A/N: Finally! After about two months I got the fourth chapter out! XD It's been a while and I'm sorry for that, really I am. I like to thank all the people who reviewed! Check out their reviews. ^-^
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That's really about it...OH! Also, this is part ONE of "Lunch Menu" chapter. I'll update part two soon enough. I promise. I just have a lot of other stories to take care of, so pardon my slowness. But, it's gonna be less than two months, I assure you. XD
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Chapter 4: Lunch Menu Part 1
Tristan the otter and Eli the bat were walking down the hall with Julien between them as he limped. The walls were carve in fine lining, and the floor was placed with blue and white tiles. The young male otter glanced around him as he made observations. Besides the wall and floors, there was paintings and doors, as other animals walked/slither by. They took a turn to a cold-blue metal door ahead. Eli opened it eagerly as Julien was complaining.
"Why must the king suffer like this?" moaned Julien.
Eli chuckled a bit."That's what happens when you mess with Rachel."
They all went inside. Tristan observed around. There was pure white walls, and a few pictures of the city. Like buildings, plant-life, and fountains. The room itself had carpentering of a mixture of red and grey. There was another door across from where they were, it was just a smooth wooden door. There were chairs on the side of the room, and a window that you see in doctors' offices was next to the wooden door.
Tristan and Eli sat Julien on a chair next to the window. They were the only ones in the room, or at least like a patient. Eli went to the front of the window, and knocked on it. The window slid open and there stood a female rat. Her fur was pure white and her eyes were the color of blood. She was also up to Marlene's height, and held a simple female body."Hello, Eli, what brings you here?" her voice was soft and light.
"Hey, Melissa, we're here for Cassie. She's got a new patient for the moment." Eli answered with a smile.
Melissa quirked her head. "We?"
"We is here." answered Tristan who went besides Eli. "Also, him." he then pointed to a whimpering Julien, who was still holding his nose.
"I'll tell her. And, since he is a new patient, he will need to fill out these forms." Melissa stated, as she went under her desk and dropped a load of papers in front of the bat and otter.
"This might take a while..." trailed Tristan.
"When am I going to be getting help?" complained the lemur king's voice.
Eli nodded his head at Tristan. "More than we can handle."
On the way here, the male bat felt he already knew of Julien's impatience. Mostly, by hearing the lemur king complain on the way.
Tristan grabbed the forms in front of him, while Eli grabbed a pen. They took separate seat besides Julien.
And, started to work. With an obnoxious king at their side.
Ellie, Kiki, Vincent, Dante, and the new-comers sat in a room. Well, more of an auditorium. The seats were in rows leading up high to the exit. There even was some balconies from each corner similar to an opera house.
Everyone was either in the first row or second row. The chairs themselves were quite comfortable, with the red cushions and soft arm rest.
Ellie sat next to Vincent, who was keeping an eye out for every new-comer.
"Hey, Vincent." started Ellie nervously.
The eagle turned to her. "Yes?"
"...Never-mind." Ellie responded softly.
Vincent shrugged and went back to observing the new-comers. He kept his eye on Blowhole the most, for he just sensed something about that dolphin. And, he didn't like the feeling.
Ellie then turned to Rachel, who sat on her left, while Vincent sat on her right.
"Rachel?"
The female rabbit turned to her. "Yeah, dude?"
"What do you think of...that dolphin over there?" asked Ellie as she pointed to Blowhole, who was sitting in the far corner, with his segaway on the side. And, to Blowhole's dismay, Roger was talking to him.
Rachel shrugged. "He seems alright...but, you can never be sure." she then narrowed her eyes at the last statement.
Ellie blinked. "Right."
Rachel nodded. "It's good to be alert! Right, Kiki?" she questioned to the toucan next to her right.
"Um...Yes. We can't trust too easily." Kiki sighed in agreement.
"But, we can't just judge them automatically! It's not right." the armadillo declared, with narrowed eyes.
Kiki blinked at Ellie. "True...But, it's good to be alert." she then whispered to herself. "I should know."
Rachel frowned, hearing Kiki's whisper.
Ellie however didn't over-hear the toucan's whisper. "Come on, Kiki! We can't always be alert. We have to open our hearts to give them the chance to enter with a warm welcome." she smiled as she held her paw over her heart.
