Penguin Pandemonium - The Rescue

“What are you all looking at?” she screeched as Brenda let them in. “I wasn’t kissing, if that’s what you thought. I was practising my lifesaving skills, wasn’t I, Hatty and Brenda?”

“You were? Oh, yes,” spluttered Brenda. “In case Warren drowned.”

“In kisses,” giggled Hatty.

As Muriel tried to strangle her friends, Rory stopped laughing and began the serious business of searching around the hutch.

“Where have you hidden the emperor chicks, Muriel?” he demanded.

“And where have you hidden the prawns?” added Eddie.

By now, Blue had joined in the search. Furious at having her hutch invaded, Muriel stopped throttling Brenda and Hatty and stood in Blue’s way.

“How dare you look through my stuff, Bloop!” she shrieked. “Not that I’ve got anything to hide, have I, Hatty?”

“No,” snorted Hatty. “Only your love letter to Warren.”

Blue was losing patience.

“Seriously, Muriel, what have you done with the chicks? They must be here somewhere.”

Seeing how anxious she looked, Muriel guessed what had happened… and her beak stretched into a nasty grin.

“Oh my cod! You’ve lost Oo-Chi and Ku-Chi, haven’t you, Bloop?” she sneered. “Paulie is so going to kill you.”

“No, he’s going to kill me,” said Rory.

“And when he does, I’m having Rory’s snowboard,” announced Eddie cheerfully.

Rory put his head in his flippers.

“I’m a dead penguin walking.”

“It’s not over yet, Rory,” said Blue. “If we all keep looking, we’re bound to find them. You’ll help us, won’t you, Hatty and Brenda?”