Chapter 5: Couriosity (Almost) killed the cat
"'Ello tiger! and mini tiger, " tuned his attention to the scared little ball of fluff on Diegos stomach, then back to Diego," What brings you 'ere?"
"The earthquake, we fell though the ice and.." Diego trailed off.
"Oh yeah, that, well your welcome to stay here for as long as you like" he said.
"Wait a minute," Andi pipped up, she jumped off the tree and landed on her feet, "Who are you?"
"The name's Buck, short for buckminster, long for buh" he said. Andi thought to herself, Could this be the same buck that my dad and the herd talk about or is this just some other weasel who lives in the dino world... Nope it's buck.
"Dad, is he?" Andi asked her father still in the tree.
"Yes, that's...your uncle Buck" Diego said before falling out of the tree and landing with an 'oof!'
"Wait a second, you have a kid?" Buck asked shocked.
"Kids, two of 'em and a mate" diego replied.
"Well nice to meet you, eh, whats your name?" Buck asked the awed child.
"Andi" she said.
"Anyway you can get us back home?" Diego asked.
"Well, I'm going to need three teradactyls, ten puonds of ammo, a big hammer, and a slingshot, or maybe a dead dinosaur?" Buck asked himelf. Meanwhile, Diego rolled his eyes and Andi had a 'What-the-heck!" look on her face.
"The safe way Buck" Diego said.
"Alright, uh well, we will need to go through the treacherous cliffs, then the river of lost souls, next the maze of sanity, and lastly we will need to climb that mountain" he said and pointed to a large mountain that had gone through the ice and emerged through the other side.
"Great but, how long will that take?" Diego asked.
"How am I supposed to know, never been there" Buck said.
"Perfect" Diego said flatly.
"'ey! Where did the mini tiger go?" Buck asked.
"What?" Diego said confused, then he understood," Andi! Andi!"
"DADDY!" A voice shrieked.
"Andi! we're comin'" Diego yelled and ran in the direction of the yelp.
Andi was perched on a high cliff, and the earthquake had made alot of rubble fall twords her. She dodged whatever she could but, she was hit. But she managed to stay up, and keep fighting. She saw here dad and Buck at the bottom of the cliff.
"Andi!" Diego yelled. She turned around and saw a very scared Diego and buck," Look out!" Diego yelled. She looked infront of her and dodged a large boulder. She saw a piece of the mountiain fall and she froze.
"Andi! Andi!," Diego yelled repeatedly, but she was still frozen by fear, "ANDI!" Diego yelled at the top of his lungs, she turned to him.
"You have to jump!" Buck yelled.
"What? are you insane!" She yelled back.
"A little bit" was Bucks reply.
"Just jump, I'll catch you" Diegp yelled. Andi looked up and saw the huge piece of rock falling twords her. She jumped. Diego ran and caught her, just before the rock landed on the ground.
"Come on!" Buck yelled and lead them to a sort of safe clearing.
Andi was still shocked, so much that she was shaking. Diego layed down and put her in his forepaws. She sat there shocked scared and her fur ruffed up. Diego licked her to try and calm her down, but all that went down was her fur.
"Did I really dodge death today?" She asked in voice a little louder than a whisper.
"You get used to it" Buck replied. Diego frowned at him.
"I'll make the fire" Buck said noticing the light was going down.
"Your gonna be okay" Diego reasured her. She gave him a soft smile and snuggled up into his chest.
"Love you,dad" She said and closed her eyes.
"Love you too" Diego replied and layed his head down next to her.
Buck made his little fire and relaxed in a tree. There was a little cricket that wouldn't stop making noise. Buck put it on the ground and tried to sleep but it hopped back up and started to make noise again. Buck threw in on the ground again. And again the cicket came up. Both reapeted this prosess about ten times and then the cicket came up. Buck decided he had enough and picked up his knife. Without looking he used the side of the knife to cush cricket and go back to sleep.
Shira was worried. It was night time and they still weren't back.
"Whats taking them so long?" She asked.
"Maybe Andi go eaten by something and dad is trying to figure out how to tell you" Alex said. His mother frowned at him. Alex slumped back to a laying down position.
"Matbe they're just lost" Sid said.
"No, both Diego and Andi are more than capable of finding their way back" Shira said.
"Can't you track them to see where they went?" Ellie asked.
"Your right, hopefully the scent hasn't gotten cold, I'll be back okay?" She said to Alex. He nodded back.
Shira ran out of the cave and tried to pick up Diego's scent. She couldn't but she found Andi's. It lead her to a cliff and when she looked down she saw a large hole in the ice.
The next morning the took the herd to the hole.
"Oh- no" Manny said.
"What?" Shira asked worriedly.
"They fell through here and now..." Manny trailed off.
"What?What?" She asked.
"They're in dinoland now" Manny said.
"What!" Shira yelled, "We have to get them, we need to go and rescue them, it could be dangerous!" She started to freak out.
"Shira calm down, Buck will get them out" Crash said.
"Yeah, he helped us get out" Eddie said.
"That crazy lunatic!" She said remembering the story of Dinotopia.
"I know it sounds bad,but don't worry Buck knows that place like the back of his paw" Sid said proudly.
"You better be right" Shira said worriedly.