Chapter Sixteen: The Stampede
Banzai's eyes widen when he spotted all those wildebeests eating grass not knowing or caring that they were there. He wanted to smiled because he hasn't eaten much all week but he couldn't. He looked over at Shenzi, she was in deep thought, looking at the sky and letting the wind blow through her hair.
(Lost in deep thought again) he thought
He and Ed twitch when they heard a scratching kind a noise. They looked down to see Shenzi grinding her nails in to the rock leaving deep marks in it.
Ed elbow Banzai with a face expression to tell her something.
(Ok Banzai, just stay calm, take a deep breath and say something to her) his brain said
(What can I tell her, her mother died just yesterday) he thought
(Well, I don't know you're her friend, tell her that, or give her a hug, a nuzzle, just say something) his brain shouted (look at her, she looks calm on the outside but she probably screaming in the inside)
Banzai clear his throat and was about to say something till his stomach let out a big growled.
"Shut up" She said
"I can't help it, I'm so hungry. I got to have a wildebeest" he said
(Oh that a good thing to say to her, good job Banzai, echo) his brain said sarcastically
Ed rolled his eyes, he could have said something better then that. He sigh as they continue to argue.
"Wow, its really steep isn't it" Secret said
The three females looked down at the gorge as they found a spot to watch the show.
"Yeah, but is our job to tell the clan what happen in great detail" Gossip said "we'll trade what we saw for food"
"Which I won't mind since we happen eaten nothing in a days" Secret sigh for her empty belly
"Now are you sure this is where the stampede is going to take place" Info said
"Yes I'm sure but where is the cub" Secret said
Gossip hiss in pain as she sat down "I see him, he over there where that little tree is"
"All I see is a little orange dot" Info said
"That him, stupid" Gossip said then hiss in pain again
"Gossip, you didn't have to come with us you know" Info said
"And miss all the action and beside I want to see is this worth my back being tore up" she said
Info sigh and lean over to Secret "just agree with her, she is still in a bad mood"
"I heard that and you would be too if a lion dug his claws in your back because you knew too much"
"It hardly looks that bad then before" Secret said smiling
"Does this look well to you" Gossip turned around to show her back. The four dark red scars were dry and clean but it was surrounded by black and purple bruises.
"Ew" Info and Secret whispered
They gasped when they heard a small puny roar coming form a young lion. The roar echo throughout the gorge "so it begins" Info said
The females weren't the only one who heard it, "come on guys, lets start a stampede" Shenzi said
"Can we at least eat one" Banzai asked
"Whatever just stop whining and run" Shenzi said taking off.
The wildebeest became award of the hyenas presence and started to run.
"Ed take the right" Shenzi shouted "Banzai the left and I'll take the middle"
They nodded and ran right in to the stampede, teasing the wildebeest by trying to bite them or scare them.
"There they go" Banzai shouted as he and his friends watch the wildebeest fall or more like running off the cliff. The trio stopped at the edge of the cliff and couldn't help but smile.
"Well that was easy" Shenzi said catching her breath
"One question though" Banzai asked
"What?"
"How are we going to get down there"
Shenzi looked down at the gorge. It was very steep and thanks to the stampede it was now covered up in thick dust. "Well lets start climbing down"
"Are you nuts!" Banzai shouted "look how steep it is"
Ignoring him, Shenzi and Ed started hoping to rock to rock to get to the bottom "at least Ed is showing some effort"
Banzai swallow a huge lump in his throat then followed her.
Secret had to hold on to a rock because the whole area started to shake "I think I'm going to be sick" she said
"Shut up, I lost track of the cub" Gossip said as she so far off the edge, Info had to grab her tail to make sure she doesn't fall.
"What about your back!" Info said
"I'm fine but the cub is on the move" she said
Info yack Gossip away from the edge and waited till the earthquake to subside "come on, I don't want to miss this"
"Wait, get down quick" Secret shouted shoving her friends to the floor.
Through the grass they spotted the blue little bird followed by Mufasa and Scar, then just like that they leap down in to the gorge.
"Well isn't it like Scar to play "I'm the good person" role" Info said
"Forget him, I want to see the stomping" Gossip said
"But if they see us, we'll be done for" Secret said as they started walking a bit further
Info spotted something "I think the king has more things to worry about" she said pointing to a small burnt up tree with the cub on it.
