Chapter 7: Night with female
The lava in the volcano gurgled, as if the lava was ready to come out. After a big gurgle, a splat of lava suddenly sprayed out the whole that Scrat has created in the beginning. The volcano did roar a bit, but not as loud to cause the earth to shake.
Scrat's eye's opened half way. He didn't know what was coming, but it suddenly came when he was about wide awake. The heat went deeply into Scrat's face, and he started to moan for being so hot. He then put his head up, still dozed off a bit, but he then shook his head, which caused him to come to his senses. He sniffed the ground, not remembering where he left his acorn.
The earth suddenly started to shake as the volcano roared. Scrat started to panic, when his acorn came falling from the tree he was under, and fell on his face. Scrat fell to the ground again, his eyes closed. But he healed fast, and got up. He smiled when he saw his acorn, and grabbed and hugged it. Scrat gasped when he remembered that he saw a water hole earlier. So he looked in the other direction, which lead further away from the volcano. He knew that the water hole was far away, but he was going to take that risk. He went off with his acorn.
"Here it is," Manny showed the small water hole he found to the rest of the herd.
Crash and Eddie gasped at each other, and cheered as they both jumped and ran into the water. "Come on, mama!" Eddie exclaimed.
Sandy jumped off of Ellie, and ran into the water, as she tackled her sons. Her and the possum brothers both filled their hands with water, and drank it. Crash sighed after his first drink. "Sweet water!"
"Wait!" Sid cried, who was still walking toward the others. "Water! I need...water!" When Sid finally got there, he fell face flat in the water, which was very shallow. The others also joined the 'water lovers', except for Diego. Well, he did come for a drink, but never did get wet, since he hated getting wet.
Ellie happily squirted water into Manny's face, who gave her an angry look. Ellie gave an innocent look, which caused Manny to feel bad. He sighed and gave her a small smile. He suddenly felt another splash of water in his face. "Sid!" he looked down at the sloth.
"Uhh..it wasn't me," Sid tried to lie.
"Nice try," Ellie chuckled, and smiled back at Manny again.
Scrat continued on his journey toward the water hole he spotted earlier. And even though the heat was intense, he still walked and walked with his acorn, which he would never leave behind on purpose.
As Scrat took his final steps toward the water hole he saw earlier, his eyes were closed, which couldn't open because of the harsh sun and the intense heat. But he sniffed, and even though it smelled funny, which was probably the heat blocking his sent, he knew he was there. So he dropped his acorn on the ground, and jumped in, causing a...splatter. The water hole was not a water hole at all, it was a tar pit, and half of Scrat's body was stuck in the tar. Huh? Scrat looked around, and knew he was not in any water at all. He then looked ahead to see if there was any other water hole, but there wasn't. Surely he saw some water hole. Scrat was confused.
But he suddenly forgot about his water search, and looked at his acorn which was sitting safely on the ground. Scrat smiled with relief, when suddenly he saw some tall bird pop over, making a bird squeak. Scrat made a squeaky gasp, and turned his smile into a frown.
The bird walked closer to the acorn, and showed an obvious face that it was going to take it.
"AHHH!" Scrat tried to pull himself out, but he was stuck. He grunted while trying to pull his legs out, as the tall bird came closer, and put it's head down. Scrat screamed again, and tired and tired to pull himself. But no good. He was indeed stuck, and the bird picked up the acorn with it's beak and waddled away. "AHHHHH!" Scrat was very angry, and had no way of getting out.
A small spark fell to the ground in a pile of twigs, which caused a gentle fire. Sid dropped the two rocks, and sat down in front of the fire where Crash, Eddie, Sandy, and Ellie were sitting at. And Diego also came to sit down. It was finally dark out, which meant that the break was going to last longer than they thought. "Sid," Diego started, "why did you make a fire? It's still warm outside, and we don't need it."
Sid looked at the fire, and then realized the warm weather. "Ooops, must be a habit."
Manny walked toward the others. "I hope you guys got enough to drink."
