Sorry for the wait, it's hard to type up stories with collage work and writing other stories as well. But finally it's here.
The water vapor thickened as the seven mammals drifted away from the mainland. Ethan's eyes were glued to the same spot from where he had just told his mother not to worry, but now those words were eating at his core, he had to get back...he had to. Diego made a promise to them all.
"We have to turn the hunk of ice around!" He shouted whipping himself around looking sharply for anyway that could do the job, Diego frowned then his eyes widened when he soon reconsidered this doing from the young male aswell did Sid "Diego, we have to sssstop him. He'll go into a freeenze" He cried at tiger friend on the edge of biting his claws to stumps.
"Your right, Zion stay with Meghan" He roared to his son, Meghan scooped up the little the little ball of fluff and placed him on her back along with Louis, Zion clawed into her dark neck fur deeply to get a good grip, he had never been up so high before. Meghan cringed a little in pain from the tiny claws but she didn't utter a sound to scared the little cub, he already got enough of that.
"Ethan stop that! Your acting like Manny now!" Ethan froze in shock and stared at the tiger, never in his life would he have been compared or even told he was like Manny "Me an overgrown fat control freak! Never!" His mind raged and fumed "I don't care, we've got to turn around!"
"There is no way of turning this ship around, if you haven't noticed we don't have sails or a ruder" Diego shouted at him, getting more annoyed with every passing second at Ethan. Ethan's eyebrows began to twitch as he was left dumbstruck.
"WHAT! What sort of a ship is this thing if you can't stir it and it has no mode of bloody movement! This is bollocks!" He screamed unaware of what was about to strick him down hard before it was to late.
"SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!" Peaches screamed back at him, giving a harsh lash of her mighty trunk to fall on his cheek. The blow wasn't meant to as hard as she intended but now Peaches was glad that it was. It was only meant for him go stagger a few feet backwards but instead it made Ethan fling across to the other side of the vessel. Still dazed Ethan held his cheek with his trunk on where it stung like a thousand bees piecing his skin.
Everyone else however was frozen in shock at what the golden female just did, Peaches hadn't moved ether, she wasn't shocked she was in a rage, her breath was heavy and the adrenaline that was crousing through her veins was too much to ignore, she was burning. Her eyes grew even darker when the older and bigger mammoth tried to stand, at first Ethan staggered a bit but after a purse he regained his stature.
As the female he was boiling with fury he stormed over to Peaches hopping that would intimidate her and even though the others all parted out of his way it didn't have an effect on Peaches although she did feel her heart race as he drew closer until he a whisker length away from her face. His cousin began to get worried, Meghan knew how angry Ethan could get, he wasn't really a mammoth with a short fuse in fact it took quite a lot to anger him like his and Peaches had done it.
"WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR!" Ethan bellowed at the female, now that roar did spook Peaches, her eyes widen in surprise and fear also stepping behind her but she immediately took back those steps forward. She was determine not to show weakness to him, the sudden noise didn't just have effect on her but it also shook the ship's floor a little aswell did it startle the others into retreating backwards apart from Diego who was ready strike Ethan down if he dare harm his precious niece, even though Meghan wanted to help Peaches she wasn't the best with words nor was she stronger than her cousin not to mention her passengers that she was carrying at the current moment of time. Even Ethan surprised himself, he knew that he could loud but never this loud, maybe he was like Manny after all, no no he refused to like him or his own father, he would rather kill himself if he was one tenth like his dad.
His mind pondered but his ears were soon occupied "Because shouting isn't going to get us anywhere" She said to him sternly not taking her eyes from his "And even like uncle Diego said there is no way to get back and I think uncle Sid will agree, we'll just have to see where the current will take us" She continued in a calmer voice hoping that it would calm Ethan down, it did but not so much "But who knows how long we could be lost, even though it's only been for a short while. I might never see my little brother again" His tone was turning from anger to fear and Meghan had just about enough of this.
"Ethan stop! Your over racting now" Her couisn turned sharply at her "Who's side are you on anyway?!"
"Peaches's. We'll get a way back, I mean Diego and Sid have been through this before and I know they can get us back"
"But we promised"
Diego then stepped up "And we will keep promise" But worried swept over Ethan's face, his mind was racing with anxious questions "But with if!-" Ethan still shouting but Peaches cut him off "Ethan just stop!"
Ethan frantically looked at both side of him looking for that least someone to take side of the argument but now the male's mind was hurting so much that he couldn't even look at them instead he just frown his brow furiously and put his trunk around his head to bear the mentally pain "RRAAAHHHH! FINE!" He roared before storming off the front end of the ice ship and laying down and remained silent.
"Oh real mature" Louis muttered from above the chocolate mammoth, all was quiet the only sound the ice age wind whipping through the animals fur"Oh Ethan" Peaches groaned and began to walk towards him but his younger cousin stepped in front of her stopping her tracks "No, don't it Peaches. He needs time to cool off, he'll be fine after a few hours"
"Is he always this when he loses a argue or his temper?" Expecting a yes she was shocked when Meghan said no "He's normally very calm in arguments but when things come down to his mother and little brother he sometimes gets very...um protective and he feels that it is his duty to be there for them since his father is absent from his life"
The other mammals knew that this talk was not for their ears so they decided to gather whatever vegetation that grew on the ship for them to eat "Come on Zion" Louis called from the ground after sliding off Meghan back "Come on cats always land on their-umph!"
