Chapter Nine:
COFFEE!
Another week has past and for once Shenzi was happy. In the early morning, the human took her back in to operating room to remove her cast. Way too early for her opinion because as soon as she was returned to her cage she fell right back to sleep next to Banzai. It wasn't till an hour later when Ed suddenly woke up from a wonderful smell.
Meanwhile in the small kitchen, Shelly was amazed about how much food her mom was making for breakfast.
"Wow mom, what's with the buffet" She asked
"Oh I thought since it has been six mouths since we moved here and I thought for once we should have a normal breakfast. I made everyone's favorites. Fruity Pebbles for Molly, waffles with blueberry sauce for Alex, your favorite a big stack of chocolate chips pancakes, your father's scramble eggs, bacon, and sausage and of course my hot tomato soup with toast." She smiles "And how else can you start another day without a nice, warm cup of . . . "
"Coffee" Ed smiled and begin to jiggle the bars.
"Again mom, wow, but what about Amber"
"What about her, sweetie, you said her plane will be arriving at 9:00 p.m."
"No mom, I said 9:00 a.m, that's why I was wondering why you made breakfast when we're supposed to be hitting the road since it takes three hours to get there." Shelly said
"I though you said 9:00 at night and it's already 8:30 we need to get going" she panic
"But what about Molly and Alex, dad left to the nearest town this morning to get some supplies"
"Alex is fourteen and your father should be home in a couple of hours, they'll be fine"
Shelly shrugged, grabbed her shoes and follow her mom out the door. A minute later they were gone. Molly was still asleep in the room she shared with her sister. Alex was wide awake in his room playing Super Smash Brothers on his Nintendo Gamecube with the volume up full blast.
That wonderful smell fills in Ed's nose causing him to drool nonstop. He knows there was coffee out there but they wouldn't let him drink it not after that last time when Molly gave it to him when she couldn't find the milk. Somehow when he was high in sugar and caffeine, he discovers Molly's room and her painting kit. He doesn't even remember how he got paint all over the walls. Then after second and third time, they banned him from coffee for good.
(But it tastes so good) he whin in his head "I need COFFEE"
That wonderful smell was over powering him, he knew where there's coffee, there's was sugar, and where there's sugar there's was all the sweets Molly keeps in the cabinets.
"No more coffee for you, Ed" he remembered what Molly told him while trying to protect him form Shelly, who wanted to kill him for ruining her room.
"Coffee, coffee, I need coffee" Ed said as he jiggle the bars even more.
Banzai, who was sleeping, begin to wake up from the noise.
"There he goes again" He muttered in his sleep to Shenzi causing her to wake up
"Leave him alone, it's too early for arguments" she said then buried her head in to her arms. She tried to ignored noise Ed was causing but couldn't.
"Ed, for god sake, stop making that damn noise" She hollered
"I NEED THAT COFFEE NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY" He shouted causing Banzai to sit up.
They watched as Ed race to the water bowl, flipped it over spilling all the water out then dragged it to the edge to the door.
"What's he doing" Banzai asked.
Shenzi sat up next to Banzai and rubbed her eyes. Whatever he was doing wasn't going to spoil her day with her cast finally removed.
Ed stood on top of the bowl and stretch over toward the lock. The thing that was actually keeping the cage lock was two wires bent in a weird way. All you have to do is pinch them and the door will open. Ed pitch the wires with his paws and fell over when the cage door swung open. Shenzi and Banzai's jaw dropped to the floor. Ed got up off the floor and begins to walk over towards the door. Shenzi and Banzai stood there looking at each other in disbelief. Shenzi finally snapped out of it and race after Ed who was opening the ajar door. She grabbed him by the shoulder and turns him around so he could face her.
"Ed, you knew how to open that cage . . . this whole time" Shenzi said trying very hard not to her patients
"Yeah, I just didn't feel like it those other days" Ed said with a grin.
Shenzi let him go and just stood there. For the past two weeks she been telling this moron how much she wanted to escape from this place and he could have simply open the door.
"Ed, forgive me" Shenzi said calmly
"For what" he asked
"For this" Shenzi raise her paw and hit him hard on the hard.
"It's about time, I told you he's annoying, but you wouldn't listen to me" Banzai said
Ed wiped his tears and rubbed the bump on his head. He put on another smile and walk out of the door. Confused and curious the other two pups follow him.
"Ed, please tell me you're finding an exit" Shenzi said as they enter the hallway
"Far better than that" Ed said following that sweet smell.
Banzai, who was wondering where this idiot is going, spotted the front door right down the hallway. "Shenzi, I see the front door" he said, but stopped when he realizes he was alone.
