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Chapter 11: It's time
That same night, the volcano started to gurgle again, and then it growled, causing the earth to shake. Although the earth shook hard, and the volcano was loud, a lot of animals were fast asleep, including Manny's herd. So they didn't hear a thing.
The volcano finally stopped roaring, but that one roar was a big one .Lava started flowing out of the volcano slowly, making a bubbly sound.
Scrat hopped around the other animals, searching for the little beaver that took his acorn earlier. It was so hard, since there were so much animals. But Scrat knew what the beaver looked like, and it wasn't that dark out. He sniffed for his acorn on the ground, hoping for a sent. But nothing. He then sighed. He knew it was night, but now was not the time to sleep. He needed his acorn! But he then thought of a plan. Maybe in the morning when everybody would get up, he would see the beaver and get his acorn. So he ran over to a tree, circled around, trying to get comfortable. He finally lay down, and only his bushy tail was shown.
Manny slowly opened his eyes the next morning, and the first thing he could see was the bright sun. Oh my. When is this weather going to end? Manny shut his eyes again, then opened them. He finally decided to get up and wake the others.
Manny walked toward Ellie, who was sound asleep. "Ellie," he started. "It's time to get up."
The female mammoth opened her eyes slowly, half way open, as Manny walked away. "It's morning already?"
"You bet."
Ellie sighed, and slowly got up to wake her brothers.
"Diego?" Manny started as he looked at the tiger who was faced the other direction. He was laying down, but he woke up a minuet earlier. "It's time to get up, Diego."
"I know," Diego said.
Manny looked the other way, and sighed. "Where's Sid?"
Diego's eyes finally widened and turned around toward the bark. The sloth was not there.
"Crash, Eddie," Ellie started at her brothers, "it's time to wake up."
"Oh, do we have to?" Eddie whined.
"Yes, it's time to go."
The two possum brothers yawned as their mother hopped out of the tree, ready to go. Crash and Eddie finally came to their senses, and hopped out of the tree as well.
"Sid's missing," Manny told Ellie.
"What?" Ellie was shocked. "But where could he have gone?"
"Probably gotten eaten be a bear," Eddie teased, and laughed with his brother.
"Alright, we'll have to search around for him," Manny suggested. "He can't be too far away."
"I'll track him down," Diego said, as he jumped and ran the other direction.
"Alright, we'll let Diego go. Everybody grab any fruit from the tree you want to take."
"Right," Crash understood, and jumped in the tree with Eddie and Sandy.
Diego walked around the area, trying to find the sloth. He knew that he wouldn't just go ahead of them, and there were plenty of other animals around, some awake, some still sleeping. He had to be around them. "Sid!" he called out, and continued walking. "Sid! Where are you?"
Scrat woke up from the disturbing sound to him. He lifted his body up, still a little wiped out from sleepiness. He remembered that he was going to do something that morning, but he couldn't think it through.
Diego on the other hand, kept searching for the sloth. He walked around the animals everywhere, but couldn't find him. "Sid!" No answer. The sloth would not respond, and Diego was beginning to worry, but never gave up his search.
The tiger couldn't find Sid anywhere around the animals, and finally walked pass them, where the ground was empty. He walked a little further, and finally saw something laying on the ground. "Sid!" he ran over quickly.
Diego finally got to Sid, who was laying on his back with his eyes closed. "Sid!" Diego got the feeling that Sid wondered off for no reason, and passed out again from the horrible heat. "Sid, you alright?"
Sid opened his eyes, and lifted his body, still sitting on his bottom. "Diego?"
"Sid, are you ok? What are you doing, you idiot?"
"I'm fine. I was just tanning. The..."
"I think you're tan enough, Sid. Let's go."
"Not so fast tiger. See those ladies over there?" the sloth pointed in a direction.
Diego looked, and saw two female sloths, who happened to be looking over in Sid's direction. "Oh Sid, you aren't serious."
