Chapter Seven: The Secret is Out
"How's your neck Shenzi" Banzai asked
She rubbed her neck a little, making a little hiss of pain "it still hurts and my mom won't stop bugging me on how I got it"
Her neck was lightly bruised and there were four red marks on it from Scar's claws when they were digging in to her flesh.
"Do you think we should tell Shentana about this, we're already in enough trouble when we banned the clan for Pride rock" Banzai said
"No, not yet, not until we can trust this lion" she said "and he doing a good job at it too, trying to gain our trust"
"I don't get what you mean" he asked
"How do you think, me and you and at least a dozen hyenas were able to sneak in to the pride lands without getting caught"
Banzai thought "um..we're having a good day"
"No you idiot, Scar is distracting the king for us to gather food and get a little fresh air"
"Oh, so you actually trust him"
"Not yet, a little, if he said he can get us out of the graveyard, then I'll give him a chance"
"But don't we have to kill a lion and his kid for him to do that"
"Enough question Banzai, I don't want to talk about Scar anymore, especially on this day"
Banzai grinned "oh yeah, its time for the birthday boy's beating"
Shenzi snickered "don't say beating"
"Ok pounding, now lets go find him" he said
They laughed and walked off.
Ed sigh, he was wondering what was taking his friends so long to ger here. Ed stood there grading a large piece of meat of them to shared while he watched the other hyenas choking down the rest of the carcass. He frowned when Zacuru walked up to him with a evil smirked.
"Hey there stupid one, where's Shenzi and the loud-mouth" he asked
Ed gave him that "hello-I-can't-talk" look and he understood "oh right you can't talk, for sham but unlike your friends I really don't pity you"
Ed just stared at him in dead silence. This was going nowhere fast to Zacuru, it hard to get information about a female your betrothed to out of a hyena who can't talk.
"Do you know where Shenzi is it's not a trick question" he asked again
Ed pointed to the graveyard knowing Shenzi wasn't there. He smirked when Zacuru bought it and watched him leave.
"Idiot, I don't know what Shenzi see in that one" Zacuru muttered to himself.
He shook his head and realizes there was a pitch of jealousy in his voice.
(Why would you be jealous of them, Zacuru, Shenzi already yours ever since she was born) his brain told him.
(Yeah but he didn't expect to fall in love with her) Another voice said in his mine.
That was it, at first when he was a teen, he didn't care about the whole betrothed thing, to him it was just something he use to tease Shenzen, just to see the pale look in his eyes. But as he grew older, he was train to be a strong male, to be strong so he could protect her and be a great male leader of the clan. Nuacka pushed him hard to train and he wonder was it really worth it.
(Hell no) he thought...at first
Over the months, he watch her grow up from a little noisy brat that can't put any effort in calling him by his name to something he can't describe. She was so beautiful, he remembered smiling as he watch her yelling, laughing, and torturing her friends. Her fur shined in the sun and so did her eyes. The smiled she makes when she was about to do mischief. The only thing he can't stand was the two morons, like he told Shenzen before how she has them wrapped around her paw, they do anything for her no matter how bad she treats them.
But the thing the attracted him the most was her bossy attitude towards others when she doesn't get her way. (That when you fell in love with her and that is when you started taking the betrothed thing seriously) his brain teased.
"So what, it still going to be a while till she finds out" he said as he enter the graveyard.
"Do you see him" Shenzi whispered as she hid herself under the tall grass
"Yes, and he distracted" Banzai whispered back
They snicker again and snuck over to the unsuspecting Ed. They stopped about five feet away form him "on my count" Shenzi whispered "one...two..."
Ed's eye widen when he heard Shenzi shouted three, the next thing he knew he was tackle to the ground and got a noggie.
Banzai laughed "happy birthday, you idiot" he said as he continue to give him the noogie.
Ed started to growled from the annoyance as Shenzi pinned him to the floor. It was a tradition in their bizarre friendship, the birthday person gets a little playful beating then send the day doing whatever he or she wants. Ed begin to laughed when Shenzi started tickling him and he couldn't run since he was pinned down.
