Chapter 2:

Marlene was pacing around the floor thinking of how they will get that many people together by Thanksgiving. Raymond was sitting down at Marlene's table, Erik was pacing with Marlene, and Kyle was starring at the water in Marlene's habitat.

"Man," Erik said, "Even Fabian would say this is going to be hard."

"Why would he say that?" Marlene said.

"He's a party…. planner…that's it! POTATO!" Erik said. Everyone ignored his random outburst. "I completely forgot he was a party planner." Raymond said.

"That's great," Kyle said, "Now let's go get him." Then the group left Marlene's habitat and went to find Fabian.

The first place they looked was at the Penguins H.Q. And luckily, they were right. When Kyle, Raymond, Erik, and Marlene barged in, they saw Tanya and Fabian talking to Skipper. "What the," Skipper said, "Two bats? That means one of them is a spy!"

"No," Erik said, "He isn't a spy. He's our cousin, Fabian."

"Oh…well then." Skipper said.

"And who are you?" Fabian said.

"That's Skipper, my boyfriend." Marlene said.

"Boyfriend?" Fabian said then started looking at Skipper closely. "I se why you're dating him."

Then Raymond and Erik scratched the back of there heads.

"Uhhh…right." Skipper said.

"How about I show you around a little more Fabian?" Tanya said.

"OH! That would be nice!" Fabian said. Then Tanya and Fabian left.

"So what's the deal of that bat?" Skipper said.

"Well…he's not playing for our team?" Raymond said.

"We're playing a game?" Skipper said in confusing.

"No…umm…" Raymond said.

"Let's just say he likes men…a lot." Erik said.

"So? He's very masculine." Skipper said.

"No…he's not into women like us." Raymond said.

"He's not getting a girlfriend any time soon. So what?" Skipper said.

"No…" Raymond said, "How can I explain this…"

"Let's just say umm…" Erik said, "Let's just say that Tomatoes like Lettuce. But this tomato likes other tomatoes. You get it?"

"I don't get your southern talk." Skipper said.

"He's gay!" Kyle yelled out in frustration.

"OH! Why didn't you say so?" Skipper said realizing what they said.

"We did!" Erik said.

SkullCemetery: Ladies and Gentlemen reading this fanfic right now, I personally would like to say that the animals of Central Park zoo, and the Skullbrothers have absolutely nothing against gays in any way.

SkullShovel: Yeah. We are using this Fabian guy for comedy relief and making him our stereotype of a gay. So we don't mean to offend anybody.

SkullAssassin: So please enjoy the rest of this fanfic. Thank you very much.

"Ummm guys…" Marlene said, "Don't you remember why we came here?" Then everyone stood there for a second to think about it, and then it hit Erik. "OH YEAH!" Erik said.

"The dinner!" Raymond said finishing Erik's sentence.

"Let's get him. And don't forget this time!" Kyle said. Then Marlene, Raymond, Erik, and Kyle ran after Fabian and Tanya. "Wait…what?" Skipper said in confusion.

The group ran to the Lemur habitat because that would be one place Tanya would show him. When they got there, they saw Fabian talking with King Julien. "I love that crown Julien!" Fabian said.

"Thanks you. It is one of my many symbols of Kingly ship." King Julien said.

"Yeah," Fabian said, "It goes so great with the pattern of your fur!"

"I never noticed!" Julien said.

Then Raymond rolled his eyes and walked up to Fabian. "Fabian?" The Muscular lemur said.

"Oh hey Ray!" Fabian said.

"Right, well we need your help." Raymond said.

"Oh. Anything for you Cousin." Fabian said.

"You see," Erik, said, "We're having this Thanksgiving dinner for our friends and there parents, and we need you to help us set it up in about 4 days. Can you help us?"

"Oh my gosh," Fabian said, "You are talking the impossible. But I can do it."

