Author's note: One thing I know that I'm bad at when it comes to writing stories, is writing up endings and fighting scenes. But hey, at least I got this chapter up and running. It's time for the final battle.

I do not own Ice Age. Those rights belong to BlueSky studios. I only own Slut and the Eagles, my first Ice Age OCs. I don't even own one of the familiar scenes used from one of my childhood movies.

CH10: Another Adventure Complete.

Slut grunted in strain as he continued to struggle in preventing a giant carnivorous dinosaur that was bigger than himself from chomping his head off. Rudy had to use his own claws to grab the giant ape's sides in an attempts to succeed in eating this monkey that was surprisingly giant and was putting up a good fight, though still not as good as fighting a lone weasel that costed him his tooth. But it was filling his insides with unusual frustation yet excitement.

Eventually both of them slipped and lost their grip on each other before falling to the ground creating a large tremor via impact, while Buck had to leap out of the way to avoid in being crushed by two of his enemies that were now fighting each other. He had a feeling that Rudy had somehow found a way out and was either looking for a fight against Slut or wanted to kill the giant monkey just to get to the weasel himself. Either way, Buck knew that this wasn't just any fight he'd seen before and it even made his own battles against enemies seem somewhat safe.

This was a fight to death.

Both giants quickly got up and as Slut punched Rudy in the jaw which thankfully didn't knock any more teeth out, and was about to punch again when Rudy responded by using his head to head-butt the giant ape in the chest head and knocked the latter against the wall once again, before clawing him with his left claw, resulting a large gash and blood seeping out. Slut responed in clawing Rudy in the face, narrowly missing the dinosaur's eye.

Rudy then made an attempt to bite Slut who again grabbed his face, before shoving him hard into hte ground. But the dinosaur this time used his tail to smack at Slut's legs, forcing the giant ape to collaspe to the ground as well. The dinosaur got up to attack again, but Slut counter attacked by grabbing Rudy's legs and pulled him to the ground again in a hard crash.

"Rudy!" Buck screamed, horrified. He couldn't stand by much longer. Enemy or not, he didn't want Rudy to die. But before he could step in to help even by knowing that chances of him surviving Slut's wrath was slim, a familiar trunk was wrapped around his body and lifts him up before Manny who had grabbed him pulled him into the forest to safety with Sid, Diego and Shira by his side.

"Are you okay, Buck?" Sid asked as he and the others made a run for it from the fight.

"Wait, wait, what are you doing!?" Buck screamed as he tried to free himself from Manny's grasp. "If we don't do something Rudy's gonna get killed!"

"And if we get into a fight like that, we'll get killed!" Manny pointed out as he ran. As much as he knew his insane friend respected the giant dinosaur that was just as dangerous, Manny'd rather have Buck survive than get killed.

"He has a point!" Diego agreed.

"Slut's the most dangerous one alive!" Buck cried out, "I can't let Rudy die like this!"

"It's either him or you!" Shira shouted.

"He saved my life!" Buck yelled.

Manny, Sid, Diego and Shira all paused in their tracks as they stared at Buck incredously, "WHAT!?"

The one-eyed dino-hunting weasel took a deep breath before continuing, "I know that he tried to eat me several times, but I've always tried to get even with him. He saved me just before Slut could grasp me! I'm not going to live with myself if I don't do the same to Rudy, even with the chances of him still having a grudge on me."

"More like the chances of him eating you." Manny replied.

"But even so, this is a fight that Rudy has zero chances of winning, and as long as Slut lives, no one is safe." Buck poitned out, "I'm willing to risk my life to stop him, to secure a future for not just my little one, but for everyone else."

The others knew that by 'little one' that Buck was talking about his Pumpkin. But on other hand, their friend also wanted to secure a future for them and their families and every other animal in the world to prevent Slut from eating anymore animals. Manny thought deeply about it, fighting with himself. In the end, he knew that Buck was right. Slut had to be stopped once and for all or the world is doomed to that giant ape.

