Welcome to Part 4 of this fanfic.
Please note that I don't own any Ice Age Characters.
(I actually own another OC in this chapter also.)
Chapter 4: Mammoth's Worried Heart
Diego and Sid returned to Half Peak only to be stopped by Lenny.
"Hey there, Diego... Hey what did you do to the slo-" Lenny nearly finished, but Diego cut in.
"Don't you dare utter a word to Soto about this." Diego said as he walked past his brother.
"What's eating him?" He pondered, but he decides to forget about it and go back to his cave.
The duo returned to the peak's cave and the sloth was gently set down on the ground by the saber. Diego sees some snow on Sid and decides to use on his bite wound he inflicted earlier. He heard snoring coming from Sid and he felt relieved to see him still breathing.
"A night without fire, that's just perfect." He said sarcastically to himself.
"I'll make some... Diego..." Sid slowly leaned up and created fire again in the cave.
"Sid lay back down you're still hurt...from what I did..." He said feeling guilty about attacking him.
Sid said nothing but smiled at Diego and lies back down on ground and fell asleep. Diego couldn't help but smile back at his sleeping friend and he suddenly got into a defensive position as he heard some rocks falling outside the cave.
"Is that any way to greet someone who saved you from the lava pits?" The familiar voice said to the saber.
"Manny, is that you?" Diego said to the dark figure outside the cave.
"Hey, you remembered me, how nice(!)" Manny said in a sarcastic tone.
"What are doing back here? He questioned the mammoth.
"Oh, uh, I was just checking to see if the sloth was okay." He replied.
"You were worried about Sid?" He said looking at the sloth.
"What? No! Of course not, why would I be worried about him?" He lied.
"You know, I can tell when someone's lying." The saber smirked.
"Oh, really like you can make yourself useful and be a lie detec- eh?" Manny said as he spots Sid having snow on his neck.
"What happened to Sid?" He said.
"I really don't know." He replied.
"You know, I can tell when someone's lying." He mimicked the saber's response.
"Not funny..." He angrily replied.
"There you see, now you know how I feel." He said to him.
"Hey, at least I'm not a fat mammoth who's always grumpy from time to time." He retorted to the bull.
"For the last time, I'm not fa-" He was interrupted by the sloth's response.
"Can you guys stop figh- aah!" Sid said as he fell back in pain.
"Sid don't move just go back to sleep, okay?" He said softly.
Sid falls asleep once more and Manny notices some teeth marks on the sloth's neck.
"Uh, Diego how did get Sid bite marks on his neck?" He whispered.
"Oh, I sorta bit him earlier outside." He responded with his head hanging low.
"For what exactly?" He asked slightly mad.
"He was going to leave with a wolf to go south, so I attacked the wolf and let him go and Sid stood up for the wolf and well, you know the rest." He explained.
"You were probably jealous of the wolf being so nice to Sid, right?" He asked.
"No… Maybe..." He replied.
Manny went silent after hearing Diego's response. He didn't know that the saber can get jealous over a sloth. He stared at the saber and then the sloth in this awkward silence.
"Um… so he's okay from the bite wound." Manny asked worried about the sloth.
"Yeah, he's fine." The saber replied.
"Are you sure?" He asked more worried about the sloth.
"Being overprotective again, huh?" Diego smirked at his expression.
"OK, you know what? Forget I said anything." He said slightly angry.
Manny drifts off to sleep while Diego is still awake staring at the sloth.
"So he came back, eh Diego?" Soto said as he walks in.
Diego didn't reply back to the older saber and just stares at the sloth.
"So what happened to the sloth?" He asked his younger brother.
"Uh, it was a wolf problem I had earlier and don't take this the wrong way, Soto, I kinda got jealous the fact Sid was going to leave with the wolf to south so..." Diego's response was cut off from Soto's response.
"Ya bit him?" He replied to him.
"Still think I'm a jealous type, Soto?" He asked him.
"Relax; mostly everyone in the world has jealous personality. Like you and me for example, not to mention Lenny, Oscar, Zeke and your two friends there." He explained.
"Oh yeah, I didn't know." Diego said as he blushed in embarrassment.
"Well, I'll see you in the morning, Diego." He said as he left.
"Yeah, see ya, brother." He said feeling uneasy about himself.
Diego lie down next to Sid and Manny and slept until daybreak. It was now dawn and Sid was the first to wake up again to Manny and Diego still sleeping. He smiled at the both of them as he walks out of the cave to get some fresh air.
"I'll be back soon guys." He said as he walks out of Half Peak alone.
He continues walking far from the saber's home to a frozen lake to relax his mind about being abandoned by his original family. Sid tries to forget, but he couldn't and it's really disturbing him.
"*groan* I can't do it. I can't forget that...horrible time when I was young! *sigh* I need help." He said still frustrated.
"I'll help you..." The anonymous voice said.
He turns to see an evil looking saber with a scar on his right eye and gasped.
"To your death!" The saber said.
Manny's back and trio is back together once more! Sid ran into more trouble with a rogue saber. (The saber happens to be my OC for this story.)
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