"But, it can give the enemy the chance to enter the heart without you knowing it." back-fired Rachel. "Not everyone is nice, Ellie."
Ellie let her ears drop. "Maybe you're right, Rin."
Rachel sighed and patted Ellie on the back. "It's the cold hard truth. But, there will be others that care."
Kiki nodded in agreement and reminded. "Yes, but still good to keep alert."
Ellie blinked at Kiki. "Sure."
Kiki smiled at Ellie, who smiled back. The armadillo knew that her friends just cared for her well-being. But, Ellie just couldn't help but let her heart open to that male dolphin. Ellie didn't realize that she was gazing at Blowhole.
Rachel and Kiki noticed Ellie's distant look, and followed her gaze.
The female rabbit sighed at her lovestruck friend. She already knew that Ellie was developing a crush on the new-comer dolphin. Rachel didn't trust him much. There was something that held in his eye, that gave off the negative vibrations. Yet, Ellie seems so fond with him, and they hardly know each other. Rachel promised herself that she will keep an eye on this dolphin.
Kiki observed Blowhole carefully. She was always fascinated by dolphins. They were magnificent creatures, but unlike the river dolphin, this one was different. This dolphin in front of her, had more of a thinner stature than the river dolphins. Not to mention, river dolphins had darker skin, with more beady eyes. Yet, their bodies held strength. This dolphin held power than muscle strength. Kiki was ever so curious of the species of this dolphin. Yet, this dolphin gave her the reminder of her past. How she was fascinated by humans, that was soon the down-fall of her home. Like Rachel, she'll keep an eye out.
Even though Vincent was keeping an eye out of everybody, he heard the whole converstation of the three women. And, was sure to keep more of an eye out on the dolphin. Thinking that the dolphin can cause danger to his friend, Ellie.
Behind the four animals, in the second row, held Dante. He wasn't paying attention much, all he knew was that he had a date with an otter. Next to Dante, sat Kyle the wolf.
"So, Dante is it? How is New Spire?" asked Kyle, snapping Dante out of his thoughts.
Dante blinked. "Well, it has it's peace. And, you are?"
"Kyle Kruger." answered the male wolf.
Dante nodded. "I see, well I'm sure you will do fine in...um...the try-outs and everything." he waved it off, as if he didn't care much.
"Yeah, well I so happen to over-hear that you work in a restaurant. What's the occupation?"
Dante smiled to himself. "I'm the pastry chef."
"Oh, so all you do is bake deserts? I thought it would be something more important." Kyle waved, acting if he was not impress. To Kyle, the only way to get rid of the competition is to lower their self-esteem. And, this could be a good opportunity.
"What?" blinked Dante. Wondering where this was going.
Kyle smirked. "What, nothing. I'm just saying, that you are just a pastry chef and nothing more."
"What is that suppose to mean?" snapped Dante.
"You put the pieces together." Kyle said as he smirked wider.
Dante narrowed his eyes in annoyance. What was up with this guy? To Dante, Kyle has something else up his sleeve and another reason, though probably not a good one.
Time to play it in his own game.
"You're right, I'm just a pastry chef. But, it's a nice job! I get a nice apartment in the highest rating hotels. Servants following my every whim! How about you? Where do you live?" Dante asked with a quirk eye-brow.
Kyle frowned. "I live in Central Park Zoo."
"Hm, I see. You are just a play thing to the humans." smirked Dante.
Kyle frowned deeper, then smiled when an idea came to mind. "I'm a plaything and I'm loving it!"
Dante blinked, then frowned. "Okay, listen! I don't know what your small game here is, but I'm gonna find out!"
"Or, I can just tell you." Kyle suggested with a quirk of an eye-brow.
"...That could work." Dante said slowly.
Kyle nodded, then narrowed his eyes. "Yeah, I don't like you."
"Huh? Why?"
"For one thing, you flirted with my girlfriend! And another, is that I'M the only flirt-er around here! Not you!" answered Kyle
Dante growled then smirked. "So be it, my canine fellow. If that's how you feel...But! You can't stop the truth! I'm the most achieve flirt-er and there is nothing you can do about it!"
Kyle narrowed his eyes. "Unless...We compete."
