Chapter seven: A Short Reunion
"Hi…" Sam nervously said.
"What are you guys doing here?" D'Arie asked.
"Looking for you and who is this?" Manny asked getting mad.
"Easy Manny this is Shira's and Diego's territory." Ellie said.
"What I can't protect my niece?" Manny asked.
"News flash Manny he's the one that saved her from Rudy." Ellie said.
"Oh…sorry." Manny said.
"What's your name?" Ellie asked politely.
"Sam…my name is Sam." Sam said shaking their trunks.
"Wow he's got a strong handshake there." Manny said.
Ellie and D'Arie rolled their eyes.
"Where are the others?" Ellie asked.
"Back over there Sam and I can go get them." D'Arie said.
"Alright we're camping over those two trees, get them and go straight there no sight-seeing am I understood?" Ellie said.
The two sabers nodded their heads.
Meanwhile…
D'Arie and Sam were shocked when they saw Manny at the campsite.
"What…How…?" D'Arie stuttered.
"D'Arie it's not my dad" Peaches said.
"Well then…Oh my god don't tell me that's Cheyenne Manny's twin." D'Arie said.
The teens nodded.
"Well then you're in luck we just saw Manny and Ellie at the pond." D'Arie said.
"Well let's go then, I can't wait to see what Manny face is going to look like." Sam said as they began making their way to the herd.
Meanwhile…
The herd woke up seeing that Manny and Ellie were already up.
"Morning" Shira said.
"Morning," Manny said as he sat down.
"Hey still upset about your sister?" Shira asked.
"I'm coping thanks to you guys," Manny said.
Meanwhile…
The teens were walking to the herd.
Louis then walked into a large spider web, "pfff…eww!" He complained.
They looked back, "oh sorry Louis, you should really watch where you're going through," Cheyenne said as she wiped the web off.
"Oh my, look at that!" D'Arie said as she pointed at his chest.
Louis looked down, D'Arie then used her finger to flick his head up.
"Aha, gotcha!" D'Arie joked.
"Aha very funny D'Arie," Louis said as he continued walking.
"Hey you'll find the words to say to him don't fret, let him do that part," D'Arie and Peaches said.
"Alright…" Cheyenne started as she saw a spider on Louis back.
"Uh…Louis," Sam and Ethan said.
"Nope I'm not falling for that again," Louis said.
"No really Louis we're not joking anymore," Jade said.
Louis then felt something crawling on him; he looked back and saw a tarantula.
"AHHHHHHHH!" he screamed and ran his scream made D'Arie, Sam, and Jade lose hearing.
"I never knew he could scream that loud, or run like that?" D'Arie said as they ran after him.
Meanwhile…
The herd heard a loud scream.
"I know that scream it's…" Diego started.
"Louis!" Shira said as the little mole hog came screaming on the scene.
They all looked at him with wide eyes, until Granny came up to him and started whacking him with her cane.
"Stop making *whack* racket *whack*" she cranked.
The teens then stopped behind the trees as Ethan said
"Well Granny has claimed another victim again."
D'Arie, Sam, Katie, Jade, Derek, Steffie, and Meghan giggled.
They stopped when Peaches looked at them.
"Sorry," D'Arie and Sam said as their ears went down.
"Aww I love it when your ears go down like that!" Peaches squealed slightly.
Granny still was whacking Louis.
Alright, that's enough Granny," Manny said as he took Granny off of Louis.
Just then the rest of the teens walked out.
"D'ARIE!" Shira and Diego shouted.
"MOM, DAD!" D'Arie shouted as they embraced one another.
"PEACHES!" Manny and Ellie said as they too embraced.
Manny then turned to Ethan and said
"Good job."
"Thank you sir," Ethan said.
"Mom, dad this is Sam," D'Arie introduced.
Diego went up to him and said
"Thank you for saving my daughter."
"You're welcome," Sam said.
"What happened?" Manny asked.
"Well, Gutt came back kidnapped us thinking he'll get Manny over to him once again, D'Arie got us out," Ethan explained.
*Sniff* D'Arie was smelling a sweet aroma and said "Do you guys smell that?"
"No what is it?" Diego and Shira asked "Is something coming?"
"No, but it's a sweet smell," D'Arie replied as she kept sniffing.
"I can smell it too," Sam said as he caught wind of it.
"Me too, it smells appetizing," Jade said.
Just as if on cue D'Arie's, Sam's, and Jade's stomachs roared.
"It smells like deer meat with buffalo meat stuffed inside," D'Arie said as she took after the smell.
"D'ARIE, wait!" they all exclaimed as they went after her.
"Do you think it's the catnip?" Shira asked Diego.
"No, because Jade wouldn't be able to smell it," Diego replied.
D'Arie then stopped and saw the deer meat with buffalo meat fused into it on a tree stump.
"Oh come on why?" she said as she started back.
*Growl* D'Arie then jumped down and went to the stump.
"That's it girl go get the meat," a voice said as he aimed a stick at her.
"Come to mama *bite*" D'Arie ate the meat.
*Blow* "Ouch! *starts seeing fuzzy things* Uggh…not…again *faints*" D'Arie said as she fell but a male saber caught her.
"Oh not yet sweetie you are needed," the saber said as he put her on his back and left.
Meanwhile, the herd had arrived at where D'Arie's footprints have stopped.
"Well there's the meat, but where's D'Arie?" Peaches asked.
"Maybe she went the wrong way?" Crash suggested.
"No, no way she got her tracking skills from me and I can track anything down," Shira said as she saw footprints.
"Oh no, don't tell me she went after the meat, I thought she was smarter than that?" Diego said as they went down.
"Well she was hungry, when have you guys eaten?" Shira asked the teens.
"Ummm…the last time we saw you guys," Ethan replied as he helped Ellie down.
"Thank you," Ellie thanked.
"That long! No wonder you three could only smell it you guys were starving," Diego said as he then saw another pair of paw prints.
"Another saber," Sam said as he examined it.
"Guys look," Eddie exclaimed as he showed him a dart.
"I've only seen humans with those, how did the saber get that?" Manny said as he saw it.
"Well I know one thing we better find him before he does something to her," Ellie said as she picked up her brothers.
"What a short reunion," Eddie said as they followed the track.