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Dust rose up from the ground as Shenzi frantically ran. Her heart pace increased as she took short breaths. She turned her head and saw that the lionesses were increasing their speed. She recognized only one of them which was the queen of the Pride Lands, Sarabi. They were gaining their speed on her.

Shenzi ran as quickly as her legs could carry her. Her legs tangled with one another and she plummeted on the floor with a thud.

The lionesses stopped chasing the exhausted hyena. The leader of the pack, Sarabi walked up close to Shenzi.

Shenzi knew that this was going to be the end for her. She was not going to see the light of another day again. She was not going to see Ed or Banzai again. Since Mufasa despised the hyenas, Shenzi thought that his queen would be ten times worse.

Banzai and Ed stopped running as they watched the group of lionesses gathered around something. Banzai gasped. "Shenzi!" he jumped off the small cliff along with Ed and ran towards Shenzi.

"Let's get her your highness," a lioness said as she got ready to attack Shenzi.

"Wait," Sarabi gently said as she looked at Shenzi who slowly got up from the ground. Sarabi walked up to Shenzi who took a step back. Shenzi was not a wimp. She was actually a strong hyena but having four lionesses against one was not fair at all.

"I'm going to gave you one chance," Sarabi sternly said, "to explain yourself."

Shenzi was surprised. She had waited for her death to come but this was different. "I—I don't know," she said as she shook her head, "I was at home and then I wound up here. I don't know how."

"Oh zip it," another angry lioness said to Shenzi, "my queen, she is lying to you. Creatures like her are sneaky."

"We are not!" Shenzi snapped back at the lioness. "We are way better than you bullies."

"What did you say?" the same lioness asked as she walked up to the hyena.

"Ladies please!" Sarabi said as she took a deep breath, "let her finish. Do you have anything else to say?"

Shenzi shook her head. "Please I didn't come here on purpose."

"Were you here before?" a lioness asked, "because I head cackling."

"Not to mention the fresh carcass of a zebra!" the other shouted.

Sarabi listened to the accusations that were being thrown at Shenzi. She looked behind Shenzi as the bushes rustled as Banzai and Ed ran though them.

"Shenzi are you okay?" Banzai asked as he rubbed his head with hers. He quickly pulled away and looked at her as she looked at him.

"You had your pack with you?" a mild-mannered lioness named Sarafina asked.

Banzai quickly jumped in front of Shenzi and growled at the lionesses. The lionesses took this as a threat. They crouched low on the ground and growled at him.

"This is your chance to get out," Sarabi said as calmly as she could.

"That's it?" Banzai asked, "you're just gonna let us go? Like that?"

Shenzi glared at Banzai as she hit the back of his head with her paw. "OW!" Banzai yelled as he rubbed the back of his head with his own paw. "What was that for?" he asked as he looked at Shenzi.

"Do you want us to get killed?" Shenzi asked him.

"Take it or leave it," Sarabi suddenly said.

Shenzi let out a sigh. "Let's just go for the love of God!" she said as she turned around and disappeared into the bushes with Banzai and Ed following her.

Banzai ran and walked alongside with her. "I know who it was," he spoke up. Shenzi stopped walking and waited for him to answer. "It was definitely Zina," he told her.

"Gee," Shenzi said, "thanks Mr. Technicality. I know because SHE WAS THE ONE THAT BOUGHT ME HERE!" she yelled.

Banzai jumped back. "What are you yelling at me for? I saved you!"

"You did nothing," Shenzi told him and walked away.

Banzai's ears drooped as he looked down at the ground. "What do you want from me?" he suddenly yelled at her.

Shenzi stopped walking when he asked her that question. "YOU!" she yelled before she realized her answer.

"What?" Banzai asked.

"You…to stay away from her!" Shenzi added as she turned around and glared at him.

Banzai almost choked out a laugh. "Do you think I enjoy being around that…thing?"

"From the looks of it," Shenzi responded.

"Well believe what you want girlfriend but that is all a bunch of lies," Banzai told her. "She annoys the heck out of me and acts as if I'm her mate."

"Are you?" Shenzi asked. She already knew the answer to that question.

"No!" Banzai snapped, "I'd rather be eaten by a lion than be her mate!"

Ed let out a laugh when Banzai said that.

"Shut up!" Banzai told him which only made Ed laugh some more.

"Really Banzai?" an all too familiar annoying voice asked behind Shenzi.

Banzai let out an exasperated sigh when that question was asked. "Yes Shen—" he stopped mid sentence when he finally realized that it wasn't Shenzi who asked the question. "You didn't say that did you?"

"No," Shenzi said. She slowly turned around and saw Zina behind her. Before she knew it, Zina charged at her and both hyenas rolled on the ground.