I don't own the rights they belong to there rightful owners, oc's belong to me, slight Remake of the original.
Chapter 4: Reality pt3
A dreaded silence fell upon the lemur community, King Julien stood from his throne worried, he knew him from somewhere, but were. Silence filled the air and concern was mixed from lemur, penguin, chimp, and zooster, all were questioning who this lemur is. What's more shocking was when they saw his right arm was missing, torn or cut off by the elbow, the mysterious lemur had the look of age, experience, grief, regret and shame, but another was seen one, so prominent that it affected Marty himself, despair. Walking around he began to take in the sights of Julien's kingdom along with the party that was throne for the hero's of Madagascar, taking in enough he scoffed in disgust, walking back to the zebra he spoke callously to earlier. In his walk back he spotted Julien who was giving him an inquisitive glare, while Maurice had the look of shock and awe on his face, with his left hand he gave a salute.
Once the strange lemur was looking back up to Marty, he knew full well he found who he was looking for, hearing the waddling of footsteps behind him he caught sight of the penguins. He knows little about them, he did however know by the way they were in a crouched combat position they were a commando unit, he looked at the most experienced one and he saw in his eyes the strength of a leader, but no sign of any regret in him. A dreaded realization befell over him, no one knew about the danger king Julien's uncle put them in, or King Julien for that matter, nor did they know about the danger on the island.
Marty cleared his throat catching the lemur off guard from his thoughts "so, uh-" Marty began chuckling "-how do you know my name, i've never seen you before. Who are you?".
The lemur looked at him and spoke in a raspy baritone voice "names are trivial. I know you because I've heard of four new arrivals, one of them being a striped pony.". Marty snorted from the insult, zebra's and horse's don't like being called ponies, and he already knew he didn't like this lemur, but something in him told him to trust him and give him a chance.
The lemur then looked behind Marty, catching sight of the others, "well, these must be your friends-" he began to name them all off, already knowing their names"-Gloria the hippo, Melman the giraffe and Alex the lion". The lemur didn't have a pleased look when he saw Alex and immediately came with an insult "I take it you're done eating ass since you're no longer on the fossa side!".
The lion too scoffed from the insult "at least i didn't lose my arm to the fossa, or need a hand at climbing trees" he retorted, throwing an insult back, only to have the lemur walk up to him and glare with a harsh truth.
"I didn't lose my arm to the fossa pretty boy, if you saw what I saw you'd turn tail and go back to whatever hole you crawled out of, got it!". Alex glared at him in bitter disgust, but held back any aggression he had for the lemur. 'What the hell is this guy's problem?' he thought.
"Velen?" The mysterious lemur turned to the one who called him, walking up to him shocked was Maurice who finally recognized him. Velen gave a small smile to the lemur advisor and the two quickly embraced and then ended it. It was a rare moment for Velen to smile after losing so much.
"Ah Maurice it's been years, still haven't aged a bit have you, how's the young prince Julien, is he safe?" There was a small hint of worry in Velen's voice after he asked about the 'prince'.
The aye-aye sighed "it's been too long Velen, fifteen years in fact, and the young prince, well, Julien's a king now and has been ruling ever since his uncle left. As for our new arrivals, I see you've already met them, along with the penguins and chimps." Maurice's face soon went serious "now why are you here, king Julien's uncle banished you from the kingdom for murder, so why have you come back!?".
Velen chuckled "I see nothing still gets past you old friend, so I'll lay it to you straight, I came back after seeing the glow off in the distance. That same glow and it's creatures, the ones that killed,,,so many, and ruined many others lives', I came back because I knew it was time.". Maurice looked at him concerned 'he's not thinking what i think he's thinking' he thought.
"Time? Time for what?" Maurice asked in worried ignorance, though at the back of his mind Velen knew what he meant, he just didn't want it to be so. He prayed to the sky gods it wouldn't.
Velen saw the worried look on the aye-aye's face and didn't blame him, he hated that place ever since he first saw it, he truly began to hate it on the day the incident happened. The screams of lemurs filled his mind the sound of flesh being torn and blood spilling filled his nostrils, he kept seeing fire and death, that's all he could see, only when the smoke cleared he saw them the same creatures Marty saw only this time dripping with lemur blood. He couldn't fathom it, not after seeing all those lives, not after his son and now was the time, for many sleepless nights he waited to return and now he can.
The one armed lemure snapped out of his trance after Maurice called him out of his memories, he saw the others looking at him in concern and sighed "i came back because i knew it was time, time to face the horrors of-" he looked at Maurice who nodded in approval for what he was about to say, and for good reason, he finished "-the Forbidden Canyon.".
On queue rite when he said that the whole kingdom went into an uproar, all except for the zoosters, penguins and chimps who watched the chaos unfold around them. Lemurs picked their offspring and took them home to safety, while others just huddled with them and prayed to the sky-gods that they'd be spared from the horrors of the canyon. Others however decided to take a more violent approach, a small group of lemurs spat viscous anger and threats at Marty, one threat that was spoken detailed to cut the zebra's guts out, even though the steed was much bigger than him.
