Chapter 3: Party's Over


Peaches and Ethan then goes to the herd as Peaches looks at her parents and said

"Mom, Dad, you guys remember Ethan?" Peaches asked.

"Evening, sir. Evening, madam" Ethan greeted.

"Hi, Ethan" Ellie kindly greeted back.

"Hey..." Manny dryly replied as he does not trust Ethan completely due to his punk-like behavior.

Can we ask you guys for something?" Peaches asked.

"Um...sure. What do you want from us?" Ellie asked.

"We would like your blessing for our relationship" Ethan replied.

The herd looks at the couple in great confusion as Manny and Ellie looked at each other before Manny looks back and asked

"Relationship?"

"As in boyfriend-and-girlfriend relationship?" Ellie asked.

"Yes!" Peaches happily squealed and hugs Ethan.

Louis felt heartbroken at this as he looks down sadly because secretly he has a crush on Peaches but does realize it can never happen due to him being a molehog and Peaches being a mammoth.

"I'm sorry. I'm confused" Ellie nervously said.

"Well this may be hard to understand, but Ethan's changed his ways and I really like him" Peaches explained.

"Peaches truly understands me and likes me for who I am. I would be more than happy to accept her as my girlfriend" Ethan added.

"Awww, that's sweet" Ellie happily said.

"Now wait a second here. No one is dating no one, and no one is going to be boyfriend and girlfriend" Manny concluded a bit firmly.

"W-What?" Peaches asked a bit heartbroken.

"Manny" Ellie started as she was concerned about this.

"Peaches, sweetie, can I speak to you…alone?" Manny softly asked.

Peaches looks at her father for a moment. She hated how Manny is always overprotective with her. Sure he's slowly letting her go but he's always butting in her life lately as she doesn't want to let Manny control most of it for any time longer.

"No. Whatever you have to say, you can say to both of us" Peaches sternly replied.

Manny just sighs and firmly said

"Fine. You can't date Ethan!"

"Why not?" Peaches angrily asked.

"Because he's a bad influence on you and he's still the same punk as always" Manny replied.

Ethan felt a little hurt from that as Peaches sternly scoffs

"That's not true, dad! I'm dating Ethan whether you like it or not!"

"Well like it or not young lady, you can't date someone because you met him a few times!" Manny argued.

"You can if it's true love" Peaches argued back.

"Peaches, what do you know about true love?" Manny sternly sighed and shook his head in disbelief.

"More than you! All you know is how to shut people out and be such an arrogant mammoth to everyone you hate" Peaches furiously snapped.

Many felt hurt by that as he then looks back and firmly replied

"You asked for my blessing, but my answer is no! Now, excuse me."

"Sir, if I may ease your..." Ethan started.

"No, you may not! You just stay away from my daughter, you hear me?!" Manny firmly snapped to Ethan.

He passes Sid and sternly said "The party's almost over."

"OK" Sid nodded and gets the cake ready.

Peaches looks at her mother as Ellie said

"Look, I'll talk to you father about this. He's just concerned about you."

Sid started bringing the cake out as everyone begins to sing.

"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Peaches, Happy Birthday to-!"

Suddenly Sid trips over a tree root and accidentally throws the cake up as it lands on Peaches, covering her all over with cake. The crowd gasped as Diego sighed

"Told you he would screw up."

Manny looks at Peaches in shock as she shakes the cake off before he furiously glares at Sid and growls furiously. He started marching his way to the sloth who gulped and nervously chuckled

"OK, Manny, I know this looks bad but let's not lose our heads over this."

"You're about to lose your head soon, Sid!" Manny growled as he grabs Sid's throat with his trunk.

"Manny, calm down!" Ellie firmly said as she tries to calm her angry husband.

"No, I won't calm down! All I ever wanted was to make our daughter's birthday perfect, but it seems I can't get that no thanks to some people nearly Sid here!" Manny angrily replied as he puts Sid down and furiously points his trunk at the sloth who just gulps.

"Dad, please! It's alright! I'm fine!" Peaches pleaded.

Manny just ignores her and continues lashing out at Sid.

"You always have to ruin everything I do! From my ice mobile I made for the family, then to the Christmas Rock, and now this and it's all your fault, Sid!" Manny angrily snaps at Sid as he furiously walks closer to the sloth who was shaking nervously.

"I...I didn't mean to Manny...it was an accident" Sid tries to apologize.

"An accident?! It's always an accident to you! Accident this! Accident that! Blah, blah, blah! Well let me tell you this, Sid! Everything about you is an accident and in fact, I'm starting to think that letting you in this herd was an accident!" Manny furiously shouted at Sid.

"Manny! How could you say that?" Ellie exclaimed.

"But…this was my herd, and I started it" Sid sadly said as he tried to apologize. "…and I said I was sorry."

