Disclaimer: I don't own Happy Feet or any of it's characters. Look at link in profile for the leopard seal clip in the movie if you feel you have no idea what I'm talking about.
Regular Note: Really the links are there, along with part of the skua scene...if you're interested.
I initially never owned the soup Ramen, but my sister insisted that I name a character after it...God! I'm hungry!!!
Part 1
Chapter 13
Days past since Mumble left. Whisper's down coat has grown thicker and softer, making her more fluffy and thus more cute. She's better waterproofed, but has no courage to go into the water till she's grown up, and she still has a long way to go.
Rojas was getting better and stronger everyday, though it's still obvious that his wounds still causes pain.
Ramen came up on shore, carrying one of the last foreign fish.
"Here you go. One order of fish." Ramen said. Rojas smiled and began to eat while Whisper tried to groom his neck. Ramen left back to the water to find more.
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Mumble had been sticking around on the beach, occasionally watching Whisper from a distance. He wasn't quite up to facing Gloria...not yet.
How was she going to react to this? Will she agree to still be his mate? After all, this wasn't his fault, and the chances of it happening again was slim.
Currently, he was sitting on the rocky slope among the skuas, watching the interaction between his daughter and Rojas.
"Ya'know. She's better off witout ya." a skua muttered, understanding the situation.
"Yeah..." Mumble muttered as the skua continued with its buisiness.
Mumble was still very sad at how Whisper turned him away. But the skua was probably right. Maybe Whisper is safer with Rojas, a top predator, than him, a mere penguin.
With that thought, he stood and climbed back up to the top of the slope, gathering the courage to go home. He didn't get very far when something grabbed him from behind.
Before his eyes were covered, he saw his captor.
It was a creature Mumble has already seen before. An alien...
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Rojas was busy watching Whisper and Ramen roll around on the smooth pebbles, playing with eachother. The pup and chick was getting along great, and having Ramen around was a clear advantage.
Suddenly, there was an instant whistling sound, like something was traveling really fast through the air. A sharp pain came from the leopard seal's side and he roared. Thinking something was wrong, Whisper and ramen made their way back to Rojas as quickly as possible.
Whisper was the first to notice.
"What's that?" she asked. They all stared at some pointy thing with pink feathers embedded in Rojas' skin.
Nobody answered the question, not knowing what it was either.
Ramen sensed something coming and looked up. He gaspd.
"Aliens! THE Aliens! They got to be the ones that gave us the fish!" Rojas and Whisper stared at the bipedal aliens that were walking slowly towards them.
The leopard seal tried to focus, but everything was getting blurry. His head felt light and dizzy.
As first course of action, the aliens grabbed Ramen in a kind of mini net. The pup struggled furiously. Whisper screamed and hid behind Rojas. They watched as the aliens put Ramen in some sort of metal thing with bars.
Rojas snarled threateningly when the aliens turn attention to them. It had no affect. Whisper huddled closer.
"Make them go away!" she screamed. Rojas growled even louder. No results. But he was getting really sleepy. He linked this sense of fatigue with the pointy pink thing. He looked at Whisper.
"Sausage...remove the thing...take it out." he told her. She nodded and quickly removed the offensive object. But it was too late.
Rojas laid his head down and fell asleep. Whisper was about to wake him when an alien picked her up. She flapped her wings and yelled.
"Daddy! Help!"
It only woke him slightly, but it was enough. He gathered himself and lunged at the alien holding Whisper. It quickly released her and backed away with a strange noise of surprise.
Whisper immediatly ran back to Rojas and tucked herself under a flipper. Rojas made a loud trilling noise Whisper never heard before. But it was so haunting and scary, she hoped she'll never hear it again.
"Daddy. I'm scared." Whisper said softly. Rojas nodded and then began to doze again. An alien came close and reached for the baby penguin. One of it's weird appendages on Whisper and she screamed. Rojas shook out of it and snapped at the limb, keeping his head down and teeth bared.
"What do we do now?" Whisper asked. When she got no response, she noticed Rojas was out again. "Daddy!"
Rojas barely opened his eyes, but closed them again. The alien picked her up and no matter how much she screamed, Rojas didn't wake.
The alien said something in a language Whisper didn't understand and they carassed her as if to comfort her. She continued to struggle as they put her in another metal bar thing.
"No! Leave me alone!" She watched as the aliens surrounded Rojas and tried to get him inside a giant metal bar thing. After a long struggle, they succeeded, putting all their prisoners inside some ground machine.
As the machine started moving, Whisper began to cry. Ramen noticed her distress.
"It's okay. Nobody's going to hurt you." he tried to soothe her. Whisper sniffled and cried harder.
"This is a baddie. What they going to do to us?" she asked. Ramen paused.
"I don't know. But lets hope that it's not a baddie." he answered.
"How's Daddy?" she continued to ask. She was too small to see Rojas. Ramen took a look and smiled.
"He's okay. He's just sleeping."
"How can he? We've been Fuzzy-napped."
Fuzzy was now how she labeled the little group, since they all have either fur or fluffy feathers.
"Must have something to do with that pointy bird thing. Maybe it makes him sleepy, just like a few kinds of kelp."
"Will he wake up in time to save us?"
ramen hesitated. What should he say? Whisper needs support. She's too young for all this. He reached a flipper inside her metal bars thing. She placed a wing over it.
"I hope so Whisper...I really hope so..."
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Preview:
The little gang gets seperated. Hard to summarize the next chapter...