"But how do we stop Slut and save Rudy?" Sid asked, worriedly.

"Need some help?" A familiar voice asked above them. All five of them looked up and were surprised to see not only Crash and Eddie on the condor they were riding on, but also three familiar dinosaur birds with helpful grins.

It was Gavin, Gertie and Roger. Gavin was the one who spoke.

Slut and Rudy continued to claw, scratch, punch, whacked and wound each other in one of the most epic battles of all ice age history. Rudy came so close in biting Slut who contiuously clawed him at his scales. As the dinosaur attempted to chomp him again, Slut dodged out of the way before going behind him and laughed evilly as he taunted, "Tag! You're it!" by grabbing hold of his tail, pulling hard to prevent him from moving.

Slut then incredibly lifted Rudy off the ground before twirling around, and around and around like a merry-go-round while he then began to sing,
"~Rudy goes round and round,
I'll launch him off the ground
He will go flying now
And that weasel will be chow-~OW!"

He was cut off when all of the sudden two rocks landed on top of his head, forcuing Slut to let go and drop Rudy to the ground where the latter collasped and smash from trees, destroying them in the progress. Suddenly more rocks fall onto him and he tried to use his arms to shield himself before looking up to see who or what was dropping rocks onto him.

"Take that, banana breath!" Eddie taunted as he and his brother continued to throw some rocks onto Slut, though he briefly forgot that Slut didn't even eat fruit like normal monkeys would.

"This is what you get for eating mammals and trying to eat our friends!" Crash added.

Also aiding the Possums and the Condor who was also tossing rocks down the ever increasingly furious Slut were Gavin who sky-dived before clawing the ape on the shoulder and took off before he was grabbed. Gertie did the similiar thing, only she bit on Slut's other shoulder hard before taking off, causing Slut to scream out in agony at the slight pain.

"Why you insufferable mammals and dinosaurs!" Slut roared, before a log whacked against his leg, causing him to fall again.

As he recovered he heard a voice shout, "Take that, King Kong!" and turned to see Manny who had just taunted him and had thrown the log at his leg. Just by gazing at the mammoth Slut's eyes widened as he somehow instantly knew, this was the mammoth who sent his brother Gutt to death. This was the Mammoth who loved family more than serving pirates. Sicking, disgusting families that both Slut and Gutt believed will drive anyone to their deaths faster than anything else.

"You...!" Slut growled, "I've been looking forward to this day, when I avenge my brother, Gutt. Whom you killed, Mammoth!" as he launched forward to attack Manny who dove out of the way as fast as he could. However, vines were suddenly whipped and wrapped around him as Diego and Shira, with Gavin, Gertie, Crash, Eddie and the Condor's help began to tie him up and slowing him down.

Roger then came flying in with Buck riding on his back, as the latter then threw more vines around the giant ape and tied it around Slut's head. Manny joined him as he wrapped around Slut's legs before the monkey could get up properly.

Even Sid tried very hard as he tied up a very tight piece of knot, or as tight as he could, saying to himself, "Through the hole, over the valley, one more loop."

Finally once Slut was tied up, Manny, Gavin, Diego, Shira, Crash, Eddie, the Condor, Gertie, even Roger and Sid all heaved and pulled at the vines as hard as they could while Slut attempted to free himself before he was forced to collaspe to the ground with a small tremor. However, before the group could even ponder if he was defeated or not, Slut gave our the most fearsome roar anyone's ever heard before he quickly broke free and swiped at most of them, though he missed Crash, Eddie and the Condor who barely flew back in time(and the Possums quickly holding onto 'Bronwyn' for Buck's sake), and the five members of the herd and the three dinosaurs were nearly injured but were quickly trapped in a corner.

"This is what you get for having families and escaping me!" Slut roared as he stomped towards the group.

"Yeah, well, it was Gutt's fault for trying to keep me away from my family!" Manny shouted back despite being trapped along with his friends. Sid clinged onto Roger in fear of being eaten by a giant monkey.

