I just want to thank my wonderful reviewers, megeriffic, 101 giraffes, and lovingSkipper! I'm going on a camping trip (we'll be in cabins) over out LONG WEEKEND! So, don't expect me to be
updating over the weekend. I may like when we get back on Sunday! Yay! Okay, read on!
"Sapphire, Sapphire, SAPPHIRE!" Marlene called.
"Wha?" Sapphire rolled over and saw Marlene looming over her.
"G'Morning!" Marlene smiled.
"Morning," Sapphire sat up, "What time is it?"
"About nine in the morning," Marlene replied.
"Who gets up at nine in the morning?" Sapphire asked.
"What time do you normally get up at?" Marlene asked.
"Noon," Sapphire replied rolling off the couch, "What's for the breakfast?"
"Oysters and fish," Marlene smiled.
"What kind of fish?" Sapphire asked.
"Catfish," Marlene cheerily said.
"What?" Sapphire asked.
"Catfish," Marlene repeated.
"What wuz that?" Sapphire smirked.
"CATFISH!" Marlene shouted.
"Raw or cooked?" Sapphire replied.
"Raw," Marlene replied like it's basic knowledge.
"I only eat cooked food," Sapphire stated.
"Oh… do you eat oysters?" Marlene asked.
"Nope," Sapphire said.
"Oh… I have some cupcakes," Marlene offered.
"Ohh I'll have one!" She popped up excited.
"Great!" Marlene clapped her hands together. They sat down and began eating their breakfast.
"So," Marlene said.
"This is a really good cupcake," Sapphire said.
"Thanks," Marlene said.
Kowalski's POV
I waddled through the door of Marlene's habitat.
"Hello," I said.
"Hey," Sapph said.
"What do you want Kowalski?" Marlene said.
"I knew you had a lot of work to do today, so I wanted to see if Sapphire wanted a tour of the zoo," I sheepishly said.
"Huh, that's actually civil of you," Marlene said, "Wanna go Sapphire, I do have a lot of work to do!"
"Sure," Sapph said standing up, "Let's go," She began walking out of the habitat. I followed close behind. We saw a lot of animals. She met Rodger, the alligator, Bada and Bing, Mason and Phil and lots of others. On the way to the lemur habitat Sapphire struck up a conversation.
"So, what made you come by and take me on a walk?" She asked.
"Just seemed polite," I replied, I was afraid it was obvious I was lying.
"O really?" Sapphire smiled. Apparently it was.
"Really," I said.
"Sure," She said.
"No really!" I defended.
"Now, why did you really come by?" She asked.
I thought for a second.
Flashback to Just Before Kowalski Stopped By the Otter Habitat
"Kowalski," Skipper called.
"Yes Skipper?" Kowalski waddled over to him.
"I want you to go over and give that newbie a tour, find out as much as you can, and then bring her back here so we can question her," He said.
"But Skipper-" Kowalski got cut off.
"No buts soldiers!" Skipper raised his voice. Kowalski lowered his head.
"I'm excusing you from exercises, but I expect as much info. as you can get," Skipper said.
"Yes sir," Kowalski said, turning around and walking out of the HQ.
End of Flashback
Sapphire was still staring at me when I stopped thinking.
"Uh… well you see, hey! Do you like lemurs?" I asked, changing the subject.
She looked at me like I was psycho.
"One of my best friends was a lemur," She said blankly.
"I think you're going to re-think that," I said. Sapphire looked at me, confused. We arrived at the lemur habitat in seconds.
"Hey Ringtail," I called.
We walked into the lemur habitat to be greeted by a ringtail lemur.
"Why who are you?" He asked Sapphire.
"That depends, who are you?" She asked.
"I'm King Julien!" He declared, "and these are being my royal advisers," he motioned towards Maurice and Mort.
"AWW!" Sapphire shouted running up to Mort.
"He's so CUTE!" She exclaimed, squeezing him.
"I like not being able to breathe," He said.
"Oh, sorry," She said, dropping him.
"So who are you?" The self-proclaimed 'king' asked.
"Ringtail, this is Sapphire," I said.
"Why hello, might you be wanting to become, Queen Sapphire?" The king asked.
"Are you hitting on me?" She asked.
"Yes," Ringtail replied. Sapphire cracked her knuckles.
"Well, wanna be hit?" She asked.
"Oh, is this being a game?" He asked excitedly.
"Yeah, you hit on me, so I hit you," She said pulling her arm back, her paw in a fist format.
