Chapter 2: Dream n Greet
=Dreamscape=
The area is pitch-black while it's raining at a lone tree where Sid sitting under with a bored look on his face.
"So much for the joys being with someone…" Sid lamented about his actions in the real world.
"Had a fight with someone?" A feminine voice asked him.
Sid looked over and saw a leaf-cloaked creature smiling at him which caused him to jump.
"Jumpy, huh?" The creature mocked the sloth.
"Very funny… Now, who are you the grim reaper?" Sid demanded in an indignant tone.
"Nope… Though I do look like a reaper but I'm not. I'm just invading your dreams at the moment." She explained.
"Yeeeahhhh… That's invasion of privacy, ya know." He replied in an annoyed tone.
"Not my problem, Sidney." She replied once more.
"Huh? How'd you know my name? I don't remember you telling my name." He said to the cloaked creature.
"A wolf told me. He said you're a lonely sort." She replied as she removes her hood to reveal herself as a red sloth with green eyes, blue nose and a ponytail with a green tie on it.
"What the-?!" He said while shocked.
"I think we should talk beside this gloomy place." She said as she disappears as the dream and Sid vanishes too.
Reality
Back in the cave, Sid woke up and sees Brooke, Roger and Rampant still asleep. He heard someone yawning and got up to walk outside of the cave to see the same sloth from his dream.
"Yello, Siddy. How's your injuries?" She asked him.
"I'm fine, Miss Shady or whatever you are." Sid replied in a tired tone.
"Well, it's 'Shade' to be exact, bud." Shade replied in a slightly annoyed tone.
"Right right… So you mind not invading my privacy now?" He demanded to the female.
"Eh… Can't do that." She said with a shrug.
"You can't or won't?" He demanded once more.
"Either?" She asked him with another shrug.
"Well, since you won't stop bugging me. I guess you can stay." He said defeated.
"Yeah, I'm staying with my boyfriend." She stated to the sloth.
"Boyfriend?" He asked her.
"Yeah, but besides that, what happened to you? You look like you got mauled by a predator." She asked while eyeing his leafy bandages.
"Oh, that… A saber happened…" He replied bitterly.
"A saber? You sound like you really hate him." He said looking worried.
"That's cause I do! Prideful, arrogant, jerk… I got into a fight with him earlier hours ago." Sid angrily replied.
"Oh my… Mind telling what happened?" She asked wanting to know what happened.
"Well, it was about a week ago…" He started to explain.
=Flashback=
A week earlier, Sid is staring at the clouds in the sky and sees one shaped like a wolf only to sigh in boredom.
"I wonder if Fang is doing fine." Sid ponders about his canine friend.
"Fang who?" A gruff voice asked him.
"That's for me to know and for you to found out." The sloth told the saber.
"Okay… If I say 'Fang' what comes up?" Diego asked the sloth.
"Wolf. Whoops… I fell for that one…" The sloth replied.
"Of course, that muttfaced loser." The saber venomously replied.
"Hey! He's a nice guy unlike a certain someone." The sloth remarked.
"Ooh… Funny… For someone's who low at the food chain." The saber replied back which irks the sloth.
"Hey, you two, that's enough fighting for today!" Ellie scolded both of them.
"What are you two bickering about now?" Manny asked them in annoyance.
"Ask the deranged sloth who keeps talking about the wolf again. Who perhaps might be a figment of his imagination." The saber remarked with a grin.
Sid growls at the saber's reply which is usual for a sloth to do and the mammoths noticed it.
"Sid? Are you feeling alright?" The bull asked snapping the sloth out of his anger trance.
"Hmm? Oh. I'm fine." The sloth as he starts to walks away the area.
"What's eating him?" The cow asked.
"A certain mutt we met many years ago still lingers in his mind." The saber bitterly started. "Who is better off dead!" The saber retorted at the sloth.
"Diego!" The cow started.
"I'm sorry, Ellie. Sometimes I have a feeling that Sid might think of staying with the mutt and someone else other than the herd." The saber explained.
"Sid? Is that true?" The bull asked the sloth.
"True about what?" The possums asked as they appeared out of nowhere.
"So what? I can't have anyone to talk to every once in a while?" The sloth asked.
"You could've talk with us. Maybe." The bull replied.
"Uh…that 'maybe' part is highly unlikely. Why? You pretty much dismiss whatever I have to say." The sloth explained.
"It's true." Crash started.
"To us too." Eddie finished.
"That's because the both you are annoying!" The bull retorts at the possums.
"Look, if you can't understand my feelings, then fine. I need some alone time…" The sloth said as he walks away from the herd.
"Hey, guys. What's going on?" Julian asked as he and Peaches walks up to the herd.
"Nothing… Except a certain sloth who just happens to think that-" The saber is cut off by the cow.
"Oh, knock it off! You know Sid needs some space." The cow reprimanded the saber.
"Fine… I don't want anything to do with him for the time being anyway." The saber said as walks away.
"Did we miss something here?" Peaches asked in bewilderment.
"Just a little…family argument…" Manny replied to his daughter.
=Reality=
Back in the cave, Sid is having a conversation the mysterious individual.
"So after that, me and Diego haven't been seeing eye to eye for a while." Sid finished his plight.
"Until today, right?" The cloaked figure asked.
"Yeah…" He replied.
"Has your friends tried helping you?" She asked once more.
The sloth didn't answer but sighs in a discontent.
"I guess not… Well, can I show you something?" She asked the sloth.
"What is it?" He asked in bewilderment.
"I'll show you!" She said as grabs Sid and runs out of the cave with him in tow.
"Wait!" He screamed as he's being pulled by the cloaked figure.
A moment later inside the cave, Brooke slowly opens her eyes to see her fiancé gone.
"Sid?" Brooke called out in a half sleep tone.
Sid met a mysterious figure he saw in his dreams and is being dragged off after explaining his plight. But where is mysterious female taking our sloth?
Once again, I am so sorry to take so long for doing this chapter. I got so lazy doing my fanfics.
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