I'm getting really sick of dealing with my laziness, so I've decided that I probably should make some changes. Now, I doubt that you guys would know who Neassa is, considering I've only heard about her from the Sly Cooper archive, but she's adopted a policy of only posting the story once she's finished it. I'm not going to force you to wait for that long, though. All of my stories except one are open-ended, so it would be kind of pointless. What I'm actually going to do is only post new chapters once I have a decent amount of chapters written (probably a week's worth of updates, maybe more). This'll start once I update my Sly Cooper story and one of my Regular Show stories, so that everyone knows about it.
Chapter 4 – Party (Julien's Story)
It was another normal day at the zoo. It was just past closing time, and the animals were resting after completing another long day of entertaining the guests.
Inside the lemur habitat, Julien was sprawled over his throne, trying his best to find a comfortable position to stay in, while Maurice and Mort were busy fanning him with leaves.
"Ugh, I am so bored! Maurice! Entertain your king!"
Maurice perked up, having fallen into a lull from the constant fanning, but he suddenly realized he had no idea what he could do to entertain someone like King Julien.
"Right away, your majesty!"
Unable to come up with something in the small amount of time he had, he turned towards Mort.
"Hey Mort, mind keeping Julien busy while I think of something?"
"Oohh, I like being a distraction!" said Mort.
The tiny mouse lemur ran up in front of the throne and began dancing and doing random stunts. It didn't really peak Julien's interest, but it did keep his attention, which enabled Maurice to head off to a corner of the habitat where he could think freely.
Thankfully, it didn't take long for him to come up with something, as Julien was beginning to lose interest in what Mort was doing and he finally noticed his missing adviser.
"Maurice! Where are you? I seem to remember asking you to be de king's entertainer, and you are not entertaining me!"
Maurice quickly rushed back in front of Julien's throne and began speaking.
"Sorry, your majesty. But I've actually come up with a great idea. Why don't we throw a party once Alice leaves and invite the whole zoo?"
"No, dat's terrible. That is the worst idea I ever heard." said Julien.
Maurice sighed, getting ready to dance when suddenly, Julien jumped up into a standing position.
"But wait! I think I have just gotten a great idea! I'll throw a dance party, and we'll invite the whole zoo!"
Julien hopped off of his throne and walked over to Maurice, wrapping an arm around the aye aye's shoulders.
"Man, Maurice, what will I tink of next? Anyway, I need you and Mort to go around de zoo and tell all of de animals about my kickin' party. Can you do that for your king?"
Maurice was slightly miffed about Julien taking the credit for his idea, but he knew it would be worthless to argue, so he agreed. Mort, meanwhile, was completely oblivious to everything, so it wasn't an issue to get him to agree.
"Dat is wonderful! Now shoo! Your king has to get ready to shake de royal booty all night long!"
Over the next two hours, Maurice and Mort went around the park, inviting everyone they ran into to Julien's big dance party. Some of the animals agreed to go, like Marlene, Roger, Phil and Mason as a few examples, but there were a few that Maurice and Mort were unable to convince.
Leonard's fear of pretty much everyone in the park prevented him from coming, while Joey's bad attitude prevented the two of them from being able to convince him to go. As for Barry and some of the other bad tempered animals in the zoo, they never really bothered trying, especially with Barry, as they knew better than to have a frog with poisonous skin out in public.
Eventually, Maurice and Mort ended up at the penguin habitat, having for some reason decided to head there last. They hopped over the fence separating the habitat from the rest of the zoo and climbed down the hatch, Maurice deciding to skip the pleasantries after a long day of walking around the zoo.
As Maurice and Mort reached the bottom of the ladder into the penguin's HQ, they found that Private and Rico were busy watching TV, while Kowalski and Skipper were standing over by the table, but Skipper wasn't there for long, as he noticed the presence of the two lemurs and he quickly made his way over to them.
"What is the meaning of this intrusion, lemurs? I don't recall ever saying you two or Ringtail were allowed down here."
Maurice was about to answer Skipper's question when the commander suddenly yawned loudly. It was then that Maurice noticed the bleary-eyed look on Skipper's face, and he turned towards Kowalski.
"What's up with him? He looks like he hasn't had sleep in a while!"
"Well, Skipper was-"
Kowalski was suddenly cut off by Skipper, who rushed over and closed his beak to prevent him from talking. Through the analyst's muffled protests, Skipper explained himself.
"The details are classified, Kowalski, remember?"
"Oh, right. Sorry, Skipper. That was an accident that will never happen again." said Kowalski.
"See to it that it doesn't. All I will say is that I was up late dealing with some important business. Now, please explain what you're still doing here before I kick you out myself."
Maurice was about to explain until Mort suddenly cut him off.
"King Julien is having a party, and you are all invited!"
