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Ch. 6
"Young ones! Come!" Gigrin's voice echoed through the trees.
"Coming." Raven called back. She offered a hand to BB, resting on the ground. After a quizzical look, he took it.
"You're awfully nice today . . . except for the making fun of me thing."
"Riiiiiiiight." She let go of his hand, and turned towards the sound of people's movement.
--What's different about her?--
He realized he was lingering, and followed.
After their return from their "talk," they found that the camp was packing up, getting ready to get moving. Raven grabbed a small bag that she noticed was laying on the ground. "Where are we moving to, Gigrin?"
"The mammoths are moving, and we must follow."
--Does this guy come with subtitles or something?-- BB grabbed a bag that one of the men (not Sheemu) had been carrying. The man thanked him, and carried an immense load of animal bones with him.
BB took the small bag, trying not to notice the incredible size difference between their loads.
As nonchalantly as he could, he shouldered the bag, and followed after his only ticket home.
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The small group traveled on. The mammoth tracks were obvious as the people walked, as the lumbering beasts had completely trampled the ground. Trees had been knocked over, bushes flattened, and bark had been scraped off as well.
"At least they're not hard to track," BB muttered to no one in particular.
As they continued, mountains began to cover the horizon in front of them.
And with these mountains, came a frozen river that had carved a narrow canyon through a preexisting pass through them. Ice chunks leaned precariously over either edge, creating the occasional ice bridge overhead.
"I'm guessing that we have to go through that?"
Gigrin nodded to Raven.
"I hate these situations."
"All that one must do is keep quiet. If one does that, then all will be well."
"Just don't let Gar crack a joke then."
A few of the cavemen laughed. Even they, who had only heard a few of his famously corny jokes, had already learned not to listen, and just smile and nod.
A nerve popped out on BB's head. "What is it with you and making fun of me all the time?"
"Because, you . . ." The look on his face said that if she wasn't careful, one of her closest friends would be severely hurt.
But he would be hurt anyway. "It's nothing, Gar." She shouldered her bag, and began to walk towards the entrance of the narrow canyon.
BB's ears drooped.
At that moment, Shitiu shook out a musty animal skin, and in doing so released a gigantic cloud of dust.
The cloud went right into BB. He coughed, and waved a hand in front of his face.
"Oh! Sorry!"
"It's okay! Cough cough."
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The party of travelers clambered through the icy pass way, going as quietly as possible. It was really a different world. Ice on the walls was dark, solid, and looked like great rivers of water . . . No, scratch that. Great WALLS of water streaming down the sides of the canyon.
Ice on the floor was bumpy, rugged, and looked like a river that was posing for a picture. It was rainbows of gray, white, and blue mixed in depending on how the light hit it. While the bridges overhead reflected their faces.
Raven saw hers as she looked up. She paused.
The lonesome eyes of a lost girl looked back at her. The eyes of the rejected, the hated, and . . .
The loved.
BB noticed the pause in her steps. He moved next to her, setting a hand on her shoulder.
This snapped her out of her trance. She looked at him with more bewilderment than anything else. He smiled back, almost smugly, and kept walking, his hand leaving her in slow motion.
--How does he do that?-- She wondered. Of all the people that she knew, he was always there.
Always there.
The words echoed in her head. She shook her head, and followed the others, nearly slipping as she went.
BB rustled in his pack, and another cloud of animal hair and dust came into his face.
"Ah . . ."
Raven snapped to attention.
"Ah . . ."
"Oh no."
"CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" His nose transformed into an elephant trunk, letting loose a bellowing blast that shook the wall.
Meanwhile, everyone's hair was plastered back.
The group waited in the uneasy silence.
"I'm guessing that would qualify for not being quiet?"
Gigrin nodded.
A few seconds passed.
"Sorry." BB sniffed. "I--"
The walls "groaned," and the ice bridges creaked.
"Oops."
"No time for that now! RUN!" Raven yelled.
With that final noise, a deep rumbling reached their ears.
Moving snow.
Behind them, snow poured down the sides of the canyon like water, and sprayed sideways, bringing with it huge chunks of ice.
"Raven!" Beast Boy was running, having already dropped his small bag to help gain speed. "Get them out! Your powers are more useful than mine in that way!"
"What?! And what are you going to do?"
"Just do it!!!"
His eyes begged her not to argue. Those eyes, with which she had grown to love, now asked her to do the one thing she knew she couldn't.
But she had to.
She nodded, tears welling up in her eyes. Shedding her pack, she ran up to the others.
Creating a huge platform, she leapt upon it. She flew over the cavemen, and screamed over the roar of the snow. "Get on!"
To bewildered and frightened to argue, they obliged, and she was out of the canyon.
Lifting them to safety, she only wished BB was doing okay.
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The onslaught of snow was coming, and he knew it would take some time for Raven to get everyone and their equipment onto the black platform.
That meant he needed to buy as much time as possible.
Morphing into a gorilla, BB pounded the walls. The rumbling was coming closer, at what seemed like a million miles an hour.
Pounding, pounding, pounding. He was punching so hard that the walls were beginning to crack.
Then, what he was hoping for: the ice above was falling, and right into the path of the oncoming snow.
A huge piece fell right in front of him, wide enough to block the canyon. With a mighty heave of inhuman arms, BB made a wall that almost nothing could get past.
Almost.
The wall of snow hit him like a brick. Pushed back several feet, he was holding. His feet were threatening to slip, and the snow seemed to find a new strength, somehow seeing that he was faltering.
A T. rex was now pushing his head against the wall. Snow was leaking everywhere around him, covering his feet, the walls, the ground.
He saw the black platform rising out of the canyon above him. Raven would be out by now.
She was safe.
His clawed feet lost their hold, and he was overwhelmed in the sea of white. He let out a roar, and his head disappeared beneath a new river in the canyon.
Raven's head turned at the sound of the roar. "Beast Boy!!!"
Her voice echoed into nothingness. The canyon was now an empty white.
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