I don't own anything and make no money, forgot to mention this before! I know some people thought I could be stinking rich enough to buy iceage and that perhaps the cover of Aprils national geographic was in fact a pic of my back yard complete with new pets but no, no such luck.
Anyway on with my imaginary life...
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Sid and Ellie and the kids followed days and day's worth of possum scent all around trees and thickets. The weapon stash had been a good place to start but from there on things had become very confusing. Trails led up and down trees for miles with no obvious direction. It was all very confusing and further and further from the herd's camp.
"Well who'd have thought those little blighters could walk this far" Sid wheezed exhausted
"I can't believe it either" Ellie agreed, "Ten minutes tops usually"
Sid fell against a tree as his exhausted knees gave way. "I need a rest"
"What? And let Manny win?" Ellie said alarmed.
"No, no, no!" Sid said quickly "We just need to stop and think a moment, ask ourselves are we missing any vital clues that might aid us in this search? Kids fan out and search for anything clue like, Ellie since you're so tall and can think like a possum you search the high ground in the branches! And because I am best at thinking I will sit here with my eyes shut and try to think real hard about where they might have gone next" Sid nestled down making sure to get real comfortable to think "Now no one disturb me for the next thirty minutes" he instructed "this kind of concentration is hard to maintain. Oh and if anyone finds any food clues bring them back here I might need them later"
Everyone started searching; little possum foot prints led everywhere.
Ellie searched through the trees poking her trunk into various nooks and crannies for any sign of her brothers while Peaches and some cubs searched under any thickets and hidden areas on the ground.
Peaches waited till she was sure her Sid was asleep and her Mum was distracted and that stupid Steve was elsewhere before calling over some of the cubs "Guys I need a favour" She whispered, "I need you to distract Sid and My mum here a while I go and uh... check up on something"
"On your own?" Adan (one of the many cubs, don't sweat it if you can't remember one from another, I can't remember either) queried "Maybe some of us should come too, to make sure you're safe"
"No that's okay I can handle it and I will be back real soon so no need to worry" Peaches reassured him and the others before launching quickly into her idea. "Now here's my plan; we are expected to search this area but no one said how big a space we need to search and there are lots of thickets and trees and places to hide I need you guys to keep my mom and Sid distracted with things all over the place and maybe do some impressions of me to make them both think I'm still here"
"Or we could trap and tie them up again hold them till you get back" Aida suggested.
"Uh no, if you don't mind I think my way may be better plus we have no rope" Peaches said
"True" Aida agreed reluctantly
"We could find some clues to rearrange for them to find later. That will keep us busy here ages till you return" Breezy suggested
"Good thinking!" Peaches agreed "Food clues would keep Sid busy longest"
"Sid's asleep it's your mom that's going to be the problem" Breezy said dryly
"Well some really strange clues that won't easily add up could keep her distracted for a while" Peaches said unconvinced, now that she thought about it her mom really was going to be hard to fool, she started to doubt if this could work.
"Don't worry" Ari said confidently "This is a huge area if we work as a team we can do this. Isla, Tala and Lia you have voices closest sounding to Peaches so it is up to you to create the illusion that she is still here just out of sight. Me, Adan and Aida will find enough clues to keep Ellie busy for as long as possible and breezy you're the smartest so you must stay with Ellie and make sure she doesn't catch on! Keep her second guessing herself"
"What about everyone else?" Adan said noticing that not everyone was present "What will they do when they see us all acting crazy?"
"Don't worry they can't be far I will get them involved as soon as I see them" Ari said "But we had better get started on finding clues to hide and girls practice your impressions they have to be good"
Peaches smiled "This could work"
"This will work!" Ari corrected her "Let's get to work team"
"See you later I guess" Tala said to Peaches who looked in a hurry to go.
"Thanks" Peaches said and with a quick glance back to make sure her mom wasn't watching as she quickly snuck off.
