Happy Feet Three
Life is a Mountain
Mumble, Gloria, Ms. Viola, Seymour, Brian, Ramon, Carmen, the Amigos, and their wives were searching for their kids everywhere. They searched in large holes in the ground that were similar to the holes they would hide in at their home that was made of ice, except the wholes were in land and made of rocks that were covered with snow. They were calling their kids' names as they searched everywhere.
Suddenly Mumble said, "Gloria, I think they may have run off again." Gloria was confused and asked, "Why would they go out by themselves without telling anyone?" Mumble thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it had something to do with those krill they mentioned." Gloria thought and said, "Maybe but…" Mumble stopped her and said, "I really should check, we don't want to risk them getting into trouble." He was about to start walking out when Brian walked next to him and said, "I'm coming too mate, my boys are out there with your kids and I have to make sure that nothing bad happens to them." Ramon and the Amigos came and said, "We're coming too tall boy." Mumble looked at them and said, "Alright, Gloria, you and the chikas stay here in case they come back." (The chikas are the Amigos' wives and Carmen).
Mumble, Brian, Ramon, and the Amigos started walking out of Adelie Land to find their kids.
Meanwhile
Erik, Atticus, Bo, Shane, Darren, Rafael, Armando, Marcel, Tipa, and Carlos were walking with Lovelace and Bill, Will, Jill, and Lill were riding on Erik's foot, to them it felt a little fast and windy, but it was not hard for them to stay on.
They were all talking about Mumble.
Will: "So, this penguin is really special?"
Atticus: "You kiddin? Uncle Mumble is the best penguin in the world!"
They all said, "Yeah!"
Bill: "Why, he seems like just an ordinary penguin?"
Lovelace: "Wrong! My man Mumble is an extraordinary penguin! He is the most courageous penguin the world has ever known!"
Jill: "What did he do?"
Lovelace: "He was the first of the mighty Emperor race to dance; dancing was his life, he hatched while dancing. His talent was amazing, but the elders of his nation thought it was an insult to their god, The Great Guin, and so they banished him."
Erik was shocked and amazed; he never heard this story before.
Lovelace continued, "When he was Erik's age he met a skua with something around his leg, who informed him about the aliens that rule the seas. He questioned what lies beyond the great ice, but when he tried to tell his nation about it, they banished him."
Bill and Jill were intrigued by this story, Lill and Will thought it was amazing, but it only entertained them, whereas it spoke to Bill and Jill.
Lovelace: "And his father made the biggest confession of his life; when Mumble was an egg, his father dropped him."
Everyone gasped in horror when they heard this, especially Erik; the krill didn't understand Penguins and their eggs, but they knew that it meant that something bad happened when Mumble was developing.
Lovelace: "He saved my life and journeyed farther than any penguin and became the first to see the aliens up close. They look like big ugly penguins with fat flabby faces, but no feathers and no beaks, and appendages. He used his great gift of dance and brought the aliens to his nation and by dancing he got the aliens to save us all from famine, for they were taking the fish that we eat. And during the time of Erik, he saved his nation from another famine, when they were all trapped by a colossal iceberg that prevented them from leaving their home, also by dancing."
Shane: "He saved our daddy too."
Bill: "Wow, this guy does sound extraordinary, kind of like you Will."
Bo: "What did he do?"
Bill: "He taught us how the world works, how there are predators and how we had to adapt; he's the reason we live under the great ice where no one can find us."
Will: "Don't tell them that, they'll come and eat us in our home."
Erik: "We can't swim right now, and if you're that far under the ice we can't reach you because we can't hold our breath that long."
Lill: "Then in that case you're fine."
After an hour of walking to the mountains they got bored.
Bill suddenly said, "So… You guys want some music?"
Will: "No."
Everyone else: "Yeah!"
Bill started singing, "Party Rock is in the house tonight!
Everybody just have a good time!
And we gonna make you lose your mine!
Everybody just have a good time!"
Will: "Please stop singing!"
Atticus walked in front of Erik and looked down at Bill on his foot and said, "Yeah, it's catchy, but it doesn't match the moment"
He thought for a moment and said, "Oh, I got it!"
Atticus started singing and everyone else joined in at later points.
All: "Life's like hill that you slide on down
It passes by like it walks on the ground
Sometimes it's here, sometimes it's gone
Sometimes it comes back at dawn
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world beyond this icy floor
Where the blues won't harm you anymore
'Cause the brave are free and the great ones soar
There's so much fun and there's so much more
We won't hesitate
To go through the icy gate
There's not much time left today, yeah!
Life is a mountain, and I wanna ride it
All night long
If you're going down it, I wanna slide it
All night long
Through all these blizzards and all this ice
It's in my blood and it feels so nice
I love you now like I loved you than
This is the snow and we are the bands
From those sunny days to those icy cold nights
We all see all the beautiful Northern Lights
They kept singing as they started to proceed up the mountain and were almost to their destination.
