Off with His Head! : Kit’s Ball || Rapunzel & the Hyenas
8. OH CRAP YOU BROKE ONE OF THE KING’S STATUES! WHAT NOW??
As soon as Banzai had seen it, he wanted to do one thing (after helping himself to the buffet, obviously): Sliding over the shiny, polished marble floor for the longest possible stretch; the winner would … he or she would be allowed to pick one of the cloying fairy cake and relish the losers’ disgusted expressions.
— Banzai however also thought that this wouldn’t be much of a punishment for Ed, seeing how he had been the only hyena to lick his lips after they had each tried a cake. Maybe Ed would win the competition so his victory was a loss at the same time. Oh, Banzai would savour the fairy cake if he would see Ed’s sulky face.
After he had rinsed out his mouth, naturally.
Another thing he had done was inviting the girl on whose hair Shenzi had stepped on – perhaps it had been deliberately, perhaps it hadn’t; she had been staring at the magnificent head of golden-blonde hair with a mixture of admiration and envy (even though Banzai told her she would look awful with a light-coloured coat … which, judging by her snarling, she didn’t exactly like to hear) – to join in their little competition, and so far … no one had really stuck out. Ironically, Ed indeed was in the lead, and Banzai realised that he wouldn’t care if Ed would enjoy the ‘punishment’, his desire to win was too overpowering.
He would show them, Ed, Shenzi, and … Goldie? Banzai honestly had forgotten it, it wasn’t very short, it didn’t sound familiar, and it was, bluntly said, a weird name.
Whatever her name was, Banzai would beat her.
Wink at his friends on the sideline; Shenzi countered with an annoyed eye-roll, Ed stuck out his tongue at him.
He certainly wouldn’t do this with the fairy cake.
Take a run-up …
– SLIDE!
Feel the smooth, cool marble under your paws, move your body to a presumably aerodynamic pose, feel just great.
– Slide towards the larger-than-life statue of the current, moustached king.
Bang your head against the statue, bang it hard.
… Try to ignore your friends’ derisive laughter.
“Hey, Banzai! I wouldn’t say this counts, your ending really wasn’t graceful”, Shenzi sneered, surverying her friends picking himself up, shaking it off, immediately holding his head, grimacing …
Not seeing how the statue had been shifted, started wobbling, shifted more, tilted towards her friend who still seemed to be dizzy …
“Hey! Banzai!” Neither did he seem to notice the concern, the distress in her voice …
Shenzi speeded, slid across the corridor, towards her friend, knocked him out of the way, fell onto him – at least the statue didn’t.
Nah, it instead fell onto the floor, shattering with the loudest bang Shenzi had ever heard.
She quickly picked herself up, stared at Ed and Blondie at the other end of the corridor, stared, glared at Banzai, whose entire fault this dilemma was …
A piece of the statue landed right next to her; she flinched as she saw the head, the king’s marmoreal head glowering at her.
“… Anyone have an idea what to do know?”