Chapter 1: Surprise!

Well, this is a first...I never wrote a fanfic before so lets see how this goes. Please review this so I can understand what I did wrong...If I did something wrong. Well, anyways this story is after the third movie. I don't especially like the fourth, so I'm doing it before the fourth one. Too many characters to keep track of. Peaches is about nine in this story. Anyways onto the story. Oh, and Bee Tee Dubs, Whoever can guess who the boy is before you reach the chapter, I'll give you cookie...cake.

I do not own any of the Ice age characters. All belong to Fox and Blue Sky Studios. I only own the characters I made.

"Hey daddy! Wake up!"

Manny woke up to the sound of a young mammoth yelling excitedly. It was pretty early in the morning and he didn't expect to be woken up, especially by her daughter. She was mostly sleeping when she wasn't with her uncles, the possums.

Manny let out a grown as he tried to get up after his long rest. He completely forgot what day it was and was confused.

"Daddy! Do you remember day it is today?"

"No, what day is it sweety?", Manny inquired, drowsy as he tried to keep his eyes open.

"Guess!" Peaches wouldn't give up until Manny gave in.

"The end of the world?", Manny asked sarcastically, still tired.

"Noooo, Its your birthday!"

Manny suddenly realized and became a bit more awake.

"Oh yeah! I completely forgot sweety" Manny then realized they were the only ones still in the cave. Manny became suspicious, but in a playful way. "Wheres your mother?"

"She went to go get you some breakfast"

She was good at being happy all the time, but was never a good lier, something Manny was kind of happy about.

"This early?" Manny had a small grin on his face.

Peaches had a little panicked face on her. "Uhh...Yeah! She thought you would like the best food in the forest, so she went early."

Manny chuckled a bit and patted Peaches with his trunk. "Okay, I'm going to go look for your mother." He was smiling.

"NO!" Peaches shouted. "Sh-she'll be back soon! She said she wanted you here to make sure you don't go away before she gets here!" She became very nervous and was getting louder.

Outside the cave they lived in, everyone was planning a little surpirse for Manny. Peaches was sent to wake up Manny but distract him until the signal. Sid was sent to get some berries. Ellie went to go get some tree logs. The possums were sewing some cloth. Diego was sent to keep whatch to see how the distraction was going and when they needed help the would signal him to come over. They needed to be quiet so they don't cause Manny to become suspicious. Everyone was dedicated to get it finshed as soon as possible. Diego could see that the distraction was no longer working and warned the others that they needed to finish soon.

"Guys, Manny is getting a bit suspicious. We may need to pick up the pace." Ellie was already running back and forth getting all the logs she took down.

"Diego, I'm going as fast as I can already!" Ellie was panting.

"Do you think this is enough?" The possums said Simultaneously. They made many cloths with drawings of the herd and some with just Manny, Ellie, and Peaches.

Diego chuckled at the pile of berries Sid brought. "Sid, when we said get some, we didn't mean get all of them in the forest."

"Well, do you think I know what you mean by 'thum'?" Sid's accent was very noticeable, with spit coming out after ever use of his tongue.

Ellie talked louder, but not enough to wake make Manny notice. "Guys, quit your jibber-jabber, we better start building it. We're running out of time!"
Everyone stopped doing there jobs and started to set up the surprise. It took a bit longer than expected but they finally built it. It looked magnificent and all were happy with what they built. The hid it behind some trees and bushes.

"Alright guys, get into position!" Ellie said as she hid behind a few trees. The possums went in high in a tree next to Ellie. Diego hid in the bushes nearby. Sid hid behind a rock.

Back at the cave, Peaches was still distracting Manny when she heard Ellie say, "I'm home!"

Peaches was relieved that her job was done and Manny went to go see her. Peaches followed behind, knowing what was going to happen. she had a huge smile on here face, almost giggling but held it in.

As Manny got outside he noticed that nobody was nearby. He began to move forward, cautiously awaiting something to happen.

"SURPRISE!"

Surprise! End of the chapter :D What do you think of it so far? Please review! I will be updating soon, don't worry! What do you think the surprise will be?