Hey everyone I'm back with another chapter! Also if any of who doesn't know who White Hunter is, a couple of days ago it was his/her birthday so do me a favor a wish the author a belated birthday because this author has been such a big help for me over the past couple months and he/she has changed my life a lot with
Any who, the next chapter is up so enjoy!
Night time came and it was dark but bright from top of the ice as it showed. A light glowed from deep beneath the jungle as the scene shows Zari along with Buck, Ravi, and Lekin tending to Momma Dino. After the boys got the ingredients, Zari smashed and lathered the healing herbs and pasted them gently on the large creature's wounds.
(GROWLING PAINFULLY)
Zari patted her skin and looked up. "Easy girl, I'm almost done"
Zari pasted the last of the healing herbs on her other side with one more touch before Momma Dino growled painfully for the last time.
(GROWLING PAINFULLY)
Once Zari lathered her wounds, she stood back up and gently patted her skin. "There. Just get some rest and you'll feel better in no time"
(GROWLING SOFTLY)
Momma Dino cooed as she rested her head on her side as she closed her eyes and drifted off into a deep sleep. Zari smiled and stood up and walked back over to where the others.
The scene changes as Zari enters to the campfire. There, she saw Buck, Ravi, and even Lekin who just made the fire for everybody as Buck told the two his craziest stories ever.
Buck noticed her and smiled. "Ah I see you've finally decided to join us, lass"
"Is she alright?" Ravi asked with concern
Zari soon sat down between Lekin and her brother and she placed her arm around Ravi with a smile.
"Don't worry, she's going to be okay" Zari reassured him
"But you think those herbs will heal her wounds?" Lekin asked who now feeling concern
"Believe me, I learn from the best out of mom when I was little" Zari reassured him. "She'll be better by morning. You'll see"
Buck hopped on her knee. "Ah that's what I call a darn good sister, don't you think little Ravi?"
Ravi nodded. "Yeah, they say she's the best we've got"
Lekin nodded in agreement with him. "Yeah…and a darn good friend"
Zari felt amused by all the attention she was getting from her brother and Buck and especially Lekin. She was surprised by Lekin the most seeing he was actually now showing care for her instead of thinking about himself for once.
The hours went by as Buck and the kids told their own different stories they had about their adventures in the wild. Zari had the best of all of them as she told them about her and her brother on how they met the herd and how they ended up back on their destroyed homeland while battling man-eating birds. Also, she told them about how she along with Ravi, and three other clumsy birds were offered to join Manny, Sid, and Diego with the rest of their herd.
"Wow" said Buck feeling impressed. "I haven't heard a story like that since I married the pineapple"
"But did you still love her?" Ravi reminded him
"Of course I did lad, the ugly pineapple that I woke up after I lost my mind" Buck reassured him
"How did you lose your mind?" Lekin asked sarcastically
"Sorry but I'm afraid that's classified" Buck refused to explain
"Why?" Lekin asked
"Because after I woke up I was so classy I couldn't even remember what hit me!" Buck joked
(LAUGHING)
The weasel and the three started laughing hysterically by the joke he made up. After that, he jumped onto Zari's knee and asked her a question.
"Do you mind if I ask you one question, love?" Buck asked her
Zari nodded and Buck asked her this. "Where exactly is your Mum and Dad?"
Zari's smile lowered as her heart stopped when she heard those two words come back into her head again.
"Well you see, my parents were left back on the Scorch when we were…" Zari explained before Buck shushed her.
"No, no, no, I'm not asking about that. I'm asking about your Mum and Dad. Your REAL Mum and Dad" Buck confirmed her
"You mean Manny and Ellie?" Zari asked him
Buck nodded in reply. "Yeah why aren't you and the lad with them anyway?"
Zari took some deep thought before she sighed. "Well…to tell you the truth…we ran away cause Manny and I had an argument about not letting me hunt anymore; and not only that kicking Diego and Shira out of the herd too. Not to mention we were chased by this huge beast that tried to eat us. It lead us to this crevice and we fell in and that's how we ended up here"
Buck hummed in thought for a moment before hopping onto the girl's shoulder.