"You killed him by sending him to the Sirens to be eaten!" Slut shouted in return.

"All I did was smack him away. How was I supposed to know Sirens were near the old continant in the first place?" Manny argued.

"Manny, I don't think arguing the point is gonna save us here." Diego pointed out to his friend.

Slut roared once more, "All that was left of him was the upper half of his body and missing an arm! You and that weasel are the banes of my existance! I had to eat my brother after he died!"

"Ew!" Manny, Diego, Sid, Shira, Gavin, Gertie, Roger, even Buck and in the air Crash, Eddie and the Condor all groaned in disgust at the mention of Gutt's lifeless body having been eatened by his giant brother.

"Talk about cannibalism." Sid muttered, cringing.

"I think I'm gonna be sick." Shira groaned.

"Me too." Gertie agreed.

The giant ape then grinned, while unbeknownest to them, Rudy, who had been briefly knocked out, opened his eyes and gazed to his left to see his rival having cornered the herd and others. But the albino dinosaur's eye caught sight of the familiar weasel that escaped him so many times who was now cornered with his friends by Slut. Somehow, in the midst of his near demise, Rudy felt that they had saved him from the giant monkey.

"I can cure your illness...by having all of you as my meal!" Slut laughed evilly.

Crash, Eddie and the Condor, who were all horrifized on what was about to happen, suddenly noticed Rudy creeping up to Slut, and then Crash had an idea before he turned to Eddie and twins nodded. Eddie then whistled to get Slut's attention.

"Oh, what now!?" Slut growled as he turned to look up in the sky with a look of fury.

"Hey, monkey boy! Look!" Crash called out as he pointed to the left of the Valley of Freedom. "Your minions are here to help you!" he lied.

"What, where?" Slut was quickly fooled and turned to where everyone had came from earlier. This was a mistake on his part, was Rudy suddenly launched forward and shoved him with all of his might and away from Buck, Manny and the others, crushing more trees in the process.

Despite how dangerous Rudy was, Buck couldn't help but cheer on, "Atta boy, Rudy!" which earned him disturbed and questioning eyebrows from the others.

Rudy continued to push the stunned Slut before the latter could even grab hold of him. However, there was a weak part of the ground which no one even got near, and finally, when Rudy shoved Slut into nearly flying, the giant ape crashed into the ground which, by the same thin rock Buck and the others feel through before, collasped due to his weight and Slut went plummeting down into the dark abyss below as he gave out a yell before he disappeared into the darkness.

Despite not even having the meal of a giant ape, Rudy was still sastified enough that he, with some mammals including Buck's help, had won the battle. The giant dinosaur roared in victory which echoed through out the Valley of Freedom.

Having fallen so deep into the abyss, Slut was lucky to have landed in a river, but he had to cling onto a rock since he couldn't swim. He growled in pure anger and hatred. He would get Buck, Manny and now Rudy. All three of them would suffer.

Too bad his revenge will never be made a reality. Because all of the sudden, he heard more roards that seemed to be surrounding him. As Slut looked, he noticed too late as all of the Dimetrodon, who had collasped through the ice when they retreated into the caves earlier after Scrat left had accidently fell through here with their exit denied but now had a new meal-Slut himself. It didn't help that they took the giant Hyneria with him in the single lake they were all trapped in.

Realising that his demise was coming, Slut could only groan, "Aw nuts." and then seconds later, the other predetors were upon him and biting, chewing, chomping and eating him alive since he was their giant gourmet. All Slut could do was scream in pain as he was slowly being eaten alive, just like his brother Gutt had suffered.

How the Dimetrodon and the Hyneria got here in the first place, even I don't know.

With the threat of Slut finally over, now the herd had to worry about Rudy. But Buck wasn't worried. So, he advised his friends and three former enemies to wait while he confronted the giant dinosaur himself, promising that he would be very careful.

