So here we go guys! Moving on to Ice Age 2!

I would normally reply to ur awesome reviews, but I have an important thing to address:

I was originally going to continue this story all the way up to Ice Age 4, but now I'm starting to have doubts. I did have a suggestion thrown at me to finish this story at Ice Age 3 and avoid the hater comments that might ensue if I continued Taura into Ice Age 4 as a romantic interest instead of Shira.

Plz tell me what you think with ur reviews or PM or whatever! Cuz not really sure if I should go into Ice Age 4.

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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

"Okay okay, THIS TIME I'll get it for sure!"

After a long and tiring walk consisting of Sid's horrible singing and Diego's threats to rip his vocal chords off, the four finally reached their destination and caught up with the migration in the end. Turns out, at the end of their journey was a large...waterpark-type landscape...thing. Taura had never seen anything like it, but she wasn't complaining; for her, it was love at first sight! Taura didn't mind the cold weather, but after walking for days in a landscape that consisted of nothing but snow, icicles, cliffs and more snow, she was starting to miss the warm summer days.

She would daydream sometimes of the days were the grass was wet and itchy beneath her clawed paws and how the air would smell of morning dew and blossoming flowers. In her original pack, the weather was mostly warm and so it was normal for some sabers to know how to swim when they needed to cool down. And to find a place that provided the warm climate that she was missing and the awesome, fun waterslides and activities, Taura couldn't ask for more!

As soon as the four settled down, Taura didn't hesitate to run up to the first slide that she could queue up for (although at first, the herbivores let her cut the line because of fear that she would eat them if they didn't). After almost a few hours of swimming, sliding and diving, Taura would eventually come out only to try and convince the others to come join her. Sid sometimes eagerly accompanied her, both falling into a fit of giggles as they both took turns to try and out-flip each other with silly stunts while they dove into the water. Diego would just roll his eyes at the two and their childish antics while he lounged nearby, bathing in the sun while taking a catnap.

Taura noticed that whenever she tried to convince Diego to join her, he would always decline and whenever he sat around someplace, it would always be a safe distance away from a slide or a pool. Taura shook it off as probably him not wanting to waste his naps bathing in the sun, but he always lay nearby when Sid played with her, claiming that he wanted to "make sure that you two idiots don't eventually drown yourselves" to which she would huff and dive into the water, making sure that she made a big splash in hopes that some drops would land on her annoyingly cocky friend.

After a few days, Sid stopped playing with her and to start inviting kids to his own 'summer camp'. Sid offered her to help him as his "lovely assistant", but Taura politely declined with an embarrassed chuckle. With Sid out, Taura was left to either lounge about with Diego or go down the slides by herself. She did try once to convince Manny to dive in, but a grumpy, dry look from him was all it took for Taura to get the message. Eventually though, Taura came up with an idea to try and perform flips while Diego would act as a judge. It took a lot of convincing, but Diego eventually complied with a condition that she would catch for him his dinner every few other days at night.

Taura was now trying to perform her best stunt yet: the double front flip corkscrew! It is basically what the title suggests: it was a quick double front flip followed by a corkscrew dive. But Taura never had enough time to corkscrew by the time she did her second front flip and always ended up falling straight down into the water with a simple dive.

Diego rolled his eyes exasperatedly from his rock, "Enough already, aren't two front flips enough?"

Taura pouted at him irritably before climbing out of the water and plonking herself in front of Diego's rock. She analysed the slide that she slid through five times now trying to get the flip correct, her fingers stroking her chin as she thought.

Diego scoffed at what was supposed to be her thinking face and suggested "Why not just go on one of the higher slides? They would provide more speed?"

Taura looked up at the larger slides that Diego motioned to, the ones that looked more unstable and...scary and...frighteningly high...

Taura gave an involuntary shudder and secretly gulped before shaking her head vigorously. "No thanks! I'll uh...try again later!"

Taura quickly tried to avoid Diego's curious gaze by shaking off the water from her fur and licking off some imaginary smudges on her shoulder and paws. Diego raised an eyebrow at her weird behavior.

When they started hanging out with Manny and Sid, Taura started to loosen up again and show her more fun side by hanging out more with Sid and sometimes joining in on his fun escapades on the slides. Only Diego noticed that she would avoid the slides that were at a certain height and decide to stick to the ones that weren't so steep. Whenever he asked her about it, she would complain that the queue on those ones took so long and she couldn't be bothered to wait.

Taura glanced up from her grooming to fine Diego staring at her with a thoughtful look on his face, his intimidating green eyes making her stomach go funny (but not in a bad way) and for her cheeks to heat up a bit. She quickly turned and started to walk away before Diego could notice her heated cheeks.

"I uh...gotta go meet up with Sid." She hastily said as she jutted her thumb to where the sloth would be, her eyes still avoiding Diego's now curious ones. "I promised him that I would help him with something in-uh...his-uh, camp thing, yeah...um..see ya."

Okay, now Diego was officially intrigued as to what was going on with his fellow saber. After months of travelling as a herd, Diego started to notice that Taura would avoid his eyes as much as possible when they were both alone and she would often try to escape by using some excuse, most of them Sid based. Back at Half Peak, Taura would usually use those rare moments with him to yap his ear off with her exciting ramblings about her latest catches or some cheesy jokes she would hear from human-bred wolves. If that was it, normally Diego would pass it off as probably some symptoms of female monthly's or whatever. But it wasn't.

When night came, Sid would create the usual fireplace and they would all sit around it and chat for awhile before going to sleep. Usually, Taura would lay next to him and giggle along to the funny stories that Sid would yap about until she finally got tired and went to sleep. Recently, Taura started to let Sid lay his head on her middle when he begged her to let him one night (something about some scary sloth-killing stories he heard some kids share) which made her sleep further away from him so as to give more space to the sloth. But that wasn't what bothered him, not like the stupid sloth made him jealous or anything!

Diego snorted at the thought "Not by a long shot!"

One night, Diego woke up to a sharp cracking sound of rock against rock. He looked around to find Manny and Sid laying on...the...ground. Taura wasn't there! Diego was about to get up and look for her when he heard that sound again, only this time it came from behind him. He decided to lay still and pretend he was asleep in case it was probably just some wandering scavenger, only to find that it was Taura! She quickly swiveled her head left and right, as if checking if anybody followed her and settles herself next to Sid. What with the sloth being a heavy sleeper, he didn't wake up even to the feeling of Taura picking up his head with her paw and plunking it on her stomach again. Ever since that night, Diego has been suspicious as to what she was doing and this night, he intended to follow her and find out where she has been going to all this time.

Diego was interrupted from his thoughts when he caught sight of Taura running up to him with an excited grin.

"Diego, you better come quick! Sid's being tortured by a bunch of kindergartners!"

Oh this he can't wait to see...