"Listen lass don't get down with him, that fathead of a father of yours probably wasn't in his exact right mind of place for the moment. Sure he's probably of an ignoramus but he let his own anger get the best of him. Plus, he also must have made the worst possible choices in the process" Buck explained to her. "You can't blame him for that, love"
Zari thought for a moment before shaking her head. "I don't know Buck? I mean how would you expect Manny to forgive me? He'd probably ground me for life and make a fuss out of it"
Buck patted her on the head. "Listen, sometimes being an adoptive father can also really make someone really protective over others. But in the process they don't do it just to annoy others…they do it to show care and compassion for the ones they love"
"What's your point?" Zari asked him
"My point lass that Manny is only trying to be a good friend and a father to you" Buck explained his point. "Even if it comes down to saving the lives of others like you, you're brother, and even you're friend there"
Zari turned over and saw Ravi and Lekin chatting with each other. Lekin was torturing Ravi by tickling him under his armpits as the boy laughed loud out of his mind. Zari and Buck chuckled before the weasel hopped off her knee. Zari then started thinking over what Buck had told her. She knew that Manny was jerk and all for driving Diego and Shira away but from what Buck said, Manny was not in his right mind and he was only acting so hastily just so he wouldn't have anything come between him or his now enlarger family.
Just then Ravi scooted over to his sister before he asked weasel a question. "Hey Buck, how exactly did you meet this beast and how you got down here in the first place?" he asked curiously
"And how did you lose your eye anyway?" Lekin jumped in
Buck excitedly cracked his knuckles. "Well I haven't heard anyone ask me about that for a while, but I'd be glad to tell ya!"
Buck hopped onto one of the rock boulders as he began telling his story to the group. Zari, Ravi, and Lekin gathered around the fire as they listened to the deranged weasel's story.
"Now this happened long before any of you were born…like you…and you…and especially you" Buck pointed at the three one at a time
Zari, Ravi, and Lekin exchanged confused glances before they raised their shoulders up and continued to listen to Buck.
"Now there I was…my back against the wall…no way out. Perched on a razor's edge of oblivion! Staring into the eye of the Great White Beast!..."
(Flashback)
(THUNDER)
(STROMING)
The thunder boomed loudly as rain poured down from the skies above. And Buck appeared as a teenaged weasel with still his right eye as he glanced around nervously before he turned face to a large glowing red eye.
(GASPING)
He gasped before the large dinosaur raised his claw up, with a threatening roar, slashed it down at the weasel's right eye.
(ROARING)
(SLASHING)
(YELLING)
The force of blow was strong; he knocked Buck right off his feet as he went flying back till he hit the ground with harsh contact. Once he landed on the rain soaked ground he grasped his now empty eye and grunted.
"ARGH" Buck grunted with pain
(ROARING)
(STOMPING)
Suddenly another roar was heard, and the weasel pulled himself back on his feet again and he ran. He started climbing the nearest tree and pulled himself onto the top of the branch. Then tying a leaf over his empty socket, the weasel glanced around. He pulled out a stick from the tree and held it as if it would protect him. The large white dinosaur's head dived through the clouds was enough to make the weasel back up. Nearly tripping, he caught himself just in time. He slowly turned around…and then got the sinking feeling over him. The teenaged weasel turned to only to face the two menacing glowing red eyes. Buck showed a shocked expression before the dinosaur lunged at him.
(ROARING)
(SCREAMING)
(THUNDERING)
(End of flashback)
Buck clenched his hands together to make it look like Rudy swallow Buck into his stomach and he pulled his hands back. Zari and Lekin awed for the moment before Ravi asked him.
"Were you killed Buck?" Ravi asked as his heart pounded
"Sadly, yes…but I lived!" Buck replied with dramatic gestures
Zari, Ravi, and Lekin sighed with relief as Buck continued to tell his story.
"Never have I felt so alive when I was so close to DEATH…" Buck continued
(Flashback again)
The scene shows back as Buck struggles to climb out of Rudy's throat.
"…Just before Rudy could suck me down his gullet, I grabbed hold of the gross, pink, fleshy thing that dangles at the back of the throat!"
Zari, Ravi and Lekin disgustingly cringed. "EWW!"
"I hung on to that sucker and I swung back and forth, back and forth, back…"
Zari, Ravi, and Lekin listened as they watched Buck swing back on forth on his one foot before he stopped.
(GASPING)
The three gasped before they let Buck finished speaking as the weasel continued on with his story.
"…and forth and back and forth, 'till finally I let go and shot right out of his mouth!"
(YELLING)
(ROARING)
Suddenly a tooth went flying in the air, before the scene changed back to reality again showing Buck's sword.
(Flashback ends again)
"I may have lost an eye that day…but I got THIS!" Buck finished as he caught his sword in his hand
Zari, Ravi, and Lekin were gawking in awe and amazement as they looked at each other feeling amused by Buck's origin story.
"Wow" Ravi managed to say
"I never heard of a story like that! But is that really Rudy's tooth?" Zari asked curiously
Buck nodded and flipped his sword up. "That's right, love. It's like the old saying. 'An eye for a tooth, a nose for a chin, a butt for a…well it's an old saying, but…uhh…it's not a very good one"
"THAT…WAS…AWESOME! You're awesome!" said Lekin joyously. "You're like umm…super weasel!"
