A/n: ok sorry it took me so long 2 complete this. Also, I think you should know that this is the last chapter! -(

Ice Age 3- the sweet escape

Chapter eleven- the sweet escape

Diego and Katie ran off but- with the lava directly behind them! "Diego we need to run faster!" Katie exclaimed, Diego wondered how Katie could keep running at this pace and in this air! It was infested with smoke. Diego hated to inhale smoke, even the one in Sid's fires bothered him. Diego coughed as Katie spoke once more. "Diego."

"Ya Katie?"

"Run!"

Just then he realized as he was thinking, he was standing completely still!

He then, turned his head around and ran to Katie.

She ran with him as they desperately tried to escape the fire.

MEANWHILE

"Shouldn't they be back by now?" Sid asked. Manny said nothing but his hard eyes focused around… trying to pick up sight of ether Diego or Katie.

But he couldn't seem to see anyone except for a bunch of screaming animals jumping across the river and trying to make it to the other side, except for some who lost their footing and fell off of the side of the river and were swept away in their death in the rapid currents of the un-kind river.

The sky turned a big grey-ish color and rolled in with some clouds. The wind swept a light breeze to cool off the animals but it made no substitute to help with the smoke that burned their noses to inhale and the sickly hot weather which made everyone feel weak.

Katie and Diego realized that their fate was getting spread a little amount of luck when they saw the animals up a head but they still might have been the most unlucky animals there because the lava, (which was slow,) was right around the corner coming up to the tigers.

"We're gonna make it Diego!" Katie squealed in happiness.

Diego smiled at her. But then smoke clouded in Diego's eyes painfully, making it hard to see. Diego set his eyes so they would only be open a crack but then more smoke clouded Diego's eyes. Diego squinted but then shut his eyes very tight!

But just then he felt something wrap around his paw and pull him down!

He didn't feel like getting up but he knew he had to.

Just then at the right time Katie senced something was wrong. She turned around to see Diego struggling with a vine wrapped around his foot and the lava- WAS DIRECTLY BEHIND HIM!!!!!!!

She ran as fast as she could and grabbed Diego and slit the vine around his leg with her claw and dragged him a few feet before Diego got to his own feet and ran with her.

MEANWHILE

"Manny look!" Ellie gasped.

Manny glanced up and saw in the distance big red stuff that was thick and bubbly. He felt horrible about Diego and Katie and turned.

"Ok… I'm sorry to say this everyone, but I- i… I don't think that Diego and Katie survived this…" Manny was then interrupted by Diego and Katie's screams and then in an instant Diego and Katie appeared!

Manny stopped in mid-sentence and ran up to them along with Ellie and the others not far behind.

"Diego, Katie your both alive!" Sid cheered. But the two sabers were completely oblivious to this fact.

"Katie… you saved me. I Love You." Diego said.

"And you saved me. I Love You too!." Katie said.

"Ooooooooohhhhhhh," Crash and Eddie sleezly made sound effects, Diego and Katie kissed and Sid whipped away a tear in his eye.

"Isn't it romantic!" Sid cheered.

"Uh… you are weird." Eddie said.

"Ya… a little too close for comfort there Sloth." Crash said looking discussed at the two.

Ellie worriedly looked over her sholder. "Honestly guys, that's great but we have to be crossing the river RIGHT NOW!"

Jus then, the two stopped nuzzling and glanced at the lava flow.

Manny looked around. "Ok do you all remember what I said to do while crossing the strong river?"

Everyone- exept for Katie who had a confused look on her face nodded.

"Good!" Manny said.

Eddie and Crash got onto Ellie's back and held on tight to eachother. Sid got onto Manny's back and Manny held onto Ellie's tusk with his trunk and Diego and Katie held tight to eachother as Ellie had her trunk wrapped around Diego's paw.

"1, 2, 3…" Sid counted them in as they stepped into the river water. Sid took a really deep breath. As if he was expecting them to go underwater and drown but the water came up to Manny and Ellie's neck as the two swam. Manny held tight to his mate, and Ellie held tight to Diego's Paw and Diego held tight to his girl-friend.

Crash wined and looked back at their former home… if they hadn't gotten into the water, they would all be dead by now.

After about 10 minutes with wrestling with the water the herd came to dry land.

"Oh my god… I don't think I'll ever want to go threw anything like that EVER again!" Sid said around

8 o'clock-ish. He made a big fire that night. All of the animals gathered around the big fire in their 6th cave of the year! That day the whole "town," of animals walked for a little while to find a new cave. And the herd choose one right next to a big but peaceful river and a meadow was a short distance away.

Both Diego and Katie walked away from the fire. "You… wanna go hunt together- or something?" Diego asked her.

"Sure," Katie smiled at him and the two walked away.

"Hunting?" Sid asked, surprised, "well that doesn't sound very romantic!" He said to Manny.

"Leave them alone Sid. If those two get into another fight, I think… I'll go… crazy!" Manny exclaimed.
MEANWHILE

Katie and Diego walked in the near-by meadow looking for food. But they couldn't find any. They stopped and stared at each other.

Then Diego got an idea, "hold on, I've got a surprise for you. Now, close your eyes… no peeking." At the 'no peeking,' moment Katie laughed and shut her eyes, Diego walked off and put his claw out.

He saw a patch of roses and made a clean slit across the stems and gathered about five of the roses up in his paw because he would NOT want to put them in his mouth… yuck!

He then made his way back to Katie but then he felt something jab into his paw. He looked down and saw he had cut himself on one of the rose's thorns. But it didn't really matter. He went off to see Katie then said, "Ok, open your eyes."

Katie did so and saw roses! "They're beautiful!" She exclaimed while she sniffed them.

"I thought you'd like them!" Diego said happy with his work.

About 20 minutes later after talking that whole time, Diego and Katie made their way back to the cave.

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"Everyone, look what Diego got me!" Katie exclaimed. And everyone looked and saw roses in Katie's paw.

"Oh yum a delouse! But you should only eat the peals because of the thorns!" Sid replied.

"They're not for eating you stupid sloth. I just gave them to her as a gift." Diego said.

"Oh right. You're a carnivore." Sid sat down.

"They're so pretty." Ellie complimented.

Katie smiled at Ellie and then nuzzled Diego.

Then Sid made the fire even bigger by adding some wood into it. "I've been saying this all the time but I'll say it again. We ARE the weirdest herd I have ever seen!"

The End

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