"What?"
"You and me! We compete for other girls' phone numbers! Whoever has the most, wins!" challenged Kyle.
Dante thought it over then smiled. "You have yourself a challenge."
Both raccoon and wolf shook on it, thinking they were going to win against the other.
Naomi was next to Kyle the whole time, and couldn't help but sigh.
This was going to be an interesting result.
Next to Naomi sat the penguins, Marlene, Max, Amy, Erik, and Kelsi.
"So, you really going to go through with this?" questioned Skipper to Marlene in disbelief.
Marlene nodded, still a bit irritated by Skipper. "Yes, I am." she felt hurt for Skipper to think that way of her about being too innocent and naive, and she felt idiotic for actually believing that Skipper had a different view of her than the last time.
Skipper turned away from Marlene, and sighed a bit. "If that's what you want." he also thought that Dante was no good for Marlene, and thinking that Marlene could aim better...Perhaps...Skipper, himself. Of course, he would never admit that.
To Skipper's right, sat Private, who was listening to the conversation of his leader and female friend. He also noticed of how Skipper is reacting about Dante and Marlene. "Oh, dear..."
Kowalski perked up when hearing Private. "Oh dear, what?"
"It's Skippah." Private whispered to Kowalski, who was on his right. On Kowalski's right sat Rico, who was listening in to the conversation.
"What about him?" questioned Kowalski with a raise of an non-existent eye-brow.
Private answered. "He's sad about Marlene and that raccoon, Dante."
Rico frowned. "Awww..."
"Skipper has always handle these situations. I'm sure he'll be fine." Kowalski reasoned.
Private blinked at Kowalski. "When did he handle these situations?"
"Well, how about that hula-doll?" suggested the brilliant bird.
"Skippah cried when the doll cheated on him with an action figure." Private frowned and explained. Now knowing for sure that Skipper was a bit weak on the love side. Or, at least, how to handle it.
Kowalski started to re-think and sighed. "Okay, Skipper may need a little help with his love-life."
"Uh-hu!" agreed Rico.
"But, he's our leader and we shouldn't intrude." Kowalski continued with a serious expression.
"Yup." Rico agreed again, but he seemed a bit bored.
Private sighed. "I guess you're both right." even though the young penguin heard himself say those words. He couldn't as much believe what he was saying. Private always felt Skipper was a fabulous leader, but there were times when Skipper needed a bit help. Not by leader, of course, but by just a daily life. More emotion, if you will.
Erik, Amy, Max and Kelsi were over-hearing this conversation and caught there curiosity very well. They all knew that Skipper and Marlene had sparks, and they were rooting for them. But, both animals were too stubborn to admit that they have feelings for one another.
Erik whispered to Max, Kelsi, and Amy. "Should we do something?"
"I would think. They seemed to belong together." nodded Max, while Amy agreed.
Kelsi thought for a moment. "I think we should...But, how? It looks like that Dante guy is interested in her." Kelsi's thoughts went to the raccoon, since he was ever so charming.
Erik raised an eye-brow at his girlfriend. "Kelsi?"
Kelsi perked up. "Huh?" she then saw Erik's raised eye-brow at her. "Um, back to the subject." Kelsi chuckled nervously.
"Riiight...Anyway, perhaps we should try to get them together?" suggested Erik with a smile.
"Perhaps so." Amy smiled back.
Kelsi smiled back too but more deviously. "Yeah, and this is going to be interesting."
Both bats and cats started to whisper to one another, about their own plan.
Far off in the corner of the auditorium were the lemurs, Roger, and Blowhole.
The lemurs were amused the conversation between Blowhole and Roger. The mad dolphin was very irritated to the tall alligator, while Roger was chattering away without a care in the world.
"I'm still so very amazed at this place! The wonderful animal society, yet similar to humanity! And, I have the chance to become a chef, my life's dream!" Roger ranted with glittering eyes.
Blowhole widen his eyes at the last sentence of the alligator. "Wait, back up, chef?"
"Yeah, a chef, or at least, the teaching one." Roger answered with a quirked eye-brow, thinking Blowhole should have known by now.
Roger continued. "Sure, I have to compete with other animals, but I'm sure to win!"
