Sid was walking through the forest looking for Granny; now to Sid this was a normal activity because of Granny's capacity to disappear without a trace. He walked around for a good ten minutes looking for her, but it was getting difficult.
"Here Granny Granny Granny." He called out.
He checked every place that she could hide, inside trees, in bushes, under rock, everywhere and it was getting tiresome.
"Granny, do we have to do this all the time?" He called out again.
He continued to walk, but stopped when he heard something, it sounded like a twig snapping, he looked around to see where it can from, but didn't see anything so he kept on looking for Granny.
"Granny, come out, come out where ever you are?" He asked.
He was stopped again by another sound, this one louder than before.
"Hello?" He asked.
There was no response, not a sound made, he decided to ignore it and move on. But, then he heard loud rustling coming from the bushes and that made him fall over in shock, he got up and saw movement in the bushes and he was instantly scared of what was going to come out, maybe a cute little bunny, or a huge scary animal that would eat his face off.
"Okay whoever you are lurking in the bushes, please don't jump out and rip me limb from limb." He begged.
There was no response, just more rustling in the bushes.
"Okay buddy, I should warn you I'm not as weak as I look…Ok maybe I am, but I'm friends with mammoths and sabers so you better watch out." He warned.
Then something came out of the bushes and he screamed as loud as he could and braced for whatever was coming. But, after a few seconds nothing happened and wondered if he was already dead.
"What are you screaming at?" A sassy voice asked him.
Sid looked up and saw none other than Granny standing in front of him holding a piece of fruit, Sid stood up and then took a deep breath of relief.
"Oh Granny thank goodness." He said.
"Yeah it's me, now why'd you just scream like a little girl?" She asked.
"Because I thought you were some kind of animal." He said.
"I am an animal Sidney, we're all animals." She said.
"I meant a predator that would have ripped me to shreds." He said.
"You live with two cats with big teeth, grow a spine." She said.
"Granny where were you?" He asked.
"Getting something to eat." She answered.
"We have food back at the valley." He said.
"Yeah, but the best fruit grows over there." She said pointing behind her.
"Whatever, come on Granny everyone's got to be worried about us." He said.
The two sloths walked back to the others, unaware that Roark and his pack are coming for them. We then shift to Louis, Ethan and several other teenage mammoths playing sports. Ever since the incident with the pirates, all the other teenagers have been much nicer to Louis, he and Ethan have even been hanging out. Now Ethan and the other mammoths normally toss a turtle around, but since Louis wanted to try the game, they tried to find something smaller for substitute. They finally figured out that they could use a coconut as the new ball; now they were all throwing the coconut around, Ethan and Louis were playing against two other mammoths, which would seem to not be a fair game, but surprisingly, Louis' small size and ability to dig comes in handy.
"Alright here comes the pass." Ethan shouted.
He threw the coconut as hard as he could to Louis and he was wide open but one of the other mammoths got in front for an interception and caught it, he then threw it to his teammate, but Ethan managed to tackle him and the coconut fell on the ground. As the opposite team tried to retrieve it, but then Louis came out of the ground and grabbed it, he looked around and saw that Ethan was blocked and that there was a large mammoth standing in his way. But then he got an idea, he quickly started digging and soon he was carrying the coconut while moving through a tunnel, and then he popped out the other side in their make shift touchdown zone.
"Score." He yelled.
"Yes." Ethan shouted.
He came running and gave Louis a fist bump with his trunk; however the other team weren't so happy.
"Hey man no fair." One of them said.
"What?" Louis asked.
"You can't just travel underground, that's got to be against the rules." He said.
"Hey man, there was no rule against digging." Louis retorted.
"Yeah come on." Ethan said.
"Fine, but how about one more game, first point wins." He explained.
"Okay." Louis said.
"Also, no digging." He said.
"Either way, we are going to win." Ethan said.
Both teams separated and huddled together to formulate a play, both teams peaked over to see what the other was doing, and then they broke the huddle and got into position.
"Alright go!" Ethan shouted.
They immediately dispersed and Ethan was the one holding the coconut, he looked and saw Louis was wide open, he threw the coconut, but one of the other mammoths intercepted the catch and was making a dash for the touchdown zone, luckily Ethan got in front of him. He responded by throwing it to his teammate, but he threw a little too hard which caused the coconut to fly over his head and into the woods.
"Nice throw." He said sarcastically.
"Aw man, that was our last ball." Ethan said.
"Don't worry, I'll get it." Louis said.
The little molehog ran into the jungle to retrieve the coconut. He looked around a few moments, but then stop when he got a very weird feeling as if something was watching him. He chose to ignore it and kept on looking; he finally found it near a tree and picked it up. Unfortunately when he turned around, he was greeted by a pair of large furious eyes, he gasped and stepped back to see that they belonged to a large saber-toothed tiger that was looking at him and with hunger in his eyes. He tried to back away but there was another one standing right behind him, the two sabers started to close in on him, but luckily he used his digging abilities to tunnel his way under them and then he popped out of the ground and made a quick dash for the valley. The sabers chased after him with others joining them; Louis ran as fast as he could and finally met up with Ethan and the other mammoths.
"There you are, where's the ball?" He asked.
Louis tried to speak, but he was out of breath, he couldn't even get a coherent thought out of his mouth.
"Louis what's wrong?" Peaches asked concern.
Louis still couldn't say anything, he was still breathing heavily, and all he could do was point in the direction he came from.
"Okay I think he's trying to tell us something." Steffie said.
He then started pounding on his chest to get his heart beating again and breathing normally, he coughed a few times and he finally said what he needed to say.
"RUN!" He shouted.
