A/N: We are back with another charming chapter of The Otter And Her Penguin. I have nothing much to say but thanks to the reviewers, hope you enjoy this and my other stories. So, enjoy!

Also, one fun thing to note. My friend, Eyelordcakeless, and I have made co-authoring a fun thing. We had been messing around in What'sApp (If you know what that is), and we actually wrote the last half of part 9 of the LWTPS! I will not spoil anything, but if you want to add me there, just PM. We totaled around 500+ messages there, in two hours!

This how REAL authors do co-authoring. Enjoy!

Chapter 1:

Bad News

The morning breeze cooled her hazel brown fur.

She loved these mornings. The smell of dew accompanied it, making the feeling more magical. Each day she felt energized, felt like anything was possible. Oh, how she wished that was true. Some things are just harder than they look she guessed.

She sat up from her bed and stretched her paws above her head, giving out a small yawn. She smiled softly; she had that dream again. Every night, the same, wonderful, magical and mystical dream. Every night, she'd wish on her star for it to be true. Every night, she'd wish him a silent good night.

"How I wish he actually does like me," she started, directing it more to herself. She was the only otter the zoo had, so she had no roommates whatsoever. "Well, being friends ain't so bad, I guess."

She gazed out beyond her cave home, wondering what he might be doing. Training most probably. She loved watching them train. It was like a show just for her. She knew it was practically spying on them, which he wasn't very fond of, but she loved doing it anyway.

"Heh, I'm such a rebel," she commented. She then got to her feet and went over to get herself some breakfast and then a morning swim.

Meanwhile, at the Penguin HQ...

"Spin! Punch! Kick! Roll!" Skipper commanded as they did their usual training routine on the concrete ice flow. They had been awake since after sunrise; the usual time they do wake up. Skipper on the other hand, had been awake since before sunrise; his usual time to wake up and watch the sunrise as he drank a cup of his favourite fish coffee.

They repeat this routine every week, training for who-knows-what, but still did come in handy when danger strikes. It was currently Thursday, and the day before had been a certain someone's birthday; the lovely otter, Marlene. Despite being a mammal, she was friends with all four of the penguins.

"Alright men," Skipper started, signaling the end of the exercise. "Time for our laps. Rico, stopwatch." Rico then regurgitated the Stopwatch; known to Kowalski as the Chrono-Curbulator.

"You know what I mean soldier," Skipper said, obviously not impressed with his humor. Rico chuckled embarrassingly and regurgitated a real stopwatch instead, swallowing the Chrono-Curbulator back up.

"Thank you. Kowalski, you're..."

"Hey guys!" a voice interrupted. The four turned to its source to find Marlene just outside their habitat's fence. She seemed to love doing this, whether on purpose, by accident or accidentally on purpose.

"Marlene! We're in the middle of training! I already told you many times before..."

"Not to barge in classified operations," she relayed in sync with Skipper. "Yeah, I know, but this isn't exactly all that 'classified' since you're doing it out in the open like this, right?" she said in defense.

"Yeah but..."

"But what? Come on. Is it illegal to visit a friend?" Skipper stood speechless. He looked to Kowalski to find answers, but there was none.

"Fine. You visited us, so please let us train?" he finally replied, a bit harshly than he wanted. Marlene flinched and her smile disappeared.

"That escalated quickly," Private whispered to Rico. He nodded in response.

"Oh, alright. I'll just...go...I guess," she replied sadly. She gloomily turned around, trying to hide the evidence of her effort to hold her frustration and sadness in. "I'll see you later."

And off she went.

"Skipper?" Private started, catching Skipper's attention. "Did you really need to be rude like that?" He said with disappointed tone, similar to how parents would talk to kids when they talked bad about someone.

"Just forget it and resume training, ok?" Skipper replied. Without another word, they saluted and snapped back to seriousness. "As I was saying, Kowalski, you first."

"Why would he talk to me like that?" she asked herself as she walked further from the penguin habitat. She was supposed to head back to her habitat, but now, she didn't know where she's going.

"I mean, he didn't cuss at me like that before!" She then reviewed what happened to find a logical reason for his sudden outburst. "Oh...I insulted him, didn't I?"

"Urgh, stupid! Why would you insult him like that! I mean, he was kinda getting on my nerves with this whole 'commando act', but why did you insult him! Twice!" After a hard facepaw, she sighed. "I really need to keep my anger under control or I'll could end up like Joey."

Then, then sudden repetitive thud of sneakers filled the air. A red-headed figure came into view as it rounded the corner of the brick wall. "ALICE!" Marlene quickly ducked behind a trashcan before she had the time to look down.

"Huh?" the red-headed figure, Alice the head zookeeper, said. She looked around for the source of the sound she heard, but found nothing. "Must be hearing things."

A radio notification then got her attention. "*SIGH*, yes?" she answered. A male voice buzzed through, his tone sounding a tad informal. "What?"

The voice continued, what he said giving Marlene a shock. "I don't know, she is the only one we've got and...WHAT! You're joking right? No? He really means it? Well ok then! It's settled, we're selling her. So he's gonna pick her up on Monday, right? Great!" She put the radio back and headed on her way.

"It's a loss, but passing up an offer like that is crazy!" Marlene heard her say as her form vanished from her sight. When the coast was clear, she jumped out her hiding place.

"I need to tell Skipper about this!" Marlene ran as fast as she could over to the penguin habitat. The news she just overheard was just horrifying, that he needed to know.

THUD!

Skipper and the rest turned around to see a brown lump of fur face planted near the ladder. "Marlene?"

"Skipper!" she immediately said as she ran to him. "It's horrible! I just heard the most terrible, terrible news and..."

"Marlene! Calm down!" Skipper ordered. "Take a deep breath and tell me everything."

Marlene took the deepest breath possible and regurgitated all the info he needed to hear. "ALICE IS SELLING ME!"

A/N: Oh no! This is terrible! Why would Alice ever…oh, that's cause I made her. Anyway, this is chapter 1 of The Otter And Her Penguin, which is now part of a series! If you hadn't read the intro again, it is called "The Bonds Of Life Saga". It is a trilogy and only a trilogy and I already have a great storyline for the sequel. So, R&R if you like how this is going.