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I don't own Ice Age (obviously, or the pirates would have their own movie- or at least a short film or two. Possibly more!). I've already gotten started on chapter 6! I'm on an Ice Age Christmas-y story high or something! Review!
The teenagers were getting worried. They'd searched the entire perimeter of their little valley. The kangaroos, rabbits, and badgers had gone to look on the ground, searching every place available. Denisha and Andre, Silas's parents, were circling around and around, searching for any clues. Rosalynn had even decided to check the lake to make sure they hadn't drowned, something that made most of the mothers faint upon discussion. The children, excluding Flynn of course, couldn't swim. Amethyst, the only (unfortunately) widow, searched the forest by tree top. Nothing.
With their fathers trying to calm their mothers, the teens broke away from their families. "Oh man…" Lily muttered. "Oh man, oh man, we are so dead!"
"Why?"
"Duh! Don't you get it! We chased them off!"
"What?!" all of them exclaimed. Surely that wasn't true!
"Think about it!" Jake reluctantly agreed. "It's probably cuz'a that prank…"
"Yeh… Ah think we mighta gone a lit'l too far with th' naughty list stuff…" Tadao admitted. "Now…" he turned to look at the rock tunnel that led out of their valley. "Now ar lil sista's out there… all 'lone…"
"Ahem!" Sabrina exclaimed. "Are you forgetting that our baby brothers are missing?!" she demanded, gesturing around at the others.
Her angry eyes softened after a few moments, turning sad and faraway. "Poor thing…" they may have enjoyed picking on them, but… they'd never wanted something like this to happen. She felt her heart clench. Poor Squint… poor kids in general, out there, probably cold and hopelessly lost, most likely hungry and vulnerable to predators- PREDATORS! Oh good grief this was worse than they ever thought!
"What" she gulped audibly. "What if… something got them?"
"L-Like…" Rosalynn didn't like where this was going.
"A saber! Wolf! Leopard! Anything!" they all got looks of absolute horror on their faces.
"Oh my- w-we've gotta do something!"
"What? We have no idea where they are! They could be anywhere by now!"
"Well, um- uh…" Dzoita couldn't think straight when flustered. "Well… think how a kid would!" they all tried it, considering what their siblings might've been feeling when they'd played that prank… and paled considerably.
"Oh no…"
"They wouldn't…"
"But what else makes sense?"
"That's suicide! They'll freeze to death or something!"
"We can talk about it on the way! We have to go!"
"Wait!" Crystal held her arms out. "Shouldn't we tell our parents first? Moms already losing it. What'll they do if we disappear too?" they all gulped, knowing she was right. They were in for one heck of a grounding…
-Elsewhere-
Squint heard voices. And not the 'he's going crazy' type of voices.
"What should we do with them?"
"I th-" whoever it was was cut off.
"We're gonna have to do the right thing and take em with us, aren't we?" a slightly annoyed, definitely more than a bit arrogant voice asked.
"Yep. Probably." At this Squint shot up into a sitting position. His head throbbed, and everything hurt, but he still managed to back away. Take them? Take them where? He didn't like the sound of that…
"Hey kid, relax. We ain't gonna hurtcha."
He looked up and met the faces of two reindeer. He scrambled back, effectively falling off Raz, who he had sprawled across when they fell down that hill due to mist, onto the snowy ground. The movement made her stir, shifting, almost like-
"No! Don't!" too late. She rolled over and he choked, breath cut off.
"Raz!" he yelled, pushing desperately on her side. "I can't breathe!"
"Huh?" she sat up, finding her poor friend flattened in the snow. "My mah gosh! Ah- Ah'm sorr'eh!" she carefully peeled him out the snow. "Ye alrigh?"
"Ok, um, OW!" he grumbled, rubbing his head.
"Ah'm s' sorry!" she apologized, but her eyes were twinkling with humor. "S'metime Ah git restless an move aroun a lot in m' sleep."
"Gee, really? I didn't notice."
She laughed… until someone cleared their throat behind them, and she jumped, turning. They were both watching the two friends. "Uh… 'ello?"
"Hi!" the one with a tannish coat chirped cheerily, giving them an almost suspiciously friendly smile. "I'm Vixen!"
"Ok…"
"And I'm… uh…"
"Aye?"
"…Prancer." They shared looks for a moment. One second, two seconds… they both burst into a fit of hysterical laughing.
"Seriously?!"
"Ow! Oh my sides!" Raz slammed both paws over her mouth, dropping Squint in the process. "Ow!" he clamped his fingers over his mouth as well.
"Ah'm sorr'eh, Ah'm sorr'eh, I just-"
"Yeah, yeah, I know." He looked a little upset, but almost bored too, like he was used to it. Neither child would be surprised. Yeesh, that must've made him a target for bullying as a child. "So" he started, surveying the others as they began to stir. "What're you seven doing in the middle of, well, nowhere?"
"Well-" there was a high pitched squeak, and something rammed right into his eye, making him recoil and grasp it with a pained yelp. Glowbot fluttered in front of her, waving one tiny finger in his face, squeaking and chattering angrily.
"Oi! Glowbot!" she held out a finger, and after a few more unhappy shrieks, he happily perched on it. "There ye are! Ah was worr'ed y'd got crushed 'er something." He squeaked happily and fluttered up to her cheek, rubbing affectionately against it. She laughed, finding it slightly ticklish.
"Hey, where's Lightning?" Squint asked. "Lightning!" and the little glowing bug, although he wasn't technically glowing at the moment, perched on his ear, which he flopped in front of his face to see the little insect. "Hi Lightning."
"Um, hello? Still here." They turned back to the hoofed mammals, who'd recovered from the eye-bash that Raz secretly found amusing.
"An… yer point?"
He heaved a sigh. "I said, what're you little guys doing out in the middle of nowhere?"
Squint crossed his arms. "I'm not little! And who says we have to tell you anyway?" he continued smartly with a teasing, yet somehow angelic and innocent, smirk. He used that on a lot of adults should they ever get mad at him; it let them know he'd one, but that's where the sweet part came in. nobody could stay mad at any of them when they wore those sweet, sad ' I really didn't mean to' smiles.
"Uh… no one. Just wondering."
"Well." Raz pushed herself up with her tail, considering getting up all other ways was pretty much impossible, because she couldn't move her legs in anything but perfect synch, and the others rose too. "T' bad. We ain't tellin ya nothin. We go' things ta do an' places ta be." And with that they marched off, unaware those rather nosy four legged mammals were following them in a way they could never imagine…
Surprised to see them? Yeah, sorry, I just needed an extra plot twist, and a way to make their trip go a little faster. Don't worry, I'll get to that eventually.
So what'dja think? Not too bad, I hope? Please review!
P.S. Points and a special shout out to whoever can guess the fireflies name-givers (I don't wanna say owners, cuz they're not pets), or the most.