Hey! Its me again! Well, the full summary for this story is, Manny, Sid and Diego basically tell Ellie, Crash and Eddie of their journey on how they met up. Um. It might be kind of weird, but all of us have seen it on TV of when some one tells a story in first person, but it switches back into third person. It may sound kind of weird. But I think that you will like it… well I hope you do! ; )

Anyway, I have also added in some extra scenes so it's not just me retelling the whole movie! Anyways, I really hope that you enjoy this story! Please review!

Campfire Stories

Chapter One-Once upon a time

The summer air became cool and crisp at night. The heard was sitting in a circle inside of their cave together. All around a fire built by, you guessed it- Sid, Lord of the Flame. Sid walked in to the cave, tossing a few more twigs into the fire, Diego and The Possums watched the fire increase in size as you could hear the twigs crackle in the hot flame. Sid sat down next to Diego, who was lying near the possums. "Hey," Sid greeted.

"Hi. So, I guess you found more sticks." Diego said.

"Lord of the Flame has never failed yet." Sid said, puffing his chest out, proudly.

"Why do you call yourself that?" Ellie came up behind the two, along with Manny. In Ellie's presence the twins looked up in unison, taking their eyes out of the trance of staring into the flames. Manny sat down next to Sid, and Ellie sat next to Manny, creating the perfect little campfire story.

"Ugh. Well, It's a long history about me. But I-" Sid was interrupted from telling the herd his whole autobiography, (thank god,) with a question from Crash.

"Forget that, the real question would be how did a mammoth and sloth become best friends with a saber?" He laughed.

"That's an even longer one." Manny rolled his eyes.

"Hey! I like stories," Eddie leaned on his palms, "tell us." Manny, glanced at Diego, who glanced at Sid, who looked from Manny, to Diego to Sid. Finally after a moments silence, the mammoth spoke up.

"Alright, long story it is…" He said, watching the possums situate themselves, lying on their stomachs. Ellie just looked at Manny curiously. Diego also looked at Sid and sighed.

"This will be a long story." He grinned, his green eyes, glowing in the dark.

"Yeah. But I guess we can tell it."

The mammoth started the tale, "Well, It was about noon, I'm guessing. We were up north, during the migration. Sid was probably..."

"Still sleeping." He interjected.

"What a surprise." Eddie added in.

"And… I dunno where Diego was." Manny looked at the tiger curious.

"I was with my pack, we were watching the migration… and probably drooling." Diego grinned.

"Yeah… so anyway…"Manny continued.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Look out, look out!" A voice yelled.

"You're going the wrong way!" Another animal yelled.

"The other way!" Yet, another voice.

"Crazy mammoth!" Another animal who just avoided getting hit in the head with his tusks yelled.

Manny rolled his eyes. Not caring at all what these stupid animals had to say to him. If they had something to say, they should confront him, and say it to his face.

"Hey do the world a favor!" A confrontation, this should be entertaining. Manny recalled thinking to himself. "Move your issues off the road!" He looked down at a pudgy animal with a stubby trunk. Okay, confrontations are one thing, but this guy is just plain rude.

Manny glowered down at the stupid animal. "If my trunk was that small- I wouldn't draw my attention to myself pal!" He came eye to eye with that stupid , grey… whatever.

His threatening tone seemed to work, the animal trembled, backing off. "Ah, give me a break. We- we've been waddling all day." He gestured to his mate and two little children who peered around from behind his mate. If it weren't for the fact that the guy had a family, Manny would have probably showed this guy a lesson, but instead he softened his tone.

"Oh go ahead. Follow the crowd." He began walking-again in the wrong direction; "it'll be quieter when you're gone!" He called over his shoulder.

"Ehh, c'mon." The plump grey animal spoke to his mate. Looking ahead to make sure the mammoth was out of ear shot, "if he wants to freeze to death, let him."

Manny had to re-think to himself, why he didn't teach that guy a lesson or two, shaking it off. He supposed that he had done the right thing. He sighed continuing to walk, despite all of the objection the animals were voicing. "I don't need this." He mumbled to himself, changing direction.

"Are you crazy?" A wolf shouted, just missing Manny's foot as he stepped out of the migration, heading to the side. Manny- again- ignored the comment.

He walked and walked for about five minutes. Until he found an apple tree. There were still four apples and despite the big breakfast he had earlier, he allowed himself an early lunch. Hey- if this Ice Age was coming, the apples would just freeze anyway. After eating the apples, he kept on walking.

Sid felt the tree he was sleeping in shake, vibrating from the footsteps of the migrating group. Snore… snore… and ahh! He caught himself just before he fell off of the tree branch. "Hey-hey, I'm up, I'm up!" He struggled, pulling himself up from the branch, to his feet, now standing on the branch. "Hey, rise and shine everybody! Huh? Zack? Marshall? Bernie? Uncle Fungus?" He checked everyone's branch, shrugged and slid down the trunk, now on the ground. "Where is everybody? C'mon guys! We're goanna miss the mi-mi-mi…gration." Sudden reality struck him. Of what had happened, the past two migrations, counting this one… three.

