Alright, readers. After having taken a break from writing for a couple of months, I have finally gotten to writing this new story.
Now, this series is brand new territory for me, since this is the first time I'm writing a story for this series. I was inspired to write this story as a result of how I once watched the show and remembered just how cruel it can get at times, specifically to Adam Lyon, who's the only human that attends a middle school for zoo animals.
Anyway, this story starts with the same amount of cruelty as in the show. But rest assured, this story will eventually address it and be a deconstruction of it too. Adam starts having some personal struggles after an incident at the charity drive on Saturday thanks to Jake Spidermonkey, gets in trouble for it, and has doubts about fitting in at CDMS.
Well, enough with this author's note. I'm gonna let you guys read this first chapter. With that said, enjoy the chapter everyone!
DISCLAIMER: All the rights to My Gym Partner's a Monkey belong to Cartoon Network and those that created it.
AT CHARLES DARWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL - 7:23:
It was another day in the city of Glendale, California. And because it was Monday, that meant it was a school day for all the kids and teens that live there. One of those schools, in particular, was Charles Darwin Middle School.
This school was a special case, being that it was a middle school for zoo animals, all of which live at the Zoo Aquarium. The school was meant to teach zoo animals of all different kinds of species; be it mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and even bugs and insects.
Aside from the students, all of the faulty staff members of Charles Darwin Middle School were also made up of animals. It was clear with all the plant life, the bodies of water, and the smell that it was made specifically for animals. Under most conditions, there was never a day where the school was boring and quiet, aside from Hibernation Class.
Currently, the halls in Charles Darwin Middle School were filled with howls that echoed throughout most of the school. Most of the students had entered the school already and were either going through their lockers or doing the usual things that they typically do before the first period at Charles Darwin Middle School.
It was then one of the students who had set foot into the building that managed to stand out amongst the rest of the students, being that he was actually a 12-year-old human boy, and thus didn't live at the Zoo Aquarium.
Going by the name Adam Lyon, this student had Caucasian-colored skin, and he has ginger-colored hair. He also has freckles; three on his left cheek and one on his right cheek, and his usual outfit consists of a yellow colored T-shirt, dark green shorts, maroon colored sneakers with gold stripes, and a taupe-colored backpack with all of his school belongings in it.
Believe it or not, there was quite an explanation for Adam having to attend an animal school. Before this, he had originally attended Chester Arthur Middle School; a typical school for humans.
Unfortunately, the transfer to Charles Darwin happened as a result of a clerical error that misspelled his last name as being 'LION', forcing Adam to be stuck in a school with a bunch of wild zoo animals. And this was an issue that was never corrected by the school board, nor did Adam's parents ever do anything to have him go back to his human school.
Needless to say, this was something that Adam did not enjoy in the slightest, especially given his reputation at the school and how he's looked down upon by many of the students for being a human.
Not to mention the countless amount of times that Adam's been bullied, humiliated, and tormented at the school too. There have even been times that he's been stampeded by the students and nearly eaten alive by the more predatory students like the lions, and even Bull Sharkowski on at least one occasion.
Judging by the frown on his face, and the sigh that came out of his mouth, it was clear that he wasn't looking forward to another day at Charles Darwin Middle School.
Well, here's another day of pain and misery at CDMS... Adam thought as he groaned. I don't know why I even bother giving this school a chance, especially since the school seems to hate me for some reason.
Adam walked straight for his locker as he was lost in thought. It seems that no matter what he does for the school or all the times he's tried to help out in some shape or form, either everything will go wrong, or the rest of the students and faculty staff members will blame him for things that went wrong with the school. He could never win, and whenever he did do something wrong, they never let him live it down.
Now that I think of it, this school does go off the deep end when something trivial happens... Adam thought in annoyance. Even my small circle of friends at this school aren't above ganging up on me whenever I do something that offends them. Or when they get into something that gets out of hand, like the time I had the menu changed to serve human food, just because I didn't want to eat twigs, mud, or worms. Or like the time the grading system switched over to letter grades because there was no motivation in getting generic symbols.
