Well, today I managed to update this on time. I am quite glad, since I was supposed to be busy on Wednesday, and at the same time I was busy on Monday. But it seems like I am free today so here I am giving to you Chapter 5. This is one of the longest chapter in the story. I think it is the longest in fact. But whatever it is, I present to you Chapter 5, Escape, Abscond, Ready.
"Aah!" King Julien shouted, gripping his leg in his hands. "My legs, it's as if something is eating it and digesting it in their sticky stomach!" he complained, as he tried to release his legs from the chain's grip. He saw a mountain lemur guard, standing at the gate while holding a spear. "Hey buddy, can you please, you know like loosen this chain a little. As you know, my legs are very soft and fragile, so a tight chain can make it explode or something. And you don't want to see an exploding leg right? You might not be able to sleep tonight if my leg explodes."
"Just keep quiet or I'll tie you upside down on that wall for the rest of the day," the guard said in a stern voice.
King Julien gulped in fear, he doesn't want to be tied upside down. The blood may rush to his brain and his brain will pop. So King Julien just kept on mining while mumbling before Maurice spoke.
"It's okay King Julien," Maurice whispered. "One of us surely has a plan."
"Not me," India said.
"Me neither," King Danny said.
"Not even me," Nick said. "Sometimes we just have to accept the fact that we lost."
They went on for a few more hours before they were sent to a large field where hundreds of bunk beds were placed at, as they were all sent to sleep for six hours before they need to wake up to prepare for Koto's arrival.
"King Koto will be coming here tomorrow evening," the guard told. "Tomorrow, you'll have to wake up and clean up this kingdom before the king arrives." The gate was locked as everyone looked at each other.
The prison was surrounded by around ten mountain lemurs, and clearly, there is no way out of this. But seeing that the mountain lemurs were just guarding and not paying attention to what they are doing, Nick casually made some hand gestures towards India using their military language as India tried to make an understandable gesture towards Maurice who then told King Julien what Nick is trying to say. So King Julien climbed up the bunk and lied down above Maurice who slept above a random rat on the three levelled bunk. Seeing that everyone is in position, India began talking about random stuff to catch the guards' attention. She talked about the crocodiles starting a cooking show at their island, she talked about how the people on that island die so quickly, and all sort of random stuff that went into her head. They slowly lower down the volume without anyone noticing, and after ten minutes of talking nonsense, India looked around her nonchalantly to see if the guards are paying attention to their talks anymore. They were listening, but then things got boring and nothing was important to listen to so they stopped paying attention and did other stuff instead. It was especially easier to talk without being heard when they were in the middle of the prison, and far away from the guards outside.
Xixi was talking about how she once choked on a mango when India made a shooting hand-gun gesture towards Nick who was sleeping above Xixi. Nick seeing this softly knocked on the hard wood mattress to tell Xixi that she can stop. Xixi knocked back and spent around ten more seconds talking before she ended her story. India talked like how she did before, as if she's bored and tired, but then instead of talking about unimportant stuff, she planned on a way to get out.
"We'll just distract them with something, you know. To make them run away and all." India said before laughing quietly for a moment as a few other lemurs joined her, as if she made a joke. "Then we will get away from this place without being noticed at all."
"We must make sure that at least one side of the wall isn't guarded before we get out," Andy said before yawning. "I'll just sleep here and you can talk if you like," he lied before he closed his eyes while paying attention to the meeting.
"Yeah, you'd better sleep Andy," Maurice said. "In fact, we all better sleep. The king is coming tomorrow, and I also have an idea on how to distract the mountain lemurs. We'll just send someone to ask for the guards to lead them to the toilet hut. That will lessen the amount of guards. And we'll do all those kind of stuff so that there will be less mountain lemurs guarding this place."
"We can even start it now," Nick said before softly punching the board above him, signaling to Andy who's above him to start.
"Oooh I need to tinkle, really quick," Andy said before climbing down the bed. He went over to the gate as two mountain lemurs looked at him before he said. "Sirs, can you bring to the toilet hut really quick."
One of the guards sighed.
"Alright," the mountain lemur said. "Let's go," two guards escorted Andy towards the toilet hut, one armed with a spear and the other holding Andy.
"Two down three to go," India said, still talking lazily.
They waited for about half a minute before the rat sitting below Maurice went up and did the same thing. He too was escorted by two mountain lemurs as only six guards were left guarding the prison.
"Now let's sleep," India said, stressing on the word now to anyone who will do the job, trying her best to not let the guards know what they are up to. Nick nodded slightly before he looked around him as everyone pretended to sleep. The guards were facing outside of the prison, and one side was not guarded at all since the three guards on that side were all away, replacing the front guards who went away to escort Andy and the rat towards the toilet hut.