"Ultra weasel!" Ravi cheered joyously
Buck smirked at Zari waiting for an answer out her, before the girl chuckled. "Diesel weasel"
Buck smiled before he started doing this weird breakdancing style before he finished with a high five with Zari with using only his foot.
"Well I think that outta be enough stories for you lots! You better get some shut-eye while I keep watch" Buck told them. "Off you pop!"
The kids did what they were told as they made their way to their sleeping spots for the night. Buck stayed awake as he kept watch for any predators, especially Rudy.
Meanwhile back with the herd, as the night went on Manny was shown all by himself in the jungle while his friends were gazing around a nice warm campfire. Manny wanted to be alone for a while as he thought about what they others said about his rude behavior. The poor mammoth sniffled and sobbed every second trying to let all that sadness come out of his eyes.
(SOBBING SOFTLY)
(SNIFFLING)
The bull mammoth closed his eyes as he felt like his heart was breaking as something struck it with a lightning bolt. He opened his eyes before he took a mighty deep breath and sighed.
"They're right about me…" said Manny sadly
Manny looked back over and saw his friends and laughing and chattering as they were shown having a very good time with each other and not making a fuss about anything. The sad mammoth looked back away.
"…I' am nothing but a jerk" Manny finished before he continued. "All this time I treated my friends like they're nothing but idiots and traitors especially Sid and Diego. All I do is drive others away and it's all because of my sense of humor. I even hurt Zari and Ravi, and my family. I don't know what to do anymore"
Soon afterwards, the fire was out and everyone was asleep especially Manny. But as the scene closes up to Manny it showed he was twitching, shaking, and twisting as he felt like something bad was going on in his dreams.
(Flashback-Dreams)
Manny's dream showed a flashback of him with his wife and son, before he met Roshan, Sid, and Diego. In the dream he was shown playing with his kid as he and his wife locked trunks together and formed a hug. But suddenly all that changed when he heard his kid screaming for help when the hunters came in and started to attack him and his family.
(TRUMPETING)
(SCREAMING)
(HUNTER'S YELLING)
(STABBING)
(ROCKS CRASHING)
(MANNY SCREAMING)
Soon after the hunters were gone, Manny was shown on the ground feeling weak and heartbroken before catching the glimpse of his now deceased family. His soul broke out of its spirit and his eyes began to tear up with grief as the bull mammoth began crying it out
(SOBBING)
(CRYING)
Just after that he started to hear voices of his old mammoth herd calling all around him as they began whispering into his ears like frenzy.
"YOU INSIDIOUS FIEND"
"YOU COWARD"
"YOU MORON"
"YOU KILLED YOUR OWN WIFE AND CHILD"
"What? No it wasn't my fault, I…" Manny attempted to explain
"YOU DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE"
"YOU SHOULD ROT IN THE GROUND LIKE THE REST OF THE CARNIVORES"
"IT'S YOUR FAULT"
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT"
"No, please I didn't mean to…I-I tried to stop them but…but there was too many…" Manny pleaded for forgiveness
"YOU'RE TO BLAME"
"IT'S YOUR FAULT"
"ROT IN THE GROUND YOU MISERABLE MONSTER"
"No, no, no, no, no!" Manny pleaded as more voices began circling around him as it started to get even worse.
(PLEADING)
(SOBBING)
(CRYING)
(SCREAMING)
"SSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPP…" Manny screamed at the top of his lungs before everything went black.
(Dream ends)
(MANNY SCREAMING)
Manny jolted awake with cold sweat as it began dripping down all over his fur. He then got up and quietly walked over to check an eye on his herd who were all sleeping peacefully with each other. He sighed with relief before he began walking back over to his sleeping spot as he laid himself down on the ground trying to calm his heart down.
Manny took a deep breath before he pulled out something from out of his fur. It was Roshan's necklace. He stared into it and remembered the good times he had with the kid's father when he first met Sid and Diego. He also remembered the time when he saw the baby fond of him and he always managed to make him smile. Then he started thinking about Zari and Ravi. He remembered how awful he was to his adoptive daughter and he knew that she would never forgive him. But one thing he did know was it make it right.
He gently placed the necklace back into his fur and he stood up and looked up at his herd members.
"Guys…I promise…when we find Zari and Ravi…I'm going to apologize for everything. I'll be a better mammal…and a better friend. I promise" Manny promised to himself
Manny then looked up at the sky. "And I promise you as well…Zari and Ravi. I promise"
Well everyone another chapter is done! Yes another tear jerker was shown but it made things more intense and dramatic. Anyway please review and get ready because the next chapter is coming up next!