Hey everybody long time no see! I needed a break off of typing due to Christmas and other hobbies; plus, my mother got married on 1/2/2016. Anyway, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year and I'm so glad to be back in the game. It took quite some time to think how to put it all through, thanks to my friend White Hunter, but I think I finally got it. So just do me a big favor my viewers and just sit back and enjoy the chapter!
Back in the cave, Roshan and his friends quietly sat against the wall while Ellie, Shira and the possum brothers watched them silently. Lolo, however, was playing around with her little Hyrax friend while chasing him quietly around the cave making sure that she wouldn't wake the other herd members up.
(HYRAX CHITTERING)
"I'm going to get you!" Lolo said in a whispering tone
The little hyrax critter ran around half the perimeter of the cave as the young girl chased after him.
(HYRAX CHITTERING)
The little hyrax quickly jumped on top of a log barrel and stood chittering for Lolo to come here. Only a few feet away, Lolo got into a lower crouching position and she began to creep towards her little friend. Once she was close enough the girl leaped out in surprise.
"GOTCHA…" Lolo screeched out
But the hyrax jumped out of the way, leaving Lolo to fall into the log barrel.
"…AAAHHH!" Lolo screamed
(THUMP)
When she fell in, the girl fell back on her two feet and stood back up showing only her head and face stuck in the log barrel.
"Hey, where is everybody!" Lolo echo screamed
"Turn the lights on!"
"I'm blind! Someone help me!"
"Where am I?"
"Oh Lolo, hang on let me help you…" said Roshan wanting to help before he was blocked by Ellie's trunk
"No, no, no, let me handle it sweetie" Ellie reassured the boy
Without attempting to argue, Roshan kindly stepped back away as Ellie exchanged a wink to the boy before she walked over to Lolo.
"I'm Ellie by the way" Ellie introduced herself
"And I'm Shira. What's yours kid?" Shira introduced herself while walking beside the boy
"Roshan" Roshan introduced himself
Shira began inspecting the boy all around his body from low to high. As her nose came to the boy's armpit, she cringed back disgustedly shaking her head.
"Yuck, you smell funky! Is this what all humans smell like?" Shira asked sarcastically
"No that's called body odor. Let's just say that running from a pack of wolves in the middle of the night really makes your body feel tingly" Roshan explained
Shira snorted. "I can believe that"
As Lolo was running around in circles, Ellie gently grasped the log with her trunk stopping the girl before she plugged the log right off the girl's head.
(PLOP)
"There! That should do it!" said Ellie
But suddenly Ellie looked back down in shock when she was surprised to see that Lolo's entire face was covered in some sort of sticky juice flavor. Lolo wiped the sticky juice off her eye-lids before she opened them up. She looked at her sticky fingers as she placed one of them in her mouth tasting the flavor.
(SMACKING LIPS)
"Watermelon?" said Lolo confusingly
Shira came up to her and began sniffing the watermelon flavor on the girl's face.
Shira turned over to Ellie. "Who puts a watermelon in a log?"
Ellie soon rolled her eyes over to Crash and Eddie giving the two a death glare. Seeing her possum brothers giggling, the two looked up at their sister before quickly looking back at her with fake smiles.
"Crash, Eddie!" said Ellie sternly
Eddie bravely stepped forward. "We uh…sort of had that planned out for Sid and Granny but then the human thing happened and…"
Eddie nervously stopped when he realized Ellie wasn't buying it. He then turned to his brother Crash and started to accuse him.
"Crash, how could you!" Eddie yelled
"What?" said Crash
(SLAP)
"OW!" cried Crash
"How could you pull something on an innocent girl like that? You outta be ashamed of yourself!" Eddie yelled
"Me? You were the one who hid it in the log the first place!" Crash yelled back
(SLAP)
"OW!" cried Eddie
"Yeah? Well…uh…if you hadn't made me hide it we wouldn't be having this fight!" Eddie yelled back
"What fight?" Crash asked
"This one!" Eddie shouted
Eddie leaped at Crash and the two rolled and punched around with each other fighting.
(GRUNTING)
(PUNCHING)
(SLAPPING)
Lolo watched as the possum brothers fight squeaking every sound that she couldn't understand. Ellie sighed but didn't attempt to argue over this.
"Does that happen a lot?" Roshan asked the she-mammoth
"If you knew what it was like around the holidays, you'd be surprised" Ellie replied
While Lolo wiped the watermelon juice off her face, her little hyrax friend, jumped on the girl's shoulder and took a paw scoop of juice off her cheek and took a taste out of it. Smacking his tiny little lips he expressed a tiny little smile across his face.
