Awesome! We're now finally on the road trip with the famous trio! Or rather, the famous quartet cuz...y'know, Taura's involved. Anywho, hope u guys liked that last long chapter, got a triple amount of views from that, so YAY! XD Decided 'Meh, whatdaheck, make this one long as well!
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some1 u dont no: First of all, thank you for having the decency to at least say that the story is good. I'll respect ur opinion that Diego is better off with Shira, but if my 'fucking female bitch' pisses you off so much, then just don't read the fucking story!
GoldenSaber: Yay! Glad to know that you're starting to like her! And I tried to keep it descriptive without rambling a bit too much, so glad to know that u liked that as well! Hope u like this chapter!
TimberPaw: Well, it would kind of make sense that all sabers can communicate with each other telepathically, as it would help them communicate during hunting and stuff. Plus, it would have been rather difficult for me to add in Taura in the stories if she had no way of somehow telling Diego her funny remarks. I really hope I finish the first movie soon, can't wait for my Ice Age 2 chapters, that movie's my fave! :D Hope u like this chapter
Btw, Italics means telepathic communication.
Warning: OC pairing, Don't like, DON'T READ!
Disclaimer: Don't own the Ice Age franchise or any of the characters in it; that all belongs to Blue Sky
After a while of walking through various valleys, Taura was able to find out more about the duo that they were going to be traveling with. The sloth's name was Sid and he was by far the most smelliest and bad tasting thing she had ever come across. (And as for the taste, she found out the hard way by biting him for making a bad pussy-cat joke) Apparently his family ditched him when they left for migration (to which she replied by patting him sympathetically on the back and sending him a small grin as if saying 'it happens to the best of us') and he just happened to coincidentally bump into Manny while being chased by a pair of rhinos. His overall attitude consisted of two things: simplicity and clueless optimism. Ah well, you know what they say: 'Ignorance is Bliss'. It kind of made Taura wonder how he survived for this long and not get eaten by a predator?! Maybe mother nature had its favourites? Doubtful, considering his stench smelled like something WAY out of mother nature's league. So maybe he was REALLY lucky?
With Manny...well, he didn't really say much. In fact, sometimes she even wondered whether HE was also mute. All he did throughout the entire walk was stare at the road ahead of them and occasionally glance at her and Diego, as if to check that they weren't up to any mischief or something. "I beg to differ!" Taura scoffed mentally, "I don't ALWAYS have a tendency to get up to no good!" Diego snorted at that comment with a roll of his eyes, like he was saying 'As if!' The one thing that Taura DID learn about the mammoth was that if there was a Nobel prize for 'Longest Grouchy Face' or 'The Moodiest Creature on the Planet' , Manny would win it by a long shot!
They were now currently walking through a sandy terrain with rocky landscapes on either side of the, capped with random piles of snow. And Taura didn't think that there was any other moment in her life where she had the urge to rip someone's private parts and shove them down their throat any bigger than she did now. The baby had been crying for THREE FRIGGIN' HOURS STRAIGHT! AND IT WAS STILL CONTINUING! They decided to ignore it for the first few minutes, but that just made the baby wail even LOUDER!
"You gotta make it stop!" Manny groaned, looking like he was about to cry in pain, "I can't take it anymore!"
"I've eaten things that didn't complain this much!" Diego snapped with an irritated scowl. Taura was shaking her head, as if the sound would go away by doing that. He ears were flat against her head and she was walking beside Sid but her paw was under the squirming and wailing baby to make sure that he didn't fall because Sid was holding him...UPSIDE-DOWN! "Tell this goofball that he's holding the damn baby wrong!" Taura growled telepathically at Diego.
"He won't stop squirming!" Sid complained as the baby was trying to wiggle his way out of his arms while kicking the poor sloth in the face repeatedly.
"You're holding it wrong!" Diego yelled at him, quoting Taura as she nodded her head and growled at the clueless Sloth.
"Watch its head!" Manny yelled,
"Just put it down" Diego barked as he glowered in annoyance. Taura finally snapped and snatched the baby away from Sid by holding the back of it's collar with her teeth. She gave him hostile glare before walking away with the baby and placing it on some table-like rock structure whilst trying to hush it. All four of them circled the table and looked at the baby, trying to figure out what was wrong with it. Diego was looking at it with a frown, Sid was chewing on one of his clawed fingers, Taura had her lips pursed and her eyebrows furrowed with a contemplating look and Manny...well, Manny just had that same pained expression.
"Hey, its nose is dry!" Diego said, gesturing towards the baby's crying face.
Sid then pointed his chewed finger in the same direction, "That means something's wrong with him," he guessed.
"Someone should lick it, just in case!" Diego suggested, then looked towards Taura. "Woah! Don't look at me, just because I'm the female of the group doesn't mean I'm gonna do all the gross stuff!" She huffed while glaring at him with a peeved look and shaking her head petulantly.
"I'll do it!" Sid said confidently while raising his hand.
