Ciara's+mystery-+Who+stole+the+purple+pancakes?

By Ciara Merksick
Flip flop, flop flip went Detective Flippers, in his casual coat, tie and top hat, walking into the blue banana before work, when he saw his old pal Chef Whiskers walk into the room from the kitchen carrying a platter twice his size. So the penguin helped him carry it out.

"Hay chef. " hollered the detective over the noise. The club was always noisy on Fridays, even in the mornings!

Whiskers mumbled to Flippers, " Set it right here." So they both put it on the display table. Then Chef Whiskers walked away.

"Oh, wait before you leave. Whats under the sheet?"

"It's my new PURPLE PANCAKES and they......" said the chef. After he showed him the pancakes Flippers started to trail off and started to take off a piece of the pancakes. Luckily the cat turned around just before the penguin took a bite. "No, no, no, no you can't eat it!" He yelled.

The detective asked, "Why not?"

"Because I haven't finished the recipe. And you would have known that if you would have listened!"

So Flippers left the blue banana for work but, later that night he decided he wanted to apoligise to Whiskers. But it was too late because the chef had already left. Flippers was just about to leave when he saw a dark figure sneak into the club. Interested the detective flopped into the pitch black blue banana to investigate off duty. But when he came in, the dark figure was gone out the back door and it took the Purple Pancakes!

The next day Flippers skipped breakfast and started on the mystery. On his way to work though he bounced into Trouble Tiger and she started to rub her stomach and groan. While she did he noticed her purple stomach and asked her a few questions. He asked, " Why is your stomach purple?"

Then she said " It was fighting Baby Baboon for my special pancakes."

" And what color were the special pancakes and did you win?"

" They were tan and I did not win."

Flippers said okay and headed for Baby Baboon's house. When he got to his house he knocked on the door and peered through the window to see if anybody was coming. But instead of Baby Baboon coming to the door his mother did. She said ¨ I came home and found my son asleep on the floor beside a purple glop.¨ Flippers bent down to get a closer look at the blob. He thought it looked to be a syrup spill and because he was so interested he started to throw some questions at Mrs.Baboon. "Do you know what this glop is?"

Then she answered hims saying, " It was my famous taco sauce."

" But, how could he make the tacos? "

" I was working late so I made him some tacos and put them in the fridge before I left. "

" Okay ma´am, sorry for interupting your day off. ¨ Flippers tipped his hat and waddled away. It was getting late so the detective settled down in his nice quiet home and fell asleep watching show toons. But the next day he awoke to find his brother yelling into his cellphone. So Flippers asked what was wrong.

He told him in a frantic voice, "I GOT SYRUP ON MY FINGERS AND I CAN´T GET IT OFF!!!"

Flippers said calmly, "How did you get it on your hands?"

" Okay," said Pesky, Flippers brother finally calming down, "I saw these purple -"

" PANCAKES? "

" Yes! I ate them and then I had this syrup on my hands and I can't get it off! " Flippers was so suprised he just waddled to his room in shock.

The next day Flippers took Pesky to the Blue Bannana and cleared things up with chef Whiskers and as for Pesky, he had to clean up the Blue Bannana for the rest of the year while the chef made more purple pancakes that were edible this time.