Hi everyone! This is Funky Watermelon's assistant! And Guess what? I LOOOOVE Ice Age… It's my favorite movie, and since the new movie is coming out soon, I thought, OH, what the heck! I will write a story (THE FIRST STORY WITH ELLIE IN IT! BOO YAH!) This story connects the first Ice Age movie to the second Ice Age movie… sooooo… here goes!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Ice Age movies, Blue Sky Studios does, trust me, if I did, Ice Age 2 would be out already!

Souls Connected Chapter 1: Lonely Ellie, Lonely Manny:

Ellie:

Her name was Ellie, and she was a Wooly Mammoth. Sure, during this era of the Ice Age, Mammoths were expected to travel in herds, find mates and, well, have babies. There were several reasons that Ellie's only herd were a pair of opossums named Crash and Eddie… but the main one was that she truly believed that she was an opossum like them. Her favorite things to do were climb trees, hide under rocks and forage for food. She also believed that Crash and Eddie were her brothers… You see, her Mammoth family had abandoned her at birth, leaving her in a clearing to die, when an opossum family found her and decided to raise her as their own.

Ellie looked at her reflection in a nearby river, tears filled her eyes as she remembered her opossum mother who would comfort her and tell her that she was beautiful no matter what. But, unfortunately… she had been killed by a Saber Tooth Tiger (A.N. NOT DIEGO!) earlier on the trip. She looked around, she wanted nothing more than to find someone like her, preferably a male, who she could talk to and whom she could spend time with. The only thing that kept her going on her 28 day trip to Acorn Valley was the hope that she would find someone like herself there…. But she shook her head, telling herself that she was, in fact, the only creature left like herself.

Little did she know, there was another, and he was on the opposite side of the valley, traveling with his own friends…

Manny:

Manny groaned, this was the 78th time Sid had sung "100 dandelions in the field" today, and it was driving both him and Diego insane.

"SID!" Diego groaned angrily "How many times do you plan to sing that song today?"

"Dunno" The air headed sloth replied, then continued singing….

"As nice as your singing voice is Sid" Manny reasoned sarcastically "The song kind of got old after the 5th time you sang it."

"Come to think of it," Sid replied, "My voice is starting to get a little tired. Hey, do you guys think we can stop for the night soon?... Guys... GUYS?" The others did not respond, they were looking ahead at a rock that, oddly enough looked like two Mammoths with their trunks entwined.

"That's an odd formation" Diego said as he walked up to it… "I've never seen anything like it; do you think the people carved this?"

Manny did not reply, he was just looking at the rock with a saddened look on his face…. The formation reminded him of his old family… his beautiful mate, Millie (A.N. name made up!) and wonderful son Wally (A.N. name made up!) who both died simultaneously in a landslide. He shook his head to get the memories out of his brain.

"I'm not sure Diego" He responded "Maybe… we should probably get going… we have 38 days until we get there… we lost about 5 days with Pinky… and we needed 5 extra days to make up for those."

Sid groaned, grabbed a handful of dandelions and jumped onto Manny's back, where he had been riding for a majority of this voyage.

"Hey, Manny." He asked, "Why am I sitting on here… is it because I'm special?"

"No" Manny replied "It's because if you don't, you will get lost, and if you get lost, you will probably die..."

Sid was quiet for about 5 minutes after this, and then started to sing again…

"100 dandelions in the field... 100 dandelions… pull one out; pass it about, 99 dandelions in the field..."

Manny was not hearing this however, he was still thinking about Millie…. He missed her a lot. Diego had told him this morning that he should find another girl… another mate… but he had kicked the idea out of his head… everyone he had ever had in his family had died.. and he did not want the same thing to happen to anyone else… he wouldn't be able to take the pain… he shook these thoughts out of his head and continued walking… listening to Sid's singing as he went…

"97 dandelions in the field… 97 dandelions… pull one out; pass it about, 96 dandelions in the fieeeeeeeeld!"

Well, what did you think? Was it good? This is my first Ice Age story, so I am quite nervous about it, I may or may not update it in-between now and the premier of Ice Age 2: The Meltdown on the 31st of March to continue this story… the ultimate conclusion of this story is supposed to be the new movie… and for those curious... PINKY is the baby... they called him that at least 5 times in the movie, so that is what I have named him! Let me know if I should add on a new chap (Oh, and Ellie IS going to be in the new movie!)

Taffyabc (A.K.A. Funky Watermelon's assistant)