They knock me down
And back up again
I feel my blood
And you're the greatest man
There's no way that we're not bold
The snow's so cold this I know
We'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell em we're survivors
Life is mountain, I wanna ride it
All night long
If you're going down it, I wanna slide it
All night long
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, yeah
Life is a mountain, I wanna ride it
All night long
If you're going down it, I wanna slide it
All night long"
Rafael: "There was a distance between you and I"
The Junior Amigos: "Between you and I"
All: "A misunderstanding once
But now, we look it in the eye
Ooooo… Yeah
There ain't no snow that can make us cold
The snow's so cold this I know
We'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell em we're survivors
Life is a mountain, I wanna ride it
All night long
If you're going down it, I wanna slide it
All night long
Life is a mountain, I wanna ride it
All night long
If you're going down it, I wanna slide it
All night long
Life is a mountain, I wanna ride it
All night long
If you're going down it, I wanna slide it
All night long
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, yeah"
After they finished the song, they were not far from their destination; they reached the other side of the mountains and they were coming up to a large snowy hill and they knew that on the other side of it was the shore. Shane and Darren fell behind and Lovelace also fell behind at the moment. Erik, Atticus, Bo, Rafael, and the Junior Amigos were leading the way, when Erik looked down on the ground and saw a moving shadow of some birds. He looked up and panicked as he looked up and saw three skuas flying over them.
Carlos: "What is it thin boy?"
Erik pointed up, and they all looked up to see the skuas started flying down; Will, Bill, Jill, and Lill saw them and didn't know what was going on.
Atticus: "Come on guys! Run!"
Will: "What's the big deal?"
Bo: "They're skuas, they eat penguins and fish!"
The four krill gasped as they held on tightly to Erik's foot. Suddenly the skuas landed in front of them and looked at them while licking their beaks. They didn't notice the krill so Bill slowly got off of Erik's foot and Jill, Will, and Lill followed, whispering quietly to avoid the skuas hearing them.
Will: "What are you doing? We should be running!"
Bill: "We've got to do something to protect these guys!"
Jill: "What do you have in mind?"
Bill: "Quietly follow me!"
They climbed onto the leader skua's foot and began climbing to his head.
The leader looked at Erik and the others and said, "Look what we got here; a bunch of tasty flipper birds."
Erik noticed the leader had a yellow thing around his leg and realized that that was the same skua that his dad met. He figured if his dad saw him when he was a kid and survived, then maybe he could use it to his advantage.
Erik: "What's that on your leg?"
The leader said, "Oh, don't try that with me; I know you penguins know about the aliens, you're just asking so you can try and escape."
Bill and the others made it to the skua's head and Bill bit down on it to try and hurt him, but it had little affect on the skua.
The skua moved his head with an expression of feeling strange and said, "Hey, why did I just feel a small pinching?"
Bill and the other krill climbed onto the tip of his beak and Bill yelled, "Leave them alone!"
The leader pointed to the krill on his beak and the others saw it and he made a chuckled and said, "Look, this krill thinks he can stop us."
He shook his head around and Bill, Will, Jill, and Lill went flying off screaming and landed on Erik's head. It was hard to notice, but Erik, Atticus, Bo, Rafael, and the Junior Amigos saw what he did.
Atticus walked up to the leader and pointed his flipper at him and said, "You be apologizing! Or I'm gonna make you a flightless bird!"
The skua tried to bite Atticus's flipper but Bo and Erik pulled him back before he could do it.
Rafael and the Amigo's stepped forward and Rafael said, "You want to eat us, well we will give you indigestion!"
Carlos: "Yeah! Kiss our frozen tails!"
They laughed and Erik stepped forward and started taunting him, but he moved his head back to lunge at him. Erik turned around and tried to run but the skua grabbed him by the back of his neck. Rafael and the Junior Amigos ran and they stopped and they moved their flippers meaning for Erik to try and escape but the skua's grip was too tight. Jill got scared for Erik's sake, so she climbed onto the Skua's beak and then bit him in the eye; it didn't cause much damage but hit hurt his eye and he moaned in pain and released Erik. Bill, Will, and Lill were scared for Jill, then the skua shook her off his face and she landed in the snow. He looked down at her and was about to try and eat her, but then Rafael and the junior amigos stepped in front of him and kicked snow into his and the other two's faces. Rafael quickly moved his flipper down Jill and she grabbed it and they ran to the others. The three skuas got angry and started charging at all of them, when suddenly, Shane and Darren came from behind them and charged at the skuas, then moved their heads into the air like rhinos. The skuas fell over and got back up and looked at the two baby elephant seals with the baby penguins and krill.
Darren: "Go away you mean birds!"
The skua on the left of the leader said, "Yeah like we're gonna be afraid of you. We can fly!"
Suddenly Lovelace stepped in front of them from the side and said, "Be gone demon birds!"
They were about to fly over him when suddenly they heard a voice from behind them say, "Leave those birds alone!"
They turned around to see three puffins; a Horned Puffin, an Atlantic Puffin, and a Tufted Puffin. The Atlantic Puffin looked very similar to Sven but he did not have yellow hair like Sven. The Horned Puffin looked similar to the Atlantic Puffin, but it had a yellow stripe on its beak instead of blue. The Tufted Puffin had yellow hair like Sven but the blue on its beak was a dark blue and it did not have white on its stomach. The penguins, elephant seals, and krill were amazed at what they were seeing. The three puffins flew in front of the skuas and stood in front of them with angry expressions like they were ready to pick a fight.
The skuas had enough and started to fly away and the leader said, "Remember kiddies, we know where you live."
Armando: "Yeah it's called land!"
They all laughed and Marcel said, "At least we all have lives!"
One of the puffins said, "Why don't you come along with us. You're just outside our home."
Lovelace led them as they walked over the small snowy hill.
Author's note: The song Life is a Mountain is their version of Life is a Highway, on the lines when they say, "I wanna ride it" they mean ride it as in sledding on their bellies like penguins do.