"I am serious. Aren't they hot, are what?" Sid started to chuckle.
"Sid, it's time to go."
"I know that the heat makes me tan. But ladies like tan men, and I'm trying to make myself even more tan. Look, see? They're giggling."
"Sid, I know you're trying to find a mate, but it's time to go. Manny says so."
Sid finally got up and stood on his two feet. "Tell Manny to give me five minuets." The sloth started to walk in the direction the female sloths were."
Diego got very impatient, and just wanted to go. But he started to get interested in the scene that Sid was going into, and he didn't feel like asking Manny to give Sid five minuets so he can flirt with two hot girls. So he just sat down, and watched the scene.
Sid finally got to the females, and wasn't scared one bit. "Hey ladies," he started to flirt.
They both giggled, and looked at the sloth curiously. "What were you doing over there?" one of them asked.
"Oh just tanning," Sid replied.
They giggled again and looked at the silly sloth. "Isn't it a bit hot for that?" the second sloth asked.
Sid started to pant, acting as if he were going to die. "Yeah, I am hot. I think I'm gonna..."
Both the females gasped, but let Sid dropped as he fell faintly on purpose.
"I wasn't expecting that," Sid said as he was breathing hard. He looked up at the females, who put their hands on their hips.
"You're trying to hit on us," the first female said angrily.
"Uhh..." Sid tried to make an excuse, but he couldn't because what they said was true.
"We hate those insensitive jerks," the second female also said.
"Yeah, so why don't you let him go since he's a jerk," Diego, who finally came over said.
"What!" Sid exclaimed, as he stood on his feet. "N...no! I'm not insensitive. I'm actually very SENSITIVE! Diego here is insensitive."
"No, just walk away," said Diego.
"Wait!" Sid then put his arms up, and stopped the two ladies who were about to turn away. "I...I wanted to let you two know that you have very, very pretty..."
The two females rolled their eyes and sighed, and headed for the opposite direction, away from Sid.
Sid got up and looked at Diego. "Thanks a lot, Diego. You ruined my moment. I thought you were going back to Manny anyways."
"Well, I wanted to watch, and it was too disturbing. Sorry. But it was a waste of time."
"But, I was doing fine!"
Diego turned to the direction the herd was, and started walking. "You should just give it up, buddy."
Sid then started walking with Diego, trying to forget about the situation.
The whole herd, who were all finally together, continued walking on their journey. The weather was hot, but not as hot as it was before, and the possums didn't complain as much.
"Keep up everyone," Manny said.
"Where are we going anyways?" Ellie finally asked.
Manny was in shock. He had no idea where they were going, and he never really thought about it.
"Manny?"
"Huh? Oh. Umm...well..."
"Will the lava destroy our home?" Eddie asked.
"It depends. There may be a lot of rocks falling. Who knows what it will do."
"Do you think we'll be able to return?" Sid asked.
"I don't know. But what matters, is that..."
"AHHHH!" some animal screamed, and ran passed them.
"Woe, woe, what's going on?"
"It's happening! It's happening!"
"What's happening!"
"The volcano!" the animal continued running ahead of them.
Crash and Eddie looked up at a tree, and started to climb it. They climbed from branch to branch until the got to that top. They both gasped when they saw something. "It IS happening!" Eddie exclaimed.
"What!" Ellie asked.
"The lava is coming this way!" Crash exclaimed.
Sid gasped.
"How far away?!" Manny asked.
"I don't know!" Eddie exclaimed. "100 feet maybe!"
Ellie gasped.
"We have to hurry," Manny said calmly.
The earth started to shake very hard, and the volcano roared again.
SW-well, now things are really getting serious now! Now the adventure really begins!
Just to let you guys know for some trivia, I did edit something from the scene where Sid was trying to hit on those girls. I took it away, because Sid was just doing something that didn't seem like him. Not that I didn't like it, I just didn't think it was good for his character to do. Well, my next chapter will be posted soon!
