Another Penguin To The Zoo
The Murderer
" You see... the penguin that attacked me was the one from before. I saw him, he is a maniac. He wanted my damily to tell him something, something he needed to know about, so that he could use it against the rest of the penguins and become the strongest. I heard the penguin talking to my parents once, I didn't know at that time who the penguin was, or that he was a penguin. He threatened my parents, saying: "If you do not tell me were that thing is you and your most loved will come to an end." I thought it was a plain threat at first, my parents used to be both great warriors and once, that penguin asked if they would join him, or at least, that was before the invention. Of course, what I didn't know about that penguin, was that he was a well known murderer, a psychopath that would dare to kill."
"The next day, mum said we had to leave, that it was time to be gone. To get to New York it wasn't an easy journey. Sometimes at night I could hear mum and dad fighting someone, sometimes I'd even help them. I only realised who the penguin actually was, when one night a penguin came into the new house we had made ourselves. He was furious, even though he was cloaked and no one could see his face, his voice sounded furious. He leaped onto dad and they both fought, but dad had one weakness - his inability to see that the penguin that he was fighting against had a dagger, - not one of us knew about the dagger - if dad knew he would have won, but he only realised once it was too late..."
"...I was terrified... I felt paralysed, I couldn't move a metre. Then suddenly, the penguin maniac lit the building on fire. As soon as the fire started, its' flames completely surrounded the building. Well, not completely. Mums' voice made me move again, "Lindsey, there's a gap there," she said pointing to a metre-wide space that was slowly decreasing in size. Me and my mum ran for our lives. I managed to get out just before the fire enclosed the space. And fortunately I only had a few minor burns. However, I soon realised that my mum tripped over a half burnt wood block, which caused her to have to limp. My mum couldn't run and I could, fate can have various ways of amusing herself, but this was too much. I couldn't run back since the fire had closed all gaps, there was no way how to save mum.
I still remember how I screamed - for the last time - and then I just stood there. The murderer got away with his crime, I couldn't bring myself to believe it. If you all hadn't come to the rescue... I would have been there, lying dead, just like my mother and father, I wouldn't have had a chance to live... and for this I thank you all," Lindsey finished of her story, before crying softly.
The rest of the penguins felt like crying too. Not another word was said between them, but the boys knew that they had a new goal now: to protect Lindsey ... and to DESTROY THAT MAD MURDEROUS PSYCHOPATH (and no, not Rico).
The penguins, feeling exhausted and emotionally drained retired to their bunks, falling asleep, each with his own promise in their head.