Morning came and the penguins started the day by doing their usual morning work out routine before the zoo opened. Marlene came by with some flowers in hand.

"Hey guys, we've got a new animal in the zoo, they just dropped him off today." Marlene said.

"Ooh a new member to the zoo. How exciting!" Private cheered.

"I know right! I'm heading over there right now to say hi. You guys wanna come?"

"Sure, we'll go. This animal might be a spy." Skipper added. Marlene rolled her eyes at the comment. "Skipper, you think everyone is a spy."

"But of course. Its a big ugly world out there, Marlene. And I don't intend to be swallowed by it."

"Sure... Anyway, lets go." Marlene said. They all left the penguin habitat, heading down to the new habitat. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot to ask. How goes it with the girl penguin?"

Skipper's face seemed quite sour, recalling last night's events.

"Oh yeah... She's a real peach..." Skipper muttered.

"Her name is, Camryn. She's from South Africa. She's also really sick so she's staying with us till she's better and till she's well enough to walk around more." Private added. "Aww... The poor thing." Marlene felt bad for the girl. She considered perhaps bringing her some home remedy fish soup might help. "So what's up with, Skipper?"

"Um...Camryn and Skipper didn't exactly get off to a good start."

"Oh..." Marlene completely understood. She gets that he was a paranoid guy and that can get on someone's nerves. He was probably accusing her of being some sort of bad guy or spy or something and it probably peeved her off.

"Not to mention her lapse of memory." Kowalski noted. Marlene raised a brow at the strategist. "What do you mean?" she asked. "Well what I mean is that she seems to act out one moment and then the next doesn't recall what she's done."

"Probably just faking it." Skipper prompted.

"How can you say that, Skipper?! The girl is hurt, for all we know she could of gotten a brain injury or something." Marlene defended.

"You and Private are honestly too naive for this world. And may I add the real world eat naivety for breakfast and spits it out like a rotten salmon."

Finally arriving at the new habitat they realised it was kind of built similar to Joe's. A large pit but with grassy terrain and a single forest tree. A small cave like structure across from the tree, most likely the new animals living space and a pond of water. Usually a habit in the formation of a pit is used for larger wild animals more likely to do harm to the zoo visters, like lions, tigers, any dangerous animal cable of jumping out of a standard sized habitat.

"Where do you suppose the new animal could be?" Private asked, looking to the older penguins for answers. "Most likely in there." Kowalski pointed to the man made cave like structure. The penguins and Marlene jumped into the habitat, all of them taking a defensive stance in order to protect themselves if needed to, aside from Marlene who was walking casually behind them. It was then, Rico had noticed the pile of what seemed to b chicken and steak bones laying in a pile near the entrance.

"Arghh!" Rico alerted pointing to the pile. This time they stood in a defensive position which was back to back from one another in order to watch out from every angle. Marlene staying in the middle, considering she is a very inexperienced fighter and they'd have to ensure that she was at least protected. They stood at the mouth of the cave. The sound of light foot steps were echoing inside, getting louder and louder till a figure emerged. Rico hacked up a pair of nunchucks and swung it above his head to look some what threatening. The figure finally emerged into the light, revealing a dark brown furred wolf, the fur was almost black. He snarled, baring his fangs out and walked slowly forward to which the penguins slowly walked back, waiting to see whose going to make the first move. The wolf looked around and then back down to the penguins and otter standing infront of him. His frightening expression faded quickly and was replaced with a tired sheepish one. He stood up on his hind legs, letting out a tired yawn and scratched behind his ear.

"Sorry, I thought there was people out here." The wolf said tiredly. The penguins quickly dropped their defensive stance. "So you're not gonna attack us?" Private asked nervously. The wolf shook his head. "No, I don't attack penguins. Even if I wanted to, I can't. I'd end up hearing it from that demon of a sister of mine."

"There's more of you here?" Skipper questioned.

