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Chapter 7 'fluffy'
"Shanika, you've been up there for 3 hours now. Come down!" Shargra shouted.
"But its interesting!" she shouted back.
"So what's happening?" Shargra asked.
"Nothing, they've all gone." she replied, scratching her ear.
"Just come down!" Shargra called up to her.
She started to cheer as she saw two lions come out of a cave on the rock,
"Go lions! Go lions! Brown blob, brown blob, you're the guy!
Now teach that hornbill how to fly!"
"What? What on earth are you talking about?" Shargra shouted.
"I dunno, it just seemed appropriate." said Shanika, shrugging.
"Appropriate to what?" he shouted, trying and failing to climb up.
"There are two lions by the rock; one brown and one gold colored. Oooh! The brown one just swallowed the bird that flew into me earlier! Yay!" Shanika shouted back
"Shanika, you're mad." he said he turned to walk off but didn't get too far - because Shanika jumped of the rock onto him.
"Take that back!" she screeched.
"Get off!" Shargra shouted back.
"When you take it back," she demanded.
"Ok, you're not mad - YOU'RE INSANE!"
"Why thank you Shargra!" Shanika said primly not knowing what insane meant
Later that day, when it had got dark, Shargra was sitting alone in the cave resting when he heard Shanika walk in - oddly quiet. This was quite possibly due to the small creature she had dangling from her chops.
"There you are Shanika! Where've you been, you've been hours!" he said.
"I've got a pet!" she said in a muffled, gleeful voice. "I found him by a tree and we've been playing all day!"
"A pet!" he asked incredulously.
"Help me!" a small voice shouted.
Shargra got up and turned around and saw Shanika with something dangling in her mouth. "Shanika that's a meercat! We eat those!"
"Yes eat me! It must be better than being with her! She's insane!" the animalshouted.
"Shanika let the poor thing go! I know what its like living with you and death would be a mercy!" Shargra said, trying to reason with her.
"WHAT! No, he's my pet! I'm going to keep him forever and name him Fluffy!" she said.
Timon watched the exchange between the two lions with interest. Maybe they were insane, he thought. Or perhaps just crazy.
"If it's not bad enough that I've been kidnapped by a mad lion I also have to suffer the indignity of being called fluffy? Oy, oy, oy. My names Timon!" the meercat shouted, indignantly. Shanika totally ignored him.
"Shanika, you should really not have that in your mouth! You don't know where it's been" Shargra said, slightly irritated.
"You're right! I'll give him a bath!" with that she walked out of the cave. A loud splash was heard swiftly flowed by some terrified screaming. Finally Shanika walked back in with a soaking shivering meercat. 'Fluffy', shaking and slightly neurotic scurried into a corner, muttering "Scurry, sniff, flinch, scurry…" over and over. "Happy now? Fluffy's all clean" Shanika said, sitting down and 'playing' with the meercat - i.e. batting it between her paws singing "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight!"
"Awimba way, awimba, way..." Shargra found himself singing in a bass tone underneath it. "Hey, shut up! Can't we just eat it? I haven't eaten all day!"
"No! He's not an it! He's Fluffy!"
"Oh, go on!"
"Oh, fine!" she said, lowering her jaw to snap up Timon.
"Aahh!" he screamed, dodging out of the way. "No! You can't eat me!"
She stopped with her face halfway to the floor. "You're right! I need seasoning! Be right back!" And she darted off, scurrying back and forth, picking up bits of berries and leaves and sitting on them to crush them.
'Fluffy' sat down next to Shargra. "Is she…always like this?"
"Yes." He sighed, having a foresight that this might well be a frequently asked question.
"I'm baack!" she said, running up and looking excited.
"Shanika, we're lions. We eat meat RAW."
"Oh yeah." She paused. "What was I doing again?"
"Shanika - just stop torturing it and go to sleep." Shargra said, sticking his head firmly on the floor.
Shanika muttered something but stopped mucking around and lay down with 'Fluffy' under her paw. Her eyes closed and she mumbled "G'night Fluffy," falling asleep.
Soon the only sounds coming from the cave were two sets of muffled snores. Only two.
Timon opened one eye, and when he was sure Shanika was asleep 'Fluffy' slipped out from Shanika's paw and ran from the cave, free from oppression. It was too good to last.
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