It was seven o' clock on Saturday night and the penguins were swimming around in their pool. Skipper and Rico were lying on their backs while Sam jumped off the edge of the HQ and poked her head out of the water as she swam over to float next to Private. Kowalski was sitting at the HQ's ledge as he continued to work with a little electronic device that he had invented a couple days before. Sam stared at the stars as they lit up the midnight blue sky as Skipper turned in her direction.
"What are you looking at, Sam?" Skipper asked her in a confused reply.
"The stars, they look beautiful tonight." Sam answered.
"Yeah, they are…Hello slap happy penguins!" Skipper stated before being interrupted by the excited voice of King Julien.
"Julien, what are you doing over here?" Sam questioned him.
"Taking a royal walk about around my zoo." King Julien replied.
Suddenly the sound of drums echoed through the night air and King Julien started to shake his booty as the drum's beat reached his ears. The five penguins turned to each other and turned their gaze on King Julien with "just wow" expressions on their faces. Sam stared out to see where the drum's sound was coming from and saw two baboons beating on little bongo drums.
"Looks like the baboons are having a dance party tonight." Sam muttered to the others.
"Ahh, my booty is shaking to the baboons' silly music, this is a nightmare!" King Julien shouted to the skies.
"Then just stop shaking your booty." Sam explained to King Julien.
"No one tells a king what to do, but I shall stop shaking booty." King Julien exclaimed as he stopped shaking his behind.
"Right, now let's go see what those baboons are up to." Skipper ordered to the group.
The penguins and King Julien walked toward the baboons' habitat. As they reached the habitat's gates, the group saw Darla doing some kind of magic while her baboon friends continued to beat on their drums. Darla turned and faced the small group as they stared at the scene in awe.
"Is there something we can help you with?" Darla sighed.
"Um, we were just wondering where the drum sounds were coming from." Sam replied with a stammer.
"Well, you found where the drum sounds are coming from." Darla stated.
"Are you baboons trying to have a longer dance party than me, again?" King Julien whispered as he edged closer to the penguins.
"Ah, still afraid I'll take your groove away, again." Darla grinned at King Julien.
"How did you take away Julien's groove?" Sam asked Darla.
"The king and his lemur pals put skunks into our habitat, so to get back at him I used my magic to take away his dancing ability." Darla explained to Sam in a chuckle.
"We only did that because you baboons were stealing my peoples with your country style dancing!" King Julien shouted at Darla.
"Ringtail, when you came the HQ asking us to help you get your groove back, you didn't say that you put skunks into their habitat!" Skipper muttered as he turned to Julien.
"Yes, but I did apologize to Darla and her friends!" King Julien retorted.
"After Skipper forced you to, it is Skipper right." Darla yelled at Julien.
"Man, I never did so much dancing in my life and yes my name is Skipper." Skipper said as a flashback of that situation ran through his mind.
"That was some dance routine." Kowalski stated quietly.
"Wait, hold on, why are we talking about something from the past?" King Julien uttered in confusion.
"Great, now we have made Ringtail confused." Skipper whispered to Private.
"Uh Skipper, who else did we confuse in the conversation?" Private asked Skipper in a hushed tone.
"Our conversation confused Sam before Ringtail." Skipper replied in a soft whisper.
"But Sam was not at the zoo when this incident happened because she was on a mission with Jonah, Layla, and Erika, so of course it would be confusing to her." Private muttered softly.
"Guys, we can hear what you are saying, except what you said in the middle." Sam spoke suddenly.
"Really!" Private and Skipper said in surprise.
"Yes." the group of animals replied to Skipper and Private's surprise.
"With that conversation over, I would like to know how long Darla and her baboon friends are going to be dancing this time." King Julien ordered in a dull tone of voice.
"We are not having a dance party, Mr. King of the Stupids!" Darla growled at Julien.
"Ah, then it is a secret dance party!" King Julien laughed.
"No, we are doing a magical ritual, if you really want to know!" Darla hollered at Julien.
"Uh, exactly, what kind of magical ritual?" Kowalski asked Darla.
"Wow, I never knew this zoo had so many nosy animals." Darla huffed.
"I guess we will go then, since we are not going to get an answer." Skipper replied.
"Well, good night." Private chirped as he followed Skipper and the rest of the group back to the penguin habitat.
Once the penguins and King Julien had left to return to their habitats, Darla turned to her friends.
"That female penguin could be the end of us." Darla whispered to her gals in a stern tone.
"What you mean Darla, Sam is just a normal female penguin." one of Darla's gals named Candace asked.
"Remember the girl that helped the animals get that group of people out of the zoo a couple weeks ago." Darla reminded them.
"Yeah, she saved the whole zoo from being destroyed." Darla's other gal friend named Lily said.
"But what does this have to do with Sam?" Candace stated.
"Sam is the girl that saved the zoo a couple weeks ago." Darla answered.
"But how can she transform from a penguin to a human?" Lily inquired to Darla.
"Sam is normally a human, but in our world she remains as a penguin until there is trouble in our world." Darla explained.
"Sam must have some pretty powerful magic." Candace thought to herself.
"Candace, what are you thinking about?" Lily asked her as she noticed her friend spacing out from the conversation.
"Just thinking that Sam has to have some pretty powerful magic to do all the things she has done." Candace muttered.
"Sam is not the only one with strong magical abilities in this zoo." Darla spoke to Lily and Candace.
"But we know you have strong magical abilities, Darla." Lily exclaimed.
"Thank you, but I was not talking about myself." Darla sighed.
"Then who are you talking about?" Candace questioned Darla.
"I'm talking about the new chimp, otter, and lemur." Darla smirked.
"They do not look magical." Candace murmured.
"But they are and I plan to use them to get to Sam." Darla chuckled in a evil laugh.
"But why to you care so much about getting Sam?" Lily squeaked with fear.
"I want to find out, exactly, how powerful she is." Darla said simply.
"So, we are going to turn Sam's friends against her by controlling them." Candace calculated.
"Yes." Darla grinned at Candace.
"But how are we going to control them?" Lily implied.
"What do you think the ritual was for!" Darla grunted, sounding quite irritated.
"So, the ritual we just did will help us gain the control over the animals of the zoo." Candace speculated.
"You are correct, Candace!" Darla hollered with excitement as if she was a game show announcer.
"Our little ritual we performed will allow us to gain the power to control the minds of the animals in this zoo." Darla divulged to Candace and Lily in a whisper.
"Sounds cool, but when will the ritual's effect take place?" Candace and Lily began together.
"In a couple minutes, right at the strike of midnight." Darla smiled at them.
"Why does a magical spell start or end at midnight exactly?" Candace groaned.
"Huh, I never thought of that before now, but that is a good question." Darla and Lily giggled at the thought.
"By the way, what time is it now?" Candace's voice broke in to her friends' laughter.
The three baboon girls stared up at the large clock that hung above the entrances of the zoo. The long and short hands of the clock were pointing at the number twelve. The three of them heard a low rumble of thunder and looked up at the sky in time to see a magenta colored beam. The beam shot down from the clouds and surrounded Darla, Candace, and Lily in its light. But the light was gone as quickly as it had came, leaving Darla and her friends to stare at the sky in shock.
"What just happened to us!" Candace screamed in utter shock.
"I do not know, unless that was the ritual's doing." Darla pondered.
"The beam of light gave us mind controlling powers!" Lily cheered as she raised her arms into the air.
"Well, the only thing to do is to see if we have mind controlling powers." Darla mused as she gestured Candace and Lily to follow her to the Chimp Habitat.