Louis tunneled as fast as he could toward Lori's burrow. Sid and Manny had been sent to get water, Ellie was trying to calm Shira, Peaches and Ethan were trying to distract Diego who was pacing like a madman, and Louis had been sent to go retrieve Lori.
He arrived at the burrow and knocked hard next to the entrance. Lori's mom appeared in the burrow entrance and looked up at Louis quizzically.
"Hi, uh, I need Lori, now." Louis said urgently. Lori's mom eyed Louis for a second and then hesitantly disappeared into the burrow. Louis tapped his foot impatiently, wishing for them to hurry up.
Lori appeared in the burrow entrance and glared up at Louis. It was before sunrise so Louis wasn't surprised she was angry.
"Oh, this better be good." Lori said crossing her arms.
"Shira is giving birth." Louis said.
Lori's ears perked and a smile crept onto her face. "Good enough for me!" She said happily. She climbed out of the burrow and looked back down the tunnel.
"Cubs being born, be back in a couple hours!" Lori called down.
"Wait, what?" Lori's mom called back up at her.
"I can just see her face right now." Lori said to herself, smiling and turning around to face Louis. "Shall we?" She asked.
"We shall." Louis said. "Ladies first."
"What a gentleman." Lori said sarcastically and dove into the ground, heading for The Oak Tree. Louis followed her down the tunnel.
When Louis and Lori arrived at The Oak Tree they found no one was there.
"Oh, ops." Louis apologized. "I forgot we moved Shira to The Caves, since it's cooler."
Lori looked at him with a puzzled expression. The Caves? Lori hadn't even heard of The Caves. Louis could tell by her face that she had no idea what he was talking about.
"Just follow me." Louis said and dove back into the ground, and this time with Lori following, they tunneled toward the so called caves.
They arrived in front of a cave that was just big enough to fit a large mammoth. Diego was pacing at the mouth of the cave that was crammed into a cliff side with tons of other caves that were all different shapes and All attempts at calming Diego had failed so Ethan and Peaches were sitting and talking with Manny to supervise.. Crash, Eddie, Finn, and Brian were relaxing on top of Peaches and Sid was listening to the conversation.
"I can't wait to have kids." Peaches said dreamily.
"Yes, you can." Manny said with an I-do-not-trust-you glare at Ethan.
"Yeah! Another baby mammoth would be so fun!"Crash said ,ignoring Manny's comment. Manny rolled his eyes.
"How can you guys just sit there and talk while Shira-"
"Peaches, get in here!" they all heard Ellie's voice echo from inside of the cave.
"That's my cue!" Peaches said getting up and walking into the cave. She popped her head out from inside of the cave and looked at Lori.
"Do you want to help?" She asked.
"Nah, I think I'd better stay out here." Lori said.
"Mk!" Peaches said happily and disappeared into the cave.
Lori looked around for other ways to be useful when her eyes fell on Diego who was still pacing back and forth in front of the cave mouth.
Lori had never really known Diego that well, though she could still tell her was worried sick.
"Diego?" Lori asked. "Are you ok?"
Diego stopped and looked at her. "No! Shira could be dead! Deceased! Kicked the bucket! Swimming with the fishes!"
"Diego?" Sid tried to get his attention.
"She could be dieing!" Diego continued, completely ignoring Sid.
"Diego?
"Or a cub could be dieing!"
"Diego?"
"Or Shira could be dieing!"
"Diego!"
"What?" Diego snapped.
"Do you hear that?" Sid asked. Everyone was quiet as they all listened. A faint mewling was coming from inside the cave. Diego, followed by the herd, plus Ethan and Lori, entered the cave. There at the back of the cave was Shira laying on the ground with two little squirmy cubs in between her front paws, both getting a bath from their mother.
"We were just coming out to get you." Ellie said who was standing next to Peaches. Diego seemed to be completely oblivious to them and walked up to Shira. He sniffed the two cubs, then looked down on them and smiled.
"This one is a girl." Shira said pointing with her nose to one of the little cubs who was white with orange stripes.
"And this one is a boy." Shira said pointing again with her nose to the other cub that was orange with black stripes. He mewled and cuddled closer to his mother's chest.
Diego laughed and layed down facing Shira. Not taking his eyes off of his family. Shira looked up and saw everyone was standing back a little bit.
"Come here, we don't bite," Shira said smiling. "and they couldn't even if they wanted to."
Sid was the first one to walk over. He stood next to Diego and looked the new family.
"So what are you going to name them?" Sid asked. Diego and Shira looked at each other.
"Ideas?" Shira asked.
"Um, well," Diego looked down at the cubs. "This one could be dawn, because her pelt reminds me of the sky at dawn."
"Ok," Shira said, nodding her head. "That one's nice. And staying on that theme, this one can be Dark because his pelt sort of reminds me of the sky late in the day." Shira said.
"That's so cute, Dawn and Dark!" Peaches said walking over and looking down at her tiny cousins. Soon everyone was congregated around the newest additions to the herd. Dark picked up his head and yawned, showing off his little gums and pink toung.
AWWW! Dark is so cute! I hope you liked it. alright, I think it's the beginning of the end you guys. I feel as if I should have done more possum stuff and mentioned Ethan more. I was wondering If I should just us Ethan or make a new mammoth. Until I come up with one, I'm just gonna go with , Ethan isn't good enough...maybe this will be longer than I thought...Climax come after this chapter so you need to wait a little because it's two chapters long.