Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN ANY CHARACTERS FROM ICEAGE. I ONLY OWN THE CHARACTERS I CREATED.

Dude: Since Callidus and Boss are still undertar, I'm still the only one felt. And you still have to listen to me! A few hours ago, Callidus told me that there was a 1% off sale of ketchup at the airport. When I got there, they weren't selling ketchup, but they were giving away free gold! Can you believe it? I was so mad that I left and went to Home Depot to eat a burrito. And that's what I did today.

1 day and 17 hours later.

Callidus: Hey guys! We're out of the tar!

Boss: Yeah. This is a pretty long chapter.

Dude: The bigger the better!

Callidus: That's not true sometimes.

Dude: BEAD OF JADE FOR BEAUTY. YOU MUST PROUDLY SHOW IT. NOW ADD A CRICKET, JUST FOR LUCK. AND EVEN YOU CAN'T BLOW IT!

Boss: Wha-?

Callidus: What the heck was that?

Dude: Let's let the readers figure that out, now to start the chapter! Hit it!

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I was being pushed up by something in the tar. I didn't dare to open my eyes in this tar because it could permanently blind me. Whatever was pushing me up it was inching closer and closer around my body, I was almost out of breath as it was about to close around my head. When it finally did, I couldn't hold my breath any longer to I took a large gulp of air and nothing went into my mouth. When I brought up the courage to open my eyes, I was inside a bubble. It was a tar bubble and it was rising to the top, taking me with it. I was glad to be alive, but we're not out of the tar yet, Boss was still here. He was unconscious when he was thrown off the cliff, and since the tar around me was pitch-black, I couldn't see anything. My ears dropped to the thought he might be dead, and I couldn't do anything about it. I held my legs as I was slowly rising, making a small whimper every minute just thinking that I would be alone again. Then, I saw the suns' ray's pierce through the bubble, and I was free from the tar, but when I looked down from the bubble, Boss was nowhere to be seen. I pushed the bubble over the shore so I wouldn't fall back into the tar; the wind was helping me which gave me a slight smile on my face. I popped the bubble with my claws and I landed on my face with a hard thud! "Ow!" I shouted and rubbed my face with my paws. When I got up, I looked over at the tar pit again and hoped that Boss might surface. I was anxiously awaiting the arrival of the canine for half an hour. When I saw a bubble about to come up, my eyes widened hoping it was Boss, but instead, it was my weapon covered in tar. The wind blew the bubble towards me and I popped it. My weapon was black and I washed it off with water from a nearby river. The tar came off of my weapon, but it permanently turned the teeth black, I scrubbed it as hard as I could to get the blackness off, it was no use. I gave up after a while since my arms were getting sore of all the scrubbing. I returned to the tar pit to see if Boss was there, he wasn't. Worry came over my head, and soon doubt. I never prayed before but I felt like this was the only thing I could do. I got on my knees, clasped my hands together, and tilted my head down and prayed, "Dear God, please give me a sign that Boss is okay. I don't know what else to do but turn to you." Then I looked up at the sky slowly, and suddenly I saw a glimmer of light in the sky. Not knowing what it might be, I ran towards the closest hill to get a better looked at it, and when I got there, to my surprise, it was Boss!