Nick yawned loudly as India looked around her once more, before she went down the bed with everyone else as slow as possible, trying their best not to attract the mountain lemur's attention. They climbed above the wire wall with Xixi standing on guard on Maurice's bed which is the best place to be at since the view is clear there. The mountain lemurs did not even look behind them so everyone got out of the prison without being noticed. But when Andy returned from the toilet hut, the guards who escorted him saw them escaping.
"Hoy!" A guard shouted. "Get back here!"
The other guards turned around and saw the prisoners escaping before they ran towards them.
"We're dead," a brown lemur, Jeff said, looking at the guards running towards them.
Suddenly they heard a mountain lemur from the beach shouting.
"We're under attack! We're under attack! All guards to the Federation Harbour!" the mountain lemur said.
That's when everyone looked at the beach and King Julien saw a familiar face at the beach.
"Uncle?" King Julien said, seeing his uncle in an armour suit, leading an army against Koto's.
"This island is mine!" Uncle King Julien said before placing his flag on the grounds of the beach as his army of lemurs and foosas including Mary Ann began to defeat Koto's army.
"Now it's our chance!" India whispered as the army of hundreds of lemurs and rats ran towards the army of now three mountain lemurs forcing them to retreat. The rat soon arrived after escaping from the guards by biting the mountain lemur's arm causing his to let go, as everyone took the mountain lemurs' spare armours and weapons and went into the ships, sailing towards Madagascar to reclaim King Julien's throne.
The band of mountain lemurs stopped at a camp, as Clover and Sage were both tied to a mango tree, as Sage went to sleep after a few minutes of standing there. The mountain lemurs soon went to sleep, leaving only one guard staying awake. Seeing this, Clover tried to escape from the rope's tight grip. She tried to break it, slip away from it, loosed it, but failed even after several tries. Even her head cannot reach the rope so she can't bite it, and so she began to give up escaping and just waited for morning to come. Sometimes you just have to accept the fact that you lost. She stood there uncomfortably, wriggling from time to time, waiting for about an hour, before she saw a face which she had never seen for ages.
"Crimson?" Clover said in a low volume. Her twin sister who was crawling slowly in the jungle, looked at the direction where the voice came from.
"Clover?" Crimson said before she walked towards her sister, trying her best to not make any noise in case the mountain lemurs hear her and making sure that the guard isn't in a position where he can see them both. "What are you doing here?"
"I was captured as I was heading towards the kingdom just now, and I need you to help and set me free, and replace me here as their prisoner so that they'll think that I'm still here," Clover said.
"Oh, poor Clo Clo," Crimson said.
She was about to continue when Clover said, "Look Crimson, Madagascar is under the full control of Koto. I need to stop him before morning comes and I can't let them know that I am gone. If you don't help me, you might end up as a slave as well. Please, we need to do this for our kingdom."
"Fine," Crimson sighed. "As long as you promise that you will set me free after this whole thing is done."
"I promise," Clover said as Crimson untied her sister. Clover tied Crimson to the tree before she nodded and went towards the kingdom as fast as she can without wasting any time.
Clover soon arrived at the kingdom as she crawled slowly through the jungle with a giant leaf to blend in with the trees. She went to a part of the wall where one of the wire broke. Clover covered herself with the leaf and began tearing a big hole on the wall before getting in and heading towards the plane stealthily. She entered the throne room from the front window and hid behind the throne, waiting for Koto to come.
The seven groups soon reunited as one, as they resumed 'playing a game' at King Joey's bunk as King Joey sat on his bed, wondering what is happening.
"Okay," Abner said as he gave each and every one four cards. "What we know now is that Koto will leave tomorrow to the island his army just conquered previously, and the prison security will be tighter. So we need to launch the attack today before he leaves so that we can easily defeat them."
"And our plan needs to be good so that the mountain lemurs cannot stop us." Horst said as he played a card and took a sip of his beverage. "We need to make things so sudden that they won't have time to react. So we'll need to make things fast."
"We need good techniques like crocodile rams, aye aye stink bombs, rat wrestlers, and all that," Becca said, taking a new card from the pile of cards. "And we need to start with a good distraction so that the guards will open the gate and let us go through."
"Alright, we're doing this," Hector said as they begin planning.
And that is all for today. Next week, I am supposed to be free, and same goes to the Wednesdays after that. Chapter 7 shall be released the day after I return from a vacation (15th) though, so I still might not be able to update on time since I will be tired. And that is also two days after my birthday so feel free to wish me a happy birthday then ^^ And that is all for today, the last chapter (Epilogue) should be posted on the 22nd, and Chapter 6 should be released on the 8th. So see you then, and don't forget to drink some water or you'll get thirsty.