Julian yelped as he scampered up a tree to the highest branch he could reach.
He glanced around below and didn't see any sign of Skipper. He let out a sigh of relief.
"Ha ha, no penguin can catch me, for I, King Julian, cannot be caught!" he exclaimed.
Suddenly Skipper popped out from the foliage next to the lemur.
"Here's Skippy!" he exclaimed with a freaky looking smile on his face.
Julian shrieked and dove back down, jumping down the branches to the sidewalk. Skipper was quick to follow, and he gave chase as Julian jumped to the top of a wall. They jumped down into a habitat, and Julien took off as fast as he could. Immidietely he ran into something, and fell backwards.
He yelped, expecting to see Skipper, but saw Bada and Bing instead.
"Oh, phew, I thought you be the slap happy penguin." he sighed.
"Ey, whatta ya think yer doin here, eh?" Bada asked.
"Yeah, this is our personal habitat here." Bing added.
"Uh, I am recalling our many disputes, but perhaps you could be protecting me from the psycho bird?" Julien asked with a nervous smile.
"And why would we do that?"
"Because I am your king, and it is in everyone's job describtions to be protecting me."
The the gorillas glanced at each other, then back at Julien.
"Throw in a bucket of mangoes, and we'll see what we can do." Bing replied.
"Fine, whatever, just protect me already!"
"Where is he anyway?"
"Well, he was right behind me-"
Julien turned to see Skipper had disappeared.
"Where'd he go?"
He heard a crashing noise behind him, followed by two loud thuds, and he turned to see Bada and Bing unconcious on the ground. Skipper stood in front of him, dusting his flippers off.
"Gonna have to do better than that, Ringtail." the penguin remarked, smirking at the lemur.
Julien yelped and jumped out of the habitat. He raced through the zoo to another habitat, and scrambled over the wall and into the small cave. As the inhabitant came into view, he dove through the air and clung to her.
"Marlene! Save mehe!" he wailed.
"Julien, what the heck is going on?" the otter exclaimed, startled by his sudden appearance.
"Skipper is trying kill me!"
"Is that what that shout was about?"
"Yes! Just because I broke his stupid fishy coffee mug!"
"You broke his coffee mug? Dude, that's something you just don't do."
"Well how was I supposed to know that? It's not my fault he has the butter fingers! Or flippers, if you are wanting to be technical, but still."
"Well what do you want me to do?"
"Easy! You shall be the kingly body shield."
"Kingly body shiel-what?"
"You stand in front of me and keep him from hurting my kingly body, simple as that."
"Yeah, this sounds more like a sane penguin thing. Why don't you go ask them?"
"Because they're not gonna stop me."
They whipped around, and Julien yelped at the sight of Skipper and dove behind Marlene.
"Marlene, your shielding duties are beginning!" Julien exclaimed.
"Skipper, there are easier ways to handle this. Julien can buy you a new cup." Marlene stated.
"Uh, is this open to debate? Because I do not think a cup is in my budget." Julien remarked from behind her.
"Quiet, I'm trying to helping you out here. Anyway, Skipper, let's just calm down and talk this out."
"Stand aside Marlene." Skipper ordered sternly. He tried to side step her, but Julien grabbed her and moved out of the way, keeping Marlene in front of him, knowing Skipper wouldn't attack her.
Skipper jumped next to him, but Julien moved, forcing Marlene in front of him again.
"Hey! Guys! Cut it out! I'm not a shield! Hey!" she shouted as Skipper and Julien repeated this process over and over.
"This is a coward's ploy Ringtail."
"I can live with that."
Skipper snorted, then jumped into the air and landed behind Julien. The lemur yelped and jumped out of the way as Skipper lunged at him. Skipper ended up tackling Marlene, and Julien flew out of the habitat. Skipper jumped to his feet and took off after him.
"Sorry Marlene!" he called back as the otter glowered after them.
Skipper chased Julien to the reptile house, and the lemur took cover in the heavy foliage of the chameleon habitat as Skipper charged into the building. He looked around the building, but didn't see any sign of Julien. He stalked up to Barry's place.
"Where'd Ringtail go?" he demanded.
"Uhh, I didn't see him..." Barry stammered nervously.
Skipper's eyes narrowed, and Barry gulped as he shrunk under his gaze.
"But if I did see him, I wouldn't tell you that he's in the chameleon's habitat."
Skipper smirked with a nod of approval, and turned towards said reptile's exibit. Julien had been peeking out of the trees to watch what was going on, and quickly ducked back into the leaves, but he was too slow. Skipper smirked and started towards him.
"Come out of there Ringtail, take it like a man!" Skipper yelled.
"I would rather not take anything that has to do with hurting me like anything." Julien replied.
Skipper struck the tree he was in, and Julien fell out of the tree and hit the ground at Skipper's feet. He looked up at Skipper with a weak smile, but Skipper was glaring down at him.
"Friendly observation, you are letting your anger dominate your life." Julien stated, putting his hands together in a professional way.
Skipper drew his flipper back, and threw it forward. Julien screamed and rolled out of the way, and Skipper's fist hit the ground where he'd been, cracking it slightly. Julien scrambled to his feet and took off again.
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How much longer can Julien keep this up? Stay tuned!