A/N: I know! I haven't updated in a while. I'm very sorry. On another note, Christmas is almost here! As a thank you to my loyal reviewers I am going to write up a short animation of Deep Heart for you guys to enjoy. Christmas like too! And along with a one-shot. Or maybe even a mini story. ^^ I hope you guys will enjoy that.

Hope you like the chapter.

It had been a couple weeks since Trevor showed up and there had been no sure sign about a female saber, and yet again it was raining harder than the day before. While Manny and Ellie snuggled together around the warm, blazing fire, Diego, Sid, Eddie, Crash, Trevor, and Casy sat at the mouth of the cave, telling ghost stories.

"And suddenly out of the darkness a hand reached out and wrapped it around the sloth's throat and he was never seen again," Diego ended the story there, his voice low to match the story. But it was simply to add more scare to the sloth. Sid had wide eyes.

"W-what?" he gulped.

Casy smirked, who was laying down and had her head on her pays, turned her head to Sid, who sat next to her. "I don't know Diego," she said. "I thought I heard that the sloth was grabbed, then slaughtered."

Sid gulped and grabbed his neck, checking for anything and blew out some air. The sky lit up with lightning as Sid cried out and hid by Trevor, whom was sitting next to him with Eddie and Crash curled up on either side of him. He twitched. "If you don't move I'll eat you," Trevor growled, as if to threaten the sloth. Diego looked at him wide eyed.

"Trust me you don't wanna do that," he told the other saber. Trevor raised an eyebrow.

"And why not?" Trevor asked.

Sid smiled with a cheesy grin. "I haven't bathed in two months."

Trevor stuck out his tongue and choked. "I thought one of the possums had gas!" Trevor covered his mouth with his paw. "Good grief sloth."

Casy snorted, smearing a laugh. She smirked. "Now you know how we feel," she teased. "Trust me, at first I wanted to eat him, but he actually seemed worthy of something."

Sid smiled, thinking that was actually a compliment. "Why thank you Casy."

Trevor laughed quietly as a booming 'roar' illuminated the air. Trevor looked out the cave.

"What was that?"

Casy, who had laid her head down and tried to sleep, opened her eye and looked at Trevor. "What?" she asked.

"It was a loud--" he was cut off by a smaller, yet equally loud roar, "that."

Eddie, at the moment, got up from leaning against Trevor and walked towards Casy and leaned against her paw. "Maybe it was the birds singing the love song." Eddie wiggled his eyebrows and Casy rolled her eyes.

Both Trevor and Diego rolled their eyes and at the same time said,

"It sounded like two sabers fighting." A wounded yelp radiated through the air.

Eddie, thinking it was Casy and that Crash had hurt her and though the other possum had been relaxing against Trevor, turned to his brother. "You hurt her!" Eddie tackled his brother and wrestled. Casy raised an eyebrow.

Trevor growled as his hair stood up on it's ends. "I can feel it." Suddenly, he took off into the rain.

"Trevor!" Casy got up and ran after her brother. "You can't be serious! It's pouring out!"

Diego rolled his eyes and ran after Casy. Trevor raced through the trees and through the dense air. His paws scratched the tops of flowers and dug into the wet soil. Suddenly he came to a clearing that had two sabers fighting; one female and the other male. The male saber was older by at least twenty years while she looked as old as Trevor himself.

He watched them closely as she rammed into his side and as he heard the sickening 'crack' of his ribs, the male saber snarled and raised his paw only to come into contact with her right hind leg. His claws were digging past her fur, past her skin, into her muscle. She let out a heart stopping cry as she fell down. Trevor had to do something fast when he noticed the male saber's paw was raising up higher into the air, awaiting the final moments of the young one.

Casy jumped the saber that was to slash the female. She roared, pinning him firmly against a tree and snarled.

The young saber looked startled as her eyes shown tears and blood that matted over her tan fur. Her eyes were wide like she had been caught doing something she wasn't suppose to be doing. Trevor jogged over to the saber and bent down to her level.

"Are you alright?" The female looked up and flexed her leg.

"I had everything undercontrol."

Trevor laughed cockly. "Yeah, sure. And that saber over there wasn't about to kill you," he looked at the saber again, "Why were you two fighting anyways?" The saber sighed.

"I've been chasing that deer for two weeks," she pointed her snout over towards the bloody deer,"and he comes along and takes it from me." Trevor stifled a laugh, but she noticed.

"What?"

"Two weeks?"

"Yes..."

"Wow, you really suck at hunting." The girl snarled and tried to get up, but failed as she fell ontop of Trevor; he could feel the blood ceeping through his fur; he shivered.

"Come on."

"What?!" she yelped as he rolled her onto his back, she was surprisingly light.

"We got to get that wound treated."

"My dad taught me never to talk to strangers."

Trevor snorted. "Sure honey."

Casy and Diego managed to get rid of the saber. They took the female saber to the cave, where Sid took a leaf and wet it and pat it on her wound.

The female saber hissed as the water touched the open wound. She spotted Casy and her eyes grew wide. "P-princess?" she said quietly that only Casy had heard her. The saber managed up enough strenght to get up to bow towards Casy, but slowly her leg gave out on her and she hit the floor with a booming 'thud'. Sid winced at the open wound.

