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Star Child	By : ShiTiger Category: +M through R > Penguins of Madagascar Views: 2080 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Penguins of Madagascar, nor do I make any money off this fic.

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Star Child, Ch 3: Tragedy Strikes
Skipper had loudly protested a trip back to Madagascar. But Kowalski was sure he'd give in... eventually. Especially since Julien dropped by on a daily basis just to bring it up, REPEATEDLY! Their squad leader could only say no so many times before the mammal finally drove him crazy enough to say yes.
Unfortunately for Kowalski, his squad leader didn't say yes quickly enough...
***
BOOM!
'Ahhh! Maurice, what be making that loud booming noise? It be waking your king from his beauty sleep,' Julien yelled, looking down at his adviser who stood at the bottom of the throne.
'I don't know, Julien. But, I think it came from the penguins' habitat,' Maurice commented, rubbing his chin.
BOOM BOOM BOOM!
'The penguiny place?' Julien fidgeted, trying not to give away his obvious state of worry.
{I can't be saying anything. My lovey-dovey penguin does not want anyone to be knowing he is dating the King! Though, everyone should be knowing this so that they will stop flirting with MY vady!}
'Should we go check it out?' Maurice looked up at his leader who was huddled in his own throne.
'Yes! Yes, we should be checking it out. But only because you suggested it, not cause I, the King, really want to be doing such a thing,' Julien leaped down from his perch and rushed past his adviser.
The older lemur rolled his eyes and trudged along behind his ruler.
'I want to come too!' Mort squeaked, running after his fellow lemurs.
***
'What is this crowd doing here? Don't they know that the King wants to get through? Maurice, tell them that King Julien wants to get through!'
Maurice growled under his breath and started to clear a path for Julien.
***
'No! Kowalski!' Skipper's voice reached them before they even got halfway through the crowd.
'Something is to be happening to the sciency penguin? Faster Maurice!' Julien ordered, not even waiting for his adviser to follow his order. Instead, he pushed through the crowd on his own, leaving Maurice and Mort blinking after him in shock.
'Oh, Kowalski!' Private's sad voice rang out, slightly muffled by the crowd.
'Move! Move! I need to be seeing what is to be happening with the sciency penguin!' Julien stopped shoving at the gorillas and climbed up their backs to vault over them instead. What he saw when he finally landed on the rock in the middle of the penguin habitat was something so horrible, he wished to unsee it immediately.
'Kowalski...' Marlene sobbed, burrowing her face into Rico's shoulder. The gruff penguin patted her back, staring in horror at the scene in front of his eyes.
'Kow...al...ski?' Julien twitched, stepping closer until he was standing next to Private.
Maurice and Mort landed on the main bank of the penguin habitat and stared across the water in shock.
'Why soldier, WHY?' Skipper yelled, cradling his First Lieutenant's head in his flippers.
The crowd of animals surrounding the habitat knew that today would be one of the worst days of their lives. What started out as a holiday (the zoo being closed altogether with only an elderly zookeeper to tend to them) would become a day of tragedy and despair. The day that one of Kowalski's experiments finally got the best of him.
'It's not that bad, Skipper,' the tall penguin coughed, half smiling up at his commander.
Skipper just turned his head away, choking back tears at the sight of his comrade's body lying limp and almost motionless in his arms. A shard of metal glinted from his chest as crimson blood pooled out onto the hard and unforgiving rock below them.
***
'The penguin is dying!' Mort suddenly cried aloud, burying his face into the older lemur's side.
'Dying? No, Mr. Kowalski cannot be dying. My Vady cannot be dying!' Julien shoved the penguin leader to the side and cradled his lover to his chest.
'Ju...lien? I'm glad I got to see you... one last time,' Kowalski stared up into the golden eyes of his secret lover and finally felt a sense of peace pass over him. It wasn't such a bad thing to be dying in the warm arms of the one you loved most in the world.
'NO! You are my VADY! You cannot die!' Julien pressed his face into his lover's soft, feathery chest and sobbed.
***
'His vady?' Maurice grabbed Mort's arm and leapt over the water, landing next to Marlene and Rico. King Julien was bent over the penguin's body, arms holding him close.
'I don't understand? Julien never gets this emotional over anyone but himself,' Marlene whispered, giving the other lemurs a quick, confused glance.
***
Skipper righted himself and waddled around to the front of his dying comrade so he could glare at the lemur king properly. How dare he...
{Is he... crying? Over Kowalski? If Kowalski wasn't dying, I'd find this almost comical. But Kowalski is dying and that lemur is glowing and... Wait. Glowing?}
The penguin leader watched in awe as Julien's fur began to sparkle, then change color entirely. Grey and black became stunning gold, and as Julien's head lifted, Skipper could see that his eyes had turned an emerald shade of green.
Power seemed to surge around the king and everyone watched in amazement as nimble lemur fingers grasped the metal shard and wrenched it out of the penguin's bloody chest.
'Kowalski!' Skipper couldn't stop himself from shouting.
Green eyes focused on him, cold and unemotional. They were not Julien's eyes. Skipper shivered and took a step back, just in case the creature that had once been Julien tried anything.
'IZY NO VADIKO!' Julien's voice boomed even as his tail wrapped around the penguin's body.
'What?' Skipper wrenched his eyes away from the scene to look at Maurice. The older lemur seemed as transfixed by the scene as everyone else.
