Chapter 2

Mistake In The Play

Act 1 ended and the animals applauded. The curtains covered the scene and actors went to prepare for the next act. Marlene was making them the makeup and giving costumes, but Julien decided to do it on his own. It was scene with Halloween Goblin which was playing Julien of course.

"Are you ready?" Marlene asked, the chimps took their positions as prompters.

"I hope so" Katherine said, Marlene pushed her and Kowalski to the scene. They were in the old costumes and they were walking across a 'street' and stopped next to a lantern.

"Why do you want to do this?" Katherine said making her voice adapted to her character's voice.

"It's necessary" Kowalski said.

"Rain" Skipper whispered, Rico as a man of special-effects used a garden hose to make the rain. Katherine opened her black umbrella.

"Do you really want to do it? Leave me?"

"Of course not" Kowalski said wiped a tear from her face.

"Halloween Goblin" Skipper whispers looking at the chimps' scenario. Marlene pushed Julien on the scene.

"Hahaha! I'm the masked Halloween Goblin" Julien said but he had got only a black-red cape, there was no mask. Skipper slapped himself.

"Julien, you forgot the mask" Katherine whispered.

"Of course I didn't! Here's the mask!" Julien said and showed them his tail, there was a mask on it "You don't know whose this tail is"

"Um, okay... Ah, the Halloween Goblin, stay away from us!" Kowalski said, they went back to the play.

"Lightening" Skipper said, Rico made the lightenings by a lamp and made a noise for effect.

"I'm a vampire, very handsome by the way" Julien said and showed them the canines in his teeth.

"Play, you idiot!" Skipper said.

"And I'm the king of all Halloween monsters!" Julien said.

"What do you want from us?"

"I need a new monster to my collection"

"Uhm, army, not collection" Mason whispered.

"Oh right talking box, army, not collection" Julien said, they slapped themselves.

"You're not repeating after me" Mason said.

"So why are you here?" Julien asked, the animals on audience had a fun.

"Um, we'll never join you" Kowalski said to repair the play.

"I didn't ask you. I... I... talking box" Julien said covering his mouth by a hand.

"I'm the prompter. Because I'll be your master soon"

"Nobody is mater for me, it means king... because I'm the king" Julien said.

"It was your question!"

"Oh... Because I'll be your master!" Julien changed back his tone as the Halloween Goblin.

"Never!" Kowalski said and stood between Julien and Katherine. Julien laughed evilly and curtain covered the scene, the end of the act 2.

"Well, your laugh was pretty good, Julien" Private said.

"The next act... with the zombies" Skipper said.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Rico said laughing.

"Yes, you're the zombies' master, Rico" Skipper said, meanwhile Marlene went to the scene.

"I announce a short break for eat!" she said and went back to the actors "You can go, but do not tear up the costumes and wait a minute... here they are" she said and showed them a box full of masks.

"Is it really necessary?" Skipper asked.

"Of course, there will be a Halloween Ball!" Marlene said and gave them the masks.

Kowalski got a golden mask which looked good with his suit-costume. Katherine had a golden mask with the red and black feather which looked good with her red-black dress-costume. Private had a crystal blue mask which fit to his blue eyes.

"What about you, Marlene?" Skipper asked when she gave him a silver mask.

"It's a secret for now" she said and went to do a zombie-makeup for Rico.

Katherine and Kowalski walked to the rest of the animals. Everybody had the mask and everything looked spooky and really good. But nobody could expect that...

The zombies were around the zoo, with their slow moves they were approaching to them. Normally they'll go only to eat some brains, but they had to listen to an order of their master, he was looking at everything from his hiding place.

"Thank you, tall penguin for calling me, even if you didn't want it" he said to himself and laughed to himself like Clemson "I'm evil!"

"Do not touch the royal feet!" Julien said and kicked Mort from his feet.

"Julien, concentrate, we're starting the act 3!" Marlene said and took Rico's position in special effects. The actors took their positions on the scene.

