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 17

Ramen woke up groggily. He saw the female seal. He paused, then sighed.

"Are you okay?" she asked. Ramen nodded, rubbing his head.

"Yeah. But I had this terrible nightmare. I was abducted by aliens and they put me in a room full of horrid seal. And one of the seal claimed to be my mom..."

He looked at the other seal.

"You look just like the one in my dream..." he pointed out.

"That's because it wasn't a dream, sweet-heart. It's all real." she told him. Ramen paused, trying to comprehend that. Once he did, he screamed.

Then fainted again.

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"I can't hear Whisper anymore." Rojas said. Mumble shifted nervously on his iceblock.

"Is that bad?" he asked.

"I'm not sure. I'm guessing she's okay though. I heard no screaming and skuas eat baby penguins alive."

"How do you know it's a skua?"

"I heard it. But Whisper's safe now. She's not calling for help. I guess an alien saved her or something." he reassured with great certainty. Mumble relaxed a bit. Maybe now everything will be okay.

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The skua was sqwuaking really loudly. Whisper only watched in astonishment. The outburst had started suddenly, without any reason the baby penguin could understand.

But when the skua sank back to the ground, lowering its calls to an almost mute level, Whisper thought that she finally got the meaning. The poor bird was shouting his distress in his own skua language.

Whisper neared him.

"Don't cry." she said. The skua automatically became defensive.

"I'm not crying! How dare youse even dink dat!" He charged only to collide into the invisible wall. Whisper didn't even flinch.

The skua collected himself, listlessly placing his feathers back in order.

"I keep forgettin bout dat wall." he was muttering under his breath. He was saying other things too, but Whisper couldn't understand them.

Instead she sat where she was and took time to study the bird.

This skua was mostly a greyish white, but he had a black head, black wings, and black tail-feathers. What Whisper found interesting was that he also had black stripes on his upper body that turned into spots lower down.

She like that pattern. It was special. But how could a bird look pretty, but be dangerous? That's what Whisper couldn't figure out.

"Why are your kind of birdies so mean to me?" she asked. The skua gave her a confused look.

"Huh?" he questioned. Whisper rocked back and forth, leaning to one side.

"Why are your kind of birdies so mean to me?" she repeated the question. The skua paused.

"We're not mean. We just go by da natural oider of dings. Would you call yerself mean to fish?" Whisper shook her head. "Exactly. Just cause we eat you Flipper Boids, doesn't mean dat we should be considered 'bad' or 'mean' or 'evil' or whatever else is goin on in dat lil brain of yours."

Whisper was quietly thinking about what the skua said as the larger bird went on with his depressed preening.

"Can't we be friends?" Whisper brought up. That seemed to make the skua feel better and he laughed.

"A Flipper Boid and a Flying Boid friends? Dat I gotta see." he said.

"Is that a yes?" she asked innocently. The skua chuckled.

"I like your humor kid. What's your name?" he asked. Whisper wagged her tail in hope. Could she persuad the giant bird to be nice and not try to eat her? She was willing to try.

"I'm Whisper." she told him.

"Well Whisper..." he started, sitting down. "You sure know how to cheer a boid up. Where ya from?"

So far so good.

"I lived in this rocky place with lots of water. My Daddy called it Pebble Beach." She had asked about it earlier, before the aliens came.

The look on the skuas face frightened her. What did she do wrong?

"Was it something I said?" she asked nervously. The skua hesitated.

"Tell me, Whisper. Was dere elephant seals?" he questioned. Whisper nodded.

"Yes. Lot's of them."

"Chinstrap penguins?" he continued. Whisper shrugged.

"There was penguins though. I don't know what they're called. They had a black stripe under their heads." she described. The skua nodded slowly, as if remembering something.

"Yeah. Chinstraps." he muttered.

"There were alot of birdies like you there too." she finished. He seemed excited about that.

"On a rocky slope?" he asked. Whisper nodded. "Dat's my flock!"

Happy, panting, the skua thought to himself, wondering how to react next. He studied Whisper carefully.

"Your da Flipper Boid we aren't allowed to eat. How'd you get here?" he questioned.

"I dunno. I forgot. But I wanna go home." she muttered. The skua nodded. She stared at him. He seems nice now. But there's only one way to know for sure.

"Can we be friends?" she repeated the old question. The skua looked at her and she began to think that she asked too early. Now everything is ruined.

"Such a friendship is unnatural. Impossible in normal situation." he told her. She hung her head in disappointment. But the seabird only smiled. "But dis isn't a normal situation. So it can work."

Whisper smiled happily. "Really?"

"Yeah. Your da only reminder of home dat I have left. By da way, name's Leo." he introduced.

"Hi." Whisper replied cutely. Leo smiled.

"Hey. Can I ask you a favor?" he questioned.

Whisper nodded. "Okay."

"Can you tell me everyting you remember bout home?" he asked hopefully. Whisper smiled.

Review note: Nausicaa of the Spirits, I only now noticed that. Well, I guess that will be a Rojas thing since he did that to Mumble twice then. Thanks for infoming me.

Preview:

Rojas gets dinner. Ramen interegates his mom. And Whisper learns that Leo has a plan to escape.