It has been about an hour after Roark and his pack came out of nowhere and surrounded them. They were all huddled together and the sabers were just standing around them with murderous glares on their faces and Roark was pacing back and forth impatiently.
"Okay, let me ask you again, where is Diego?" He asked menacingly.
"I have honestly no idea." Manny said.
"You know what a good thing about being a saber is Mammoth; we can always tell when someone is lying." He said.
"Hey no one is lying here, we don't know where Diego is, now why don't you just leave?" Louis demanded.
"Can it bite size, or otherwise you're dinner." Roark threatened.
Louis stepped back near Peaches and the other teenagers.
"Now all of you listen, if you want to live to see the next sunrise, you will tell me what I want to know." He commanded.
Nobody answered, and as predicted, Roark got angry but he did his best not to fly off the handle because he knew that was not going to get anything done.
"Okay, you don't want to tell me, fine, there are other ways to get what we want." He said.
He then instantly lunged and pinned Sid down to the ground much to everyone's shock.
"AHHH, please I don't to die!" he begged.
"What are going to do to him?" Ellie asked.
"Tell me what I want to know, or else the sloth is going to have his entrails scattered all over the ground." He explained.
"Whoa hey I like my insides where they are." He cried.
"Oh be a man Sidney." Granny said.
"You're not helping Granny." He shouted.
"Now are any of you going to co-operate?" Roark asked.
The herd knew they were in a bind; Manny looked over to Sid as Roark loomed over him ready to make the kill. Sid was terrified beyond belief as the ferocious beast was staring down at him, he looked up to see a pair of black soulless eyes that penetrated his very soul, and every breath the saber took hit Sid right in the face and it reeked of raw meat.
"What the heck do we do?" Eddie asked.
"Give me a second to think." Manny said.
"Manny, they're going to kill Sid." Crash said.
"And if we say anything, they're going to kill Diego." He said.
"Still no talkers? Ok." Roark said.
Roark raised his paw to make the kill, and everyone as was tense fearing about the outcome of the situation. He was about to execute Sid on sight, but then someone spoke up.
"Look we don't know where he went, it's not like he went hunting or anything!" Crash shouted.
"Crash?!" Ellie scorned.
Crash instantly recognized his mistake and covered his mouth, unfortunately that didn't stop Roark from hearing him, but luckily he put his claw down and Sid wasn't dead yet.
"What was that?" He asked.
"Nothing." Crash said.
"Yeah, he didn't say anything like how Diego was out hunting and he may be back sometime tomorrow." Eddie blurted out.
"Eddie!" Ellie said.
"We're sorry, but whenever we get scared or nervous we just automatically tell the truth, you know this Ellie." Crash explained.
"Well now was that so hard?" Roark asked.
Roark got off Sid and he instantly scrambled behind Manny and started shaking.
"Now that have the information I need, getting Diego will be so much easier." He said.
"Good for you, now why don't you just let us go?" Manny asked.
"Oh I'm sorry, but I can't do that." He said.
"Why not?" Ethan asked.
"Excellent question; you see, judging from the fact that you weren't so willing to tell me where Diego was, and that you have history with him, leads me to the conclusion that you are very good friends with Diego, and that if I let you go, you're probably going to try to warn him about me, and well I just can allow that to happen." Roark explained.
"Wow, he's good." Louis commented.
"Another perk of being a saber." He said.
"Ok now what do we do?" Zeke asked.
"Simple, we wait for Diego." Roark said.
"What, but we know where he is." Oscar said.
"We only know that he is hunting, we do not know where he's hunting; we would be wandering this jungle for hours, maybe even days." Roark explained.
"So we just wait here for Diego?" Lenny asked.
"Yes, and when he gets here, we jump him and rip him to pieces." Roark said.
The herd was shocked at his plan, their friend was going to be killed, and they may have just helped them succeed.
"Ok, this is bad." Louis said.
"What, the fact that they're going to kill Diego, or the fact that we may have just helped them in doing so?" Manny asked.
"Both." He said.
"Dad, I think Sid is really freaked out." Peaches said.
Everyone looked and saw that Sid had gone into the fetal position and rocking back and forth while mumbling to himself.
"Sid, Sid, are you okay?" Manny asked.
Sid didn't answer, he just continued to mumble to himself and everyone was getting worried.
"Sid, come on buddy talk to me." Manny said.
"Is he okay?" Peaches asked.
"Looks like he's in shock." Ellie said.
"How did we snap him out of out of it?" Crash asked.
"Leave that to me." Granny said.
Granny walked over to Sid and she took her walking stick and hit Sid over the head with it and he instantly stood up.
"What happened?" Sid asked looking around.
"How come we didn't think of that?" Eddie asked.
"Sid, are you okay?" Shira asked.
"Yeah, except for the large wave of terror that washed over me." He said.
"What do you mean?" Manny asked.
"When that saber pinned me down, looked into his eyes… and you know they say that the eyes are the windows to the soul?" He asked.
"Yeah." Manny said.
"Well, there was nothing in those eyes. He's a soulless monster." He said.
"Jeez Sid you were really freaked out." Crash said.
Oscar was surveying the herd, but then he stopped when he spotted Shira in the crowd, he called over Lenny and Zeke to take a look and they were impressed with what they see.
"Whoa, who is she?" Zeke asked.
"I don't know, but I wouldn't mind meeting her." Lenny said.
The three walked over to the group and towards Shira who when she saw them coming knew this wasn't going to be good.
"Oh no." She said to herself.
"Well hello there little lady. What is your name?" Oscar asked.
"It's none of your business and I'm not interested." She retorted.
"Oh feisty." Zeke commented.
"How about we get to know each other a little more?" Lenny asked.
"How about no." She said.
"Oh come on." Oscar said.
"Are you three deaf, she says she's not interested, she's not interested." Ellie said.
"Hey mind your own business mammoth!" Oscar ordered.
"Hey watch what you say to my wife!" Manny said.
"You want to get mauled mammoth!" Zeke retorted.
"Enough!" Roark shouted.
Everyone stopped fighting and Roark approached Shira and sniffed her.
"I smell Diego on you." He said.
"What?" Oscar asked.
"Apparently you and Diego are 'close'?" He inquired.
Shira said nothing, she just had a look of concern because she did not like where this was going.
"Oh yeah that's fair, we nearly starve to death and Diego gets a hot girlfriend." Zeke complained.
"The three of you leave." He ordered.
The trio did as he ordered, and Roark went up to Rico and whispered into his ear.
"Make sure none of the others touch her, when this is over, she's mine, I'm going to get my revenge of Diego in more ways than one." He said.
Shira was worried, but she could think about where Diego was and how they're going to get out of this mess.