"They left with out me." He put his hands on his hips, defensively. "They do this every year!" He fisted his paws. Then whined, "why? Doesn't anyone love me?" He spotted a near by mammal waddling-a fellow late migratory! "Isn't there anyone who cares about Sid the sloth?" He asked out loud, expecting some sympathy from this animal. But all the animal did was grunt and waddle away hurriedly.

Shrugging it off, supposing he could do what he had done for the past few years. "Alright, I guess I'll just go by myself." He said, stepping… then… "ahw… Sick!" And realizing what he had just stepped into. "Hey wide body curve it next time! Ahh, yuck oh." He tried whipping away the uhh… poop stuck to his foot on the ground. No good. Oh! The he spotted up ahead some rhinos surrounded by what looked like a grassy area.

"I can't believe it! Fresh, wild greens! Frank, where did you ever…" Carl, the rhino gasped. Looking at the beautiful salad prepared for him.

"Go ahead, dig in!" Frank said, modestly.

"A dandelion!" Carl gasped a second time. "I thought the frost wiped 'em all out." He smiled.

"All but one!" Frank exclaimed. The rhinos' sudden joy became decimated with the sloth suddenly appearing out of nowhere. Muttering to himself,

"Oh this makes me so… oh I wanna- ah yuck!" Sid exclaimed, shaking his foot. Trying to get all of the stuff off. Wiping it all over the rhino's delectable salad. Their eyes widening. "Ah, this had definitely not been my day I mean- ya know what I'm sayin' buddy?" Sid continued shaking his foot, this time little pieces of poop shaking off, hitting Carl in the face. Sid thought of a fact to tell the rhinos to talk. "Hey, you rhinos, you have really tiny brains, did you know that? No, it's just a fact… no offence. Ah- you probably don't even know what I'm talking about." Sid laughed to himself deeply when something caught his eye.

"Oh! Yumm-o!" He picked the small yellow flower up, Carl gasped. "A dandelion, must be the last one of the season!" Sid commented, then ate the yellow flower off of its stem. "Mmmm."

"Carl-" Frank's voice rose, high pitched.

"Easy Frank. "

"He ruined… our salad." Sid looked down, and discovered what he had done to the salad that he had mistaken for a large patch of grass.

"Oh, my mistake, that was my mistake fellas." Sid attempted to sweet talk his way out, but that apparently proved to fail. Sid backed up as the two massive rhinos stepped forward.

"No, no seriously, let me take care of this. I won't- wont-" Sid tripped over a log, looking to his side and saw a few pine cones laying on the ground next to him, an idea struck him. "Oh what is this? Pinecones! Oh my goodness, they're my favorite!" Sid said enthusiastically, grabbing one and crunching it between his teeth. "Mmm. Delicious, that's um… ow. Uhh. Good eatin." He swallowed. "But don't let me hog them all up, oh… no here you have some." He said, shoving a couple in Carl's mouth. "Bon Appetit." He then broke into a run.

"Now?" Frank asked Carl.

A moment passed, not wanting the slot get too far, "Now!" Carl yelled.

Sid heard the rumbling behind him, looked back and screamed. Then he ran into a big, furry leg. "Hey!" The mammoth looked to see who had run into him. A sloth?

"Aw man! I wanted to hit him at full speed!" Frank complained. Manny then noticed the two rhinos.

"That's okay, Frank. We'll have some fun with 'em."

"Don't let the impale me," Sid clutched onto Manny's leg begging, "please, I wanna live!"

"Get off me!" The mammoth shook the sloth off of his leg.

"C'mon you're makin' a scene." Carl tried to persuade Manfred.

"Ah-huh! We'll just take our furry piñata and go if you don't mind," Frank said.

"Hey buddy. If it's not them today, it's just someone else tomorrow." Manny tried to get the sloth off his back… or at least out from behind his leg.

"Well I'd rather not be today, Okay?" Sid said peering around the mammoth's leg.

"Look, we're goanna break your neck, so ya don't feel a thing. How's that?" Carl asked, defensively, and imitating stomping his foot.

"Wait a minute." Manny interjected, "I thought rhinos… were vegetarian."

"An excellent point!" Sid's approving claw came out from behind Manny's leg.

"Shut up." The mammoth said.

"Who says we're gonna eat him after we kill him?" Carl said.

"Yeah, c'mon. Move it." Frank shooed with his foot.

All right, now that was just wrong. Manny supposed even though he didn't want to, he had no choice but to save the stupid sloth. "You know- I don't like animals that kill for pleasure." Manny raised his tusks, defensively.

"Save it." Carl growled, "for a mammal that cares."

In a desperate call for assistance Sid said, "I'm a mammal that cares."