Both Rico and Private perked up upon hearing this and stood up, making their way over to the rest of the group.
"Ooh, that sounds like great fun! What do you think, Rico?" asked Private.
"Uh-huh. Fun!"
"Negatory, compadres! We've got an early day ahead of us tomorrow, and I can't have all of you being as tired as I am right now." said Skipper.
"Oh come on, Skippah! We'll be back before lights out, promise! Right, Rico?"
The weapons expert nodded vigorously, his tongue lolling out of the side of his beak.
Skipper still didn't budge, but a dose of the puppy eyes from Private forced him to relent.
"Alright, I suppose having you guys out of the HQ would help me catch up on some sleep. I want you guys back by lights out, alright? No exceptions!"
"Aye, Skippah!"
Both Private and Rico saluted before heading topside, with Maurice and Mort following behind them. Meanwhile, Kowalski began heading towards his lab.
"I suppose I'll spend some time in the lab now that those two are gone. Those jetpacks aren't going to fix themselves."
But before Kowalski could go any further, he found his flipper being grabbed by the commander, preventing him from moving.
"Not happening, Kowalski. You're going with them, and that's final!"
Skipper grabbed Kowalski and began pushing him towards the hatch.
"B-but Skipper! The jetpacks!"
"You can deal with them later. Right now, I need some quiet so I can actually sleep, and the noise you make in that lab isn't going to help matters."
Kowalski continued to protest, but Skipper decided to ignore them, pushing the analyst out of the hatch and closing the fishbowl behind him.
Defeated, Kowalski sighed before heading off towards the lemur habitat, figuring he might as well give the whole socializing thing a shot.
The party was already in full swing, and Julien, Mort and Maurice were already shaking it like there was no tomorrow. Unfortunately, they were the only ones actually dancing, and not only was everyone else not dancing, they weren't even watching the three of them, preferring instead to socialize with each other.
King Julien stopped dancing and walked off of the dance floor, with Maurice following close behind. Mort, meanwhile, continued to dance, not having noticed the fact that Maurice and Julien weren't next to him.
"I cannot believe dis, Maurice! When I came up with dis idea for de party, I expected to see everyone coming to watch me shake de royal booty! But all they are doing is talking! That is boring!"
"Well, the party just started, your Majesty! I'm sure once we really get going, everyone else will start getting into it!"
Julien really wanted to poke some holes into Maurice's reasoning so that he was still right, but he begrudgingly admitted that he wasn't as smart as someone like Kowalski, so he wouldn't really be able to. Speaking of…
"Ah, it is de smarty penguin! Welcome to de party!"
Kowalski was standing awkwardly next to the habitat's fence, not knowing what to do.
"Uh…hello, Julien."
"Do not just be standing there, my friend! Come in and have some fun!"
Kowalski began nervously making his way towards the crowd, but not before Julien spoke up once again.
"Eh, where is de bossy penguin? I remember seeing de nice-y penguin and de crazy penguin, but not de bossy one."
"Oh, uh…Skipper didn't want to come. He said he needed to get some sleep."
"That is a shame. De bossy penguin is missing out on a great party, though!"
Julien turned towards Maurice, who by now was heading off to rejoin the party.
"Maurice! Remind me to find ways to get de bossy penguin to come to more of my parties!"
Maurice was only half-listening to what Julien was saying, but he nodded his head to show that he understood.
Once Kowalski figured that Julien was probably done asking him questions, he began slipping his way through the large crowd, hoping to find Private and Rico.
Back at the Penguin HQ, Skipper was busy trying to get some sleep, but unfortunately there was pretty much zero chance of that happening, what with the loud music and chatter coming from the party.
Skipper began tossing and turning, hoping that one of the positions he was in would help lessen some of the noise that was going on, but nothing worked in the slightest.
Now getting angry, the commander got up out of his bed and made his way over to the party to hopefully convince Julien to turn down the noise, even if meant having to do something drastic.
Skipper arrived at the party a couple of minutes later and immediately winced once he was assaulted with the sheer volume of the music. Not wanting to be in the party longer than he wanted to, he set off to find Julien and give him a piece of his mind.
It didn't take too long for him to find the lemur, as him, Maurice and Mort were back on the dance floor, along with a few other guests who decided to join in.
Skipper immediately went over to the dance floor and grabbed Julien by the wrist, dragging him off against the lemur king's protests.
"What is de meaning of this? I will have you exiled for not allowing de king to shake his royal booty!"
Skipper didn't reply, instead continuing to drag Julien between the lemur and penguin habitat before spinning him around to face him and glaring.
"Oh, it is de bossy penguin! I did-"
Whatever Julien's next words were was cut off, as Skipper immediately closed the lemur's mouth with his flipper and brought his head forward so that the two of them were eye to eye.