He was floating in a bubble sleeping; he must have risen when I was cleaning my blade off. Boss was too far away for me to pop the bubble, and if I threw something to pop the bubble, he'll fall back into the tar pit. I didn't know what to do; Boss's bubble was just floating in the same place, not even moving. Then I got an idea, I grabbed as much vines I could find as possible. Then I got a bunch of wood and made a large bowl like structure and attached it to a long post of wood. It looked like a giant wooden spoon, and then I made a crank wheel and attached it so that when I spin it, the spoon would go down. I tied the vine to the spoon and the ground to hold it in its position. And my "Launcher" was complete. I angled the Launcher to aim straight at Boss. When I got ready to shoot myself, my whole body was shaking because I was a tad afraid of flying.
"What are you waiting for?" My conscious yelled at me, "It's now or never!"
"I'm scared of heights." I thought numbly.
"What are you more afraid of, heights or being alone FOREVER?" My conscious had a point, and I had no choice. As I got ready to cut the vine, I just thought of something, where do I land? My body took over and I cut the vine unwillingly. I screamed as I was flying at the canine, I popped his bubble and grabbed hold of his body which as still bleeding from his fight with Brone. I continued to fly with Boss still in my arms, and I didn't know where I was going to land. As I was getting closer to the ground, my eyes widened and I thought to myself, "I really should have made a landing pad…" I slammed into the floor rolling, we were bouncing and tumbling on rocks and hitting obstacles in our path. I didn't want Boss to get hurt anymore so I made myself hit everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. The only thing that touched Boss was me holding onto him. When we slowed down, I was all bruised up and had a horrible amount of cuts all over my body. My weapon was still in one piece, but I felt like I was gonna pass out. I kept my mind focus and carried Boss to the river. He was breathing peacefully but I was heavily breathing which was pretty loud. When we arrived, I dived into the water to cleanse myself; then I got an idea to wake Boss up. I sucked up some water with my mouth and spat it in his mouth. I know it's disgusting, but it works. Boss opened his eyes slowly and noticed me spilling water into his mouth, "BLECH! Gross! You-YOU SICKO!" He pushed me away and quickly got on his feet.
He glared at me and I stood petrified in place, I even had a frozen smiling face. I was about to say something, but he just said, "I don't want to hear it. Let's just go look for Buck… but before we do, I…could use a fish break." I smiled and said, "Okay." I gathered some small twigs and dry leaves while boss got rocks and formed a circle on the floor. Boss turned to me and said, "Hey can you find a flint rock?" Not knowing what that was, I shrugged and said, "What's that?" bluntly. He sighed and said, "Never mind, just go catch some fish, and those longer sticks, we'll use them as skewers." I never been fishing before, but nonetheless I just tried to grab the fish with my hands. I missed; I didn't want to make Boss mad so I tried again. I kept trying and trying, but I think I was overdoing it cause I was splashing too much.
"Having trouble?" Boss said which surprised me. I sighed, "I'm sorry. I'm not very useful am I?"
"Actually, I think you're pretty useful." He said with a calm tone.
"Really?"
"No, not really. You're as useful as those fish; they can't do anything but feed someone by dying."
"Oh…" I sighed while I looked down at my reflection in the water. My ears slowly went down thinking that I was completely useless.
"But, with proper training, you can even surpass the master." I smiled then laughed,
"And who's the master exactly?"
"Well it certainly ain't you. Now watch this." I raised my eyebrow as Boss closed his eyes and was in a meditative stance. I was just waiting for him to make a move, and then he suddenly he opened his eyes, and as quick as he opened them, he made his head lunge at a fish in the water and caught it in his mouth, he threw it in the air and caught another one and another! One by one with lightning speed, fish were being caught out of the water. And when Boss stopped, the fish started to fall on the right side of him. I found myself with my mouth left wide open.
"Impressed?" He asked. I scoffed, "Uhh, Yeah! That was awesome! When did you learn to do that?" I was eager to know.
"I'll tell you later." He simply said.
"Aww…" I groaned disappointingly.
"After we're dome eating." I looked at him, and he looked at me and he seemed like he was waiting for something.
"Well?" He said.
"Well, what?" I asked.
"Start the fire! You know I don't have opposable thumbs."
"Oh, right." He nudges the flint stone towards me, I took it and another rock and struck them against each other and it made a small ember on the twigs. Upon seeing this, I looked at Boss and he gave me a "Good Job" look.
"Now let's cook these fish. I'm starving." He said heartily. When they were golden brown, I took one and tried a bite; it was almost as good as the fruit Buck gave me! I smiled at Boss and we both continued eating. We had quite a lot of leftovers so we wrapped up in leaves.
"Carry them." Boss ordered.
"What! Are you mad! Why do I have to do it?" I protested.
"Your arms are scrawny; you need more upper arm strength."
"Ok…" I grabbed the fish and tied it on my vine strap. I heaved the sack and it was at least six times heavier than I am and 3 times bigger than me. When I was struggling to pick it up, Boss was laughing at me. I got a bit irritated, "You… could help me you know!"
"Sorry" He laughed "This is for your own good." I bet he just didn't want to carry it.
"Now let's continue searching."
"Hold up!" I exclaimed raising my hand, "Before we set off you, still need to tell me your story."
"Aww, I thought you were gonna forget. Well, I'm a man of my word. Alright, I'll tell you. I was a pup back then. My family was hunting for this week's blizzard."