"Um...If you mean more wolves, no. It's just me here. I don't even remember how I got here. Last thing I remembered was sailing on a boat with my friends then ending up here."

The penguins all glanced at each other. That story had rang a bell, it was the exact one Camryn had told them. And now that they thought about, his accent was similar to hers as well.

"Are you perhaps a friend of Camryn?" Skipper asked.

"Yes... Wait the demon is here?! Where is she? And where are the others?!"

Skipper held back a snicker at the term 'demon' which he used to describe the girl. "Camryn is in our habitat and as for the others we have no idea."

"Perhaps we could take you to her." Kowalski suggested. The wolf nodded and followed behind the smaller animals. They had to take one of the other secret passages into their base since their main entrance under the fish bowel would be too small for the wolf. The entrance led them into the lab, through a wall that opened up at one end of the room.

"Cam?" the wolf called out softly seeing that she was laying on what seemed like a makeshift hospital bed. The female penguin turned her head to see her friend. She'd be thrilled if she wasn't so weak and tired and a bit annoyed.

"Hey... You found my mutt...How's it going, Hashim?"

"Demon penguin, honestly not bad. Could be a lot better. What the heck happened to you?"

"Welp big brother if I knew myself I'd tell you. Woke up with a bunch of broken bones and a fever to top it off. And also a bit of rope burn so could someone please do me a little fever and UNTIE ME!" Camryn wailed, kicking and thrashing with irritation. Private quickly untied her and helped her sit up.

"Seriously? You guys tied her up!" Marlene snapped, turning to Skipper.

"In all honesty, I don't blame em'. My little sister here is pure demonic." Hashim defended. There has been many times where he himself had left her tied up at times just to keep her from either hurting him or keep her in till she calms down. Camryn didn't seem amused by the comment. It was then Hashim had noticed how bad her condition actually was. He looked at his own arm which the humans bandaged up before putting him into his habitat.

"Um... Quick question." Kowalski started. "You two referred to each other as brother and sister? I'm pretty sure it isn't scientifically possible for an avian and a wolf to conceive a child. Well... Not that I'm aware of...I think." the scientist scratched the back of his head trying to think of some sort of rational explanation.

"No relation whatsoever. My mutt over here is like a big stinky older brother to me. We fight, call each other names. But he still cares what happens to me and the rest of our friends." Camryn explained.

"Yep, she's definitely the bratty evil little sister I didn't ask for but yeah... If anything is up she does care. Also it's not like you smell like a basket of roses either tuna sweat."

"That's because you lost our soap and bath stuff while we were prepping for the sailing trip!"

"I said I was sorry! Jeez...besides you were rushing me! You told me to move move move! So I went went went! So sorry about forgetting a few fancy soaps."

"So it's my fault then?! I told you to pack up and prep the night beforehand but you didn't! You were up all night on that stupid video game! I swear you'd forget your own head if it wasn't attached to your body!"

"Why you little-wait...Hehehee..." Hashim smiled a toothy grin. Camryn knew that expression well.

"Don't you dare!"

"We'll its not like you can run away..." Hashim raised his paws and approached slowly.

"Stay back!" Camryn crawled backwards as best as she could till her back was literally against the wall.

Hashim lunged at her and tickled her, being careful not to hit any of her bruises but it still hurt to squirm while she laughed hysterically.

"HHHAHAAAAHHH! HHAHHAAA-STOP! HHAHHA! I-HAHAH-I GIVE-HAHHAA!"

The male penguins jaw dropped at the site, except for Private. The girl they'd seen earlier had been nothing but bitter, cold and irritated since she got there and here she was laughing and smiling. Even after Hashim stopped his tickle attack they were both talking and cracking jokes with one another. They could actually see what the two meant when they said they were like brother and sister. They both argued constantly but they were still friends.

Camryn stopped laughing after feeling dizzy. All that laughing made her dizzier than she was earlier. Hashim could see this.

"Alright bird flu, you need to get some rest and take it easy." Hashim stated.

