Chapter Three: An Orangutan's Funeral
On the Planet of the Apes
"Friends, family and loved ones. We're gathered here to honor a beloved ape who went before his time." an orangutan priest began to speak in front of fifty other orangutans with a hand few of chimpanzees and two or three gorillas.
Next to where the old priest was standing was a large coffin made of stone. The outside was hand curved to look like an ape with its hands folded. In the back was a large stone statue of the Lawgiver that must have been at last fifteen feet tall and it seemed as if his stone eyes were watching every ape in the room.
It was a closed coffin, because the body was in such a bad state when they had fond him that there was little the mortician could do to make him look like he was an ape. They were only able to identify him as Doyok by finding his work idea on him and that he was the only ape missing.
Apparently the police had told the family that a bear had attacked him on his walk to work in the morning. Even though the bear was never fond and a few apes said they saw him walking into the Ape Council building that morning, but not seeing him leave, no one had thought it was foul play and that the bear story was the complete truth.
Doyok's wife now widow, was crying waterfalls as the priest continued to speak.
"He left behind a loving wife, younger siblings and parents that are proud to have called him their son. If only he hadn't left his home that early when the sun had not even begun to rise. But we cannot dwell on that. No, we must look on the good times we had with this young ape."
In the crowd of mourning apes, Dr. Zaius was sitting down in the back with the other apes that worked with Dr. Doyok.
Technically Doyok was not a doctor, but he was working on hid doctors degree. He only had about three more months until he gained the degree, but everyone thought it would be alright to give the dead ape the title. He did do the work and was top of his class and no one would complain about the matter.
Once the Priest was done speaking, he asked: "Is there any ape here that would like to say a few words before we send Dr. Doyok to his final resting place?"
No one seemed to want to speak up, as Dr. Zaius looked around the room. The family was still in shock over the whole thing and everyone else was either to sad to speak or wasn't close enough to want to go up and tell everyone what they thought of Dr. Doyok.
"I might as well say a few words. It was my fault after all. I know I should have burned those scrolls the minute we fond them." Dr. Zaius thought, as he stood up and walked to the front.
"Yes, I would like to say a few words." he told the Priest.
"Then by all means go ahead Dr. Zaius." The Priest stepped aside to give him the floor.
Turning around to the group of apes, he began to speak. : "I didn't know much of Dr. Doyok, but what I did know was that he was a hard worker that wanted to help ape kind grow in knowledge and wisdom. Some may say it was foolish for him to walk to work at night, but I say he did it, because he felt that he needed to. We may never know what he was thinking in his last moments in this world, but I know that he is in a better place now. That is all I have to say."
He then walked back to his sea. No one else had anything to say and they buried the coffin outside.
Author's Note
Hey readers. I hope you liked this chapter. Sorry this was really short it's just that I didn't want to write any more in this chapter.
I killed off my OC, because I didn't want to deal with him anymore and I hate how the apes say no ape has killed another ape before, so I wanted for that law to be broken again.
We all know the apes have never killed ape thing is not true from the fifth planet of the apes movie "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" were Aldo a gorilla who styled himself "General" had killed Caesar's son, Cornelius. And later in the movie, Caesar killed Aldo for killing Cornelius.
There has also been some planet of the apes comics and books that have apes killing other apes.
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