The Herd was enjoying their day, as Ellie asked:
"You want to do anything today?" Said Ellie to Manny.
"I don't really know, I mean we are in the most peaceful valley that this world could ever offer to us, so I guess we should enjoy and embrace it." Manny then gave Ellie a kiss, which makes her giggle. It's true, so far the Herd Valley was like a paradise to them, it is peaceful, iit is beautiful, it's remote, which makes the weather cool and sometimes it's warm.
"I can't wait to be a father, Shira" Diego was daydreaming about it, as Shira just look at her mate, giving out a grin.
Crash and Eddie are still trying to have some fun by playing their game rock paper scissors, but since that broke out into a fight so they decided to play tic tac toe...on their sister's back.
"Boys, what are you doing?" Ellie uttered.
"Oh, just playing tic tac toe, behind your back, no big deal" Eddie replied.
The two brothers were later found stuck up on a tree with vines that tied them together.
"Finally, some peace and quiet" Ellie begins to calm down after dealing with her brothers whom acted like toddlers.
That peace and quiet didn't last for long, as Buck storms in yelling "HELLO MAMMALS!" as loud as he can, tearing out the silence and making birds fly out of the trees.
"Master Buck!" Crash shouted. "Sensei Buck!" Eddie yelled louder as they happily sees Buck paying a visit.
"Buck, what are you doing here? And do you have to scream?" asked Manny.
"Oh, I come for a visit with my daughter Browyn, and also, I need a nice way of entering so ye, screaming that is necessary." Buck replied with a smile on his devious face.
"And he invited me!" Roger added.
Seeing only Roger without his sister or father, Ellie was curious.
"Hey Roger, where's your family?" She asked.
"AHhh, they are busy, can't come" The Dino-bird slowly replied with a clear answer.
"Hmm...understandable" she said, as she knows how it feels like.
"Anyways, you guys have any drinks, let us chatter and have fun today!" Buck told the Herd, he's really energetic and excited. Nobody really knew why the weasel was so happy today. Is it caffeine? Is it berries, or even drugs? Nobody really had a clue about it.
"I hope Buck isn't attracting any other animals to us." Ellie whispered to Manny.
"Well, he's Buckminster, the crazed weasel from the world right under us, what do you expect from him?" Manny laughed his wife's question off.
And so, they chattered all together, sharing stories, telling fairy tales and nonsense, and give out advice to each other (Sid's advice was unfortunately rejected by mostly everyone other than Buck). They were just generally having fun.
It was all fun and games until Manny spotted a black mammoth in the distance. The mammoth is running straight into them at full speed.
"Ellie? Guys? Is that who I think it is" Manny asked the Herd and his friends, as if he can already tell who it is charging to them.
"Stranger? AHH! STRANGER DANGER!" Sid panicked, Ellie calmed him down saying: "Sid, don't be silly, it's Julian!"
"HEY Julian! You come to join us?" Buck asked.
Julian arrived at the meet-up, not being able to catch his breath, a question was being drilled into him by literally everyone:
"WHERE'S PEACHES?"
"That's the REASON why I'm here!" Julian said that like it was his last words.
Manny not seeing Peaches anywhere, being panic and angry at the same time, asked Julian
"Where is she?! What have you done?! You promised you'd keep her SAFE! You MADE that vow when both of you leave! NOW WHERE IS SHE?!" Manny was literally a storm in Julian's eyes, Ellie comes to calm Manny down, Buck whispered to his pumpkin daughter:"Don't look honey, anger is a bad personality." and then proceed to cover the entire pumpkin.
"I'm...sorry" Julian squeezed those words out, everyone around was in shock hearing those words from his mouth.
Ellie calmed Julian down, he had already started to cry. Manny's wellbeing is breaking down, as he shows clear signs of distress.
"Julian, calm down, tell me what happened" Ellie said that with a smooth voice. Which gives Julian enough confidence and bravery to tell everyone the terrifying detail:
"A spirit in the form of a...glo..wing ici-cle has taken control over her." He struggled to let those words out of his mouth and his mind, he started to tear up again. He can't even believe in his own testimony.
