"Jedrek!" A female Ringtailed lemur screamed for her husband from their makeshift raft. "Jedrek!" She held her stomach and scanned the water wide eyed. She sighed when her husband's head peaked out from under the water.
"Was someone calling me?" Aailyah rolled her eyes.
"Yes!" He turned his head towards his wife.
"Oh, what is being the problem my beautiful orchid?"
"The baby! She is coming!" The beautiful female lemur felt the contractions hit her and she screamed in pain. "She is coming quickly, husband! We need to get to shore!" Jedrek quickly swam to the wooden raft and climbed on. He stared into her eyes passionately before looking back at the water.
"Leroy! Zach! Andre! We need to get back to shore!" Three lemurs poked their heads out of the water and stared a minute at Jedrek.
"Yes, your Highness!" The three male lemurs went to the back of the raft and started pushing it. King Jedrek grabbed his leafy crown and placed it on top of his head.
"Don't worry, my Queen. Our baby will be born on shore. She will," Aailyah smiled at her husband before feeling another contraction hit her.
"Just come out already! You are to be hurting mommy!" She screamed. She looked ahead and saw that the shore was still far away. "Push!" She screamed at the three lemurs pushing the raft.
"Sweetie, I think it is time for you to push as well," Jedrek squeezes his wife's hand.
"No, I am not pushing until I'm sure our child will be born on Mada-" Another contraction hit her. "Okay! Okay! Jedrek! Help me!" She pleaded.
"Okay... Um... Push!.. I guess?"
"Was that a question? To the queen?" She glared daggers at him.
"No! No! I meant... Push Aailyah! Push for our baby!" The queen then pushed with all her force and so did the servants. They pushed as they reached closer and closer to the shore...
"The baby! Aailyah! Our baby has been born safely!"
"Thank the Sky Spirits!" Jedrek held the pup and grinned before realizing that they weren't on shore yet. "She wasn't born on Madagascar, was she?" The queen looked at her husband sadly.
"It is actually a he... And no. Sorry my dear," She looked at the cradled pup in her husband's hands and started crying.
"Oh! I don't care! Let me hold our little Julien!" Her husband smiled and passed her the baby.
"Julien? I was hoping to name him something like... Butch or Jedrek Jr.!"
"No, he is a Julien. He is having my eyes and my family is filled with Juliens... He will be the 13th one!" She said this as they reached the shore. The three workers walked from behind the raft and stood in front of the king and queen.
"Congradulations your Majesties!" The three said in unison. Queen Aailyah was about to stand with their newly-born child when she felt another pain.
"Jedrek! Oh Jedrek! I think there's another one!"
"Another one? That means this one will be heir!" He kneeled before his wife and took Julien from her hands. He looked apologetically at the sleeping baby. "I am sorry. It is being all my fault,"
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"Mort! Where is my smoothie?" King Julien sat on a raft, floating in the penguin's moat.
"Here it is King Julien!" Mort ran up to the edge of the moat before throwing the coconut cup at the king. "Did you catch it?"
"No I did not! Are you being stupid AND blind, Mort? Now I am wet and sticky... And mangoy!" King Julien wiped off the smoothie from his fur and scowled at the little lemur. "Now go get me a towel... And another smoothie!" Little Mort ran off and Julien sighed. "Why am I even associating with him?" He sat back and closed his eyes. But before he could really relax, he felt something grab him and throw him. He fell with an oof onto the concrete and looked up at Skipper's face.
"What are you doing in our water, Ringtail?"
"Well... What was giving you permission to be throwing me off of my kingly raft?" Skipper rolled his eyes.
"What gave me permission? This is my property, Ringtail! I can throw whoever I want!" Kowalski looked over at his commander.
"Actually, this belongs to the city park, Skipper," The shorter penguin glared at him.
"Not the point, Kowalski! This is my place and Ringtail is not allowed here!" Julien stood up, dusted himself off and scoffed.
"Fine! I know when I am not being wanted! Mort! Take the raft!" The small lemur came running with a smoothie and towel.
"How can I pick it up?"
"I don't know! Just figure it out!" Julien left the habitat, ignoring Mort's hard time carrying the raft.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" Maurice came running towards the king. "I... I saw him!" Julien raised an eyebrow.
"Who were you to be seeing?" Maurice sighed deeply.
"Your Highness, I saw Zace!" Julien's calm expression fell, making way to shock.
"D-Don't be silly, Maurice! Zace is not here!" Julien tried to laugh, but it didn't come. "Zace is not here, Maurice!"
"But I saw him with my own two eyes! He was walking through the habitat and then, he rushed away!" The two were silent for a moment.
"Well... I think your eyed were mistaking you, Maurice. Zace can not be here. It is impossible," Julien then walked away, going towards his kingdom. He looked around before he walked in. He kept looking around while he climbed up to his throne. It was completely empty.
"You see Maurice! It is being empty in here!" Julien gained his mellow attitude back and laughed. "Now to calm you down, Maurice, let us do a little booty shaking!" He motioned for Mort to turn on the boombox. When the song started blasting, the king jumped down from his throne and grabbed Maurice. The two started to tango.
"You see, Maurice? Nothing to worry about!" Maurice's face creased.
"Why can't you believe me? I know that this was not a fig-" The king covered Maurice's mouth.
"Be shutting up now, this is being my favorite song," Julien twirled Maurice. He had no need to worry. All his problems were left in Madagascar. They'd never be able to follow him here.