Another Penguin To The Zoo

Chapter 19

Julian's True Love

Lindsey was walking down the zoo, just casually strolling around. Julian had asked her for a favour previously, but now that the assignment had been completed she didn't know what to do. It was afternoon, but there were no kids what so ever, because it had been a school day. Lindsey knew a couple of things about schools and this included the school days and times. It was a useful things to be able to read, especially if one wanted to look as normal as possible. Lindsey set of to the HQ, for it was almost lunch. She slid to the enclosure and then carefully jumped on the fence. Great! I am here in time, Lindsey thought smiling. She quickly jumped into the enclosure and stood still, as if she was a completely normal penguin.

Alice was walking to the penguin enclosure, feeling grumpy again. The penguins were always trouble - there was not a time when they had been perfectly normal. The female penguin was slightly less odd, but her tricks made Alice suspicious. Those tricks weren't the show off tricks of everyday penguins. Alice groaned quietly and went back to her job. She took her pail; filled with mackerel and emptied it over the penguin exhibit. "Lunch ready!" she shouted as she left with the empty pail in her hands. Lindsey waddled over to the mackerel and so did the four other penguins.

"Hmm this tastes great!" Private complimented the taste with a happy look. Lindsey just nodded and smiled.

"So... Lindsey, has Julian been annoying you yet?" Skipper asked, looking towards the lemur exhibit after consuming his mackerel. Lindsey shook her head.

"Nothing of the sorts, he asked me of a favour, but the favour helped me pass time really."

Skipper just groaned. How was it that she always managed to keep being positive? Julian surely must have been annoying sometimes. "Though don't like his habit off kicking sad eyes away!" Lindsey complained. This made Skipper smile, but then he sighed. It was somewhat uncivilised, for Julian to do that. It also made him suspect that she had said it one purpose to make him feel better.

Suddenly the penguins started to hear Alice talk. "Yeah, sure John, just place the crate into the lemur exhibit. At least this one might act normal," Alice was talking into a phone.

Kowalski sighed and stated:" you're going to have to get used to another lemur, Skipper!"

Skipper rolled his eyes and groaned. Julian perked up as he heard this and ran to them.

"So what gift do the sky spirits have for me this time? Another animal that will worship de king, which is me, or something else?" Julian asked. Kowalski looked at him ,in confusion and then looked back to the crate. The crate opened and a lemur came out. And she did not quite look the way Lindsey had expected her to.

The 'king' looked at the lemur in awe. It was a beautiful golden eyed lemur, with white fur and golden markings. "Hi, I am Tallulah," she greeted the animals shyly. Julian looked at her for a couple of minutes in silence and then he greeted he back.

"Hello Tallulah, I am Juian de king and I am pleased to be meeting you," Julien responded smiling proudly.

She nodded. "Pleased to meet you, can I be a part of you kingdom?" She asked, before she spotted the penguins. "Oh sorry, how rude of me to not ask before, but I don't know the names of your penguin friends."

"Oh, sure you can!" Julian replied, excited about this. This was day was already going far better than usual.

"My name is Skipper, the tall penguin is Kowalski, the one with the scar is Rico, the female is Lindsey, I am Skipper and the cutest one is Private," Skipper quickly introduced them all. "Please do not enter our HQ without knocking, otherwise my men will show you how we deal with spies!" Skipper added with a glare.

Tallulah shuddered and then nodded. "Don't worry."

After some time with Tallulah, Julian asked," do you mind if I went to talk to Lindsey?" Tallulah shook her head.

"Why should I? You are the king."

"Yeah, thank you for reminding me." And with that he went to find Lindsey who was looking at the clouds. "Hope you don't mind that I spent some time with Tallulah, dear," Julian began, apologetically.

Lindsey smiled. "No, I understand Julian that you are worried, but you and Tallulah were meant for each other from the start, I knew it."

"What do you mean?! I love you!" Julian exclaimed, upset by the thought.

"No, Julian, you and I are great friends, but the lady you love is Tallulah," Lindsey replied softly. She smiled at him. Julian smiled back weakly, feeling a mix of remorse and joy.

"I guess you are right penguin lady, I shall go back now," Julian announced and walked back to Tallulah.

Tallulah was a lemur that didn't argue. She hated arguing and she had listened to Julian. She was a very content lemur, with an attitude that was close to Privates'. That made Julian love her all the more and Lindsey could easily see that.

Day turned to night and the zoo was content. With nothing else to do, she looked at Kowalski who had been studying the moon with his new telescope.

"I must say, Julian and Tallulah are quite fit for each other," Kowalski observed as he looked at the Silver-white circle that was floated in the night sky, with his fluffy, grey companions surrounding it.

Lindsey nodded. "I concur!"

"Hey, those are my words!" Kowalski complained.

Lindsey shook her head in a cheeky way. "No more are they your words, my dear Sherlock!" she retorted giggling.

Kowalski chuckled. "I'll get them back, you'll see, but now I will go back to my study."

Lindsey took the telescope and started running to the HQ.

"Hey!" Kowalski shouted and chased after her. Lindsey was too quick. She quickly got over the fencing around the enclosure and ran into the HQ. As Skipper turned around to see what was happening he let out a laugh, shaking his head at the antics of the two fellow penguins. Lindsey then hid in Kowalski's lab, ducking under one of the tables.

"Hmm... were is that lady?" Kowalski pondered aloud, as he searched.

Skipper laughed again. "I see soldier, that you are not carrying your telescope," he commented, watching the scene.

"Lindsey took it," Kowalski explained. He heard something move. Slowly opening the door of his lab, the tall penguin stepped inside the room, looking around. Realising that it was dark, he stretched his flipper out, trying to feel for the switch.

As soon as the lights went on, he saw Lindsey practically leap out of the shadows. She kissed him on his cheek lightly. "Surprise!" she said, giggling.

Kowalski chuckled. "I might get used to these surprises," he murmured and kissed her back.

Skipper looked at them for a while and then muttered to himself, "now that that is settled, I think I could settle something for myself."

I hope you like this chapter and don't worry this isn't the end yet, I still haven't written an Epilogue! Please review and I hope you will enjoy the next and last chapter.