Here's a fanfic by me and Skullshovel. Please enjoy and review. This chapter is written by me, Tripenguinman.

PAINFUL MISTAKES

CHAPTER ONE

Mort watched his king scrub his feet. Julian was preoccupied in getting his precious feet clean and didn't see the small lemur watching in love, and awe. Julian finally finished and looked up at the other lemur.

"Mort," he said in his pompous voice. "Why're you staring at da King?"

"Feet!" Mort said with want.

"Mort," Julian sighed and stood up. "How many times must I tell you-…"

But he was cut off by Mort wrapping his small body around the King's feet and rocking himself.

"Mort!" Julian cried and pushed Mort off. "Stay away from de royal feet!"

Mort gave Julian Bambi eyes but Julian held his hand up, turned his head, and closed his eyes. Mort's eyes fell and he turned and hung his head. Julian peeked and saw the poor little creature whimpering and felt bad.

He sighed and made a mental note to kick himself later, and turned the lemur around.

"Mort, would you do de honor of filing de royal nails?" he asked

Mort's eyes shot open to an impossible size and happiness filled them.

"Yes, King Julian!" he shouted and ran off to get the filer.

The Mort skipped and sang as he grabbed the filer and headed back to Julian.

"HI!" Mort shouted happily, passing Skipper.

"Hey Sad Eyes," said Skipper "Julian busy?"

"I'm going to file his nails!" Mort shouted

"Sure… okay, men let's go." Skipper said and tobogganed off with the rest of the team.

Mort wondered why they needed Julian preoccupied but didn't care. One of his greatest dreams was coming true. He reached the King lemur and was only a few feet away.

"Ahh… Mort, get to da working." Julian said and gestured at his feet.

"Okay!" Mort said and took his first step.

And with this first step, he tripped and the nail filer and it turned into a knife in his paw, and it sliced through the flesh and fur of King Julian's right foot, leaving an angry red cut across the top. Mort looked up and stared at the dark blood dripping from the filer.

Julian's whole face twitched, his eyes filling with rage and insanity. Words began to drabble out of his mouth, words that Mort didn't understand that sounded like the things Skipper said when he stubbed his toe and Kowalski covered Private's ears. Mort stood up and held his tail and looked timidly at the twitching figure.

"Um… sorry…" Mort said sincerely.

Julian kept up this act for about two more minutes and then picked up the nail filer like a knife and looked insanely at Mort. There was a hook like tool on the end of the filer and Julian made such a thrust with the weapon at the small lemur, that as Mort screamed and ran away, the hook pierced the concrete and got stuck.

But Julian's rage was so great that he was able to tear it out in a dust of concrete and gave chase to the poor lemur. He was screaming loudly and everyone in the zoo rushed to see what was going on.

"What the hell-…" Skipper muttered as he passed Marlene's habitat and toward Mort and Julian.

Mort ran and jumped into Marlene's arms as Julian jumped at the penguins.

"Take care of Julian!" Marlene shouted and carried the sobbing Mort into her habitat.

"Oh crap." Skipper muttered.

As the sounds of the fight echoed into Marlene's cave, Marlene hid Mort under her bed cover. Marlene was looking with pity at Mort sobbed under the cover and soaked the whole bed.

"Mort, please calm down." Marlene cooed as she heard the penguins screaming outside. "Damn, this is not good."