"Shenzi?" He called "where are you"
"In here, Banzai" He heard her voice coming from the kitchen that was on his left. He enters the kitchen to see Ed dragging her to the table. He made a low growl, it seems to him the little moron was hogging her to himself for the past week.
"Ed, what are doing, we need to find the exit and get out of here before the humans see us"
"They're gone and beside you haven't live till you tried coffee" he said pulling out a chair and jumped on it then on to the table.
"What the hell is coffee" Banzai asked.
"It's this brown stuff the humans drink that make you so jumpy" Ed explained.
"Shenzi, I saw the front door I'm sure it will lead us to the outside" Banzai whispers to her "let's abandon this moron and get out of here"
"Shenzi, come up, it's a nice view of the kitchen" Ed shouted for above
"Banzai I'm leaving without him and beside what harm is it to see what coffee is" Shenzi said then jumped up to the chair then on to the table. Banzai sighs and followed her; he reaches to the top of the table only to find himself standing on top of the waffles. He made a gross face expression when his paws were now soak in blueberry sauce. Making blue paw prints on the table, he walks over to Shenzi and Ed who were sitting next to two mugs full of coffee.
"This is it, this is what coffee look like" Shenzi said staring down at the brown water.
"What's the difference between this and milk" Banzai asked noticing there was steam coming out of it.
"It's a lot sweeter and tastier than milk. It's very hot, like this one time when I first tasted it I burned my tongue so bad to couldn't talk for a week." He said as he dragged a small bowl of sugar to the mug, "and it's good with lots and lots and lots and lots of sugar."
Ed smiles as he dumped almost all the sugar in the two mugs not even caring about some of it spilling on the floor and friends. The hyenas watch as the coffee soaked up all the sugar then Ed push the mug over to Shenzi "try it"
Shenzi looked at the coffee "maybe Banzai would like the first sip" She said pushing the cup to Banzai
"Oh no, you wanted to try this crap, you take the first sip" he said pushing it back to Shenzi.
"No you try it" she said
"You try it" he said
"You try it"
"You try it"
"How about all four of us try it" Ed said
"Three, Ed, there's only three of us" Shenzi said
"Yeah what did I say" Ed said with his blank stared
Shenzi sighs "alright we'll all try it"
Ed smiles as Shenzi and Banzai took a deep breath. Then they dunk their faces into the hot high sugar coffee.
Molly woke up from the smell of breakfast and the sound of her brother playing video games. With Alex's room being next to her and the walls being so thin, her room was literally vibrating from his video games. She got up and walked over to his room.
"Alex, can you turn up then volume any louder" she hollers.
"Shut up, Molly, I'm on the last level" he shouted
"Can I watch" She had to holler since the T.V. volume was so loud.
"Whatever, just stop talking and let me concentrate" he said
Molly sat down next to him and watch, she thought her mom was still here so she waited till she heard her calling them for breakfast.
"Wowthiscoffeestuffisgreatcoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee!" Banzai shouted with a huge grin. His pupils grew very large and he couldn't help but bounce around all over the table.
Shenzi, whose pupils were also large, was shaking constantly with a huge smile smeared across her safe. She and Ed too, were bouncing around knocking over the breakfast food and plates to the floor. The food spatter everywhere and the plates smashed into tiny pieces.
"Idon'tnowhat'sinthisstuffbutifeelgreatIFEELBETTERTHENGREAT"Shenzi hollers.
"Coffecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee"Banzai couldn't stop repeating the word "Igottahavemore"
"Yesweneedmore" Shenzi agreed "morecoffee,morecoffeewithlotsandlotsandlotsofsugar.
"Toolate" ED said drinking the last bit of coffee from the mug. "Allgone" he begins to laugh louder and creeper than normal. He fell to the ground and couldn't breathe form laughing too much.
Shenzi and Banzai's eyes grew even wider and begin to shake from all the sugar and caffeine that were in their body system.
Banzai picked up Ed by the shoulder and pulled him close to his face. "Don'ttoywithmeEd,IneedcoffeelotsofcoffeeNOW"
"TherenomoreHAHAHA" Ed laughs
Banzai's eyes begin to twitch and before he could hit him Shenzi stopped something.
"Guys look" Shenzi pointed
The boys looked where she was pointy at and smiled. On the other side of the kitchen, on top on the counter was a large coffee pot still fresh hot.
"COFFEE!" All three shouted.
They calmly looked at each other and quickly raced off to the coffee pot.
"It's mine" Shenzi said ramming the boys into the plate of scramble eggs.
Banzai got up, spit out some of the eggs and grabbed a hand full of the eggs and threw them in the back of Shenzi's head. She fell over and crash into the pile of pancakes and was now buried under them. Banzai laugh till Ed splashes him with glass of orange juice. Banzai begin to shiver from the cold orange juice then push Ed so hard that he fell into the bowl of fruity pebbles.
