Zexion and His Many Jobs
Disclaimer: I do not own Zexion or any other KH characters.
Chapter 3: Chilly Acquaintances
Hmm, I will have to say that this job isn't that bad this time. Not too smelly, kind of fishy though. Plus I like the little black and white birds that I am working with. Have you guessed where I am yet? Well I guess I can tell you…at the zoo, more specifically the penguin pen.
Xemnas actually found me an ok job. I don't see how bad this could be. The little penguins are just soo cute! When I found out that I was going to be helping in different areas in the zoo I was pretty happy. I especially was happy when I found out one of the main animals I was working with would be the penguins.
The thing that makes me embarrassed is the uniform that I have to wear…khaki shorts, with a crazy almost hurt your eyes blue, I didn't know that a blue got that bright. I also had to wear big rubber boots. Blah.
It was time to feed the little guys, the head zookeeper person said that they were pretty good but some of them could get a little crazy trying to get the food. I think I should be just fine. Their food is little fish, like minnows or something like that. This definitely shouldn't be hard.
I walked into the pen of penguins with a bucket of minnow or some other small fish and immediately all the penguins looked at me, then all hell broke loose, all the penguins came rushing at me to be the first to get the food.
Oh, crap this isn't going to be good. That is all I could think about watching the rushing penguins, and this wasn't just one or two, not this was more like 20 or 30 or more penguins.
Since I was out in the main part all the visitors were able to watch me feed the penguins, and guess who was in the crowd? Any guess…Lexaeus and it also looks like Larxene but I couldn't be sure since she was hiding behind Lexaeus.
When Lexaeus finally realized that it was me in there he poked Larxene in the shoulder and pointed into the penguin pen at me. They both laughed as they saw what was happening to me.
As I was looking at them and watching them laugh at me, the penguins advanced so much that I had to back up and as I did that I threw some fish into the crowd of penguins. All the penguins dove for the fish then after they would gobbled up in less then a second they came at me even faster.
I was backing up so much that I didn't realize what was behind me until it was too late.
SPLASH
I just backed off into the freezing cold water that the penguins swam in.
It didn't get any better either, everyone in the crowd was laughing at me and all the penguins were in the water eating the fish that came into the water with me since I still had the bucket in my hands.
I looked over to see what Lexaeus and Larxene were doing and it looked like one was on their cell phone talking to somebody and laughing at me and the other one was taking pictures with their cell phone. I couldn't really tell which was doing which though since I had penguins all around me blocking my view every second or so.
I swam over to the edge of the pool thing and climbed out, I was absolutely drenched and freezing, this was not making me happy. Well at least the evil little penguins were fed now. I grabbed the bucket from the water and headed out as quickly as I could with as much pride and dignity I had left, which didn't work very well since the water in my boots made my feet squeak every time I took a step.
Could this day get any worse? I really hope it can't, but with the luck I have been having lately I am pretty sure something will happen again.
As I walked into the back room the main zookeeper just looked at me and tried to stifle a laugh. It didn't work too well.
"Oh, sorry Zexion, I didn't mean for that to happen, lets get you dried off and some new clothes, then if you are up to it we can go to the next exhibit."
"Fine please hurry up though, I am freezing."
Once I was changed, of course I still had the uniform, only this time I had plain sneakers on, we walked to the next exhibit. When I saw what I had to deal with next, I wanted to run away, these animals were a lot bigger and a lot smellier.
I was at the elephant exhibit. These animals are huge! Then I looked at the ground and saw the biggest pile of crap I have ever seen. Oh that is just disgusting.
"Well since these guys have already been fed, you get the glorious job of picking up the piles of pooh all around the pen so then the visitors don't get grossed out. A clean zoo is a friendly happy zoo."
I just looked at the smiling zookeeper and frowned at her, I wanted to glare at her but I figured that I didn't want to have to do anything more disgusting with the elephants or any other animal for that matter.
"Oh turn that frown upside down!" the zookeeper said well almost clapping for joy.
I think she is insane, too many days around the fumes of the animal crap can do that to you I guess.
"Ok, can I get to work now, I would like to get the exhibit looking its best for the visitors." I said this with as much enthusiasm as I could muster, which wasn't much, but it seemed to make the zookeeper happy.
"Well, here is a shovel and a wheelbarrow. There is a pile of compost in the back of the building over there, when the wheelbarrow gets about half full then go and dump it."
"Thanks for the tips, I will try to get this done as fast as possible."
I then took the shovel and the wheelbarrow to the closest pile and stared at it for a moment. How in the hell am I supposed to pick up the giant pile of crap with this little shovel? I looked at the pile for another second, shrugged my shoulders, and started to pick up the pile to put it in the wheelbarrow.
The smell of the crap just about made me fall over, it stank so bad, my eyes watered and I almost fainted. I quickly regained my composure and put the shovel full of crap into the wheelbarrow and proceeded to do that again and again until the wheelbarrow was half full, I walked around the building and dumped the crap in the wheelbarrow onto the compost pile.
I then walked out to do it again, only this time wasn't so easily done, you know why, because when I went to go back to where I was before I found myself sliding in a fresh pile of elephant crap. I then proceeded in falling onto my back into the dung. This was disgusting. I instantly became nauseous from the smell and the feeling of it.
I slowly got up and looked around, luckily nobody saw my little stunt, that I knew of at that time. I walked into the building and tried to find a shower, but it couldn't be that easy. There were no showers here. Crap.
Of course the zookeeper person wasn't in here either, damn. I am going to have to go out and find her or a shower. This day really could get worse couldn't it?
And it did. I had to walk outside, around all the visitors, just to find that damn zookeeper. This morning I liked that girl, now I really, really didn't like her, I wouldn't say hate, just majorly annoyed at. I finally found her but the zebras.
She took one look at me and burst out laughing, which caused even more people to stop and stare at me, then they laughed at me too. I glared at that girl, yes I glared, I was pissed.
"Can you please stop laughing at me and show me where the damn showers are and maybe a new uniform too?" I politely yelled at her.
"Oh, um, sure just follow me please. Um, did you at least get the elephant exhibit cleaned up?"
"Um, most of the way, but since I fell into a pile of the crap, I wanted to get myself cleaned up before having to go home."
"Ok, well follow me, your shifts ends when?"
"Um, like in ten minutes, why?" I really do wonder why she is asking me this, she better not make me wait ten minutes before washing the crap off, I don't think my nose could handle that.
"Oh, ok, no reason, lets get you washed up though, you smell like elephant dung."
I was led into the showers and I saw that my Organization XIII outfit was there, yay, I can go home right after this. After I thoroughly washed myself multiple times to make sure all of the dung and smell was gone, I dried off, got dressed and headed home.
Once I got home I went to Larxene and Lexaeus and told them nicely but forcefully never to tell any of the others about what happened at the zoo today. They both agreed.
I then went to my room and locked myself in there for the rest of the day. I hope I get to choose the next job I do, because if I have to do any more of these nasty jobs I am going to go insane.
A/N: Sorry for not updating in a while, I didn't mean too, I just got busy with work and other things. I hope you like this chapter, I don't think it was the best but hopefully the next chapter will be better.
R&R please! I love reviews! They make me happy.
If you have any suggestions for the jobs you would like Zexion to do, I will try to do them and dedicate the chapter to you.
