A.N.— Okay, here is chapter 8! :D Enjoy! :)


Chapter 8: On La Princesa Sierra

Pedro wakes up and pulls the pillow, that had served as Adriana's pillow barrier last night, off of him. He turns his head and looks over at Adriana. She is still asleep and he smiles a little. 'This is still the best assignment ever...' He thinks happily as he watches her sleep. Adriana begins to stir. She turns her head and opens her eyes at first with a smile, but then she sees Pedro and her smile quickly switches to a frown. "What are you smiling at, niño?" She mutters at him with a glare as she sits up.

"Nada*." Pedro says as he stops smiling at her, though he would have continued if Adriana hadn't glared at him.

Adriana rolls her eyes. "Oh, just shut up." She tries to get out of the bed, but is stopped by the flipper-cuffs pulling her flipper back towards Pedro. She glares angrily at the cuffs. "Darn..." She mumbles under her breath. "I had hoped yesterday was just a nightmare..."

"Nope...You really were arrested by me yesterday and you really did make us lose the cuff's keys out the window..." Pedro says looking at her. Adriana looks at him with another glare. "What?"

"What part of 'shut up' do you not comprendes*? The shut? Or the up? Or do you want me to help shut you up?" She growls at him.

Pedro puts up his flippers and lifts one of Adriana's, too. "Sorry...Didn't mean to anger the prisoner...Who obviously woke up on the wrong side of the bed..." He says jokingly. Adriana continues to glare at him for a few more minutes before rolling her eyes.

"Just get out of the bed so that I can." She says with a slight growl in her voice.

Pedro looks at her. "You're really not a morning person, are you?" He asks as he gets out of the bed. Adriana follows him off the bed.

"I am when I do not wake up flipper-cuffed to a cop."

"I see..." Pedro says silently. Adriana drags him towards the bathroom and Pedro looks at her curiously.

"Alright, Copper, you get to do that close your ojos thingy you talked about last night." Adriana says and gives him a look.

Pedro looks at her for a moment, trying to remember what she was referring to. He then makes an 'oh' face. "Okay..." He says and covers his eyes with his free flipper.


"Alright. Can we go now?" Adriana asks as she impatiently taps her foot.

Pedro is getting his backpack ready to go. "One more moment..."

"But you said that hours ago!"

"I did not! I said that two seconds ago when you last asked..." Pedro zips his backpack with his one free flipper before swinging it around and putting it on. "Alright, now we can go." He says.

"It's about time." Adriana says and rolls her eyes. She is still not in a very good mood. Pedro waddles to the door, leading Adriana behind him. He opens it and waddles to the elevator. He hits the button for the lobby level and they wait a few minutes as the elevator slowly goes down. When it opens, Pedro goes over to a penguin behind a counter to sign that he is finished with the room. He and Adriana then go out the door. "So...Are we waddling to the boat? Or are we driving?"

"Neither." Pedro says. "We're taking a taxi."

"Por qué*?"

"Porque* I do not feel like walking all that way, nor do I want to try driving while cuffed to you."

Adriana looks at him. "Then you could un-cuff—"

"No. Just, no." Pedro says giving Adriana a small look and Adriana sighs a little. "Oh, will you stop with all the sighing, por favor*? No matter how much you sigh, I'm not changing my decision, okay? Plus, it's getting incredibly molesto*!"

"What if that was the point of them, Pedrrrrro?" Adriana retorts with a smirk.

Pedro rolls his eyes. He then waves down a passing taxi and gives Adriana a small shove into it. "To the docks, por favor." He tells the taxi driver and sits back in his seat. Pedro watches things go by in the window as he silently dreads getting on to a boat. He hated boats. All the ups and downs and this ways and thats, the getting tossed around like una ensalada*, he hated it. Pedro is already starting to feel a little queasy just thinking about it. 'I really don't see what Diego likes so much about barcos*... Planes are so much better.' Pedro thinks.

Adriana gets bored of looking out her window after a little while. She has already seen all the things in Barcelona that they are now passing anyway. So, she looks over at Pedro with a small, curious frown. 'I wonder what he's being all thoughtful about...' She thinks silently. Adriana goes back to looking out her window again for a few minutes more before growing bored of it again. She boredly pokes Pedro with her free flipper. "Hey, Copper, how much longer until we're there?" She asks and Pedro shrugs a little in reply. Adriana raises a nonexistent eyebrow. "Tú no sabes?*"

"Sí."

