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14. Rico, The Saviour
Skipper didn´t know if he could trust him again, but suddenly he saw that Marlene went toward them. She had a grim smile on her face and her eyes were a little confused. "Come on Rico, kill him. Just do it. He´ll die soon anyway." growled the otters, licking her lips, as she already saw all the blood that Skipper would offer them soon.
But Rico responded with great restraint. Sadly he looked at Skipper, who got weaker and weaker with every second passing by. His rattling breathing was getting slower and the pain was becoming unbearable. "Rico, no. Please, Don´t do that ..." implored the leader in a weak voice and the crazy penguin looked down at him with a painful expression on his face.
He saw that Skipper was in danger and suddenly remembered all the good time he had spent with him before this all happended. Suddenly the voice of the master vanished from his thoughts and Rico knew what to do. Marlene was very puzzled by his strange behavior and took another menacing step closer. "Do it or I'll do it!" shouted the otter, but then Rico did something really unexpected.
He bent over Skippers wouded body and growled frightening at Marlene. "If you dare harming just one of his feathers, you will soon be a pile of ashes!" Rico's voice growled in Marlene's thoughts and she backed away. The otter knew she would have no chance against the crazy penguin and looked with angry eyes to the two penguins. "Well Rico, this is the biggest mistake you´ve ever made. Join those losers anyway. But you will regret it and pay for that with you very life!" called Marlene and retreated.
She knew when she was beaten and didn´t dare challenging Rico. After she was gone, Rico turned back to Skipper, who was lying in his wings with excruciating pain and severe bleeding. "Thank you, my friend ..." whimpered the leader quietly. Rico nodded and took a thoughtful look at Skippers wounds that covered almost every part across his stomach and his chest and more and more blood streamed out of them. The crazy penguin had an idea to ease Skippers pain at least.
Slowly Rico bent his head over Skippers chest and started licking his wounds as gentle as possible. "Rico, what are you doing?" I thought you had changed .. Ah ... " muttered Skipper, who suddenly felt like the burning pain on his chest was getting easier. Meanwhile, the others arrived at them, still staring in fear at Skipper and Rico.
"Kowalski, what he is doing?" cried Private shocked, but the scientists wondered thoughtfully. Skipper groaned softly whenever Rico licked his chest. The crazy penguin was trying to numb the pain with his saliva. "Yes, of course. Vampire saliva has a stunning and healing effect when they want to avoid the death of their victims, they were drainig their feed from. Saliva keeps the wound numb and make it heal more quickly.
How could I just forget that fact? " Kowalski said in surprise. "Skipper, how are you?" Private asked worried and bent down to him. "I am dying, Private. How am I supposed to feel?" asked the leader, and gasped. Private shuddered, because he didn´t know that Skipper didn´t have just external injuries.
After Rico had provided Skippers wound on his chest, he continued on his stomach. Very carefully and gently, he licked the blood from the wound and cleaned it. The other watched Rico doing this procedure about ten more minutes, until he was finally finished and Kowalski took the patient. "Skipper, can you tell me where most of the pain is located?" Kowalski asked helplessly, because he didn´t even know where to start looking for injuries.
But in fact, Kowalski couldn´t find any part of Skippers body, which was not hurt of covered in blood "Everywhere and my feet are numb ..." Skipper murmured softly, massaging his stomach, which was already filled with blood. "Rico, you have to pull him out from the from the pile of bricks, so I can examine him better." muttered the scientists thoughtful. But when Rico lifted Skippers upper body, his broken bones crunched, and the leader suffered a new wave of unbearable pain.
Skipper was totally nauseated suddenly and vomited a big splash of blood, which Kowalski and Private escaped from in the last moment. "Oh God, no. Skipper you have internal bleeding." Kowalski screamed hysterically and Maurice held the small Mort in his arms, because he was passed by the sight of blood. Skipper gasped and saw everything just blurred. He felt Kowalskis flipper glided over his belly to feel after the internal bleeding.
"He has a stomach rupture, also about half of his ribs are broken. Therefore, he vomited blood." murmured the scientist thoughtful and got more and more into panic as he groped Skippers with blood-filled abdominal cavity. "Kowalski, what can we do? If we don´t do anything he´ll bled to death." Private mumbled and tried to hold back his tears. The little penguin took Ricos place and held his leader in his wings.
"Private, try to turn him a bit to the side." Kowalski muttered, and slid under Skippers back, where he felt the spine fracture. "Skipper, you said that you can´t feel your feet?" I believe that your spinal cord is damaged. " wailed the scientist sad because he knew what that meant. "What does that mean?" Private naively asked, looking worried to Skipper, who lost consciousness from the pain and blood loss.
"Skipper, wake up please!" wailed the little Private and squeezed Skipper more tightly to wake him up again. He watched as his chest rose and fell. Actually, it looked as if the leader would just sleep "Private, he is dying and he also will never walk again, do you understand!" Kowalski said, and burst into tears. The scientists knew that there was no hope to save Skippers life anymore.
