Alright everyone another chapter is up! Sit back and enjoy!
Nighttime was just around the corner leaving the whole island under an enormous blanket of stars and a great big moon. And luckily for the moon its light rays shined down at the Earth so that there still can be a path for those without hope. In meantime there was still no animal that was out and about due to Manny's order to stay somewhere safe and not come out when they are told. Just then the Hyrax came passing through as it continued to run away from Lolo who was still chasing after the little critter.
(HYRAX SHRIEKING IN TERROR)
"Wait! I just want to hold you!" Lolo called out
But the hyrax didn't listen. Lolo kept on chasing it all through the woods expressing no fear at all as she tried to catch the hyrax. But all is well came to an end when the hyrax found a tall tree nearby and began climbing all the way up it.
Once Lolo stopped by the tree she looked up to see the hyrax who was quivering in consternation while looking down at the human girl.
"Please, don't be scared of me. I won't hurt you I just want to pet you" Lolo reassured the small animal
(CHITTERING FEARFULLY)
The hyrax paid absolutely no attention to the human girl before it hid itself away not wanting to see her anymore. Soon Lolo's face saddened up and she stomp her foot on the ground and turned away disappointed.
"Nobody animal never wants to be my friend, never" Lolo whined to herself
But then suddenly something struck her head when she had said the word 'friends'. Lolo tossed her head back and forth when she saw no one in sight, nothing but the dark deep forest circling around her. She had forgotten after she chased after the little hyrax she had also had abandoned Roshan and the rest of the group. Feeling guilty and scared she fearfully walked around before she began calling out for them.
"Roshy!" Lolo called out for her friends
"Rowan!"
"Newt!"
"Minho!"
"Kodak!"
"Where are you guys!" Lolo called again
No one responded to her calls; everything was still a mute after today due to all the animals hiding and now got it her believing that her friends might not be looking for her at all. She tried calling out some more but they didn't respond back. All stayed quiet, nothing but silence, not a sound to be heard from. Fearing the worst, Lolo's lips began to twitch as her eyes began to sadden up with tears. The young girl soon fell to the ground laying her back against the base of the tree before she ducked her face into her arms and into her knees and began crying her heart out.
(SOBBING)
The Hyrax who was still high in the tree peeked down to see if the human girl was there only much to his surprise when he noticed that the girl was bawling her eyes out.
(CHITTERING)
(SOBBING CONTIUNES)
The little hyrax watched as the girl continued to cry and with a sudden change of mood the little critters face began to sadden up. He now started to feel sorry for her the girl since she was all alone by herself. So with a change of heart, the little hyrax began climbing its way down from the tree. As Lolo continued to cry, the little hyrax finally made it on the ground before he quietly began to walk beside the little girl.
(SOBBING CONTINUES)
As the little critter scooted next to Lolo, it gave out a small chippering sound.
(SMALL CHITTERING)
(SOBBING DIES OUT)
When Lolo heard the chirping she calmed herself down as she whipped her tears away with her sleeves. She turned around before blinking in surprise when she saw the little hyrax next to her. The little hyrax looked up at the little girl rubbing its tiny little paws together as it started chirping some more.
(CHITTERING)
Lolo sniffled her nose and whipped it with her hand before cleaning the remaining tear tears off her face.
"Nice hyrax" said Lolo as the young girl reached her hand out to the little critter
The hyrax hesitated for a brief moment as the little girl held her hand out at him before the critter slowly made his way. When it made his choice he inspected the little girl's hand by sniffing it out as its tiny paws grasped the girl's fingers. Lolo then started to feel a lot calmer as she expressed a small smile.
(SNIFFLING)
"I told you I wasn't going to hurt you" Lolo reassured the hyrax
(CHITTERING)
Once the hyrax finished inspecting he looked up into the little girl's eyes and smiled. Then without showing any fear, the hyrax hopped onto the girl's hand and began climbing up her shoulder making Lolo let out a giggle of joy.
(GIGGLING)
"Not so scared now, huh?" Lolo said to the hyrax
(CHITTERING UNDERSTANDINGLY)
Lolo gently grasped the hyrax in her hands before bringing him close with a warm gentle hug. But their warm moment was interrupted when they heard a rustling sound coming from the dark which got both of their attentions.
(RUSTLING SOUND)
Alarmed, Lolo kept the little hyrax in her left arm as she used her right arm to pick up a stick in defense as the scared girl slowly began making her way towards the rustling sound.
(RUSTLING CONTINUES)
"Who's there?" Lolo frighteningly called out
(RUSTLING CONTINUES)
"Don't come any closer! I'm warning you!" Lolo frighteningly called back
(RUSTLING CONTINUES)
"Stay away, please! I have a stick and I'm not afraid to use it!" Lolo frighteningly called back once more
(RUSTLING CONTINUES)
The suspense was too much. Lolo felt her body shivering by the minute as she and Lolo were prepared to fear what more will be coming right at them. Suddenly the rustling began to grow louder and it started making its way towards the two. The little hyrax ducked behind the her back, as Lolo closed her eyes and turned her face away fearing what's going to happen next.
