Chapter 8

Under The Dome

It bewildered the leader that the zoo would even have these domes installed into a habitat. Or maybe it was just theirs? Rico did always try to escape and he did succeed on countless occasions when he was younger. But if they're here then why didn't Alice keep them up? she clearly doesn't trust the penguins. Skipper balls his flipper into a fist, thinking about this stupid dome won't do anything in finding Rico. But the leader couldn't help but just stare at it, clenching his flipper with more anger with every passing second. His remaining younger brothers went back into the HQ the second Alice left, but Skipper just couldn't he can't face looking into the four beds and knowing one will never be warmed up with the heat of it's owner.

Skipper looks to his flipper biting back tears.

"I promised you...and I failed"

While that thought plaguing the leaders head he unballed his fist as memories flashed before his eyes.

*Flashback*

Four penguins were crowding around a egg that had a crack on it, the egg wasn't going to hatch anytime soon. The crack was caused by a fall the egg took and a female penguin was crying into her lovers shoulder. Two young penguins stood by the egg not understanding why their parents were so upset.

"Why are you crying mummy?" The oldest of the two asked. The female stroked her eldest putting on a smile as not to worry the child about the egg.

"Well dear I'm afraid that..." The mother knew she'd had to tell her sons about the egg. It was their sibling they had just lost.

"I'm afraid that your sibling isn't coming out of the egg."

"Why mummy? doesn't it love us?" The eldest asked confused and upset.

"No dear it loves us very much. But it's going to be with grandpa and grandma and they'll look after it." Tears began to fall from the female penguins eyes as her oldest son walked to the egg and stroked it.

"But we can look after it" The male penguin smiled at his son stroking the egg, his eldest did always love his family. Picking up the youngest of the two the female penguin didn't know what to say she looked to her lover.

"Son I know that you'd look after your sibling and protect it, but sometimes they're needed somewhere else. And you remember grandpa and grandma right? they loved you to pieces and I know they'll love your sibling too. They'll protect it and love it as much as they did to you." The eldest son nodded to his fathers words.

"But...what will they call it?" The father looked confused.

"We don't know if it's a boy or a girl." The male said patting his sons flat head. The flat headed penguins touched the egg that would of been his younger sibling.

"It's a boy I just know it." The mother smiles.

"Why don't you name it then dear so grandpa and grandma has something to call your brother." Choking on her words the mother tried to be stronger.

"Rico" The little penguin decided

"That's a nice name son." The father patted his sons head grabbing his flipper to lead him inside. The young penguin took one last look at the egg tears in his eyes.

Suddenly the young penguin let go of his fathers flipper and ran to the egg.

"It moved!" the little penguin shouted. Both parents walked to their son, ready to pick him up and take him inside. But once getting closer the mother gasped as she saw it moving.

"He's right!" The father looked closely and saw that his son was right the baby penguin inside the egg was moving, it looked like it was trying to get out.

The family waited for the baby to break out of it's egg this was a amazing, the fall the egg took should of ended the baby penguins life. After sometime the baby penguin broke the egg and looked to all the penguins by him and he smiled.

"Oh my...I can't believe it" The mother began to cry again.

"It's a boy!" The father said looking to his eldest who looked back at him smiling. The father looked back to his new born baby boy.

"Welcome to the family Rico" The father greeted. The young penguin hugged his new baby brother smiling a huge smile.

"I'll protect him I promise!" The young penguin promised his father and mother.

*End of Flashback*

Skipper got a hold of his self balling his flipper again, but not out of anger this time.

"I promised and it's not broken until I say so!" Skipper shouted. No one was there to hear it but the cold metal of the dome.


Chapter 8! probably the quickest chapter update in this story XD (Sorry it's short again ^^; )

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