Five minutes earlier...
Steve wandered away from the rest of the herd and beckoned to some of the cubs to follow him. He led them behind a very prickly thicket "Look" He told them as he revealed a secret stash of cherry bombs he had stolen from earlier while everyone else ate.
"Wow" The easily impressed cubs gapped "What do you plan to do with them?"
"Scare the girls of course" Steve chuckled evilly.
"That's a bit childish don't you think" Lars, the smallest cub said.
"Do you want to be on my team or not?" Steve growled using his huge size to menace the smaller cub "Come on it will be fun" He added, but in a sinister tone
"Sure I guess" Lars agreed rather reluctantly.
"Look" Steve instructed his new cronies "Peaches and those other cubs are over there planning something without us because she thinks you guys are not to be trusted with her important secrets"
The cubs looked over; Peaches and the other cubs were indeed talking secretively together.
Steve handed his team some cherry bombs each "Lets teach them not to keep secrets"
The cubs looked at one another "Kind of hard to prove that" Lars bravely suggested
"Just do it" Steve snapped impatiently, just then he noticed Peaches group split up to search the area and Peaches wandering further and further way from everyone else "Quick whatever she's planning we have to ruin it, so get scaring them sissies already!" He ordered his scared team.
The three cubs prowled out with cherry bombs held carefully between their jaws.
Breezy dipped under a thick thorny thicket following her nose and looking for good clues to keep Ellie distracted. She couldn't believe her luck when she found some lovely clean bones. 'perfect' she thought as she gathered them up and saw a skull like nothing she had ever seen before. She put the bones aside as she examined her new find. It was a wolf she guessed as it had many thin sharp teeth. Unafraid, as she had seen many bones before, she picked it up and popped it over her head. It was a bit big but was fun to peep out through the eye sockets. Suddenly she heard a rustle behind her; she looked around to see who it was. Lars had been sneaking up on his sister but now found himself nose to nose with an evil looking skull like spectre with sharp horrible teeth. He screamed and dropped his cherry bomb which detonated with a loud bang sending both cubs running scared from the red cherry flavoured blast.
Tala, Aida and Lia had also found some bones. Curious they started digging and found skulls from all sorts of animals.
"Wow someone must have had a real feast here" Lia commented as she put an anteater skull over her head, using it's long nose for effect she did a silly impression "Look I'm Peaches and I'm scared of nothing" She giggled but her sisters weren't laughing, instead they had spotted something behind her. Lia turned around to see what it was and gasped as she saw a red wolf skull monster running toward them screaming for all it was worth.
"What do we do?" Tala gasped.
"Fight it!" Aida said fearlessly.
"Leg it!" Lia said at the same time. Both she and Tala scampered and a moment later Aida scampered after them.
"Wait!" Aida shouted
"Survival of the fittest" Lia quoted from their parents "Run faster"
"That's not good team work we should stick together" Aida scolded her "Sabers fear nothing we should fight!"
"But we don't know what it is" Tala said "so let's run now and seek revenge later"
"Agreed" Lia said and ran faster.
"Grrr" Aida growled frustrated but followed her sisters anyway.
Zan and Cai saw them running past "Quick now's our chance to get them with the bombs!" Zan whispered as he threw a few bombs in the girls direction.
Tala and Lia screamed as cherry flavoured bangs went off in their faces. They stopped running to wipe the red juice out of their eyes and heard the unmistakeable sound of childish giggles. "Right now we fight!" Tala growled as she spotted her half brothers in fits of laughter.
"You asked for that when you decided to keep secrets from us!" Zan said surprised "And you are meant to be running away scared!"
"You better run away scared!" Lia growled as she and Tala ran for the fleeing boys.
"We have to fight the monster not each other!" Aida sighed as she came to a stop "Oh what's the point?" She asked herself as everyone else had run off
"The point is to stick to the plan" An unexpected voice said beside her. Aida looked around as she had not seen anyone else around. She spotted a big and dark hole which went deep under some tree roots "Keep them guessing and confused for as long as possible remember?" The voice said as something shuffled in the dark.
