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DISCLAIMER: I don't own The Croods or else they'll become a little more cavemen-like, actually, I don't even know how to put this…

Just read the story!

Amelia woke up with a slight headache. Groaning, she sat up while clutching her aching head and observed her surroundings. Her eyes widened. Where the heck am I? The thought echoed through her throbbing head.

She was shrouded in darkness, with what felt like a rocky floor underneath her. Her hands reached out and she felt an unsmooth wall covered with more rocks. Her eyes swerved around the dark atmosphere and found a big hole a few feet away from her, which served as a source of light for her eyes to see. A cave, I'm in a cave. Her hands kept feeling the rocky wall, trying to see what shape the cave was and to her surprise, the ceiling ended just inches away from her head from where she was sitting. No, it's not a cave, a den.

Panicked thoughts flew inside her head and Amelia started taking deep breaths to calm herself down. She was quite tempted to craw out of the den, but then she suddenly felt something warm next to her, and automatically she knew what it was…

"Hess!" Amelia shouted her best friend's name. Her head was coming up with many horrible theories to what had happened to Hess as Amelia scrambled to her side and shook the unconscious girl violently. Please be okay. You may be an idiot, but're still my best friend! Don't you dare die on me!

" 'Lia?" The girl groggily opened her eyes. Amelia gave a whoop of delight and relief before bear-hugging her.

"You're alright!" Her arms wrapped around Hess in a tight grip, not noticing her friend's face turning into a shade of blue.

"Crushin'-me," Hess breathed out.

"Sorry!" After letting go of the choking girl, Amelia watched guiltily as Hess swallowed a big breath of air.

"Where are we? And what just happened?" Hess asked after catching her breath.

"I-I don't know," Amelia replied silently. "But I think you uncle's time machine work."

"Oh please, that's impossible." Hess gazed around her. " It most likely transported us somewhere." But from the tone of her voice, it sounded as if she was trying to assure herself more than her friend.

"Yeah, and where is this 'somewhere'?" Amelia snapped angrily, and immediately she felt bad for what she said as Hess shifted away from her. Hess was a tough and rough tomboy who loves to speak her mind, and seeing her acting all-quiet and moody was the worst thing ever.

"Sorry." Amelia apologized, "I'm just really scared and frightened."

If Hess had heard her, she did not make a response as kept facing away from her, but even from where she was sitting, Amelia could see that Hess's lips were trembling thanks to the light becoming much brighter. It was most probably early morning wherever they are now with the sun just rising.

"This is all my fault!" Hess finally cried out. "I shouldn't have drag you into this!"

"Don't you dare blame yourself for this!" Amelia went forward and grasped her friend's hand, forcing Hess to look up into her face, which displayed a calm and controlled expression. "Besides," she said wryly, "If I hadn't come, you'll be all alone. And I won't have that."

Hess nodded thanks in her direction before they descended into awkward silence.

"So what now?"

"Dunno."

"You reckon Uncle Mason will get us back?"

There was a shrug of shoulders from Amelia.

Not knowing what to do, Hess shuffled over to the rucksacks, which were laying in a corner of the den with their sling bags, which somehow came off them during their 'travel' while Amelia sat there like The Thinker(don't be insulted, the statue's pretty cool), trying to gather up frantic thoughts and because of the brightening sunlight, they could see quite clearly now.

"Killer…"

"What?"

"You got to check what the old man packed for us! Its like as if we're going on a camping trip!"

Amelia faced Hess as she started fishing stuff out of one of the rucksacks. There were:

-A few cans of food

- A cutlery set

-A few bottles of water

- A lighter

-A matchstick set

-A set of ropes

-A torch

-A raincoat

-A compass

-A Swiss army knife

And a…

"A cape?" Both girls said in unison. Hanging from Hess's hands was a long black cloth with a hood.

"Why the hell we need that?"

"Mh-mh."

Hess snatched the army knife back into hands and started admiring it. Amelia just chuckled at her friend's expression.

"Wow, getting cheered up over an army knife?"

"Hey, you don't get this everyday you know. Well, for me, it is."

There was a roll of eyes in Hess's direction.

Hess stuffed her hands in the other bag. It had the same exact things as the first rucksack.

"What are you doing?" Amelia asked curiously as she watched her friend shove their personal sling bags into each rucksack respectively before grabbing one bag herself and throwing the other to her.

"Well, I'm not sticking around any longer in this cave-"

"Den. It's actually a den."

"-Den anymore moping around worrying on how to get back," Hess stretched one hand towards Amelia with a smile on her face. "Let's go explore this place shall we? Wherever we are." The light from the mouth of the den was glowing brightly than ever.

Amelia nodded her head and grasped Hess's outstretched hand with a matching grin. "I agree. Let's go explore this new world."

And together, both girls crawled toward the light, ready to see the world beyond them.

Here's the second chapter! There's no action in this one, the fun will all begin in the next chapter.

IMPORTANT: Also, I added some changes to the first chapter, but its mostly just grammatical error, with two real changes to it like Hess having seven siblings instead of five and rucksacks in place of duffel bags as they're better for hiking.

And here's an extra bit for you guys to read!

The colorful cat purred as it lay on the ground while watching its new human family happily playing with each other. Funny it tried to kill them when they first met but now…it could have joined them in the fun but it was too caught up in having a nice warm nap while basking in the light of the sun.

Then suddenly, its sensitive nose perked up. It usually did this when it was hunting but the new smell it was sniffing of was not of this origin.

"Chunky?" But the cat did not hear its name being called as it bounded off, set on finding its new target.

I really don't know what go through the mind of an animal, but I tried. I hope you guys remember Chunky!, the colorful big cat who tried to kill the Croods but ended up as their personal house cat.

One last thing, here's a statement from the next chapter!

"Amelia, I think your theory of my uncle's time machine working is true."