Ten minutes later

"The candles and the light" Skipper whispered, the lights on the scene switched off and only candles was giving the light there. Kowalski had his monologue and walked lonely across the 'room'.

"Be or not to be... that's a question..." he said.

Then from to the scene came the zombies, they were stinking and repeating 'brain, brain'.

"Really good characterisation, but it's not time for the zombies scene!" Skipper whispered "Rico, take your zombies from the scene! Kowalski, keep playing"

"So... um..."

"What are you going to do? The Halloween Goblin took over the whole city" Katherine said entering the 'room'.

"I have a plan... um, is it in the scenario?" he whispered when one of the zombies went closer to him and almost hit Kowalski's head in his slow move.

"No! Take the zombies from the scene" Skipper said, Private and Marlene take the zombies by surprise.

"Are you crazy? It's not your time, where's Rico?" Marlene went to find Rico, Private looked at the zombies, they looked so real. The zombies slowly walked to the table with drops shaped in the brains.

"Act 3 scene 4" Skipper said, the scenery on the scene changed. Now there was a cave and Kowalski went inside.

"What are you doing here, you shouldn't be here" squawking voice said. Kowalski went further.

"I'm not afraid, I just need your help" he said, from the shadow came out two withes which Stacy and Becky were playing as.

"The pay is always big"

"I'll risk"

The curtains covered and animals applauded.

"The end of act 3" Skipper said "Good work, you can take a break"

"Um, don't you think guys the zombies are... weird? And where's Rico" Katherine said. They looked at the zombies, Marlene already shouted at them.

"I don't pay you for eating!"

"Marlene, you don't pay them for anything" Katherine said.

"It makes no difference. Anyway, take your positions" Marlene said and pushed them on the scene. Julien took deep breath.

"My time to shine" he said.

"Um, Julien, you're a villain, you're not the main starring character"

"Who's more important than your king, it means me because I'm the king and the king are me... you know what I mean... or not, um, what did I say?"

"Just go there!" Marlene said and the curtains showed the scene again.

"tremble at the sight of me and my zombies!" Julien said as The Halloween Goblin and raised his hands "Um, it's time when the zombies should come, isn't it?" Julien whispered.

"Hey! You idiots, where is Rico!?" Marlene pushed the zombies on the scene.

"Brains"

"There" she said and went to Private, Maurice and Mort "Find Rico, we can't finish it without him" they nodded.

"My monsters, eat their brains!" Julien said.

"Perfect" the dark creature approached to them and stayed in his hiding place.

"Um, I don't think these zombies are our friends" Katherine said.

"What do you mean?"

"Watch out Julien!" Katherine said and grabbed him with Kowalski.

"Hey, don't touch the royal me..."

"Shut up and look"

"What happened to them? Too much brain-sweets?" Katherine asked, everybody looked at Kowalski.

"What? I didn't experiment with them, promise" Kowalski said. Suddenly the zombies took pitchforks and axes from scene decorations.

"Keep calm, it's only a decorations" Skipper said, they stepped back.

"But Rico do the decorations on the scene!"

"It means..."

"Run!"

They ran through the zoo, the rest of the animals went to their habitats, believing that the zombies weren't interested in them. They got to the zoo storage and locked a door.

"What now? What the zombies did to Rico?" Private asked.

"They ruined the play!" Marlene said.

"Wait. The main question, how the heck we'll defeat that zombies?!" Katherine asked, they looked at Kowalski.

"Um, let me see... we should use an attack, they're too slow to defeat us" Kowalski said and gave them the cues from storage "It can help and don't care, they don't feel pain and we must find Rico..."

They exit, in the zoo was quiet, too quiet. Everywhere the scary decorations looked really spooky. Wind was flying between the white sheets, now they looked more like ghost than earlier. They grabbed their cues tighter.

"Let's divide" Skipper said. But when they turned they screamed...

What do you think happened to Rico? And I hope I made Julien's scenes funny ^^

Review please!