A/n: sorry if that last chapter was a bit shakey… I was in a bit of a hurry. But now I'm writing my next one so… read it and see how it is.

Ice Age 3- the sweet escape Chapter 8- Superstitions

It was now late in the next after-noon. No one had really said anything since they were first warned about the volcano. To think about six months ago they came south to escape the Ice Age and had settled down south thinking it would be all right. Then, they had a flood to escape about five months ago and leave their old cave. Next, about a month ago there was a fire so they had to leave THAT cave due to a fire and lucky for them… after the fire their old house had been settled right next to a volcano that was active… brilliant!

The animals kept walking, the day getting hotter and hotter by every passing moment! But everyone knew they had to keep moving because tomorrow… everything they were walking by at the moment would be melted in rich, thick lava and there would be extreme temperatures. All their fate depended upon now was that big river and the next piece of land that the animals settled on. Hopefully that piece of land wouldn't have some natural disaster happen to it. It seemed where ever our favorite sub-zero heroes went trouble followed.

The sudden silence was finally broken by… Sid. The sloth sighed and finally talked, "wow to think about it… its kinda ironic that all of the bad luck seems to keep following us where ever we go."

"What do you mean?" Manny asked.

"Well so far, we've braved the Ice Age. Then as we go down South we think we're safe. But then a glacier has to melt and the place is flooded but we missed the boat 'cuz Ellie had gotten trapped a cave… not to bring back any bad memories here." The sloth grinned as Ellie glared at Sid. "And then something manages to save us by breaking the glacier in two. And we get off to safety… then Manny finds a mammoth herd and almost goes off with them! That would have been bad. Then Diego gets this silly idea that Manny prefers him over me. Obviously Diego must have got dropped on the head as a cub."

Diego shot Sid a menacing look but Sid didn't seem to notice as he continued mentioning about the pack's misfortune.

"Next, we have a big fire that burns our cave and as soon as we make it out of that we go to a new place, girl sloths are being delusional in saying I'm ugly. While Diego cant seem to hold down a girlfriend, Crash and Eddie are annoying, and now we're on the run from a volcano that's going to erupt by tomorrow. Whew what else could go wrong?" Sid lisped.

"Never say that." Diego groaned.

"Oh that's just a superstition." Sid then walked right into a low hanging tree branch. And fell flat on the floor. "OW!"

"Wow just a superstition huh?" Eddie turned around to look at the sloth lying flat on his back.

The pack was way ahead of Sid when Sid got up and tried out his waddling skills.

"Hey guys wait up!" The sloth called.

The animals slowed and let Sid catch up… which he didn't do that quickly. Finally the sloth came up to his friends, "Thanks." The sloth did his goofy grin to his pack members but no one seemed to return the smile. They all just walked on. "Jeez… you animals seem to be very crabby and stressed out today."

"Ya… next time we'll leave you there." Manny groaned.

"What ever Mr. Grouchy-Goop."

A moment later the animals could feel the Earth begin to shake, all of the migrating animals stopped walking and turned their heads in unison to swivel around and look at the big volcano that was in the distance, it let out a low pitched growl.

"Are you sure that's all a superstition." Diego groaned.

The sloth shrugged.

A/n: hey sorry it was a little short but… bare with me… I think I'll write another chapter today so just go with it. But while your waiting for me to write the next chapter it would be nice to get a review.

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