballah when the later was trying to convince her that she would need more support in the time to come because Team Kimba would attract too much trouble and she was not in the same power class to survive (or at least get through unscathed). When elephants dance the ants aren't happy was his quote, suggesting that Chaka was one of the ants not an Team Kimba elephant.
This strongly suggests we have to see the prophecy as a 'this will happen' and not as a 'this you must do' one. Of course there are a couple of lines in it that favour the second intent (finding a key, regardless of colour, generally suggests it is a solution to something not the problem. The lamb's blood line similarly suggests a solution though that can be interpreted to work both for and against somebody without having more information.
The other question is who is the opponent that this prophecy speaks of. There are two candidates (three if the less and less likely interpretation that Hekate's Master is somebody else than both NImbus and The Bastard turns out to be true after all).
If it is about The Bastard then things get further complicated by the fact that he (it?) is tied to Fey and the SIdhe, but Kayda has taken over her role and the attack is no longer personal (and difficult to pull off without Fey's author).
If on the other hand it is about Nimbus, he has little to do with Team Kimba, other than seeing them as nuisances to his grandiosity. None of the Kimbas are avatars anymore (and only one of them ever was) so their involvement is nebulous. Then again, the prophecy was a warning to Chaka that she would get draggeed into fights too big for her and it is a very Kimba thing to do to jump into a situation without thinking. Problem with this reasoning is that Chaka is the greatest culprit of this and she would be the cause of Team Kimba getting involved, not getting dragged into it.
rambling (or soapboxing) on
If some of the lines have to be treated as metaphorical then the first probably still refers to somebody (rather than something) associated with the goodkind famlly. I can not see a scenario where Ayla turns out to be a false friend to Chaka. It is marginally possible he would do something that appears inimical to Chaka for the greater good (like the scenario that Everhart came up with for Dark Phase) but even that would be for Team Kimba and not him being a false friend.
Of the Goodkinds who no longer are goodkinds, we have Gracie (whom Chaka doesn't know) and Ayla (whom she considers to be a Goodkind anyway). It would be strange to interpret this from the point of view of the Goodkind family, so the storm signs are still pointing at David being the unwitting pawn of Nimbus and the actual confrontation being a ways (or six to seven months) off in the future.
Lambs stand for innocence and purity. Lamb's blood stands for the sacrifice of such. There are many myths and stories where the willng sacrifice of such is required to bind a great evil. Who the innocent is in Team Kimba is an open question. Jade of course immediately comes to mind, but she is technically virginal but far from innocent in most ways that term can be interpreted. Same goes for Billie really. Technically a virgin but not an innocent. Of all the team the ones who most qualify for being innocent are Fey and Chaka herself. Even if neither are virginal (and then we have the added complication of the bronze age meaning of the term which was not focussed strictly on not having had intercourse, but rather on not being bound to the authority of a man)
The anvil meets the hammer's kiss to me appears to point at the need to have an immovable object or situation that can meet great blows over and over again, and in the process creating something new. The hammer shapes the metal against the anvil after all. Whether this is a warning that Team Kimba (or Chaka herself) will be the hammer or the anvil in this scenario is impossible to tell without further clues.
White Mask fall in a twist of mind. The capitalisation of the words point at a proper name. The use of the singular tense suggests that this is a collective noun. The rest of the line would then resolve into a warning that there will be mental or psionic attack that stops or defeats the defenders of the school (the white masks or heroes of the scenario). This fits with Chou's nightmares of Team Kimba being mindcontrolled and dragged off by the Dark Man.
Black Storm with a will to rain. Again the double capitalisation. I can think of several interpretations of this line but without further clues none of them is more likely than the other. Or really much likely at all.
Jailer, Jaile, all a-twist. This seems to be a fairly straightforward continuation of the twist of mind line, pointing at a confused situation where it is unclear who are the protagonists and the antagonists. The specific use of the words Jailor and Jailed points at there being confusion that somebody or something that was captured can be or should be trusted (and there are a lot of things that currently are or can be considered captured in Whateley right now and in the near future. This part even can not come into play until after the situation spirals out of control and point at not trusting anybody who is being captured and mind controlled by the Dark Man)
Laughing harriers seek the burning hind. Stags and hinds, burning or otherwise, are metaphors for Sidhe and fey fold in mythology, and christianity has taken on some of that ancient symbolism for its own as part of subsuming local religions in its move north across the European continent. Actually hunting a hind of course was something that was frowned upon as it took away future generations of venison (which is why doing so would incur the wrath of the forces of nature) but if the Dark Man is The Bastard (rather than Nimbus) this is exactly what he is seeking to do: destroying future generations to make the planet suitable for bringing his GOO into this reality (and then destroy it)
Weeping the hand can not refran Zulu warrios in the mist. This to me seems to be a single line of the prophecy even if it is cut in two by the formatting. This may be one of the lines that is to be taken literal rather than metaphorical. There are a couple of people in Whateley who can be described as 'the Hand of ...', with Chou being the foremost of those. This line could simply be a warning that just having the Hand(maid) of the Tao (balance) will not be enough to beat back the armies that are going to be swarming over the defenses of the school. In other words, it is not going to be a battle of Roarke's Drift scenario.
Cruel fire burns the chains that bind. This again seems fairly straightforward. It may the inverse binding of the second line and point at the torture that the Dark Man is using to mind control his victims. The latest story featuring a Nimbus scene strongly favours this interpretation.
It also may be a reference back to the lamb's blood (sacrifice) binding of the second line. But this seems less likely to me as the two lines are so in opposite to each other in symbology and phrasing)
The last two lines
Double Terror, Tripple Bliss and The Green Key you will find, are both even less clear than mud to me. I have no idea how to even begin interpreting them (not even a WAG to be honest).
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