Peaches started to summon her icicles, their sharp tips pointing straight to the Herd. The Herd carefully came closer to her with full caution, as they kept their guard on. She was about to launch her icicles, as tension went on. The Herd knew that they must always be one step ahead of her in order for all of them to stay alive.

Suddenly, she dropped them, and started to shake her head around and behaves like the last time at Campo de Sid. She starts to cry out, but it feels soft, unlike other times.

The Herd stops for a moment to observe this behaviour. Manny took his helmet off as he can't see much with it on. Witnessing his daughter struggling with what's happening now made the old mammoth feel devastated. But that lit a spark of hope inside him and among others.

Peaches suddenly stopped shaking her head, and turned her head to look at the Herd, they realized that the Frostbitten had never had this kind of behaviour before. Her left pupil has some part of green in it. As the Herd saw that, they started to slowly lower their items down, much to their surprise, that's not all of it.

"Ḍ̸͓͌̓ȁ̶̘̼d̶̡͕̽́?̶̻̍̌ "

The entire Herd was left dead silent after what they had just heard.

The Frostbitten mammoth spoke its first word after days of being controlled. It sounds distorted and corrupted, but the word "Dad" was pronounced clearly enough. Manny's eye opened as wide as it can after he heard that. The Herd was shocked in silence.

"Peaches!" Manny shouts in happiness as his Frostbitten daughter spoke to him in such a situation. He didn't hesitate to grasp this chance.

"Manny! Wait!" Ellie shouted as she meant "be careful" to Manny, but to her dismay. He came running near to Peaches, without a second thought. Manny was once again, driven by his heart as he did what it says instead of listening to his mind, he can't resist the chance knowing that at any moment his daughter is back.

And that is his biggest weakness.

"Ḍ̸͓͌̓ȁ̶̘̼-" Peaches tried to respond, but she was clearly cut off, as she once again shook her head around briefly and then screeched as she looked at the incoming Manny. Her left eye turned into that blue-ish white. She returned hostile before Manny could even come near her.

"Peaches, No!" He shouted, Manny saw his daughter lose her control and he quickly slows down, but he was already in dangerously close proximity to Peaches, he became completely vulnerable as he didn't even have his helmet on or his shield ready since he stowed them on his back. Peaches readied one of her icicles when Manny came closer.

"Manny get back!" as Julian comes to save him by pulling him back. Despite having a chance to kill Manny, Peaches didn't even attempt to attack. She just looked at him, strongly turned her back, hid the icicle, and ran into the misty surroundings. The light from the icicle on her back slowly fades away as she got deeper into the fog, and disappeared completely.

"No...no, no, no, no, NO!" Manny stuttered and grunted, he then started to angrily pummel the snow. He thought that everything is over, only to realize the reality bashed into his view. He was in a huge disbelief.

"She...either...managed to fight back for a short moment or it was a bluff attempt to lure you closer, Manny." Buck made an assumption, as he witnessed Peaches' eye go green. Buck really tried to think outside the box and proceed with the images of whatever just happened.

"I think I'll go with the fact that she was able to fight the spirit in a frame of mind, if it was a trick she would have already killed you when you're right at her. I was right all along! Probably."

Buck proudly claims, with his proposed supporting detail, he knew that Peaches can fight back, and that confirmed the fact that hope is not yet frail.

"And all she needs is just some help." Roshan exclaimed, with all of what they had studied from the Frostbitten mammoth for a short amount of time. The Herd knew what exactly they'll have to do next.

"Sabers! You mind tracking her again? We need to know where she's heading to next." Roshan asked for their guides. As they once again lost her, the sabers however can still sense her and still had her track. They started to follow the track for a while before Shira paused for a moment as she made a claim, proving to be where Peaches was heading to next, but she was quite shocked with the results her nose gathered.

"Geotopia…" she mumbled.

"What?!" as Diego asked her how did she knew about that with just a few scents from the lost mammoth

"She's heading to Geotopia. How did I know? She's going East, Where the geyser is. What is near the geyser? Geotopia." She strongly believes her instinct, because there should be no reason why the mammoth would be heading there for, as its goal is supposed to kill and erase all traces of life as many as it could, Geotopia seemed like to be a high value target in the Frostbitten's eyes.

Diego still doubts it, as he asked.