"Why?" Ellie asked curiously.
"What's wrong, Manny buddy?" Sid also asked.
Manny didn't struggle at all to tell them the news. "The water hole we found was very small, and very shallow. The sun started to dry it out an hour ago."
"You mean it's all gone?" Eddie asked in a concerned voice.
"Not all of it, but almost all of it."
Sid and the two possums sighed, and Ellie gave a sad look toward the ground, as well as Sandy did also.
Manny walked toward the others, and lay, ready to get a good sleep. "Don't worry. We're going to live. I'm sure there will be more water up ahead. Hopefully, this heat won't last forever.
"Come on, boys," Sandy said to her sons in a calm voice. "It's time to go to bed."
"But mama," Eddie started a complaint.
"We're not sleepy," Crash also agreed.
"And it's not even that late." Eddie and his brother looked at Ellie curiously, hoping that she would help them out.
"Uhh..." Ellie started, not knowing what to say. Usually she would wait until her brothers were sleepy for them to go to bed. But her mom was there, and it would be nice to let her do some parenting for a change after a while. Ellie sighed and looked the other way. "Good night, guys."
The two possums gasped in surprise and disappointment. "OOHH!"
"Come on, boys," said Sandy. "I'm tired, too." The possum pushed her two sons toward the tree, telling them to go up for bed. So they climbed up with their mother, and hung up-side down.
Ellie and Manny were close to being ready to go to sleep, and they ignored everything else.
"I hope my date is ok," Sid said softly, and got up. "Good thing I'm going to see her tonight." He walked off, starting to leave his herd.
"Woe, where are you going?" Diego tried to stop the sloth.
"I told you," Sid replied as he turned his neck back, "I'm seeing my beautiful female friend tonight."
Diego shook his head and chuckled. "You're not going anywhere."
"Why not?" Sid started to give a safe, yet angry look on his face.
"Because, she won't be up this late?"
"The sun just went down, Diego. It's not that late."
"Well Manny will be mad once you leave."
Sid put his hands on his hips. "You know how Manny can get to sleep fast."
Diego looked back at the mammoth, who was sound asleep. Manny was still, though, not close to Ellie at night, who still hung herself up-side down in the tree. Diego then looked back at Sid. "Well..."
"You're just scared, because you're afraid that I will win this round." Sid walked off.
Diego still thought Sid was a little obsessed. But he let the sloth go. And he smiled, knowing that it wouldn't go well.
Sid walked and walked, trying to find the female. He wondered off by the tree he and the others were at earlier when they got attacked by the bear. He looked around, hoping he would find her. He then heard some voices, and walked away toward the sound.
Sid peaked from behind a bolder, and there she was, ready to go to sleep. "Excuse me, miss," he started as he came from behind the bolder.
The female gasped when she heard the voice, and looked at Sid, curiously.
"I believe I planned to meet you tonight."
The female sloth just stared at him, speechless.
Sid walked up to her with a smile. "Hi, I'm Sid."
She didn't say anything, and hoped that the eager sloth would leave soon.
"It's still warm out. Did you find some water yet?"
The female sloth still didn't feel like talking to him. But she finally let some words out, since it was rude to ignore him, even though she was thinking that he would be a jerk. "I managed to find some in my journey."
Sid walked closer to the female, who backed up a bit. "I..." Sid tried to continue. "I hope you can handle a little more heat."
"Why?"
"'Cause I'm the Fire King."
The female sloth gave a disgusted look, thinking that "fire king" meant that Sid had the hots for her, or that he thought that HE was hot.
She then realized that Sid stepped away from her, and bent down to pick something up. She was curious.
Sid came up with two rocks, and rubbed them together, which caused a spark. He then hit them hard, and made the spark to fall to the ground, and make a fire.
The female sloth gasped. "You can make fire?"
Sid put some sticks in the fire to hold it steady, and turned back to the female. "Yes, I can!"
The female sloth was tempted to tell him her name. "I'm Melody." She looked at Sid curiously, and walked close to him. "Are you good at searching for water?"
