CHAPTER 4
DINNER AND A SHOW
Ellie, Brooke and Shira looked to see a flock of dodo birds marching around. They were mostly female and were preparing for the ice age. They were chanting something about the world coming to an end due to the mighty cold.
"Prepare for the Ice Age!" a female dodo shouted.
"Survival is the key!"
"Protect the dodo way of life!"
"Plan ahead! Be prepared!"
"Dodo birds!" Brooke exclaimed, "Oh, these things are so annoying."
"I've heard of these idiots," Shira said.
One of the dodos spotted the mammals and Cheril. She started freaking out. "Intruders! Intruders!"
Meanwhile, one of the dodo birds were teaching the others about a geyser. "Now don't fall in. Of you do, you will definitely..."
"Intruders! Intrud- AHHH!" The female dodo bird fell inside the geyser, being burned to a crisp.
"...burn and die." The other dodos looked in disgust.
Ellie and the others walked up to what looked like the leader of the flock. "Um, excuse me. Can we have our apple back? Cheril here is hungry and-"
"No!" the leader said, "You can't have it! This is our stockpile for the ice age. Legend has it that it will bury us underground for billions of years."
"So you have three apples?"
The lonely tree stump only contained three apples. The leader looked up at the females. "Of you weren't smart enough to plan ahead, then doom on you." Soon the other dodo birds started chanting "doom on you."
Ellie and the others backed away. "Get away from us."
One of the dodos tripped over, making one of the apples roll off the stump and made its way over to Cheril. "Ooh, an apple!"
"Retrieve our good supply," the dodo leader said, "Kung fu dodos. Attack!"
The dodos got in their fighting positions. Ellie wasn't going to take any foolishness. She picked up the dodos and threw them in the geyser.
"There goes our last male," a female dodo said.
Shira stood there as the dodos tried to run over to her. They all stopped when she growled at them. Running off, they went over the cliff. That's when one of the dodos caught her with another one of their apples in her paws. She started holding up the apple, playing with the dumb birds. One of them ended up biting Shira's tail, making her scream in pain. "AAAAAHHHHH!" She quickly sat down on top of her tail. "You stupid dodo!"
The dodo that bit Shira had the apple in her mouth, but it fell out and rolled towards the cliff. She tried to catch it, but fell off the cliff trying.
The other birds looked at the stump and gasped. "The last apple." They all licked their beaks.
Brooke stood there next to the stump, holding the last apple in her paws. Part of the flock crowded on top of her, but the hippie sloth managed to escape with the apple in hand. That's when she stopped. An entire flock of dodos stood there, blocking Brooke from getting through. Brooke looked over at Cheril, who was starting to get really hungry. She was counting on Brooke to get her that apple. Brooke couldn't let the little one down. So she got into position and started fighting off the dodos.
"You really think you can stop me?" Brooke said, pinching a dodo out of the way. "I won't let that happen. Little Cheril is hungry and I'm going to make sure she gets her dinner." She kicked some dodos our of the way. "I may be calm at times, but when it comes to my friends, I become...wild." She looked around to see that all the dodos were wrapped in one large ball. "It seems I made my point." She made her way over to Ellie, Shira and Cheril. "I have brought the apple."
"Hooray!" Cheril cheered, "You did it!"
"Here you are, darling. I have brought dinner."
Cheril smiled. "Thank you, Brooky."
"You're welcome, dear. Would you like for me to peel it for you?"
"Yes, please." Cheril have Brooke the apple as the hippie sloth started peeling it with her claws. Once she was done, she gave Cheril the apple back. "What are you going to eat, Brooky?"
"Well, these apple peelings look pretty satisfying to me." Brooke began eating her dinner.
The dodos made their way towards the cliff. Ellie looked at them. "Hey, look at that. Dinner and a show." The dodos went too close towards the cliff and fell off. Thus came to the extinction of the dodo birds.
Cheril was happily playing when Ellie wrapped her trunk around the human girl. "Time for bed, sweetie."
"Aww," Cheril said sadly, "Can't I stay awake for a little bit longer?"
"Sorry, sweetie, but you need your sleep. And so do I."
"As do I," Brooke said, "Goodnight, Ellie dear. Goodnight, little Cheril. If you start to find me in the morning, I'll be sleeping in the tree."
"The tree?" Shira asked.
"Oh, yes. Hippie sloths always sleep in trees. That's a comfortable place for my kind to sleep. Plus, we meditate while we sleep. It's hard to do that on the ground."
"Well, how is doing it in the trees much better?" Ellie asked.
"Don't ask me," Brooke said, "I haven't the slightest idea." Yawning, Brooke climbed up into the tree. "Well, goodnight, everyone."
"Goodnight." Ellie looked to see that Shira was walking over to the large rocks not too far from the cliff. "Where do you think you're going?"
"I'm just going to the edge of the cliff," Shira said, " I like to look out at the horizon before I go to sleep."
"Oh, okay. Just don't wander off too far."
"I won't." Shira made her way over to the edge of the cliff, looking up at the moon and stars. She sighed while staring at the night sky. "When looking up at the moon and stars, I can find out where you are. As they twinkle in the night sky, it lets us know that it's you and I." A song formed up in her voice as she began to sing it.
I can see you in the moonlight
I can see you in my dreams
It's just the two of use, I know
I can see your shining eyes gleam
I can feel your presence
I can feel when you cuddle against me
Even when you sleep so soundly
I feel your dreams as I see
I can hear your laughter
I can hear your crying eyes
I'm always there to dry up your tears
I'll make those sad moments spread wings and fly
I can see you
I can feel you
I can hear you
I can read the love thick and through
Shira looked our at the night sky one more time before walking away from the edge of the cliff. Before she could, something leaped out and pounced on her. Shira turned her attacker around and prepared her claws before she heard a familiar voice. "Go ahead, slice me! It'll be the last thing you ever do."
"Bailey!" Shira exclaimed frustrated, "Don't you see I'm working here?"
"You don't seem to be doing so by the looks of it," said Lucille, who emerged out of the bushes, "Is that kid too hard for you to get."
"What do you both want?"
"Sierra's getting impatient."
"Yeah, yeah," Bailey said, "She said this exact statement. 'Come back with the kid, or don't come back at all.'" She started laughing like a maniac.
Shira shook her head as she turned her attention towards Lucille. "Well, Lucille, tell Sierra that I've got a message for her. Tell her I'm bringing the kid, but I'm also bringing...a mammoth."
"A mammoth?" Bailey asked.
"Mammoths never travel alone," Lucille said.
"Well, this one does," Shira said, "I'm leading her to Half Peak."
"Look at all that juicy meat," Bailey said, "That's good enough for me. Let's get her."
"No, not yet. We'll need the whole pack to take her down. Go back to Half Peak and get the rest of the pack ready. Now."
As the two sabers ran off, Shira went back to where Ellie and Brooke were sleeping at. With one last look in the night sky, Shira fell fast asleep.
WELL, HERE IT IS. THE NEXT CHAPTER OF MY FAMOUS ICE AGE SWITCHEROO. ISN'T IT AMAZING.
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