Raymond heard this, who was on Blowhole's left, and frowned. "Now, hold up, Roger. What makes you so sure that you'll win? I'm in this too, ever thought that I could win?"
"I don't mean to sound mean, Raymond. But..." the alligator trailed nervously.
Raymond furrowed his eye-brows. "But, what?"
"You're more into the...military stuff...It just wouldn't really fit in the cooking category." Roger frowned with concern of Raymond's feelings.
The red lemur doesn't really care for the job, but the fact that Roger thought he couldn't even do it, made Raymond a bit irritated. Long ago, Raymond remembered that he sent out the cooking resume so he can have the in-job of the enemy. He didn't intend the resume to expand to other places. That was the only reason.
"What about me?" intruded Blowhole. "You think that I can't win either?"
Raymond rolled his eyes. "Of course you can't win, Blowhole. Actually, I'm a bit surprised that you're even here. Did you sabotage a letter?"
"No! I really was invited here!" Blowhole growled as shoved his invitation letter to Raymond's face.
Raymond growled and snapped the paper away from Blowhole, then he read over it. He widen his eyes a bit that Blowhole was indeed correct. Then, Raymond blinked at Blowhole in question. "Why would you even consider to be a chef? I mean, sure, you did some time ago when you were younger. But, why? Even back then you were probably evil!"
Blowhole rolled his eyes. "I don't need to tell you anything, lemur!"
"Yeah? Well, I have enough information on you." Raymond crossed his arms. "From my certain sources."
"Wait, what?" Blowhole frowned.
Raymond waved it off. "Like I'll tell you."
Roger noticed the tension between Raymond and Blowhole, and decided to break it. "So, what's your favorite color?"
Both dolphin and lemur blinked at the alligator.
"Mine's gray and black! Because that's the color of the royal feet!" piped up Mort as he jumped towards the group.
Maurice was just behind the mouse lemur. "Mort, don't just..." he then sighed for he knew it was useless. "Nevermind."
Tanya, who was on Raymond's left, quirked an eye-brow at Mort.
Blowhole just frowned in all this nonsense. "Okay, I don't care about some stupid color!" he then smirked as he let his eyes wander to each individual. "But, I do know, that I'm gonna win! No one shall defeat me, no matter what category."
"But..." Roger began, then he frowned with determination in his eyes. "No, I'm gonna win!"
"No, me!" Raymond piped up with a frown of his own. "Better me than you two!" he turned to the alligator. "You're too soft for these students! You'll let them step all over you!" he then fixed his vision on the dolphin. "And, you're evil for crying out loud! I won't tolerate a bunch of kids to be taught by the likes of you!"
Tanya sighed. "Maybe you shouldn't enter either, Raymond. You're not so great in the cooking category. I'll take your place, and I'll make sure everything's alright, okay?"
"What? You don't have any faith in me?" questioned Raymond with a frown when he turned to his girlfriend.
Tanya hesitated. "Like I said, you're not a great cook..."
"You're not so much either, Tanya." Maurice came forward. "You have a bad time trying to even touch a stove." the aye-aye then thought over something. "Maybe I should enter instead. I'm a pretty decent cook."
"No way! I've dreamed something like this would happen! I won't let the kids step over me! I'll be the best cooking teacher yet!" Roger determined and a little hurt by Raymond's words.
"Says you! But, I'll be the one to prove you all wrong!" growled Blowhole.
As soon as Blowhole said those words, everything went into a fight of words. Maurice was arguing with Tanya, while she argued back, as she also talked back to Raymond, who was having a multi argument with Roger and Blowhole. In other words, it was all a huge argument, but all ceased when they heard a certain squeak.
"STOP!" that shout and squeak was Mort, as he jumped onto Roger on the head.
Everyone froze, then waited for Mort to speak further.
Mort took this oppurtunity. "Please, stop fighting! I don't like fights, it makes my head hurt...And, if I learned anything, fighting is wrong...At least, that what I remembered..."
"Yeah...Maybe, you're right." Tanya sighed.
"Lets stop this bitterness...for now." nodded Maurice.
All the animals agreed, considering some were getting a headache themselves. But, each animal glared at one another silently. Knowing this was far from over.