'He said... This is my mate. He's claiming Kowalski as his lifemate,' Maurice spoke, unable to take his eyes away from his king.
'His mate?' Skipper's head swung back around and he decided it was best not to bother the grieving lemur. Alien lemur... whatever he was.
***
<Speaking in Malagasy>
Julien wasn't sure why he was glowing, but something stirred in his heart as he clutched his dying lover close. He felt powerful and powerless at the same time.
<Kowalski, my mate. You cannot die here, like this. Please wake up, my love.>
Julien pressed his face into the downy white plumage of his lover's chest once more. His arms and tail wrapped tighter around the softly breathing penguin. Julien felt the very moment that Kowalski finally went still, the beat of his heart no longer echoing loudly in his ears. It was at that moment that Julien felt his fragile self control snap.
***
The glow was getting brighter and brighter. They could barely make out the pair in the centre of it. It was blinding...
'Holy mackerel!' Skipper felt the wave of energy hit him, then the cool wetness of the pool was drenching his feathers. Pulling himself up, he noticed that he wasn't the only one floundering about in the water.
'Wow,' Rico grunted, pulling Marlene up onto the rocks.
'Skipper!' Private swam over to help his leader. Ahead of them, Maurice and Mort were already pulling themselves out of the pool.
'Kowalski, status report!' Skipper commanded automatically, before reality drove it's way into his gut again. Kowalski was dying and Julien was...
He looked across the rock and saw that the glow had subsided. Julien's fur was back to it's original black and grey as he clutched Kowalski's body close.
Skipper shook his head and waddled up to the lemur king, putting a flipper on his shoulder.
'It's over, ringtail. Kowalski is...'
'What's going on? Why is everyone staring at me like that?' a familiar voice broke Skipper's speech, drawing everyone's attention to the injured penguin.
Or not injured... As Julien finally released the bird, the first thing everyone noticed as that the blood was gone. Like it had just vanished into thin air. Kowalski was looking as fit as ever and completely confused by all the attention.
'Kowalski... Tiako ianao!' Julien sobbed, golden eyes focused entirely on his lover.
'I love you too, Julien,' Kowalski couldn't help but answer back.
{Skipper is going to kill me now that he knows we're together. And why is everyone staring at us?}
Kowalski didn't expect to suddenly be tackled by three over-excited penguins, two lemurs and an otter.
'You're alive!' Private shouted.
'Glad to have you back, Kowalski,' Skipper slapped him on the back... gently.
'Uh huh!' Rico grunted.
'I can't believe you're alive! I don't know how he did it, but Julien saved your life!' Marlene explained, hugging her friend tightly.
'I told you he was the star child,' Maurice smirked, stepping back from the group hug to elbow his king in the side.
'I wanted to be King Julien's mate!' Mort cried, clutching the taller lemur's leg.
'No, Mort! You are too annoying to be mated with the King. Only Mr. Kowalski is fabulous enough to be with one so great as myself,' Julien announced, turning his nose up at the other animals.
***
'I'm glad everyone is so happy, but can someone tell me what's going on?' Kowalski finally asked, once the others had finally let him climb to his feet.
'Don't you remember, Kowalski?' Skipper looked up at his officer in amazement.
'I remember doing an experiment... then something exploded... then there was a sharp pain and then... Julien was holding me close. He looked so sad,' Kowalski stepped toward his lover and reached out, touching his flippers to the other's hands.
'You were dying, my vady. I was afraid I would lose you. Then and now, ny foko no miteny,' Julien whispered, leaning in close to nuzzle his lover's beak.
'He said, my heart speaks the language of love,' Maurice translated.
'That's so sweet,' Marlene wiped a tear from her eye as she watched the two males gaze at one another.
'I will not be making the mistake of waiting any longer!' Julien suddenly announced, bending down onto one knee.
'He's going to do it,' Maurice stared wide-eyed at the pair.
'Do what? Propose?' Skipper wondered aloud, flippers crossed over his chest at the lovey-dovey scene.
'Yep,' Maurice smiled, waiting to hear his king finally speak the words that would bind him for life to another lemur... er, penguin.
***
Kowalski couldn't take his eyes off his lover. The lemur was kneeling on the ground before him, smiling that devastatingly handsome smile of his. A single hand reached out to take his flipper and the king finally spoke.
'Kowalski, I cannot bear the thought of another moment without you in my life. Hanam-bady ahy ve ianao?'
The penguin gasped and felt tears coming to his eyes.
{Julien wants to marry me? ME? And how can I understand those strange words he keeps saying? Oh well. JULIEN WANTS TO MARRY ME!}
'Yes, yes Julien. I will marry you,' Kowalski gasped as the lemur leaped up from his crouch to wrap his arms around him. Tender lips hit his beak and the penguin felt his worries melt away. This was the best day of his life!
...tbc...
Note: I have a whole plan for this fic, starting with them returning to Madagascar to find out if the star craft is real. Don't know when I'll be updating it, as I have several other fics on the go, but I hope you enjoyed part one of “Star Child”
(Malagasy, the official language of the people of Madagascar)
Tiako ianao = I love you
izy no vadiko = This is my husband
My VADY! = my husband, wife, mate, partner, one pair of a set
hanam-bady ahy ve ianao? = Would you marry me?
ny foko no miteny = My heart speaks the language of love.
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