Hey everyone it's me again with another chapter idea from a brilliant author! Today was definitely a workout day due to my first ever job at Kroger. If you think going back to school is a pain try being a Produce Clerk like stocking fruits and vegetables every now and then. But anyway forget about school and enjoy the chapter!
The next morning Manny quickly explained the plan one last time to everyone letting each and every member know what to do in their part. Before they were about to leave, Manny and Diego quickly made some sad goodbyes to their families and their children promising them that they will return to them once they get this straighten out.
Manny, Ellie, and Peaches formed a hug by pressing their heads together showing love for each other as they wrapped their trunks together as one.
"Promise me, that you'll come back daddy" Peaches pleaded her father
"Don't worry sweetie, I promise I will" Manny reassured his daughter before looking over at Louis
"Weiner you will watch over my wife and daughter till the end of time, do you understand right?" Manny asked Louis to watch over his family
Louis was shockingly surprised but very grateful by Manny's offer and he saluted to him with a smile. "I promise I will sir"
Manny nodded as he carefully reached his trunk towards and began to wrap it around Louis's waist.
"Umm…sir…what are you doing-AAH?" Louis asked nervously before Manny brought him close to his face causing the mole hog to scream but only shocked to discover that Manny was hugging him. Louis had never seen Manny do this ever for him but he felt like for the first time this was really happening to him. The mole hog didn't know what to say next but wrap his arms around the mammoth's face hugging him back. Peaches sadly smiled by this as she rested her head against her mother's shoulders.
"And this time Manny show some kindness and courage to your friends, especially your daughter" Ellie reminded him
Manny smiled and nodded. "I will. This time it's no more Mr. Moody Mammoth"
Ellie and Peaches proudly smiled before giving Manny one last hug as they made this one the longest they'll ever need. Diego was nuzzling his wife before the two kissed on the lips.
"You...you three are going to be just fine" Diego reassured his wife and cubs
Shira nodded and nuzzled him back. "I know. I know you will. We're counting on you"
Suddenly the two sleepily cubs started walking over as they began mewing for their father to stay and not go. Diego sadly smiled as he knelt his face down letting his two children give a chance to nuzzle and kiss him before he goes. Lily started licking her father's check as Hunter began biting on his father's nose trying to bite it off. Diego chuckled joyously before he lifted his face back up and gave his two kids licks on the foreheads. Then he gave them both a kiss before looking back up at Shira.
(MEWING)
(LICKING)
(KISSING)
"I'll be back for you guys" Diego reassured his family
"And we'll be waiting" Shira sadly told him
The two exchanged one last kiss before Diego began to catch up with the others. The cubs saw there daddy was leaving as they began mewing and crying, but their mother comforted them by licking them all around their little bodies trying to calm them down. Buck then scurried over and patted Shira on the head.
(MEWING)
(LICKING)
"Don't worry love, we'll make sure that your husband comes back before you can say bob's your uncle" Buck reassured Shira and the cubs
"Thank you Buck" Shira thanked before giving the weasel a lick on the face
"Oh stop that now will ya, I ain't a lover I'm a fighter" Buck told her before the two cubs walked over and hopped onto Buck and began licking him on the face.
(MEWING)
(LICKING)
(LAUGHING)
Buck started to laugh by all the giggling before he kindly pushed the two off him. "Well maybe I' am a lover, if ya can say" he admitted
As soon as they finally began to take off, they stopped and looked over seeing their families once more before finally heading off into the cave tunnel that Zari, Lekin, Buck, Duke, Thorn, and Chaos had taken as they were up front leading the way. It took nearly a while as they traveled through as Duke and Thorn were again using Chaos as their tracker as the fat clumsy hawk began sniffing the ground like a hound dog while barking and howling. Over nearly an hour has passed by when the group finally came across the very same place where Zari, Lekin, Buck, and the hawk brothers had taken. But suddenly they realized how small it was compared to the herd's size knowing that they won't be able to fit at all at once.
"Oh man, there's no way we'll be able to get them up there, they're too…" Lekin said what he was about to say to the others before Zari clamped his mouth shut with her hand.
(CLAMP)
"Don't! They don't like that word" Zari reminded him
Zari released her hand causing Lekin to keep his mouth shut.
"Sorry about that, no offense guys" Lekin apologized before turning over to the herd
"You mean 'big and fat'?" Sid asked making everyone including Zari and Ravi glare at him furiously making Sid feel very confused
"What?" Sid asked with his paws up. "I didn't know?"
