Crystal tore into the dead bird while the others, besides Diego, ate a salad. She was making a huge mess and spit was flying everywhere. It flung onto Manny and Sid as they flinched. She swallowed the last piece of meat then burped real loud. She cleared her throat and looked up to see everyone looking at her weirdly.
"What?" She asked.
"Nothing." Elli said. Crash and Eddie hid behind her scared.
"Even Diego doesn't eat that viciously." Eddie said. Crystal smiled then thought for a minute. She frowned then and looked at everyone sternly.
"I must warn you, this story is vicious and contains gallons of blood and gore." She said.
"Please have adult supervision of your children at all time." Sid added. Manny and Elli stared at him. "What?"
"As I was saying, we had a huge heard." She started remembering the scene, although no one else could see it, she could. "My mom died when I was born, it was too much pain. So my brothers and sisters were left, and my father. When I was 13, my brothers and sister were wiped out after these humans came and attacked us. They killed us for our fur. Like my father always said, don't trust a human, ever if they're a baby." Manny, Sid, and Diego stopped.
"Well, maybe a baby could be slightly expectable." Sid said.
"Pssst! What do they grow into? Thirsty blood sucking mammals that is!" They were quiet. "Anyways, so my father gathered up the remaining group and made a plan, we were to catch the leaders baby boy, alive, and to eat it, ALIVE!" They were quiet.
"Hey, that sounds awfully like-" Manny hit Sid saying Shut-up.
"I never figured out what happened on the day we were to get that baby. My father always wanted me to stay hidden away from the others; he said it was because I wasn't ready to be seen yet. He always took care of me though. Even if it wasn't in the greatest ways." They all looked at each other. "But, on that day, my father had told me to appear to the clan at noon. When the sun was at its center point. So, I went to the rendezvous point, and what did I find? My father pierced with ice cycles threw his body. After that, all I saw was revenge for the animal that killed my father!" They were quiet. "I searched around the crime scene and found only one clue, this," She raised her neck up and there was a brown silk cloth around it. Suddenly, Diego, Sid, and Manny remembered it with Pinky in it. "I've been looking for them ever since. But, what was really weird was that this thing had snowballs in it." They stared at Sid. "Heh, oh well. So, do you know anything?" They looked at each other.
"Um, could you give us a minute?" Manny asked. They huddled. "Well, what do we do Mr. Leave the cloth there?"
"How was I supposed to know that dude had a daughter?" Sid replied.
"We can't tell her we did it!" Diego exclaimed.
"Hey, if anyone's going to get the blame here it's Manny."
"What? Why me?" He asked.
"You're the one who threw him into the wall of ice, therefore you killed him."
"Technically, no one murdered him, the ice killed him." Diego said.
"Hey, I'm glad I killed him, that dude was capitalized e-v-I-l!" Manny added.
"Well, what do we do? Like I said, we can't tell her we did it."
"Well, maybe it wasn't the same case as we think. Maybe it was another one, just the same. Ask her what her dad's name was." Sid suggested.
"Sid, you idiot! Of course it's the same case! That'd be an awful coincident if it wasn't!"
"I'm just suggesting!" Diego thought.
"Fine, but you ask her!"
"Ok, I will!" Sid turned around to her. "What was your dads name?"
"Juno." She replied. Sid cringed and turned around.
"Yeah it's the same case."
"Really?"
"Well I say that we lie to her." Manny said.
"Like how? We say, oh hey, we don't know anything about it but we been conversing for the last 10 minutes!"
"Even if she did believe us, she'd be asking us to help her!" Sid added.
"It was a suggestion!" Manny defended himself.
"It was a bad suggestion." Diego said.
"Well, you're good at lies Diego, make something up to where she wouldn't be bothering us about it."
"Why don't we just not let her into our group?"
"We can't do that!" Sid said.
"Why not?"
"Well, she's all alone, we have to let her in."
"Of course you would say that Sid!" Manny said. "Well, why don't you tell her that we witnessed the killing then we killed the dude?"
"Why me?" Diego asked. "Why don't you do it?"
"I'm a bad liar!"
"You say lies all the time!"
"Yeah but they're sarcastic lies and are usually about Sid."
"Hey!" Sid yelled.
"But they're lies!" Diego said.
"But you can tell they're lies because all my lies are sarcastic, and I make being sarcastic really easy to tell!" Manny replied. Diego looked at Sid.
"Don't even think about me telling her that, I lie like crap! You know I tell bad lies!" Diego agreed.
"Elli, Crash and Eddie can't say it because they don't even know what we're talking about."
"So that leaves me." Diego said. Elli popped in then.
"What are you all talking about?" She asked.
"Elli, before we met you, there was an evil tiger and Diego worked with him, well, basically that whole story she just said, yeah, well, we did that." Manny said.
"Oh, oh my." She thought. "Well, if he was truly that evil, why don't you just tell her the truth?"
"Are you crazy woman?"
"Hey, she would understand I'm sure of it." They thought.
"Well Diego, go ahead then."
"What?" Diego asked.
"Yes you!"
"Why?"
"Because if I tell her that I killed her instead of saying we did it together then she'll go after Peaches and when she does, I'll have to kill her, then Elli will be mad because I killed a little girl before she killed Peaches and she'll kill me. Then Elli will be so sad that Peaches doesn't have a daddy she'll kill herself, and if you think I'm gona let my baby girl have no parents and you two bumbo's raise her you got another thing coming!"
"Ok ok!" They all turned around to see Crystal mauling a squirrel. The squirrel was screaming then Crystal spit him out.
"And don't run into my leg again! Otherwise, your acorn will get it." The squirrel made a bunch of panicky noises, grabbed his acorn and ran. They all turned back around into the huddle.
"Yeah I say we lie to her." They all agreed. They turned back around for the last time as Diego cleared his throat. "Crystal, uh, we saw the killing of your father so we killed the human that did it. That cloth was uh, the person's baby that we also killed. Sorry." She was silent.
"You all took long enough to converse over there, what was that for?"
"To see if we should tell you that or not." She stared at them sternly then smiled.
"Ok, well, thanks for killing that human then. I guess I should be going now."
"Wait!" Sid yelled. "Why don't you join our heard?"
"SID!" They all screamed.
"What?"
"You're heard?" She looked at them. "Um, kind of an unusual heard isn't it?" She asked.
"Yeah. We could always use a female tiger for Diego." Sid lifted his eyebrows up and down.
"Sid, I'm going to eat you one of these days." Diego replied. Sid backed away.
"I've been living on my own for 3 years now." She added.
"Is that where you got all those scratches?" Manny asked.
"Well, it's hard being on your own and being young, but I've done it before. When I was two, my father left me out all on my own with no one to help me, in the wilderness, until I was six." They stared at her. "It was hard, but I made it through. I'll be fine."
"But you don't have to live on your own anymore." Sid said. Crystal sighed.
"Ok, I'll be apart of you GROUP, but not heard. I like to not have a family to dread over." She walked off to get her more to eat then. "Now if you excuse me, I'm quite hungry still." She jumped into the woods.
"Even after she ate that large bird?" She popped her head out the bushes.
"Yes, I have a big appetite." She went away.
"Ouch! Sassy! Kitty got claws!" Sid stared at Diego and winked. Diego shivered and gave Sid a weird look. Diego looked back in the forest and went after her.
"Where are you going?" Manny asked.
"To find her." Diego replied.
"You feel guilty."
"I do not!"
"Yeah you do, you feel bad because you think you can't help her and now you want to because we killed her father which was a good thing, but right now, you think it is a bad." Diego was quiet. "Goodnight Diego."
"Yeah, night." He walked away.