London, England
Snake Fancy Magazine, U.K Headquarters
(Dubois' POV)
I shot my gun at the keyhole on a door and used the dart as a key to open the door. My men followed me inside and stood guard while I walked up to a snake terrarium. Their was a posted warning with a skull and crossbones, "Death Adder Warning! Deadly Do not Handle" I poke the snake with a stick and it turned around hissing in warning. I can't have that so I punched the snake and then proceeded to beat it up.
Once I subdued the snake I stuck it's fangs into a cup and filled the cup with it's venom. I then threw the snake back into it's terrarium the lid slammed shut on top of it. "Why? Why?" the snake muttered. "vemon from the death adder the perfect tranqulizer because when you feel it's sting you not so much tranqulized as you are well…dead," I said. "Venom meet lion. Lion meet venom." "It's nice to meet you lion" as I brought the dart close to a stuffed lion. "It's nice to meet you venom." "Is it nice lion? Well maybe it's not so nice when I go into your bloodstream and I kill you!" "Aw…I'm so sad now I going to die!" "Just die already!"
"Okay I'm dead!" My men applude at my genius. I place the venomous dart into a case and close the case, "this will be quite a teary return…Welcome home!" I then stepped on the stuffed lion…I will get you on my wall if it's the last thing I do!"
New York, New York, USA
(Alex's POV)
We were on a rowboat attached by a rope to the S.S Mal de Mer as we arrived in New York. Except it was a sadder return then we would have imagined all those years ago on the shores of Madagascar. The circus was set up in the middle of central park as we arrived in front of the central park zoo…
(Vitaly's POV)
"Come, everybody. We have show to do," I said as everyone walked around getting ready. The circus sure is emptier without Alex and friends. Even though they betrayed us I still miss those guys. "But how do I go on without Marty?" Stefano said shedding some tears. "Stefano," I said. "I don't know what to do," Stefano said. "You can still do cannon solo," I said. "But…I want to do solo act with Marty!" Stefano said. "And what do I do?" Gia said, "Go back to sitting and standing and rolling over?"
"No," I said a determined look in my eyes, "We can do impossible! And we never go back to way we used to be." "The way it used to be isn't the way it was," Stefano replied, "and it won't be the same without them, whatever way it is." Alex and the others may be gone but the show must go on and if we learned anything from those zoo animals…We can do anything! Go anywhere! As long as we have the passion to do it!
(Alex's POV)
We stood at the gate, "Well…we're here," Gloria said. "Home," Marty said. "Huh," I said, "My rock looks smaller than I remember it." "look at the mural," Marty said directing our attention the very thing that started it all, "Doesn't actually capture the real thing, does it?" "Wow," Gloria said, "I forgot about that wall in between us, Melmen." "Um, hum," Melmen said. "Was that always there?" Gloria said. "Guy, I'm sorry I ever left the zoo in the first place," Marty said. "What do you mean?" I asked (it was your wish wasn't it?). "I mean," marty said turning to me, "If I had just stayed put, we wouldn't have anything to be sad about right now."
I looked back at our crazy adventure…Madagascar, Africa, and Europe (and that one Christmas where we traveled the entire world in one night). "Leaving the zoo was the best thing that ever happened to us," I replied. Marty's face lit up a little, "Really?" "Yeah," I said turn away from the gate, "Out there, in the world, we were really living." "Yeah!" Julian said. "It was exciting!" "It was romantic," Gloria said. "It was dangerous," Melmen said. 'I never felt so alive!" Marty said. "When we were with the circus, we were already home," I said, "I only wish we'd realized that sooner." "I realy going to miss those guys," Melmen said.
An idea came to me, "What do you say we go back?" "Really?" Gloria said. "I'm with you!" Marty said. "I'm in!" Julian said. "Yeah!" Melmen said, "but what do we tell them?" "We make it right by telling them how wrong we were," I replied. "It's worth a shot," Marty replied. Imitating vitaly I said, "And if we go down in flames, so be it!" And then a dart hit me in the head, "Yes, let's do this!" Gloria shouted. "I like it!" Melmen said. "Yeah, Yeah!" Marty said as Melmen and Gloria got darted. "is my neck getting longer?" Melmen asked. "feel my fur," I said, "It's so soft." "It is soft."
"I'm like a candy cane in a black and white movie," Marty said grabbing onto Melmen and Gloria. And then the three of them past out in a pail. But getting into a vision of "Candyman" and Gloria as the statue of liberty I came to my sense long enough to pull out the dart. "Oh, no," I said as I passed out, "Dubois!" Julian headed in the direction of the tent, "Sonya, I miss you, baby! I miss my stinky bear! Babe…your fishy kisses!" Dubois's men appeared out of their hiding places guns raised, "Surprise!" Dubois said as she arrived. She pulled out a measuring stick, "He will never fit in the carry-on," she said pulling out a handsaw, "But his head will!"
"Hey!" a zookeeper said. "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" Dubios said. "Look! Look what's she's done!" the zookeeper shouted as Dubios hid the saw behind her back. "You brough back Alex the Lion!" he said. "It's a miracle!" a female zookeeper said. "Thank you! Thank you!"
(Skipper's POV)
"Sonya, where are you?" Julian said, "Sonya!" Julian smashed into a crate, "excuse me." Julian saw Sonya but my perplexed team, "Sonya, baby!" Noboby stopped him and just stared in at julian in confusion. "I don't want to be king anymore!" Julian shouted. "Is he…drunk?" Elsa said. "I was so hung up on who I was…" Julian said, "…who you was…what you smelled like…when all that really matters is what we smell like together." "I know" Julian said as everyone return to being down in the dumps. "Baby forgive me," Julian said sticking his head in her mouth. "I would not suggest that," Kowalski whispered.
"Oh, hello?" Julian said. Kowalski noticed a dart on julian's tail. "Gasp! It's Dubois!" Kowalski said. "why won't she just give up already!" Elsa said. "Baba booey!" I shouted. I grabbed the dart and pulled julian out of sonya's mouth, "Where did you get this?" I asked. "I got it from the zoo," Julian said as I put him back in sonya's mouth. I turned to the gathered circus animals and said, "The Hippies got ambushed!" "What?" Elsa said.
"We have to help them!" Gia said. "But they lied to us!" one of the horses said. "Yeah. Why should we lift a paw?" freddie said. "Because their going to die," Elsa replied. "They are our friends!" Gia shouted. "They're not even circus!" Jonesy said. Vitaly got an angry expression on his face and he said, "That's Bolshevik!" "I never thought I'd say this on American soil," I said, "But the Russki's right!"
(End of chapter twelve)