So here's chapter 2. I know not everyone likes these "Ice age future" stories so thx to everyone who read my story nevertheless. You guys rock. :)

Reparation

"Hey, no. … Diego please stop. That tickles.", Shira giggled sleepily when she felt someone fondling her left ear slightly. Shira knew it had to be Diego who was stroking her because only he knews that she is ticklish at this secret place.

Diego often licked her ear to make her feel comfortable when she was sad or when she remembered her lone life as a pirate. That always made her happier and helped her to forget about the things which happened in the past. Since Shira escaped from her crew, for she only the future matters.

And of cours this future includes Diego. Diego … the saber who rescued her, who broke through her hard, seemingly indestructible shell just with his presence and who touched her soft heart since the first moment she saw him.

Shira already thought that there aren´t such things like love or the feeling of being loved by someone else. For she it was normal to live a life without any emotions. Why should she care about emotions when she could live as a pirat? She had everything she wanted. From fresh water to juicy, big fishes and a big crew which defense her.

But deep inside her heart was still a big hole. And with every day this hole became bigger and bigger until it was already hurting. But one day a single saber managed that, what even thousands of other crew members weren't able to do. He filled her hole and completed her life like the last pygmy of a jigsaw, making it perfect.

And of course this saber was Diego. Her lovely mate who will do everything for her and for her protection …


The hand kept on moving around her ear, putting her body closer to his body. Now they were snuggled up so close together, that they looked like a giant hank.

The hand turned Shira´s body so that between their faces were only one or two inches left. Shira, her eyes were still closed, was about to give her mate a small "good morning" lick over his cheek when she recognised something.

"Uhhh … have you eaten something bad or why do you smell like … like, I don´t know.", Shira said and twisted her face ligh.

"Well, you also don´t smell like a fresh rose, Muki.", he said as he woke up from her voice.

A small smile came across Shira´s face after his teasing and she wanted to reply something, when it finally made "click" in Shira´s head. And in his too.

Shira´s thoughts: "That isn´t Diego! That isn´t his smell or even his voice. What the hell with whom I sleep here!?"

His thoughts: "Wait a moment… Has Muki spoke to me. Muki, my cat!?"

For five or ten seconds was a completely silence between them until their eyes shot open at the same time.

He gazed into two big, blue eyes, which belonged to a white saber tooth with black stripes on her back.

Shira was not less surprised to see an unknown individual lying next to her, wrapping his arms around her neck.

The teenager jumped up from his bed and climbed on his desk, while Shira did the same thing but she was not used to wood floor.

She landed on the ground but lost grip immediately and bumped with her right shoulder against my closet. A yelp of pain escaped her but she tried to hide it as best as possible with a load growl.

Shira got into a crouch position, slowly walking closer to him.

The human took his desk lamp and held it like a sword in his hands, making sure that he could defence himself even a bit if she will attack him.

"S-stay a-away. I h-have a lamp and I will not hesitate to u-use it!", he said stuttered, holding his weapon higher in the air.

Shira showed her sharp, snow white teeth and let out a growl which sounded for him like a heavy thunder which was directly inside his room.

The teenager swallowed hard and slowly started to lower his lamp.

"O-ok, I give u-up I give up", he put the lamp down, "but p-please don´t kill m-me.", he pleaded.

Slowly Shira´s growls became quiet and finally she stopped completely. She noticed relieved that he will not try to harm her already wounded body.

"W-what, and who are you … and why am I able to understand you", she asked with a questioned look on her face.

"I-i´m Steve", he answered slowly, trying to calm down. He still couldn´t believe it. A saber, a real saber-tooth was standing inside his room.

And to make it best, it seemed that this saber is Shira from the movie Ice Age. Shira, his favourite invented character was just some meters in front of him. In flesh and blood with her two famous ear rings.

Steve turned his attention back to Shira, who still had this questioning glance.

"I´m an human.", he said after a while of thinking how awesome this whole situation is.

A shiver ran down Shira´s back. An human? Diego told her that some of this humans had killed the half of his old pack, now wearing their pelts as clothing.

Shira didn´t know that humans aren´t dangerous for her without any weapons so fear rised inside her body, loaming her. She just wanted to be as far as possible away from Steve, away from … well, she actually didn´t know where she was.

Steve carefully climbed down from his desk and started to move foreward. He wanted to touch her. He wanted to be sure that this isn´t a dream or something else.

Shira recognised the she was the target of his steps and suddenly the fear stopped loaming her. But instead fo staying calm, the fear took control of her body. In panic she looked around, trying to find an output but the door and the window were booth closed.

Finally she decided to jump ontop of Steve´s closet. She shifted her weight at her back legs and lifted her body up into the air, landing softly ontop of it. Accidentally she threw a remote controlled airplane and some other stuff on the ground, making lots of noise.

"Hey, stop! Be quiet! You will wake up my family and I´m not sure if this is an good idea.", Steve said half shouting. Shira kept on panicing until she had thrown every single stuff down.

"P-please let me go! I just want to get out of here but please spare my life and you will never see me again.", Shira whimpered, still looking hectic around to find an output.

"Why should I …", Steve stopped and remembered too, what happened in the first film of Ice Age to Diego´s pack.

"May Diego had told her the story.", he thought for some moments. Finally he spoke up again.

"I´m not like the humans you know. I promise I will not harm you, you can trust me. Look, I even don´t have any weapons.", he said to her, showing his empty hands.

Shira scanned his body, recognising that her fear really was unfounded. If he would attack her, she easiely could kill him with her muscular claws and teeth. But even it was sure that she will win a fight with him, she still was very scared of the new surrounding.

"You want to come down?", he asked, hoping that she will say yes. "It don´t look very comfortably to sit up there."

It really wasn´t very comfortably to sit ontop of the small closet but as tigers always do, Shira stayed stubborn.

"I have no problem with this place, in my opinion it´s very comfortable", she responsed while trying to lay down on the hard wood.

"Well, it´s your choice…", Steve said.

He sat down on his bed, looking up to her.

"So, where am I?", Shira asked after some moments of starring into each others eyes. "And what is this all?", she said, scanning her surrounding once more.

Silent...

Steve avoid her eye contact and got a desperate view on his face. How should he explain all of this to an animated saber tooth character which was dictional by another human?

"Well, it´s not easy to explain this…", he started slowly.

Shira´s ears stood straight upright, listening to each word he would say.

Steve played with his fingers, becoming really nervouse.

"What if she will not understand it? What if she will lose her controll again, killing me and my family? Why am I not running away, like everybody else would do, calling the police for help?", he thought.

"But what will happen to her if they catch her? Pain, Death? No,… No! I can not allow this. There must be a solution for this problem. I have to take her home! Somehow. But at first she has the rigt to an answer."

"Move on, how long should I wait for an easy, credible answer?", Shira asked a bit annoyed.

Steve laughed inwardly after she said the word "credible". That what he will tell her will not sound very credible, not even a bit.

"Well … Shira, may have already noticed that you aren´t anymore in the ice age and...", he made a small break, thinking how he could formulate this.

"And you and your hole life was just fictionaled by some humans."

End of chapter two. How will Shira react after this information and what will happen to her, when something unexpected happens in the next chapter? And how will Steve manage to bring her back to her … time, world … whatever?
(This story is still at the beginning)

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