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Ice Age: The Great Quake

Chapter 1: The unexpected companion

Scrat slowly opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was clouds under him that were basked in golden light, he was confused, all the squirrel remembered was the grief of losing his acorn to Scratte. As he looked up what he saw amazed him, not too far away their were squirrels draped in white robes with...acorns! Acorns were everywhere, people were trading them, drinking out of them, even the pillars all around the white tiled platform were made out of acorns! Scrat quickly got up and ran, all he cared about was getting acorns as he took them out of squirrels hands and off of pillars. What the poor squirrel didn't know was that these robbed figures were not regular squirrels they were gods, and they were furious at Scrat for taking their acorns. They banished Scrat from their land and sent him back down to earth. Their wrath was placed on all of the earth sending it into chaos.

What do I do now Tess thought, my family was killed by that malicious male saber, and now I don't know what to do next. Tess was walking through her favourite forest, a place she went when she needed to calm down. The sun's morning glow bathes the vegetation in a gold light, making it easy to feel separated from the rest of the world. The female saber laid on the cool ground to rest and get some peace for a couple of hours. Tess heard a rustle in the bushes, the females azure blue eyes snapped open as she quickly awoke, ready to pounce on the intruder, but what she saw stopped her. The male saber who had killed her cubs was standing a few feet away, his golden coat blanketed with yellow light, and all Tess's anger and rage boiled to the surface. "What do you want?" she said, putting all her venom in that one word. "Isn't it obvious?" the male said chuckling, "I want to mate, that's why I killed the cubs in the first place." The saber took a step closer to Tess "And I'm not waiting any longer for you, so come here little kitty." the male exclaimed grinning. Tess ran away as fast as she could from the saber but she knew she was not the fastest runner and she couldn't keep this up for long. She could hear the thumping of the males paws hitting the ground as he got closer to her. Tess also knew that she didn't have a chance if he caught her, he was so much bigger and stronger than she was. This one thought drove the female to keep running and running.

The whole herd was sleeping peacefully, but because of Diego's elite senses he picked up the scent of two sabers and instantly woke up. "Guys!" Diego shouted "Wake up!" Of course all of them woke up except for Sid, making Diego roll his eyes. "What's wrong?" Manny asked "There are a couple of sabers running this way." Diego explained "Were going to have to stand our ground, their too close to run. Everyone nodded and Ellie, Manny and Diego waited outside the forest ready to ambush the sabers, while the others stayed in the cave.

Tess saw an opening in the forest and hoped that someone was there who could save her. As she jumped into the clearing she saw a mammoth and ran behind it hoping for protection. Just then the male jumped out into the clearing looking for Tess, not caring about the other mammals nearby. "Where is she?" he snarled to no one in particular. One of the mammoths stepped in front of the male blocking his view, "Why is 'she' so important?" The mammoth asked, his voice was deep so Tess assumed he was a male. "That is none of your business!" The saber exclaimed. The mammoth Tess had been hiding behind turned and looked at her. "What does he want sweetie?" she asked "He wants to mate!" Tess said with venom, "after killing my cubs!" " Oh that's terrible!" said the mammoth " Keep him away from her Manny!" she yelled. The male saber roared and charged at the mammoth, but he was no match and the mammoth easily picked him up with his tusks and threw him at a tree, where he lay unconscious.

"Are you ok sweetie?" The female mammoth asked, Tess nodded not trusting her voice "Ya, male Sabers can be pretty persistent". Tess whirled around to see who had spoken, ironically it was another male saber. Tess tensed at seeing another male and growled. "Whoa there I'm not an enemy" he said trying to calm Tess down, but to no avail. "Ya" said the female mammoth "He's with us" At that the female saber relaxed.

"What did I miss?" asked a sloth as he came out of the den, when he saw Tess, he screamed and ran away. "Sid, it's ok she's not going to hurt you" the male saber explained. The sloth came out and walked up to Tess "For a moment there I thought I was a goner, but I'm Sid and you?" "I'm Teresa but you can call me Tess" "You should join our heard!" Sid exclaimed "SID!" said the male mammoth "But she's so lonely" said the sloth, he leaned in so only Tess could hear "are you alone?" Tess nodded. "See she is lonely, and has nowhere to go!" At that Tess raised her eyebrow "You got to work with me here!" Sid whispered in Tess's ear. "I think she should stay" the female mammoth piped up. "I guess she can" said the male mammoth, giving in. "Diego?" Sid asked with puppy dog eyes, "I don't know" answered Diego skeptically. The female mammoth glared at him but Diego didn't budge "Anyways" she said "I'm Ellie, that's Manny" she said pointing to the other mammoth. " This is Diego and Sid" Ellie explained gesturing to the saber and the sloth "oh and guys you can come out now!" Three mammals came out of the den, pointing to the small mammoth with her trunk she said "This is Peaches and the two possums are Crash and Eddie, and this" she said pointing to the female saber " is Tess"

All of a sudden the ground started to shake violently and an ear-splitting roar came from the ground as the ice split in two. Ellie and Manny were left on the other side and the rest of them had to jump to safety. " Guys you got to jump over now" Manny said " this crack won't stop getting bigger". "Diego" I yelled over the roaring "you take the possums, I'll take Peaches!" Diego glared at her but got the possums on his back and jumped over. Tees went to go calm Peaches down and gently grabbed her by the neck, not wanting to hurt her too much, and jumped to safety. Every one crowded around Peaches to make sure she wasn't hurt. Tess looked up to see Sid still on the other side running around in circles, she looked back at the group but they hadn't seemed to notice Sid. Annoyed, Tess roared and jumped over to get the sloth. The rest of the herd turned their attention to Tess to see her grabbing Sid by the neck. "Hey, uh, Tess I don't know it this is the best ideahhhhhhhh!" said the sloth screaming as they jumped. The gap was too wide though and Tess just got her front paws on the other side. Holding on she threw Sid so he was safe and tried to get her footing, but to no avail. The ice broke and she fell, but not before Ellie's trunk caught her and brought her back up to safety. "So Diego" Ellie said now that everyone was safe, "do you trust Tess now?" Diego looked down and then up at Tess "Welcome to the herd."