Chapter 3: News Updated

Apparently, a lot of animals felt the warm water coming, too, and they got nervous as well. Everybody started panicking. "Something's wrong!" they would cry out, or "The water is getting warm!"

"Ellie!" Eddie started to complain, "everybody is nervous! What do we do?"

"Ok, ok, settle down," Manny interupted. "Now, apparently there must be something going on."

"And we're going to find out what it is," Ellie tried to come them down. "Got any ideas, Manny?"

"Not a clue," Manny said softly to her.

"Oh! I know, I know!" a voice shouted.

Manny saw Fast Tony hopping up and down waving his hand. "Yes Tony? Tell us what it is."

The armadillo stopped, giving a big breath to reply. "I'm not gonna tell you."

"Aww, come on!" animals complained.

Manny also gave Tony a look of a threat.

But nothing stopped Fast Tony. "Not until you all buy my famous Air shooters!" he let out, and showed them a big fancy leaf. "As you wave it in your face, it shoots out air. And the color makes it very cool looking. You can never find these good leaves. They are better than anything else!"

Diego suddenly pounced up to the armadillo, who backed up a bit. "You wanna loose them all without selling them?" Diego threatened.

"Woe, woe, easy there kitty."

"Just tells us what's going on?" Manny came up to Fast Tony.

"Yeah, the happier everyone is, the more Air Shooters you can sell," Sid suggested with a smile, and Manny and Diego gave him a mad look. "What?"

"Ok, ok," Fast Tony finally decided. "But you better all buy my Air Shooters afterwards. The reason the water is hot, because...ready for this?"

"Well, we don't have all day!" Diego exclaimed.

"Volcano!" Fast Tony finally replied. Everybody became silent, shocked of what he said.

"A volcano?" Sid asked sarcastically. "So, a volcano is causing this water to be hot, because of all the lava inside it?" He was still smiling.

"Yep, and it's going to blow!"

"AHHH!" Sid ran over and hid behind Manny, who gave him an annoyed look. All the other animals started to scream and panic, running all over the place.

"Hey, settle down!" Manny cried out. "Fast Tony only wants to see his stuff, he can't be telling the truth!" Some animals had their attention on Manny, while others had their attention on Fast Tony.

"I'm just telling you what I know," Fast Tony replied.

"Manny, do you really think he's telling the truth?" Ellie asked Manny.

"I don't know," he replied. "He's been right about other stuff. But he's been really serious about his business."

Everybody came to a sudden stop, when they heard a loud roar, and the ground started to shake. A lot of the animals panicked silently, while Sid gave a scared look, serious of what was going on.

"Oh no, it's happening!" Eddie exclaimed after it stopped as he and his brother jumped on Ellie.

"I told you." Fast Tony replied, smiling. "Now buy my stuff."

"We have to get out of here!" an animal shouted. Fast Tony then got very angry and sighed.

Crash and Eddie then climbed up a slide to the water park. "We have to get help and run away!" Eddie cried.

All of the animals then started screaming and ran away, while Fast Tony followed them, trying to convince them to buy his cool stuff.

"Manny, what are we suppose to do?" Ellie asked.

Manny looked back to where the anteater came from, curious of what was happening.

"Manny?" Ellie asked.

"Manny?" Sid finally asked, really scared of the situation.

The roar suddenly came again, causing the earth to shake. Crash and Eddie then started screaming, as they started to fall off the tall slide into the steaming water. "HELP!"

Ellie gasped, and started to run toward them. "NO!" Ellie started to doubt because she was too far while. "Crash, Eddie!"

Everybody, including Manny closed their eyes, very scared they were going to die, but they heard no sound. Ellie opened her eyes, and was shocked when she saw Crash and Eddie laying on the ground. But when she blinked again, she saw three figures there on the floor.

Sid walked over, curious of what happened. Crash was the first one to rise up, and looked at the other figure. "Mom?"

Ellie then gasped.

"MOM?" Sid asked.

"Mom?" Ellie asked as she walked over. "Mama?" Eddie asked, and then hugged the other possum.

Manny and Diego looked at each other, very confused.

"Oh, thank goodness I saved you," the female possum sighed with relieve, and hugged her two sons. She then looked at the female mammoth. "Ellie."

"Mom!" Ellie came closer, and let her possum mother hug her.

"We missed you, mama," Eddie said, who started to tear up a bit.

"What are you doing here?" Ellie asked.

"I was very scared," she answered. "Some vulture told me that a volcano was going to blow. I had to warn you, 'cause I heard you were close."

Sid then walked closer to the possum family. "Uhh...hi. I'm Sid. So, your Ellie and the possums' mother?"

"Yes, I am. But you can call me Sandy."

"What do you know about the volcano?" Manny asked, not caring about introducing himself."

"It's gonna get really crazy," Sandy answered. "I here that it blows every a few thousand years. It blew back; way before any of us were born. Probably before the first mammal ever walked on ground."

"So all the water steaming up, it's because..."

"The lava from the volcano is getting crazy, causing it to touch the water. I also knew it was happening because the water I was drinking was getting warm."

"Well, if all the water gets hot, then nobody will have anything to drink," Sid started to panic.

"Not just that. After a while, the volcano is going to blow, causing the whole earth to fall apart."

"And the lava!" Eddie freaked out.

"The lava is very hot."

Diego was still in shock, not knowing what to say. Manny just widened his eyes. "Manny?" Sid asked. "What should we do?" Manny then started to blink, getting himself out of it. "We have to leave."

"Now Manny?" Ellie asked.

"Now. Come on." Manny started to walk, when Diego finally got to his senses, and started walking, followed by Ellie.

Sid looked at Sandy curiously. "Come with us. You should at least stay with us since the volcano is going to blow. Oh no!" Sid started running toward the others.

"Mom?" Crash looked at his mother curiously.

"Of course I'll come with you."

So that was chapter 3! Things are really getting serious now! I hope you guys are liking the new character! You guys will really get to like her later on in the story.

I'll get chapter 4 posted as soon as possible.