A.N.— Okay, here is chapter 11! :D I hope you enjoy :D

Chapter 11: The Rainforest

Pedro and Adriana finish their brunch and Pedro pays for it and orders some extra to-go. He puts these extra fishes and fruit into his backpack for later. They then get up from the table and waddle away from the little restaurant. "So, where are we going now, Copper?" Adriana asks as she secretly taps her little piece of metal to make sure she hasn't lost it. It's still there and she smiles a very tiny grin.

"This way." Pedro says with a small shrug as he drags Adriana in a direction towards a large mass of trees.

Adriana follows Pedro with a bored expression. "And what exactly is this way?" She asks as she looks at the trees. The trees are all tall. Their trunk sizes vary much, though, as do the shades of their bark with all the different mosses and lichens growing on them. Adriana thinks that these trees are very, very different than those that she would hide behind and in the branches of back in Spain.

Pedro glances back at Adriana as he continues forward. He pays little attention to the surrounding scenery; he has seen it hundreds of times already and is quite used to it. "Peru. Peru and Base R are this way." He says as he continues to waddle farther into the dense forest.

"Oh...Are you sure, Pedrrrro?" She asks as she looks around. Adriana can't see anything that he could possibly know where he's going from. Everything just seems to look the same to her.

Pedro nods. "Sí, I'm muy seguro*." He says as he turns and starts down a 'path' between some trees. There almost is a small skip in his step as he waddles along. He thinks that Commander Harold may have actually done him a favor by making him take the long way to escort 'La Sombra' to the base. He thinks firstly that he gets to spend more time with her before he has to lock her up, and secondly that he gets to waddle down his favorite route again. Every time he goes down this route is different, but each time is always an adventure which thrills Pedro to his very core.

Adriana nods a little and waddles a bit quicker. She thinks that Pedro appears to really know what he is doing and going. "Have you been this way before?" She asks a bit curiously as she looks at the trees surrounding them and at the vibrant exotic flowers that are scattered around.

"Hundreds of times, Adriana." Pedro says with a smile back at her. "I know this forest like the back of mi aleta*." He grins. "Don't even need un mapa anymore."

"But, you still have the map for just in case, verdad?" Adriana asks and stops waddling for a moment, looking questioningly at Pedro.

"Of course, of course!" Pedro says with a nod. "What? Are you scared, Adriana?" He asks and gives her a look.

Adriana looks back at him. "Me? Scared? Pfft! No, of course not. I just simply don't want to get lost." She says.

Pedro looks at her and then shrugs. "Okay, then I don't want to hear any 'What was that, Pedro?!'s while we're out here then." He says with a small smirk.

"No worries, you won't." Adriana retorts with almost a small growl in her voice. She then sticks her beak a little up into the air with an air of stubbornness to it. She starts waddling past Pedro.

Pedro smirks a little and follows after Adriana. "Oh, it's my turn to be the dragged along one? 'Kay." He says jokingly. He ducks a branch that Adriana releases behind herself, purposely trying to let Pedro get whipped by it. "Hey!" He exclaims.

"Hola, cómo estás?*" Adriana says rolling her eyes. "Personalmente, estoy muy molesta*."

"Estoy muy bien, también, Adriana*." Pedro says with a laugh as he ducks another branch. The two penguins continue on for a while until they come to a stream. Pedro stops at it and fills a canteen with the clear water with a nod. "This should last us until we come to another source of agua*." He says, looking up at Adriana.

Adriana nods. "That's gran...But what if it doesn't? Don't you have another one of those for just in case?" She asks.

Pedro continues to look at her. "No, I don't. I wasn't planning originally to have to trek through the rainforest, dragging an argumentative, whiny prisoner along with me." He says as he puts the canteen back into his backpack and then stands up and swings the bag back onto his shoulder.

Adriana looks at him slightly open beaked. "I'm not whiny! Argumentative, sure. But I'm not whiny!" She says with her voice going a bit higher to disprove her point.

"Then stop with all the worrying about supplies and stuff. We'll be fine, okay? I've been this way plenty of times. I know what I'm doing." Pedro says rolling his eyes. "Now come on, it's going to get dark soon and I'd like to find a spot to make camp before it does." He starts waddling ahead again dragging Adriana along behind him.