Sid then held out a stick with fire toward her, which caused her to giggle. "How did you do that?" she asked.
"It's easy," Sid replied. He could then see the female close to him, and her face got close to his. Sid was then hoping for a kiss, and put his face closer to hers, and before he could touch her lips...
"HEY!" another male sloth happened to appear. "Get away from my mate!"
Melody gasped and stepped back from Sid, who was confused.
"She's your mate?" Sid asked.
"Yes!" he replied. "And you know what happens when somebody hits on her?"
"Rick, don't worry about it," Melody tried to save Sid.
"What?" Sid asked, curious of what Rick was going to say. He suddenly felt a hard fist in his face, and he fell to the ground.
"I beat the tar out of them," Rick answered, and looked down at Sid. He then pulled Sid up, and punched him again, and this time in the stomach.
"Rick please," Melody tried to stop her male mate. "It was a mistake. You don't have to do this."
Without even listening to his mate, Rick punched Sid in the face again, which caused him to fall again. Rick then kicked Sid hard.
Sid was moaning, hoping that somebody from his herd would come to save him. He then didn't care about his love interest; he cared about his life. He could then feel his body being lifted, and he was soon being carried away from the female sloth, who was concerned, but wasn't tough enough to do anything about it. She just hoped that Rick wouldn't kill him.
Diego's ears went up, and he could sense that something was wrong. He put his head up and looked back to where Sid left. He could have sworn her heard him shouting. Diego looked at the others, who were sound asleep. So he got up, and walked away to find Sid.
"You're going to regret this," Rick said angrily, as he carried Sid toward a tar pit.
"No, no!" Sid cried out. "Don't do it, no! Please don't. No!" Sid was released and thrown into the tar; face down.
"DON'T EVER HIT ON MY GIRL AGAIN!" Rick exclaimed, and walked off, leaving the poor sloth in the tar pit.
Sid started to moan, and Scrat, who was in the same pit, looked at him curiously. But that wasn't important to him. He just wanted to get out and get his acorn.
Sid lifted his head up a bit, and tried to get out, but he just fell again.
Scrat tried and tried to pull his legs out, but he was still as stuck as ever.
"Sid?" Diego asked as he appeared.
Sid lifted his head again, and looked at the tiger. "Diego?" Everything was blurry to the sloth, but his vision eventually became clear.
"What happened?"
"My date? She..."
Diego tried to hold the smile, but he couldn't help it. "I told you she wouldn't like you."
"If she didn't have a boyfriend, she would."
"Oh." Diego chuckled, and grabbed Sid's arm with his paw, and started to pull him out.
Scrat then grabbed a hold of Sid's legs, which helped HIM get out of the tar.
Sid fell to the ground when he was finally out, and Scrat ran off to find his acorn after sniffing the ground.
"I was so close," Sid complained.
"Yeah, I won this one," Diego replied.
Sid sighed, and started to scratch the tar off of his body.
Ellie opened her eyes, and hoped it was morning, so she and the others could get up, and walk further away from the volcano. But it was still night, and she looked at Manny.
The female mammoth got up and walked toward Manny. "Manny?" Ellie tapped him a few times with her trunk.
"Huh, what?"
"Manny."
Manny opened his eyes and looked at Ellie. "What is it?"
"I was thinking...maybe we should travel at night...tonight."
"We can't, everybody's asleep. Besides, it's good to get some rest."
"But...it's so much cooler at night, and we need to get away fast."
Manny sighed with his eyes closed. "No Ellie."
Ellie sighed, and looked at Crash and Eddie who were sound asleep. She did care about her brothers, and knew that they were miserable in the heat. She also didn't want them to get killed by the lava from the volcano. "But Manny..."
Manny was sound asleep, and was not in the position to talk anymore for the night.
Ellie sighed, lay back down in her spot, and went to sleep a minuet later.
SP-wow! That chapter was long! Well, we all know now what Sid's main issue is in the story. But there is still more to come with the other characters, and there is more peril to come, too!