My Note: First, I'd like to thank you for your enthusiasm and eagerness for this story! I love you guys! Aw, but enough about that, more with the story right? Right! Let's go!
Arnina froze in place and slowly turned her head towards her husband. "Oh, Alaster, darling! Back so soon?"
Alaster, confused, replied, "Yes. It doesn't take that long to beat up a lemur like him." Arnina didn't pay too much attention to his response. She was too busy trying to think of how to keep a secret so huge, hidden from him. "Oh, really? That's interesting." Arnina replied with an innocent smile.
Alaster walked a little further inside the cave and asked her again. "Arnina, dear. Tell me, what were you saying before about having grandchildren? You know we don't have any. Our six boys at home basically make up the otter population at the San Diego Zoo."
Arnina waved it off and walked up to him, replying, "Oh, dear, that was nothing! Now, what would you like to have for breakfast, sweetie, hm? Maybe some tuna, sardines, ooh, maybe oysters!-"
Alaster grabbed her shoulders firmly and looked her deep in the eye, "Arnina, stop getting off subject, love. You're keeping something from me and I want to know what it is. Now, the truth. The whole truth."
Arnina kept her cool and replied, "Well, dearie, if you're so content as to know something that's not true, then I'll tell you that Dodo birds are alive and well. There, doesn't that make you feel better? No? Really? Well, you did want to know something not true, something that I was hiding. Problem is I can't tell you because there's nothing to hide and-" Alaster stared at Arnina in confusion and shock as she rambled on and on.
Arnina shrugged him off and began to clean the cave absent-mindedly.
This action only confirmed Alaster's suspicion. She always cleaned spontaneously when she was trying to hide something. Suddenly, an idea came to him as he remembered how he dealt with a similar situation like this some years ago. With a sly smile, Alaster began his mischievous plan.
Alaster walked over to Arnina and embraced her from behind. Immediately, Arnina gasped and stopped cleaning. Alaster kissed the back of her neck and smiled, "Oh my sweet Arnina...You work so hard, and you're always cleaning...Why don't you take a break?"
Arnina gulped and felt her heart beat fast. She sat down on Marlene's bed and began to blush as Alaster sat behind her.
Alaster began to massage her gently, "Oh, Arnina...Relax. Why so tense?" As he massaged away her stress, Arnina began to melt in his paws. She could barely keep her mouth shut.
Alaster showed no mercy as he showered kisses on her neck and shoulders, relentlessly massaging her into complete and total ecstasy. He knew she couldn't resist a good massage with a little something extra in between.
It wasn't long before he could feel her crumbling into his paws like dry play-dough. Arnina cursed on the inside. Why does he have to have so much power over me?...Arnina's thoughts began screaming in her head, matching the intensity of Alaster's massage.. Come on, Arnina..Keep it...together...No! Just tell him you know you can't...no! Don't tell him...No! No! NO!She gasped loudly again as he hit a tough spot and lost all track of thought.
Arnina gasped as his massage got more intense. "Alaster! Please..." Alaster paid no mind to her needy cry, but instead only increased his pace on her back.
The tension inside of Arnina grew and grew, the stress of keeping her mouth shut, quickly becoming too much for her. Arnina felt like a rubber band that's been stretched to the limit.
At the very last moment, Arnina threw her paws in the air and cried out loud, "MARLENE IS PREGNANT!" Immediately, the paws on her back froze.
Alaster blinked twice before throwing his head back in laughter. "Hahahahahaa...Oh, Arnina, what a tease! That's a cruel joke, but a funny one!"
When he noticed that Arnina wasn't laughing with him or smiling at his response, his attitude changed dramatically. "It is a joke...Isn't it?"
Arnina backed away and made no response. She looked at him in fear. Alaster's expression hardened and his fur began to bristle; standing on end. His head began to slight twitch to the left. Alaster stood tall and strong as he got down from Marlene's bed.
Alaster looked at the ground, squeezed his eyes shut and tightly balled up his fists in frustration and boiling anger.
When Alaster raised his head slowly, he opened his eyes to show a blazing fire that could burn a hole through solid wood.
Arnina was extremely worried and knew she had probably cost Skipper his life. She watched in horror as Alaster walked briskly towards the outside of the cave.
Arnina called out to him, "Alaster, darling! Wh-what are you doing?!" Alaster did not reply. He only stopped and stared at his goal.
Alaster growled like a ferocious bear, before darting off at an incredible speed to none other than the penguin H.Q.
"Oopsie..." Was all Arnina could say before racing after Alaster.
My Note: So...How's that for the big reveal to Marlene's daddy? I know right? Rather unsettling. Poor, Skipper. Well, as one of my faithful reviewers commented, "Dead Skipper walking."