A/N: Hey, so here's chapter two of Strange Blues Eyes. Again, no flames please.
Disclaimer: forgot to put this in last chapter. So anyway, I don't own Ice Age. But that's obvious, right?
Louis and Peaches walked lazily through the forest, trying to figure out what they wanted to do.
"Wanna hang out by that cool boulder we found last week?" asked Peaches.
"Nah, I think I'll pass after what happened last time." Louis shuddered at the memory of Peaches falling off that boulder and landing two centimeters away from his face.
"Oh, yeah sorry about that." Peaches apologized.
"It's alright." Louis replied.
Louis raised his palm- like hand to shield his eyes from the sun. It was unusually hot that day and he knew he wasn't the only one who felt the heat. Things have been heating up dramatically since the continents split.
"Wanna go to the beach and swim? It's really hot today." Louis inquired.
"Heck, yeah! Last one there is a rotten egg!" And with that Peaches was sent racing out of the forest to the beach with Louis on her tail, digging right behind her. They were neck- and - neck as they raced to the shoreline. Peaches won and was cheering in her victory while Louis pulled himself out of is hole, hands on his knees and breathing heavy.
"I win Louis! Woo hoo!" Peaches shouted.
"Thanks... for the information... Peaches." Louis replied between breathes.
Peaches then proceeded to wave her trunk in front of her face and make disgusted noises.
"What?" Louis asked.
"You smell bad Mr. Rotten Egg!" she replied laughing.
Louis sighed and rolled his eyes. He loved Peaches, but sometimes she took games way too seriously. Louis then ran into the water of the cool refreshing sea, followed by Peaches. The two had fun splashing around and enjoyed each other's company for several hours. But Louis couldn't help but think about his situation with Peaches while they were hanging out.
'She's so beautiful' he thought, 'But I could never have her. She really likes Ethan and sees me only as a friend. And even if she did like me, it's not like our relationship would really work out. She's a mammoth, I'm a molehog. I don't think I'll ever really find a girl that's just right for me.'
Little did our favorite molehog know he may wrong about never finding a girl just right for him.
Sapphire went about her normal business that day: get up, fix the fur on top of her head so it might somewhat hide her badly scared left eye, play with her little brother and sister, Jackson and Molly, then go digging. Her love of digging seemed to be the only thing that hasn't changed about her since her home was destroyed and her parents were killed. If anything she has grown to love it now more than ever, it's been one of the few things that could console her in the aftermath of her parents' death. She would dig all day and come home a dirty mess but she didn't care, the cool part was digging was faster than walking and that allowed her to see more of the island and go more places. Being underground also allowed her to hid her face from anyone who might see her.
Sapphire was digging her way home and came up temporarily for some fresh air. But as she surfaced she was directly in front of a female mammoth and a male molehog who both looked about her age. She quickly turned her face away slightly, not allowing them to get a glace at the left side of her face. Although her fur helped, it couldn't completely hide her overwhelmingly noticeable scar.
"Uh, s-sorry about that." she meekly apologized.
"Hey don't worry about it." replied Peaches
"Yeah, that kind of thing happens to me all the time." Louis sympathized with her.
"So what's your name? We haven't really seen a lot of molehogs around here." Peaches asked.
Sapphire was growing increasingly nervous, she knew first hand how cruel kids her age can be. "Um, I'm Sapphire."
"Nice to meet you Sapphire. I'm Peaches," she pointed her trunk down at Louis, "And this is Louis."
Louis waved at the shy girl "Hello."
"Um, it's nice to meet you guys but I uh, I really need to go." And with that Sapphire dug back into the ground and scurried at break neck speeds back home.
"Huh, that was weird. She must've been really shy." Peaches concluded.
"Yeah" Louis agreed with a nod.
Something about her made Louis think. He silently wondered as he and Peaches parted ways why she seemed to want to hide her face from them. There was one other thing about her that struck him as odd. Her eyes. Or eye he supposed, since he only saw one of them. Her eye was blue but it was a rather unnatural blue. It was a dark color that he guessed would be pretty close to cobalt. A color that could be compared to a... sapphire. He figured that must be how she got her name.
As Louis reached his family's burrow he decided he was going to find her the next day, he was sure Peaches would go with him. That girl looked like she needed a friend. And being a pretty shy guy himself, he knew what it was like to not have friends. That's what his life was like before he met Peaches. And he could remember acting just like Sapphire before Peaches came along, he tended to avoid social situations and was nervous around other people. It was thanks to Peaches for helping him break out of his shell a little.
As Louis laid down to go to sleep, one thing was still weighing on his mind: Sapphire's big, dark blue eye.
A/N: So, you like? Will Louis and Peaches find Sapphire? Will Sapphire even want to go with them? Find out next time on Strange Blue Eyes.