(CHITTERING HAPPILY)
Lolo grinned before she felt the silver sabress's tongue licking her sticky face.
(LOLO GIGGLING)
Shira tasted the watermelon flavor before chuckling to herself. "I would have her for breakfast, but she's just too darn sweet"
As Lolo only heard a soft growl from the sabress Shira started licking all the watermelon juice off the young girl's hair and face. Lolo giggled feeling like she was getting a bath from a saber-tooth tiger. Roshan chuckled as he watched before Newt called for him.
"Well then, while sticky girl is getting the licking treatment right now, how are we going to wake this brute up?" Newt asked about Kodak
Rowan then stood up from her spot along with Minho as they walked up to Newt.
"Have you tried face-tapping him?" Rowan asked
Newt didn't answer for a moment as he turned his head back at Kodak. The boy looked at his opened hand for a second before he took some effort and he slapped the older boy across the face.
(SLAP)
Kodak's head swung over to his other shoulder but he didn't awake from his oblivion.
"I said tap him not slap him!" Rowan confirmed him
"Is there really a difference?" Newt asked sarcastically
"Please move" Rowan said pushing Newt to the side
As Rowan started working CPR on Kodak, Newt walked back to be sided with Roshan, Minho, Ellie and the possum brothers (who were perched on Ellie's tusks). Soon Crash and Eddie hopped on Roshan's shoulders
"Hey Ro, brace up we might have a suggestion" Crash whispered
"You two?" Roshan asked
"Of course! Ya think we're stupid or something?" Eddie asked
Roshan rose a brow and answered, "Yes"
Scolding his twin brother for saying the word 'stupid' turned back and began whispering into Roshan's ear.
(MUTTERING INDISTINCTLY)
When the two finished Roshan awed at the possums before nodding in agreement on what the possums just told him. He then turned over and shoved his friends Newt and Minho.
"What is it shank?" Minho asked
"What's the matter?" Newt asked
"Minho do you still have your mother's carved wooden bowl?" Roshan asked Minho
Minho nodded. "Yes"
"And Newt do you still have some of that ice cold water that we got left from the spring yesterday?" Roshan asked Newt
"Yeah what about it" Newt replied
"Listen what I want you to do is…" said Roshan before he whispered to his friends in private
(MUTTERING INDISTINCTLY)
Once Roshan finished he pulled his head back leaving Newt and Minho to look at each other for the moment before the two boys evilly grinned at each other. And with that said the two quickly ran away and started gathering stuff out of their backpacks: Minho got out the wooden-carved bowl and Newt got out of his jar of ice cold water. As Newt began pouring the water into the bowl Crash and Eddie came up with a large eggshell and they squeaked for Newt to spare some water for them. Newt didn't understand at first, but he didn't hesitate to refuse so he poured what was left and into the eggshell. Once they were all set, the two boys and the two possums started walking over to Kodak and Sid.
As Manny and Diego entered the cave they noticed the possums and the two other humans were holding bowls of water in their hands. Confused, Manny looked down and gently tapped Roshan on the shoulder with his trunk.
"Hey kid what's going on?" Manny questioned the boy
"Yeah what are your friends doing?" Diego questioned the boy
Roshan smiling grinned to the mammoth and the saber. "You'll see"
As Crash and Eddie came pulling the eggshell of water in, they looked at the snoring Sid before evilly nodding to each other.
"May we?" Eddie said with a boy
"We may" Crash replied with a bow
Together, Crash and Eddie lifted up the eggshell full of water and threw it covering Sid in ice cold water as he screamed out in surprise.
(SPLASH)
"AGH!" cried Sid as he woke up finally
Soaked and cold, Sid hugged himself as he started to shiver to death from the freezing water while chattering his teeth. Crash and Eddie then saluted to each other in victory knowing they completed their mission in victory; then they did the French kiss before they started coughing the hair pieces in their mouths.
Roshan watched grinning and eye-rolled to Manny and Diego, "Funny, huh?"
"Funny? That's not funny" Manny replied
"He's right…it's hilarious!" Diego replied sarcastically
"Now that's right!" Manny replied sarcastically
Manny and Diego laughed as Roshan chuckled with them. Soon Newt and Minho came walking over to Kodak. The two then grabbed a hold of the wooden bowl and looked at each other before evilly smiling and together they dumped the ice cold water in Kodak's face.
