Oooh! Now the other sabers come into the pic! Here's another update and I hope again that I didn't make any of the other characters OOC. So guys, for the next chapter, I'm going to make a special one-shot chapter because we have reached over 10 reviews! XD AWESOME! Now here are the three options u can choose from, but unfortunately I can't make a poll on my profile so you'll have to vote through ur reviews:
A) A flashback of Diego and Taura's times in the pack
B) A one-shot of Taura playing with the possums (crash n' eddie) and having a funny conversation (e.g. about Diego or somethin')
C) An adorable one-shot of Taura trying to babysit Roshan
Anywho, Here are the replies to ur reviews cuz u guys are super:
(HINT HINT: MORE REVIEWS, QUICKER UPDATE! *WINKWINK*)
Yeeeaaah: Thank you, nice to know that u like Taura! I was kinda worried that she would be similar to other OCs, so again, Thank you!
Shiego627: Well it's a good thing she won't be the only female for long, if we can get this through to Ice age 2 eventually! :) And here's the next chapter, hope u like it!
TimberPaw: Firstly: remind me to get u a one-shot someday for u cuz u r just one of my best reviewers! XD Secondly: Thank you, nice to know that u find her funny! And no, Sid was never destined to sleep like a normal animal. Heck, 'Normal' isn't even in his vocabulary! Hope this update came soon enough for you and hope its as good enough quality as you said for the others.
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
Diego's eyes flashed open to reveal two glowing emerald orbs. He looked over to Taura and nudged her shoulder, trying to wake her up. Taura's lid peeled open reluctantly to reveal a similar glowing iris, but it instead of emerald it was golden.
"It's time isn't it?" Taura muttered quietly, without removing her head from her folded paws; Diego nodded his head in confirmation and got up. Taura sighed "Alright, let's get it over with. I know this might sound weird, but I'm kinda gonna miss those two..." She got up and ignored the disbelieving stare from Diego. "You go get the baby and I'll watch."
Diego stared at her for a bit longer and then walked away towards the baby clutched within the mammoth's grasp. Taura stood on her haunches a few feet away and waited for him to finish. She wasn't kidding when she said that she was going to miss the duo. Sid somehow grew on her with his awkward shuffling and idiotic optimistic comments; she would probably miss him just for the laughs that he provides. What can she say? After living a long time with Diego's cocky and arrogant character, you miss having some laughs. "Especially from a guy who claims repeatedly that he's got a girlfriend with the same colored pelt!" Taura chuckled in her mind. She didn't know much about which sloth would be considered handsome, but she definitely knew that his claims of being a heartthrob among the ladies were definitely false. As for Manny, she would probably miss annoying him by trying to communicate with sign language and then end up confusing him in the end.
Suddenly, Taura caught a shift of movement in the dried bushes. She narrowed her eyes at the general direction she saw the movement and waited a while to see if her suspicions were true.
"Psst...Diego!" Taura whispered towards him harshly, her voice causing Manny's trunk to tighten around the child. Diego growled inaudibly in frustration and marched towards her.
"What?!" He rumbled lowly with an annoyed expression. Taura didn't reply but nodded her head towards where she saw the bushes shift. Diego looked ahead in the general direction Taura gestured to and waited. Again, the bushes shifted ever-so-slightly. Diego and Taura both shared a glance before they crouched into a pouncing position and waited a while. Finally, in almost synchronized rhythm, they both leaped with a roar and crashed unto their supposed stalker. Diego was about to claw off the stranger's face below him, until he found out that their stalkers weren't exactly strangers...
"What the-" Diego whispered in shock,
"Go ahead, slice me! It'll be the last thing you ever do!" Zeke threatened, not looking very intimidating from his cowering position.
"I'm working here you waste of fur!" Diego growled back,
"First-rated Diego," Oscar called out. Diego looked back to find Taura pushing Oscar away from her and getting back to her feet. When she jumped over, she managed to collide into Oscar, but ended up beneath him because of her smaller frame. "Tracking down a helpless infant's too difficult for you two?" Oscar jeered while smirking mockingly at Diego, who eventually got off of Zeke.
"What're you doing here Oscar? Don't you have some ass-kissing to do back at Half Peak for Soto?" Taura grinned slyly, while Oscar sent her a wrathful glare.
"There won't be a Half Peak for you two to come back to if you keep Soto waiting anymore!" Oscar fumed with gritted teeth,
"Yeah, Yeah!" Zeke cackled eagerly, "He said 'Come back with the baby, or DON'T COME BACK AT ALL!"
Diego's face remained stoic as he replied impassively, "Well I have a message for Soto. Tell him, I'm bringing the baby," He then started to walk back to where the others where the others were sleeping with Taura. "And tell him I'm bringing...a mammoth!" Diego smirked, looking over his shoulder at the other two that were left slack-jawed at what he said.
