The sun had just been going down over central park zoo and all the animals were at one of there meeting. As always Skipper and Julien where argueing, which had been entertaining for the first few minutes but was now just plain annoying! Everyone was too busy either following the arguement or they were of in lala to notice that a certain otter was extremly ill.
Marlene's fur was soaked with sweat, her breathing was heavy(not that you could here over Skipper and Julien's fighting),her throat was slightly swollenmaking it hard to breathe,and her vision was becoming fuzzy. Over the last few days she has not had a good nights sleep and its not because of Julien! It's because of the nightmares she's been having. Horrifiing dreams that could only have come from hell. Nightmares about a place no animal would wish to enter, let alone be born in! Lack of sleep isn't her only problem, she hasn't ate anything for the past week. Not for any reason like she's trying to lose weight but because she just hasn't been hungry.
Marlene begins to tune in and out of the fight. In her head it just fillers, the woulds enter her head with no meaning to them.
"You are a danger to this zoo Ringtail what with you keeping eveyone half the night with your (&%#) Boom box, You have stollen from some the zoo's residents, and you areO just plain selfish!" Skipper roared to Julien, clealy peeved at the idiotic lemur.
"No it is you who are being the shellfish mister flightless are a danger to fun you silly-billy penguin! What with all your rules and blah-blah scientiferic mumbo jumbo!" yelled back Julien.
"Really well if it was not for us this zoo would not be stand-!" Skipper was cut off when he felt something very, very, very, very warm ,moist,wheazing and... shivering(?) touching his back. The sudden halt in the arguement caught everyone's attention.
Skipper looked back to see what was pressed against him. What he saw was Marlene slumped against his back, the top of her head touchinghis black one had noticed her moving up to the penguins and lemurs on the tabled and if they did they thought it was just her trying a futile attempt at stopping the nonstop argument.
"Marlene are you feeling okay?" Skipper recieved no response; instead Marlene slipped from his back and semi-unconsiously stumbled off the table, head first!
"Marlene!" Skipper acted quick and was able to catch her before her head made contact with the pulled her back up to the table and set her down her back.
Everyone rushed over to the table to see what was wrong with Marlene. After skipper made sure she was secure he pressed his flipper to her forehead,"(&%#), she's burning up! Kowalski, analysis!"
Kowalski checked her vitals and temperature, "She appears to have no internal damage, but is severly exhausted. She is also runing a severly high fever. We need ice to cool her down and some equipment from the infirmiry."
"Right and while the boys and I do that the rest of you will watch her, alright", the other animals gave some sort of notion that they agreed and the penguins left the zoo's vet office.
The others were left alone with the sick otter. No one knew what to do or how to act. So they sat there in silence Until Julien brok the science.
"Ugh... Maurice this is boring. Oh I know Dance Party. Come on shake you back-sides... come on everyone...lets par...ty," Julien's enthusiasm let him when he noticed everyone glaring at him. Maurice had left his side for shelter dragging Mort with him. All the others animals wanted to kill him then.
"Um... I will be leaving now." the others continued to glare at the lemur until him and his crew left. Mort was to young for this anyway. She shivered.
"Well, I suppose we should cover her up then", Mason sugested breaking the uncomfertable silence. The others gave signs of agreement and Mason and Phil went to get a blanket. Little did they know that even though they were facing a scary situation, Marlene was reliving a nightmare straight from hell. She said that she had been born in captivity and that she came from California. She didn't lie. She simply never said that she had been born in California. They simply assumed and you know what they say about assuming, don't you.