T woke up feeling completely exhausted the next morning.
"Is it really possible to sleep through the whole night an' still feel tired when ya wake up the next mornin'?" she thought to herself. Still exhausted but knowing she'd have to go to school today, T slowly got out of bed.
She groggily walked out of her room and down the stairs. She was very tired and her eyes weren't even open all the way.
"Banzai, where's breakfast? I'm starvin'." T said as she sleepily walked into the kitchen.
She slowly opened her eyes only to find that nobody was there. T looked around, puzzled, for a few minutes, until she saw a note on the counter. She picked it up, and saw it was in Shenzi's handwriting.
The note said:
T,
B4 U woke up Ed got his head stuck in the blender (yes, again!), so me n' Banzai had 2 take 'em 2 a doctor. Should be back around noon. If UR still at home when we get back I WILL KILL YOU.
Sincerely,
Shenzi
"Well that's just great." T said sarcastically. Then her stomach growled. T groaned out of hunger.
"Unfortunately hunger's the least of my problems now." T thought to herself.
T ran through the school hallways as she searched for Erin and Alyssa. She checked in the hallway where they had their lockers; they weren't there. She checked in the lunchroom; they weren't there. She checked in the girls' bathroom: still weren't there.
"Dang! Where could those two be?!" T thought annoyedly. Suddenly, an idea popped into her head. She ran as fast as she could and until she came to the computer lab door.
T opened the door to see Erin and Alyssa on two different computers but on the same site. Alyssa looked over her shoulder and saw T.
"Oh hey." Alyssa said, smiling and waving her hand as she spinned her chair in T's direction. T ran over to the both of them.
"Didja get it?" T asked Erin as she gasped for breath.
"Get what?" Erin said as she spinned her chair towards her.
"The book! Did you get, the book?!" T said. Erin got a look of realization on her face.
"Oh yeah." Erin said as she dug in her backpack. Then she pulled out the purple book the girls had looked at earlier.
"Here ya go." Erin said as she handed the book over to T.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" T said as she took the book. Just then, the bell rang.
"Oh, we better get back to class." Alyssa said. T knew that at this rate she'd never be a hyena again unless she did something and fast. Then, another idea popped into her head. She turned to the two girls.
"Hey, I have an idea. Since you two girls stayed over at my house, why don't I stay over at one 'a your houses?" T said.
"That'd be great! Me and Erin were having a sleep over this weekend at my house anyway, you could come over." Alyssa said.
"Perfect." T said. Then the bell rang again.
"Late!" Alyssa said as she pushed her two friends out the doorway. The three girls immediately started running in three separate directions to get to their classes.
"I'll see ya both this weekend!" T said as she ran with the book tucked under her arm.
"Just don't keep the book for too long, I have to return it in a week!" Erin called to her.
After school...
"Hmmm." T said as she nibbled on her pencil eraser as she sat in a chair in her room.
"The sleepover's not 'till Saturday. That gives me three days ta figure out how to change me and everybody back." she thought to herself. She tapped her pencil eraser on her cheek as she tried to think harder.
She took another look at the page in the book. She was reading the small part Erin was going to read before the bell rang and all three girls had to go. T could read the words that were on it, but they didn't make any sense to her.
The bottom paragraph read:
The animal must spend at least a few days living among humans. It must learn the basic foundations their society was built on: How they make laws, what community they raise their children in and how they prosecute criminals. In order for the animal to change back to what it once was, it must first gain the knowledge of that of a human's.
"What the heck is that supposed to mean? I already know the names of buildings, cars, parks and even those stupid trendy mini-malls everybody goes to. What the heck am I missing here?!" T said angrily to herself. She sighed.
"Think I'll go watch the news." she said to herself, and walked out of her room. As she walked past the bathroom that was next to her room, she noticed that Shenzi and Banzai were trying to yank a blender off Ed's head.
"You sure ya put enough 'a that toothpaste on 'is neck?" Banzai said as he tried to pull the blender off.
"Yes! And it ain't toothpaste it's some kinda stuff that squirts outta a tube!" Shenzi replied as she pulled on Ed's shoulders.
Apparently the doctor they went to gave them some kind of gel to help slip the blender off. From T's point of view, it wasn't really helping.
"Quack." she thought about the doctor. She walked into the living room and plopped down on her back on the couch. She grabbed the remote off the table and flipped the channel to the news. A woman reporter appeared on the screen.
