Chapter 6: Well that happened....
My mouth was hinged in a complaite complexion, shoulders slumped forwards. Mingled together in a tattered mess the boys, the boys they were, they were humans! Each of them wearing a matching black sweater with a white shirt underneath, their perked collars dazzled with a black bow tie, followed by elesive pale skin and each with black hair. Skipper was the first to recoprate.
" What in the name of Ghondi's knug chucks?" He exclamied while he got a look at the others, Private rubbed his head as he too got a look at Skipper and himself.
" Skippa? What happened we turned into humans!" I noticed Private looked like a 16 year old, probably his real age in human years. He also looked like a teen he had a curvy hairline with freckles dotting his nose he had dark blue eyes along with the others.
" I have no idea, Kowalski" Skipper turned to Kowalski who was in an uncomfortable position on the floor, he stood up towering the others in the process, he grabbed his notebook without question and scribbled down his notes, suddenly he came to abrupt stop, pointed his pencil at me and gazed.
" Well well well Sky, how did this come about?" Skipper was up in my face, I glared as I pushed him back some.
" I don't know why do you guys acuse me?" I asked hastly, Private stepped back as Rico stood up and grunted in either anger of excitement.
" Well in my conclusions it appears the host of the diease may also occur to be lonely, depressed, isolated and etc. I also read that it is a rare magical type of curse of which it can turn the animal, human or vise versa into a different organism" Kowalski looked bewildered again as he stared at himself, he peered up at me smiled quickly then looked away flustered.
" But Skippa! We can'ty stay like this forever how do we change back?" Private asked worried, " Without our penguin cover we can't go on missions" My stomach turned on itself, I didn't mean for this to happen,it wasn't my ententions.
" Hey Skipper? You guys down here?" We heard Marlene's voice echo down the ladder, I sighed I wonder if Marlene could help me out. Skipper answered as we heard Marlene walk down the ladder, well all my hopes were crushed as we all saw Marlene. She was tall, slender, short brown hair that touched her shoulders. She wore a brown sweater that tied in the front, a white long sleeved shirt with a matching brown skirt, she had the most beautiful golden eyes I've ever seen.
"Umm Skipper when ever your going to do a freak radioactive experiment warn me first okay?" she sarcasticly remarked.
" Isn't our fault it seems Sky's more powerful then we thought with the whole curse thing" Skipper pointed at me, Marlene looked up at him with wide eyes.
" Sky? How in the world?" Marlene started when the ladder opening bursted through the door and inside jumped a native looking boy with a grass skirt and a huge leafy crown.
" What has happened to my wonderous furry booty? How can I be king without the likeness of my fur?" I narrowed my eyes at him as Skipper slapped his face and walked towards me.
" Meet ringtail, he's umm how can I descirbe him?" Skipper pondered for a word.
" A king and who is this new addition to the family? She must pass my test in order to be approved for my loyalty, Miss?" Ringtail grabbed my arm, I biskly swatted it away.
" Oh the Sky spirits informed me that you are dark, moody, and very violent I shall call you Raven" I cocked my head to the side.
" You did say my name in that sentence how ever it wasn't Raven" I informed while casusly putting my hands in my pockets.
Instead he ingored me and turned towards Skipper, grabbed him by the shoulders and started shaking him violently, Skipper pushed him aside and returned beside me.
" I'm not sure how you were able to turn Julian into a human or Marlene they are close so maybe it reflected on them"
" Well all I wanted was a human friend to talk to, especailly after talking to Miyuki this morning" I replied solemnly, I saw Kowalski look up for a minute before he retreated back to his notes. Skipper seemed glazed with a look before it turned into a serene smile, it was an unusal look on his face.
" We are your friends though, no matter what animal we are" Skipper said calmly, I felt embarrased I turned them in all into humans with no way of turning them back. I looked at Skipper apologeticly.
" But I don't know how to change you back" I whispered, I heard Kowalski cough for a minute and Rico's unsual breathing pattern.
" Who cares? We can still do our operations just a little differently, it's not your fault Sky that we turned like this" Skipper placed a hand on my shoulder and cradled me a little bit. I tried to smile but the fault was mine. Julian walked over to me and frowned a little bit.
" So Raven was at fault here? Well she should be throughly punished for this awful eh, transformation" Julian proclamed, I gritted my teeth in frustration.
" For that last time my name isn't Raven! It's Sky, Sky Bell!" I pratically yelled at him, he stopped in his tracks and stared up at me.
" Sky? As in Sky spirits Sky?" I shrugged, what was he talking about. Like an alarm he dropped to his knees and bowed at me.
" Please forgive me Sky, I have forgot my manners as you are a savior to me, the great Sky spirits have sent me you to enlighten my ways, thank you Sky Spirits!" He shouted towards the ceiling, I glancd at Skipper to which he rolled his eyes.