Everyone was confused yet also shocked about what Julian said, However, no one noticed that Buck had the most dramatic reaction after that. Buck dropped his coconut he was about to take a sip from. His eyes open wide, and he jumped straight to Julian trunks, like he was about to wrangle the mammoth.
"Say the entire thing that you just said in the span of 4 seconds from the past again." He said that with a scary undertone.
"A spirit in the form of a glowing icicl-"
"STOP! A what? Spell THAT OUT!"
"S..-P..I-R-I-T"
"In the form of a glowing-SPELL THAT OUT!" Buck shouted.
"I-C-I-C-L-E" Julian tears up again because of Buck's pressure.
It was then that Buck emotions blank out, his mouth shaped into an "O", he sit on and then leaned his back on a chair, his muscles completely relaxed, like Julian's words just stole the soul of this dreaded weasel out from its body.
"BUCK? You OKAY?" Manny worried.
"The Frostbite…a spirit that resembles a sealed icicle…" Buck mumbles in horror.
"What?"
"The thing that exist even before the ugly horseshoe crabs! Trillions of years! The thing is even alot mightier and scarier than Rudy himself, not gonna lie."
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Manny, Your daughter…"
Manny looks at Buck with his desperate emotions, he can't understand anything about this conversation.
"...is possessed by a piece of icicle that was the curse of the Ice Age, when someone is stabbedbyit,theybecomeitsbody,itthenusesthemtomakeanotherIceAgewhichwillthreatenusallandwillkilluswithchillingtemperatures,we'llfreezetodeath, ,aworldofjustlonelinessandcoldtemperaturesbasicallythe END OF THE WORLD!" Buck said it so fast that he had to take a break to catch his breath.
Before Manny could say anything, he continued: "It's like a parasite that found its host. A spy that had infiltrated a headquarter. A virus that had entered the computer!" as Buck finished his talk.
"What's a computer?" Sid asked with all of his curiousness.
Everyone panicked, While Julian was just looking at the ground, feeling guilty and embarrassed, he was tormenting himself as he assumed "It's because of me that this happened". As Ellie gently pats him on the shoulder and tell him to not think about it.
"Is there anyway we can stop it?" Manny asked Buck.
"There is one way...but you will not and will never like it, and that is to use brute force and pull the icicle out from the body." Buck answered, with a serious tone that he has never said before.
"That sounds like a job for me, I'll do whatever it takes to free my daughter from its controls." Manny said it like he just sworn it to everyone. However, Buck advises him.
"It's no easy task even for the strong, old friend. The longer you take to pull it out, the harder it stays on its host."
That shocked Manny and the rest of the Herd as he starts to lose his mind again. Possum brothers Crash and Eddie stopped whatever they were doing and just completely froze up once Buck said that sentence.
"You'll have to move fast and find her before the icicle becomes too hard to pull out."
"How much time do I have?" Manny intrigued.
"Oh, around 7 days, 2 hours 9 minutes and 39 seconds. 38 seconds, 37 seconds, 36 seco-"
"I get it, alright? You don't really need to do that like last time when we try to stop the asteroid"
"Alright, we better move now, guys you ready?" Manny asked, and was immediately replied:
"READY!"
"Wait for us Peaches!"
Before they go, Manny asked Buck:
"You wanna help us again, and this time join our force to help us on this dreaded cold journey?"
"Join forces?" Buck asked in a mischievous way "No, the time for that has not yet come." he replied.
After that, he begins to walk away, everyone was clearly frowning, but before they could say anything or do anything, Buck immediately turned his back again:
"anddddd…..NOW it has so yes, Let's do it together mammals!" he cheered everyone up and joined them.
"You're wasting time, Buck." Diego told.
"Don't worry, I'm not anymore. Now, we need to ask the witnesses. HEY! Kiddo!" He shouted as he look at Julian"
"Oh, yes, the names Julian, I-"
"Okay Julian, where did you last see Peaches?"
"Oh, she was at Ice Valley"
"Well let us move then mammals! Chop chop!"
So, the entire Herd then travel to Ice Valley as fast as possible, trying their best to find the lost possessed mammoth in hopes to free it.
