Okay fans here's the third. I seem to like where this story is going, I mean it's longer then the last one and so far the plot is better. My other OC will properly appear in the fourth possibly fifth chapter. Anyway on with the story.
"WHAT?!"
"Meow?" Zion called innocently, tilting his head to the left not really understand what the large animal was talking about, but when he saw the trees Zion went to frady cats craze and launched himself into his father's back "GAHHHH!" Diego cried, feeling his son's claws dig into his hide "Someone get him off me!" HE growled realising he could not move without the claw digging further inwards "Oh I help" Louis replied.
"Quick there's one rope holding us from the open sea, if I could get onto the main land I will be able to retie the other ones down" The tiger explain to the others as Louis tried to carefully pull the frighten cub off.
Ethan looked back at the single rope that straining it's fibers trying to keep the heavy ship from drifting away "Are you sure you can do it?" He had a seriously tone in his voice also with concern, Diego shot him back a smile of reassurance "Sure, beside I'm the only one that could jump over there"
"Oh if only there was a tree branch or something then I would be able to swing" Peaches mumbled. Sid on the hand saw that Louis was struggling with Zion so he ran over to help "I'll help you" He said trumpifly "SID NO!" Shouted Peaches, Louis and Diego knowing very well of what might happen, startling Ethan and Meghan a little, but Sid seemed to have been deaf because he zoomed towards Louis not knowing about the rope underneath him thus tripping over it and cutting it in two pieces, the ship gave a sudden shunt forward "Heh, ssorry" Sid weakly apologized" Before the ship then did a sudden stop "Nobody make a sudden movement" Diego warned and everyone froze until Zion started to slip off of his back giving a low thump, everyone held their breath for what seemed the longest 6 seconds of their lives when all of a sudden the ship a lurched forward and the front of the ship gave a dip downwards "Ahhhh!" Meghan screamed as she began to lose her grip, she was being joined by the other animals that didn't have claws, luckily they all had some weight and something to grab onto.
Unfortunately that included Zion, who was sliding down on his back towards the end of the ice and into the sea that would properly freeze a small cub like him in a matter of seconds.
His eye's and that of his father's widened in fear "Quick, someone please catch him!"He cried in terror for his son's life, Meghan was the first respond by stretching out her trunk as far as she could and sure enough the little cub slid into her nose muscle and pulled her closely to her chest "Got him!" She called up to Diego and he gave sigh of relief.
The ship was now being pulled by the ocean current and was turned back to a straight angle again "Uncle Diego, we're being pulled in! What would we do?" With fear sown into her voice, having a feeling and the memories of last year. Instead Sid answered her "I have an idea" He paused "SCREAM! HELPPPPPP!" And that's what he did, very soon he acttarted attention of two nearby mammoths one female of a bay colouring and the other a 4 month old baby boy of golden and white.
Pricking up her ears and feet she ran as fast as she could to where the voice was coming, her baby following close behind, both mammals were kicking up clouds of dust as they went. They bothe came to the clif side, the female scooped her baby up in her trunk and skidded to a halt only her toes were over the edge "Whoa that was close-right hun. Now what do you suppose?-" "Efran!" The baby cried in joy not understanding what was happening to him "What?" She asked, thinking that he was only playing, but the baby, still smiling pointed down "Efran!" He giggled. The female looked down to humor him but then gasped in horror at her older son being drifted away "ETHAN!" She yelled at the top of her voice but the wind on the clif made a sound bearer to the animals below her, so she tired her call.
She put her youngest down between her front still thinking that this was a game, but the humor out of eyes went when he his raise her trunk high and blasted out a dearfering roar of a trumpet causing the soundwaves in the air to distort and made birds that were flying to shake and quiffer, causing not only for Ethan to hear but our other herd members to. Manny and Ellie knew that when mammoth made that call something was wrong, terribly wrong. Shira woken from her sleep and quickly gave a low rumble for Zambiz to come "What's that?" She asked Ellie, who was getting the possum boys on her back "I don't know, but someone or something is in trouble. Manny you gonna come?" She looked over to her mate.
He didn't say anthing but he nodded in response "Then let's go" Eddie called from the top of Ellie's back, all animals then broke into the running speeds of their speacies and little Zambiz was hot foot on his mother's tail.