Only one lemur was out of this conversation/argument and that was Queen Mia, for she smirked of all this happening. Letting her own mind wheel of her own small devious plans.
"Done!" came Eli's voice as he dropped the forms in front of Melissa, who blinked. "Huh, that was faster than I expected."
"Yeah, well, I sped it up when the lemur was complaining...More and more." Eli frowned and sighed at the memory, then he perked up. "Besides, everyone's waiting for me."
Melissa nodded as she took the forms and put it in her desk. "Well, I think Cassie's avalible now. Just enter an-" she was cut off by Eli.
"Thanks a bunch, Melissa! I'll go get that Julien guy and bring him to her!" Eli smiled and appeared urgent of excitement.
Eli grabbed Julien, who was holding his snout, then Eli took off past the wooden door that lead to Cassie. Tristan blinked at Eli's speed, but quickly followed suit.
Tristan observed around. The walls were a dark cream that gave off the vibrations of homey. There were some few pictures of the one of earth's nature and breath-taking beauty. One of them was a large mountain, while bright blue skies, as the mountain's top was blanket with snow. Tristan smiled at this.
In the end of the hall way there was another wooden door, and Eli just knocked on it.
A famine young adult squirrel opened the door. She has gray fur that was similar to the color of silver in the right light. Her eyes were a blazing ice-berg blue, and had a long swirly bushy tail. Her eyes seemed to glitter, and her big middle tooth were a pearl white. She also held normal size eye-lashes. She smiled when spotting Eli, then frowned when she saw Julien.
"Oh, dear. He doesn't look very good." commented the squirrel named Cassie, as she observed Julien more.
"Well, duh! That's why I'm here!" complained Julien with a frown.
Cassie nodded. "Right." she turns to Eli. "Alright, bring him in and I can examine him more."
Eli agreed, soon Tristan helped Eli to place Julien on the medical bed.
"Just relax." Cassie smiled gently at Julien, who quirked an eye-brow.
"Say, are you coming on to me? Because, I have a relationship already!" Julien warned.
Cassie blinked. "Wha-? No! I'm just saying to relax for your benefit."
"Oh, okay." Julien nodded, then smiled. "So, I'm okay, right?"
Cassie shrugged. "Don't know yet, just stay still, while I examine."
Once Cassie got to work, Eli was staring at her with a gentle gaze, while Tristan was besides the male bat. Tristan saw the sparky connection between the two. Though, Eli showed this connection the most, it was also most obvious. Considering his gaze at her of admiration and adoration. Tristan couldn't help but smile at this, it was a similar connection that Tristan felt between Skipper and Marlene. He knew this would be interesting to witness both.
"So, Eli is it?" Tristan turned to the male bat, who brought his attention to the otter.
"Yeah, I'm Eli." confirmed Eli with a warm smile.
Tristan nodded the smirked. "Maybe you'll be one to admit." he then pointed to Cassie, who was getting some x-rays prepared. "Do you like her?"
Eli widen his eyes at this. "W-What?"
"Do you like her? As in, you have a crush on her?" Tristan repeated and explained as he crossed his arms to act casual.
Eli glanced at Cassie for a split second then returned to Tristan. "Umm, I'm a bit uncomfortable answering that...Sorry."
Tristan sighed. "It's alright. We just met anyway." he then smiled. "By the way, I'm Tristan."
Eli smiled back. "And, as you know, I'm Eli."
Both shook the other paws in greeting.
"So, how's it like in this city?" asked the male otter with curiosity.
Eli smiled wider at this. "It's a wonderful sanctuary for any animal!" then his huge smile went a bit downward. "But, we must stay here forever." he was then frowning. "Never to really experience the outside world."
"Wait, what? So, if you're a citizen, you're stuck here?" Tristan widen his eyes in shock.
Eli nodded. "Yeah, basically. It's to keep this city a secret and not spread the news to every animal around. Only the absolute trusted animals to the city can enter the outside world. But, they have to earn it."
"How about me and the others? Are we allowed to be let free and come back?" questioned Tristan with a serious expression.
Eli remained silent for a moment before answering. "If you wish to stay. Then you'll stay, but not allowed to go outside this city without permission, which is very unlikely that you'll even get permission. If you wish to leave..." he then sighs. "You're memory will be wiped out, never to remember entering this city or learn anything about it..."
