Author's note: Sorry, I have being very busy this days but I thank everybody for their reviews... Man, I'm blush. On my PC I have that marvellous song "Good Enough" from Lifehouse, and I feel ready to go on with my good old friend Diego... Here we go again!

4.Melons n´ Feathers

Ok... This should have being easier but there is no rewind button and I'm doing my best to not roar and scream in distress and rage.. perhaps I will... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Much better, although it doesn't help. We have being walking for a while and the baby is crying all loud and not even the mammoth can take it more.

"Oh, you gotta make it stop! I can't take it anymore!" Manny was really annoyed with that

"I've eaten things that didn't complain this much!" I snarled, my ears were screaming like crazy with that torturous sound... Sid was holding the baby and of course, he was doing it wrong."You're holding him wrong!"

"Watch his head!" Said Manny watching in distress Sid's manoeuvres

"Just put him down" I screamed and the sloth sighed

"Pick him up, put him down, pick him up..."Muttered Sid putting the baby gently on a rock, as we didn't make up our minds.

"Is its nose dry?" I asked gently My mummy used to do that when I was just a kid "Someone should lick it... Just in case" And please let me do it.. Just to taste it

"That means something's wrong with it."

"I'll do it!" Sticking out his tongue Sid started to lean over the baby getting ready to give it a lick on the nose. Poor kid, as annoying as he was he didn't deserve this.

": Hey, he's wearing one of those baby thingies" Suggested Manny just in time to save the poor kid

"So!" Sid said with his tongue still hanging out of his mouth

"So, if he poops, where does it go?" The mammoth explained himself. Wait a second, does that mean what I think? ... IIIIiiiiiuuuuggghhh!

"Humans are disgusting." The sloth paused rolling his eyes Don't look at me

"Ok, you. Check for poop." Manny pushed gently Sid... Good idea

"Hey, why am I the poop-checker?" He complained

"Because returning the runt was your idea." He leaned backwards as the mammoth shoved his face forward again. "Because you're small and insignificant." Manny pushed him back one last time until he ended up in a nearly horizontal position. "And because I'll pummel you if you don't!" My thoughts exactly

"Why else?" Asked in a whisper, Sid

"Now, Sid!" Roared the mammoth

"Ew! Yuck! EW! I mean, my goodness." Sid begun his duty as he closed his eyes and picked out the diaper "All right, look out, look out, coming through." Wrapping up the diaper he started walking around clumsily swinging the thing around

"Hey, watch out!" Manny moved aside

"Stop waving that thing around!" Sid moved closed to me Don't even think about it, you..

"Whoa, I'm gonna slip!"He walked again to Manny and threw

to Manny .. The diaper landed on his trunk and he threw it away angry "It's clean, gotcha!" He laughed That wasn't funny

"Will you cut it out?" The mammoth answered smacking his head... The baby giggled. Wait a second

"Hey do that again. He likes it!" I smiled Anythin to make him shut up

"Hey, it's starting to make me feel better too!" He did it again and the sloth came to me

"Here, you hold him." He offered but I hit him too Ya are the buffoon not me. The baby tried too but Sid hold his armand the kid cried again as he was put again on the rock Here let me fix it

"Here, turn him towards me." I pushed the sloth away and covered my eyes with my paws, the baby watched in silence "Where's the baby?" I asked softly Papa used to played this game with me "There he is!" I opened my eyes again to surprise him... It worked "Where's the baby?" I asked softly again covering my eyes once again "There he is!" The baby cried full of fear... Ups, my mistake

"STOP IT, you're scaring him!" Manny pushed me Pues si.. Suddenly a noise caught my ear.. Hey, kid. Wasn't that your stomach?

I'm going to tell you something but please, don't tell those two... When I was playing peek-a-boo with the baby, I could smelled him and noticed that surprisingly he was actually... she, a girl; the only female of this strange group. Funny, in some way... I wonder what she was thinking being surrendered by three men

"I'll bet he's hungry." Sid had a brilliant idea

"How about some milk?" Manny suggested Excellent point

"Oooh, I'd love some!" The sloth clapped happily You are more simple than the use of a dummy

"Not you, the baby!" I growled angrily

"Well I ain't exactly lactating right now, pal!" Sid scowled me

"You're a little low in the food chain to be mouthin' off, aren't y--" Ya asked for it, ya big..

"ENOUGH!" Manny roared in distress when suddenly, a melon felt closed to us "Food!" The sloth followed the mammoth If ya say so

Then, a dodo appeared and grabbed the fruit, looked at us angrily and fled Don't tell me, ya want me to follow that feathery guy, do ya?

...

It didn't took much till we reached the dodos´basement. Ten thousand creatures, and I have to miss up with the most stupid, unbearable and freaky of all... I have heard and being with this guys before, all the time with their nonsense about the ice age... Beak-freaks, buaaahh!

"Ice Age?" Sid muttered

"I've heard of these crackpots," I growled as we saw our stolen melon

"INTRUDERS! INTRUDERS! INTRU--WHOA!" One of the dodos screamed and ran till he felt into one of this boiling water holes Clever

"Hey, could we have our melon back? Junior's hungry, and uh--" Manny asked gently as he gave the baby to Sid

"NO WAY!" The leader squawked angry This is our private stockpile for the Ice Age! Subartic temperatures will force us underground for a million billion years!" And that leads us to...

"So you got three melons?" Manny raised an eyebrow and all the dodos looked at the melon... Beak-freaks

"If you weren't smart enough to plan ahead, then DOOM ON YOU!" The dodo begun and all those birds followed in a try to scared us away "Doom on you. Doom on you."

"Get away from me!" The mammoth stepped aside and suddenly the leader which was on one of the melons felt and the fruit ended in the baby's hands

"Retrieve the melon! Tae kwon dodos! ATTACK!" The bird shouted and all those beak-freaks begun to do martial arts as if they were the stupid cousin of Bruce Lee, they could shot the melon out of our hands but into the abysm Ya guys are worst than I thought "THE MELON!" Many of them ran after it and felt "There goes our last female" The second was threw with all the fight in one of the boiling water holes with three dodos behind.. And finally "The last...melon!" They saw Sid snatching it begun to fight it once again. Manny grabbed it while I scared some away with my mighty roar but one of those birds grabbed the mammoth's tale and the poor fella had to threw it in pain... The melon was again in Sid's hands but he was surrendered by the dodos... This could be bad

Sorry if it is too long but you guys deserve it after a long holidays. See ya!

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