Aida peered closer "Who's there?" She said bravely and a pig skull lurched out from the darkness at her it's huge tusks inches from her face. "Ahhh!" She screamed and ran
"It's me" Ari said as he climbed out from under the pig skull "Look at this I have found, hey where did everyone go?" He asked confused till he saw an exhausted red wolf skull monster coming straight for him. Quickly he hid behind the pig skull. Breezy saw the safe looking hole under the tree ahead and ducked down inside throwing her heavy wolf scull aside.
"Breezy? Why are you running around with a skull over your head?" Ari asked from his hiding place.
"I was looking for clues when there was a massive red explosion" Breezy explained.
"That's a big skull you have what is it?" Ari asked
"A wolf I guess" Breezy said catching her breath and calming down "Wow that's a bigger skull she gasped looking at Ari's find "Isn't that one of those pigs from the other night? One of those that Peaches' dad chased off?"
"They were way strong" Ari gasped "What could have killed it?"
"The explosions I guess" Breezy said
"We had better warn the others!" Ari said scampering off, Breezy followed
All the explosions and running did not go unnoticed by Ellie "What's going on?" She said as cherry coloured cubs ran by shouting at each other or screaming. She hoped that all the mayhem meant they had found her brothers but as there was no witty banter Ellie knew there were no possums behind this chaos. "Stop running around and tell me what's going on!" She shouted but soon realised she was talking to herself. "Right then I shall just have to beat you all at your own game!" Ellie had behind her ear her own stash of bombs, being part possum it was second nature to never leave home without a few explosives hidden about ones person. She sucked them up into her trunk and fired them out in a wide circle. As they hit the ground the bombs exploded pink, as they were girly bombs, and sent cubs which were previously running and screaming in all directions back running and screaming towards her. Ellie casually scooped the cubs up and put them on her back they were huffing and puffing and pleased to be a safe height from danger.
"Okay now what's going on?" Ellie asked patently.
The cubs caught their breaths and looked at each other, without the screaming and bangs it was obvious that they had been scared silly by some old bones and each other. They laughed at themselves and each other covered in red cherry juice. "We were finding clues" Tala said to Ellie eventually as her fit of giggles subsided.
"And what did you find?" Ellie asked
"Remember the plan team" Ari whispered as the cubs jumped down to gather the evidence.
"Wo no! I'm not running around in circles after you guys" Ellie said wise to kid's tricks "You have to the count of ten to bring back what you have found"
The cubs scampered off "This will never work!" Aida said "She is too smart, what do we do now?"
"We stick to the plan keep her here till Peaches gets back remember"
"Did anyone tell Lars that?"
"No why?"
"Well he has just dragged ten skulls over to her!"
"Is that all of them?" Ari said as he watched as the littlest cub dragged a small mountain of interesting bones back to Ellie.
"Yes that is all of them!" Tala confirmed
"Wow that cubs fast" Ari said impressed "Now let's hope Breezy can keep the mystery going for long enough, we need to think of a plan B at this rate and quick"
"Rope?" Tala suggested
"Sounds good to me" Ari said as the other cubs nodded in agreement "Let's find what we can while they examine those bones"
Lars proudly dragged his massive find over to Ellie.
Ellie picked up a beaver skull and examined it carefully with a look of poorly concealed horror as she realised what it was.
"This is clue one" Breezy commentated "We can see from the discolouration and wear that it is quite old and quite chewed on"
"Where did you find these kids?" Ellie asked
"They are all over the place" Lars explained "tucked under the bushes, half buried in holes; there's a lot more I can go get them"
"No! No we have enough" Ellie said feeling shaky as she looked into the empty eye sockets of many different species of animal 'but one bright side is there's no possums!' she thought as she gathered her nerves "Okay play times over kids, time to go Sid wake up because we're headed back!"