But all of that was changed when it revealed to be Roshan and Rowan who just made their way out of the bushes when they noticed Lolo with surprised feelings.
"Lolo" said Roshan and Rowan surprisingly
When she heard her name, Lolo opened her eyes up surprised that her friends had found her and she let out cry of joy.
"Roshy! Rowan!" Lolo shouted out excitedly
The little girl ran towards and opened her arms out and hugged Rowan first. Then she hugged Roshan next as she buried her face in Roshan's shoulder. Roshan then pulled her away as he rested his hands on the little girl's shoulders.
"Don't you ever that do again, okay. You had us worried. What would we do if something ever happened to you" Roshan told her
"Are you okay?" Rowan asked worriedly
"I'm sorry Roshy. I'm alright" Lolo apologized
Roshan then pulled her back and hugged her. "I know you are. I know"
"Hey guys we found her! We're over here!" Rowan called out to the others
Newt, Minho and Kodak soon made their way through the bushes and they stepped into the light to be with Roshan, Rowan and Lolo.
"Glad to see you're still in one piece kiddo" Newt commented
Lolo responded to Newt with a smile, before Minho gently shoved the girl's arm while scolding her with a look.
"Didn't you're mother ever tell you never to leave her sight ever. You can't just run off like that, you had us looking for you all night long!" Minho angrily rebuked
I didn't mean to! I just wanted to hold the little fuzzy critter" Lolo explained herself
(CHITTERING)
The little hyrax popped out from behind Lolo's neck and it hopped down onto Lolo's hand as it looked at little girl's friends with delight.
"See! I made a new friend" Lolo replied happily
"Yeah, we can see that pretty well" Roshan happily replied
Rowan held a finger out and began tickling under the hyrax's chin receiving a giggle out of the little critter and Rowan smiled back.
"You're right, he is adorable" Rowan commented
Newt and Minho then started gently petting the hyrax on the head with their fingers as the little critter let out a purr of delight.
"You know for a little trouble-maker, he is quite adorable" Newt admitted
Minho chuckled. "No doubt about that"
"Well I don't! After everything he and his rat brethren had done to me, I could still strangle the damn thing with my bare hands" Kodak replied with hatred
That seemly angered the hyrax before it began chirping threats at the older boy as it waved his tiny fist at him.
(CHITTERING ANGRILY)
Just before Kodak could choke him, Minho pulled him away stopping him from starting anything again. Newt then tried calming the hyrax.
"Hey, hey, hey, take it easy champ he's not worth it" Newt reassured the critter
The little hyrax soon calmed down and crossed his tiny arms together before looking away. Newt then turned to Roshan.
"What was he saying, Ro?" Newt asked his friend
Roshan raised his shoulders up. "To tell you the truth I don't know. This is the first time I ever seen an animal speak in different language"
"That's exactly my point, freak! Animals…can't…speak!" Kodak blurted out again
"You shut up already or I'm going to knock your block off!" Newt yelled in defense for Lolo and the hyrax
Kodak rolled up his sleeves and cracked his knuckles with his hands. "Just let me kill him. Just once, it won't cost much!"
Newt and Minho tried holding him back preventing Kodak from getting his hands on the critter as the hyrax began chirping angrily at the older boy again showing his fist. Roshan slapped his hand over his head watching this before suddenly the little hyrax shrieked in terror when he saw something terrifying.
(SHRIEKING)
Scared, the hyrax climbed up the girl's arm and ducked behind her neck again.
"What's the matter with you?" Lolo asked the hyrax what was wrong
(GROWLING)
The snarling sound that was yapped out got everyone's attentions as they all froze in there standing positions.
"Why are you growling at me for you?" Kodak sternly asked Minho
"I didn't growl" Minho affirmed him
Kodak then turned his head to Newt thinking it was him before Newt replied, "Not me"
(CHITTERING FEARFULLY)
The hyrax squealed with horror as he pointed his finger at the group telling them that someone or something was behind them.
"I have a bad feeling about this" said Roshan
"What's there to fear? You guys said yourself there's nothing out here to be…" Kodak affirmed before he was cut off
(LOLO SCREAMING)
The sound of the girl's screaming got everyone to turn around when they were all shocked to see something coming out of the dark. In the darkness they saw the glowing red-eyes showing a dark hairy figure. It then rose on paw out into the light revealing its dark scruffy fur along with the scars scrapped around its legs. It then entered the moonlight revealing itself to be a big wolf-like creature. Only this time it didn't look like any ordinary wolf. Its body was covered in more scars and more wounds and it bared its teeth out into a green slobbering texture as its green ooze began glistening all on the ground. It bared its mouth at the humans before growling ferociously at them.