"What? But...the others are surely want to return back home!" Tristan snapped.
Eli frowned in sympathy. "This will be there permanent home now. If they agree to accept our terms. If not, then they are forced to leave with swiped memories of even knowing about New Spire...I know it's harsh...But, it's for the best."
Tristan sighed, knowing Eli was right. Should he tell the others? Perhaps not. Maybe they should find out later on. Enjoy th city before it'll vanish before them, forever gone. Then again, they might actually accept the terms.
"Alright, lets see what we got!" piped up a female voice.
Eli and Tristan turned to the source that was Cassie, who was already done with the X-rays. Eli and Tristan were talking longer than they thought. Julien was resting and appeared a bit tired from the whole ordeal.
Cassie was putting up the X-Ray photos to witness Julien's head structure.
There was a crack at his snout.
"Oh, just a minor fracture. I have to badged it up, but he'll be fine." Cassie smiled, which made Eli swoon silently of the smile.
Julien sighed in relief. "Thank goodness..." he then blinked in confusion. "What's a minor fracture?"
"It's just means that you're hurt, but you'll be back to normal soon enough." the gray squirrel answered. "I say, give it a week to properly heal."
"A week! Why so long?" Julien widen his eyes.
Cassie shook her head. "It's not long at all, actually. You're lucky that it'll heal so fast."
Julien frowned. "It is still a long time for royalty."
Cassie blinked at this, but let the statement slide. "Alright, lets just badged you up." she then got her supplies and started to badged up Julien's upper snout, so he can still talk. She was soon finished, and Julien kept crossing his eyes to see the upper badged up snout.
"I am to be being ugly!" cried Julien in depression.
"Not ugly, just...Well, you're not ugly." Cassie tried to comfort.
Julien responded with a sigh.
"So, since he'll be alright, do we take him now?" asked Tristan to the female doctor.
Cassie nodded. "Yeah, he'll be fine."
Tristan smiled. "Thank you." he then turned to Eli. "So, I guess we can leave now?"
Eli answered. "Yeah." he fixed his vision on Cassie. "I'll see you later."
Cassie smiled with a twinkle in her eye. "See ya, Eli."
Tristan blinked between them, then he grabbed Julien's wrist. "Come on, we better head back to the others."
"Yes, for they must all miss the king!" Julien smiled innocently.
"Sure..." Tristan trailed.
Both lemur and otter started to leave, when Eli saw this he followed them out.
They said their goodbyes to Cassie, also including Melissa on their way out. They soon exited the medical center, now heading back to the others in the auditorium.
"I'm gonna win!"
Was the first thing Tristan, Julien, and Eli heard as they entered the auditorium.
In front of them were every animal arguing except Ellie, Kiki, Rachel, Dante and Vincent. Those animals were trying to calm the others down. Vincent was doing this by yelling and a bit of threatening working for Max and Roger. Kiki was a bit nervous, and was quietly saying to calm down, but none listened to her. Ellie was actually getting into the arguments a little, considering some insulted her. Rachel was trying to keep her temper down, but she started to fail miserably.
"QUIET!" Eli yelled as loud as he can, and with his deep voice, this sounded monstrous and filled with venom.
This dropped everyones' volume that soon became silent.
Tristan and Julien stepped away from Eli a bit.
"I can't believe you all! What happened here anyway?" frowned Eli as he started to walk forward to the animals ahead. "It better be a good excuse to act this way. I don't tolerate arguments."
"He started it." everyone-except Blowhole, Kiki, Ellie, Vincent, Kiki, and Rachel- pointed to a dolphin who was Dr. Blowhole.
Eli sent his glare at Blowhole. "Do you mind explaining why or how you started?"
Blowhole blinked at the bat. "Uh...Well..."
"I'm waiting for an answer." Eli tapped his foot.
Blowhole narrowed his eyes. "Wait, I don't have to listen to the likes of you!"
"You're in my university! Therefor I can kick you out, and I know you don't want that." Eli returned the gesture.
Blowhole frowned at this, knowing this male bat was right. "Fine...I'll tell you."
