Kovu & Kiara soon reached the exit. As they stepped out into the sunlight, they found themselves in a valley covered in white. A wave of coldness washed over them as their teeth began to chatter.
"Where are we?" Kovu asked himself. Could he be dreaming?
As Kiara began to walk forward, she tripped over her own paw, tumbling down the mountain side. When she finally reached the bottom, she groaned with pain.
"Kiara!" Kovu yelled, racing down to comfort her. "Are you alright?" She rubbed her head and managed to slightly nod. Nope defiantly not a dream. It all felt to real. Kiara stood up and looked around.
"Let's ask someone for help" she suggested
"No don't-"
It was too late. An animal with claws already had her attention "Hey you!"
It growled as his lunch ran off by the sound of her voice. As the carnivore walked over to them, they both gasped. His teeth were quite long. They never seen such strange teeth. His fur color was similar to Kiara, maybe a little lighter.
Kiara tired not to stare as she greeted him with a friendly smile "Um. Where exactly are we?"
He pulled his eye brows together, studying the odd strangers.
"The Ice age" He finally answered "You know, mammoths, frozen lakes… Any of this ringing a bell?"
Kovu and Kiara looked at each other. "What's a mammoth?"
"You're kidding… right?"
After a few seconds of awkward silence, he knew they were being serious. He sighed. "Follow me. I'll show you"
Kiara followed no surprise. But Kovu hesitated at first. Could he trust this guy? I mean, he was practically a stranger and Kiara was giving him all her trust.
As they walked, Kiara tried to think of a conversation starter. The dead silence was killing her. "My name's Kiara. And that's Kovu."
"Diego" He announced his name "I'm guessing you're not from around here"
She nodded "To be honest, Kovu and I are pretty much clueless in this… Ice age"
"I see."
Kovu kept his head down. He was so confused that he even considered he was hallucinating. Just then, he bumped into something. When he looked up, an enormous creature was staring down at him "Hello there"
He fell backwards, speechless at first. As the heart sounding seconds passed, a little scream of shock escaped from his mouth.
"Amazing! It's like an elephant with hair." Kiara said, circling around him.
"An elephant?" The mammoth asked.
"There animals that look a lot like you. Minus all the… mammoth hair"
"These are my friends, Manny and Sid" Diego introduced them. "And this is Kiara and Kovu" He expected Kovu or Kiara to question why a carnivore was traveling with a smelly sloth & a juicy mammoth… but they didn't seem to mind. Diego smiled at the fact of that. Any other tiger would find it down right unnatural.
"Uh. Your friend there looks like he's about to have a heart attack." Sid the sloth noted, talking a glance at Kovu "Take it easy you… you… what exactly are you?"
Kiara frowned "You guys act like you've never seen a lion before""A what?" Manny questioned.
"What the heck is a lion?" Sid asked
"Oh…" She looked at Diego and tilted her head to the side "Then if your not a lion, Diego, what are you?"
"A tiger" He said "A saber toothed tiger…"
Kovu still had his eyes locked on Manny. So many questions flew around in his head. He was too confused to speak and too cold to move.
"Kovu? Are you alright?" Kiara called. Everyone looked at him.
He shook his head out of his daze and smiled nervously "Yeah, um, can I talk to you for a second... alone"Before she could even answer, he slightly pushed her away from the group. "We got to get out of here. This freak show is freakingme out" "But we just got here.." She glanced at the so called 'freak show'. To her, they looked completely harmless. "Obviously, they live here. Maybe they can show us around. Don't pretend that your not curious about this place."
"How can you trust them? You literally just met"
"I trusted you, didn't I?" she smirked.
Kiara had a point. He knew it was useless. She would never give in. "Fine. We'll stay for one day. Then we go home. Agreed?"
She grinned and nodded, quickly nuzzling up against his mane. She trotted back over to the others and sat down, eager to learn about this mysterious world.
"So all this white stuff… what is it?"
Manny, Diego, and Sid looked at her like she was crazy.
"Snow." Manny simply answered "You know, It comes from the sky…You've never seen it before?"
"No. Where we come from, it's always warm. We only get rain and lots of sunshine"
"Well, if you've never seen snow before, you're going to love it here!" Sid said. He walked right up to her and shook her paw, showing no fear whatsoever. "Wait. Your not leaving any time soon? Are you?"
"Where only staying for a day" Kovu interrupted. Diego jumped a little when he spoke.
"Actually, Kovu and I were wondering if we could stay with you?"
"Sure!" Sid grinned "I'll give you a full tour!"
"You think we can trust them Manny?" Diego asked
The wooly mammoth glanced at Kiara who was none stop giggling due to the 24 hour comedy show starring Sid. Kovu even chuckled a little.
Manny narrowed his eyes and smiled "I think we'll be okay."
