The sound of water rung in Nelida's ears as she walked beside the large river. Every so often she would watch large fish swim toward the ocean, but mostly kept her mind on the vision. She could chose; stay and tell Diego of the vision, or leave and never return. An old friend had told her once "listen to your heart, what does it say?" but every time she would listen, it's like her heart stops. As if it was also confused about the upcoming events.

Why was it so difficult? Why couldn't she just leave? Or tell him something of the vision... but life would always be difficult, even for a tiger whom was bred into the strongest pack in the valley.

"Nelida?"

She turned to see Diego, who was trying to catch up with her. She slowed down and forced a small smile.

"We're almost there. We'll be there right when the sun--"

"Nelida, Ellie said you wanted to leave when we got to the ocean." He said questionably.

She looked down guiltily, "Trust me. You don't want a fortune teller around you guys. There are plenty of sabers that want to kill me because of it; I'll only put you in danger."

"We haven't been in danger yet." Diego pointed out.

Nelida shook her head, "Yet. You still could be though."

"We've been in worse situations--"

"I just can't stay with you guys, okay? I just can't!"

With that she quickly swerved into the woods and ran. Diego watched her go for a moment until the others caught up.

"What in the world did you say to her, Diego?" Sid asked.

Diego growled lightly, "Nothing, let's go. She'll catch up."

He started following the river more, but not without turning to see Nelida run farther into the forest. Sighing, he led the herd toward the ocean.

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Nelida ran only a short distance as she came up to a small lake. She lay beside it, trying to calm herself down a little. She took deep breaths and closed her eyes.

She thought about Diego, about the vision, about the stupid shaman that had given her the gift in the first place. Everything seemed to fall apart on each other, just barely holding up for the moment. Slowly her thoughts became blurry; she was falling softly into sleep.

Nelida didn't fight as she saw the darkness form around her, and then suddenly the river was in front of her. She looked into the river and saw herself, her face full of concern and worry. She faintly heard roars, the roars of the water fall that led into the ocean water. Nelida looked over and saw the land disappear in the distance, the drop that led the rivers waters down.

Suddenly she heard screams, trumpet sounds from mammoths, and a roar that was much like her own. She ran, ran for what seemed like hours and finally came to a small area that connected to the ocean cliff.

There she saw it, the Velocorapter. It was running quickly, running after a saber.

"Diego!" she heard from her own voice.

The saber turned to her, right as the rock beneath her gave way and she fell.

Nelida woke up when she saw the ground come close to her face. The sky was darkening and her fur was covered in sweat as she stood up and looked around. Now she understood.

She had seen Diego's death that night. Her death had just been revealed to her.

They were both going to die.

Panicking, she had nothing else in mind but to find Diego and somehow stop this from happening. Immediately she sprung from the trees and ran down with the river. Her destiny would happen rather she went to save Diego or not, she decided not to run from it. She was tired of running.

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"Wow, look at that!" Ellie said cheerfully.

The sun was just setting above the horizon, casting beautiful sun rays across the ocean waters. They were beside the water fall which roared gleefully beside them.

"Yeah, it's okay." Manny grunted.

Diego looked around as he heard a noise behind him, but didn't see much between the thick trees. He glanced at the others who had not heard the strange sound.

"Sure, beautiful. We need to find somewhere to stay before it gets dark--"

"That would be easier if you didn't get Nelida all upset and made her run away." Crash said casually.

The saber merely blinked and looked away from the possum. Seeing this as a problem, Crash turned his attention to him.

"Oh gosh, Diego. Gee I'm sorry dude that was so uncalled for."

Diego grunted in reply and started looking for a way down the cliff. Crash glanced at his brother guiltily.

"Was it something I said?"

Eddie rolled his eyes, "Duh."

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Gosh, this is the shortest chapter I've ever written...

whatever, R&R please...