Hey, First I want to thank halfhuman123 for the idea! She and I were chatting and then we came up with this story!

I don't own the Penguins of Madagascar

"Athena wake up" Elli whispered as she shook on Athena's down feathered shoulder late one night.

Athena mumbled as she fluttered her brown eyes open. When she did, she saw Elli. "Elli" she said still half asleep. "What seems to be the problem? Please don't tell me Marshal played a prank on you again." She said ready to kill Marshal. Again.

Elli shook her head. "Buttons is having a hard time sleeping."

"Why do you think I can help?" Athena asked rubbing her eyes.

"Marshal won't help, and I don't know what to do." Elli explained. She took her flipper. "Come with me, he's over there." She said to Athena as she led her to Buttons, who was rolling around trying to fall asleep mumbling and groaning.

Athena smiled at the little penguin. "What's the matter Buttons?" she said leaning down to him trying to help. She smoothed her flippers along his head.

Buttons opened his little blue eyes at her and moaned. "Sleepy" he grunted out.

Athena thought for a minute. What gets people to fall asleep? I know that Uncle Rico falls asleep to lullabies, maybe Buttons will to considering that he's his son. Well not biologically. She thought to herself. It made her a little sad to think that her parents were dead, but she couldn't do anything about it. Then she got an idea. She started to sing a lullaby to her friend.

"Sun goes down and we are here together

Fireflies glow like a thousand charms

Stay with me and you can dream forever

Right here in my arms."

Elli and Marshal gawked. Athena had a beautiful singing voice!

"She's really good isn't she Marshal?" Elli asked.

Marshal nodded and got his trouble grin on. "Now she can hear it too." He said before taking out a mini tape recorder to record Athena's singing. Oh boy! Here's another trouble making brother scheme!

"It's magic when you are here beside me

Close your eyes and let me hold you tight

Everything that I could ever need

Is right here in my arms tonight"

Just after that, Buttons was snoring and sucking on his flipper.

Athena smiled at a job well done. "Night Buttons" Athena said before giving him a small hug and heading back over to her side of the incubation chamber. "Let's go back to sleep. School's tomorrow." She said to Marshal and Elli.

Marshal hid the tape recorder behind his back. "Yep" he said with a fake smile.

"Athena" Elli said walking over to her. "Where did you learn that song? I've never heard it before." She whispered in her cute little accent, so Buttons wouldn't hear them.

Athena shrugged. "I've always…just…known it." She answered. "I think I remembered it subconsciously from when my dad sang to me when I was little. That's the only way I could think of."

Elli nodded, but she didn't think her Uncle Kowalski would sing a song about that. She did love him like all of her uncles, but it seemed like he'd sing songs about educational stuff that was a different language to everyone except him and Athena. "Night" she said. Perhaps I can sleep on it.

"Night" Marshal and Athena said simultaneously.

Then, everyone went to sleep.

At school. . . . . . .

"And that concludes today's math lesson" Mason said setting down a piece of white chalk down next to a number congested chalk board. "Form a study group and do problem 1-12 on the board please." He said before going on a banana break with Phil.

Marshal probably would've moaned, but this would've been a great opportunity to talk about his new plans with Peanut and Eggy. "Hey guys" he said when he sat down with his two best friends. "I've got something to show ya later." He said proudly.

Peanut and Eggy smiled. "Prank on Joey?" Eggy asked wondering if he should get the first aid kit again.

Marshal shook his head. "Better, I'll show it to ya later, because Athena will kill me if she finds out." He said pointing over to Athena, who was in a study group with Elli, Haley, Maurisa, and Nellie as always.

"Okay, that's number 3 so, let's go on to number 4." Athena said in her little study group.

Maurisa stuck her paw in the air.

"Stuck on a problem Maurisa?" Athena asked when she noticed Maurisa's dark black paw in the air.

Maurisa shook her head. "You got number three wrong. You have to add the exponent." Maurisa pointed out pointing to number three on her friend's paper. "See,

Everyone stared at her with a shocked expression, but Athena's was the most shocked out of all the girls.

Maurisa shrugged. "What?"

Athena looked down at her paper and redid the problem. "Good Galileo you're right!" she said a little envious. I just got served in school! She thought to herself. In school!

A few minutes later, Mason told everyone that they had to turn their papers in. Then it was recess!

Marshal took this opportunity to play the tape to his friends. "Hey dudes over here!" he said motioning his friends over to him as he took out the tape recorder somewhere Athena couldn't see, which was behind the brick wall of the zoovenier shop.

Peanut and Eggy's faces dropped. "No! Not your dad's log again!" Peanut said staring at the tape recorder like it was a horror movie's creation. "Remember what happened last time?" Eggy asked referring to operation love letter.

All the boys shuddered.

"No, this is just a tape recorder, but listen to this." He said as he pressed a red play button on the little black tape recorder to start playing.

"Sun goes down and we are here together

Fireflies glow like a thousand charms

Stay with me and you can dream forever

Right here in my arms."

He pressed it again to make it stop. "That's Athena." He said to his friends, who were starring at the cape with wide eyes as if an angel popped out and began to sing. It probably wouldn't have been better than Athena's voice even.

"Yeah, who knew her geeky beak could sing?" Marshal asked with a small laugh.

"Wow, you know, Athena should sing for her dad's birthday next week!" Peanut said getting a little excited. "All we need to do is set up a stage, get a microphone, a song, a few instruments, and she'd be great!" he sighed and squeezed his two black paws together. "I could be a guitar player just like I dreamed I would!"

Marshal stopped laughing. "It's Uncle Kowalski's birthday next week?" Marshal asked getting nervous.

Eggy starred at him shocked. "You didn't know? How could you not, he's been going on about it for weeks!" he said with a laugh. "You don't remember? He waddled in the meeting last week with a big grin on his face!"

"That could've been gas!" Marshal said defending himself. "Besides, smiling doesn't mean it's your birthday."

"No, but then he announced to everyone what he'd want for his birthday!" Peanut said shaking his head in disbelief. "You're not kidding about that are you dude? Me and my mom already finished our present for him three days ago!"

Marshal smiled. "Do you think there's room for one more name on the-"

"No, nope, sorry Marshal, it's very special and we put a lot of work into it!" Peanut said shaking his head from side to side. "I'll help you out on finding another one, but you can't put your name on mine."

Marshal sighed. "All I have right now is this stupid tape-Hey! I've got the perfect idea!"

"What?" Eggy asked.

"I should convince Athena to sing for Kowalski's birthday party. Like helping out Athena with her present, but since it was my idea, it would count as my own! It'll be tough, I may not survive, but with you two helping me, we'll be unstoppable!"

"What makes it hard with convincing Athena to sing happy birthday?" Eggy asked.

"Athena's got stage fright like you wouldn't believe." Peanut explained. He smiled at the memory. "One time, she just got onstage from the puppet show my mom put on for us when we were little to pick up an abacus bead, when she saw the crowd of people looking at her, and she threw up her breakfast all over my mom's pink fuzzy sock." He shook his head and crossed his arms looking up, but he was smiling. "Never got out"

"Wow, Marshal, we're gonna have to work hard on this one." Eggy said imagining a barfed up pink fuzzy sock with little buttons for the eyes. "If we don't, then you never gave your uncle a birthday present!"

Marshal smiled his trouble grin. "I know we can do it."

Oh, boy a few talents have blossomed! Athena's a singer and Maurisa's a math Wiz! :D

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Oh, and I don't own anything! Not the song or POM, just my O.C.'s : )