(GROWLING)
(BARKING FEROCIOUSLY)
The hyrax quickly ducked into Lolo's backpack, as Lolo wrapped her arms around Rowan's waste fearing the wolf-like monster. Rowan grasped the little girl tight as she placed her hand on her mouth while Roshan, Newt, Minho and Kodak stood death staring at the wolf-like creatures.
"Nobody…move…a muscle" Roshan whispered
As the wolf slowly began making his way forward a few more glowing red-eyes appeared out of the darkness showing the same glistening looks as the pack began circling around the kids with snarls and barks.
(GROWLING)
(BARKING)
(TEETH CHATTERING)
"They look hungry" Rowan whispered
"Newt, what the hell are those things" Roshan whispered to his friend
"Howlers" Newt whispered in reply
"Howlers, what the hell is that?" Minho whispered
"Trust me, they seem like ordinary pack wolves during the day, but at the night they're vicious cannibal eaters" Newt explained in a whispering tone
(GROWLING CONTIUNES)
(BARKING CONTINUES)
"What do we do?" Lolo asked fearfully
"Alright shank you better have a plan" Kodak whispered to Roshan
The howlers continued circling the kids before the first howlers slowly began walking towards Roshan.
"Alright everyone listen up. When I count to three, you make a run for it. Don't ever stop. Don't ever look back. Just keep running" Roshan whispered the plan
The others quietly nodded in agreement as the howler was getting closer to Roshan. Roshan then slowly reached in his back pocket and slowly pulled out his knife while keeping it behind his back.
(GROWLING FEROICIOUSLY)
"1…" Roshan counted
The howler got ready in position to attack as Roshan continued counting.
"…2…" Roshan counted
The howler continued growling keeping his red-shot eyes at Roshan.
(GROWLING CONTIUNES)
"3!" Roshan shouted
The howler pounced out at Roshan letting out an enormous loud roar as Rowan, Lolo, Newt, Minho and Kodak quickly made a run for it screaming.
(ROARING)
(SCREAMING)
Roshan raised his knife up and ran towards the howler letting out a battle cry before he slashed his knife across monstrous howler's face.
(ROSHAN YELLING)
(SLASHING)
The scene shows out of the dark jungle as the howler howled out into the sky as it echoes throughout the entire jungle.
(HOWLING, ECHOING)
Meanwhile, back with the herd everyone was shown sleeping all together with the opening cave barricaded with a rock just in case any human tried entering their home. As they were slumbering, Diego's ear perked up by the echoing of the sound and his eyes popped open.
(SCREAMING, ECHOING)
The saber stood up on all of fours as he listened to the echoing the sound before he started hearing screaming coming out of the outside wall. Diego's ears kept on twitching feeling like something was horribly wrong before he began to wake Manny and the others.
"Manny, Sid, Ellie, Shira wake up!" Diego whispered to his friends
Manny tiredly opened his eyes up and let out a tired yawn. "Diego? It's the middle of the night why don't you…"
(SCREAMING CONTINUES)
Manny could hear the sound of the screaming coming from outside and he looked down at Diego.
"Did you…" Manny asked before Diego answered
"Yeah, I heard it" Diego replied
"What's going on?" Ellie asked about the commotion
"Yeah can't a saber have her beauty sleep?" said Shira tiredly
(SCREAMING CONTINUES)
Ellie, Shira and even Sid suddenly could hear the echoing sound of screaming coming from the outside as they blinked in surprise.
"What in the animal kingdom is that?" Sid asked
"Sounds like someone's in trouble" Manny suggested
"Well we can't just sit around sleeping, we gotta go help them" Ellie offered
"He-he-he, you guys go I'll be there to pick you up and carry you out" Sid replied wanting to stay here
"Sid, someone could be badly hurt! We gotta go save them" Manny confirmed him to not be a baby
"All of us! Now c'mon!" Diego pointed out
Manny soon used his trunk to move the barricaded rock with a little help from Ellie as the two mammoths pushed the barricaded rock to the side. They all quietly entered out before closing the entrance so that the rest of their herd members could sleep peacefully.
"Diego, Shira could you smell out the trail?" Ellie asked the two sabers
Diego turned to Shira. "Are you sure you're up for this?"
Shira smirked at Diego. "I'm always up for anything, babe"
"Okay uber-trackers lead the way!" Manny ordered
Once Diego and Shira sniffed the air, they began leading the group into the forest. After disappearing out of sight, Sid stopped when he noticed a good-looking tree on the side of the valley.
"You guys go ahead; I'll be right here guarding the door with my life…" Sid attempted to lie before he was called
"SID!" Manny, Diego, Ellie and Shira yelled out
"COMING!" Sid called back and started running after his friends
Well another chapter is done! Roshan and his friends had just encountered wolf-like monsters called Howlers while Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie and Shira decided to go check it out. What will happen to Roshan and his friends? Will the herd come to their rescue in time? Anyway stay tuned and keep spreading me some more ideas and stay tuned because more will be coming your way!