CHAPTER 1: Prologue
***DISCLAIMER*** I DO NOT OWN ICE AGE OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS
(With Shira)
She woke up. It was time for a morning hunt. It had been a week since Shira left her pack. She got sick of the way she was being treated simply because of the color of her fur and her gender. She has survived to this point, but it hasn't been as easy at she had thought. Pack life was so much less stressful as far as general necessities and survival, but it wasn't worth it if she was seen as more of an outcast than a pack member.
'I can't survive like this, but I can't go back to them.' Shira's thoughts were racing through her head. 'If I go back, they'll kill me, but if I try to keep going like this, I may die anyway. There has got to be another way.'
(With pack)
The pack leader woke up. He and his five best warriors were about to set off on a hunt. No one left his pack. He has been furiously pacing and thinking for the past week on how they are going to track down Shira. He knew that she was considerably weaker than he and his pack, but she was faster, and very clever.
"Wake up, brothers. We have work to do." Brysen, Coleman, Trent, Arian, and Lathan woke up, ready to listen to their leader's orders. "She left us, we saved her life. We could've left Shira to die, and she just leaves us. She will pay with her life she should've lost when Diego and I came across her."
'Diego.' He cringed at the name. They were the best of friends, they always looked out for each other. Then he turned on him. He made friends with some mammoth, and... a sloth, of all things. That mammoth left him in serious pain, he owed his life to his 5 friends. He would never do to them what Diego did to him. In the process, Oscar, Lenny and Zeke, his other pack mates were driven away to an unkown fate. 'Shira should've been thankful she found me alive that day.'
"We are ready, Soto." Brysen said. The pack knew their task. They were the best hunters in the world.
(With herd)
Diego had been with the herd for so long, they had been through everything together. Ever since Manny saved his life, he realized what it was like to have others who truly care for you. They formed a family, an odd family, but a true, caring family. Sometimes, he wonders how he ended up with three mammoths, two opposums, a sloth and a molehog, but he wouldn't have it any other way.
They had been through everything together, the meltdown, dinosaurs, birth, and the continental drift. Every day awaited another adventure for Diego and the herd.
"See ya, Manny, I'm gonna go on a hunt." he announced.
"OK, buddy. Be careful, and good luck." Manny replied.
Diego had a strong appetite for his breakfast, but today's adventure would not go nearly as planned.
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My first chapter, I didn't want to make it long because it has more of a short, introductory purpose. I hope it gets you ready to see the rest, I have some things planned :)