"Alright Shenzi, enough playing lets pound him" Banzai said
Shenzen, who was watching out for lions with his girlfriend, Balean, heard them fighting and laughing and checked to see what was going on. He wasn't the only one who heard the noise, other hyenas stopped eating and looked around to see where it was coming from. He stopped and stared at the three hyenas, fighting each other, laughing, growling and whining from pain.
"What hell are you three doing!" He shouted
The Trio stopped and looked up at Shenzen "its Ed's Birthday and he just getting his birthday pounding" Banzai said still laughing a bit as Ed got up from the floor rubbing his head in the spot where Banzai gave him a noogie.
"You freaken idiots, we are out here trying to get some food and you're here making all this noise and playing around like pups, grow up" he said
"Calm down bro, if you don't like us just go away" Shenzi said fixing up her hair.
"Shut up Shenzi, it not just that you keep forgetting, we're not supposed to be here in the first place, no thanks to you and your moron friends, and even a smart person like you should know that making too much noise will attached the lions" he said right in her face.
"Hmph, fine we'll go, but I'm only leaving just to get out of your ugly face" she said
Banzai, Ed and even Balean frowned causing their ears to lower, they know that the sibling didn't get along but this was ridiculous.
"Good, go back to the graveyard, the place you got us banned to" he yelled
"And your saying I'm attracting the lions" she whispered to herself "let go guys"
"Where are we going" Banzai asked
"Well its Ed's birthday, let him pick the spot just anything but graveyard"
Ed thought and thought, thinking hurts him for some reason then he laughed and made a few grunting noises
"What's he saying" Balean asked Shenzen, who was still waiting for them to leave.
"How the heck should I know, I don't speak Ed" He said
"Alright, let go to the water hole, let just get out of here" Banzai said
"You guys go ahead, let me just grab our food" Shenzi said
"Ok, just don't get in to anything more arguments" Banzai said
Shenzi just gave him a look then started walking past her brother. She quickly smacked him in the back of his neck before walking over to get some food.
"Oh, I swear if she wasn't my sister" Shenzen growled
Balean sigh "why can't you two get along, you two been at each other throat ever since she was born"
"You and my stupid friend, Zacuru, should know what she like, how can you get along with someone who always get you in trouble and just put you in such misery every day of your life"
"On Shenzen, aren't you over reacting a bit" she said then smiled "I know deep inside you love your sister don't you"
Shenzen had to think about that one "it not a trick question" she said
He continue to think and she sigh "boy, I hate to see the look on your face when she gets marry to-" Before she could finished Shenzen covered her mouth with his paw. She looked at him, his eyes were wide as if he saw a ghost. She turned and nearly screamed when she saw Shenzi stopped dead in her tracks with a shocked and unsure face. Her mouth was hanging and by the way it looks, she dropped a piece of meat when she heard.
"How long have you been standing there" Shenzen said, damn his mom is going to kill him for this.
"What did she say" Shenzi asked
"Nothing, we were just talking" Shenzen said "huh, what was that mom, you want us to get home, ok" he said "lets go Balean"
Shenzi blocked them form leaving " you said it yourself Bro, I'm not stupid and your hiding something form me, now I'll asked you again what did she say about getting marry" she growled
"She siad nothing right Balean"
"Yeah, I was...uh...telling a story" she said
"See" Shenzen said
"LIAR!" Shenzi shouted as she tackled him to the ground.
Balean watched in horror as the two siblings begin to fight. Other hyenas who were eating stopped and watch the fight. Some were spitting out their food as other smiled at the fact that Shenzen was losing.
"Shenzen, Shenzi stop fighting" Balean shouted "Shenzi, for god sake don't rip his hair out"
Shenzi slammed her brother to the ground, with her nails dug in his back and had a tight grip on his hair. "Talk or I swear I'll pull your hair right out of your head"
"Let go and get off of me" he shouted. He felt his hair being pull.
"Just tell her Shenzen before you find yourself bald" Balean said
"Alright, alright, do you hear the true baby sister, your betrothed, from the minute you were born, you were betrothed, it was all mom's idea and we kept it from you this whole time! There I said it"
Shenzi let his hair go, making his head fall in to the dirt. She got off of him and looked at Balean "you knew" She nodded feeling a very uncomfortable "you all knew" she asked the rest of the hyenas. They looked away and nodded.
