Shargra was trying to stop Shanika from singing without much luck as they neared the waterhole. "Do you have to sing the same song over and over again?"
"Yes, I do." she said. Just then she spotted two of the pride's cubs heading in the same direction as them, the small one they had seen the other day, Simba, and a female cub, being led by a small blue bird.
"Just wait here a minute." she said and ran over to the cubs. After about five minutes of whispered conversation and a lot of paw-gestures she walked back over. "Okay, we can go now"
"What were you doing?" Shargra asked, perplexed.
"I had to teach them a song that will be very important to them." she said, grinning. "At least somebody appreciates my musical talents!"
"Whatever."
As they neared the waterhole the world behind them burst in the multicolored song and dance, and the faintest traces of a tune and lyrics: "I just can't wait to be king!"
Shanika felt the satisfaction of a job well done, and said so.
"Told you it was a good song."
Shargra watched, stunned, as an entire song and dance routine unfolded in front of him. Music came from nowhere, the world turned into bright colors, and everything suddenly exploded into sound.
"I don't believe it," he mouthed as they were passed by the two cubs riding on an ostrich, "This entire place is as mad as Shanika!"
Eventually the song ended and everything went back to normal – as normal as things ever were when Shanika was around.
"I don't know how you did that but I know it had something to do with you!" Shargra shouted, "Was that the song you taught them?"
"Yep! Great wasn't it?" she grinned maniacally.
"No, it was awful! What possessed you to teach them that?" he questioned. Shanika didn't answer, because she was too busy screaming in terror and running up the nearest tree.
"'What on earth's wrong with you? Get down, I want to get to the waterhole!"
"There's a... there's a..." she stuttered.
Shargra turned and saw a small rabbit, sitting on the ground with an inquisitive look. It was the sweetest thing he'd ever seen, with long floppy ears and a twitching nose. "Oh Shanika, not the bunny thing again."
"It's after me, I tell you!" she shouted. "My ankles…the bunny wants my ankles…"
"Shanika, let's go through this again. The bunny is not going to eat you, nor is it going to grab your ankles, nor do you need to keep locking it up."
"It is! Bunnies are evil!"
Shargra took this opportunity to help himself to a snack. Carefully, he raised a paw-
A few minutes later… "Shanika, it's gone, you can come down now!" he said, licking his chops and spitting out a discarded fluffy tail.
"Are you sure?" she asked, quivering.
"Quite sure." he burped.
"Eww, Shargra, that's disgusting…were you eating something without me?" she demanded.
"Oh, just get down here!" he said, tugging on her tail with his teeth and pulling her from the tree. This was a mistake, as, in that precise way ONLY Shanika knew how to achieve, she landed smack on his chest. "Did you have to do that?" Shargra coughed, muffled by the little lioness.
Shanika ignored him, taking this chance to examine her claws.
"Shanika, get off! Bad lioness, bad!" And he whacked her on the nose with his paw. "I'd like to reach the waterhole before midnight!"
"Shargra, you got it wrong! It's not bad lioness, it's bad wolf!" she said, climbing off him.
Shargra stared for a second "Shanika... You're a lion, not a wolf... You do know that, right?" he said, puzzled.
"Yes, but the phrase is bad wolf," she said patiently, with the air of one explaining something simple to a very small cub.
With that she jumped into the nearest bush, and engaged in some rustling, before leaping out covered in purple berry juice. "I'm mauve and dangerous!" she yelled, and she ran off toward the center of the Pridelands – completely the opposite direction to the water.
Wondering exactly why he put up with her, he ran after the lioness. The waterhole probably wasn't that good anyway
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