"Geotopia is ages away from Ice Valley, there's no way she could travel that fast, especially being a mammoth. Besides, she didn't completely wipe out everything in Ice Valley, there's also Snow Valley being next to it, so even if she did why won't she go to Snow Valley?"

"Not if she's possessed from a deranged spirit that used her as its body. How could she be able to travel from Sid's old camp to Glacier Pass, and managed to go on an onslaught, freezing and killing hundreds of the local animals within less than a day? That must be something related to the icicle itself. If it took her less than a day to travel that amount of distance, then it might take her 1 and a quarter of a day to reach Geotopia. Why not Snow Valley? Both of the Valleys have less diversity than Geotopia even if they are combined all together, with her ability to do that there's no reason why she would waste her time on such places." Using her knowledge from her past experiences with hunting packs, Shira logically answered Diego's question hands down and left her mates in silence. They discovered one more ability that the Frostbitten can do, fast travel.

"Man I didn't realize she had gotten that smart. We remember the first time we saw her as a redundant pirate." Diego silently whispered to Manny.

"I can hear that" Shira once again surprised Diego, dissuading him from further talks behind her back with Manny.

"Geotopia...that's in Herd Valley!" Manny was shocked. They realized that their home was its next target. It looks like luck is not on their side-

"Well then we might have to move fast!" exclaimed Buck "Before she took more liv..."

*Snoring*

-and so is time.

"What was that?" Manny asked as the Herd turned around to look at Sid.

He was sleeping as he leaned on the statue, it's been two days since they had ever taken a rest.

"Maybe we should set a camp and stop for a while. We won't be able to do anything without energy" as Roshan smirked at the sleeping Sid. "It's best that we lift off some of our worries away and get ready for a better start tomorrow."

-•-

The remains of Geotopia was still able to house the geotopians and keep their youths after the break down. Rebuilds with stones and quartz were made as for replacement of the walls and roofs. Which makes Geotopia a wonderful magical sightseeing destination which attracts hundreds of animal visitors per day by the time it got widely known.

Brooke was laying on a magnetic floating crystalized rocks that floats around the remained Geoslides after the collapse of the utopian place. She wonders if Sid is actually okay right now, she's getting more concerned the more she thinks about Sid. The weather was a lot colder than before, but Brooke kinda likes it.

"Oh darling, where have you been?" she simply asked, as she slowly closed her eyes to think.

Before her eyelids completely closed her eyes, a drop of fluid dripped on her face, as she saw a strange patch of brown with little cyan on the pink/purple crystal walls of Geotopia. She quickly opened her eyes to see what is that, and she discovered something extremely vile.

One of Geotopia's former crystal warden unicorns, Bubbles, was pinned on the crystalized wall, like a sticky note on an office task board, as the blood that's dripping from the bloody mess started to dry up.

"Bubbles?!" She slowly approached the cooling corpse of the unicorn.

An icicle impaled this unfortunate being on its chest, at its left rib cage and through its lungs.

Brooke was horrified as she saw the dead unicorn, its limbs were stiff and its faded pupils are dilated. She instantly fell back and tried to stay calm after coming to the terms that the life of Bubbles is completely drained out from her body.

Brooke then heard a high pitched diabolical laughter, it echoed through Geotopia.

"I need to tell this to Llama!" As she quickly surfed on the crystal platform at full speed to the fountain of Youth, which is Llama's new spot now.

"Llama? Where are you? Llama, we got in a bad, bad situation!"

Llama popped his head from the Fountain, looking at Brooke.

"Brooke, what do you want now? I told you not to disturb me while I'm submerging my entire body under the fountain! I need to retain my youth daily, okay?!" The Llama didn't know what was happening in Geotopia yet.

"There's a murderer in Geotopia righ-" Brooke was cut off by Shangri Llama's ignorance. He spitted at Brooke, as she ducked down.

"What? Murderer? Hah, it's not April fools, Brooke! Don't try to make me laugh, you're wasting my youthful times, sloth!"

After scolding the sloth, Shangri Llama noticed that nobody had caught his spit, it ended up on the ground, completely pulped up. He started to noticed the abnormality around, but didn't mind much.

Brooked tried one more time warning the Llama.

"Bubbles is dead and did you not hear the creepy laughter echoing in here moments ago!?"

"Oh don't talk nonsense! Stop tryin-"

Llama finally caught his attention on Brooke's words as an agonizing scream went through Geotopia, and this time the Llama did clearly hear that.