FLASHBACK
The animals were still sitting in the auditorium's chairs. All were quiet, none were talking for all were in their own deep thoughts. Blowhole noticed that Ellie the armadillo kept glancing at him, which he found a bit annoying.
Blowhole frowned towards her, then she looked away. Blowhole was thinking why this armadillo kept glancing, blushing, and smiling nervously at him. It didn't make much sense to the male dolphin, so in curiosity, he got up on his segaway, and rolled on over to her. Ellie saw this and she got really nervous. You can certainly tell in her eyes, which even Blowhole took notice.
"Alright, armadillo, mind explaining your behavior?" Blowhole quirked his expression.
Ellie stayed silent for a moment before speaking. "Nothing to worry about, dear sir. I...Just hope you enjoy your stay! Yep, that's what it is."
"Are yo-" Blowhole was cut off by an urgent Ellie who was trying to keep her attraction unaware.
"Positive!"
Blowhole stood there for a moment, before shrugging his shoulders. He then turned away and was then riding back to his seat in the far corner. But, Skipper saw Blowhole by and saw the glances Blowhole made to the armadillo.
This caught Skipper's attention.
"Blowhole!" the elite leader called.
The dolphin snapped towards Skipper. "What do you want now?"
Skipper got out of his seat and went over to the dolphin, but told his other soldiers to stay put. "Have the eye on the armadillo, hm?"
"What? What made you come up with that idea?"
"I have my sources. But, anyway, you have to stay away from her." frowned Skipper seriously as he crossed his flippers.
Blowhole didn't like the sound of following an enemy's orders. "Oh, why ever not?" Blowhole decided to humor the flightless foe, but was angry at Skipper for even thinking Blowhole would even consider listening to him.
"You may be a guest to this city just as I! But, you're still pure evil and I don't want you to hurt a citizen." Skipper answered easily. "With your sick twisted mind."
Blowhole frowned a little annoyed. "You don't get it do you? I can't even do anything!" he then muttered to himself. "No matter how much I want to." Blowhole wanted to take down his flightless foes since they're right there! But, he can't do any evil schemes considering he would get kicked out. Which the evil dolphin doesn't want.
Skipper heard Blowhole's mutter, and grew more alert. "I have my eyes on you, Blowhole."
"Whatever." the dolphin rolled his eyes. "You're wasting your time."
Skipper growled the went back to his seat. Blowhole watched this for a moment, and noticed the glance Skipper made to Marlene for a split second. It was a nervous type of glance when school kids make to the opposite gender. This perked up Blowhole's interest. Perhaps he can work around with this.
Blowhole then went back to his seat, which was sadly to him, besides Roger.
But, oddly, Roger ignored Blowhole. This made Blowhole blink, because the alligator once in a while glanced at him wanting to talk. But, this time, he was just looking ahead. Even though Blowhole spited this giant reptile, he couldn't help but feel insulted. Of course, his mind would never concept that idea or feeling.
The dolphin perked up when striking an idea. Blowhole knew he couldn't fight or kill, but that doesn't mean he can't have fun. Blowhole then leaned towards Roger's hearing range and whispered. "I'm going to win." Blowhole expected a twitch of the eye, or even a small growl. But, he didn't expect Roger to rage out.
"NO! ME! ALL MY LIFE I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS!"
Blowhole blinked, then jumped when Roger roared. Yeah, Blowhole really didn't expect this.
"Hey! No fighting!" snapped Vincent as he flew over.
"Well, I'm just sick that no one believes in me!" whined Roger.
"I can think in so many reasons." intruded Blowhole, which made the alligator glare at him. Apparently, Roger was thinking about this for a while now about the words the others said about him. Roger wasn't stupid.
"I tried to be nice to you, but I can see that's not gonna work!" snapped Roger. "So, it's on! I'll win that position!"
"Both of you calm down." glared Vincent to Roger and Blowhole, but both ignored him.
"Bring it, peppy!" Blowhole snapped back at Roger.
This argument between dolphin and alligator started to spice things up with the others.
"How can you be so sure you'll win?" came forward Raymond. "I can have the chance!"
"No, I could!" Tanya frowned with crossed arms.
Mia jumped in. "Or, perhaps the royalty can!"
"I think not! I've been cooking for a while and I think I can win!" Maurice snapped.