As the scene changes back to Zari, Lekin and Ravi they began to saw the others starting to bop Sid on the forehead causing the sloth yelp in so much pain.
(BOP)
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(BOP)
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"OOOOOWWWWW!" cried Sid painfully
"Hey you lots!" Buck called out making the herd turn to the weasel's attention
"This tunnel seems like the proper use, let's go!" Buck called out pointing to the other tunnel that they should take.
"Nice work, Buck" Manny told him. "By then we should be out of this cave in no time"
"Yeah and then all we have to do is find Hamlin before he finds us" Sid told the others
"If we find him; I mean who knows where he could be at this moment" Diego confirmed the others
"Ah this tunneling is making me hungry already! I wanna see Precious!" Granny demanded
"Relax guys; I think Hamlin wouldn't be that smart to look under a rock. I mean we're underground" Ravi reminded everyone
"Ravi, I think Hamlin's much smarter than looking under a rock" Zari confirmed her little brother
"Look that's not important right now!" Lekin reminded everyone. "What's important is that we stick to the trail and keep moving"
"The kid's right. We can't stay in here all day" Diego agreed with the boy
"Yeah we need to go, c'mon!" Manny told everyone
The others started to turn over to Buck before Chaos stopped them all for a moment.
"We can't go back up there! That man and his pet will kill us!" Chaos told everyone that they shouldn't go
"Well without getting out of here, we're dead ducks anyhow. Let's go!" Duke sternly told him
"Yeah, don't be a fraidy bird, c'mon!" Thorn sternly told him
"Well I ain't going! NYAHH" Chaos stuck his tongue out at them
The two murderously frowned at him before Duke noticed a tarantula on the ground and he picked it up.
"What did you say?" Duke sternly asked him once more
"I ain't going! NYAHH" Chaos stuck his tongue out again before Duke placed the tarantula on his tongue
"NYAGH" Chaos exclaimed fearfully as he spat the tarantula away
Thorn roughly pushed Chaos to the side. "C'mon we gotta get our grip!" he reminded
Duke then poked him in the eyes.
(POKE)
"Oh!" cried Thorn as he covered his eyes with pain
"Yeah we gotta get our grip!" Chaos reminded him before Duke tried poking him in the eyes but was blocked by Chaos's wing.
"YUK, YUK, YUK, YUK, YUK…" Chaos squealed happily before Duke used both his feathers poked him back
(POKE)
"Oh! HMPH" cried Chaos as Duke roughly began pushing Thorn and Chaos forward
"Go on, get going!" Duke ordered them
The next scene changes showing the others coming out of the tunnel that Buck told them to take when they were shocked to come across the cave where Hamlin and the Guanlongs had prisoned him, Zari, Lekin, and the hawk brothers; they cautiously began looking around to see if there were any suspicious movement around but had discovered that there were no Guanlongs in sight. As they were looking, Zari, Lekin, and Ravi stopped when they came across a large cliff that hung over Lava Falls.
"Whoa, that's hot stuff" Ravi was surprised to see that Lava flowing everywhere
Sid scoffed. "Welcome to my world"
Soon the others began to follow the pathway that Hamlin used to bring the others to the cave where they took them as prisoners. As they were walking, Lekin was showing a little less bravery as he gripped onto his spear tightly with his right hand looking around. Zari could tell by the look on his face as she walked over to beside him and gave him a shove on the shoulder.
"Are you alright?" Zari asked her friend
Lekin shook his head. "No, I'm not actually. I'm kind of…well…you know…scared"
"Scared? What's there to be scared about? You're never scared of anything" Zari told him
"I know it's just…(sighs)…I'm scared that the plan is not going to go out that well. I don't even think I'm good enough to help your family out with all of this" Lekin explained to her
Zari grabbed him under the chin and turned his head to face her. "Hey, look at him. Nothing is going to go wrong, okay. I know you think that you're probably the only one scared about this but you're not the only one. I'm scared, too. But I rather risk my life out there than spending it the rest in that cave. My family…they always have each other's backs; including mine and Ravi's as same as I have to you as you do to me. We're going to get through this together. We can make it out of here, I know that"
Lekin felt wisdom by her words and he exchanged half a hearted smile towards her as Zari did to him. They looked into each other's eyes for a moment seeing the beauty on each other's looks showing love and care for each other. Just to make this even more intense the two slowly began bringing their faces closer as they closed their eyes and puckered their lips showing that they were going to do what they think they were about to do.
