Chapter 9! And before you start reading let me clear a few things up. First of all, our power randomly went out on Saturday(the Saturday AFTER the hurricane as shocking as it might sound to some people because during Sandy we had power) but it turns out that something in my neighborhood is getting fixed and I didn't work on chapter 9 ever since and the only reason I finished it and posted it now is because I am currently at a friend's house where they don't have power but they have a generator and they were kind enough to give me access to their WiFi. Second, I am back at school now(which has delayed openings for the rest of the week) so I may be offline again because of homework and I still have a French project to finish so don't be surprised that there isn't a new chapter posted everyday plus I have various other clubs that I will get back to once everything in my school is back to normal so I will post whatever I can. Anyways, enjoy chapter 9! What will be in store now? Well we'll never know until we read! Enjoy!
"I'm so exhausted!" whined Sid. "I can't take it anymore, I feel like we've been sailing on the waters forever! How long have we been on this boat?"
"Thirty minutes." Manny kept track of the time.
"Thirty minutes?! Ugh, that's just enough to make me want to-" Sid puffed up his mouth. :P.
"No, no, no Sid!" Manny tried to stop his friend from hurling. "Not on the-"
It was too late. In just a few seconds there was a gross puddle of you-know-what. :P
"Sid, you're disgusting." Manny cringed his face.
Sid wiped the mess of his mouth. "Sorry." he apologized. "I just can't control what comes out of my body."
"Good point." admitted Manny. "But you can control how many of those berries you eat before you go out on the waters. I kept warning you that they're going to make you sea sick."
"Manny," chuckled Sid. "You should know that I never listen to people when I'm hungry. Especially you."
The mammoth and the sloth were bickering and bickering with each other until they noticed Diego laying in place looking depressed. He's been unresponsive ever since they got on the ship. Some of the hyraxes were standing next to the saber trying to cheer him.
"What up with Mr. Down in the Dumps?" an elderly voice asked from a hole in one of the trees.
"I don't know." Sid replied. "He's been like this since we-" Sid stopped to turn around and see Granny's head sticking out of the tree.
"Granny?!" Sid asked in shock. He specifically told her not to come with them, it was to dangerous for a lady her age! "I told you to stay with Ellie and the others!"
"Like I was gonna listen to you!" snapped Granny.
"While you two settle things, I'm going to talk with Diego." Manny left the two sloths while he went to vucheer up his friend.
"Hey tiger." Manny said to his friend. "You haven't said a word since we left. What's wrong?"
Diego just sat there. Manny tried to think of a way to snap him out of his unresponsive stage. He thought of the perfect way.
"Ow!" snapped Diego as Manny punched him in the shoulder. "What was that for?"
"I had to use something to get you talking. You're just sitting there with a blank expression. What's wrong?"
"It's all my fault." Diego lowered his head.
"What is?" asked Manny.
"Shira getting captured by the pirates."
"How so?"
"If I would have just kept my mouth shut then she wouldn't have run off and she wouldn't have gotten captured. I just had to yell at her. Shira's probably getting tortured mercilessly by Gutt and his deranged posse. If she and the babies get hurt I will never forgive myself. Some mate and father am I."
"What are you talking about? You're risking the rest of the herd's life and your own to face our old enemies and to save her and the babies, so don't you dare call yourself a bad mate and dad because we got the proof that proves you wrong."
"Really?"
"Really. You confronted Shira's kidnappers and fought them. Even though you didn't win you did the best you could and told us about what happened and here you are sailing in the middle of the seas trying to find her because you care."
Diego smiled. "Thanks Manny. It's just that before I joined the herd, I never thought about getting a girl and having kids. Not because I didn't care about it but it's because I thought that somehow I would end up hurting them and I thought that it will happen since Gutt has Shira."
"Hey we got everything planned out." Manny said. "Gutt will never know what hit him. We'll beat those pirates and we will get Shira back."
"You got that right!" one of the hyraxes shouted out.
"Yeah we'll whop some pirate booty real good!" another one added in as he
"Did that hyrax just... talk?" Diego asked suspiciously.
"Yes, but it's not a hyrax." Manny pointed out. He noticed something different with those two hyraxes. First of all they were way skinny and their fur wasn't so puffy. Secondly they spoke plain English. And the most obvious sign was that they sounded very, VERY familiar.
"Crash, Eddie?" asked Manny. "What are you two doing here?"
"I'll tell you what we're not doing." said Eddie. "We're not sneaking on the ship even though we were supposed to stay behind."
"Or that we said that we're going to pull pranks on strangers so we could paint ourselves orange with orange juice to make us look like hyraxes so we could sneak on board."
"So Granny, Crash and Eddie snuck on board." said Diego. "Any other stowaways we should know about?"
"What were you thinking sneaking on like that?!" Manny nagged the possums. It's dangerous, it's risky and it's not a game! Does Ellie even know you're here?"
Crash hesitated at first but then said, "Yeah, sure."
"The only reason you two are staying here is because we have no choice but to let you." Manny told the possums.
"Precious!" Granny called out to her whale. "Come on out baby, momma's here!"
"The same goes with Granny." said Manny.
Done! I really enjoyed writing the Manny and Diego moment. Sorry it was short but I promise you there will be action coming up in the next chapter which I will work on as soon as we get our power back (which according to my mom who called the electric company should be by Friday) Please review!