The cubs gasped as Peaches needed more time and no one had found anything even close to rope.
"But shouldn't we be examining the evidence to find out how they died?" Breezy said quickly.
"Nope I've seen enough" Ellie said firmly "just get Sid!"
"Sid shook himself awake hearing his name "I wasn't asleep I was thinking" He said defensively before seeing the pile of skulls looking gloomily at him.
The sky darkened as a thick snow cloud drifted over the sun and the small copse of trees became a very creepy place to be.
This was all lost on Sid "Wow look we have a whole zoo here" He said cheerfully jumping up to try a beaver skull on for size.
"A whole dead zoo" Ellie said shaking her head at the sloth "This isn't a safe place to be Sid so lets head back and get Manny" she said.
"Ellie by fearing the unknown you are willingly becoming its prey" Sid began explaining
"There is no way I'm stupid enough to fall for your reverse physiology" Ellie snapped "You stay if you want but me and the kids are getting out of here, and by the way Sid it's a long walk back to camp so think fast" Ellie turned to go but then turned back to count the herd, the cubs were all around the place and it was hard to tell for sure but she was suddenly aware that they were missing two "Where's Peaches and Steve?" She said concerned.
"Hey mom I'm right here!" Came a voice which sounded rather like Peaches to anyone who wasn't Ellie.
Ellie's trunk whipped out into the group of cubs and caught hold of the impersonator by the scruff and held her aloft "Why are you impersonating Peaches?"
The cub stayed silent as did the others.
Ellie eyed them suspiciously.
"Ellie everyone knows that sabers are loyal to a fault to one another" Sid calmly explained "You have to ask in a roundabout kind of way. Kids which way did Peaches defiantly not go?"
All the cubs pointed in separate directions, Sid noted that no one was pointing back the way that they had come, both he and Ellie stared at the small set of mammoth foot prints headed out into the snow.
"Now why would she wander off back the way we came?" Ellie pondered out loud.
"Let's get out of this creepy place and ask her!" Sid said hopping off after Peaches. Everyone followed.
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A little earlier... Steve finally caught up with Peaches as she marched back through the snow, like her father she marched fast when on a mission "Hey" he called "Where are you going?"
Peaches couldn't believe it she was being followed by the most stupid kid she had ever met "Go away!" She snapped
"Not till you tell me" Steve said "I can make you tell me you know"
"It's none of your stupid business" Peaches huffed as she marched on
"Right you've asked for this now" Steve threw a cherry bomb at Peaches it went over her head and banged as it hit the snow in front of her.
Peaches had seen her uncle's playing with these often before but still couldn't stop herself from jumping at the noise "Eek" she said stifling a scream as best she could so to look hard. Quickly she recovered herself "Ha you missed!" She said turning boldly to face him.
"No, that was a warning shot!" Steve lied, he opened his paw to reveal five more bombs "This next one won't be though so you better tell me what your big secret is or I'm hitting you with all five of these things at once"
Peaches gasped as that would hurt but she wasn't giving up that easily "I'm not scared of you"
"Well you should be I'm a cave lion and I eat mammoths like you for breakfast"
"You are in my herd and we all ate porridge for breakfast!"
"Well yeah but before when I wasn't in your stupid herd I didn't eat that rubbish and tomorrow I might fancy eating some mammoth again"
"You are talking rubbish I can beat you any day, I've beaten bigger uglier cats than you without even trying!"
"No you haven't I thought you were too much of a goody goody to make up lies like that?"
"I'm not lying I really have, and unlike you I can prove it!" Whoops! Peaches suddenly thought "Uh actually I can't, but I can still beat you!" she stammered.
