A/N, Hello there people. Well I'm found myself into the third chapter of this and I hope you are enjoying it so far. My updates are alittle scattered because of school so I don't really have a true schedule with this story.
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Morning broke for the team of arctic birds, sunshine blaring across the entire zoo, filling it with light. Skipper dived into the water and practiced his speed as he launched through the water, nailing several targets he'd set up for annilation. He soon hopped out and returned to the others to awake them for the daily schedule of training, drills, but first, some coffee. He slide down the sides of the ladder and stood before the sleeping birds.
"Okay, sleeping time's over!" he bellowed through a bullhorn, sending all the teammates at once bolting out of their cubbyholelike beds. Private rubbed his eyes as Rico yawned, accidentally vomiting up a screwdriver and kicking it aside. Kowalski shook himself to conciousness with a few good slaps of his own flipper and he was awake.
Skipper, "Gentlmen, we are in a compromising scenario here." Kowalski looked around in confusion.
"Uh, in the HQ Skipper? My god I should have had that secound base up and operational alre-" Skipper smacked him lightly.
"I'm using metaphors here man! Here is representing the time I've been recently introduced to something very shocking and unexpected, putting us all in a tough position!" All the birds looked in curiously.
Private spoke up, "Um Skippah, would this have anything to do with last night's um...discoveries?" Skipper hesitated before narrowing his eyes at the thought of the rambungious lemur.
"While I'm not at liberty to divulge any and all information at this time, know that while we are aiding friend Maurice in his illness, keep your distance from the ringtail. My trust in that unruly ruler has hit a brand new low. We've had a disscussion over the matters of the issue but its my assumption Julian will pursue said matters again." This statement put great deal of confusion and interest in Kowalski, he whipped out his clipboard faster than one could blink while walking a plank above maneating mannatees. Private took on a look of uncertainty in his leader's plan, he himself didn't really think this was that big of an issue to deal with, sometimes things happened to get blown out of proportion around the zoo.
Kowalski walked up to the steroscope and peeked outside as he saw Alice heading into the medical ward with Maurice and Mort. He quickly motioned to Skipper to take a look for himself.
Skipper, well thats one problem down pat, Alice,while scary, unnerving and terrible dancer, has better knowledge of what would get Maurice back into shape in no time! Though I worry about the mammal enduring those needles, ugh!" He said with a small shiver to himself.
Private walked up to Skipper as the team began falling in for medical duty, hoping to get some kind of answer out of the leader, hopefully the truth.
"Hey Skippah, did you know your flipper was bleeding?" Skipper looked at his hurt wing and hid it behind his back,
"Why um no Private, I was unaware of that."
"Yes it was fine before you.." Private stopped in midsentence as he had a feeling he didn't wish to end it. Skipper looked at him questioningly.
"Before I what? Private, spit it out man comeon!" He said giving the younger bird a small wack in the side of the head.
"Before you went to go talk to King Julian." He said, clamping his beak tightly shut and pulling both flippers to his face, his eyes wide as dinnerplates. Skipper looked at the porthole in the wall and merely glared.
"What's ur point Private?" With that, Private turned and headed for the hatchway, Skipper on his tail the entirety of the trip.
Private scaled over the fence and hopped into the habitat of the lemurs, crawling atop the royal bouncy where he knew the lemurs usually slept.
"Private stop wait! Its not what you-" It was then, that Private came upon the form of Julian, the ringtail lay slumped on his side in the corner of the bouncy. His fur was ruffled and sticky with dried blood, the young bird could only gasp at his condition as he approached the injured lemur. Julian's crown was knocked away and off to the side, his eyes closed tightly, his breaths were shallow and jagged as he shivered continously. Private looked at what appeared to be a trail of bloody drops and smears from where the lemur had originally been standing when the violence ensued. It trailed from the far corner of the bouncy, toward the middle of the cement platform, where its darkest pools of the dried crimson had hardened through the night.