Manny groaned, trying to make this easy. "Okay, look. If either of you make it across that sink hole, in front of you, you get the sloth." Carl and Frank noticed the sinkhole ahead, eyeing each other wearily as if saying, 'maybe it's not worth it.'

Noticing this as a weak moment for the two, Sid decided to speak out. Which… is never a good idea for Sid. "That's right you losers! You take one step and you're dead!" Sid threw a rock into the sinkhole to prove his point. Manny's eyes widened. Does this guy have a death wish?

The rock just naturally bounced across what used to be a sinkhole. But was now, clearly, a dry one.

"You were buffing huh?" Sid said, his shoulders shrunk, in defeat.

"Yeah," Manny said, "yeah, that was a bluff."

The rhinos charged, "Get em!" Both, hitting Manny's tusks at the same time, forcing the mammoth back.

"Ahh!" Sid shouted, clutching the mammoth's back leg, and then noticing the fifty foot cliff that the rhinos were forcing both of the two over. Sid's scream became higher.

Manny was not about to let some stupid pair of rhinos push him around. Even if it meant saving this idiot! Manny gathered all of his force, and pushed back ten times as hard on the rhinos. Forcing them to fly in the air.

"Woo hoo!" Sid jumped in front of Manny, cheering, but then cowered behind the mammoth again, spotting the charging rhinos. But Sid looked up, feeling Manny leave him, grab Carl and toss him into the air. Sid marveled, impressed as Carl landed with a thud. Then he screamed as Frank came charging, but then sighed in relief as Manny picked the rhino up in his tusks.

Back on the ground to where Carl was: the rhino shook off the blow, and then saw something yellow and delicious in front of his face. "A dandelion?" He asked, happily, and his happiness was soon crushed, just like the dandelion that Frank was thrown on to by Manny.

Sid cheered, "Woo-hoo! We did it! We did it!" He yelled, wrapping his arms to hug Manny's trunk.

"Wait- wait!" Manny gasped, as the force of Sid, was just enough to push both over the cliff. Actually, it wasn't as steep as the two presumed, they just slid all the way down. Which later, Sid thought to himself, would have been a bit more fun, if it weren't for the fact that he had been screaming all the way down. They landed.

Sid couldn't just say thank-you. This was the mammal that had just saved his life. Perhaps, a compliment would make this guy's day. "You have beautiful eyes." Sid smiled, still hugging the mammoth's trunk.

"Get off my face." Manny commanded, dropping the sloth with his trunk. Sid sprang back up.

"Oh, you and me, we make a great team, don't we?" Sid followed behind Manny, "whaddaya say we just… head south together?" Sid suggested, he had never migrated with someone before.

"Great, yeah, why don't ya just jump up on my back, relax the whole way." Manny said sarcastically.

"Wow, really?" Sid said humbled by the friendly offer.

"No." Manny said, plainly.

"Wait, aren't you going south?" Sid noticed the wrong direction that they were traveling, "change of seasons, migration instincts, any of this… a-ringin a bell?"

"I guess not, bye!" Manny replied unfriendly.

"Okay then, thanks for the help, I can take it from here." Sid waddled onward. Only to be spotted by Carl and Frank at the top of the cliff.

"Hey you over-grown weasel!" Carl called, "wait till we get down there!"

Hearing the footsteps of the sloth behind him, Manny knew that it would be a long day. "Woah, this whole south thing is way over-rated. The heat, the crowds, who needs it? I mean, isn't this great, you and me, two bachelors knocking about in the… wild?" Sid gestured with his arm.

"No… you just want a body guard, so you don't become somebody's side-dish." Manny glared at the sloth.

"You're a very shrewd mammal." He said, "okay then you lead the way Mr. Big… ahh… didn't get the name?" Sid said.

"Manfred."

"Manfred, yuck, how 'bout, Manny, the moody mammoth, or Manny the melancholy. Manny the-" Sid gasped, and ran up a near by tree trunk, seeing Manny glare at him.

Manny grabbed the tree trunk, with his trunk, glared at the sloth threateningly, "stop following me." He released the trunk and let the sloth slide down.

"Okay, okay, so you've got issues, look you wont even know I'm here, I just… zip the lip. When I say Mmph, I'm Mmph." Sid said, deciding to shut up for a while. Which didn't last for long. Seeing as how when Sid got tired of walking, he started to complain.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Wow, how did you put up with that?" Crash laughed.

"Wasn't easy." Manny rolled his eyes.

"I think you're over-exaggerating Manny, I mean, I'm not that annoying." Sid grinned.

"Sid, there's five other animals here that would beg to differ." Manny said.

Diego snickered, "why did you guys never tell me that's how you met! That's… a really entertaining story!" Manny shrugged at his friend.

"Well, go on!" Eddie said, "I'm sure there's more to it than that!"

Hey! I'm gonna continue this soon! Please review and tell me what you think! Did I have everyone in good character? Please review! = D