"It was mom's idea and she didn't want us to tell you" Shenzen mumbled from the ground, he wasn't hurt it was the fact that he lost a battle to his little sister, his dignity was long gone.
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!" Shenzi shouted at the top of her longs.
She raced all the way to the graveyard and found her mother resting in her cave. Shentana flinched a bit then she couldn't help but chuckle a little. Her daughter had a really good pair of lungs there.
"Let me guess, Shenzen spilled the beans did he" she said calmly as she turned around to face Shenzi who had fire in her eyes.
"I never thought I had to beat the truth out of my own family but yeah he did" Shenzi said
"Oh Shenzi, you weren't supposed to find out till you were a bit older"
"Oh when were you going to tell me mom, when I'm walking down the aisle with an stranger wondering what the hell is going on" She shouted.
"Shenzi you don't have to shout" Shentana said patiently
"But mom, why did you keep this from me for so long, why did the whole clan knew about this and I didn't" she asked
"I thought you were too young and probably wouldn't handle it well like right now and I thought it would be a nice surprised"
Shenzi had to laughed at that answer "I thought it would be a nice surprised she said" Shenzi said walking out of her mother's cave. She didn't want to look at her face right now. Shentana followed after her
"Shenzi, please don't act this way" Shentana said
"Who is he, mom" Shenzi asked
"Who is who" she asked
"Who's the guy I have to...marry" she literally had to hold back her vomit. This whole thing was making her sick.
"I can't tell you that"
"I DON'T WANT IT TO BE A SURPRISED MOM!" Shenzi shouted making echos in the graveyard.
"Calm down will you" Shentana said
"Why won't you tell me then"
"He wanted to tell you, he said he going to tell you on your second birthday and purpose to you, he thought that would be a proper thing to do" Shentana said
"My birthday!" she was stunned
Her birthday was only two weeks after Ed's, TWO WEEKS. Before she could protest or yelled she felt something coming up in her throat.
"Excuss me" she said and rushed to the nearest corner and threw up.
Shentana just stood there till she finshed then walked over to her. She sat down next to Shenzi and sigh "Shenzi, I don't want you to hate me and I don't want you to worry either"
Shenzi looked at her with a pale, sad face.
"And I want you to trust me, me and Nuacka picked out a very strong, handsome hyena who loves you very much and promise us he will take care of you"
"But mom, I hurts me the most that you kept this form me for so long" Shenzi said she felt like she couldn't trust anyone anymore expect Banzai and Ed. (Shit I forgot about them) she thought.
"Come, lets go back to the cave so you can lie down and rest then we'll talk more about this" Shentana said
"No, I'm going to find my friends, at least I can trust them from not keeping things from me" she said then walked off. Shentana sigh, she had a bad feeling about this.
Shenzi looked around the pride lands, the rest of the hyenas already went beck to the graveyard and she spotted the king and Scar returning to their cave in the rock. The water hole was so far out they never got caught by the lions. She took off when the coast was clear.
"What's taking her so long" Banzai wondered as he looked out hoping he can find Shenzi. Ed was taking a drink of water. He smiled when he spotted her walking over and seem to be in deep thought.
"There you are, what took you so long you said you were only getting some food" he said
Shenzi raised her head and looked at him, for some reason she pity him and Ed and herself, why can't their lives be easy.
"You poor pitiful soul" she said to him.
Banzai and even Ed looked at her strangely "ok, where did that come from" Banzai asked
"I was getting our food and I over heard my brother and his girlfriend talking, I found out something about me they kept my whole life then I ran to my mom to see if it was true and it was" she said
"What is your brother adopted or something" Banzai joked then bent down and started drinking some water.
"I'm betrothed" she said getting to the point
Banzai spat out his water and begin to cough as Ed gave her a "what's Betrothed" look
"It when you get marry to someone you don't know Ed" Shenzi said grabbing Banzai and begin patting his back to get rid of the cough. Ed nodded like he understood.
When Banzai finally calm down he begin to ask his question why are you betrothed, how long were you betrothed, who's the guy, and why did they kept this from her for so long?. Shenzi begin answering all his questions as she felt that uneasy feeling in her stomach again...