Mort started to whimper of all the fighting.
While the four lemurs started to argue, Skipper snapped towards Dante, who was arguing with Kyle.
"I'll take you down, raccoon! Marlene shouldn't be with the likes of you!" Skipper snarled.
"The likes of me? She has a better chance with you!" Dante snapped back, but Kyle jumped in.
"Skipper is way better than a blue eye raccoon!"
Skipper smirked at this, but frowned when Marlene started to enter the argument.
"I'm an adult! I know what to do! Why do you even care?"
"You're too naive and innocent, Marlene! You don't understand! I care because I'm worried." Skipper frowned at the female otter.
"I didn't ask for you to be! So, don't be!"
Naomi was pretty quiet, but she started to get irritated greatly, and was close to arguing herself.
Another quaral went back and forth to the other three penguins. The bats and cats were argueing about the 'Skilene' plan, but that soon turn into random ranting. Especially Erik.
Rachel, Kiki, Ellie, and Vincent were trying to get things to calm down, and soon Eli, Julien, and Tristan walked in.
END OF FLASHBACK
Eli blinked at Blowhole's back-up story. "Oh..." he then frowned. "Alright, I'm gonna give you a warning...But, that's it. Just don't do it again."
Blowhole nodded and agreed to this.
Eli then glanced at everyone in the room, all focusing on him and some were still irritate of before events. "Okay...I have an announcement. About the job. As I said in the letter, you all have to re-apply. Now, I can also add more to the audition list. Would any of you like to join?" Eli then smiled, wanting to go back to the reason why they're even here.
Skipper glanced at Dante who was standing by Marlene. Skipper was thinking to himself that maybe applying for this job could show Marlene of who is the bigger man here. Skipper did so happen to over-hear that Dante was a cook himself. Maybe, even, this would impress Marlene. "I'll sign in."
Private frowned at this. Skipper knew he wanted the job, but now Skipper was applying? This made Private feel a little anger, then he turned to Eli. "I want to join as you already know."
"Alright. Anyone else want to re-apply or apply?" asked Eli.
"I want to try." declared Maurice.
Tanya frowned at this. "Me too."
"I want to as well." nodded Raymond in confirmation.
"I, the king, would like to apply." smiled Julien. "All this fighting just wants me to compete!" Julien shivered excitedly. Mia smiled at Julien, but remained silent.
Naomi then came in. "I want to, too."
Kyle blinked at this in surprise. "Really?" he then turned to Eli. "I'll like to re-apply, thank you."
"I want to re-apply!" declared Blowhole in determination.
"Me too!" Roger stepped in while glaring at Blowhole.
"Well, it sounds a bit intriguing. I'll join as well." smiled Erik, while Kelsi did the same and applied.
Amy smirked to herself in thought then turned to Eli. "Me too!"
Max nodded. "I'll like to join!"
"As everyone is starting to apply for this job, I'll give it a shot." Kowalski came in, while Rico nodded wanting to apply as well. This made Private frowned deeper.
Marlene was still frowning at Skipper, then her eyes flashed of determination. "I want to apply!"
Eli nodded to all this, and he quickly started to write the names down on his clip-board that Ellie handed it to him. Ellie was making her list as well.
"Okay, thank you for applying!" Eli smiled brightly. "All of you shall be put into consideration."
The applied animals nodded, but they knew this was going to be hard-core competition.
Vincent was having a bad vibe of all this. He felt the animals will be more trouble than he thought...Especially the bottle-nose.
Dante was still irritated of Kyle and Skipper. Knowing, he has competition as well as the applied animals.
Ellie was a bit worried for the applied animals. She was hoping this won't break any bonds with anyone. Ellie would hate for that to happen.
Rachel was frowning of the possible situations of the future. This time, Rachel had the right to be paranoid.
Kiki still appeared nervous of all the new animals, and like Rachel, she grew paranoid.
Eli just kept on smiling, thinking this would bring up getting a better cook than he and Ellie intended too.
Mort sighed, knowing all this would lead to something bad.
Mia was a bit excited to see the out-come. But, she didn't hope for the worst, just the entertainment.
Tristan's mind was still in the predicament of never returning to the zoo, without a swiped memory. He knew he had to tell them.
For all their sakes.