The leader took a small and insignifigant step forth, the words at this point were a miracle if they found a way out of the penguin's beak. He'd not truly found the damage he'd done to the ringtail until this moment. Private stood, speachless at what he saw, everything, all the pain that was brought here, the blood, the brutailty of it all was truly too much to actually bear for him. He crept up along Julian's side and got next to his face. He noticed that the lemur was not actually unconcious but merely shivering from...his presence. The young penguin softly placed a wing on the mammal's shoulder, he could feel Julian shaking miserably.
"Oh...Julian." Private said, kneeling next to the ringtail. The lemur managed to crack his eye open to see Private before closing it again tightly as tears streamed out. Private gently as a feather landing on the ground, ran a flipper down Julian's tear stained face. He sat for a moment, his mind pleading with the world for this to be a terrible dream, for this to be simple nightmare from one of Rico's horrorfilm nights. As he came to realize though, the sticky blood getting upon his feathers was very real, the crumpled figure before him was very hurt. Skipper stood back, his head so low into his own feathers he felt as though he would pierce his chest with his beak. Private stood and walked toward his commander, strong and upright, a burning glare in his eyes that could melt three quarter inch steel. Getting face to face with the older bird, he spoke.
"Get Alice." He said in a voice that seemed to want to spit out the very words uttered from the bird.
Skipper, "Private, he wouldn't listen. I didn't want to hurt ringtail but I thought he was...going to hurt yo-"
Private, "GET ALICE! JULIAN NEEDS A HOSPITAL NOW!" He yelled infront of his commander. Skipper found himself in a state of true shock at everything that had just been divulged to himself and his youngest recruit.
Skipper looked up at him in shame and nodded and turned around to head toward the zookeeper's office. Private stood for a moment and watched him go, he truly had no words for the penguin to this day he'd come to know as his hero, he had no words at all for Skipper. He walked back to Julian, who's shivering seemed to calm a bit as the other bird left the area.
"It's okay Julian, its just me, Private." He said sitting down next to him. Julian sniffled a bit as he tired to sit up but the penguin held him in place as to not hurt himself further.
Julian, "That big stupid flightless idiot came into my home after I got back, he pushed me against the wall and put his flipper into my face! He told me to be staying away from you. I said I was in no way under his commanding and would do whatever I wish, and then he attacked me! he dragged me out of my bouncy and kept hitting me." He said to the bird as he fought back tears from his injuries. Private didn't have an answer, he just sat silently as Julian continued.
"My loyal subjects Maurice and Mort tried to help but he knocked them to sleep Thats when I hit him with a stick of bamboo, then he came back and started throwing me against the floor, he made me fall and get cut alot on my own edges of my kingdom, it hurt terribly so then I bit him. as hard as I could." Private noted the blood he's seen on Skipper had apparently been his own. He also noticed as Julian spoke, he had a slight reddish tint on his upper and lower jaws. Julian's eyes glistened as he covered them with his paws, his shaking figure pulled tightly into a small and secure ball. The young caddet went over and grabbed his nieghbor's crown and handed it to him. Julian took himself out of his state of trama long enough to replace said crown and then return to his previous motions. Private watched as Alice began chasing the leader of the penguins as he led her toward the lemur habitat. She saw the ringtail's state and gasped.
Alice," Oh my gosh, what's happened to you? First you're buddy gets sick and needs antibiotics and now you're really hurt? What's going on here?" She said to herself quietly as she entered the habitat. She walked over with a clean towel and scooped up the lemur gently, trying to make contact with his wounds.
"Ur gonna need stitches to close these up, come on." He did his best to relax in her arms as she carried him away. Seen from the penguins p.o.v and the lemurs, she was a creepy being to the zoo's animals, Alice was also known for her ability to make things in the zoo work out, giving the animals she put her time into, that ever so small bit of trust in her actions. Private watched them go off into the hospital an the door closing behind them before heading to the HQ to tell the rest of the team what Skipper had done. In no way did he ever enjoy the duty of being a tattletale, but when people got seriuosly hurt like this, it was up to someone to at least do what they felt was truly the right thing.
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A/N, Well here is chapter three, I know it was a bit graphic so I upped the rating on it for safety, please go forth with you opinions and tell me anything you think could be redone or altered in any way. The next chapter will mostly involve Julian and Maurice seeing as how they have now both been hospitalized. Take care and see you all later!