My mom was picking me up from pup training school and I was hungry. "Mommy! Wehen we goes home, can I hav that wone piece of deer again?" I asked. "Hold on Taha. We have to save food. Lately our hunters haven't been doing so well." She said looking down. We didn't speak after that so I said, "Mommy, are you alwrite?" She picked up her head and said "Let's go see you papa. Maybe he got something for us." smiling.
"Oh' tay!" Then that was the day that changed my life forever. When we got to where the hunter's of our pack was, I was terrified to see that four out of seven of our elite hunters were dead. Our pack was fighting against a group of 6 sabers, and their leader cornered my dad. Just like our pack, they had only 4 survivors, but our chances of winning were slim.
"Zach!" "Daddy!" My mom and I called out to him.
"Stay back! I can handle this." We stood frozen hoping the rest of our pack would make it.
"Isn't that sweet? You family came to see you." The leader laughed. "I hate sweet! Men, pin Zach's friends to the ground!" They each tackled our team and immobilized them.
"No!" my dad yelled. The leader laughed,
"Looks like I have the upper paw here wouldn't you say?"
"We're just getting started!" he snarled.
"This was already over from when my father killed yours!" The leader gave a signal to one of his subordinates, the saber nodded and he sunk his claws deep into my father's friend, killing him.
"Dan!" my mother yelled. Tears escaped from her eyes, and the only thing I could do was watch.
"Stop this!" My father ordered.
"And just what are you gonna go about it?" My father stood petrified. "Thought so." He gave another signal and the other saber killed another one of our pack, Jack. He was laughing so much; I wanted to shove his paws into his mouth. When I ran towards him yelling, the saber that was pinning our last friend jumped off of him and landed in front of me. He grabbed me by the neck and I screamed, "Mommy! Daddy!"
The saber came over to the leader and he examined me and said, "Hmm… this little one is pretty frisky. Keep him for the time being." He ordered. "Yes, Chasle!" said the saber. Our last hunter got up and charged at the saber that was holding me captive. The sabers acted quickly and surrounded him, there was nowhere for him to go. They circled around him while our friend stood his ground. Chasle mocked, "Well, well, well. Looks like we found ourselves an easy target. Any last words?" he asked. He looked down and then turned to my father and said, "Zach."
"Yeah?" he said faintly.
"Goodbye." He spoke with a smile. Then, each saber sank their claws into his body, instantly killing him. My father looked away, tears flowed out of his eyes cause the wolf they just killed was my father's childhood friend, Kashi.
"You… you… You'll pay for this!" he roared. Sadness was replaced with revenge and anger, as my father leaped forward to an unsuspecting saber, the rest jumped away as my father dug his claws into that one saber, and he ripped him in half. Blood sprayed all over covering my dad and was violently growling. Startled, Chasle sent the other two sabers to pin my bloody father, the saber holding me handed Chasle my body over as ran to my father. When they tackled him down, my mom rushed in and hit them off of my dad. Chasel yelled, "Show them no mercy!" My father charged at one of the sabers but he jumped out of the way and slashed his claws at my dad's face. Then my mom pounced on the saber and bit his arm. The other saber slammed himself on her and pinned her down, and then my dad was pinned by the bit saber.
Chasle laughed and walked towards my parents, "You attempts are useless. You should have surrendered when you had the chance!" When he was about to kill my parents, he asked me, "Would you like to say something to your parents?" He put me down in front of them and looked at my parents. "Mommy…" I cried.
"Shh… it'll be alright. Don't worry. I promise."
"Daddy…"
"Taha here, take this. It's my necklace, Keep this with you always." I shook my head and wore it. "Are we done yet? Good. Now say good bye to your parents." Chasle ordered.
"Bye mommy… Bye daddy…" They both closed their eyes and then, they were gone…