As soon as he was in front of his locker, he put in the locker combination and opened it. From there, he put his backpack in there and got out the books that he'll need for his classes today. While he did so, he thought back to what happened over the weekend, specifically on Saturday.
He and several other students at CDMS were issued to take part in a mandatory charity drive by Principal Poncherello Pixiefrog; the school's principal. The students were issued to give out charitable items to those who needed them, for the school to make more money.
Of course, Adam was stuck working with his 'gym partner'; Jacob P. Spidermonkey, which meant not only was he stuck trying to do all the hard work, but Jake also made everything go wrong for the both of them.
Because Jake HAD to sabotage their items, Principal Pixiefrog issued a 3-day detention for his unruly behavior. One of them involved bubblegum blowing up into the faces of a pair of customers. Another one had him replace cans of vegetables with cans of live snakes; one of which was given to a woman who had ophidiophobia. Lastly, Jake had forced a man to look at, admire and stare at his butt from a distance, which was unpleasant.
And as always, Adam Lyon was also given 3-days of detention despite not being the one who caused the trouble. And Adam was given the brunt of the punishment by aiding the customers that Jake messed with and doing what they wanted him to do to prevent them from suing the school for the irresponsibility of one of their students.
Needless to say, Adam was not impressed at all by how his so-called 'best friend' threw him under the bus like that...again. Just like all the other times he screwed him over like this.
It's not fair. How come I'M the one who has to be held responsible for everything Jake does? Jake should've been the one to fix the trouble that he caused! Not have me handle it for him! Adam thought in frustration. Then again, I wouldn't put it past him. He's screwed me over so many times, that I lost track of how MANY times he's done this to me...
As soon as he finished that thought, he then heard that all-familiar screech calling out to him.
"HEY AHHHHHH-DUUUUUUUUUM!" Adam groaned as he knew exactly who that was.
Oh great. Speak of the devil himself... Adam thought in annoyance as he closed his locker upon taking his books out.
Then right on cue, slamming into his locker facefirst, was Jake Spidermonkey, who let out a monkey screech upon hitting the locker.
Jake was described as being a short, orange monkey with poorly groomed fur. He was wearing a blue-green baseball cap pointed sideways on his head, and he was also wearing a red T-shirt. The most noticeable feature of this spider monkey was his big, naked, plump, hairless butt that was exposed like that of a baboon.
Adam turned around just in time to see Jake fall onto the floor, on his back. After letting out a sigh and rolling his eyes, he greeted. "Hey, Jake."
"Hiya Adam," Jake got up onto his feet. "Did ya hear me holler out your name just now? Did ya? Did ya? Did ya?"
"Yeah," Adam answered in a bored tone. "I'm pretty sure the whole school must've heard you."
"Well good for those people," Jake shuffled to his locker and then changed the subject. "So how was your weekend? Must've been good I can imagine."
"Gee Jake, it was really hard for me to have had a good weekend with what I was put through," Adam told him with a slightly sharp tone.
"Oh yeah! That reminds me," Jake snapped his fingers, oblivious to Adam's tone. "That was some fun we had on Saturday, wasn't it?"
"Oh? By fun do you mean how I had to be stuck with the brunt of the responsibility...again? And was also given three days of detention for what had happened during that charity drive?" Adam asked as a sarcastic tone entered his voice. "Yes. It was fun."
"Really? Oh, phew. Thank goodness," Jake was oblivious to the sarcasm as he wiped his forehead. "For a minute there, I thought you'd be angry for how I got you stuck with taking care of those people to prevent CDMS from getting sued."
"Are you kidding me, Jake!? Of course, I'm upset about that!" Adam hollered angrily, curling his hands into fists. "Do you have any idea what I had to go through to help those customers who were affected by your antics?! It took me 14 HOURS just to get all of that bubblegum off of that couple, which involved having to shave off their hair since I couldn't get the gum wads off of their hair! And that man pummeled me for making his wife cry from being bald and ugly and ruining her life!"
"Eh, what can you do? That's how housewives are," Jake was nonchalant about that as he opened up his locker to get some stuff. "Always complaining about their looks and appearances. Kinda like how you are acting now with how you're complaining about the mess you made."
