Chapter 2 - The Search Starts
"One more thing Detective Monkay" Mr Bear turned around to address the monkey as he was walking out the door.
"Yes?" Melvin stood up and answered the bear, not realising he had the bin still attached to his head, he wondered why it went so dark. He pulled the bin off with all four of his feet and it eventually came off, followed by his soggy banana sandwich and fruit juice carton. After putting the bin down he went over to the mirror to sort himself out, he had cucumber stuck to his nose, and a yucky rotten banana peel on his head that would of suited him as a hat. He turned around waiting for a response from the polar bear.
"Please do not mention this to any other animal, they already think I'm a wet blanket anyway. If the hyenas got hold of this information, I wouldn't hear the last of it". He opened the door, went out and shut the door behind him.
"I wonder why the other animals think he is a wet blanket for?" Melvin said raising one eyebrow, he placed the missing polo mints case on top of the pile.
He opened the case file to have his first look of what type of animal would do such a horrible crime to such a nice polar bear. He made some notes to help him solve the case at a later date, he also wrote a list containing names that he could interview and intergate too. That was his favourite part of being a detective was the intergation, the most memorable event he could recall was the time he made the cheese stealing monster who is notoriously known as Crusher M Ousey cry like a big baby. That poor little field mouse didn't stand a chance!
He wanted to know how the suspects got into the house considering there is only one point of entry and that is severly guarded with ice so if someone was to climb over the gate, the person or animal would have got an icicle up their bottom which is not very nice to think about. He also thought about how the animal would survive in the icy condition so the animals who were raised in the desert were elimated from the suspect list. He also elimated all the ones who could just live under the water like the fish and the sharks. Also he elimated all the animals who were incredibly tiny and could not have carried out the theft because of the their size just in case they got squished by the polar bears or anyone else for that matter, Melvin thought about it long and hard to who was tiny and not able to lift a lot of weight from the polo mints, so he elimated the spider, cockroach, mice and rats from the suspect list. The other animals that were elimated were the nocturnal animals because they only came out at night and the crime was committed in the morning, the animals like the anteaters were elimated from the list.
He continued with animals who had a grudge against the Bears, which were the hyenas, meerkats and the crocodiles. Melvin was puzzled to why the crocodiles had a grudge against the polar bears. Melvin thought that the crocodiles were jealous of the polar bears because of the bears being all cute, white and fuzzy whereas the crocodiles were green, scaly and just plain butt ugly. Looking around the place he made sure that there were no crocodiles about because they would of eaten Melvin up for their dinner if they had heard him say the sentences he said. Luckily there weren't any about.
"Thank bananas for that", he carried on looking in the case file for some more ideas. For the ideas to come into his head, he needed some food with him thinking this his tummy grumbled and churned, this meant Melvin's tummy was telling him "FEED ME YOU BIG BABOON!" Melvin was very offended by what his tummy was trying to tell him because he was a gorgeous, handsome, beautiful monkey and not a red bummed, ugly looking baboon. As far as I know Melvin and his stomach are not talking to each other because Melvin's tummy thinks he smells, the question I want to know is how a tummy can smell?
He grabbed some lunch, which was his favourite strawberry and brocolli pie with orange yoghurt. He munched it very slowly so he could stare at his beloved Ellie for longer. But, he didn't eat some of it because the food landed on the front of the case file, trying to wipe it off Melvin made it worse and now the case file had a massive green and red smudged stain on the front. He cleaned up the rest up and threw it in the newly placed bin, he moved it from the side of his desk because he
didn't want to get his head stuck in it again. He sat at his desk and noticed his secretary was back from her lunch break.
"Miss Tan, can I have a word please?" Melvin called his secretary in and handed her his other case files and told her to file them away for another day. This didn't help the fact that he was trying to concentrate on looking at the case files when Miss Tan was wearing a very revealing dress with her cleavage, bum and legs showing. Melvin looked over to the Elephant paddock and saw Ellie taking fruit from her boss lady, smiled and sighed. Uranga caught on to what he was looking at, she followed his eyes and noticed that he was staring at the Elephant paddock. She was fuming that he fancied Ellie and not her. She grabbed the papers off the desk, stomped her heels, shaked her behind so he would notice, turning around she saw that he wasn't, she slammed the door so hard that the room shook, it was that hard the flower pot on top of the filing cabinet next to his desk, fell on top of the monkey, smacking him on the head and knocking him out for the count.