Down on the ship the three mammoths looked at one another "Who the did the call?" Meghan asked trying to be heard over the wind, the other two shook their heads, Peaches pushed some of her long hair of her face to see what was happening "Hey who's that on the cliff!?" Louis shouted, pointing a claw high at the two mammoths standing, Peaches shruged not knowing who it was, even put her trunk above her eyes to cast out the sun, she still couldn't reconsidered who it was "Who on earth is-" Her thoughts were shattered by a loud screamed from Meghan "AUNT KIRA!" Meghan yelled for her as much as her voice could bare before she started to cough "Wait, she's Meghan auntie so that makes her" Peaches paused in mid thought before she a gave a gasp of relisation "She's Ethan's mother! And the little one is ether his brother or sister. Oh no, oh please don't let the child see for what might happen" The last thing she wanted to see was that little calf seeing his or her brother being cast out to sea.
"What?" Ethan looked confused hoping he didn't just hear what his cousin had just said, Meghan looked back at with worried and scared eyes before looking back up, Ethan's eyes and whole body shock "No. MOTHER!" He cried running to the far part of the end of the ship.
On land however Manny, Ellie and Shira along with Zambiz and the possum boys had arvvied the scene, Ellie trotted up the lone mammoth not knowing that was a baby between her legs "What's going on?" Ellie said to her in a gentle voice seeing that she was frighten, the female was to feared to say so she point her trunk down at the sight. Ellie gasped in terror "Peaches!" Manny's heart gave a sudden twist and tried to back into a canter to get the edge as quickly as possible and his heart seemed to of stopped beating at what he saw "PEACHES!" He roared catching the attention of his only child.
"DADDY!" The female shrieked making the rest cover their ears in pain, her eyes were trying to hold back the tears, she to then ran over to the end of the ship beside Ethan, who hadn't moved from the same spot at when he saw his mother.
Zion on the other hand was in mid tears and that he and his brother started to cried to each, the calls that they were making broke at every mammals heart. Then the little cub did the most craziest thing, he started to run at full pelt towards his mother and twin brother, driving by his animal instinct to go the best chance he had of servile, Shira.
"Diego, Zion'ssss going to jump" Sid called to the distracted tiger, he snapped out of his eye lock with his mate and saw his weaker son going to make the jump of his life and properly his last, the adult pounced into the sprint and giving a roar as he did and shoved his body weight into his son to throw him off his running course "Are you crazy Zion, you could've yourself" He scolded his child but soon knowing what he was like when he was a cub, he always would run to his mother is he was scared.
But his attentions then went to the sloth who screamed at what was about to happen, Sid remembered that this part leading out the sea had a sudden drop about 20 odd feet "Everyone, watch out" Sid yelled and Ethan then knew he wasn't going to she his mother or little brother for a while or ever again so he knew that he had to say something to her before they were both lost.
"Listen, mum. I don't know what gonna happen to me, or when I might come back, I just need to say I love you mum" His mother was to distraught to talk, her eyes were streaming with tears and nodded, the little calf now knew that something was wrong when he saw his mother crying, his little eyes began to swell as he looked back at his big bro.
When Peaches and Ellie saw that calf's face their hearts broke in two, he soon started wailing and trying to reach for Ethan "Listen, Leo be a good boy for mum, okay. I'll be back before you know it, you gotta be the man of the family now, be my little soldier. Okay" Ethan said in the most softest voice that everyone that was there had ever heard.
Even with red eyes, Leo hugged his mother's leg tightly rubbing his teary wet face in her fur getting soaking, he still managed to understand what his older siberling was saying "Okwayy" He whimpered before sobbing more into Kira's leg "I promise I'll-" *CRACK, SPLASH!* The ship gave a sudden fall causing all the animals onboard to fall over with Ethan rolling over onto Peaches, Diego sliding into Sid and was soon joined by Meghan "Whoa look out!" As Sid and Diego looked on at the 8 ton sliding towards them and lastly Zion and Louis joined them "Meowww!" As were the two other mammoths "Ow!" Someone yelled, the water getting them uterly wet.
The front end of the ship had completely submured itself under the water, causing all the mammals to come up and away from the ship as the water raised them up but soon the ship started to resurface and as it did the front smack into the everyone adomen, Sid and Louis felt like they were going to be sick from the amount of force that hit them.
Everyone on the cliff held their breaths but a sigh of relife came when they all saw them resurfaced but their fears were just beginning as they began to dirft away.
"LISTEN. ALL OF YOU, WE'LL BE BACK WE PROMISE" Diego roared to everyone on the cliff, before they were out of sight from the water vapour.
Right third part up and running.
Sorry that this is not as long as the others. Sorry.
Ice Age belongs to Blue Sky Studios
Zambiz, Zion and Ethan's mum and little brother belongs to me
