Chapter 2: Julien's Beginning

The sun rised over the city of New York and hit it's golden light upon Central Park Zoo. The three lemurs were in the moon-bounce where they were all still asleep.

But, one started to wake.

King Julien slowly opened his eyes when the sun caressed it's warmth upon him. He sat up and stretched his body. The lemur king squinted his eyes from the sunlight. He stood and gazed over to Mort and Maurice, who were still soundly asleep. Julien watched them for a moment before becoming bored. He got up and slowly started jumping up and down. Which made Maurice and Mort flying in the air in the process. This was not surprising to them though. Yet, they still wanted the lemur king to stop.

"Your, Majesty! Please, stop!" Maurice yelled this when he hit his head on the moon-bounce's floor.

Mort let his arms fly as if he was a bird. "Weee! I'm bouncing!"

Julien stopped bouncing when he knew his servants were now fully awake. The three lemurs climbed out of their resting area.

When fully in the opening of their habitat, Julien fixed his whole gaze on his servants. "Good! You're all awake! Now, today's list to be do-"

"WATCH OUT!" came a warning yell from the penguins' habitat.

The lemur king turned to only get hit by a bowling pin. He staggered back and fell on his bottom, his eyes were unfocused and he shook his head to regain it. Julien began to feel a major headache upon him.

The day so far, wasn't good.

"What is the meaning of this!" Julien rubbed his temples when complaining.

Maurice stood there in shock of the sudden of events that took place, the aye-aye snapped out of it and was soon next to his king.

"Your Majesty! Are you alright!"

Julien was still rubbing his temples and glared angrily at Maurice. "What do you think, Maurice! Of course, I'm not all right! I was hit in the face with that thing," Julien points to the bowling pin on the side that was cracked when it hit the lemur King, he continued " and you ask such a thing!"

Maurice stayed silent, and Mort was soon by his side, but stayed silent to not feel the king's wrath.

A jump was heard and a soft landing. The three lemurs snapped to the source, but this only increased the lemur king's head-ache.

The source was a female penguin with a short stature, but tough body, she was average weight with a round head. Her eye-lashes were small, but noticeable. The female was named, Extreme, and was the new solider for the penguin elite team, but never really follows the rules.

"Hola, Julien! Sorry about the hit. I was just proving to Skipper of how far I can kick better than him. I sure proved him!" came the laugh of the penguin, Extreme. She waddled over to talk to them better.

Mort smiled, and jumped on Extreme to clinged her. "Off!" was her response. When he didn't let go she punched him and he fell off. But, that didn't stop his smile of delight.

"I'm a punching bag!"

Extreme rolled her eyes. While Maurice glanced at her. "Don't you think that was harsh?"

"No."

"Thought you would say that."

Julien felt anger towards the female penguin and his servants. First, they ignored him. Second, he was hurt because of Extreme. He knew the female penguin always was trouble for the penguins and he always found it funny and laughed about it. But, when hegets hurt. There is no exception.

"Extreme!" was the yell of the lemur king, as he put both of his paws on his forehead to decrease the pain.

The female penguin fixed her gaze from Maurice to Julien. "What?"

Julien narrowed his eyes in furry. "No one is to be hitting the king's face with any object, without punishment! An-"

"Yadda, yadda. Listen, amigo, I don't even listen to Skipper rules, what makes you think I would listen to you?" Extreme explained and ignoring the fury of the lemur king.

She rolled her eyes and went her way back to H.Q. "Adios!" She jumped over the stone wall and landed gracefully, she then went her way to the gate of the penguin habitat and went over to the water. Extreme popped up and went into the open hole of where the fish bowl was supposed to be located, but was on the side. She placed the fish bowl to it's rightful place on her way in.

The other penguins were already within the H.Q.

Julien wanted to march right over there and give the punishment. He was about to do so, but his servants stopped him.

"Your majesty, wait! Don't you know Extreme? She'll want revenge on you if you revenge on her! This will only turn up bad!" warned Maurice.

Mort nodded his head in agreement and added. "King Julien, she'll do something bad to you! If that happens, the feet will also be hurt!"

Julien simply blinked on Mort's warning, and rolled his eyes in response. He turned to Maurice. "Then I'll do something right back! No one is to be hurting the king! NO ONE!"

Maurice was about to say something else, but Julien gave him a glare of warning of his own. This kept the aye-aye quiet. Mort eyes started to water of the thought of something bad happening to the feet. Julien noticed this and gave a glare to Mort, who shrunk back in fear. Maurice narrowed his eyes, hating that Julien thinks he always seems to know it all, but doesn't. But, the aye-aye kept that to himself.

