I have returned for making new chapters!!
Chapter 9: Apologies
After they left the cave after a much-needed sleep, the gang continued migrating and Sid was being his usual self; annoying the crap out of the others by his constant rambling and stuff, and also talking about being the king of truth-or-dare. It was apparent that Sid wasn't accepting defeat anymore.
Hearing Sid talk made Manny and Diego a little ticked off and it gets on their nerves every five seconds. Manny grew infuriated and stopped himself, turned to Sid with his eyebrows lower, got to his face and asked, "Are you finished?"
Sid saw those angry looks of Manny. It was the 'please shut up before you force me to do it for you' angry look. He chuckled nervously and said, "Did you want me to finish up?"
"No, I only wanted to tell you to LET GO OF YOUR STUPID CROWN ALREADY!!!! Jeez, you've been talking about being the king of truth-or-dare for a few days and you still can't let that go?! Why can't you just accept defeat for once?"
"You're missing the point, Manfred. A king is supposed to be the king of everything and rule the world as your own oyster. For me, the whole game is my oyster and clams." Sid explained.
"If you don't shut up and let Crash and Eddie take charge of your crown, I'm gonna squeeze your neck so bad, that some oysters might destroy your clams." Diego said.
Sid stared at him confusedly and asked, "What does that supposed to mean?"
Diego snarled at him and said, "It means let the possums take the crown, already!"
"You know, once of these days, I will earn my crown! It's my moment to shine! For I am the master of truth-or-dare!"
"Used to be king of truth-or-dare." argued Manny.
"Someday, I shall overcome!"
Diego groaned and said, "This is NOT good! I'm hoping we can overcome this. Sid got beaten twice and why should we suffer?"
Ellie sighed frustratedly and said to Manny, "How long will this go on?"
"It won't take long....I hope. He usually talks about it for a few days or months, even, and when it comes, he'll forget about it and move on, at least for a while."
"Man, I hope he gives it a rest, because it's giving us headaches, headaches, headaches, headaches, headaches, headaches, headaches, headaches, headaches." Crash said.
Eddie looked at Crash a little strange-like and said, "You know, you don't have to repeat 'headaches' every single time."
"You try repeating a word more than one time."
"Do that and I'll rip off your vocal cords." Diego said.
"Sorry, dude."
Later on, they took it easy in a nearby river and took some relaxation until they keep going. Crash and Eddie were playing around in a tree, spinning around a branch with their tails. Eddie stopped and saw Crash still spinning around and around and then, jumps off the branch and grabs the branch and holds on there. Eddie cheered with delight and said, "New world record! Tail-swinging in a tree in 3 minutes, 45 seconds. That ties the record for most longest time swinging arounf the tree without puking."
"New record?" Diego asked.
"Well, we always see how much longer does one of us swing around the branch with our tails within 3 or 4 minutes, without throwing up." Crash said.
"How do you guys do that?"
"It's simple, really. You just hang your tail around the branch, then you start to swing around the branch, close your eyes, thinking about something cool, then, after that, you fly up in the air and hold on to a branch for the longest time."
"It's really easy and fun!" Eddie said.
"Does Ellie do it?"
"Kinda, but she doesn't go for that kinda stuff. When she climbs a tree, she falls down with it."
"I can hear you from here! You guys persuaded me to jump up and see who spins the longest time in the tree and then I almost threw up and almost killed myself." Ellie said.
"That was one time!" exclaimed Crash.
"Yeah, how can you blame us for that?" asked Eddie.
"Because you both were laughing at me when I fell down the ground."
"We just couldn't help it!"
"Whatever."
"Hey, Diego. Think Sid will have a chance to regain his crown again?" asked Manny.
Diego sighed and looked at Manny and answered, "Not a chance, if he mentions it again."
"Maybe I should be the new master of truth-or-dare, don't ya think?"
"Only if it's cool with us." Crash said.
"Why not?"
"How's Sid taking it?" asked Ellie.
They turned their attention to Sid, which they saw putting his head down in the water to cure his shame. Manny and Diego scoffed and said, in unison, "Not very well."
Crash and Eddie looked at each other and thought it would be a good idea to sort of let it go and move on with life. They got to Sid and Crash asked, "Can we talk to you?"
Sid lifted his head out of the water and turned to see Crash and Eddie looking at him. He scoffed angrily and asked, "What do you want? Came to humiliate me again?"
"The last thing we could do is humiliate you. We just came to...apologize." said Eddie.
"Apologize? For what?"
"For beating you at truth-or-dare and for embarassing you."
Sid sighed and looked at them and then, felt completely guilty about not dealing with being beat at truth-or-dare to two possums. He said, "Look, I should be the one that's sorry. I guess I was sort of a little jerk, almost, a bit."
"Sort of?" Crash and Eddie asked.
"Little?" Manny asked.
"Almost?" asked Diego.
"A bit?" asked Ellie.
"Okay! Okay! I was a huge jerk that doesn't deal with being beaten."
"We can live with that." Crash said.
"Listen, I was wrong, okay? I never meant to be such a big retard to you guys. Anyways, I'm sorry."
"It's cool."
"So, no hard feelings?" asked Eddie.
Sid smiled and said, "No hard feelings."
They were hand-shaking and buried the hatchet a little. They were back to being friends rather than competitors. Manny, Diego and Ellie sighed of relief and so did Crash and Eddie. Diego came over to Sid and said, "I'm glad you put this crap behind you and if you ever act like a jerk again, I will urinate you....again."
Sid chuckled and said, "Deal."
"I gotta say, you were doing pretty good peeing on Sid." Manny said.
"Wait! You mean, you knew about this, Manny?" he asked.
"Of course. He peed on your face when everyone else was asleep."
Diego and Manny started laughing and gave each other a kunckle touch and Sid chuckled and said, "That was pretty funny, though."
"Yeah. And Manny sitting on you, that really made me laugh hard."
"I gotta say, my butt did pretty good."
Everyone started laughing with each other and talking to each other while they were still in the river. As the sky turned light blue, they headed off the river and kept on walking to another place.
LOL That was awesome! Next chapter will be a little heartfelt.