(SPLASH)
"AGH!" cried Kodak
Soaked and damped, Kodak quickly got on his feet and wiped the water off his face before spitting out some from his mouth.
(SPITTING)
"Cold, cold, cold, cold, cold…" Kodak whined
Kodak leaned his hand against a moving boulder before suddenly it caused a string to break making another watermelon that was hanging from a net fall down and it plunged all over Kodak's head.
(SPLAT)
Shocked and surprised by everyone including the herd watched as Kodak place both his hands on the watermelon and he yanked it right off his head. When he did, Kodak's head and face revealed to be all covered in watermelon juice as the older boy spat out some of the seeds that were in his mouth.
(SPITTING)
Newt and Minho didn't hesitate to say a word so instead the two boys started laughing. Kodak looked so funny it got Crash, Eddie, Manny and Diego laughing at him; all except Roshan, Rowan, Lolo, Ellie and Shira who were aweing in shock.
"Okay…(laughing)…now that's hilarious!" Diego laughed
"You said it…(laughing)…and I couldn't pull that off!" Manny laughed
(LAUGHING CONTINUES)
Ellie and Shira glared at their husbands with anger. Soon Ellie gently pushed Roshan and Rowan to the side as Shira carried Lolo by the shirt collar and set her next to her friends before the two wives' began marching over to their fiancés.
(PUNCH)
"OW! Ellie wait, no, no, not the head!"
(PUNCH)
"OW!" cried Manny
(ROARING)
"OW!" cried Diego
"ARGH, Shira don't do that"
(PUNCH)
(ROARING)
"UNCLE, UNCLE!" cried Manny
"HAVE MERCY, HAVE MERCY!" cried Diego
Painfully cringing of the torture Manny and Diego were getting the three kids turned back as they watched their two friends along with the possums laugh at Kodak and Sid's misfortune. As Kodak was cleaning himself off he noticed Newt and Minho standing only a few feet away laughing with two possums before he caught sight of the wooden bowl that the two were holding together. Angered by vengeance, Kodak gave a serious scowl and began huffing like he was ready to blow them down.
(KODAK GROWLING)
The older boy got himself up and he rolled up his sleeves and cracked his knuckles.
"I'll murder you guys!" Kodak shouted
Before Kodak could start, Newt and Minho caught glimpse of the older boy ready to pound right at them.
"Uh-oh" said Newt
"Let's beat it!" cried Minho
Dropping the wooden bowl, Newt and Minho quickly scrammed for it causing Crash and Eddie to fall off of their shoulders. After they crash landed, the possum brothers began shouting at them.
"Hey what's the matter with you two, are you crazy!" Eddie shouted
"What are you so afraid of?" Crash shouted
(KODAK GROWLING)
The growling sound got the possums attentions and they quickly turned around when they saw an angry human charging towards them.
"Oh…that's what they're afraid of" Crash fearfully pointed out
Crash jumped into his brother's arms and shouted, "RETREAT!"
(POSSUMS SCREAMING)
"I'll beat the crap out of you guys!" Kodak shouted
As Sid started to feel dry again he stood himself off the ground and rubbed the back of his head.
"Hey guys, what happened last night?..." Sid asked
Suddenly Newt, Minho, Crash and Eddie came running towards Sid as each of them accidently stepped on Sid's crotch with their foot.
(CRUNCH)
"Oh!" cried Sid
(CRUNCH)
"EEK!" cried Sid
(CRUNCH)
"Oh!" cried Sid again
(CRUNCH)
"EEK!" cried Sid again
(CRUNCH)
"Oh!" cried Sid for the last time
Sid painfully placed both his paws on his big-boy parts and crossed his eyes together in a goofy expression. He then raised a claw up and weakly shook it side to side before replying.
"…nevermind" Sid replied painfully
Sid soon fell back on the ground leaving the rest of the trio to watch Kodak chase after Newt, Minho, Crash and Eddie all over the cave.
(NEWT AND MINHO SCREAMING)
(POSSUM'S SCREAMING)
"Get back here!" Kodak shouted
The shouting was so loud; it got Granny waddling out of her sleeping spot grumbling as she went to see what all the commotion is about. When she did, she spotted two human boys and two stupid possums being chased by another human boy running towards her way.
"Oh a couple of screaming coyotes, eh?" said Granny sternly
Granny rose a paw out in front which got Newt, Minho, Crash, Eddie and even Kodak to screech to a stop as the old sloth began to scowl at the five.
