ISN'T SHE CUTE?

A/N: Hey there, I am...SO sorry! All you who actuallyenjoy this story andreview, it's just, I was doing a POTO (Phantom Of The Opera) fic and completely forgot about this one, do forgive me! Thanks to all who reviewed and as for those who didn't...(pout) well, here's a chapter for you guys anyway...I don't own anything and only a few people…I may add another character, read and find out! D

Chapter 3- Mar-gr-ation?

Nina marched around blowing her trunk as if leading a band. "Bum, bum! Bum, dum, DUUUM! Doo, doo, doo, dooooo! I am now rule of this new land, and that was my official leader's parade!" she said.

There were a few rocks piled around her.

Nina sighed "Ok, now lets go destroy another land troops, YAH!" And she stomped on the rocks piled together. She smiled at the destroyed rocks "Ha! I win!…Ok, now I'm bored…I know, I'll find that mud and make pictures!"

As she ran around she was unaware she was being watched.

Manny sighed as she ran around.

Sheba rolled her eyes "Ok, you've been watching her for hours, what's up?"

"Wellll…she's just so alone…I feel bad for her…" he muttered.

Sheba nuzzled his neck "UGH! She'll be fine! I was and she will be to…at least she's got the worlds greatest dad." He smirked "And a mom who thinks like her to."

"Also, she has Sid and Diego and how many mammoths can say they know a saber and a sloth who can stand each other's presents?" she said.

He shook his head and got up "Well, I'm gonna go find some food."

Meanwhile…

Nina ran as fast as she could "Whew! That was fun! I'm hungry! Nothin' a little food couldn't fix!" She smiled as she found a bush to chow down on.

As she ate she suddenly stopped.

Something was different…something just happened…there it was again!

Nina looked up this time as another white…thing, landed on her face. "What's…that?" she said aloud. Soon, more began to fall. With a smile on her face she ran around, catching some on her tongue.

"This stuff is weird…I gotta tell mom!" she said happily. And she ran off to the cave.

At the cave...

Sheba sighed "Hey Sid, ants eating your toes again?" He frowned "No! I…I just feel like moving…it's weird, like I forgot something…"

She nodded "Yeah…I got that feeling yesterday…"

Nina ran in unannounced as usual, only this time she yelled "WHITE STUFF IS FALLING FROM THE SKY!"

Sheba looked around "Uhh…ok…white stuff falling from the sky…is this another code?"

"NO! I mean it this time!" Nina said with a pout.

Just then, Manny ran inside and shook snow off his back. "Whew…I went to eat…it's snowing…" he said when he got looks. Diego looked at Sid, who in turn, looked at Sheba, who laughed.

"Of course! Restlessness, chance of seasons…time once again for migration." She said. Diego groaned "Oh joy. We get to go again with Sid talking the entire way."

Nina looked at him "Wha?"

"Oh yeah, and like your stops to kill some poor animal that got lost wasn't annoying?" Sid retorted.

Nina glanced at him "Wha?"

Diego frowned "Hey! It's called survival! If you can't stomach it then travel with someone else!"

"Huh?" Nina said.

Sheba smiled "Now boys, lets have a nice trip, no fighting."

Once again Nina looked up at them "What?"

Sid smiled "Maybe we'll find those springs! You know I've really-"

"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT?" Nina finally screamed.

Well, needless to say everyone looked down at her. Manny sighed "Of course…guys, this is Nina's first time migrating…and also seeing snow."

Sheba laughed "Oh! I'm sorry Nina, I forgot!"

Nina looked at both her parents "Mar-gr-ation? What's that?"

Her mother chuckled "No…migration. It's when the seasons chance to weather so cold that this frozen water falls from the sky, snow, that white stuff."

Nina nodded "Ohhhh…"

"And, we migrate to get away from it for a while, but when the weather's back to normal we come back." She finished. Nina nodded slowly "Oh. So…do you think I can make some friends on the margration thing?"

Manny smiled "Maybe." She smiled "YEAH! Lets go!" Diego looked outside "What, now?" Sheba stretched "Well, no time like the present…but maybe we should wait till tomorrow when it' not snowing so much…"

Nina scoffed and sat down "Man, you guys areno fun!"

The next morning, there was hardly an earth visible as they walked. They kinda got a late start but even if they didn't I'm sure Diego would scare everyone to the point of leaving.

Nina laughed "WOW! I can finally see what's beyond the mountains!" Manny sighed "No, we're going south not north." She shrugged "Whatever. Hey! Look at that!" she said pointing at a gyzzer. (again, can't spell worth crap!)

He grabbed her tail with his trunk "Nina, I told you not to go near those! If you fall in you'll-"

"Burn and die." Sheba said bluntly.

Nina looked at the bubble mass of something again. "But…it bubbles…" she whined. Manny frowned "No. There will be no dying on this migration."