"Hold still," Trevor said as he watched Sid pat her wound with the strangely large leaf; Trevor's eyes widened.

"Sid?"

"Yes?"

"What kind of leaf is that?"

"Why, it is a palm tree lead."

"Sid..."

"Yes?"

"What is roundish and is made on a vine?"

"What?"

"Moron!" Trevor exclaimed, mere aggravated and annoyed. "You're cleaning her wound with poison ivy!"

Casy groaned and Diego shook his head; Manny rolled his eyes at the sloth's mistake and Ellie gasped. Casy slapped her paw on her face. "Sid..."

"Here you go!" Eddie gave Sid a leaf; a regular leaf. "I got this one in case Sid would mess up." Eddie gave Sid a smug smile, to which the sloth huffed but grabbed the leaf from the possum.

The female saber groaned as the refreshing water was thrown on the wound. She smiled as she felt the blood leaving her fur, leaving her body. Eddie patted the wounded with the tree leaf he had found while Casy, Diego, and Trevor brought the female saber back.

"So what's your name?" Eddie asked her. The saber smiled and laughed at the same time.

"The name's Lily, yours?"

Eddie took a deep breath. "The female mammoth, Ellie, male mammoth, Manny, female saber, Casy, male saber with small teeth, Diego, the sloth, Sid, the other male saber, Trevor, me, Eddie, and my brother Crash." He pointed at each and everyone as he cleaned the wound. The female looked a little weirded out.

"Where's all your guy's heards?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

"We're a herd!" Sid grinned.

Lily looked at the sloth, confounded. "What?"

"We're all a heard," Sid said and looked at Trevor. "Except for that one," Sid nodded at Trevor. "He's not a member or the herd." Casy bopped his head. "Ow! What did I say?"

Trevor chuckled. "I am not 'part' of the herd. I kind of morfed in without any agreement."

Lily scoffed. "I can see why no one would want you in a herd," she murmured.

Though Trevor was cocky and self-centered at times and he wasn't there for her when she was little, Casy defended for him. "Excuse me," she said. "But he's my brother."

Lily lowered her eyes, "I am deeply sorry." Lily's eyes wonderd up, "And thank you for saving me." Eddie patted her leg slightly harder and she cried out. The muscle in her leg was torn and she probably wouldn't be able to stand on it for a couple of months.

Casy snorted when Crash bopped his brother on the head. She shook her head and laid her head on her paws and was asleep moments later, the possums asleep at her sides. The gang settled, Manny, Ellie, Diego, Trevor and Lily awake.

Lily grunted as a bunch of leafs were wrapped around her wound; she attempted to stand. Though it hurt, she stood and limped towards the mouth of the caves. Lily looked back and smiled at the sleeping trio. Slowly she stumbled out into the rain.

"Where do you think you're going?" She turned and saw the saber that was standing in the clearing when she was getting attacked; she must never say this again, Trevor was very handsome.

Casy opened an eye and looked at Trevor. "Leave the poor girl alone," she murmured.

Trevor looked towards his sister. "She's wounded and attempting to leave safety?" Lily looked at Trevor and towards Casy.

"I am very capable to do things Mr." She narrowed her eyes. "I am not some helpless child."

"Sure about that?" Trevor inquired. Lily snarled at him and took a wrestling stance, her hind leg tingled, but she ignored it. Trevor got into the same stance and glanced towards the herd. Suddenly, he was tackled. He wrestled back, and only after five minutes he had pinned her.

"Stay here," Trevor told her.

Casy sighed and got up and pushed Trevor from Lily and lead her to the side of the cave and had her lay against the side of the cave. "Please stay," Casy said friendly. "I could use a girl around." Sid snorted in his sleep and kicked his leg. Casy looked at Lily. "See what I mean?"

Lily chuckled girlishly, but whimpered at the numbing feeling in her leg. "I'll stay," she said, nodding her head. Casy gave her brother a smug look before walking past him, past Sid and knocked the sloth upside the head, who halted his snoring and snorted and rolled on his side.

Trevor groaned and glared at the female saber.

"What?"

"Why are you like that?"

"Like what?"

"A snob; I have done nothing to you."

"Exactly." Trevor gave her a confused look.

"What?"

"You stood there while I was getting wounded...attacked."

"I think Trevor found someone with his personality," Casy chuckled, walking towards Diego who was laying against the side of the cave.

Diego looked at Casy and quirked an eyebrow. "Who?"

Casy nodded to Lily, who was bickering with Trevor, smirking when Lily insulted him. She looked at Diego. "I like her."

Diego smirked, "Some how I knew you would; they do make a nice couple." Trevor smirked and laid next to Lily.

"What now?"

"Get away you yellow-bellied saber-tooth."

Trevor just laughed. "I'm not the one with the limp leg."

"Oh shove it you knuckle head."

"We got nicknames now? How about Sugarplum?" Lily growled. "Or, Honey?" Eddie watched the two sabers go at it and smirked. Lily groaned and tempted to move, but her leg kept her there. "What can't move over?" Trevor pushed his front legs over so they touched hers.

A/N: So, how did you like it? Please review!