"What's the matter with you dummies can't ya let a sloth rest in peace!" Granny shouted
(SLAPPING)
"Oh!" cried Newt, Minho, Kodak, Crash and Eddie
After she slapped all five of them, Granny jammed her stick into each of the human boy's feet causing the three to cry in pain.
(FOOT-CRUNCHING)
"Oh!" cried Newt
(FOORT-CRUNCHING)
"Oh!" cried Minho
(FOOT-CRUNCHING)
"Oh!" cried Kodak
When she finished that, Granny got all five boys to kneel down to their knees and holding her stick high she began smacking the five in the butt.
"I'll beat the whooping out of you all!" Granny shouted
(SMACKING)
(NEWT, MINHO, KODAK AND THE POSSUM BROTHERS SCREAMING IN PAIN)
When that was done, Crash and Eddie painfully scurried back to Ellie on climbed on her back while Newt, Minho and Kodak painfully walked back over to their friends when they were all standing in front of the yellow sloth. Once Sid finally started to feel the pain go away he stood back up on his bottom and got up on his feet.
"Gee, hey Manny, Diego I just had the weirdest dream last night. I thought I came across with…with…with…" Sid stuttered
Sid caught sight of Roshan, Rowan, Newt, Minho, Kodak and Lolo standing right in front of him and his eyes widened with fear.
"…HUMANS!" Sid screamed
Sid jumped to his feet and started to run as fast as he could. But he was being held by the tail by Manny's trunk as the mammoth gently pulled his friend back.
"Whoa take it easy buddy" said Manny
"W-what…what…what's happening? Why are they here? I mean why are they here with us?" Sid asked fearfully
"Sid listen, I know it's been a crazy night for all of us! I just need you to settle down and listen to us for a minute okay" said Ellie calming him down
"Wait, aren't they going to kill us?" Sid asked pointing at the human teenagers
"No they're not, Sid. They saved us" Manny explained
"They did?" Sid asked surprisingly
"Yes" Ellie replied
While the mammoths were trying to calm the screamer down, Roshan and his friends took the time to chat with each other before Kodak was the first to speak out.
"Hey" said Kodak. "Where are we? What are we doing with a bunch of animals?"
Rowan walked over and began explaining the situation to him. "The reason we're with them is because Roshan went back to fight off the Howlers; but he got knocked out in the process. Luckily these 'bunch of animals' as you say happened to be kind enough to take us back to their home and we've been here all night ever since. Now are you satisfied?"
(SCOFFING)
"What's so funny?" Roshan asked him
"Has everyone seriously lost their minds here? Animals would never help us! They're nothing but a bunch a big, dumb beasts!" Kodak commented
"You're wrong!" Lolo confirmed
"I' am not" Kodak replied back. "You know what, screw this! I'm out of…"
As Kodak turned to leave the group he was confronted by Diego who appeared right in front as the orange saber started growling at the older boy.
(GROWLING)
"Whoa what the…" said Kodak as he put his fists up in defense
"If you make one step and you're in for a giant mess with me, pal!" Diego warned
Only hearing a growl from the saber Kodak began peddling his way back towards Roshan and the group. When he did, Diego stopped and looked at Roshan for a second.
"That kid's gotta be Pinky. It's just gotta be! I know it's him!" Diego thought to himself
While Diego was in thought Roshan managed to wave him making the saber snap out of his head before he began heading back over towards Manny and the rest of the group.
"That saber seems to like you, Roshan" Newt told him
"Do you recognize him?" Minho asked
"Uh…I don't know yet?" Roshan replied
"Really, because he seems to recognize you" Newt pointed out
"That's none of your concern" Roshan confirmed
"It is now. You have the power to understand animals and we don't" Minho pointed out
"I wish there was some way we could understand what animals are saying" said Newt
Newt's wish was soon granted when Roshan suddenly remembered something important. He quickly ran over to his backpack and started digging in to it as his friends came walking up behind him.
"What are you doing?" Rowan asked
"Don't ask any questions yet, just wait" Roshan told her
Roshan pulled out and revealed what appeared to be a large wooden container holding some sort of mysterious fluid inside it and he showed it to his friends.