Shenzi manages to climb up out of the plie of pancakes and was cover head to toe in syrup. "This is war" she whispers to herself. She grabbed the nearest thing she could reach which was the ketchup bottle. "Oh Banzai" she called him with a calm voice.
"What" Banzai shouted. He turns his head only to get hit by squirting ketchup in his face.
"That coffee is mine" Shenzi said jumping off the table.
"That's my coffee" Ed said spitting out some of the cereal.
"Get her" Banzai said after smearing off the ketchup.
Shenzi wanted to run but being cover in syrup made the floor slippery. She suddenly heard something for behind her and looked up only to see the table about to fall on her. She screamed and made herself slide away before the table crash to the floor.
"Did you hear something" Molly asked Alex
"No, now be quiet" he said
Banzai, Ed, the food, the dishes and a large carton of milk and orange juice spilled all over the floor. The pups found themselves being push by a small tidal wave of milk and juice. Banzai crash into one of the cabinets, Shenzi grabbed hold of the refrigerator door and managed to open it before Ed slammed it to it. The force of Ed hitting the fridge door cause some of the food to fall on top of him.
Banzai rubbed his head and realized he was closer to the coffee pot. All he had to do was to climb to the top. "Haha suckers the coffee is all mine."
Shenzi growl and grabbed a block of cheese that fell out of the fridge and threw it as hard as she could at Banzai. It fit him right on the forehead and he fell to the floor and slid away from the counter.
"Bull's eye" She laugh. She slid toward one of the chairs and dragged it over to the counter so she could reach the counter. She was tackled in less then a second by Ed, who finally got out of his black out from crashing into the fridge, and begin to fight her. Banzai tried to sneak past them but was also pulled into the fight.
"What's all that noise" Chinchin asked
Baylou listens, all she could hear hyenas' laugher and growling, plates being shatter and things falling to the floor. She sighs "Ed got into the coffee again"
The pups were in a tight ball as they fought around the kitchen floor, slamming into cabinets causing pots and pans to spill over the floor. It wasn't till Shenzi grabbing a waffle and smack Banzai and Ed with it the fight would have never stopped. She ran toward the chair and jumped up to the counter with the boys following her.
"The coffee is mine" Shenzi said
Banzai tackle her to the ground and race toward the pot. Ed tripped him and made it to the pot. He licks his lips and grab hold of the coffee pot. "I win, I win" he laughs. "In your face"
The other two sighs and just laid there, the sugar energy begins to fade out of their system. Ed smile disappears when his paws begin to burn from the hot coffee. He screamed and dropped the pot to the floor. It shatters into a million pieces and coffee spilled everywhere.
"THE COFFEE" Banzai shouted.
"You dropped the coffee" Shenzi shouted
"Oops" Ed said before being tackles by the other too.
They fought around again on the counter and crashed into a radio. The radio fell to the floor and smash into pieces. It was still plugged up to the socket causing electricity to fly around before the power went out.
"I'm almost there" Alex shouted "on more hit and I'll concur the game"
That's when the power went out and Alex stood there. "What happened" Molly said
"Nooooooo, of all the days the power decided to go out" Alex begins to cry.
"Do you hear something, it's like a lot of crashing noises" Molly asked
"Yeah, I hear it too, and why did the power went out." he said "do you smell coffee"
They looked at each other "COFFEE!" they shouted and ran into the kitchen.
The hyenas stopped fighting after they pushed Ed off the counter when they heard a human screaming. They look up to the door to see Alex and Molly standing there with pale faces. The Kids looked around, the kitchen table was knocked over, food was spatter everywhere on the walls, and counter, and coffee, milk and juice flooded the floor and nearly all of their dishes where shatter and the pieces were everywhere. The pups were soaked in milk, juice, coffee, syrup and everything else.
"Your going to be in so much trouble" Alex said "Shelly is going to kill you when she sees her radio smashed into little pieces"
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Shenzi laid there in her brand new cage. After the father got home and saw the mess, Molly was force to separate the pups by putting them into three different cages with locks you had to open with a key. Donna who got home later was dealing with Molly who was crying.
"Please mommy, don't get rid of my pets, I swear they won't do it again" she cried
Shelly was in her room with her friend blowing off steam about her radio being broken and their father was able to get the electricity back on.
"Oh, my head feels like it got stomped by a herd of elephants" Shenzi said. Her head was pounding and she still smelled like coffee and syrup.
"I'm never going to drink coffee again" Banzai said
Their pounding headaches were getting worst because Ed who was in the middle cage was still hype up on sugar he couldn't stop bouncing around and making noise . . .