"Hey, he's wearing one of those baby thingies!" Manny suddenly pointed out. The look of realization crossed across Taura's face, then followed by horror when she realized what they had to do and quickly shuffled away behind Diego while he gave her an amused smirk.
"So?" Sid said with his tongue sticking out, adding more of a lisp to his voice.
Manny rolled his eyes, "So if he poops, where does it go?"
Diego had a disgusted grimace while Taura giggled at the shocked expression that dawned on Sid's face. He then instantly tucked his tongue back into his mouth and put the baby away in arms reach with a sour expression.
" .Disgusting!" Sid said,
Manny ignored him and ordered "Okay you, check for poop!" while poking Sid on his shoulder.
"Hey, why am I the poop-checker?" Sid argued,
Manny then placed his large face directly next to Sid, looking seriously wrathful. "Because returning the runt was your idea, because you're small and insignificant and because I'll pummel you if you don't!" He seethed, leaning closer and closer towards Sid with each item he listed.
"...what else?" Sid stuttered,
"NOW SID!" Manny bellowed as Sid finally waddled away from him looking very terrified of what the mammoth would do if he didn't obey.
"Ew! Yuck! Eeww!" He whined as he unwrapped the makeshift diaper off the baby, "I mean my goodness! Alright, look out! Look out, coming through!" Sid started to shuffled awkwardly and swinging the sack of manure around clumsily.
"Hey watch out!" Manny shouted as he quickly pulled his trunk away in disgust.
When Taura saw him swinging the diaper towards them, she let out a sharp 'Eep!' before quickly ducking behind Diego. She had no intentions of getting poo thrown on her beautiful coat today!
"Stop waving that thing around!" Diego yelled at him as he quickly ducked away from the diaper that was swung at him.
"Ooh Ooh, I'm gonna slip!" Taura heard from behind Diego. She quickly peeked out in time to see Sid let go of the bag and saw it fly incoming towards Manny. She leaned forward in excitement, waiting for the sound of splatting poo and the funny sight of manure on the mammoth's face. Manny yelled out in fright as a...clean, cloth landed on him. Taura pouted in disappointment and placed her chin on Diego's back. "Aw and I thought we were gonna have some entertainment for once!" She whined, causing Diego to roll his eyes at her and shoving her gently off his back.
"It's clean! Got ya!" Sid laughed triumphantly while grabbing the baby back into his arms.
Manny threw the cloth off his face and glowered at the prankster with choleric eyes before whacking him upside the head with his trunk. "Will you cut it out!" He snapped,
Sid held a funny face after he hit him, causing the baby to giggle for a moment. Sid shook his head and his face returned to normal; the baby then started to cry again.
"Hey do that again, he likes it!" Diego noticed, nodding towards the baby.
Manny repeated the action, which caused the same results to happen: Sid pulled a funny face, Baby then giggled but then started to cry again when it was over.
"It's making me feel better too!" Manny chuckled with an amused grin, Taura eagerly hopped up and down and raised her paw up with a beaming smile as if to say 'Ooh ooh, my turn!' Diego shook his head at her with amusement and took a step back to let her have a go. Sid waddled towards the two groggily and held the crying baby towards them,
"Here, you hold it..." He said dizzily with a glazed expression. Taura instead whacked him upside the head with an amused grin, which caused him to pull the same face and make the baby giggle again. Instead of going back to crying, the baby tried to smack the sloth by waving its hand back and forth towards his face. Sid grabbed his hand with an annoyed expression and put it back on the table while it started to wail again.
"Here, turn it towards me!" Diego snapped while shoving the sloth away and standing in front of the baby with both his paws on either side of him on the table. Taura looked at him with a disturbed expression, thinking remorsefully "Oh god, what's he gonna do now..?"
"Where's the baby...There he is!" Diego said, covering his eyes and then pulling them away suddenly. Taura covered her mouth with her paw, trying not to laugh. Who would've thought? Diego was actually trying to play Peek-a-boo?! The baby did stop crying, but was looking at the saber above him with a clueless look, like he had no idea what he was trying to do.
"Where's the baby...THERE HE IS!" Diego pulled the same action but this time yelled the last sentence scarily, causing the baby to wail and squirm away from him in fear.
"Stop it! You're scaring him!" Manny yelled at him, shoving him away from the child. The sound of the baby's wails stopped and was replaced with a loud rumbling sound. The four of them looked towards the baby to find it staring at them innocently.
"I bet he's hungry!" Sid said, snapping his fingers. Taura rolled her eyes exasperatedly, of course! Why the heck didn't she see it before! She remembered back when she used to spy on the humans that the mothers would breastfeed them to stop them from crying. Taura tugged on Manny's leg to get his attention, he gave her a questioning look.
"What?" He gruffly said, Taura rolled her eyes at his great vocabulary. She pointed at the baby, towards herself and then towards some faraway place and made some circle gesture with her paw before padding away.
"Where is she going?" Manny asked no one in particular as he blinked at the female saber who randomly decided to run away. Did she finally get sick of the baby's crying or something.