"Boss" I said quietly, "You don't have to tell me anymore." A tear came to his eye. "Where's your necklace?" I asked curiously. He cut something on his neck, and what dropped down was a tooth. "Is this it?" I asked.
"Yup. I've accepted the fact that my whole wolf pack are dead, I'd tell you more, but let's save that for later." He said cheerfully with a smile, but I knew inside he was sad. I turned my head down, and then Boss placed his paw in the fish sack. I looked up at him and he said, "Shall we go?" I nodded my head and then I picked it up. I very soon I got really tired and only a few minutes passed and I was sweating so much I was literally making a stream of sweat. Boss was pretty quiet in the jungle, but I couldn't even breathe without making a noise!
"Can you carry some fish?" I begged. Boss looked ahead and we saw a bright light from far away.
"When we reach over from where that light is, then you can rest." I summoned up a lot of energy and I quickly ran towards the light. I was thinking that this was way too easy and it was too good to be true, it was. I arrived at the area and when I took off the fish pack, my arms became sore! I was rolling on the floor in pain until Boss slapped me and told me to look. When I got up, I saw a dry wasteland like area that had a cliff in front and there was a lava fall at the far back. When we looked to the left we saw a bunch of plate like rocks that were crumbling. "Where should we go?" I asked. Boss looked around with his head close to the ground, and said, "Let's go to Lava Falls."
"Lava Falls?" I repeated, "Why over there?" He sniffed the floor.
"Buck was here, and a few other animals."
"Buck must have been part of a herd." When we saw him, he was all alone I thought. "I bet he's lonely right now."
"And I made him leave, all because I was a bit jealous." My ears picked themselves up, "You were jealous of Buck? Jealous of what exactly?" Then Boss's ears pricked up and he said, "Did you hear that?" "He's trying to change the subject." I thought. When I was about to tease him, he grabbed me by the leg and put me on his back. "Whoa!" I said in surprise. Then Boss said, "Hang on tight." Not knowing what was going on, I quickly did as I was told and held onto his necklace, and then he started sprinting somewhere. "What's going on?!" I yelled. Boss continued running, "I heard someone shout 'Behind you'. Someone who's not a dinosaur is in trouble." Boss wasn't even breaking a sweat even when running with me and fish sack on his back, he dodged everything and made sure nothing hit me either. Boss always looks like he's capable of anything, but what confused me is to how he got beaten by Brone. When we reached where Boss heard the noise, I saw two weasels, and one of them was Buck! The other looked like a girl, and she seems familiar to me. They seem to be arguing about something, but I couldn't hear a thing. Boss on the other paw said, "Hey Callidus. Buck knows a way to the surface." My ears stood up with excitement, "Really!" Boss shot me down with a "Shh!" I frowned irritably. He continued eavesdropping and then the one eyed weasel raised his arm towards west. They continued arguing and soon the girl left towards where Buck pointed. Buck just stared at the ground to her absence. I was thinking of going over to where he was but Boss just was waiting, so I copied him not really knowing if this was the best idea. After a while of nothing, Buck glanced to where the girl left and went south-west and that's towards Lava Falls. Before he went there, he got a vine whip and placed it around his shoulder. And started running straight at us because we just came from there! I panicked not wanting to be found, Boss jumped into a tree and stayed quiet. I picked up the fish sack and carried it to a nearby bush and crouched down. Buck just arrived at the place we were, not trying to make a sound, I tried to place it down quietly, somehow I managed to do so, but unfortunately I rusted some leaves which quickly got Buck's attention. Buck cautiously walked toward me, knowing I was going to be found anyways, I just stood up with my hands in the air and said, "You got me." He backed up with his head slightly tilted as I picked up the fish sack and placed it on my back.
"Hey, you're that one clueless weasel I met awhile back." He chuckled.