"Great," Marlene said, "So what do you need?"
"I need a big location. I need some paint, people to help and I need a leachy berry smoothie." Fabian said.

"Uhhh…right. Mort!" Raymond said. And Mort pulled out a blender and some leachy nuts. "You can count me out of this," Maurice said, "Someone's got to take care of Julien."

Then, Fabian looked around the Lemur Habitat. "This place would be Perfect for this dinner!" The gay bat said happily.

"Great!" Raymond said. "What can go wrong?"

Just then, Erik heard a voice that sounded very familiar to him. It was Kelsi! "Erik! I'm here! And I brought my family!"

"What!" Erik said both happy and shocked. Erik ran down to the Otter habitat (Because that's one place Kelsi would look first) and saw Kelsi's parents and her sister.

"Kelsi! And family! You're here…early!" Erik said.

"Yeah!" Kelsi said hugging Erik, "I thought we would surprise you!"

"Yeah! I'm very surprise." Erik said.

"So," Kelsi's dad said, "You must be the one dating my daughter."

"Kelsi's told me much about you," Kelsi's sister, Samantha, said, "Do you have a brother?"

"Why yes I do," Erik said, "He lives in the Lemur habitat. Don't ask." Then Erik and Kelsi and her family went to the Lemur Habitat.

At the Lemur habitat, Erik was showing them around the place, when Raymond came in. "Hey Fabian," Raymond said, "Where do you want this table at?"

Then Samantha saw Raymond, and right from there, Samantha fell in love. She saw Raymond standing with his hands on his hips, looking to his left, and the light from the sun was shining on him. Samantha could hear romantic music playing in her head right then. Samantha walked up to Raymond and held out her hand nervously. "Hi," She said flirtatiously, "I'm Samantha."

"Hi," Raymond said not knowing what she was thinking, "I'm Raymond."

Then Samantha chuckled a little. Then Raymond realized what she was up to. He looked around and Tanya walked up to the bat and Lemur. "And this is my girlfriend, Tanya." Raymond said.

Then Samantha snapped out of her spell. "I'm outta here." Samantha said walking away from Raymond.

"It's alright Sam," Kelsi's mom said, "There are other Lemurs here."

"Well," Raymond said, "The only ones available right now are Mort and King Julien."

"Yeah," Marlene said, "Erik, can I speak to you for a second?"

"Sure." Erik said then the two of them walked out of sight of Kelsi and her parents.

"What are they doing here? They're early." Marlene said.

"I know…but they showed up early. What was I suppose to do?" Erik said worried.

"Well, that means we have a little less time for this party." Marlene said.

"Look," Erik said, "It can't get any worse…right?"

"Hopefully." Marlene said. Then Fabian came up to the two of them.

"Heeyy!" Fabian said, "We need to stop for today. We can continue yesterday."

"Alright then." Marlene said. Then Marlene walked out to the group of animals.

"Ummm everyone…my habitat has enough room for Erik and company, but someone's going to stay with the Lemurs."

"I'LL STAY WITH RAYMOND!" Samantha said with her Wing up.

"It's alright," Erik, said, "I'll stay with Raymond."

"I pick Erik." Raymond said pointing to Erik.
"Darn it." Samantha said snapping her fingers.

"Alright then. Erik will stay with Raymond and everyone else will be in m habitat." Marlene said.

The next day:

Marlene woke up and saw that the place was empty; except she saw Kyle standing there starring at her, waiting for her to wake up. Marlene didn't expect Kyle there, so she screamed. "Kyle," Marlene said shocked, "Don't scare me like that."

"Sorry Marlene." Kyle said.

"So…about the dinner…" Marlene said to the wolf.

"Well," Kyle began, "Good news and bad news."

"What's the good news?" Marlene said.

"We're almost done." Kyle said happily.

"That's great!" Marlene said. "The bad news?"
"You see," Kyle said, "Everyone's parents are already here."

"WHAT?" Marlene said shocked to hear they already showed up.