The lemur king ignored his servants' behavior and such. He then went his way to the penguins' H.Q.

Leaving his servants behind him.

No longer caring.

The lemur king quickly went over to a tree that went over the stone wall and stretched over to the H.Q. that belonged to his flightless neighbors. He climbed to the top of where clusters of leaves were located. Julien quickly jumped over a branch, and leaped down, to the penguins' habitat. The ring-tail went to the fish bowl and pushed it aside, letting himself having the entrance to the H.Q. He quickly climbed down the ladder and was soon on the ground of the penguins' headquarters.

Skipper was going through some files in the moment on the table, but quickly noticed Julien's entrance. He looked up to see the irritated king with his arms cross. This was a bit unusal for the lemur king to not make such a ruckus when visiting him and his team.

But, only Skipper noticed Julien's enterance. For all his team-mates were in Kowalski's lab, examining and asking of Kowalski's new invention. Skipper would have joined them, but he needed to go through some papers first, for classified reasons.

Skipper raised an non-exsistent eyebrow "Ring-tail?"

Julien face was full of anger. "Where's that pranking penguin, Extreme!"

Skipper was a bit suprise to see the blunt out of Julien for once. Usually, it was himself.

But, that was no excuse to barge in here and give off the impression of screaming to a team-mate of Skipper's.

No excuse at all.

"Ring-tail, you can't just barge in here and demand to see any of my team anytime you want! It's uncalled for!" Skipper snapped and pointed.

"But, she is to be being punished for her hitting me in the royal face!" Julien incountered, pointing to his face, indicating the small bruise on his forehead. But, barely noticeable.

Skipper chuckled a bit, of seeing the bruise, but stopped when he got the glare that belonged to Julien. Skipper coughed to play it off. "Listen, Ring-tail. Just tell me what happened, and then we can both talk about how we can fix this in a more reasonable way."

Julien scoffed. "There would be no reasonable way! I am the king, and I can do whatever I want!"

Skipper narrowed his eyes. "Then, there is nothing I can do, Ring-tail. So, get out of my H.Q.!" he threw Julien up the entrance of the fish bowl, and closed it. Julien went back to push it aside, but there was no use. It wouldn't budge.

The lemur king knew Skipper must have done something, and he did not like the locked security. The king should go where ever he wanted! But, perhaps he should worry about that later, it was almost time for Alice's route to feed the animals. And, not to mention, he heard the the bells ring when he was kicked out of the penguins' H.Q. The zoo was now opened, and he soon heard the chattering and footsteps of the tourist.

Julien quickly made his way to his 'kingdom', without the humans noticing him, and saw Maurice and Mort relaxing on the lay-out chairs.

"Maurice, where's my food?" spoke Julien with stern

Maurice turned towards him. "Hasn't come yet."

The lemur king pouted. But, he was then hit in the face again, except by a mango. "OW! My royal face!"

"Ha! Look at that dumb lemur in pain!" laughed a child voice.

Julien snapped his attention up to see a small boy, with pure red hair, and a light blue jacket. His pants where khaki, but Julien couldn't care less of the appearance of the human child. That boy hit him right in the face! He was going to get it!

The ring-tail grabbed the fruit that hit him and aimed it at the laughing boy. Julien threw it as hard as he can. The tall lemur hit his target. Julien smirked victoriously when he heard the cry of the human child. That will show him.

"What's going on here!" came the voice of Alice.

Julien's smirk vanished when hearing the zoo-keeper. Knowing full well that the child would blame him.

"Th-hat lemur! Threw a mango...at my face!" cried the boy, and pointed to his nose, that was bleeding. Julien chuckled at the boy, knowing the boy deserved it anyway.

The boy continued to cry, and Julien couldn't stop chuckling that soon turned into laughter. Maurice and Mort saw what happened, and both couldn't believe the cruelty their king did. Sure, the boy started it, but was it really necessary to laugh at his pain? The boy was bleeding for crying out loud! Mort even started to glare at Julien, and Maurice followed the same. Julien didn't even notice his servants' glares. The laughter continued.

"There, there." Alice comforted the boy, but clearly annoyed. "You better go to the infirmary. I'll take care of the lemur."

The boy nodded, and took off to the direction of the infirmary.

Even though the boy was gone, Julien continued his laughter, who was also bending his knees for they were loosing strength of his laughing. But, it immediately ceased when he felt a hand wrap around his waist and threw him to a cell-cage. He blinked a couple of times to re-focus himself. His body was sliding back and forth, indicating the cage was swinging of movement. Before Alice turned a corner, Julien saw the glares of his servants.