(SID SCREAMING)
"AAAAAHHHHH" Sid screamed with fear cutting off Zari and Lekin's moment when they heard one of their herd member's scream
The two teens heard snarling coming from out of nowhere and they looked up when they saw Guanlongs circling from above before they hopped down and began to surround the herd hissing and snarling at them all.
(SCREECHING)
(HISSING)
(SNARLING)
Everyone stood in defense as they prepared to fight them off. Zari and Lekin did that same as they stayed close to the herd raising their weapons right at them. Manny quickly turned down to Ravi.
"Son, listen to me. I want you to run, okay. Run as fast as you can and don't ever stop. We'll meet up with you while we can" Manny told Ravi to get away from here
"But what about-?" Ravi began to make amends
"GO!" Manny ordered him
Ravi did what he was told as the boy began running away leaving his family to fight off the Guanlongs. As soon as he was running, what he didn't know was Rudy watching from over the wall glancing down menacingly seeing the boy was finally all alone with no one to protect him. At this rate, it gave him the chance to finish his mission
Ravi continued pacing along the huge boulders as he made his way up across a long boulder that hung across Lava Falls from below. He stopped and looked down when he saw how high up he was now and he gulped fearfully. But that wasn't the only thing he had to worry about when he heard loud snarling coming from behind him. The boy cautiously began to turn his head around till he looked straight up only shocked to discover that Rudy was right above him.
(GROWLING LOWLY)
Ravi's heart began to pound like a heartbeat as he fearfully looked up at the large dinosaur before Rudy let out opening his jaw out toward him.
(ROARING)
"AAAAAHHHHH" Ravi screamed with terror
His scream was so loud it echoed through the whole underground world. When his voice reached the herd who victoriously defeated the Guanlongs in action everyone's ears perked up by the sound as they listened.
"What was that?" Crash asked
"I don't think I ever heard that screech before" said Eddie
"I know that roar from anywhere" Buck told the possum brothers
"Do I look like I love guessing games here, you rodents!" Granny sternly told the possum brothers and Buck.
"That sounded like my son" said Manny thinking it was Ravi
"It is your son! He's in trouble!" Diego confirmed him
"No. Ravi!" Zari cried out as she began running after for her brother as Lekin came along with her as well as the rest of the others did too.
As soon as they reached the hung over boulder they all quickly came to a stop when they were all shocked to see Rudy holding Ravi in his claw.
(ROARING)
"Help!" cried Ravi begging for his family's help
"Ravi!" cried Zari
"Stop it!" Diego yelled out at Rudy
"Let him go!" Manny yelled out at Rudy
Lekin soon gave in some of his bravery as he gripped his spear tightly and began charging towards Rudy with his spear in defense. "Put him down you big ugly beast!"
"Hey!" Manny called out to Lekin
"Lekin, no!" Zari called out to her friend
"Get back here, what are you doing!" Diego called out to the boy
Lekin didn't listen as he continued to pace forward raising his spear up at Rudy ready to throw as he yelled out. But Rudy smirked evilly before he raised his free claw up began swatting it forward causing a force a wind to knock Lekin right off his feet.
(BLOWING)
(SCREAMING)
"AAAAAHHHHH" Lekin screamed as he flew off his feet and started falling back
The force of the blow was strong it caused Lekin to fall right back into Diego. Diego's eyes popped before Lekin crashed into him which caused them both to fall right off the ledge and down to what could be their fate's.
(LEKIN AND DIEGO SCREAMING)
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH" Lekin and Diego screamed
"NO" cried Zari
"DIEGO, LEKIN, NO!' cried Manny and Sid as well did the others did
The other quickly looked down over the ledge of the boulder to see if they could see Diego and Lekin, but there was no sight of them at all. Everyone's hearts began to break as Zari fell to her knees as her eyes began to swell up with tears before letting them stream down her face. The other herd members showed sad expressions on their faces as they looked away and began weeping with sadness.
(SOBBING SOFTLY)
Manny and Sid comforted Zari by holding her back hugging her tight as Zari continued to sob. There was then a moment of silence as the sound broke off leaving Zari screaming with pain knowing that her friend was probably lost forever. Ravi was heartbroken too as he was even streaming with tears on his face before it gave Rudy a chance to take him away leaving the herd to mourn over their friends unknown fate's.
Well everyone another chapter is finished. Did Diego and Lekin survive? Are they alive? Will the herd rescue Ravi from Rudy's clutches?
Anyway keep spreading me some more ideas and stay tuned because more will be coming your way!