"He is dying and will never walk again. But he has only a few scratches and Rico has healed him with his vampire superspit." Private asked confused, but Kowalski shook his head. It almost broke his heart, to explain the horrible diagnosis to the little penguin. But he had to do it, so Private finally understood ín what danger Skipper is now.
Without a word he took the little penguins flipper and put it on Skippers belly. "Do you feel that? He has massive internal bleeding and his spine has been broken." murmured the scientist and Private felt that the swollen and blood-filled belly of the leader. Now all realized that there was no chance to save Skipper. "No, he can´t just die. Not again!" cried the little penguin desperate and began to cry.
Even Maurice and Mort shared silent tears running down their cheeks, knowing that they will bury Skipper again soon. Rico just stood there silently, thinking. He had an idea how he could save Skippers life, but at a terrible price. "Kowalski, you know that there is a way to save his life." heard the scientist Ricos voice in his thoughts and shruddered.
Confused, he looked at the crazy penguin. "Rico, you can talk to us via mind telepathy?" asked Kowalski and Rico nodded silently. "If I make him to one of our peers, then he will survive. There is no other way." Rico said in Kowalskis thoughts, but the stragetist responded shocked as expected by this suggestion.
"You want to make him a vampire? Into a blood-sucking monster? I don´t think Skipper would approve that." Kowalski said to respond Rico's thoughts. "You have to decide that. You are the second in charge leader of the team. You have to make decisions if Skippers is no longer capable to. He trusts you." Rico said, but Kowalski shook his head. "I can´t do that to him Rico. You do not even know if it works." said the scientist desperately, who did´t want to carry this responsibility alone.
Searching for help, he looked into the faces of his friends, hoping they would help him with this difficult decision. But Private and lemurs just stared at him confused because they had not heard Rico's plan. Kowalski couldn´t tell them because he didn´t know how they would react. Private would probably find it repulsive when Skipper, who was also a kind of father for him would suddenly be a bloodthirsty monster.
Also, the lemurs would make the most of themselves to escape when the penguin, who was the fate of the world, suddenly would become the monster that they all feared so much. Kowalski didn´t know what he should do, and looked helplessly to Skipper, who was still unconscious and gasping in Private wings. But the the little penguin quickly snatched the scientist from his thoughts.
"Kowalski, what should we do now. His heart is getting weaker. I almost can´t feel it beating anymore." whimpered Private and the scientists watched as the young penguin pressed his flipper more tightly on Skippers chest. "Kowalski do you want him to die again. You must do something." said Maurice, who could not stand the tension anymore.
The scientists had no other choice than explain Ricos intention to the others. "Rico has an idea. He wants to bite Skipper and make him his equal, through that he has a slight chance to survive. But I can not make this decision. It's Skippers life and I can not do that to him." Kowalski muttered, wiping his despair over his eyes.
All were silent and looked at him shocked. Private and lemurs reacted exactly as Kowalski had imagined. "No, you can´t do that. He will never forgive you for that. And I won´t either!" Private cried and clung desperately to Skippers body. Even Maurice shook his head in disgust, as if just revalated the most heinous idea he had ever had.
But when Rico looked into the eyes of the confused scientis an unpleasant shiver run down Kowalskis spine. The crazy penguin reminded him of what happened the last time Skipper died. All the pain, the grief and the bitter tears they had cried. All that was on the scientists mind now, but Kowalski was still reluctant. Rico snorted and sat down next to Private and Kowalski.
Carefully, he put his flipper on Skippers heart suddenly felt all the pain suffered by the leader at this moment. With the other flipper he also touched on Kowalski's chest to make him experience through a kind of transfer, exactly this feeling of Skippers agony and scientists felt that the leader was in intolerable pain right now. Kowalski screamed loudly as he felt it. He felt all the pain as it pulsed like an electric shock through his body.
The scientis felt like he was even seriously injured and dying in Private arms. But when Rico took his flipper off his heart, the pain ceased immediately. Kowalski looked at the crazy penguin with a desperate expression. He didn´t know what he should do and even if he felt Skippers pain for a few seconds, he still doubted at Rico's plan.
Kowalski knew Skippers life and the fate of this world would depend on his own decicion. At last he understood how difficult it was to make the right decisions. Now he understood how hard it was for Skipper sometimes to stay frosty and never to lose sight of the of the aim. Kowalski admired the leader that he was always ambitious and stubborn, but in the end the leader mostly was right with his burning paranoia.
But what was the scientist supposed to do now. Would he let Skipper die painfully and so leave the fate of the world to the darkness, or would he turn his leader into a blood-sucking vampire, accurately to the monster that they are all so afraid of? Kowalsk had to make the most important and most difficult decision in his life now ...