"Tonight at 8 p.m. near the city's most successful mini-mall, celebrities from around the globe will be arriving to purchase some of the finest furs in the country." the woman said.
"Huh?"T said, suddenly sitting up.
"In just three hours, stores of all kinds of furs will open their doors to them and all their other eager customers. This event has been the greatest financial success in the fur industry, since fur coats were introduced in the 80's." That was more than enough for T, and she turned the TV off.
"This can't be happening." T said to herself. It was one of her worst nightmares; a mini-mall and people wearing animal skins all in the same place. And heaven only knows what they did to those animals before they skinned them.
Just then, she got another idea in her head. She knew it could get her in trouble, but maybe not so much if the guys weren't involved in it.
A few minutes later...
Shenzi and Banzai were still pulling at the blender on Ed's head. After a few more tugs, the two gave up.
"Ok, this ain't gonna work." Shenzi said. Just then, the trio heard a door opening.
"Guys, I'll be back in awhile." came T's voice.
"Fine. Just be back before ten." Shenzi said. Then the three heard the front door close.
Ed was panting for breath, causing the plastic on the blender to fog up. Shenzi thought about trying to tug on the blender again. But after a while, Ed's panting started to annoy Banzai. Then Shenzi saw Banzai shove Ed into the tub. When Ed hit the hard tile, the blender popped off.
"Got it." Banzai said. But Shenzi still hit him across the head.
"Yeah you got it! You coulda broke his skull along with that blender!" Shenzi said angrily.
"Well it didn't. And I wouldn't worry about it Shenzi, Ed's skull's so thick I think 'is brain's suffa-catin' in there." Banzai said. Shenzi sighed.
"Whatever, let's just go downstairs and watch TV or somethin'. That's what all the humans do when they don't have anything better to do." she said. The trio walked downstairs and to the living room.
Ed sat down on the couch first. Shenzi and Banzai glanced at each other for a minute, then just slowly sat beside each other. Ed noticed this.
"It's about time." he laughed out. Shenzi and Banzai merely gave him a look. Then Shenzi clicked on the TV. The same reporter lady appeared on the screen.
"We are just mere minutes away from the mall opening and the celebrities are already starting to arrive!" the lady said as she turned to some people walking down a red carpet to the entrance of a mini-mall.
"Here's somebody wearing a genuine white fox pelt!" the reporter lady said excitedly.
"What'd they do? Kill a fox and then wear the dead body around their neck?" Shenzi said.
"No wonder T hates these guys." Banzai said. Ed nodded. Shenzi turned the TV up a little.
"Oh! And here's someone wearing a gorgeous mink fur coat!" the lady said as somebody with a brown fur coat walked down the carpet.
Suddenly, someone dressed in black sweats ran up to the celebrity and splashed a bucket of red paint on the person.
"Fur is murder!!" the figure in black said. The trio's mouths dropped open.
"Oh no." Shenzi said as she put her hand up to her forehead. She and the other two recognized the person who spilled the paint.
"So this is where she goes when she goes out." Banzai said. Then the three saw two police officers drag the person off.
"I will not be silenced!" the girl said as she was dragged off.
A few minutes later...
T sat on a bench in a police station when she saw her three friends walk in. They didn't look as annoyed as they did when they nearly escaped that forest incident. She saw a police officer walk up to them.
"You all can take 'er home now. Since she's a minor we can't legally put her in jail." the officer said, then left. The trio walked up to T.
"You told 'em you were a minor just ta avoid bein' arrested didn't ya?" Shenzi said.
"And it worked." T said.
"Yeah well, since you're 19 and ya look 16 now, when ya turn 21 you're gonna look 19 and then they can throw the book at ya." Banzai warned her. Shenzi meerly pointed to the exit of the police station.
"Get in the car." she said without looking at T. T got up and did so. Shenzi looked at Banzai and Ed.
"While I'm payin' the fine, you two make sure she doesn't redecorate anybody else." she said. Banzai and Ed walked after T.
Later that night...
"What have we learned?" Shenzi asked T as she, Banzai and Ed stood in her doorway. T was sitting in her bed again.
"No improving the look of celebrities without a mask on?" T said.
"And?" Shenzi and Banzai said.
"And without a well planned escape route." T said.
"That's right." Shenzi and Banzai said. T smiled at them, they smiled back.
"Night T." Shenzi said as she, Banzai and Ed left her room. Shenzi turned off the light before she left.
Whadda ya think? Funny enough? R+R!