"Clueless!" I repeated abruptly. "I'll have you know that I've been creating devices to help me get where I am now!"
"You made things to get here? Boy, you're not clueless, you're crazy." He laughed.
"C-Crazy!" I stammered.
"Yeah, crazy, maybe even crazier than I am!" He said with his jaw to the side. Then Boss popped out of the trees and landed right in front of Buck and me. When this happened, Buck quickly leaped back and got ready to fight. Guessing by Buck's look on his face, it seems that he completely forgot Boss. He slashed his knife at him, but he missed and Boss performed a back-flip and knocked Buck's knife out of his hand and into a tree. Buck ran straight at Boss, but I tackled him and tried to make him settle down.
"What are you doing?!" He exclaimed. "The enemy is over there!" He struggled, but kept a firm grip, "That's my friend" I shouted back, "he's helping me get to the surface, remember?!" Buck looked at him and just said, "Oops." I helped him up; Buck grabbed his knife out of the tree and said, "So made friends with this wolf? You really are crazy." I raised an eyebrow, and then Buck asked, "Is he still a sour lollipop?"
Boss's face twitched, "Well I'm defiantly not sweet"
"Well let's just pretend you are. Now then what are you doing here?" he asked.
"We need your help to get to the surface."
"What am I a guide? I have a life too, and I don't plan on wasting it!" He protested and suddenly, we heard his stomach growl.
"Want some of our fish?" I offered, "We have plenty more left." He folded his arms and raised an eyebrow, "What's the catch?"
"Help us get to the surface. And you can have all--- the fish you can stomach." I waved a cooked fish in front of Buck's face; it was so tempting for him, so reluctantly he says, "Fine. I'll 'elp ya. But I got rules-"
"That we don't wanna hear." Boss interrupted. "Now come on. Let's get a move on." Buck's ears dropped flat, I showed him three freshly cooked fish, his ears got back up and he ate them happily. I smiled back and placed the fish sack on my back which was lighter and easier to carry. When Buck finished, he burped and said, "Alright. Now we can go." We both got on Boss's back and he dashed back to Lava Falls as fast as he could. Buck was enjoying the ride while screaming, "Whoo-hoo!" and waving his arms in the air. I laughed to myself. When we arrived back at Lava Falls entrance, Buck asked, "Are you boys ready?"
"Ready for what?" I asked curiously.
"You see this cliff?" He pointed toward the edge.
"Yes…" Boss muttered quietly.
Buck jumped off of Boss and dramatically said, "We're gonna *zoom in* jump off. *zoom out*"
"J-jump? Umm, I gotta uh… go do someth-"
"No excuses!" He interrupted me. "We have to jump now!"
"Now?!" Boss repeated.
"Yes, now! JUMP!" He shoved us off the cliff and we fell into a cloud of dust screaming, he hit something and we were being lifted into the orange sky. Buck lassoed his vine whip around the neck of a pterosaurs. "Alright!" he yelled. He used the vine as a steering line. We were gliding through the air; I was horrified and worriedly asked Buck, "Have you flown one of these before?"
"Yes! Second time actually!" He yelled. "YE-HA!"
We cut through the vision of a group of pterodactyls; they lifted off and started to chase us.
"Uhh… Buck!" Boss stared at the terror from the above. Buck gasped and said "Again?" under his breath.

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Callidus: Now that was long. Soooo.... Boss, your name is Taha?

Boss: Yeah.

Callidus: *snorts* What happened next?

Boss: *AHEM* That's not important right now, and since the chapter ended, look who we have here.

Callidus: It's BUCK!

Buck: Hello there preggers.

Boss: Preggers?

Dude: Another weasel for "Weasel Stomping Day!" Hooray!

Callidus: Wha-? Weasel Stomping Day? What's that? A holiday?

Buck: That's the worst title for a holiday I've ever heard.

Boss: Actually, it sounds kind fun.

Callidus: That's because you're not a weasel!

Dude: And once that holiday passes, my mom can cook weasel blood soup again, oh and I'll tell her to add broccoli!

Buck: Oh no! Broccoli! *about to vomit*

Callidus: It's not that bad.

Buck: Are you mad! Children hate this stuff!

Boss: You're a child?

Buck: *glares*

Callidus: Umm, let's make this short by ending this now. See you guys later!

Boss: See ya.

Dude: Later!

Buck: Cheerio then, mates!