"Is that a sí, you know or a sí you don't know?"

"Sí."

Adriana gives him a weird look. "That wasn't an answer choice..." She waves her flipper in front if Pedro's face. "¡Hola! Earth to Pedro!"

"Huh? What?" Pedro asks coming out from his thoughts and looking at Adriana.

"How much longer?" She asks again.

"Oh, uh...I'd say about...ten minutes más o menos*?" He says and then goes back to looking out his window.

Adriana watches him curiously. "Annnnd What are you thinking about?"

"Nada." Pedro says shortly and looks at her again. He figures his hatred of boats is not something he should be telling to a prisoner...Even if the prisoner is a very pretty señorita...

"Yeah right. That was not a 'nada' nada." She says giving him a look. "So, what are you really thinking about?"

"Classified."

She rolls her eyes. "Of course it is..." Adriana leans a bit closer to Pedro. "Why don't you de-classify the thought?"

"How about I don't and say I did instead?" Pedro replies, giving Adriana a slightly irked look.

"Fine..." Adriana mutters and looks back out her window, very bored. She still is curious to know what Pedro is thinking so hard about.

"Señor y señora—" Starts the taxi driver.

"Señorita." Adriana corrects, giving the driver a glare in his mirror.

"Excuse me. Señor y señorita, we are now approaching the docks." He says.

Pedro nods. "Okay, gracias, señor." He replies. In a few minutes the taxi driver parks and Pedro opens the door and gets out, pulling Adriana a little as he does so. Pedro pays the driver and then starts waddling a bit slowly towards the boat. He looks at the name of the boat as he gets closer. La Princesa Sierra*. Pedro's eyes widen a little. He knows this boat...And it's captain.

A brown eyed penguin with a captain's hat and his flippers behind his back waddles onto the deck followed behind by a young brown-eyed, light gray feathered chick. The adult penguin surveys his deck with a small grin. "Ah, Pedro, buenas tardes! For what reason am I as lucky as to have mi hermano menor* on mi barco?" He asks Pedro.

"Euhm, buenos tardes a ti también*, Diego..." Pedro says.

"Hola, Uncle Pedwo!" The chick exclaims with a large smile from behind Diego.

Pedro turns his head a little and looks at the chick with a small smile. "Hola to you, too, Alejandro." He says.

Adriana looks at the scene with immense boredom. "Look, chicos*, this is all very touchy and everything, but can't we just get this boat onward already?" She asks.

Diego looks at Adriana curiously and then he looks at Pedro. "That's some mujer* you've got there, brother..." He murmurs.

"What!? You think—? Oh, no, no, no, no..." Pedro says and shakes his head. "Though I wish it was that way." He says silently to Pedro in a whisper with a wink. "Actually, Diego, this mujer is a criminal known as 'La Sombra' and I'm taking her in to the base." He explains.

"Then why didn't you take a plane?" Diego asks.

"Commander Harold told me that he wasn't providing one...And I left my credit card at home in Peru..." Pedro mutters.

"I see..." Diego says with a thoughtful look and nod. He then shrugs. "Alright...I'll make sure to have you a bucket this time, okay? Because I really don't want to have to mop up after you again. That was just way to disgusting." He chuckles.

Adriana looks both weirdly and curiously at Pedro and Diego. "Bucket?" she asks.

"Uh huh." Says little Alejandro as he tugs on the hem of Adriana's cloak. "Uncle Pedwo get sick. Vewy yucky." He says and makes a face.

"You don't say?" Adriana says and looks at Pedro, who currently is ignoring her and Alejandro.


*Nada — nothing

*Comprendes — understand

* Por qué? — Why?

* Porqué — because

* Por favor — please

* Molesto — annoying

* Una ensalada — a salad

* Barcos — boats

* Tú no sabes? — You don't know?

* Más o menos — plus or minus / more or less

*La Princesa Sierra — The Princess Sierra

*Mi hermano menor — my little brother

*Buenas tardes a ti también — Good afternoon to you, too

*Chicos — boys

* Mujer — woman