"A mammoth?!" Zeke gasped,
"Mammoth's never travel alone!" Oscar argued with an annoyed scowl,
Diego and Taura walked up to the very top of the hill overlooking the area where Manny and Sid were sleeping and crouched down, followed by Oscar and Zeke. "Well this one does," Diego assured, "And I'm leading him to Half Peak."
"Mmmm..." Zeke shivered manically, as Taura looked at him with a cautious expression. The last thing they needed was some meat-crazed rat waking up Manny and causing him to go on a rampage! "Look at all that meat...LET'S GET HIM!" Zeke pounced, but was cut off by Taura.
"Not yet you fleabag! It'll take the entire pack to take this mammoth down!" Taura snarled at him menacingly, showing off her sharp fangs as if threatening him to disagree with her.
Diego nodded in agreement, "Like Taura said, we'll need the WHOLE pack, so go and get everyone ready!" Diego looked back towards the mammoth, but the two idiots didn't leave still. He glared back at them and growled sharply "NOW!" which caused Zeke to scurry away, while Oscar huffed at him indignantly before walking off.
Diego and Taura walked back to the sleeping area and tried to get back to sleep.
"Diego..." Taura whispered, causing Diego to open his eyes and look back at her.
"Yeah?"
"...nothing, forget about it," Taura turned her back towards him and tried to get back to sleep. It seemed like an impossible task since her mind was full of so many thoughts. In the beginning of all this, Taura was in it to avenge her brother and get payback against the humans. Now they were getting Manny and Sid involved and they had nothing to do with it. Sure, they might need the extra slab of meat for the next long winter coming up, but they could've just used Oscar and Zeke to grab something from the big walking buffet migration.
Needless to say, all these self-questioning thoughts didn't help Taura get much sleep that night...
"OH NO! TIGERS! HELPuh! HELPuh!"
Apparently Sid thought that it would be a good idea to steal the baby for one of his dates. Outside were a bunch of hot springs filled with some icky, green substance that the sloths used to marinate themselves in ("Yeesh! Now I know where half of Sid's stench comes from!" Taura grumbled the first time she saw one of them). Manny got really angry and sent Diego and Taura off to go look for the idiot only to find him panting like he was running from the devil himself and then suddenly acting out some one-act play of calling out in distress for help.
"Where's the baby?" Diego growled at Sid, not really caring what kind of drama Sid was playing out.
"Oh he's fine Manny's got him justputmeinyourmouthHURRY!" Sid whispered very quickly, Diego and Taura barely making out the words. He then continued to cry out dramatically "OOH! THEY GOT ME! OoOoOoOHHH HELP!"
Diego glanced at him with a disturbed expression before turning away from the weird-acting sloth. "Get away from me,"
Taura was about to walk off with him until she heard a distant rumbling far off. Sid looked around desperately with panic-stricken eyes until an idea clicked in his head. He grabbed Taura by her shoulders and gave her an apologetic look, "I'm really sorry for this!" He whispered and then shoved her really hard and caused her to collide with Diego...
The rhinos charged as fast as they can around the corner into what they thought would be the doom of their punchbag, only to be met with a much more...surprising sight...
Instead, they found a Smilodon couple in the middle of the clearing. A male with a golden coloured pelt had his female with a brown and beige coat lying trapped underneath him, and both were in a very...intimate, looking position. The two sabers stared at them in shock, both finally realizing what this must've looked like. The two rhinos stood there just as shocked.
"Uh, Pardon! Don't mind us, we didn't know that you two were...uh..." One of the rhinos with the greyish skin stuttered whilst blushing very furiously,
"Y-yeah..we'll just uh, we'll just go now!" The other one stumbled whilst hurriedly shoving his friend away as he tried to run away from this awkward moment as soon as possible, all thoughts of murdering the sloth gone.
The two felines stood there frozen for a while, as if not believing what just happened, until a familiar lisping voice broke the silence:
"Phew! Thanks you guys, I owe you a big one!" Sid chuckled nervously, until he noticed that they were still frozen in that position and added in with a teasing grin, "Y'know, you two look like an adorable couple!"
Diego blinked in surprise when he realized what the sloth said. He then suddenly pounced on Sid and clutched his neck in his mouth whilst growling and looking very pissed off. Taura was still frozen, looking up at the sky. Her beige fur made her flushed face stand out making her seem even more flustered. "Oh God...Did that just happen...?" Taura started to stand, but instead of looking flustered, she had a mortified glaze in her eyes that clearly stated 'I'm never going to live this down!' She then heard large mammoth footsteps head towards them and looked up to find Manny with the baby in his trunk, lifting a little weight off her shoulders.
"Guys, I thought we were in a hurry!" Manny called out, "And Diego, spit that out. You don't know where it's been."
Diego complied and dropped the sloth's neck. Taura decided to shuffle after Manny before letting Diego see her still pink-tinted cheeks. Said Saber eventually caught up with them, the trio ignoring the lazy sloth's calls for them to slow down.