Author´s note: Sorry it took so long for dating up. But I was stricken with a nasty sinuitis. This chapter will show one of the typical symptomes after someone has watched the video and more will follow soon. So enjoy and review.

Day 2

Suddenly I woke up, but my brain still has been captured inside a horrible vision. All images of the video revolted around me, like they have been etched into my brain. I remembered every detail of it, more than that. I felt every cell in my body was shaking from this experience. The nightmare I´ve had still circled in my mind and I gasped as I felt a flipper on my stomach.

My feathers ruffled and I squirmed. "Skipper, wake up. It´s 0900 hous already" I heard the soft voice of Private. Startled I opened my eyes. They felt sore and dry and I noticed that the rest of my body was aching and sore as well. Feeling like I´ve been stricken with a sickness, I groaned slightly.

"Hey, are you okay? You look like you´ve seen a ghost" Private asked, worried. But I just shook my head, to get a clear mind. "No, no. I´m fine, Private. I just havn´t slept well. That´s all" I answered to reassure him. Who does he always have to be so sensitive? "Well, Skipper. I won´t bother you, but you´ve overslept. The zoo is opening every moment now. I think it´s time to go topside, before anyone becomes suspicious" the little penguin said and I couldn´t believe, what I´ve just heard.

"I-I´ve overslept? No, that´s impossible! I never oversleep!" I barked and Private backed away as I jumped out of the bunk. A little scared, Private fell to the ground and gasped quietly. "Pull yourself togheter, Skipper. Private´s not the one to blame for you´re oversleeping. It´s the video..." I thought to myself. The video, why is very image still in my head? Why can´t I just forget it? Well, let´s deal with it later. Private still looked at me, with a slightly scared expression. "Sorry, Private. Maybe I´m feeling a bit under the weather today. But don´t worry, I´ll be fine." I said and I reached him my flipper to help Private up, giving him a smile while he got on his feet again.

"So, where are Kowalski and Rico?" I asked him and looked around. But suddenly I saw a shadow on the wall, but after I´ve rubbed my eyes, it was gone. A strange feeling was rumbling in my stomach now, but I tried to ignore it anyway. I shighed quietly and followed Private, who was climbing up the ladder. The bright sunlight was blinding me. Like fire it burned in my eyes. "Good morning, Skipper. Are you allright? It´s not usual for you to oversleep, right?" Kowalski asked, while performing a show for the humans.

"I´m totally aware of that fact, but there´s always a first time. Don´t make it worse than it is already!" I growled almost angry, but our scientist still had a amused grin on his face. Even Rico thought, it would be funny if I would oversleep sometime. "Okay, let´s forget about this incident and carry on with our training" I commanded after the humans were gone.

"What are we going to do today. Hand-to-hand combat or anything like that?" Private asked excited, but I shook my head. "Negative, Private. Let´s do some matarial arts training. You know, more like fist-to-fist combat. I´m really in the mood for a good old fight" I said and rubbed my flippers together. My team looked at me, puzzled and a little frightened, because they knew, that I´m always winning this game. Mostly the others are leaving the battlefield with some bumbs and bruises.

"Can´t we do something else? I still have some contusions from the last time..." Private mumbled, but I didn´t wanted to change my mind." Negative again, Private. When you´re telling me, that you still have bruises from the last time, then it means, that you really could use more of that training to avoid these combat souvenirs in the future" I told him and Private nodded, sadly. "Okay, let´s team up in pairs. Kowalski you´ll get Rico as partner and I´ll take care of young Private" I ordered and my team obeyed.

Private and I started. I took position in opposite to Private, who seemed to be a little nervous. "Fine, let´s start with some defence exercises first" I said, watching the little penguin now, like he would be an actual opponent. "What are you waiting for? Attack me!" I barked at him and Private slowly walked towards me. As I looked into his face, I realized, that he really didn´t wanted to do this. "Now, come on, Private. This is just a training, not an actual fight" I mumbled, trying to encourage him to make a move.

Finally, Private seemed to pull himself togheter and raised his flipper in order to throw a punch at me. He made a quick move, almost like a flash, but I ingeniously dodged him. But suddenly, I noticed something warm and wet was running down my beak. Private was about to throw another punch at me as I looked down and saw that a red, warm liquid soaked my feathers. I startled. "Private? Private, STOP!" I screamed, but it was too late. Privates fist hit my stomach and I gasped in pain.

"Skipper?" the little penguin asked confused as I went to the ground. His punch was so vigoriously and was quite painfully. I wiped my flipper on my beak and felt the blood flowing out my nostril. Kowalski, Rico and Private were running towards me. "Skipper, are you okay?" Kowalski asked worried as he saw the blood.

Kowalski and Rico were running towards me. "Skipper, are you hurt?" the scientist asked as he saw the blood. But I just shook my head. "Oh, gosh. I didn´t meant to do that, Skipper. I´m so sorry!" Private lamented startled and reached me his flipper to help me up. "It was not your fault, young Private. It started bleeding before you´ve hit me into my stomach" I explained and wiped another stream of blood from my beak.

"Let´s go down, Skipper. You need to sit down for a minute" Kowalski said and pushed the fishbowl aside. I jumped down first and some driblets of my blood spread on the floor. Suddenly I noticed, that my vision blurred a little. I rubbed my eyes and in a dark corner of our HQ, I saw a shadow moving on the wall. But after one or two seconds it disappeared again.

I put my flipper on my temples and closed my eyes. "Skipper, are you dizzy?" Kowalski asked after he jumped down the ladder, followed by Private and Rico. "No, no. I´m fine" I mumbled and another stream of blood escaped my nosetril. "Okay, sit down. I´ll get something to patch you up again." our scientist said and waddled to his lab. I sat down on one of the conctrete blocks, which served as chairs. Private fetched my some tissues. I watched how it became redder and redder.

Kowalski returned. He brought a cool, wet cloth and put it on the back of my neck. "Okay, this should stop the bleeding. Just wait for a few minutes. I groaned slightly, when I felt the cold wetness soaked my feathers. But after a few minutes, the bleeding subsided slowly. Private brought me another damp cloth after I wiped the last drops of blood from my nose. I took the other cloth and wiped the last traces of blood from my face and chest.

"Are you better now? Do you want to rest up a little?" Private asked careing after he tossed the bloody tissues into the dumpster. "No, no. Don´t worry about me. It´s time for lunch, I think. So let´s get some fish. We´ll continue the training in the afternoon" I said and waddled to the ladder. Hopefully the other guys, will stop being worried about me after having a nice lunch. But I was so worried about myself. Why do I see shadows on the wall? Why do I have nosebleeding out of nowhere? I had no answers for that questions.