-•-
Scrat found his elusive acorn at the cave after he managed to get off the bird. He was filled with excitement and so he charges right to the acorn, he then attempts to go near the entrance of the cave and carefully checks if the ground is hard enough. He then place it down and was about to stomp on it and begin to bury it, but before he could a piece of icicle launched the acorn upward and barely hits the saber-toothed squirrel. Scrat again in frustration as he screams "AAAAAAAAHHHHH!" but it was quickly silenced as the Frostbitten Peaches looks at him. He hesitates a bit but then tries to stand up and scream at her, only to retreat as he quickly regrets it when she disturbingly screeches at him. He ends up running and Peaches, not being a nice friendly mammoth anymore, tried to launch an icicle at him, but missed, it breaks as it hits the stone walls of the cave. The acorn ended up stuck on top near the roof of the cave, as Scrat struggled to retrieve it by climbing up, and then run as fast as he could from the raging Peaches.
-•-
As they managed to set sail and dispatch themselves safely to Ice Valley, they followed Julian as he leads them to where he had last seen her, shouting their name along the way. The weather was not on their side, it's extremely snowy and their view was very limited by the fog.
"I've got a scent of her, and the cold breeze as well" Shira said.
"Ye, I can feel it too, A scent that is cold but and abnormal." Diego added.
"If that so then she is probably on the run, Go!" as Buck exclaimed.
They ended up going through the cave, and found her foot prints, along with strange frost and snow.
"This must be her, she have left her trail behind." Buck told the Herd as they continued to follow her trails.
"Where is she going and why there?" Ellie asked, as she's getting worried for her sweet little angel.
"Oh, there's no clear destination for them, The Frostbitten is known for just roaming around aimlessly, as their goal is to put down anything in their sight."
"Uber tracker, keep following her" Manny exclaimed as he heard what Buck claims.
"Gotcha"
-•-
The Frostbitten Peaches now walks around without a specific direction, searching for a target. She eventually found her target as she wandered off to Campo de Sid (Sid's old camp) although being destroyed by floods and drifting continents but its remain still managed to make animals visit it, it was rebuilt some time ago by the local animal communities, serving as an attraction for both guests and local.
As the animals play and visit in the area, without noticing the peril, Peaches freely walked into the area, until James the Aardvark, noticed Peaches as she comes near the crowd.
"Hey, is that the big giant mammoth's daughter?" He asked
"Oh, it's Peaches, and looks like she got one of those edgy outlook styles." One of the animals judged Peaches looks, despite the fact that Peaches never wanted to look like that, ever.
As none of them realize that Peaches isn't Peaches anymore, they all run towards her for greetings, completely clueless about the fact that she's a horrific living H.L Mencken quote:
(Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats)
She didn't hesitate to form icicles and start to launch them at the animals, they all fall back and run for their fragile lives.
"PEACHES IS TRYING TO MURDER US!" one of the animals shouted, alert the others, as they start to run. The camp soon fall into chaos due to Peaches' thirst for an onslaught.
Ashley the beaver was unfortunately hit by an icicle right a the foot, as it pins her down, she cried in pain as she begged the menacing Frostbitten mammoth for mercy:
"Stop, please, I want to live! Don't do this, PLEASE!" Ashley tried to crawl away but it didn't help at all.
Peaches once again reply everything with her screech or cry.
Before Peaches can deliver a killing blow, a muskox rammed into the mammoth, disorienting her. It then removes the icicle from Ashley's foot by pulling it out with its mouth and carry the beaver away, saving her just in time.
"Thank you for saving me" she blurted that out, after experiencing a near death situation.
"Didn't our parents teach that we must not leave anyone behind?" the friendly muskox politely replied.
-•-
"We'll never find her in these harsh weather conditions!" Manny shouted
"Don't worry Manny, we got a scent of her, and I think we are close." replied Diego
"Mammals! Look at this!" Buck shouted, he noticed an interesting fact.
As they are near Campo de Sid, they found a shocking evidence that proves to them that they are not alone in this wicked journey.
They had found the trails of humanity.
END OF PART 2