The next morning Skipper and Kowalski arrived at Skipper's castle. Marlene was there, and greeted her husband with a hearty hug.
Later…
"I can't kill him! That's regicide!" Skipper told his wife later that evening.
"Are you a penguin or a chicken?" asked Marlene.
"A penguin… but I can't-"
Marlene slipped the knife in his flipper and gave him a kiss.
"Well…." Skipper said. "I would be a better king…"
"Now you're talking right!" Marlene said. "Tonight, while he sleeps, you shall kill him."
Kowalski, meanwhile, overhead all of this.
***
After the regicide was done, Marlene planted bloodied knifes in the hands of the guards as they slept.
When morning came round, Rico, a penguin soldier and Thane Of Fife, discovered the bloody body of King Julian.
"Murder!" he chirped angrily, and soon the whole castle knew of the murder.
Skipper was so shaken by the event, and Marlene had to take charge of the kingdom, and she ruled gleefully. Meanwhile, Kowalski went back to his home, which was over the moor. Mort, Julian's heir, fearing for his life, fled to the East.
Eventually Skipper assumed his throne again, but remained uneasy as Rico gave him suspicious stares at the banquet before the tough penguin set off for England for exile.
He was also thinking about the Witches prophecy about Kowalski. If Kowalski would father a king, then that would mean it was possible Private would overthrow his throne! And if Skipper had just invited his friend to a banquet, then Private could murder him tonight.
He paced about in his room, paranoid. He eventually sent two assassins to kill Kowalski and Private.
***
"Are we almost there?" asked Private.
"Yes. Wait… did you here that?" Kowalski said nervously.
"What-" Private was cut off as two lemurs on horseback rode in. They threw spears. Private watched in horror, frozen, as his father got hit and fell to the ground, blood soaking in the feathers around the wound.
The sound of the horse whinnying snapped him out of it. The young penguin ran off into the darkness and climbed a tree. The horsemen went right under him, not bothering to look up. Then they were gone.
***
Skipper walked to his banquet room. He went to sit down on his chair, then realized a familiar figure sitting in it. It was Kowalski!
He pointed at it and yelled mad words. Everyone looked at him like he was barmy.
"Can't you see him?" he shouted. "He's right here!"
The guests began to whisper. Marlene stood up.
"Leave at once!"
she announced. "All of you!"
She went and held her husband by
the shoulder. "Let's get you too bed now." she whispered to
him.
Skipper nodded, still breathing hard. His flipper was frozen pointing at the empty chair.
***
"Please! I need another prophecy!" begged Skipper.
"Beware Rico." said the first witch.
"But no man of woman born can harm you."
"But you shall be-" the third otter began.
But Skipper didn't want to hear it. "Thanks!" he said.
I'm invincible. He thought as the witches disappeared.
***
"I want all of them killed. All of Rico's kingdom."
"Including his wife and babes, sir?" asked Maurice.
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF ALL?" Skipper yelled suddenly.
"Yes sir. They shall all be killed."
***
I hope I did good. I've never actually seen the play or the movie. I read "Just Macbeth" an Australian parody book, and I looked it up on Wikipedia, but that's the closest I've gotten to the plot. If I got anything wrong please tell me!