"Come on and prove it then" He Steve said holding up his bombs
Peaches marched over with a defiant look in her eye and stood face to face with Steve "Just so you don't miss this time" She said
Steve knew this was going to hurt his paw as much as it hurt Peaches at this range but he wasn't backing down. He slapped her hard on the shoulder with the bombs. The blast sent them both rolling backwards in a cloud of red cherry juice. They both lay in the snow reeling from the pain and noise of the blast.
Steve was sure he had felt the ground move with the size of the explosion; carefully he looked at his paw. It felt like it had been slapped hard and was covered in bright red juice but it still worked fine. He pulled himself up and looked for his opponent.
Peaches was lying flat in the snow where she had rolled to a stop. Half of her was bright red and her ears were ringing from the noise. Her shoulder throbbed more than she expected it too, so she gathered some snow from the ground and held it on her shoulder till the throbbing stopped. She sat up slowly and noticed Steve a few feet away, he was bright red against the snow, his white fur held the colour of the juice really well which made her giggle.
Steve was furious at the stupid colour of his fur and at Peaches laughing at him, he ran at her determined to teach her a lesson.
Peaches gathered herself up to fight back but was too slow, Steve pounced his best pounce yet knocking the wind out of her and forcing her backwards. Peaches opened her eyes to find she was on the ground with Steve standing over her pinning her down. The sky above him darkened and the red juice in his fur took on a very sinister dark tone as he held up a sharp looking paw full of claws to strike her with.
"You really should have just told me the secret" Steve growled, but his growl was drowned out by a deeper far more menacing rumble. Both kids stopped and looked around, they were alone in the snow but the vast white empty space was far from comforting.
"What was that?" Steve whispered looking scared.
"I don't want to know" Peaches replied, feeling very scared.
They both stayed very still listening for danger and wishing they weren't quite so bright red right now.
"Peaches!" Ellie shouted as she easily spotted the red kids in the distance.
Steve and Peaches breathed a deep sigh of relief as Ellie's comforting voice broke the tension.
"Mom over here!" Peaches shouted trying to get up from under Steve's weight "Get off already" she said shoving him.
Steve jumped off her but as he landed the terrible rumble started up again and this time the ground beneath them gave way. Both Steve and Peaches clung to each other as they fell into a deep dark crevasse.
"Peaches!" Ellie shouted as she watched her daughter fall.
"Ahh !" Sid screamed "What do we do now?" They all hung their heads over the edge looking down into the darkness
Peaches and Steve landed safely in a pile of deep snow at the bottom of the crevasse that they had fallen into. They pulled themselves out looked at each other astonished "Hey we're okay!" Peaches yelled, her voice echoed all around the steep dark walls causing the snowy ledges balancing precariously above her to moan.
Ellie felt the snow beneath her feet tremble; she tore her eyes away from her calf and pulled her herd back from the perilous edge. She ushered everyone along about five feet to the left where she stopped and looked long and hard at the dark break in the snow before them.
"Ellie" Sid asked suspiciously "what are you doing?"
"Well the snow wasn't stable just there" Ellie replied while stooping down as if readying for action
"And it's more stable here?"
"Perhaps but I was more concerned about missing the kids when we jump down"
"Jump down!" Sid said shocked, his voice caused the snow in front of them to disappear emphasizing the steep drop below "Sorry!" He shouted down to the kids below causing even more snow to fall down onto them "Are you nuts?" he said in a quieter tone to Ellie.
"They landed alright, we will too you'll see" Ellie said unconcerned.
Sid crept closer to the edge and looked down; he could only just see the bottom in the shadowy darkness. He glanced back to see Ellie and the kids readying to jump "As leader of this herd I forbid you all from jumping" Sid shrieked
"Relax Manny!" Ellie said sarcastically "It probably looks far worse than it is, come on I bet you anything it will be fun"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" Sid said frantically waving his arms to stop Ellie jumping "Kids as leader you have to obey me!" Sid ordered "and Ellie I will tell Manny on you if you jump!"