"That was your mess, Jake. And that's not all," Adam continued. "I had to comfort that poor woman who was scarred from the live snakes in the can that you gave to her. I had to require help from Mr. Mandrill since psychology is something I'm not good at. I have no idea how to help someone with ophidiophobia!"
"Ophidio-what-bia? Isn't that some kind of a soda?" Jake wondered, grabbing some stuff from his locker as he closed it. "Anyway, I'll be sure to bring Slips along with us the next time we meet her."
"But the worst thing that had happened to me from this whole thing was how you forced that man into staring at your 'own' butt," Adam ignored Jake's comment as he ranted on. "I had to spend countless hours doing everything that man wanted me to do, and attempted EVERYTHING I could to get him to stop seeing those horrid images of your butt! I puked 5 times because of it!"
"Five times? Wow. That's a new record there," Jake admitted. "Though I can't quite understand why anyone would want to puke from seeing my 'own' butt. My butt is my best feature after all."
"Jake! That's beside the point!" Adam shook his hands and glared at his monkey friend. "Thanks to you, I was forced into fixing things because PF wanted us to prevent lawsuits from happening to Charles Darwin Middle School."
"By us, you mean you, right?" Jake wondered absentmindedly.
"Ugh!" Adam facepalmed in annoyance. "This whole charity drive was a nightmare because of you."
"Well, what are you whining about Adam? The charity drive is over," Jake snorted. "And you only have one more day of detention to serve."
"Oh yes, Jake," Adam rolled his eyes. "Never mind the fact that I was the one who did all the hard work just to undo the mess you made, now I'm likely to become an even bigger laughingstock in this school..."
"C'mon Adam, you're thinking too hard," Jake reassured. "There's no way that you'll be an even bigger laughingstock than you already are."
Adam was just about to give Jake another retort. But before he could do so, the intercom went off as Principal Pixiefrog started with the first morning announcements.
"Attention students, this is Principal Pixiefrog with the first morning announcements of the day," the voice of Pixiefrog said through the speaker. "First of all, I'd like to congratulate all of you on an outstanding job during the charity drive this Saturday. You've all done your school good, and you helped the school with its funding issues, and blah blah blah blah blah. All of you students have done well with this charity drive...or that is, almost everyone. Except for two students that I won't name. Particularly one Adam Lyon for nearly ruining the CDMS name with bubblegum, live snakes, and monkey butts."
As Pixiefrog was shunning Adam and claiming he almost ruined their school, Adam was frowning deeply, not believing that he was being humiliated again. He just wanted to disappear right on the spot.
"Thankfully, we were able to avoid some lawsu-I mean, prevent our school's name from being compared to a pair of poopy diapers. But Adam Lyon nearly ruined everything that we have worked for," Pixiefrog continued. "So students, when you see Adam Lyon next, feel free to laugh at and throw stuff at him. And make him into more of a laughingstock than he already is. That is all."
Adam was practically sweating from what he had just heard, especially after the announcement came to a close. Now he was an even bigger laughingstock than he usually is. This day couldn't get any worse for him. By contrast, Jake seemed completely ignorant of the fact that Pixiefrog instructed all students to laugh at Adam and make him look like a fool by throwing stuff at him. Rather, he thought it was a tribute.
"Did you hear that Adam?" Jake commented. "Principal Pixiefrog just made an announcement honoring you!"
"No Jake. He wasn't honoring me," Adam told him. "He was saying that I nearly ruined the reputation of CDMS due to what happened on Saturday! I seriously have become an even bigger laughingstock IN THIS SCHOOL!"
"Oh," Jake's face dropped as he gave Adam a blank stare.
It was then several animal students took notice of Adam's presence and glared at him before they started making snide and crude comments about him.
"Hey look, it's the human kid!"
"Adam? How dare he show his face around here?!"
"It's Ah-dumb! Told ya his brain is as small as a pea!"
"Just for his little stunt, I'm gonna steal Lyon's lunch and pummel him!"
"Let's throw stuff at him!"
"YEAH!"