So, Buck climbed up a tree to meet Rudy's height and leaned against it while standing on a branch, as he spoke to get his nemesis's attention, "I never thought you'd be up on the surface, Snowflake."

Rudy softly growled, but he found himself too exhausted to be chasing this annoying rodant right now, allowing Buck to continue, "I know we still have a long way to go, but...I just wanted to say...thanks for saving my life, mate."

Buck said this with compassion, understanding, gratitude and respect. This made Rudy quirk an eyebrow in surprise at his miniture enemy's compassioned words. For the first time in the dinosaur's life, he truly felt...respected. Something that he didn't quite understand from the weasel until now. Sure Buck loved to annoyed the buggery out of him, but still...he was never afraid of him ever since their first encounter. Because of Rudy himself, Buck conjoured his fears and became the insane weasel he is now.

In the end, Rudy just have a single nod, as though to say, 'Your welcome', and this made Buck smile. He then said, "Well then, now that Slut's gone, let's get you home."

In the hiding distance from where Buck and Rudy were, Manny and the rest of the herd and the birds of the Valley of Freedom, Gavin, Gertie, and Roger all witnessed the scene, as Manny embraced Ellie, Peaches and Julian, while Diego and Shira nuzzled against each other, Sid and Brooke hugged as well, and Crash and Eddie all sniffled, feeling emotional, all of them feeling happy and proud for their friend.

"The evil one has been slain by those of the legend, with the aid of us, the three who helped save the Earth, and a dinosaur whom is the reason of one of the chosen's bravery." Kaleenia says with a proud and warm smile.

"He's not scared of him." Gavin said, stunned. Who would've thought that Buck was the only one who did not fear Rudy even in the slightest, but instead, respected the dangerous carnivore.

"No wonder he's insane!" Roger thought, shocked.

"So um," Crash spoke up once he remembered something, "Now that Slut's gone, what do we do with these guys?" pointing at the still tied up Shadow, Duke, Thorn and Chaos who were now leaderless.

The herd and everyone else realised Crash was right thought about it.

"Please don't kill me!" Chaos pleaded, "I wanna stay here!"

"Huh?" Everyone else asked, confused.

The former minion of Slut then shrugged, admitting, "Well...I've always wanted to be a vegateren."

"WHAT!?" Shadow shouted, angered.

Buck and Rudy both heard this, before the former thought for a moment, then had an idea on how to back at least something back to Rudy, and told his enemy, "I have an idea. Since I won't be returning my knife to you," to which Rudy glared at him, before Buck continued, "I can at least give you something else since you missed out on having Slut for breakfest, lunch or dinner."

This quickly perked Rudy's interest on what the weasel who refused to return his tooth had in mind. So he listened.

After saying goodbye to Kaleenia and her bird citizens and Chaos who was allowed to stay on the bargain of he helped to restore the Valley of Freedom to normal which he readily agreed to do and said that he had enough of being bullied by Shadow, Duke and Thorn who were carried by Gavin, Gertie and Roger back towards the entrance of the dinosaur world which Buck had escaped from during the asteriod crisis. Buck guided Rudy by riding on the latter.

In the protests of the three Hawks who were doomed to be Rudy's meal, the three dinosaur birds continued to carry the Hawks down while saying their goodbyes to Buck and the herd. Buck then slid off Rudy who noticed and gazed at him questionly.

Buck gazed at his enemy again and said, "You go on ahead, Rudy. I've got a family to take care off." in which Crash and Eddie both nervously approached as the twins returned 'Bronwyn' to him. Buck gave his 'daughter' a loving hug, before adding to the giant dinosaur, "But I'll come over to visit and spend some nights."

Somehow understanding, and actually looking forward to those visits, Rudy leaned down towards Buck, while Crash and Eddie both scampered away in fright. He then licked Buck, before groaning. Rudy nodded a farewell, before turning as followed Gavin and his children, grinning at the terrified Shadow, Thorn and Duke back into the dinosaur world below.