"Well lets hide behind something and watch the show" Gossip said with a smiled
"You are so cold hearted" Secret said
"No, I'm more hungry" she said slowly trying to sit down again
"Keep this up and your going to reopen your wounds and I won't help you, it took me forever to get the blood stains out of my fur" Info complained
"Quit yakking, the King just jumped right in to the stampede" Gossip said
Shenzi coughed due to the thick dust, it was also burning her eyes.
"Guys, guys, where are you" she shouted
"I'm right here I just don't know where" Banzai said then started coughing as well
"Ed! Laugh if your close by" Shenzi said
She listened then heard her friend laughing and form the sounds, he seem to be bumping in to things.
"Ok, I can't see any of you" she said
"Why don't wait till the dust settles" Banzai said
"We have no time for that Banzai, Scar is expecting us to kill the little cub" she said
Shenzi had to close her tight, the dust was really burning her eyes and she can felt them getting watery. Suddenly she felt someone bumping in to her.
"Sorry" Banzai said
"Can you see anything" she said
"A little I can barley see the path, all we have to do is go straight" he said
"Ed!" Shenzi called out opening one of her eyes "can you see us"
Ed laughed and slowly walked over to them. "Ok, lets get going"
After just a few minutes of walking they flinched when they heard Samba screaming the word "No" then it echo till it faded in the background
"What was that" Banzai asked
"The sound of death" Shenzi said
"Shit" Banzai said in shocked
"Come on, I'm sure Mufasa had died by now" She said
Secret went pale form what she saw "oh that was horrible" she said "he just literally push the King in to the stampede"
"Well duh, that's the whole point to committing murder" Info said
They sat there watching the cub running around shouting for help. His voice echo throughout the area.
"That poor cub" Sercet said
"And it just going to get worst for him" she said as she Scar coming out of the dust and walking over to Simba.
"Where's Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, aren't they the one who were going to kill the cub" Info said
"Quiet it, I'm trying to hear what Scar is telling the cub" Gossip said
"How can you hear them when their down there and we're up here on the cliff of the gorge" Info said
"I can read lips" Gossip said
"You can not and you know it"
"Beside there just dots down there, how can you read their lips" Secret said
"Oh look, here comes Shenzi and her morons friends" Gossip said totally ignoring them.
Info sigh angrily and Secret saw that faced expression on Info's face that said "I'm going to push her off that cliff".
"Leave her alone, she injured remembered" Secret whispered
Shenzi looked at the dead body of Mufasa, she couldn't help but smiled and waited till Scar gave them the word. Scar just sat there looking at the path where his nephew ran off, believing the lie he told him.
"Kill him" he said in a cold, emotionless voice.
The trio chase after the cub not knowing "The Stalkers" were hot on their trail.
"Make sure you don't lose them Info" Gossip shouted
Info was the fastest of the group so she ran a head at the edge of the cliff watching the cub running to escape from Shenzi and her friends. Secret was behind her and Gossip was struggling to keep up, tearing up from the pain of her back wound.
"I'm not and beside they went behind some rocks" Info shouted.
They stopped at the edge and looked down. There was a pile made out of huge rocks that can lead them deeper in to the gorge.
"I can hear them" Secret said
Gossip, who finally caught up, said "then what are we waiting for, I want to see if they kill the cub or not"
"Well at least let me go first, just to make sure its safe" Info said as she started walking down the rocks. Secret followed but stay closed to Gossip, in case she fell or has to stop to rest. Info nearly slipped twice before catching the view of the cub leaping over a rock and tumbling down a small hill.
"I see them" she said them felt her friends grabbing on to her fur so they won't slip to see what's happening. They watched from high above and out of sight form the trio.
"And their they go as well" Gossip said watching Shenzi, Banzai and Ed running the hill not even caring where it was going to lead them.
"I can't see, what's going on" Secret said
"The cub just fell in a pile of thorns" Info said
"And Banzai is trying to stop himself from falling in as well" Gossip said
Banzai held his breath and closed his eyes as he skidded towards the edge of the rock, trying to stop himself from falling in to the thorns. He manage to stop himself and sigh in relief that he didn't fall.
"He better move" Info said "before Shenzi and Ed-"
She didn't have time to finish her sentence when Shenzi and Ed bumped in to Banzai and watch him flying in to the piles of thorns. Banzai jumped out, screaming, covered in thorns.
"Too late" Gossip said before she and everyone who saw that burst out laughing...