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Banzai let out a sigh of relief when Zina let go of his tail. He looked at his surroundings and saw that they were at the water hole. There could easily be discovered by the Pride Landers and this was a very dangerous place for a hyena to be. Lions hated hyenas. Banzai didn't understand why but he thought it was because of competition for food. What about the hyenas themselves? Didn't they deserve any food? Who was the genius that made the law that hyenas could not step foot into the Pride Lands. Oh yeah, the lions themselves. As Banzai was about to leave, he felt Zina's hind paw stepping on his tail. He mentally rolled his eyes at her.
"Isn't this place great?" Zina asked as she jumped up and down around him, as if she was a fawn. She stopped jumping and stared at her reflection in the water.
"Romantic," Banzai sarcastically said. Romantic enough to be killed by lions that is!
Zina suddenly let out a shrill laugh. It was a high-pitched nerve wrecking, ear piercing laugh that Banzai had to put his paws on his ears. Not even he could block the sound from entering his eardrum. "I know you'd say something like that," she said as she rubbed her neck under his chin. "It is quite romantic being with the one you love."
"That makes one of us," Banzai said, referring to Zina and not himself.
"I know that you feel the same way about me," Zina said as she looked at him with sparkling yellow beady eyes.
Banzai's jaw dropped. This hyena was as messed up as a lion. He was too stunned by her remark that he failed to notice Zina waving her front paw in front of his face.
"Banzai, hello," she sang off-key as Banzai finally returned back to reality.
"What?" he asked as he shook his head.
"You were out of it and I bought you back," she said, as she got much too close to him. Banzai leaned his body backwards; to get her face away from his as possible but the ending result was that his back landed on the dusty ground. Zina giggled as she stood on top of him. "Well this is new," she said, "we have never played this game before."
"It's not a game!" Banzai snapped at her.
Zina quickly retreated from him and his outburst. She stared at him as if he had suddenly changed into a different Safari animal. She looked as she saw him getting up from the ground. "You have not been so mean to me before!"
"How can I not be mean to you?" Banzai asked as he kept his distance from her. "You are so annoying."
"What?" Zina snapped at him. "Since when?"
"When you were born," Banzai answered, "you annoyed the heck out of me. Always pinning me to the ground, biting my ears, biting my fur, biting my paws, and even biting my tail…and it still hurts!"
"Those were good times," Zina said as she looked at the sky.
"Yeah for you but with me it was a nightmare," Banzai said, "as if I was hanging out with a lion."
"Don't you dare compare me to those high and mighty wild cats," Zina said as she jumped in front of him. Banzai jumped backwards, stumbled, and fell on his backside. "You're acting like this because of her right?"
"Who?" Banzai asked.
"That stupid girl hyena that's in your pack," she explained.
"Shenzi?" Banzai asked. "Wait a minute she is not stupid. She is pretty clever for your information."
"Pretty and clever for you," Zina said, "but not to me," this time, she said it through clenched teeth.
"What are you talking about?" Banzai asked.
Zina gave him a mock smile. "Oh come on you dim-witted hyena," she said as she began to circle around him, "I have seen you with her when you were just a small cub. Her and that other idiot."
"Ed," Banzai told her.
"Like I care," Zina said as she continued to circle around him. "Admit it, my love. You love her."
"What?" Banzai asked as he sprung to his feet. "I have never loved her."
"Oh please," Zina said, "she is the one that walked between us and ruined our relationship."
Banzai stared at her as if she had just turned into a fish. "What relationship are you talking about? We have never been in love," he said with a frantic shake of his head.
"Oh yes we have," Zina said as she walked up to him and their noses almost touched again, "she ruined everything!"
Banzai couldn't stand listening to this idiotic fictional story. Nothing was going on between them. Banzai never even liked Zina. She was an annoying hyena that drove him nuts. He couldn't even listen to her voice and her constant responses that she was throwing at him about them and Shenzi. "Stop it!" he yelled at her as she finally shut up. "Just shut up!"
Zina glared at him as she finally glued her mouth shut.
"None of this would have happened if I hadn't met you," Banzai said as he marched up at her.
Zina said as she mockingly pouted at him. "Oh yeah that's really harsh. I'm crying my eyes out because of your hurtful outburst. You know what big boy? You are lucky that you met me!"
Banzai fell on the ground as Zina put a harsh paw on his chest and pinned him down. "I don't consider it a luck," he said as he looked at her glaring face. He could hear her soft growling. "It's bad luck. Now get off of me!" he yelled as he pushed her paw away from him. He got up and walked away from her.
Zina ran after him and leaped in front of him, blocking his path. "This isn't over Banzai."
"Well it is for me," he said as he proceeded to walk, "go and find yourself another toy to annoy."
Zina glared after him as he disappeared into the grass. It's not him Zina thought. It's her! She had tortured him to fall in love with her and forget about Zina. Or so she thought. Well no matter, Zina was going to get rid of her, once and for all.