"On their Uncle Sloth's face" Diego grinned, he always wanted to see one of his sons take out Sid and boy was it worth the laughter that was soon to follow, when Sid a Zion got to their feet they left the two female mammoths to talk alone and in peace.
"Well?" Peaches asked and Meghan continued "Ethan has no father well he did but for some reason before Leo was born he just gave up and left them and this was 6 years ago and ever since then Ethan determen to not like a bit like his dad, so that's why he desperately wants to get back"
That truth made Peaches feel terrible for what she did to him, now could understand why he acted the way he did "I feel like I should apologized to him, I didn't know. Thank you for explaining" Meghan nodded "But like I said let him cool off for a bit" Peaches hummed in understatement and Meghan then went over to help the ofters. Peaches stayed a little longer to look at Ethan's resting body she was tempted to go over to him now but instead she listen to Meghan, well she knows him better the anyone one the floating ice barge.
About two hours later the sky had gone from mid afternoon blue to light purple red of early evening, the colour went over to horzain, the gang had found some folegde from the trees and bushes and some fruit aswell, Side had made some makeshift fishing rods so Diego and Zion could eat meat, but until then they'll just have to eat veggies, all were tucking in be sure not to eat to much so the food could last, Ethan still hadn't joined them as he was from what it looked like stargazing.
Peaches looked behind her at him then at Meghan to see if it was okay to go and talk to him, she nodded "Sure, he's properly cooled off now" Peaches stooded up and took some fruit and folegde with her for Ethan.
Ethan was staring out at sea which was the darkest shade of blue you could think of, he sighed and was thinking about his little brother Leo and how that he may not ever see him again, he was about to go to sleep when he heard someone talking "I brought you some food, incase your hungry" Peaches said quietly "Thank you" He mumbled not looking back at her and Peaches got the picture that he was still a little angry with her.
"Listen for a bit, I came over to say I'm sorry for what I did back there" Ethan was a little surprised at the apologie "What for? I was the one yelling my head off" He moaned refusing to look away from the sea "Well Meghan told me the reason why you acted the way you did"
"In what way?"
"About your dad leaving" She mentioned and she saw Ethan flinched and shuffle a little "She told you" He mumbled and looked up at her in those pea green eyes "Mhm" She nodded "But I want to hear the story from you, your side of the story" She continued.
Ethan sighed knowing that he wasn't going to get out of this "Well I amusing she told you when he left" Peaches nodded "I won't repeat that then, um oh where to began heh. Well I guess at first I thought my dad was a great guy, he tought me so much stuff, but then when I turned into a teenage he started to drift away as he didn't have to take care of me now that I was getting older and he started to wander and when he found that mum was pregnant again he was again because he couldn't bothered to raise another child and when mum heard she was furious and told him if he didn't care to raise the child then he should go. I or my mum realised that he did, three days he just left without an explanation"
Peaches felt a heavy heart grew when she heard this but it worst that she was hearing it from Ethan himself "Please...go on" Ethan cleared his throat before talking "My uncle, who is my dad's brother was so furious with him that he didn't care if he was dead or alive and he said that he would help mum to raise the calf but then about a month before the baby was born my uncle got very sick and he wasn't going to get better and I promise to help mum and he shortly died smiling knowing that I was going to raise the calf and my uncle name's was Leo"
"So when the baby was born we agree to name him Leo after my late uncle" Peaches was in near tears from listening to the whole story that Ethan started to hug her "Oh no Ethan, I should be doing this to you" Wiping the formed tears from her eyes "I haven't finished yet" And for the first time that evening he smile at her, he let go of her as the last of tears fall "I better finish. As the months went by mum and I recover from dad leaving and my uncle dying as we focus to little Leo in I helped so much in raising that Leo actually saw me as his dad and began calling dad or daddy but when he was four I told him that I was brother after a long time explaining. So that's it, that's my story"
"Now I understand why you so desperately want to get back cause your worried that Leo might go through the same thing you did" Peaches wondered with Ethan nodding in response, a sudden grumble came from Ethan "Heh, sorry that was my stomach, I've haven't eaten since this morning"
"Well I didn't get you food for nothing"Peaches grinned and pushing the food closer to him, Ethan didn't take a hesitation at grasping the food and stuffing it into his mouth, much to Peaches disgust "Urgh didn't your mum teach you manners" She said sarcastically but laughed afterwards "Sorry, but I'm so hungry" After he finished a quiet moment feel abone them a comfortable mind one.
"Um Peaches I was wondering um...urr oh boy how do I say this...ur if we get back would ever considered going on a daa-huh?" Ethan wasn't able to finish his sentence because he felt a new weight on his side, he looked down and saw Peaches sleeping peacefully her cute face mushed up into his fur, Ethan could just hear her breathing which sounded like purring rather than snoring. The male sighed a little upset that he couldn't finish his question but happy all the same that Peaches trusted him much for her to sleep on him "Good night Peaches" He yawned before resting his head between his front feet and it wasn't long before he was in a deep sleep.
Yayyyyyyyy! Part 4 sooooo superstar! Poor Ethan in both parts, I could understand why he would want to get home as quickly as possible.
Please enjoy and reveiw.
Zion belongs to me
The others belong to Ice Age