as the sun shown out in the early morning, Abby let the warmth of it wake her up. slowly opening her eyes Abby saw the sunrise from above the zoo walls and was in aw. all the colors from red to purple shown out and it was, in Abby's mind, putting out a light show. looking around she saw that none of the other animals were up and that they were all staying out of the suns lights to hopefully sleep an extra few hours of sleep. looking down at the fish bowl she thought about if the boys were up or not and thought best to leave them be. even back home Abby was always the first up in her home. she never wanted to waste the days time with sleeping an extra hour of only sleeping. looking at the water Abby jumped in and took a good morning swim. not even paying the littlest attention to the time, Abby swam her hearts content. after she felt like she had enough she jumped out and dried herself off. looking back to he sky she saw that the sun was now about two or three hours away from where it was last time. "enjoy your swim?" Jumping in surprise, Abby turned to face a chuckling Skipper "are you always so loud Skippy?" Skipper's eye twitch as he was called that name, "names Skipper Abigal, now how about you answer my question?" returning her thoughts to the swim she just had, Abby smiled "yeah it was fine. how long have you been there?" Skipper shrugged "may be an hour or two, i was waiting for you to surface but you didn't so i waited here." Abby looked surprised he had been up here waiting for her for that long. "why wait so long ?" Skipper pulled out a cup of fish coffee from behind him and handed it to her. "thought you might like a cup, it just came from the maker." Abby smiled, she loved fish coffee and it was sweet how Skipper had brought her one. "thanks. i'll take this as a sorry from yesterday?" Skipper looked almost surprised at this but Abby laughed "just kidding, i think i'm the one who needs to say the sorry here. i kind of over stepped my bounderies yesterday and i kind of being a show off. so I'm Sorry." Skipper smiled and nodded, "i'll take some responsablility for yesterday to, i was being a little seceptical about you being a female and being a higher commander. and for that i'm sorry." as the two of them looked at each other they smiled and laughed at nothing other then their own stupidness. after they had finished their coffees they went down to find that everyone else was still asleep. "letting them sleep in today?" Skipper looked over and nodded. "it's the second Sunday of the month, every other Sunday i give my boys a break. this might be a working family but even the most buisiest of families needs a break from training." Abby nodded and thought of when she was younger when she was aloud to sleep in but that was before what they did to her after a while Private and Kowalski woke to see that both commanding officers talking about something. "Morning Skippah, Morning Abby," Abby smiled and waved a flipper "morning Priv. sleep well?" Private smiled, not only that she asked how he was but the nickname she gave him made him feel speical. "very well, thank you." as Private turned to the tv and started to watch his shows, Abby saw that Kowalski had gone red in the face again. getting up off the cement block of a chair she walked over to him and placed a flipper on is shoulder "breath man, i'm not going to bite if you say hello to me." almost as if she knew Kowalski let out a large gasp for air. "Um, thanks. and good morning." giving off a soft laugh Abby patted his back "your welcome and good morning tp you as well." as soon as her flipper was off his back Kowalski ran for his lab and shut the door behind him. "is he okay?" Skipper shrugged and turned back to his paper. looking over at the bunks she saw that Rico was still asleep. "is he going to wake up or not?" Skipper turned the page not even looking up "Nope, he'll stay that way until 1500 hours. it's always the same." Abby didn't like this, no one should waste their day like this, walking over to his bunk she was about to shake him up when she heard Skipper speak "wouldn't do that if i were you. Rico has a thing about be waken up." Abby knew just how to handle this. placing her flipper on Rico's head, she gently started to rub his head and used her other to stroke his flipper. "i telling you it's not the best," Rico stood up slowly and yawned, "Yea, what 'ant?" Skipper stood there shocked, never in the years he knew Rico the only way to wake him up was to stand back and poke him with something or shout out to wake him up in his bunk. "Rico why waste they day sleep, when you can be doing something. you can go swimming, go for a walk, or you can practice your knife throwing." almost as if she knew what was on his mind, Rico jumped up and ran into the lab to retrieve his kifes. "how in the Blue Planet did you do that?!" Abby turned to Skipper who now had his paper down. "i had a ... friend who would wake up like that, to help her wake up i would gently stroke her feathers and whisper something that would make her wake up. and from the way Rico acted, i say it worked." walking over Abby picked up the paper and started to read, even though Skipper wasn't finished.
later that day, Abby had just had enough of this silent morning and deside to take a look around the zoo. "where you going?" Skipper looked over to see that Abby was opening the fish door. "i was going to have a look around the zoo." Skipper nodded and turned to Private "Private, give Abigal a tour of the zoo. and that's an order." Private turn from his tv show and smiled "okay Skippah." as Abby and Private left Skipper smiled, "good, now i can see if Matthew chooses Rachel or Mary." turning the tv to a soap oprea that showed a boy with two girls with him. outside Private and Abby were out saying hello to all the zoo animals. they went to the chimps first who thought she was the sweetest new memeber of the zoo, then they went to the gorilla pen and said hey to Bing and Bada, then they visited the others. as they went past the lemur area Abby thought why Private wasn't pipping up about them. "who's in that one?" Private looked almost sorry that i had asked. that's just the lemur's pen, trust me when i say that we should skip them today." "but Private it would be rude to not say something to them, even if it's a quick hello goodbye." as they walked over to the Lemurs, who were play in their bouncy house. as soon as the lemurs saw them the stopped their bouncing and came over to see the new penguin. "Oooh who is your new lady penguin friend here tiny penguin?" Julien looked at Abby like he looked at himself in the mirror. "Names Abby, Yours?" Julien raise a hand to the sky and spoke in a happy tone "I am king Julien. see my crown, this shows that i am king and this zoo is my kingdom." all the while as Julien is speaking Abby and Private are laughing. after Julien had finish, Abby smiled and looked over to the other lemurs. "and you are?" "Maurice and this is mort." as Abby looked at Mort se had this face that said "aw how cute." as Julien saw this he kick Mort out of the area and turn to face Abby. "ignore the ugly mort. he is si hidious." Abby now had a angry look on her face "You can't jst go around fliging who ever you want out! who do you think you are?" "uh the king?" Abby then did something that Private wished he could do but never had the guts, Abby slapped Julien on the face. as Julien look dumb founded(not so hard for him) Abby and Private left. "What a Women!"
Me: Ouch! That had to really hurt.
Skipper: Ha! Ringtail deserved every bit of that!
Julien: NO! The king, which is I, Never deserved any of the smaking!
Me: ... Sure you don't. Please review or I might send Rico after you.
Rico: (pulls out a chainsaw) MUHAAAAHAAA!
Me: O_O ... okay then.