"What's that supposed to be?" Minho asked
"Just drink it" Roshan instructed
"What for?" Minho asked again
"I just need to make sure that I'm right" Roshan answered
"Roshan isn't it a little too early to be drinking at this time of the day instead of having it at night?" Rowan asked
"Please just drink it" Roshan instructed
"Hey, hey calm down. Just why do you want us to drink that?" Newt asked about the container
Frantically pressured, Roshan cooled himself down before he began explaining about the container.
"Alright listen I don't know how to say this because I wouldn't think all of you would believe me, but have you always wonder how I'm the only one who can talk to animals?" Roshan asked his friends
Rowan, Newt, Minho and Lolo nodded except for Kodak who shook his head.
"Well you see when I was little my grandmother fed me this, how can I say it…potion. And she said that it would give me this extraordinary ability to talk to animals" Roshan explained
"What?" said Manny
Only hearing a trumpet, the group of kids turned around when they saw the herd members walking up behind them.
"What did you just say?" Manny asked surprisingly
"I said that this gave me this ability to talk to animals" Roshan explained holding the container up
"Is it possible?" Manny asked the boy
"That's what I'm trying to find out" said Roshan
"Wait a minute, Ro. You mean to tell us that this drink could give all of us the ability you have. To talk to animals like you?" Newt asked
"Yes" Roshan answered
"Do you really expect us to drink that damn thing and become freaks like you? I rather die of a poisonous heart" Kodak scoffed
"I'm not asking you to trust me. I asking you…to believe in me" Roshan explained
"What?" said Rowan, Newt, Minho, Kodak and Lolo
"My grandmother told me that I needed to believe in my dreams and trust my instincts and now I need you all to do the same" Roshan explained
"Why should we?" Rowan asked
"Because it was given to me for a reason. Now let me ask you…do you believe" Roshan asked
Roshan held out the container with the mysterious fluid to the others. Rowan Newt, Minho, Kodak and Lolo took the time to think it over but it was too hard of a decision to make. Manny and the others watched as they waited for the kids to make their final answer whether they should drink the potion or not.
As the next scene changes, back at the human came it showed a crowd of worried parents circling around Runar and Ragnar asking random questions about the whereabouts of their kids.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
"Everyone please settle down. I know you're all wondering where you're children are but I can assure you that they're in the good hands with the chief's son" Ragnar explained to the parents
"The chief's son? Why that little turd is probably boring our kid's minds with that animal talking crap of his!" said one of the angry parents
"Yeah if he's the chief's son why doesn't he act like chief's son?" said another angry parent
"Hey now, you mustn't blame my son! He's a good leader and a faithful companion and you should be proud of that!" Runar yelled at the angry parent
(SCOFFING)
"If he's your son then why do you still keep him in fairytale land?" scoffed one of the angry parents
"Tell the boy to get a life!" yelled another angry parent
"Or have no life at all!" yelled another angry parent
Once the crowd began leaving Runar placed his hand over his head feeling like he was starting to have a headache; but he soon comforted by Ragnar gave his brother a comforting pat on the back.
"Have patience my brother. Don't let them say those things about your son; he's a good kid and you should be proud of that" Ragnar reassured
"But why didn't they come back last night?" Runar asked
"Brother please, your son is in good hands with one of my hunters. I'm sure wherever they are they're trying to find their way back home" Ragnar reassured
"Well I'm not convinced" said Runar and he started to walk away
"They'll be back Runar. I know they will" Ragnar reassured
Once Runar was away, Ragnar turned his head over to the open walls that lead to the outside wilderness. He then expressed an evil grin on his face.
"That's right Kodak. Keep them as far, far away from here" Ragnar whispered menacingly to himself
As Ragnar started to go back to his duties, Iorek was seen hiding behind a boulder next to the open walls. Just then a little female blue bird came flying down in front of him.
"Anything?" Iorek asked the bird
"Nothing. They're nowhere to be found; it's like they vanished" the female blue bird explained
Iorek expressed determination on his face. "I must go after them"
"Iorek, no!" cried the female blue bird. "You've never been out in the wild on your own! You could get killed!"
(ROARING)
"I'm not afraid to try. Roshan's my friend and I'm going to find him; and I won't stop till I do" said Iorek
Iorek then let out a loud ferocious roar into the sky and he ran out of his hiding place and he passed through the open walls and he began running out into the open fields and into the wilderness to find his human friends hoping that they were alright.
Well everyone another chapter is done finally! And again I'm sorry for the long wait; I just wanted you all to have a good Christmas break and enjoy the new year of 2016! Anyway please review and keep spreading me some more ideas and stay tuned because more will be coming your way!