Nina sighed and ran ahead. "Don't go to far!" Manny said after her. Sheba chuckled "Will you relax?"

"I can't! What if she hurts herself?" he said still making sure Nina was in sight. Sheba shrugged "Maybe you should let her. I mean, not to the point of death, just so she knows it's dangerous and to stay away from it."

Manny rolled his eyes "Of course you'd say that." She frowned "Ex-cuse me?"

"Well…you had no parents so of course you'd think to just let her run wild." he said calmly.

Diego and Sid exchanged looks "Here we go."

Sheba frowned "Hey! I was fine on my own! Why do you think it'sthe parent'sjob to live the child's life for them!" He looked taken aback "I didn't say that!"

"No, but that's what you meant!" she said angrily.

"Look, all I'm saying is I think we should keep a close eye on her! But you wouldn't know how to enforce that seeing as you had no parents!" he said coolly.

"OH! You always have to come back to that one! Well you know what? I did fine on my own then so I could do fine now!" she retorted in anger.

"Why do you keeping making it about you? I thought we were talking about Nina!" he said just as angrily this time.

Sheba moved on "Tsk, parents…"

Manny frowned "Yeah? Well, hey! Hate to brake it to you but you're suppose to be one to!"

"Well at least I'm not trying to keep Nina in a box! And hey, what do you think'll happen when she's older and daddy's not always around to protect her?"

Manny stepped forward "I'm NOT putting her in a box!"

Sheba fronwed "You're not letting her get a taste of what the world is like and believe me, she's the one who's gonna pay for it! Pain is a great teacher!"

He groaned "You don't understand! How can I expect you to!"

Sheba frowned "WELL FINE! JUST TREAT ME LIKE AN IDIOT! You…YOU JERK!" as she finished she found a rock and threw it at him.

It hitManny rightin between the eyes "OW! Oh yeah, that was mature!"

She ignored him and quickened her pace.

Manny scoffed and muttered under his breath.

"Uh…uh M-Manny?" Sid said slowly. He didn't even look at him but said in an icy tone "What Sid?" This seemed to make him lose his nerve "I…er…uh…" Diego sighed "The kid's gone."

He looked up "WHAT!"

And it was true, the little leader was nowhere in sight.

"Nina? NINA! If this a joke it is NOT funny! You come out here right now young lady!" Manny yelled loudlyin hopes she'd hear him.

Then, suddenly, something flew threw the air.

Manny looked up when he heard a 'Whee', which sounded like Nina…it was getting closer…

"Oof!" Nina said as she landed on Manny's back.

He picked her up and set her on the ground "NINA! Where-were-you!"

She giggled "Oh dad, it was so cool! See, I found a hole in the ground and steam was coming from it. 'How weird' I thought, so I put a rock on it, then suddenly, after a few seconds, it flew up! I thought that was really cool so then I wondered if it could shoot me up! So I tried, and it did!"

Manny stared at her for awhile "…Ok, look, just don't go wondering off like that again."

Nina nodded "Can do! Say, where's mom?"

Manny, didn't answer, but as he moved on said "Come on, lets keep moving, wanna find a safe place for the night."

"…They had another fight huh?" Nina said to no one in particular. Manny groaned "It was not a fight! It was an argument…" Diego nodded "Yeah, that's why she threw a rock at you."

Nina smiled "Hey, it's a good thing she didn't have the elements on her side this time."

"OK! That's enough!…lets just keep moving…" he said before they could go further with other fights they had.

So they walked for a while and Manny kept insisting that they'd see Sheba when she cooled…though it was hard to tell whom he was trying to convince sometimes.

Finally, Diego found a little cave 'kinda like the one back home' as Nina put it, that they could spend the night in. Manny sighed "Great…I'm uh…gonna go get some food…"

Nina scoffed "Finally, I thought I'd have to beg him to go look for mom. What was it about anyway?" Diego sighed "Oh, the usual."

Nina nodded "Me…did they argue even before me?" Sid nodded "Ho-oh yeah. It's not you, they just do that…I guess it's their way of showing how much the love each other."

Nina put her trunk in her mouth "Eugh! Gross!"

Diegoshrugged as he lay down"I still say it's a mammoth thing."

Bothnodded at this statement but, it didn't take long for them to notice that Manny was still in the mouth of the cave. Nina walked up next to him "…Dad?"

His eyes narrowed as he looked in the distance "Oh no…" She looked concerned "What? Dad, what is it?" He ignored her and went back inside.

"Wha…d-dad!" she said as she followed.

He walked straight to Diego. "What? What is it?" Diego said standing up. Manny looked around before whispering "…Humans. I have to find Sheba, you stay here and watch Sid and Nina."

Diego nodded "Ok, but if you need help-" Manny didn't wait for him to finish and walked back out into the snow, once he was far enough from the cave he ran to them.