"Manny doesn't mind a bit of base jumping" Ellie said unworried "After all he has jumped the biggest waterfall in the ice age himself not too long ago"
"Well..." Sid stuttered "He will mind if I tell him there's no parachute" Sid shouted
Ellie wiggled her ears "Yeah there is"
"Then what if I mentioned you let Peaches go first!"
"O, then I guess he might get mad" Ellie said defeated "So what's the alternative o' mighty leader?"
"We look for a safe way down" Sid said looking either way only to see that the crevasse continued much the same far as the eye could see in both directions. "Come on" he said as positively as he could "let's go find that safe way down, probably just out of sight way over there"
"Sid we can't just leave them alone down there" Ellie said "Look we can see for miles and there is no way down"
"Oh yea of little faith!" Sid scolded before calling down to the kids stuck below "Peaches, Snowball we are going to find a way down I need you to take the path to your right so we can stay together" more snow rumbled and fell. "We are going to have to keep communication to a minimum if we don't want you looking like a couple of snow men at the end of this"
Sids words echoed down into the dark depths of the ravine to where Peaches and Steve sat stranded. Peaches shook off the latest thick covering off snow to fall down on her "Okay!" She called up to her uncle "We will go right!" As her words echoed up an avalanche of snow slipped down and rumbled down to cover the two kids again.
"Try not to shout!" Sid called "It makes the snow fall"
"I know" Peaches said a bit annoyed, "we will be quiet"
"Good" Sid called back "See you soon kids! Remember we love you!"
Peaches struggled to climb up out of the new snow fall.
"Sure doesn't feel like it" Steve tutted as he clawed himself up and free from the fallen snow. Both he and Peaches waited to make sure Sid had finally shut up before finally shaking the last of the snow out of their fur for hopefully the last time.
"Didn't think he'd ever shut up" Steve said under his breath "now which ways right?"
Peaches looked at him with total disbelief "It's the side that you lead with of course"
"Not if you're a lefty actually" Steve said
"Are you a lefty?" Peaches sighed
"No"
"Nor am I so it's the side that you lead with dummy" she said picking up her right foot and pointing with it "We go that way"
Steve stood facing Peaches and picked up the paw he led with, it was on the opposite side to Peaches' right.
"My right is that way" Steve said confused.
"I am always right and I say it's that way so see ya" Peaches said as she headed off defiantly in the wrong direction.
The passage a head of her stretched out long and dark, it's wall like sides of snow loomed up on either side creaking under their own weight. Peaches stared hard at them suspicious that they might be moving in on her. She noticed ice crystals sparkling like creepy eyes looking down on her. With a big gulp she pressed on stubbornly determined not to look scared in front of Steve scared. As she slowly progressed forward she listened hard for to hear if Steve was following, not that she cared, only it was some way before she was going to have company again and pretending that your not scared was a real waste of time if he wasn't there to see.
Steve was sure that his right was the right way but had to admit that the worst thing about Peaches was that she always had to be right so as much as he hated to admit it she was probably right this time too. Besides he didn't want to be alone down here
he thought as he reluctantly chose company rather then instincts.
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Crash finally stirred, he stretched out and yawned on his bed of luxurious mammoth fur. He felt like a million dollars as he sat up and saw he was almost back at camp already. He beamed a wide toothy grin as he took in his surroundings. Manny's fur was unbelievably soft and shiny, softer and shinier than Ellie's. 'No' he thought 'it must be because I've been away so long' He watched the world go softly by with each of Manny's long smooth strides, the snow was bright in the sun and Manny cast a long elegant shadow across it. Crash felt so good he couldn't keep from commenting "Looking unbelievably fit Manfred have you been working out lately?"
"I lost the poofy fur" Manny said dryly
Crash was glad of that dry tone, anything else would have meant he was on the wrong mammoth "Well it suits you" he remarked happily. He glanced around to see his brother who he could hear snoring behind him, even Eddie's snoring was good this evening, or early morning if you're nocturnal like a possum. Suddenly Crash spotted another possum asleep just beyond Eddie and wrapped in Manny's fur. "Ahhhh!" he cried in horror "What's she doing here?"
