Chapter 10

Sid woke up, thinking he was dreaming, and found himself being carried on a piece of wood. "Hey," he said, climbing near the edge of the wood and looking underneath it.

"Uh, can I help you?" he asked. He was met by a bunch of tiki mask wearing figures. Sid looked up; hundreds of tiki mask wearers had come before him. The males wore tiki masks and grass skirts, and the woman wore the same thing, execpt they wore coconut bras.

Anyway, Sid looked around and saw a group of them. They all started bowing to him. "Now's that's what I call respect." said Sid. Two beautiful girls appeared and placed on his head a flower crown. Sid smiled; they were treating him like royalty.

Suddenly, looked at what they were bringing him too, and his mouth dropped open and his heart pumped faster than a drum kick. Rising before him, about 5 stories high, was a tiki carving of his head.

"Somebody loves them some Sid." He said in awe. "Who is the decorator, this is amazing!"

Suddenly, the tiki people threw him off the piece of wood and onto a platform. Sid landed face first on the ground. He looked up to see a female native about his age standing before him. She looked different than the other females. Her hair was longer than the others and she wore a bunch of flower necklaces around her neck. In her hands, she held a flint and a stone.

"Fire king." She simply said. "What?" Sid asked in confusion. He took the flint and stone from her as she bowed and walked into the crowd.

Sid then realized it. "Oh… you want me to start a fire?" he asked. "Well then, I don't see why not. LET THERE BE FIRE!" he shouted as he struck the stone and flint together. It lit onto the vines and lit up the tiki carving of Sid.

The crowd oohed in awe at the sight of the carving. Sid smiled at the crowd and then smelt something burning. He looked down to see his foot standing on the burning vine. "Ahh!" he shouted, grabbing his foot and jumping up and down. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" he yelled in pain. Suddenly he saw the crowd repeating and doing the same thing he was doing.

"Hey!" he said in surprise. The crowd responded by repeating him. "Ohh." Sid said quietly. He started dancing and making noises and the crowd did the exact same thing. They lifted him up on the piece of wood they carried him on as they sang and repeated him.

They started throwing vines and ropes onto him. "If only the guys could see me now!" shouted Sid. Suddenly, they natives pulled on the vines and ropes and tied him up. "Either this is really good or really bad." He said quietly.

…

The natives dragged him over to a flaming tar pit. "Ahh!" Sid screamed, staring at the burning tar below him. "Wait, I'm the fire king!" he panicked. "You'll get bad juju for a thousand years for killing fire king!"

The lady, who gave him the flint and tinder from earlier, came over with a torch. "Super heated rock from the earth's core is surging to the curst." she announced. "Melted ice from over a thousand years will melt and flood the surrounding lands, just as it did around the time of Noah."

"There's no need for such violence." said Sid, still trying to find a way out. "You know, together, we could find a solution to the problem."

"We have one." The lady replied. "Sacrifice the fire king." Sid grimaced. "That doesn't sound like a reasonable solution."

"Worth a shot." said the lady. He snapped her fingers and three tribal members pushed Sid into the pit. Sid screamed as he went flying as the tribal members cheered. One of the vines caught onto a log, sending him back up like a bungee cord.

Sid flew into the rock carving of himself and stumbled around, blinded by the darkness inside the hollow statue. The statue began rocking back and forth, and fell towards the people. The people screamed and ran as Sid fell out of the statue and went rolling.

…..

The next morning, Diego woke up from his sleep. He got up, stretched, and walked off to get something to eat. He then felt his legs starting to get wet. He looked down; he was in knee deep water.

"WATER!" Diego shouted, jumping into the air and landing on Manny, who woke up, screamed, and bumped into the tree that was Ellie, Crash, and Eddie were sleeping in. The branch broke and they fell into the water.

"Crash, I told you not to drink before you went to bed." said Eddie, getting up and shaking himself dry.

"I didn't do this!" said Crash, doing the same thing. "At least not all of it…"

Ellie climbed out of the water and shook herself. "What happened?" she asked. "We overslept." replied Manny. "It's coming faster than we thought. We have to get moving."

"What if we are the last ones alive?" asked Eddie. "We'll have to repopulate the earth!" Crash looked at him with a strange look. "How?" he asked. "Everyone's either a dude, or our sister." "Oh." Eddie groaned.

They heard rustling and Sid emerged from the bushes, covered in twigs and leaves. "Hi guys." He said tiredly. "You won't believe what happened!"

"Let me guess…" replied Diego. "You were out sleepwalking." "No." said Sid. "I was captured by a tribe of tiki mask wearers who made me a God and worshipped me… but then they tried to throw me in a flaming tar pit, so that didn't work out so well."

"That was gonna be my second guess." Diego muttered. Manny stepped forward. "Sid, you were dreaming. That didn't happen. No come on, we got to get moving."

The group continued moving, with Sid protesting that it was a real thing. However, no one believed him, so he stopped after a while.