1. Strange Behaviour
It was a beautiful day in Central Park Zoo. The birds were chirping and the sun was shining. Many visitors enjoyed the sunny day in the zoo. But something was different than usual, something noticed that Marlene and the other zoo inhabitants. The penguins were very quiet and withdrawn the last few days. Hardly anyone had seen them and if they do, they were seen only briefly outside the headquarters.
Especially Kowalski behaved strangely. He disappeared for a short time and he seemed to do something important and had to make sure that no one notices him. Even private, who always liked to be among the other animals, seemed to have withdrawn himself completely. Something was wrong, suspected Marlene, Since the penguins startet to operate this strange, Skipper hasnt been seen by anyone.
She remembered very well. It was a few days ago, at midnight. As often the penguins came home from a mission but usually rather loudly and happily, so almost everyone noticed them. But not this time. They crept around like shadows and whisperd serious things to each other. But that night it was just Kowalski giving orders to the other penguins and not the actual leader skipper.
She didnt asumed any suspectious about it because she thought it was just an exercise for Kowalski, who was the second leader penguin. But the constant secrecy of the Penguins made her very skeptical after all. She decided just to look what's going on, because after a lot of it even the visitors slowly became annoyed about them for not beeing smiling and waving in their habitat. Marlene went on her way to the penguin habitat as King Julien crossed her way. "What are you doing Marlene? Wanna sneak into the strange birds so called HQ? "cackled the mad king. "No, Julien, I just wanna see what's going on. As you surely noticed, they were not been seen for days and I will finally know what's going on. Not that Alice gets a clue ot that, "Marlene said annoyed, because the pesky lemur was the last one who she needed know." Well fine then i wont bother you anymore. "Julien said, slightly offended, and disappeared again into his kingdom. "Well, he´s finally gone, then let's see what the team has to hide." Marlene thought with a grin on his face.
But she did not know that her smile would pass soon. She jumped over to the concrete island of the penguins and knocked the bowl at the entrance. "Hello? Skipper, Kowalski, Private, Rico! Anyone? Open up! Come on, you can not hide you forever. Everyone has notice you guys hiding down there! "Marlene said and knocked on more tightly.