" If it's okay with you I'd like to get back to my normal life please" I felt that comment was directed indirectly towards me.
" Yes Marlene we'd all like that" Skipper recoiled as he took a sip of his coffee, in an instant he immedatly turned back to his penguin self, we all stared in shock.
" Skipper? How did you do that?" I asked my voice shifted in bewilderment.
" Huh? Well Sky I just took a drink of my favorite thing in the whole wide world" He cradled his coffee mug, just then Kowalski jumped into our circle with a huge, goofy smile painted on his face.
" That's it! We all need to endulge in our favorite things! That should reverse the curse" Kowalski announced, everyones eyes lifted as everyone smiled.
Kowalski grabbed a piece of candy that he found lodged between the recliner cusions. As soon as he took a bite he returned to a penguin, Private ran and grabbed a lollipop the same thing happened, Rico grabbed his flamethrower that was thrown against the table and hugged it, he too turned back. Without hesitation the others ran off back to their homes. I smiled as I walked back towards them, they needed an apoligy.
" I'm sorry guys I'll try not to turn you guys again" I whispered, instead Skipper put a flipper on my lips to silence me.
" Not to worry my mammal friend, I wouldn't mind becoming a human again it would be okay if we could walk among humans without being caught" I felt a ghost of a smile tug at my face. I nodded in agreement.
" Sure whenever you want" I smiled.
The boys talked with the other animals, and they agreed they wouldn't mind turning into humans once and a while, with their concent of coarse. I nodded with their terms. That night the boys were in their HQ while I was sitting on their habitat, the water was cold but refreshing from the heat wave that we've been experiencing for the past few days, I favored the tingle of the water tickling my toes. I enjoyed stargazing something I haven't done in weeks, the zoo closed early on Sundays I took my chances and sat up on the what I called deck.
It was a clear night, the moon was beautiful as it shone down and reflected itself on the wavey waters, I smiled as the wind rippled the water and made a magestic lullaby as it smashed off of the rock. I had an idea to go swimming that night. I stood up and dove into the water, it was penetrating but the friction between cold and warmth didn't last long with the cold embracing me and cooling me off, I surfaced and breathed in as much air as I could, taking my hands and staightning out my hair. I kicked off my sandals and watched as they floated up and swam on teh surface, it felt good to have my feet freed. I swam towards the rock and passed the thermeter, it was 86 degrees farinhet, pretty warm for a penguins habitat. As I came towards the back of the rock I observerd that I wasn't alone.
Kowalski was swimming as well, it caught me off guard as I wondered how he got in here without me knowing. Slowly I dunked my head under the water and watched his show, Kowalski was a wonderful swimmer, he did many loop de loops without taking a breath, myself surfaced a bunch of times while I awaited for his breathe, when he did surface his eyes meet mine. I smiled coyly and waved, he floated there without an expression then he cheekly smiled.
" Sky I thought you were watching the stars" he challenged, I smiled brighter. I laid on my back and floated.
" Who says I couldn't have a midnight swim?" I asked, put the question on him I thought.
" Er no one you just suprised me as all" Kowalski sounded so casual and cool headed, I've always wondered what it would be like to push his buttons once or twice, don't ask me why it was a tempation I've had since I came to live with these guys.
" Yeah, by the way Kowalski we never had a conversation at all, or ones that are really short" I responded while my feet touched the bottom, concrete figures.
" Well what kind of diagolue would you like to engage in?" he asked, I pondered not sure of what to say.
" I've always wondered I've learned that Kowalski is polish for blacksmith why is that your name when your the intelligent one" Intelligent sounded like I polished him for something he had, but lacked a little bit as well, he turned his head to the side embarrased.
" Yes that is it's orgin and ethmology however it is let alone a name" I found myself agreeing with him, I suppose that made sence, he couldn't pick his name.
" Are you Skipper, Private and Rico brothers?"
" No we all came here at different times, Skipper was first then me, Rico followed by Private"
" What's your favorite pasttime?"
" Inventing, calculating and something else I enjoy"
" What's the something else?" I asked quickly.
" Classifed" Though I could tell it was secret by his tone, the agitation that rang through it.
I yawned and laid down on my back. As I stared at the sky I saw two lights flashing, an airplane I thought to myself, then it came closer almost as if directed at me. Sure enough it was a plane a huge private jet by the looks of it and it was indeed directed towards me. As if the plane knew it was crashing it lefted a bit but it dipped down this time headed straight for Kowalski.
" Kowalski! look out!" I yelled as I jumped towards him, I embraced him as soon as the planes tip crashed into the pool, sending us underneath the waves.
Who crashed into the pool? Find out next chapter as well I'm gonna have fun with the penguin's turning human! But tell me your thoughts on the idea
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