The other teens were confused but then they got what he meant when they heard a loud roar from the jungle, then suddenly several very angry sabers leaped out into the opening.
"Whoa!" Ethan shouted.
"Hey guys, run!" Louis repeated.
They all took his advice and they ran as fast as they could into the valley where the other animals were. Peaches ran into her parents who were with Shira, Sid, Granny, Eddie and Crash.
"Peaches, what's wrong?" Manny asked.
Before Peaches could answer, there was more screaming from other animals that were running down into the open.
"What's going on?" Shira asked.
Then as if to answer her question, a large number of sabers came out into the open, all of them snarling and ready to attack. Everyone was shocked and some of them were terrified, especially Sid who hid behind Manny.
"Get them into a group!" Rico ordered.
All the sabers rounded up the other animals and started herding them into one spot until all of them were standing in a large group, and everyone just watched as the sabers circled them menacingly.
"Who are these guys?" Manny asked.
"Please tell me these are friends of yours?" Sid asked Shira.
"Wish I could, but no they're not." Shira said.
They watched cautiously as the sabers continued to circle them, what they thought was strange was the fact that they weren't trying to eat them.
"What do these guys want?" Eddie asked.
"I don't know." Manny said.
"Maybe we should just ask them." Sid said.
Before anyone could criticize his idea Granny was already walking towards one of the sabers.
"Granny!" Sid said.
"Hey fellas, we were wondering why you guys are here?" She asked.
The sabers glared at her and snarled, quickly Ellie picked her up with her trunk.
"They didn't seem like talking." She said.
"Well, well, well, look who it is." A voice said.
They all turned to see where the voice had come from and saw Lenny, Oscar and Zeke approaching them with an arrogant look on their faces.
"Oh no, not these guys again." Sid said.
Manny was shocked to see the three of them again, he was sure that they wouldn't have to worry about them since Soto died.
"Happy to see us again Mammoth?" Oscar asked.
"As much as ticks." Manny said.
"Manny you know these guys?" Ellie asked.
"Unfortunately yes." He said.
"Oh you never told them about us, I'm kind of hurt here." Lenny said.
"Everyone, say hello to Oscar, Lenny and Zeke." Manny said.
"Pleasure to meet all of you." Oscar said.
"More like pleasure to maul all of you." Zeke said.
Almost everyone was scared by that statement, except Manny, Ellie, Peaches, and Shira.
"And how do you know these guys?" Peaches asked.
"We stopped them from trying to kill a baby." Sid said.
"Wait, you mean these are…" Ellie started off.
"Diego's old pack." Manny finished.
"Oh so you have told them about us." Oscar said.
"Actually, I mostly talked about your crazy pack leader." He said.
"You mean the one you guys killed!" Zeke said.
"Hey he had it coming." Sid retorted, but quickly sank back when they glared at him.
As Shira listened to them talking she couldn't help but be surprised that Diego used to be in a pack with these guys. She also wondered where Diego was right now, but her thoughts were interrupted by a loud roar which everyone heard. They looked to where it came from and were shocked to see a large saber with a scar over his eye standing on the rocks; he then walked down towards the herd with a murderous look in his eyes.
"Ok this doesn't look good." Sid said.
The saber came over to them and he slowly looked at them one at a time, then he began to speak.
"Which one of you is the mammoth who killed Soto?" He asked.
"That would me." Manny said.
"Ah so you're the one who killed my brother." He said.
"Brother?!" Manny asked in shock.
"Yes, yes, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Roark." He said.
"Hold on can we go back to the part where you're Soto's brother?" Sid said.
"Ah yes, my brother, we never really made much contact, but when I heard of what happened, well I might as well pay to one's responsible a visit." He explained.
"Alright look buddy, whatever revenge you got planed, it's not going to work." Manny said.
Roark quickly unsheathed his claws and in lightning speed slashed at Manny but stopped his claws mere centimeters away from his eye, leaving Manny speechless.
"Now if I can continue uninterrupted." He said threateningly.
Manny didn't say a word, he just glared at Roark.
"Now don't get your trunk in a knot mammoth, it's not you I'm after, at least not yet." He said.
"Then what do you want?" Sid asked.
"What I want is to find that traitor Diego." He said.
"And do you want with Diego?" Ellie asked, although they all know the answer.
"Why, I'm going to kill him of course." He said.
"Why, he didn't kill your brother." Manny said.
"Oh he did, maybe not directly, but he betrayed his pack and my brother, and that led to his death. Now, where is he?" he asked.
All the animals remained silent, some because they didn't want to sell out Diego and others because they didn't know where he was.
"No answer, no matter, I'll find his eventually, and when I do, I'm going to make him wish he was never born." He stated.
The herd was getting scared about the whole situation, especially Shira because she was scared that this was going to end badly.
"Oh Diego where are you?" She asked herself.
Meanwhile near the center of the island, Diego was crouched low behind some tall grass. After hours of searching, he had managed to track down the herd of deer that were grazing in a large field. He stayed low and moved slowly towards his prey, unfortunately, he stepped on a twig and it snapped causing the deer to run.
"Aw man." He said.
He quickly gave chase to them and after a few minutes he managed to get one separated from the main herd. With a powerful leap, he pounced on the buck and closed his jaw on his neck and kept a tight hold until the body went limp. He then started to drag it back home, but after traveling a few meters, he started to get tired, he stopped and rested for a bit.
"Man this is work; it's going to be a challenge to get this thing back home, but hopefully this will convince Shira to forgive me" He said.
He got up and walked towards his kill but then stopped and thought.
"I wonder what everyone else is doing?" he asked himself.