Hey Guys. This is my new story. This one will also be dramatic like my former stories. I kinda got used to write dramatic stories. So enjoy reading and don´t forget to review this one or one of my other stories. XOXO

It was a quiet evening at the Central Park Zoo. Everything was quiet, so only the distant noises of the city could be heard. The sky was pitch black and cloudy, so the full moon was hardly visible. In the HQ of the Penguins, it was also quietly. Private watched his favorite TV show, Kowalski was in his lab, and Rico brushed the hair of his dolly girlfriend. Just Skipper was very anxious, he felt a strange danger from the silence outside. The leader tried to put this feeling under control but it was something deep in his gut telling him to be on alert. He wanted to hide it from the other penguins but the rest of the team recognized that somethings wrong with their leader.

"Skipper, what's wrong with you? You walk around like a startled chicken." Private asked after a while. "What?" Nothing, what should be? " Skipper replied irritably and sat down to stop walking around. "Switch the telly off, Private." said the leader after a while. Private obeyed and pressed the red button on the remote. At the HQ was a frightening silence now. "Did you hear that?" Skipper asked the small Private. "No, nothing. What should I hear?" said Private and looked inquiringly at his leader.

"Nothing, that is exactly. It's too quiet here at the zoo. You can´t hear the slightest thing. That's weird, right? Not even the ringtail can be heard." Skipper said and took a look around. Private didn´t understand what´s that bad. "I think I'll take a night recon shift today. I want to know more." Skipper said, jumping up. "But why? But it's all quite normal." Private said. The leader turned around with a determined look that let Private shut up.

If Skipper had something on his mind it was almost impossible to hold him back anymore. "I keep watch tonight. Deal with it. Sometimes a threat is creeping under your feather long before it actually happens." Skipper said finally. Kowalski came from his laboratory and looked inquiringly at the others. "What's going on here. The ongoing discussions disturb my concentration." said the tall scientist. "Skipper says that tonight is too quiet and want to do a night recon shift." Private said.

"Skipper, how often did I tell you to not always just on your instincts. Maybe you´ll sit there all night long in the cold just for nothing." Kowalski said precociously. Skipper scowled. "I do not permit any doubt on my decisions. Especially not when it comes to concern me. But why do you care when I´m sitting there in the cold while you´re lying in you cozy warm bunk, right?" Skipper said annoyed.

With that he grabbed the binoculars and climbed the ladder up to the entrance quickly. The others watched him in wonder. "Do you think he has any premonition?" Private asked Kowalski. "No idea. He has a strong gut feeling, which often saved our butts. But sometimes he overdoes it a bit. I'm 99, 99 percent sure that we are not in any danger, just because it's something quiet here. " said the scientist, and waddled back to his lab. private switched the TV on again, but somehow he wasn´t able to focus. What if Skipper is right?, thought the boy and looked up and to Rico, who shook his head.

Private sighed, Skipper could really infect one with his paranoia.

Skipper climbed up to the bell tower to keep his recon duty from this place. He was still angry with the other penguins who didn´t believe him. But he sensed the danger quite clear now. A strange stinging sensation spread through his stomach. He sat down at the bell in the shadow of the moonlight, so that no one could see him, what was almost impossible anyway in such a unusual dark night. The leader looked through the binoculars and searched every inch of the surroundings, but nothing stirred. He could barely see anything in the darkness, which made him even more vigilant.

Meanwhile, the other went to sleep. Hardly anyone had said something after Skipper's gloomy prediction. "Kowalski, do you think Skipper is okay?" Private asked who was a little worried since Skippers sudden leaving. "Don´t panic, Private. There´s nothing out there. Skipper will be out there all night and will fall into bed from sheer exhaustion tomorrow morning." said the scientists, and laid in his bunk. Private laid down too, but with a queasy feeling in his stomach. The little boy lay in his bunk, and wasn´t able to fall asleep. He turned back and forth, but he couldn´t get his eyes shut. Somehow, he felt that something was about to happen.

The leader watched the whole area for hours now. Until now nothing happened yet. Skipper was getting tired and yawned. What he needed now was a nice hot mug of fish coffee. So he decided to sneak into the HQ and get some. Quickly, he jumped on his feet and clambered down to the ground, but then he heard a rustling noise in the bushes behind him.

Once again there was Red Alert inside him. He turned around to get his binoculars, which was lying behind him. But when he did that he suddenly felt a sharp stab in his back. Before he could go after that he got so incredible dizzy that he could hardly stand on his feet. The leader collapsed. He felt more and more sick. The area swam in front of his eyes and he could only hear the excited beating of his own heart. Black figures were approaching him and he wasn´t able to move even an inch. Another painful stinging shot through his body and Skipper lost consciousness.