"Arrrggg! But I don't wanna be here...I wanna find the others and get back to our trip. Not sit on my rear and stare at the roof. We didn't even get to exchange Christmas gifts yet like we were supposed to do once we got into the country."

"Christmas gifts? In May? It's a little early for that isn't it?" Marlene questioned. Both Camryn and Hashim had similar glances of confusion.

"What are you talking about? It's December." Hashim tried to correct. Rico hacked up a news paper with today's date printed on it, which Skipper took to show them.

"Afraid not. It's May 10th." Skipper replied. Both the female penguin and wolf looked mortified. Camryn paled at this new found information. Memories of the past five months were just a pure blank slate. Her breathing got heavier and Hashim was panicking, not because of what they just found out but because he knows what happens when her breathing is heavy.

"No! No! No! Camryn, breath slowly! You're gonna make yourself hyperventilate again!" the wolf ran around the room panicking. He didn't deal well with a freaked out Camryn, not one bit. When stuff like this happened it was either left up to the girls or Imtiaz. "Sugar water! Someone get sugar water!"

"Kowalski, sugar water! Asap!" Skipper ordered. Quickly the stategist ran out and back in the room with a glass full of water with a teaspoon of sugar. He handed it to the wolf who quickly handed it to Camryn who was breathing heavier and shakier. "Drink! And breath!"

Camryn took the water and sipped it slowly till the cup was empty, she needed to control her breathing.

"Hashim! We need to find the girls! Now! I need to know that they're safe!" She jumped off the bed, gritting through the pain but not caring one bit.

"Just calm down, Cam. If we're here that means the others must be here too." Hashim said trying to calm her down.

"Not to mention you're in no condition to be running around." Skipper added.

"Does it look like I give a clam, Skipper?! Like you said, you're not gonna stop me from leaving, right? So I'm going to find our friends even if it kills me!"

"In your condition it just might." Kowalski warned. "Your continued actions would not only strain your injuries but make them worst. Not to mention you'll exacerbate your health by going out there, your fever is too high to take any risk of going out there."

"I DON'T CARE!"

"Well I do! You're not going out there!" Hashim stood in her way. "I'm gonna kick you so badly in the tail bone wolfie now get the heck out of my way!" Camryn yelled. "Heck no! I know you're stressed and scared but you need to relax. I'm also worried. So please just relax or I'll tie you down with super glue like last time!" the wolf warned with a snarl. Camryn held back her tears, her cheeks puffed up angrily. She scoffed and let out a heavy puff of air, looking away.

"Fine...I'll...I'll stay..."

"Good." Hashim turned to the penguin team who brought him in. "Can you guys help me find our friends?"

"We already promised we would." Private replied. "You know we said we'd help look for them, I don't recall us promising anything about fin-" Before his leader could finish his sentence, Private elbowed him in the ribs. Skipper let out a yelp of pain and rolled his eyes at the private's manipulative pleading gaze that he was giving him. "Okay fine...We promise to help find them.

Private cheered as a response. Skipper lowered his head in defeat. He'd need to get Kowalski to invent something so that he'd be immune to those puppy dog eyes of Private's.

"Alright men, let's spread out! Private and Rico will check the west end of the zoo, wolfie and I will take the east end and Kowalski and Marlene can check the park again. Now let's move out!" Skipper ordered. "Now how did I get roped into all of this?" Marlene questioned. "Marlene, you got roped into all this when you moved to the zoo." Skipper joked.

"We'll find them. And we'll figure this out okay. Get some rest." Hashim said to Camryn before leaving with the penguins. After everyone had gone Camryn had climbed back up onto the bed. Getting down was easy, getting up with one arm and one foot was harder. The girl curled up into a little ball, clutching her chest tightly. It ached so much. Not from her injuries but a feeling much much worst...a feeling that made her wish that the earth would just swallow her whole...

"You really are a useless girl aren't you...?"

"Yes...I am..." she muttered and shut her eyes.