Chapter 2: Something's up

An adult anteater walked toward the water hole that Scrat was in earlier. He was dying from the heat, and needed water fast.

"Robbie!" a female voice called. The anteater looked back, aware of his mate slowly walking toward him, even though she was far away. "I'm over here, honey!" he called. "I found some water!"

Robbie leaned down, and before he took a drink, he saw that the water was starting to bubble. He was curious of what was happening, but only guest that some other animal was down there having the time of his life after being out in the heat. The anteater then realized that he was so hot, that he wanted to join in. So he took a big jump into the water.

"I'm here Robbie," the female anteater said, as she finally got to the watering hole. "Robbie?" She looked down at the water, and saw steam coming up. She then went in shock, and started to panic. What is happening? "Robbie! Where are you?" The female anteater was very scared, as she backed up from the water. She looked ahead, and hoped that somebody would help, not just to find her mate, but to tell them what she saw. He only hope was to find somebody else.

Crash and Eddie couldn't help it. They loved splashing their sister, and they wouldn't stop until one of them wanted to. That would take forever. But Ellie broke the game, as she saw Manny coming toward her. "Hey Manny!" she exclaimed.

Manny only smiled at Ellie, due to how much fun she was having.

"Wanna join us?"

"No..." Manny let out. "I'm good."

"Are you sure? It's really hot out."

"I'm sure."

Ellie knew that Manny needed some water, according to how hot and sweaty he looked. Ellie finally squirted water into Manny's face, who frowned at her. "Ellie!" he complained.

"I'm sorry," Ellie replied. "But..you look hot."

"It's a hot day." Manny forgot about his conversation with Ellie, when he saw Diego walking up, followed by Sid, who was out of breath.

"Hey Diego!" Ellie exclaimed.

"Hey," Diego said, who chuckled a little.

"What's up?" Manny asked.

"Sid said the wrong things to a 'fine' sloth over there."

"HEY," Sid broke in, "I only asked her to go swimming with me. I didn't mean anything else."

"Well she thought you did."

"Oh, and you think you could do any better than me?"

"Ok, that's enough," Manny stopped the argument. "Now we all know, whatever Sid did, it doesn't matter, 'cause he always does something that's seems major, but really, it's not. Get over it."

Crash and Eddie snickered at the sloth. But Sid just gave a fake smile, and didn't let the possums bother him.

"You know," Ellie started to change the subject, "the water is starting to get a little warm."

"Ooops, sorry," Crash confessed, when his brother gave him a weird look.

"No, no," Ellie kept going. "That water isn't as cool as it use to be. I mean, it's like the temperature is going warm."

"It must be REALLY hot," Sid let out. "I mean look, I'm already hot as it is. I got this way one minuet after getting out of the kiddie pool." Sid looked at Diego, who was giving him an angry look. "Do you really think we care?" Diego asked.

"Wait, I feel it, too," Crash finally admitted. "And this time I know it wasn't me."

"HELP!" a voice let out.

Manny turned toward that anteater that was running over. "What's going on, miss?"

"My Robbie! He's gone!"

"What do you mean gone?" Ellie asked, as she finally got out of the water with her possum brothers.

"I mean he disappeared! I was right behind him. He went to get a drink of water from a normal watering hole, and when I got there, he was gone. And the water, it was bubbling, and steam was coming up!"

Manny, Ellie, and Diego only looked at each other, curiously. Crash and Eddie were freaked out, and Sid gave a face, showing that he was confused. "You mean, it was steaming hot?" Sid asked.

"That's what I saw!" the female anteater let out.

Crash and Eddie looked down at the water they were in, curiously. They both put a finger in, and slowly brought it out. "Ellie," Eddie started who was freaked out, "the water is getting hot."

Ellie only widened her eyes, because she was freaked out, too. Something was up.

Scrat came back to his original spot, hoping that the creature that he heard was gone. He hopped toward the water, and sniffed for his acorn. He sniffed and sniffed, til he finally saw his acorn up ahead, closer toward the volcano. He hopped over to it, and hugged his acorn after he snatched it. He then looked at the volcano curiously, hoping nothing hot would come out. Phew. Scrat hopped back over to the water, and decided to get a drink. But before he put his head down, a big batch of steam came up, causing Scrat to go in shock. "AHHHH!" Scrat ran off with his acorn, the way that lead to where the anteater went.

So now the suspense is on. I'm sure in the next chapter things will get really serious. My next chapter will come up soon.

I'm sorry for the confusion for the second chapter earlier. I'm new at this, so I made a mistake.