Madagascar and OC! REWRITE!

The Wild

Everyone now peered at the giraffe.

"San Diego?" Gloria questioned him.

"White sandy beaches, cleverly simulated natural environment, wide-open enclosures," Melman declared, scanning their new surroundings exclusively. "I'm telling you, this could be the San Diego Zoo. Complete with fake rocks." He tapped the bottom of his hoof against a rock laid in the Sand, the smooth surface of his hoof clicking like music against the rough object and not at all like a decoy.

"Wow, that looks real." He proclaimed, surprised.

"Melly," Ayana began, walking beside the rock. "The rock is real."

"To your eyes, it would be Ana," Melman replied, placing his hoof on the rock. "But people would take drastic measures to make something like this look real!"

"San Diego?" Alex asked, ignoring the conversation of the leopard and the giraffe. He broke free from the group hug, viewing the wall of trees with a look of complete sorrow. "What could be worse than San Diego?"

"I don't know," Marty remarked, a jovial grin overpowering the lion's scowl. He trotted past the lion and observed the trees with a much more accepting expression.

"This place is crack-a-lackin'!" He exclaimed, using his messed up slang. "Oh, I could hang here. I could hang here."

As soon as he faced his friends, Alex had snapped.

"I’m gonna kill you, Marty!" He screeched, chasing after the running zebra.

"Take it easy! Take it easy!" Marty screamed back, darting through Melman's long legs, Alex right on his tail.

"- strangle you!"

"Calm down. Calm down."

"Then bury you, then dig you up and clone you and kill your clones." Alex declared openly as the two began circling Gloria in a squall of gold, black and white.

"20-second timeout. 20-second timeout."

"And then I'm never talking to you again."

Gloria had enough of the entire tantrum, hooking her hands under Alex's arms, hoisting him off the ground to end his rampage. Ayana immediately raced to Marty's side, to wait for Alex to calm down and the striped animal crouched behind the leopard's figure.

"Stop it!" The female hippo screech.

"Now, look," Gloria announced through gritted teeth, jerking the male feline aggressively. "We're just going to find the people, get checked in, and have this mess straightened out." She heatedly threw Alex back on his feet, now watching as he was much calmer than earlier.

"Oh, great. This is just great. San Diego." Alex groaned. "Now I'll have to compete with Shamu and his smug little grin. I can't top that! Can't top it! I'm ruined!" The lion slumped on his knees as a weary person ready for bed, his legs half-buried in the sand, his brownish-gold mane shimmering in the bright sun. "I'm done. I'm out of the business. It's your fault, Marty!" He twisted back, pointing an accusing finger at his now ex-friend. "You've ruined me."

Watching Alex's demise about his career almost made Ayana regret even comforting him in the box. She risked herself for the lion, doing things she has never done before for anyone else besides Levi. How could he be such a-