"Well 'sorry' does not fix this! I'm telling you right now, Sid! You are the worst friend I have ever met in my life, bar none! Why don't you go and be someone else's parasite for a change because I've had it with you!" Manny shouted at Sid.

The others gasped in shock as Ellie looks very angry at her husband as of right now. Manny has gone too far.

She bonks Manny on the head hard as Manny let out a yelp of pain.

"That was very awful of you to say something like that! Apologize to Sid this instant!" Ellie angrily demanded.

Manny refused as Sid looks at the sabre and begs

"Diego, please! Help me out! Please!"

Diego just looks away and clears his throat as he didn't want to be involved with this.

"Just get out of here Sid! I don't want to see you for the rest of tonight!" Manny angrily said

"Manny, please! Please! I'm so sorry!" Sid cried.

Manny looks away silently and coldly replies

"... Just…leave…"

Sid steps back a bit in sadness as Manny started walking out on everyone, to which Sid couldn't take this anymore and angrily asked

"Why do you always hate me all the time?!"

The crowd looks on the argument as Manny grumbled

"Shut up, Sid!"

"No! Why?! Why do you always have to shut me out when I try to make amends with you?! After all we've done together! Just stop and talk to me, Manny!" Sid furiously cried as he shoved Manny a bit to get his attention.

"I said, SHUT UP!" Manny angrily exclaimed as he accidentally hits Sid in the face with his trunk.

The sloth falls on the ground in pain as the crowd gasped in alarmed. It wasn't long before Sid felt something on his mouth as he touches it and sees blood. Manny sees it and realizes what he has done.

Sid got up and flees before he trips on the cake holder again as clumsy as he is and slams into the statue the herd made for Peaches. It falls over entirely and shatters loudly on the ground, leaving an awful lot of broken pieces. Everyone gasps, and Sid was much more shocked by the sight of what he has done. He never knew how much hard work the herd put in that statue, and how long it took them. Everyone just stood there silently with shocked looks.

"Not the…statue…" Manny weakly said.

"Such clumsiness..." Leo deviously chuckled as he was enjoying Sid's naive foolishness

The sloth backs away with a racing heart, but then trips on the cake holder again and scraps the rocky wall with his claws making sparks as it lands on the grass. Soon, the sparks turn into fire which shocked the crowd including Leo.

"Fire…The most destructive element in the world. I knew there was something dubious going on with him!" Leo hissed as he cowardly hid behind the crowd.

"Sid..." Peaches started.

Frantic and upset, Sid flees before Leo angrily shouted

"Stop him! Stop him now! He's a monster that wreaks havoc and creates fire!"

"What?!" Some of the herd members cried out.

The crowd mutters in fear and confusion as Sid tries to climb up before Leo shouts again.

"Don't just stand there! Stop him before he burns or destroys anything else!"

"Please, just stay away from me!" Sid cried in tears as his dull claws on his legs made more sparks on the rocky wall. It then made another fire and it spreads to a tree full of decorations that was for Peaches's party, burning it and the decorations completely.

"M-Monster! MONSTER!" Leo screamed and points his claw at Sid.

Sid got up from the cliff and looks down to see the crowd afraid of him now because of Leo. Like Manny, this was not his night as he flees.

Peaches and Ellie along with the others except for Manny runs to find Sid as they called for Sid to stop but to no avail as Sid then sees a hidden cave and hides in there.

Peaches passes by and calls out

"Uncle Sid! Uncle Sid! Come back! I know this looks bad, but we can fix this! This wasn't entirely your fault!"

She looks around to notice that Sid's gone, and she sobs

"Uncle Sid...Please come back..."

Ellie hugs Peaches and said

"It's alright, sweetie. We'll find him...I'll definitely be talking to that Leo sloth too...Calling Sid a monster… How dare he!"

Manny walks up to his daughter and wife who angrily look at Manny before he said

"I just wanted your birthday to be the best one there was."

"Well now it's ruined and Uncle Sid is gone because of you..." Peaches angrily sobbed.

"Peaches…" Manny started.

"I hate you!" Peaches angrily cried and runs off back to the party.

"Peaches!" Manny cried out.

"...I hope you're happy, Manny..." Ellie firmly whispered before she leaves.

"Ellie...I never meant what I said...I was...I..." Manny tried to apologize for his anger outbursts.

As much as he was furious at Sid tonight, he did made the situation worse and he felt bad for the things he said due to his uncontrollable temper.

Meanwhile, Sid was feeling guilty for wrecking Peaches's party and upsetting his best friend though it wasn't entirely his fault. The party was ruined, but he blames himself for what he did as he looked down and sadly whispered

"What have I done?"


The party is ruined because of Manny and Sid

And now Sid ran away and both Manny and Sid feel horrible about their actions

What will happen with Sid and the herd now?

What happens next?

Stay tune to find out!

ALSO PLEASE GIVE CREDIT TO DUSK19, FOR NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT HIM