Adriana waddles quickly after him as she looks at her surroundings. She can't think of how she is going to be able to find her way back after she un-cuffs herself from this...Fool. Adriana shakes her head to keep herself from adding cute. 'I have no time for crush foolishness...Especially not a foolish crush on the hombre* who arrested me. I'd have to be loca to be falling for him. Completely insane.' She thinks silently. She bets that counting trees as they pass them would not have worked seeing as how this line they're going in is anything but straight. She also can't leave crumbs behind her because firstly, other animals will eat them, and secondly, because she doesn't have any to leave behind. She is so not going to tear her cloak to leave a trail, and Pedro so isn't giving her anytime to mark a trail anyway. Adriana sighs a little. 'I'll have to take his map.' She thinks with a small nod.

Pedro eventually stops near a clump of trees. Adriana looks at the trees. This clump doesn't look any different to her from the clump that they had past a few minutes back. "We'll make camp here." Pedro says with a nod towards the trees.

Adriana looks at him. "Where here?" She asks a bit curiously.

"Right here at the base of the tree." Pedro says with a nod towards the large tree. "If a predator comes, as could be very possible, we can just climb up the tree." He shrugs.

Adriana looks at the tree and then at Pedro. "But what about predators that climb?" She asks with a small smirk. "How would climbing a tree be helpful?"

Pedro looks at her and sighs a little. "You really like to look at the bright side, don't you?" He says sarcastically. "If a climbing predator comes, then we'll slide really fast from it until we lose it." He says. "Feliz*?"

"No, of course I'm not feliz. I am an arrested criminal being dragged through a wild rainforest by a curious, annoying, boring cop. Do you think I'm happy?" Adriana growls at Pedro.

Pedro shrugs. "Sounded like something to have fun and be happy about to me." He says. "I'd be muy feliz if I were you and was being dragged along by a curious, annoying cop like me...Say you were arrested by mi amigo Bobby for instance, you wouldn't be allowed to say a single thing at all and he'd be much, much stricter than me...I think." He says. "I'm more of a 'fun cop'...So the fact that you think I'm boring just means that you're the boring one actually and are just confused." He says with a grin.

Adriana gives Pedro a look. "Is that so?" She asks.

Pedro gives a short nod. "Very." He says before sitting his backpack back down. He gets out the canteen and some food and offers them to Adriana. He then pulls out a couple of blankets and a small pillow. Pedro lays out one of the blankets on the ground and sits the pillow at the top of it, near the base of the tree trunk. He then unfolds the other blanket and lays it on top of the other one. He sits down on the blankets and yanks a little on the cuffs to pull Adriana down onto the blankets, also.

Adriana sits down with an unamused look towards Pedro. "Did you have to pull? You couldn't have just asked me to sit down verbally?" She asks as she sits the food and canteen down in front of them on the blankets.

Pedro gets the canteen and drinks some from it with a small shrug. "Would you have sat if I had asked?" He retorts as he closes the cap on the canteen again and picks up one of the fish he had gotten to-go for them from the restaurant and starts on it.

Adriana gets a fish and starts eating in it, too. "Maybe I would have, maybe I wouldn't." She shrugs. "Guess you'll never know now."

Pedro looks at her as he finishes his fish. "Hmm...Sí, I guess you've got a point." He says. He offers the water once again to her and Adriana takes it and drinks a little from the canteen before handing it back. Pedro drinks a little more from it before putting it and the extra food back into his backpack. He sits the backpack beside the pillow before pulling up the top blanket and laying down with his head on the backpack.

Adriana watches him curiously. She wonders why he hadn't taken the pillow and make her sleep on the bag. She knows that that's what most cops would have done.

Pedro watches Adriana as she lays down on the pillow next to him. "I'm sorry that I don't have another pillow for you to use as your pillow-wall between us." He says quietly as he looks up at the tree branches and the spots of dark sky showing through here and there.

Adriana looks at Pedro. "It's fine." She says. She doesn't even want the pillow barrier up right now anyway strangely.

Pedro nods. "Okay..." He says with a small yawn. "Buenas noches, Adriana." He says quietly before falling asleep.

"Buenas noches..." Adriana replies silently before turning over some and watching Pedro sleep some. She silently takes out her piece of metal and looks at it and then at Pedro again. She sighs and puts it back hidden in her feathers. Adriana figures that it may be best to stick a little longer with Pedro seeing as how he knows this forest and she does not and he is also sleeping on the map. Adriana lays back on her back and stares up silently at the tree tops before she also falls asleep.

Translations:

* Seguro — sure

* Mi aleta — my flipper

* Hola, cómo estás? — Hello, how are you?

*Personalmente, estoy muy molesta. — Personally, I'm very annoyed.

*Estoy muy bien, también, Adriana. — I am very well, also, Adriana.

*Agua — water

*Hombre — man

*Feliz — happy