"See!? I told you Llama, probably someone lost their life again because of you. Now please!" the benevolent sloth shouted at the Llama, begging for him to realize the situation right now.

The Llama suddenly froze up because of fear, he hid his head in the fountain again.

"Shangri, we have to evacuate everyone quickly!" As Brooke advised him, he popped his head up again and he was in refusal.

"For what, to get us all slaughtered?! What if the murderer's out at the entrance, somewhere under us, on top of us! Or maybe it's invisible and is right behind you!" as he replied in fear, the fountain suddenly started to get cold, as Brooke slowly backed up when she can also feel the cold breeze radiating from the fountain and horrifyingly added into his sentence.

"O-or...mayb-maybe it's right BEHIND YOU!" Brooke shouted as Peaches suddenly rose from the waters right behind Shangri Llama, as Llama turned his head around. Peaches was already holding a long icicle staff as a melee weapon with her trunk, as she once again screeched and laughed disturbingly at them.

"AAAAHH!" He jumped out of the water and into Brooke's arms, as Peaches walked out from the fountain. Her grip on the icicle staff tightened as she creepily stared at them.

Llama was quite scared after what happened, but after looking at the not so vast-sized mammoth, he jumped right in front of it and mocked it.

"So this is the murderer you've been talking about? You really need to get your brain checked, you stupid sloth!" as he turned to Peaches, and spitted on her face, expecting her to dodge it or at least be disgusted if it hit her.

To his dismay however, Peaches didn't even flinch, despite the fact that the mammoth's forehead is covered in spit.

"What…" his facial expression clearly changed… from being cocky to being terrorized, he instantly regret his decision.

Peaches looked at him angrily. She wiped off the spit with her trunk and raised her weapon. She ended up brutally batting the arrogant Llama away with the icicle staff into the distance, he went on screaming as he flew further away from Geotopia.

Brooke was looking at Llama flying away at the distance, when she had to focus on Peaches again. Peaches stowed her staff by dispersing it into the air and summoned her sharp icicles, pointing at Brooke as she screeched at her.

"Woah, easy here frosty." She slowly backed away until she was at the edge of the cliff. Peaches then slowly closed the gap fom her.

Cornered by the Frostbitten mammoth. She had to choose either to jump off or try to evasively run away from the menacing mammoth, but she thinks she can't because of how risky it is and she might die in both options.

She thought that her time had come, and she just knelt in front of the mammoth, held her eyes with her claws, accepting her fate. She tried to remember all the things she love and likes, as the screeches gets closer and closer.

"Goodbye Sid." She was whispering it out but screaming it in her head, hoping that it was a miracle that Sid could hear her last words.

Her thoughts about death were going around her mind as Peaches' icicles rose higher, ready to launch into her, as it would impale the sloth in the process. Brooke really thought it was over for her.

Until suddenly the thoughts disappeared when suddenly she heard a loud feminine scream, it sounded more like a battlecry instead.

"Yabba Dabba DOO!" followed by a physical impact sound and a sharp screech that signalized pain. She opened her eyes and saw Ellie standing in front of her. Peaches was against the walls far away.

Ellie saved her just in time by swinging herself into action and gave Peaches a powerful kick to her side.

"I told you those vines are useful" Roshan voice can be heard from bottom to up the top, as the Herd slowly climbed up and joined Ellie and Brooke by their sides.

"Brooke!" Sid came to give his mate a good hug, as he once again reunited with her.

"I thought I've lost you!" she started to tear up. "I was so scared Sid"

"You will not be scared anymore, as I am here to protect you!" Sid promised Brooke, as a compensation for his absence.

"Eh-hem...You mean 'we'" Diego corrected Sid.

"Hey, both of you ardent and frantic sloths, it's not really the time to get emotional now." As Manny reminded Sid that they still had a threat to deal with.

Peaches now had nowhere to go or run, she is now surrounded against the wall. Although being outnumbered but it seems that the spirit controlling her refused to give up. She screeched out and screamed at the Herd in distress, the icicle on her back started to get luminous and misty.

The Herd once again in battle stations, Sid this time took out a piece of flint and rock, he ignited his torch as he looked at the Frostbitten with all of his anger, like the icicle was his arch-enemy.

"There is nowhere to run now, you possessive icicle!" Sid bellowed as he hold the torch firmly, ready to engage.

END OF PART 5.