"She's your girlfriend?" Manny said confused "I thought you would want her to come along"
Crash stooped close to Manny's ear "But she is evil!"
"That's exactly what I thought when I met you two and I'm not all that convinced now that it's not just you two that's giving your species a bad name"
"Manny before she wakes up dump her in the snow, or better yet a river"
"Or perhaps an active volcano or maybe we could find a predator who's less concerned about his waist line to leave you all with, oh no you've already survived all that already" Manny grumbled
"Manny this is no time for fooling around I'm being serious we have to get rid of her"
"I'm not kidding either your all a huge pain but right now I am more concerned by the fact that I can't find that other pain Sid" Manny came to a stop as he passed through camp for the third time. "I have been searching around this rock for ages now and there's still no sign of that useless sloth, how can he fail to obey one simple instruction to stay put? Ask him to move and he won't shift but ask him to do what he does best at and vegetate for an hour or two and bang like a pro sprinter he's out of sight"
Eddie and Emma slowly woke and gathered all was not well
"I'll help you look" Crash said jumping down to avoid the other two possums "smelling Sid out can't be that hard after all"
"Ah, he had a bath so it is actually quite hard to smell him now" Manny sighed
"Sid's had a bath? Manny's looking fit? Are we in the right universe?" Eddie said rubbing his eyes
"How can you be so rude to your family?" Emma scolded.
"Relax we're always like this" Eddie explained
"Friends and family should be more loving and respectful to each other" Emma corrected him
"Hey then you should be more respectful to me" Crash said bitterly "If you want me to be your brother in law that is"
"You especially have to earn respect!" Emma scoffed
"That will never happen"
"Manny who's side are you on?"
"My own, now come on lets go get Ellie"
"But what about Sid?"
"We haven't met a predator yet that could stomach eating him so let's get Ellie and Peaches and get moving" Manny said decisively.
"Gosh Manny are you really not worried? Or has Sid finally broken you?"
"Nope gone are the days where I worry too much. Sid will turn up eventually so let's go" Manny said headed out
"So" Eddie said ponderously as they walked "Now that you're not going to worry anymore, and well done on that by the way 'cos it was getting a bit old, but what are you going to do instead? Worrying must have taken up maybe 90 percent of your day"
"No that was eating" Crash giggled
"Worrying about what he was going to eat" Eddie added
"Yeah!" Crash laughed and high fived his brother
"Guy's he has just saved you from the snowy plains where we nearly died from exhaustion trying to walk back to your precious herd and this is how you thank him?" Emma snapped
"Relax this is nothing" Eddie explained "Just wait till later when we get our pea shooters out that's when the real fun begins"
"I just can't wait!" Crash squealed
Emma rolled her eyes dramatically at the boys before running over to Manny who was already leaving anxious to find Ellie and Peaches "I can't help feeling bad these boys are so childish, a strong and loyal mammoth like yourself deserves better friends than these two"
"You do strangely get used to them" Manny said unconcerned as he offered his trunk to the small female to climb onto. Many noticed and appreciated how angry she was with the twins bad behaviour, he lifted her up onto his shoulder as he strode off leaving the twins behind.
"Maybe we should use our entire hoard of stink and cherry bombs on Sid later and see if he can wash that off" Eddie said after finding neither scent nor hair of Sid
"We'll be doing him a favour as no one can recognize him without his trademark stink and filth. Any one of these rocks could be him" Crash replied "Oh, Come on Ed Manny's leaving already"
Eddie looked up and saw it was true "Wait!" He called "Manny wait you've forgotten to pick us up slow down!"
Manny and Emma giggled.
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Sorry for missed mistakes, I'm sure there's many
Thanks for reading!