He felt rage, they can't glare at their king like that!

The penguins watched him leave. All feeling ashamed at the lemur king for his actions. Julien glared at them.

This just wasn't his day.

Alice took another turn, and the the otters' habitat. Julien saw Marlene, who was playing tricks for the humans. She frowned when she saw Julien in the cage. Marlene didn't know what happened, and she worried for the lemur king. Julien saw her worry, and smiled at her. Marlene weakly smiled back, not knowing how to react. But, she soon went back to playing tricks for the humans again, for that was her job and purpose.

The female zoo-keeper finally made the last turn to another small building. It gave the lemur king the cold vibe up his spine. It had only one window, and a single door in the middle of the wall ahead of them. Alice opened the door with her keys of all doors of the zoo. Inside was just depressing and dull to Julien.

There were other cages, but many were dusty. Some were decent, like the cage he was in now. Alice put him on a shelf, and placed food and water in his cage. Julien breathed, and didn't like the feeling of the air. It was too stuffy and suffocating. He thought Alice noticed it too, when she took a deep breath and coughed.

"Yuck! It's ugly in here!" she complained. She went over to a closet that was next to the shelf. Alice got out a fan, and plugged it to the socket on the wall. She turned the handle, and it soon blew air. Alice pointed the fan towards Julien, and he felt the clammy air. This was no better to the lemur king.

Alice scoffed at Julien. "You know, the zoo can get sued because of you! And, if that happens, you're out of here, pal!" the female left in a huff, and slammed the door shut.

Julien stared at the door, and tried to open his cage. But, no success. He let his paw fall to his side, and he lazily laid back. Knowing he would be here for a while. In his own thoughts to wonder. But, he hated when he was left alone with his thoughts. They thought too much of his past, present, and tries to predict the future. It messes up his morals of living freely. Julien felt fury of his inner thoughts, and always tries to ignore them. But, whenever he's alone, they crawl back to haunt him.

His inner thoughts said many things. But, all of them he disagrees, even though they proved points and no backfires of their messages. To him, they were the worst enemy. Wait, he takes that back, they are the worst enemies. There were more than one voices in his head. Sometimes, Julien believes he is crazy, but he never would admit that. Even if death itself was in front of him. His thoughts are probably his worst nightmare. They strike when he is asleep, he's surprised that he doesn't wake up with a jump. But, they were only dreams and thoughts. They would never affect him in real life.

Julien made sure of that.

The lemur king widen his eyes. He started to hear the whispers that inhabit his mind...wait, a minute...these whispers were different...They were outside his mind!

Julien glanced around quickly in the room, now knowing he is not alone.

"There he is!" whispered a creature.

Julien snapped to the source, and the creature dashed towards him, causing him to not witness the full form of his attacker. The thing opened the cage and grabbed Julien on the snout. There was major pain, as if he/she were squishing and cracking his snout. There was another, and Julien did witness the form, and then he noticed the full form of his attacker.

They were lobsters.

The lemur king knew that the last time something like this similar happened was when he was kidnapped by...could it be?

The lobsters tied him up with thick seaweed, and Julien could not escaped. When he tried before, they only pinched him more, which made him yelp. When the lobsters were done tying him, the lobster that was attacking Julien by the snout, let go. The other lobster took out a walkie-talkie.

Julien was about to scream, but the lobster that pinched his snout before, punched the side of his neck, and Julien's world began to fade to black. While no words could escape his mouth, only to be replaced by moans and grunts.

But, before the lemur king saw only blackness, he heard the lobsters' words.

"Boss, we have him."

Julien's world was then darkness...

A/N: I'm done with my second chapter! Woohoo! Well, I kept my promise. I did the next chapt in less than a month. But, I will try harder to get the next chapter done faster. It's just that I have other stories to worry about as well, so please excuse my slowness. I will try to get better, my friends. Also, I'm sorry if this chapter is shorter than the first, and less epic. But, I didn't know how to make the beginning of Julien's part with epics. Considering he's not an evil villain or whatnot. At least he has mental problems in a way. ^_^

I hope I did okay. And, just you wait for the next chapter. The third will be centered with our favorite female cub, Kiara! Then, the real ultimate adventure begins.

The story is a gift for "AlyssaLioness"

I do not own Penguins of Madagascar and/or it's characters. They belong to DreamWorks Animation and Nickelodeon.

I do not own Extreme the penguin, she belongs to "ExtremePenguin" (DeviantArt Member)

I do own this plot.

Thank you for reading this author's notes.

Kudos! Peace out! XD