"I don't think that's the best idea," I cried grabbing onto her arm before she got him.
"I don't care," She replied.
"Ohhh you will like me once you see my amazing dancing!" Ringtail turned on the boom box and began dancing.
"Can we go before I kill him?" Sapphire asked. I nodded, and we walked out on the dancing lemur.
Sapphire's POV
Kowalski and I walked over to the penguin habitat in complete silence. He knocked the fish bowl over and hopped down. I looked down it and followed.
"Cool," I said, awe-struck.
"Yup," Kowalski said.
"You have a TV!" I shouted and ran over to it, tipping and tumbling over the couch.
"Hello," Private chirped. I had almost landed on him.
"Hey," I said, "TV!"
"Sapphire, can we ask you some questions?" Kowalski asked, waddling over to Private and I.
"Shoot," I replied staring at the TV. Rico and Skipper slid up too; apparently everyone had a question… great.
"Where are you from?" Skipper questioned.
"Cleveland, didn't we go over this?" I said with lots of attitude, I didn't like how they were treating me, so I was going to annoy them back.
"Don't give me attitude," Skipper said.
"Don't talk back to me!" I replied. Skipper's eye began twitching.
"Whatever," I said.
"Moving on, tell us about your red eyes," Kowalski asked, interested.
"No, if you're gonna ask me questions, then I get to ask you some," I smiled.
"Deal," Skipper said.
"Why are you so interested in me?" I asked.
"We need to make sure your not a spy," Private chirped.
"Okay, so about my eyes, this was just how I was born, my brother has pure ebony eyes," I replied to his earlier question.
"Intriguing," Kowalski said pulling out his clipboard.
"Can I see that?" I asked. Kowalski handed it to me. I looked at it; it was a stick otter with black eyes. I pulled a pencil out, and wrote something on it.
"Here," I said handing it back to him.
"What does it say?" Kowalski asked me. I rolled my eyes.
"It says 'Nice drawing, genius'," I replied tartly.
"Oh," Kowalski said.
"Your turn," I said.
"What's your favorite color?" Private asked me.
"Black," I said darkly.
"What's your favorite band?" I asked. They all stared at me.
"Don't have one," Skipper said.
"Galba hahla jokakne?" Rico asked me. I looked at him confused.
"He wants to know your favorite weapon," Kowalski translated.
"Definitely the sword," I replied nodding.
"Interesting," Kowalski said, still scribbling on his clipboard.
"Why can't you read and write?" I asked.
"I don't know, we just can't," Kowalski replied.
"Tell me about your family," Skipper said.
"Not a question!" I sing-songed.
"Okay, what's your family like?" He asked.
"That's better. Well, let's see, it was just my brother and I, but then he went and got married to some b-," I looked over a Private and changed my language, "bad girl, that I hate. So I promised my brother I would try and get to know her, but when we went out to get to know each other she said that I better back off of my own brother, cause she's taking him over," I said.
"That's terrible!" Private cried.
"Thanks. I have a question for Skipper, do you like, like someone at the zoo?" I asked.
Skipper turned a bright red, "N-no," He said.
"What do you mean Skippa? You like all the zoo animals," Private said innocently. I chuckled.
"I'll tell you when you're older," Skipper said.
"Why do you have your fur lik-" But poor Kowalski got cut off by a scream.
"What in the…" I began. The penguins hopped into action and slid out of the HQ. I decided to follow them. I followed where the scream had come from. I wandered into the lemur habitat. I walked in to see King Julien screaming like a little girl and pointing to a cricket.
"It's a cricket Ringtail," Skipper yelled at him.
I rolled my eyes and padded in.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"My queen!" 'Ringtail' hopped into my arms.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Queen?" Skipper asked.
"Idk," I replied. The four penguins stared at me. The obviously don't understand text talk.
"Kowalski, decode," Skipper said.
"Uh… I do knock, If doodads kicked, Icky doom king," Kowalski attempted to decode it.
"It means I don't know!" I shouted after about a minute of Kowalski attempting to figure out what it means.
"Oh, that was my next guess," Kowalski said. I looked down, and Julien was still in my arms. I rolled my eyes and dropped him.
"Do not be dropping the royal king!" He shouted at me.
"Shut up," I said, pushing past him, "Hey how do you get back to the otter habitat?" I questioned.
"I'll show you," Kowalski sighed.
We walked over to the otter habitat in silence. I could feel his eyes burning into my fur. It felt weird.
