Note: I do not own the ice age characters, but all characters not mentioned in the movie are of my own creation :)

AJKool, thanx for the review. Sometimes all we need is someone who isn't afraid to say it like it is! I'll try to fix my problems that you mentioned… I must be a little off for being gone so long, hehe… and thanx to all my other reviewers, your reviews are equally important to me!

Chapter 17

Whitney's eyes grew huge as she fell over the edge of the large cliff. She screamed a horrible scream as she plummeted down the face of the rocky ledge. Grabbing wildly, she miraculously found a tree root jutting from the side of the cliff face, and she held on. She looked up wildly and found Greg staring down at her with wide, worried eyes. She could tell he looked almost as scared as she felt.

"Whitney, hold on!" Greg called. Whitney was so scared, she was temporarily mute, so the most she could do was nod vigorously. Greg gulped and began to lower himself to where he could reach her. He held his hand out the whole way and just about reached her when…

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The herd ran through the forest, all save Sid of course, who was so far behind it wasn't even believable, even by Sid's standards. They had to find Whitney before it was too late. They came to a stop and Diego placed his nose to the ground.

"Ugh, nothing," he confirmed disgustedly after a few minutes of sniffing. Chelsea was getting ansy. She knew something just wasn't right, something more than this "Greg" character that had come into the picture. She tapped her foot repeatedly as she waited for Diego to find something, anything, leading them to her sister. Diego was determined and pressed his nose firmly to the ground again. He walked back and forth until he finally stopped at took off in one direction. "Come on!" he called over his shoulder and the herd set off again.

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Greg was inches away from being able to reach Whitney. He stretched as far he could, his paw extended.

"Grab my paw!" Greg reached toward her. Whitney was quick to grab hold of his paw and held on for dear life. He began to pulled her up. They were halfway back up when Whitney screamed a heart stopping scream.

"Greg! I'm slipping!"

"Just hold on!" Greg instructed as he brought down his other paw.

"I can't!" Whitney slipped further back down, this time taking Greg farther over the ledge.

"I'm NOT going to let you go Whitney!" Sweat was visible through Greg's fur now.

"And I'm not taking you with me!" Whitney said sternly, realizing how she had said something similar to Greg only a few days ago.

"But Whitney, you can't leave me! Not yet!" Tears pricked the corners of his eyes.

"I'm sorry Greg, but there's no way I can get back over that ledge without one of us going down. And I refuse for it to be you!" Whitney managed to slip on paw out of Greg's grasp.

"Whitney, no! I love you!" Greg confessed, wildly reaching for her other paw again.

"Love ya too," Whitney said, and with that, she slipped her other paw out of Greg's and fell.

Eh, its short, but more to come ;) R&R! Tell me whatcha think!