Disclaimer: I do not own Ice Age.
AN: This is something I'm trying out, probably won't be good. Another human AU, as I find it easier to do so, and the fic this story is loosely based on has human characters...so...bear with me if you're reading this. (In case you're wondering, the fic is Inertia Creeps.)
Rattle his bones,
Over the stones.
It's only a pauper
Who nobody owns.
Prologue:
Hazel green eyes flecked with gold blinked lazily up at the ceiling, nimble fingers deftly and effortlessly shuffling a deck of cards while their owner leaned back and sighed, bored out of his mind. The hazel green eyes fell to the another one, possessing green eyes that shared the intensity with the previous pair, and let a sigh escape his lips, the deck shuffling not stopping. "What're we going to do today?"
The other smirked, letting a coin roll about his knuckles from where he was leaning against the wall, on the opposite side of the room from the first. "Lots of things, Di. You know that."
The one called 'Di' scowled at him. "Hilarious."
Silence took over them, but both green eyes continued to scrutiny each other. A crash signalled the arrival of a third, small hyperactive boy, long locks falling into his acidic green eyes. Wide maniac grin on his mouth, he certainly belonged in the Half-Peak Asylum for the Mentally Disturbed. The boy charged in, coming to a stop next to the second boy.
"Soto, two newbies are coming."
'Soto' perked up at this, the coin stopping on it's course across his knuckles and clattering to the floor. "Really?" a smirk found it's way onto his face. "Our humble establishment?"
The third one laughed maniacally, before nodding, rattling off dates as to when they were to come.
Soto stretched and stood up from where he had been slouched against the wall, and looked at 'Di'. "Time to give the newbies a welcome. Looks like the orientation's gonna happen next week and the week after."
'Di' looked up, scowling. He hated the orientation. Due to his…'mental disabilities', he was forced to be blindfolded and led outside, even though he already knew the way out into the other rooms, unlike the other boys, who could barely remember the way from the bathroom to their own bedrooms. A sigh as he continued shuffling the deck, slumping down even further down the wall.
Why him, out of all people?
And, as 'Di' looked and noticed the other four remaining boys talking together in excited whispers, he rolled his eyes, standing up to join them.
Because they were the only survivors of '96.
And, a little voice cooed at the back of the head, because you don't know who will be the next to go down.