Buck waved Rudy goodbye, before sighing in sadness. Manny approached his friend with an understanding smile and gently placed his trunk around Buck's shoulder, saying, "You're the only animal who is the bravest guy ever."

Perking up a little, Buck replied, "Thanks, mate. So are you, and really are a darn good friend."

"Thanks, but you know," Manny began, "I can't help but feel guilty for what happened between Gutt and Slut."

"Well, we might never know what really caused them to be the way they are, but," Buck shrugged, "It is for the best."

The rest of the herd went up to the two with understanding smiles, and Sid said, "He's right, Manny. Sure not every family's perfect or even caring, but that doesn't make us bad. We went through so much together, and we're all family."

"He's right." Diego agreed, and everyone else nodded in agreement. Manny and Buck both smiled emotionally at their friends, their family.

Sid was right. They had gone through so much together, and in the end, those adventures were what brought them together.

Now there was just one more thing to do.

It's been at least two days since Slut's demise. All of the animals that had evacuated, including the herd had returned home to their village to continue their peaceful and happy lives. But the herd still had one last thing to do which had to be put on hold due to the Slut crisis.

But now that Slut was gone, the herd can finally show Peaches and Julian their new home which was next door to Manny and Ellie's den. Manny had covered Peaches' eyes while Ellie did the same for Julian, both of them guiding the young couple into their new home.

Once they made it to the entrance, Manny and Ellie stepped aside, and then they, Sid, Brooke, Diego, Shira, Crash, Eddie and Buck all exclaimed happily, "Surprise!" to the stunned Peaches and Julian who both had their eyes widened at the den that was now their new home.

It had vines decorated beautifully, had a cosy feeling, and on the walls were multiple drawings, flowers and such all around them. The two young mammoths couldn't believe their family and friends had gone through so much to make their new home this perfect.

"You guys really did all this, for us?" Peaches asked, happily.

"We wanted it to be perfect for both of you." Ellie said supportingly to her daughter.

"So, is it okay at least?" Manny asked, a bit concerned.

"Okay? It's awesome!" Julian said happily, with Peaches nodding in agreement.

"Thanks, everyone." Peaches said, emotionally.

The herd all smiled emotinally as well, and soon everyone, including Buck who was welcomed to join them, all formed in a family group hug. As final present for the couple, Brooke sang a song and once again they and every other animals in the village all danced to it.

And they all lived happily ever after...

Well, maybe not everyone.

In the leading events of Slut's demise, Scrat had left the Valley of Freedom through the exit path and once again resumed his hunt for Acorns for the first time since returning home on that blasted 'flying rock'. He looked near and far for his beloved Acorns in the new desolute area of ice and snow.

Finally he spotted it on a hill ahead of him, and he perked up happily. Wasting no time, Scrat scarried towards it, and in slow motion, happily reuighted and danced with it in a form of ballie.

Unfortunately, as time returned to normal, Scrat hadn't been looking where he was going and nearly fell off the edge of an icy cliff, which caused him to stumble and he tried to keep his balance, but ended up dropping the Acorn which fell towards a Cholly who was sleeping, and landed right into his mouth in which he immediately ate it by swallowing it.

As Scrat had regained his balance, he saw what just happened and could only gasp in horror, before going into a complete meltdown by pulling his lower eye-lids in an attempt to rip off his head, before letting loose a frustrated blood curdling scream.

So poor Scrat was out of luck and Acorns yet again.

THE END.

A/N: Okay, so the ending wasn't what I had in mind, but I ran out of ideas at this point, and I suddenly have the urge to continue one of my other stories as well, which made it more difficult.

None the less, that's the ending. I would like to thank all of you reviewers so much for loving and supporting this story since the beginning. Enjoy your day and you're all welcome to read my other stories that have been posted.

See you again in other stories to be finished and more stories to come. The Tashasaurous Stops here(for now.) Tee hee.