"She said she's going to go ahead and look for some food," Diego explained while rubbing the shoulder that the mammoth not-gently-shoved.
"Really? I can't leave you guys for one minute without you getting into some messed up situation?!" Taura groaned at Diego, which caused him to look back at her in surprise. Taura walked up with a bunch of tomatoes hanging from a vine in her mouth to find the baby munching away happily at random chunks of melon on the floor. In front of them were a bunch of dodos who looked like they were doing random acrobatic moves like piling on top of each other or rolling around on the floor wailing. "Is this some sort of dinner and a show?" Taura drawled with one eyebrow raised as she looked at Diego questioningly.
"You could say that..." Diego chuckled while shaking his head. Manny glanced at the two impassively, wondering if this weird telepathic conversation was an everyday thing for them before looking away with a roll of his eyes. Cats...
"Ooh! Where'd you get these?" Sid said ecstatically, grabbing one of the tomatoes and took a large bite out of it. Taura growled at him irritably and punched one of his stuffed cheeks, causing him to spew it all out again. Sid rubbed his now aching cheek while looking at the scowling feline with a bug-eyed expression. "Tell the retard that the tomatoes are for the baby! He can go get his own!" Taura growled while placing the vine in front of the baby.
Diego tried to keep his proud smirk at bay while he explained to the sloth "She says that it's not for you, it's for the baby,"
Sid formed an 'O' with his mouth before trying to pull off a cute puppy-dog face and placing his paws together underneath his cheek. "But can't I just have one?"
Manny rolled his eyes exasperatedly at the gluttonous sloth, "Forget it Sid, you've already spoiled one and we need to save as much as we can to keep the kid's mouth shut. Now let's move it!"
Sid started to pout but Taura didn't budge and glared at him with eyes that said 'Don't even think about it!' Sid picked up the baby in his arms again, now munching away greedily at the ripe tomatoes, and the quartet started on their journey again.
It was now night-time and the four find a nice spot with rocky structures that would keep the wind from hitting them during their sleep. Manny was lying down with the baby tucked away in his trunk, while Diego was sleeping a few feet away from him. Manny kept glancing at him suspiciously every now and again, as if he was waiting for him to suddenly pounce at the child. Taura was still awake; she was laying on her back and looking at the stars above, there was noway that she was going to be able to sleep tonight because the last thing she wanted was for the other two to catch her during one of her episodes. Her head was leaning against one of the rocks that the baby was lying on before; she was laying a few feet away from Diego. Soon afterwards, she was able to smell Sid coming back from his hunt for 'Spoils of a Worthy Noble Hero!' before she even heard his shuffling footsteps.
"Oh, the triumphant returns," Manny announced sarcastically with a smile,
"Huh?" Sid looked back as if he thought Manny was addressing someone else, but then remembered his glorious moment back at the Dodo HQ and started to chuckle, "Oh that! Hehehe, yeah." He then shuffled towards the same rock that Taura was leaning against. She gave him a small smile and shuffled away to give him room to sit. Sid started to pat his stomach still chuckling, "So full!" He then cooed "How about a goodnight kiss from your big buddy Sid?"
"Shh! He's asleep!" Manny hushed him,
"I was talking to you..." Sid grumbled, receiving a disgusted look from Manny; Taura started to giggle at the expression Manny pulled. "Fine I'll tuck myself in!" Sid huffed while dusting off the top of the rock. "Aw.." Taura giggled, she pitied him and decided to humor him a bit by patting his head gently with a big grin. Hey, she was gonna humor him but there was no way she was putting her mouth anywhere near him! This was just her way of saying goodnight!
"Aw, thanks Taura!" Sid beamed at her, then huffed at Manny, "See? At least SHE is nice enough to say goodnight!"
Manny didn't reply and simply tried to ignore him by changing the baby's position slightly by shifting his trunk a bit. Sid shuffled on his back on the rock, his long neck causing his head to nearly touch the floor. He started making weird mewling and yawning sounds and started to shuffle a bit to make himself comfortable, making Taura remove her head from the rock and lie down on her front to give him room.
"Alright, Goodnight!" Sid yawned and finally slumped into what Taura and Manny assumed was sleep. They were mistaken when Sid instantly started to roll and shuffle around to try and get into a comfortable position. Taura didn't mind, considering that sloths were more used to sleeping on trees rather than rocks, but it was when he was starting to make annoying yawning and yelling sounds did it start to irk her.
"WILL YOU STOP IT!" Manny finally snapped, causing Sid to start and fall from his rock and onto Taura. She gave out a short yelp and shoved Sid off while glowering at him irritably. "Damn that guy is heavy!" Taura huffed as she walked away and lay down next to Diego, finally deciding to give sleep a shot
"Alright Alright! Just trying to relax!" Sid whined as he finally settled to one position on the rock and started to suck his thumb.
"Alright..." Manny grumbled. He looked one last time at the two sabers, finding them both asleep, before finally letting his eyelids droop and falling into a deep slumber. Little did he know that one of the sabers was actually wide awake, and had his eyes wide open as soon as he let his guard down...