Maurice didn't blame the lemurs for freaking out, in many lemur legends the forbidden canyon was either cursed, haunted or both. Again he didn't blame them, but when someone began to threaten one of the heroes of Madagascar that's where he drew the line. Surprise enough king Julien was fairly quiet during this whole ordeal, all he did was sit on his throne just watching the whole thing unfold. What was more concerning is when mort began to touch the king's feet (mort has a foot fetish) with Julien being all right with it, something wasn't right, mort should've been kicked halfway across the island by now. This needs to be done, the journey to the canyon had to be done, it was time to end the fear of these monsters whatever they were, he looked over to Marty who nodded, then to his friends who nodded as well, minus Alex who had a stoic expression.
Velen chuckled lightly, he didn't expect the full support of the kingdom, at least now they were taking him seriously, but they had to act fast, Marty's dreams will only get worse. To him though he wasn't here for Marty's dreams, no, he was here for a whole other reason, he wanted revenge, revenge on the creatures that ruined his life and he'll do whatever it takes to get it. There was one problem though, none of them knew how to get to the canyon, or where it was, the only recollection some have heard is that it's deep within the fossa's territory, other than that nothing else.
He began to speak to the crowd around him. He wanted everyone to hear what he had to say. "Many of you have probably heard of me, a crazy lunatic, a vagabond, but I assure you I'm none of these things. I used to be like you, a lemur with a future. That all changed with this portal and the countless deaths from uncle Julien, that ends now, with my help and our new heroes we'll strike a blow at those who killed our loved ones. Our homes will be free again, free from the terror of the Forbidden canyon and free from the monsters that reside in it, but we cant do it alone we need your help too, i wont think any less of you if you don't want to." one by one many lemur's ranging from male and female stepped forward agreeing to help Velen and the others from this new threat, all in all a total of thirty five lemurs volunteered ready to help.
Skipper and his team waddled up to Velen and saluted to him, the lemur strangely saluted back and came to the understanding that the four penguins were militaristic. The lead penguin spoke "so, Velen, you say you've seen this Forbidden Canyon-" Skipper questioned and got a nod from the lemur, he continued "-what can you tell us about these monsters you saw and how long will this trek be? The only canyons I've seen were on the fossa side.".
Velen began to explain flashbacks formed in his mind of the creatures he witnessed, only for the flashbacks to end, his heart raced and began to explain his voice taking a desolate and dark tone "these creatures are nothing like you have seen. They butcher, they mangle, I've seen them with my eyes and I've witnessed the deaths of a whole group of lemurs. I-i still here there screams at night, there cries of death and the sounds of flesh being sliced and torn apart, but the smell, all I could smell was the blood, the fire and the smoke.". Maurice rubbed Velen's shoulder as tears began to fall, hearing his story the zoosters, penguins, chimps, and lemurs all had the disturbed look on their face, private even fainted from his story, with Kowalski vomiting seconds later.
"We found him, half dead outside of the kingdom. He lost his arm fleeing from these things, but he described what he saw. A massive portal active and glowing red orange. No one else survived.". Maurice solemnly informed the zoo animals what happened all those years ago, terrifyingly enough he still hears tails from fossa nonetheless who survived any encounter with these things.
Skipper stepped up, he was always up for a challenge and a challenge like this was just another mission to his team, "how do we stop it?" a determined skipper asked. Private looked at him as if he was serious, Kowalski was overall perplexed about the situation, and Rico, well he was just dying to blow something up. To the penguins' surprise Marty stepped up.
"I'm with skipper, how do we stop it?" Truth be told the zebra didn't really see the penguins as psychotic, which was one of the reasons why he and Alex got in small arguments. The zebra however was going to have none of that, he was tired of these dreams haunting him and this Molag Bal threatening his life, he's had enough. Usually the only time Marty would show any form of bravery would be in drastic circumstances, the last time he showed this type of courage was only a few days ago when he went to find Alex, Again the monochromatic steed was showing his bravery, not for himself but for his friends too, he knows full well the dangers he was going to face, though truthfully it's also one of his weaknesses by jumping into the face of danger and not knowing what the danger or the threat is.
Gloria placed her hand on the zebra's shoulder, a look of concern was present on her face as she began to have second thoughts. "Marty-" she began "-are you sure you want to do this, the last time you faced something it was the fossa and they almost killed you. Maybe there's another way we could do this, another way to stop this?.".
Marty thought about her words, but ultimately knew there was no other way, he wanted to help the lemurs and also find out what really was going on and why. There were so many questions he had and one of which was him, why was he getting these nightmares and why now, why was Molag attacking him and who was he and what is he? There were so many questions, but one that stuck out like a sore thumb was this empire and the name Alessia, who was this Alessia and why was she important, did something happen to her, and why'd Molag say the empire was dying.
Marty stuck to his decision, content on finding out what was going on, sighing he shook his head "no Glo, there's no other way, we have to find out what's going on in the Forbidden Canyon, we have to stop this.".
"We!?-" Alex interjected, quite displeased about Marty's proposal of 'we' and questioning whether or not he's crazy to suggest such a thing "-since when are "WE" doing this, you do realize we didn't ask to be a part of this!,".
"ALEX-" Gloria looked back irritated at Alex's brash comment "-Marty's right we are a part of this. We were a part of it when Molag tried to kill Marty and we're still a part of it with this threat to the island, we have no choice.". Turning she looked down towards Velen and asked the question every one who wanted to help was thinking "so, when do we leave?.".
There it is chapter four and the last chapter for the reality segment, up next will be the aftermath of these segments showing us what all the inhabitants think after finding out there is a dangerous portal on the island. Soon the adventure will start.