Immediately afterwards, Adam heard animal cries as he was then pelted by inanimate objects, such as mud, rocks, rotten tomatoes, garbage, and even some brown stuff that smelled awful. The only thing Adam could do was cover himself with his arms as Jake just watched him get targeted by whatever the students could throw at the human student.
Eventually, they stopped throwing stuff but began laughing at how Adam smelled awful and had been humiliated again. Adam felt tears forming in his eyes, but he forced them back in, gritted his teeth, and ran off.
"Hey, Adam!? Wait?" Jake called out to him as he ran off after his human friend. "Come back!"
The rest of the students continued laughing and mocking Adam Lyon as they watched Adam run off, with Jake following after him. It was only after they were entirely out of sight that they ceased their juvenile behavior and continued on their way. The first period was going to be starting soon, after all.
In another part of the school, Adam had stopped running as he caught his breath. Thank goodness he was all alone now. He knew that the other students would treat him like a laughingstock. And maybe he expected them to throw rocks, mud piles, and garbage at him as well. But he didn't count on a couple of them throwing animal dung at him, which caused him to smell bad; worse than garbage.
After catching his breath, all Adam could do was furrow his eyebrows and grit his teeth, wiping the tears out of his eyes. He had no idea how much more of this he could take. If he doesn't do something that the animals object to, then Jake does something and Adam gets blamed for all of it.
Well, it's a good thing I lost them. But now I smell bad. Adam thought. Guess I should get to first-period class before I'm tardy...again.
Adam sighed, knowing that his first class was with Mr. Hornbill. And from what he could remember, today's topic in that class had something to do with catching prey. He didn't know for sure. The only way he could find out is if he goes to his class for himself.
Before he could walk off though, the voice of his friend Jake was heard calling out to him.
"HEY ADAM! OVER HERE!" Jake hollered, getting Adam to turn around and moan. "Woah Adam. I almost lost you for a moment there..."
"You sure you were looking for me?" Adam asked in a bitter retort. "I thought you'd be too busy admiring your 'own' butt."
"No! Although I do have to wonder how my butt's looking right about now," Jake remarked in defense. "Anyway, looks like those students got you good with all that stuff they threw at you."
"Don't remind me," Adam grumbled as he turned away from him. "I don't wanna talk about it..."
"No really. They threw rocks, mud, garbage, and tomatoes at you, which explains why you smell like you haven't taken a bath in weeks," Jake commented. "And from what I saw, I can't believe that you got pelted by animal sh-"
"I SAID I DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT IT, JAKE!" Adam bellowed, cutting Jake off from saying what could've been an inappropriate word.
"Okay. No need to get all whiny and angry with me Adam. Sheesh," Jake furrowed his eyebrows at that.
"Just forget about it," Adam hissed. "Let's just get to our first-period class..."
"But the bell hasn't gone off-" Before he could finish, the first-period bell went off. "...yet."
Adam only shook his head as he headed for his first class, with Jake trailing right behind him.
"Yeah Adam, it would be a good idea to get ready for Mr. Hornbill's class," Jake told him. "I think we're gonna be learning about how we catch our prey. I love catching prey!"
Adam didn't even respond to that. Instead, he just rolled his eyes, perfectly content with getting to class and getting this school day done and over with, along with his last day of detention. Jake only shrugged at his gesture and followed him to their first class. This was going to be a long and miserable day for Adam Lyon. That's for sure...
END OF CHAPTER 1...
Yeah, that's it for this chapter. I'll get into more details in later chapters when it comes to this story. I'm still not entirely sure what the direction of this story will be, and if there will be some kind of conclusion to it, but I'll try my best with it. I promise.
Anyway, I do consider this show to be a guilty pleasure of some kind. Otherwise, I wouldn't have written a story for this series. I just wanted to let you know about that.
With that out of the way, for the next chapter, we get a brief insight into how Adam feels about all of this exactly, the rest of the pack interacts with Adam and Jake, and a few other things will take place too. How will this go? Find out next time, folks.
For now, if you would like to leave a review for this story, please feel free to do so. This is my first story for this series though, as a reminder.
Otherwise, I got nothing else to say. So until next, tune in again readers.