Hi there ^^ thank you so much everyone for your reviews! and thank you for reading! Here's the third set of three, parts 21-30 :)
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~.~.~.~.~.-We 5.9.2012-~.~.~.~.~.
21. CHILD'S PLAY
Kids. Little treasures, right? Well, it didn't always feel like so to the penguins with the constant yelling, which happened too often with the youngest babies, and them trying to catch the penguins attention by throwing something at them. On good days that something was popcorn. On bad days, small rocks and gravel.
"Why can't our habitat have a roof?" sighed Skipper on one of those 'bad days'.
"Well it would make our operations more complicated," replied Kowalski as he managed to dodge a rock.
"Probably true…" pondered Skipper. "And on the other hand, this is good training," he said.
"Too bad we can never win".
~.~.~.~.~.-Tu 6.9.2012-~.~.~.~.~.
22. WHAT IS "OVER-PARANOIA"?
"You know, there's always that someone, who you consider a friend but you don't know, isn't there?" Skipper unexpectedly asked one day from his team.
"What do you mean Skipper?" asked Private.
"Just that," Skipper replied. "So many act friendly to us, but when we think about it, we don't really know them at all!"
"Psst, Kowalski," Private whispered to the scientist who was standing next to him, while nodding to Skipper. "Does he seem slightly more paranoid than usual?"
Kowalski replied, trying to move his beak as little as possible while speaking: "I don't think he got enough sleep last night".
~.~.~.~.~.-Fr. 7.9.2012-~.~.~.~.~.
23. LONG LOST LOVE? [6]
Skipper held a photo in his flippers and stared at it melancholically as he sat at the table in the penguin HQ.
"What's that, Skipper?" the penguin leader suddenly heard Private's voice behind him asking.
"Nothing," Skipper claimed and tried to hide the picture behind his back as he turned to Private.
But the young one was persistent. "Was that who I think it was in the picture? Was it..."
"Yes, it was Lola! Are you happy?" Skipper interrupted.
"Oh I remember Lola... she was pretty," replied Private. "What exactly happened to her?"
Skipper sighed deeply. "I don't really want to talk about it," he said sadly.
~.~.~.~.~.-Sa 8.9.2012-~.~.~.~.~.
24. INSOMNIA [7]
Rico tossed and turned in his bed. He threw the blanket off him and pulled it back again, he even turned so that his head was now at the end where his feet had been before. Rico sighed; no matter what he did, he couldn't sleep.
Rico sat up and grunted. He moved his pillow to the end of the bed where it had been, and suddenly heard humming. A soft, sweet melody of a lullaby flowed to Rico's ears, making him feel relaxed. He lay against the pillow as the lullaby made his eyelids heavy.
Slowly Rico drifted to sleep. Private smiled in his bunk, feeling victorious.
~.~.~.~.~.-Su 9.9.2012-~.~.~.~.~.
25. QUANTITY AND QUALITY [8]
Snowcone day was an irregularly regular happening for the penguins, and now had again come the time for that. The whole penguin team sat in the Central Park, near the pond, and watched the mother duck and the ducklings while eating their snowcones.
"You know, I'm kinda glad Eggy gave up wanting to be on the team," Private pondered out loud.
"Yeah, it was for the best," Skipper agreed. "He's too young anyway".
"He would have made a good team member though," Kowalski stated.
"True, he could've been better than all of you combined!" Skipper said.
"Still, I wouldn't trade you for anything, you're the best team I could have," he continued.
~.~.~.~.~.-Mo 10.9.2012-~.~.~.~.~.
26. OF A SECRET PASSION [9]
Though explosions in the penguin HQ were nothing new, this one was different.
"Kowalski!" Skipper yelled out as smoke covered the air.
"Kowalski is not here, Skipper," Private replied.
"He isn't?" Skipper asked. "Then... Where is he? And who caused the explosion?" the leader was confused.
Suddenly they heard steps hurriedly coming closer.
"I heard the explosion, is everything okay?" Kowalski then asked, slightly panting, having arrived at the HQ door.
"All good," Skipper replied slowly. "We were just wondering where you were during the explosion?"
"I…" Kowalski started as he rubbed the back of his neck. "I was just... rehearsing singing... alone, you know?" he explained awkwardly.
~.~.~.~.~.-Tu 11.9.2012-~.~.~.~.~.
27. THE MORNING
Skipper sat at the table and slowly stirred his coffee with the fish in it. Though his mind was usually working full speed all his waking hours, this morning it was surprisingly empty. Maybe it was because it was so early that no-one else had woken up yet. No-one in the whole zoo.
Skipper felt calm and content. He took a sip from his coffee, and went back to stirring it. The steam rising from the mug warmed his beak nicely.
"What a great morning," Skipper thought to himself. He casted a look at his sleeping team mates and smiled, almost a fatherly smile. "And they're missing it all".
~.~.~.~.~.-We. 12.9.2012-~.~.~.~.~.
28. IT'S HARD ON YOUR OWN
Kowalski had piled a bunch of books in the corner of the HQ and sat beside them with one in his flippers. The scientist seemed so focused, that Private was hesitant about going over there. But his curiosity took the best of him.
"Kowalski," Private began cautiously as he approached the other penguin. "Can I bother you a bit?"
"Yes, go ahead," Kowalski replied though he sounded slightly startled.
"I was just wondering... What are you doing?"
"I thought it's time for me to learn to read," Kowalski replied.
"..And how's that going?" asked Private.
"Well, I didn't consider the fact that I can't self-study this," Kowalski sighed.
~.~.~.~.~.-Th. 13.9.2012-~.~.~.~.~.
29. OF TODAY'S MEDIA
"Private, are you watching that "moon-horse"-show of yours again?" Skipper moaned as he saw Private in front of the TV.
"It's Lunacorns, Skipper, and yes," answered Private happily, without even looking at whom he was talking to.
"I don't know how you can watch that," Skipper stated. "It doesn't even have any violence!"
"But Skipper," said Private. "Everything doesn't need 'violence'!"
"Yes it does, Private. Why do you think everything on TV has violence? It sells!"
"But Skipper..." Private tried to say, but got interrupted.
"No buts, Private! Let's watch something else for a change?" Skipper suggested as he stole the remote.
~.~.~.~.~.-Fr. 14.9.2012-~.~.~.~.~.
30. SHARING
Rico's sushi was one food all the penguins had on their list of favorite foods. But oddly enough, the one who seemed to like it most was Rico.
Rico reached for the last sushi roll and grabbed it right in front of Private's beak, who had reached for the same thing.
But before Rico had time to eat the sushi, he was stopped by Skipper's sharp voice: "Rico! Have I taught you nothing? We are a team, we share everything; the HQ, the TV... and we do share the food too!"
"Awh," Rico sighed, but did as he was told, split the sushi roll and handed the other half to Private.
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[6] Most of you know who Lola is, but in case you don't, she was the bobble-head doll Skipper married in Madagascar 2
[7] I'm not sure if the idea in this one was clear; the lullaby Rico hears is hummed by Private, and the young one feels victorious because that lullaby did make Rico fall asleep :)
[8] Eggy is the duckling from episodes such as "Paternal Egg-stinct" and "Hard Boiled Eggy"
[9] Inspiration for this was the fact that Kowalski causes many explosions (or his inventions do), and the fact that he sings.. quite a lot, actually (for example in "Mental Hen" and "Concrete Jungle Survival") c:
