Hi guys! Guess what? You were SO awesome about the whole "Souls Connected" Thing that well, I decided to write a sequel! YAAAAAY! This one is going to be about Manny and Ellie's life AFTER they become mates… Starting with… The next morning: Enjoy!

Disclaimer: All Ice Age chars do not belong to me… sob.

A NEW FAMILY CHAPTER 1: MORNING MEMORIES

Ellie woke up later then usual. She smiled as she noticed the dark brown trunk wrapped around her own light brown one. She looked at her new husband and the owner of the other trunk, Manny and gave him a gentle kiss on the cheek.

"Wake up sweetheart." She said kindly as she rubbed his trunk with hers and gave him a gentle nuzzle. Manny groaned.

"Ugh… Too tired." He complained. Ellie laughed and then nudged him again.

"C'mon honey" She said. Manny smiled as he realized that she was the one trying to wake him up. He then opened his eyes and smiled at her as he gave her trunk a squeeze of affection.

"Morning." He said cheerfully "You sleep well?" Ellie giggled.

"You know I always sleep well when you're with me baby!" She said as she gave him a gentle kiss on the cheek. A smile formed on his face as they unlocked their trunks and stood up. Once they stood up Ellie smiled at him affectionately and locked her trunk with his and began to nuzzle him. "I love you." She said happily.

"I love you too Ellie." Manny replied, tears of happiness starting to develop in his eyes. After about 10 minutes of nuzzling, locking trunks and telling the other how much they loved them they sighed of happiness. Ellie then looked down at the ground.

"We should probably wake the others up." She said, looking down sadly as she made shapes in the dirt with her large foot. Manny looked at her then locked his trunk with hers.

"We can hang out later ok?" he says, causing Ellie to smile once again. The two newly-mates headed towards their friend's campsite. Ellie smiled as she remembered the countless things Manny had done for her in the past…

Start Flashback

Ellie was happy, it was right after the Meltdown and she was in a good mood. She stopped playing tag with her brothers then looked over at Manny 'He's so wonderful' she thought to herself, 'how in the world can he love ME?' She blushed as she realized that he was coming up to her.

"Ellie?" He asked kindly, "I need to talk to you." She smiled as she followed him to a beautiful clearing. Once they were inside the clearing he locked his trunk with hers and began to nuzzle her. Ellie smiled as she nuzzled him back then looked down sadly. Manny looked at her curiously. "You ok?" He asked kindly. Ellie looked at him with tears in her eyes. "What's the matter?" Manny asked as she walked up to him.

"Oh Manny" She said, "You are the SWEETEST guy I have EVER met but… I still can't understand how you can love me… I'm ugly." She then looked down at the ground and a mammoth sized tear rolled down her cheek, Manny smiled sympathetically as he walked up to her and gave her a gentle hug.

"Ellie, You're NOT ugly… you're the most beautiful creature I have ever seen!" He said as he took her tusk in his trunk and motioned towards a small pond nearby. "Come with me, I need to show you something." Ellie shook her head.

"Manny, no… I… I can't look at my reflection… it… it depresses me." She said as she tried to pull away. Manny then moved his trunk from her tusk to her trunk… causing her to stop struggling and slowly turn towards the pond and follow him to it.

"Look in it." Manny insisted. Ellie shook her head.

"No."

"Do it!"

"NO!" Ellie said, a little upset… Manny looked at her sadly.

"Just do it once… for me?" He asked her. Ellie looked down and then walked up to the pond and looked in, she gasped with happiness. She no longer saw Ellie the ugly possum but Ellie the Mammoth… and she was- "Beautiful." Manny said as his reflection appeared next to hers. Ellie smiled and locked her trunk with his and nuzzled him.

"You do love me!" She realized happily. Manny smiled down at her.

"Yeah, I do." He said and gave her a kiss on the forehead.

End Flashback

Ellie smiled over at Manny and locked her trunk with his and nuzzled him. He smiled as he nuzzled her back. 'He's so great!' Ellie thought to herself. 'He's great at protecting me too!' She was once again thrown into another memory.

Begin Flashback

It was about a week after Manny and Ellie had first gotten together and Ellie was happily grazing in a field, humming a song and not paying attention to what was going on around her. A male saber named Tobor was hiding in the bushes about 10 feet away, overjoyed at finding a shemoth alone like this. A large majority of the females in his herd were ill and their cubs were sick as well the meat of this healthy Mammoth cow would definitely help them. He snuck up to the female and growled. The female saw him and started to run.

Ellie remembered Manny telling her to let out a trumpet if she was ever in danger so he could help her. She let out a LOUD trumpet of fear and continued to run. Just as she did this however, Tobor had caught up to her and scratched her nastily on her side. Ellie then heard another trumpet nearby, she looked over to find Manny standing heroically at the top of a nearby hill. He ran down and immediately used his tusks to knock the saber out of the way. Tobor, now understanding that this cow was off limits ran away from the angry bull and searched elsewhere for food for his herd.

Once he left Ellie immediately ran to Manny and locked her trunk with his. Both had tears in their eyes. Ellie because she was so scared and Manny because he was scared he would loose her.

"Ellie, Shh… it's ok, I'm here, I'm here." Manny comforted her as she cried. Ellie looked up at him with sad eyes.

"Th-thank you." She said as she kissed the top of his trunk. He smiled and looked down at her scratch wounds.

"You're hurt." He said sadly as he examined the wounds, he then found some healing moss and used some tree sap to put it over the wounds…after this Ellie felt much better and she spent the rest of the day by Manny's side… just in case.

End Flashback

Now it was Manny's turn to smile at Ellie as she gave him a gentle nuzzle. 'I am SO proud of her!' he thought to himself. 'She has become such a WONDERFUL Mammoth.' He smiled even bigger as he remembered when she first decided to switch from the tree to the ground for sleeping.

Begin Flashback

It was in the middle of the night… the night after the saber attacked Ellie and Manny was awakened by a soft weeping noise. He noticed it was Ellie that was crying and he walked over to her. He found she was fast asleep and was having a nightmare.

"Ellie… Ellie wake up, it's just a dream." He said as he gently nudged her, after a bit she opened her eyes and upon seeing him started to cry harder and locked her trunk with his. "Would you like to come sleep with me tonight?" he asked politely. Ellie nodded and he then led her to where he usually slept. She lay down next to him and snuggled up close. "What happened in that dream that scared you so much?" He asked. Ellie sniffed.

"That saber came back and… It killed you." She said sadly, and then started to cry again, Manny looked around happy that none of his friends woke up at this… but then kindly wrapped his trunk around hers and rubbed it gently.

"I'm ok Ellie, I'm right here ok?" He then gave her a gentle nuzzle. "C'mon let's get some sleep ok?" After that they were silent. A few minutes later Ellie spoke up.

"Manny? Is it ok if I sleep with you from now on? This feels… really nice." Manny smiled and said that she could. And they then fell asleep. It was the best sleep either of them had had in a long time.

End Flashback

Manny smiled harder as he realized they were coming up to the camp. He and Ellie waked in quietly, not wanting to wake up the other members of their herd. They tiptoed into the cave and saw that Diego was already up.

"Congratulations you two." He said smiling. "The others insisted on staying up until they heard the trumpet… Only I made it." Ellie and Manny thanked him then Ellie walked over to her brothers.

"Crash, Eddie. Wake up guys!" She whispered as she gently shook her brothers. They both woke up with big grins on their faces.

"ELLIE!" They squealed as they jumped off the branch and gave her a big hug. When they saw Manny they smiled again as they ran to him and gave HIM a hug. When he looked down at them confused they smiled up. "Hiya big brother!" Crash said smirking. This caused Manny to laugh. Upon hearing the commotion, Sid woke up.

"You're back!" He said happily. "Yay! Now we can have a party!" Manny laughed and smiled.

"How about we just spend the day like normal ok?" he said the others agreed and Diego, Crash, Eddie and Sid all went to get breakfast ready, leaving Manny and Ellie alone for a while to get some much needed rest after their late night the night before.

YAY! All done with that… Ok, for THIS story, each chap will end with a certain scene from the Ice Age 2 Movie! Here is this chapter's:

Sid: Manny, who do you like better, me or Diego?

Manny: Diego, no question.

Diego: (laughing) Told ya.

Ellie: Manny! You can't choose between your children!

Manny: Sid's not my kid! He's not even my dog! If I had a dog, and my dog had a kid and that kid's kid had a pet… THAT would be Sid!

Sid: Manny, can I have a dog?

Manny: No.

Sid: Ellie, can I have a dog?

Ellie: Of course sweetie.

Manny: Ellie, we have to be consistent with them.

Ok well, I'll see ya next time!

NEXT TIME IN A NEW FAMILY:

Today is someone's birthday! HOORAY! The only mystery is… who's is it? Ya gotta wait until the next chapter to find out!

See ya real soon!

Taffyabc (A.K.A. Funkywatermelon's assistant.)