Love a Scrat
This is a rewrite of chapter 2 since it wasn't showing up and accidentally got deleted. Anyway, Enjoy!
Scrat eventually got out of the icy river, shivering from it's cold.
The next day Scrat was traveling through another field when he spotted two walnuts (a scrat delicacy) half buried in the ground. He gasped and squeaked in delight. He ran to grab them both but was tackled and held with a firm grasp to a rock by someone. It was Etwa. He whimpered, because now she was holding both nuts and because of the overwhelming tightness around his body from her grasping him. Then she handed him one walnut, released him from her hard grasp, and started to eat her own nut. Scrat almost made a dash to take steal her nut but Etwa made a fist with her paw and gave Scrat a menacing glare. Scrat cowered and trotted off.
After a short time sniffing the field, Scrat spotted a HUGE tree full of acorns. He stopped for a second to admire his findings. Then he made up his mind to get all the nuts he could from the tree before could stop him. He made a mad dash for the tree. He was about to put his clawed paw on the first nut then a dull orange blur knocked him out of the tree or so he thought. It was Etwa again. She had caught him in the tree and carried him to its mere top. She had a strong grip on his torso. He grunted, groaned, and gasped for breath as he was squeezed so hard he felt like his guts might fall out. (If you've seen Ice Age 1 when the glaciers squeeze Scrat you probably know what I mean.) He squeaked and struggled uncontrollably until Etwa pointed sternly with a claw to a slightly smaller tree in the distance with noticeable acorns in it. The female squirrel gave Scrat a final glare and released him. Recovering immediately, filled with eagerness to match nothing else, he hustled to the tree.
However, no sooner than he was in the tree than he began to think. Scrat was finally getting pretty easy nuts. No one had ever given him an acorn before, let alone a whole tree. Scrat began to feel like Etwa wasn't half bad. Sure she had caused him agony and nearly made him lose his life when she threw him into a half frozen river but Scrat was used to it. Everything and everyone kept him from his nuts, the thing in life he desired more than anything else. But now, someone had actually shared with him and offered him an acorn tree. It had enough acorns to last at least a month and would be growing more soon and would be. He was also even beginning to learn about sharing which he still didn't like.Then another thought struck Scrat. He had never had a place to call home. Sure he had run into other acorn trees but something disastrous always happened to them if he stayed by them long enough. For some reason, being given a tree by someone who looked like she had owned one for a long time gave him a sort of assurance and a thought of calling the gift home. Scrat decided to stick around a while as long as no catastrophe happened that destroyed his tree. Then came the thought that someone might actually care for him. Following that train of mind Scrat was left with feelings he didn't understand, some about Etwa and some about his home.
Just as Scrat was finally feeling satisfied about some things in his life, he was suddenly knocked out of his trance and almost out of his tree from the shock of someone or something making a thunderous trumpet sound.
Who made the trumpet? Was it Etwa? Was it someone or that could destroy Scrat's newly found home? Was it the sound made by the start of a natural catastrophe?
Find out in the next chapter.