Ch.13: Past of A Murderer
An eerie wind seemed to pass through the night as soon as Skipper's team made it to Denmark. A nervous shiver crawling up Skipper's spine. This was one part of his past he hoped to never revisit. The past of a murderer.
Signaling his team to be queit, Skipper carefully led them through the Copenhagen Zoo, being watchful for the zoo security force. Two Great Danes known as Michael and Bite.
Skipper knew if those two dogs caught one scent of penguin in the air, trouble would be coming their way. Luckily, there was still one force in this zoo, Skipper hoped he could still trust.
Leading his team quickly into one of the nearby habitats, Skipper softly called out his old friends name.
" Zar!" called Skipper " Zar where are you?"
"Skipper?" came a surprised voice, as a serval stepped out the shadows " what are you doing back here? Michael and Bite will kill you if they find you,"
"I know" said Skipper " but I had no choice but to come back. Majack's ghost is alive and had kidnapped one of my friends. I don't know what he's planning to with Marlene, but I have no time to waste,"
"So" said Zar " you want my skills huh? I thought you were only interested in avenging your father,"
"This has nothing to do with that time" said Skipper " please Zar, I just need your help,"
"Oh boy" said Zar " I hate it when a penguin begs. Fine, I'll help. But just so you know, it doesn't change what you did,"
With that said, the serval stalked off with the group of penguins following behind him.
Using his fine-tuned ears like super-sensitive radar, Zar focused his attention on searching for any bizaare frenquencies or shifts in air, while his nose focused on looking for odd scents.
The scent picture soon became clear, and Zar rushed towards the nocturnal exhibit, penguins close behind.
Private was shivering with fear as soon as they followed Zar into that eerie exhibit. Red, white, and yellow eyes seemed to be glaring from every corner no matter which way they went. Some of the titles on the display were even more scary; Nocturnal Pit Viper, Slash Jackal, and even Cannibal Bunnies.
Private nearly threw up in fear when he saw that one. Relief came though when a monturous voice shattered the silence.
"Well Skipper" growled a ghostly wolverine, standing onto one of glass cages " I'm to see that you made it at last,"
"Enough with banter Majack" said Skipper " what have you done with Marlene,"
"Why she's right here" said Majack " safe and cozy in the Vampire Bat exhibit. She was lucky it was nearly dawn when I put her in there, or else she would be nothing left but a bloodless corspe,"
Kolwaski quickly did the math of Majack's scheme. If it was 5 o'clock in the morning now, that meant they only had 'till the first minute of nightfall to rescue Marlene.
"Then it seems your plan has doomed to fail" said Skipper " we have plenty of time to rescue Marlene before the sun comes down,"
" Oh such dim minds we have" laughed Majack " I've already taken care of that little hitch,"
Suddenly the wolverine disappeared, and the exhibit doors shot wide open, allowing the forms of two vicous danes to enter the thin hall.
"Well, well, well" said one of the Danes " look who came back to Denmark,"
"The murderer always returns to the scene of the crime" said the second Dane " to bad he has to get others involved,"
"Well" said the first Dane " that problem will soon be solved, with a death,"