Kowalski's POV
Sapphire and I walked back to the otter habitat. I was staring at her the entire time. I could tell she knew. She was kind of pretty. She had beautiful chocolate brown fur, and I loved her magma colored eyes. Even though I could only see one. Her fur was brushed over her left eye, and the tips of that fur was dyed a navy blue. She was Rico's size and she was very slim, I could tell she worked out. I couldn't help but look at her. We arrived at the otter habitat moments later.
"Thanks for the directions," She laughed.
"No problem," I said. I stared at her for about a minute later. I was getting lost in her beautiful eyes.
"Well, bye," She said flipping over the water.
"Bye," I whispered. I slid back to the penguin habitat.
"Kowalski," Skipper said as soon as I walked into the HQ.
"Yes?" I asked.
"I need some intel on this new otter," Skipper said.
"Skippa, I think we should just trust she's not a spy," Private said.
"I agree," I agreed.
"For now we'll be nice on her," Skipper said.
"I'm going to go work in my lab," I said, sliding into my lab. I couldn't think. There was something about Sapphire. She was different than any other girl I had ever known. She was dark, had an attitude, and seemed almost vicious. I didn't know how I liked any of that, but I guess it was just, her. I couldn't think straight, and just fell asleep in my lab.
Morning in the Otter habitat
Marlene's POV
"So Marlene," Sapphire said.
"Yeah?" I asked.
"Do you like anyone?" She asked me. I blushed and thought about my crush on Skipper.
"N-no," I said.
She smiled, "Who is he?" She questioned.
"N-no one!" I protested.
"Sure," She teased.
"OKAY IT'S SKIPPER!" I shouted really loudly. Next thing I knew Skipper and his team hopped into my habitat.
"Would you just knock?" I asked.
"Such ple-" Kowalski began.
"I know I know!" I cut him off.
"You called?" Skipper asked.
"Uh…" I said.
"We wanted to know if you wanted some breakfast!" Sapphire saved me.
"Sure," Private replied, waddling over and sitting down.
"Private! That could be poisoned!" Skipper cried.
"Would'ja like me to take a bite first?" Sapphire asked.
"Yes," Skipper said.
Sapphire picked up a fork and dug it into part of a pancake. She shoved it in her mouth, grabbed the syrup and poured it in her mouth. I cringed.
"There," She said wiping her mouth with the back of her paw.
"Okay, we'll stay," Skipper said as his teammates all took spots around the table.
I sat down next to Skipper, oh Skipper. I looked across the table and saw Sapphire smirking at me.
"So," I said, blushing and looking away, "Any cool new missions lately?"
"Nothing really," Skipper said, a beak full of pancake.
"Do you like the pancakes?" Sapphire asked.
"Yeah, these are really good," Kowalski replied.
"Thanks, I put a pinch of cinnamon in it," She replied.
I looked over at Sapphire and she was giving me a look that said 'Hey, you should ask him out'. I shook my head. She widened her eyes and gave me the puppy-dog look. I glared at her and she sneered.
"HELP!" A Madagascar accent called.
"Ringfail," Skipper said through a stack of pancakes.
"Lefs go," Kowalski said.
The four-some hopped out of their seats and went off to go save the lemur.
"You should ask him out," Sapphire teased.
"Not in this lifetime," I replied.
"Pwease?" She said sweetly.
"No!" I shouted.
"Fine," She rolled her eyes. We decided to go on a walk. The zoo was opening in about twenty minutes.
Sapphire's POV
Marlene and I were on a walk.
"Hey, I'm gonna go see what was up with the lemurs, wanna come?" I asked.
"Nah, I need to do some cleaning," She replied, turning to go over to the otter habitat.
"La de da di da," I sang as I walked over to the lemur habitat.
"Hey guys!" I said with a wave as I walked into the habitat.
"Sapphire? What are you doing here?"
"I wanted to see what was up!" I called.
"Ringtail was just being annoying," Kowalski called, jumping down from the large cement thingy-mcbob.
"Hehehe," I said walking over. Unfortunately, I managed to trip over, nothing, and land right on top of him.
"Hi," I chuckled.
"Hello," He replied.
"I'm just gonna get off," I said rolling off him.
We both stood up and brushed the dirt off.
"Skipper," Kowalski called," The zoo is going to open soon!"
Skipper and the team hopped down.
"We better be on our way," Skipper said.
"Can you find your way home?" Kowalski laughed.
I couldn't help but laugh along, "I think I'll be fine!"
He smirked and slid away with the others. I padded back to the otter habitat, ready to be on display for the first time.