Nina was going to follow "Dad wait!"

But Diego ran in front of her "No, you can't go!"

She looked over him "But…dad-"

Diego looked back "You're right…they might need help…Sid! Remember that kind of human rope thing you found?"

He nodded "W-well yeah. I still have it, if that's what you mean."

"Good, I just found use for it…" he said smiling at Nina.

She backed away "What are thinking…?"

Both Sid and Diego took a step forward and she back up into the wall...gulp...

About 38 minutes later…

"Ok, just a little tighter, make sure she can't get out." Diego said, pulling the rope as Sid tightened it around Nina. She frowned "YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!"

"I'm sorry kid, but this is the only way to be sure you won't follow me." Diego said.

She snorted "Whatever!"

At this moment, they were tying her to a boulder they found deeper in the cave.

"Ok Sid, at any sign of trouble, pull this side of the rope and this boulder'll close you both in, but ONLY if it looks like trouble." Diego said.

For what they did was dug a hole at the mouth of the cave which was kinda like a hill and (this took most time) they put another boulder at the top and with the remaining rope, they held up the boulder with a few strong branches and if Sid tugged the rope it would pull the sticks and the boulder would fall.

Sid nodded "Right, trouble…" Nina struggled "You can't just leave!"

"Don't worry! I'm sure it's fine…but just to be safe I'd better check it out and I need you to stay here, listen for once!" he said as he left.

Nina looked at Sid "I listen…sometimes…right?" Sid shrugged "Well…no, not really…" She looked down and sighed.

Meanwhile, while all this was going on…

Manny had only been a little ways off when he saw that the humans were chasing…a mammoth…Sheba!

Suddenly, something took over, something he couldn't explain, probably rage.

But he ran in there without thinking and stepped on as many humans as he could, hardly even noticing the spears digging deep in his flesh.

Finally the humans saw this mammoth was mad and wasn't gonna go without taking them all with him, so they backed off…if there had been more of them then it would've been different, but they had to retreat.

Sheba had a few cuts but was ok while as Manny wasn't to good.

Once the humans were out of sight his legs trembled under his own weight.

"Manny…you killed them…" she said slowly, shocked at the dead bodies around her.

Saying nothing, he walked (more like hedragged himself) to the nearest water hole. Of course Sheba followed him. He was getting as much blood off himself as he could but his own kept come back from his opened wounds.

Sheba smiled "Come on…I can patch you up…" He sighed and allowed her to steer him back to the cave. Just then, Diego ran up.

"Hey, I just saw about a dozen dead humans back there!" he said when he came up.

Manny's eyes widened "WHAT'RE YOU DOING HERE? WHERE'S NINA?" Diegoshrank a little at the tone "Well I thought you'd need help (apparently you didn't) so I left her with Sid-"

"YOU LEFT HER WITH SID!" Manny said, standing up completely. Without any help, he once again ignored his wounds as he ran back to the cave.

"MANNY WAIT! YOU HURT! Ugh! Males…Diego, I don't usually agree with Manny when he's in one of his moods but…YOU LEFT HER WITH SID! What were you thinking! WERE you thinking?" she yelled.

He sighed "Relax! I told them if there was any danger to lock themselves in the cave!"

She groaned "Come on! Lets get there before Manny bleeds to death!"

Back up with Manny, heran in the cave and was slightly shocked.

Sid had a rope he was tightening as Nina tried to escape. They both looked up at his arrival. "DADDY!" Nina said, pushing Sid completely so the rope went limp.

Just as she was about to nuzzle him, she gasped and stepped back "Daddy…you're hurt…"

Right on cue, Diego and Sheba ran in. "Mom! Dad's hurt…" Nina said running to her mother's side. Sheba gestured with her head "Lie down." He sighed "Look, I'm alright-"

"I SAID LIE DOWN!" she practically bellowed.

Slightly frightened, he did as told. Sheba sighed "Why do you have to act so tough? I mean, so what if I got this 'medicine' idea from watching humans, it works."

On the way, she managed to get some leaves and a rock, which she used to grind the leaves. Everyone watched her in silence, no one dared say a word…but then, what was there to say?

Manny winced as she put the medicine on his wounds, but didn't say anything. "There, you should be better by tomorrow morning…" Sheba said when she finished.

Manny nodded "Thanks…" Nina snuggled up to him "Don't worry dad, we'll keep you save…right mom?" Sheba chuckled "That's right kiddo. That's right."

Diego lay down and sighed "Wow…what a first day…"

Manny chuckled "And to think, we have the rest of the trip to have fun like this."

"Fun? This was anything BUT fun!" Sid said sitting up. "Sarcasm is a foreign language to you, isn't it?" Sheba said.

Nina grinned "NIGHT!"

THE END!…for now…

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