"Listen here, Ringtail. I've been trying to sleep for the past two hours. But your incessant loud music doesn't let me do that. So here's the plan. You're going to turn that music waaaayyyy down, and make sure not one of those guests . Because the next time I have to come here, I'm bringing a bat, and you're going to have a lot of destroyed equipment. And I mean a lot! You got me!?"
Unable to reply due to Skipper holding his mouth closed, Julien nodded.
"Good. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to bed."
Skipper removed his flipper from Julien's mouth and made his way back over to the penguin habitat, dropping down the hatch and closing the fishbowl behind him.
As much as Julien didn't really want to believe it, he knew that Skipper would probably follow through on his threat to destroy all of his equipment, so he made his way back into the party and towards the tape player, grabbing the volume knob and turning it way down.
Maurice and Mort were once again the only ones dancing, so they were really the only ones to notice the lowered volume. As for the rest of the animals, they were absorbed in socializing, so the sudden lack of volume didn't really affect them outside of a look at the tape player to see what was going on.
"What's up, your Majesty? I've never seen you actually turn down the music like that." asked Maurice.
Julien sighed before explaining about Skipper's threat.
"I do not like destruction!" said Mort.
"Look, all we have to do is get everyone to quiet down some, and then everything will be good." said Maurice.
"Why yes! It is very easy to get the people to be quieting down!" said Julien.
Unfortunately, it was easier said than done. With the sheer number of animals present at the party, the noise level from their talking prevented the three lemurs from being heard.
"Ugh, what are we going to be doing now? No one can hear my kingly voice telling them to be shutting up now!"
"Well, what about a megaphone? I'm sure we can get one from Rico." said Maurice.
"That is a great idea! I do not know why I did not think of it earlier. Let us go find de crazy penguin."
Maurice sighed before him and Mort followed the lemur king towards where the three penguins were standing.
"Oh, hello Julien! Nice party you have going on here!" said Private as the three lemurs walked up.
Julien gave a half-hearted thank you to Private before turning towards Rico.
"Excuse me, crazy penguin. Your king wishes to make with the talking, but I cannot be heard over the loudness. Do you have a talking loudly device that your king may use so that he can be heard by everyone?"
Rico stared at Julien in confusion, forcing Kowalski to walk over and explain what Julien was talking about into the weapon expert's ear hole.
"Okay!"
Rico regurgitated a megaphone and handed it over to Julien, who gingerly grabbed it, trying not to touch some of the spit that Rico got on it.
Julien hopped on to the bar table and held the megaphone up to his mouth to begin speaking, but when he pressed the button, there was a massive amount of feedback, releasing a loud screeching noise which did end up quieting the crowd, but it also ended up summoning Skipper, who arrived a minute or so later still fuming.
"Uh…hello, bossy penguin." said Julien, nervously waving at the angry penguin commander.
Instead of replying, Skipper held out a flipper in Rico's direction.
"Rico, baseball bat."
Rico ended up regurgitating a chainsaw and handed it to Skipper.
"A chainsaw would work too, but I think a baseball bat would send a better message."
Rico took a few seconds, but he finally understood what Skipper was getting at and regurgitated a baseball bat, which landed in Skipper's hand, as the commander gave the chainsaw back to Rico.
At first, Rico thought that getting the chainsaw back meant he could go wild, but Skipper shook his head, signaling that the chainsaw wouldn't be needed. Disappointed, Rico swallowed the chainsaw, returning it to its original storage.
By this point, Julien has already rushed over and placed his body in front of the tape player as a shield, but Skipper was having none of it, roughly pushing the lemur king aside and repeatedly swinging the bat into the tape player, smashing it into pieces and breaking the bat in the process.
"Everybody go home, now! Party's over!" yelled Skipper over the crowd.
Not wanting to agitate him even further, the crowd immediately began dispersing, heading back to their respective habitats to sleep.
As for Rico, Private, and Kowalski, they began making their way back to the penguin HQ, but not before Skipper stopped them in their tracks.
"You three are going to be putting in some extra work tomorrow during morning exercise. That's your punishment for not following orders and staying out past lights out."
The three of them groaned, but didn't argue, heading back to the hideout with Skipper following close behind.
As for Julien, he was too busy mourning the loss of his favorite tape player. Maurice walked up and placed a paw on his shoulder, attempting to console the grieving king.
"Don't worry, your Majesty. I'm sure we'll find some way to replace that tape deck."
"I know. But it is not going to be de same."
Unable to think of anything else to say, Maurice resorted to patting King Julien on the shoulder.
As for Mort, he was completely oblivious to what was going on around him, dancing the night away without a care in the world.
Quick note before I go. I'm still getting used to writing in King Julien's vernacular, so I apologize if it's not exactly the way you thought it would be.