Weell, people use to have a "Authors note"... So, I'll begin to apologize for my bad English. I'm a- let's say- young student from Finland, learning English in school, and a bit from my sister. So just ignore the smaller mistakes, if you find something reeally weird, just let me know. And yes, I'm soo sorry for that title! It wasn't meant to be called that...

My first fanfiction, please read an review!

Thunder woke startled animals. Lighting flashed over the dark night-sky. It had been raining for days. In a cave next to the river a herd had found shelter. Well, it's not a herd you normally would see. There was three mammoths, a sloth, and twin possums. Like that wouldn't be enough, but don't forget about the saber-tooth tiger. As you see, it was a anything but normal herd.

"Ouch! That hurts, you know!" exclaimed the sloth, Sid.

"Oh, soo sorry! It was an accident, won't happen again", came the sarcastic reply from the laughing possums, Eddie and Crash. Sid was obviously their favorite target to play pranks on.

"Would you guys knock it off? Someone's trying to get some sleep here", barked the bull mammoth, Manny.

"But they-" begun Sid, but was interrupted by Diego, the saber "You just never learn, do you?" he laughed. "Manny doesn't care about what they did to you, all he wants is to sleep."

"Come on, stop being so rude!" Ellie, the other mammoth, said. She turned to the grinning possums. "And you leave Sid alone, Manny's not the only one who wants to sleep."

"Aww, poor little baby Sid didn't sleep well?" sniggered Eddie.

"Yeah, 'cuz sleeping the whole day isn't much at all", grinned Chrash.

"Eddie, Crash", warned Ellie. The twins was silenced immediately. No good came from that voice, they knew from experience.

"How do you manage to do that?" Manny muttered to Ellie.

She smiled "Lots of practice."

The cave fell silent once again. Soon everyone was asleep. Except of one; the saber. Diego frowned alarmed. Their shelter was all to close to the river, he knew it. And he was sure he heard the water closer now. He slipped out from the cave, but stopped horrified. The cave had been about 15-20 meters away from the river. Now it was only a few meters away. His ears tilted up. Soon it would fill the cave, and slowly drown the herd. They had to get out from there. Now. However, there was one problem: there was no where to go. The way they came from was already under water. Behind them was nothing but cliffs. They could go straight forward and fall from another damned cliff. Maybe we can take us over the river- Just then a loud crack was heard, and the water flowed over the forest on the other side, killing what was left there. –and maybe not.

Then there was only one way left to go: north. They would have to travel upwards, on rocky, unsteady ground, and wild wolves.

Why does this thing always happen to us? Diego groaned.

"Everybody up!" Diego yelled as he ran into the cave. Everyone-except Sid- woke up.

"Wha..?" Eddie groaned groggily.

"What now, Diego?" asked Manny, still trying to shake the sleep off him.

"Leave me alone, 'wanna sleep…"Crash mumbled.

"Well, if you want to stay here and drown, then fine with me!" Diego snapped.

"Oh, calm down, you just- wait, WHAT?" Manny exclaimed as he finally woke up.

"You heard me! The water of the river is rising. If we don't leave, we'll drown here, captured in our 'shelter'"

The herd was awake in a sec. Manny shouted right in Sids ear, Crash and Eddie jumped up on Ellies back, while little Peaches blinked her huge, green eyes in confusion.

"Where are we going now?" Manny asked, close to panic. Diego threw a sympathetic look at him. He could hardly blame the mammoth; he had already lost one family…And besides, Diego knew how it felt to loose a family- Come on, saber, forget about them! Diego thought to himself.

"Let's begin to get out of here", was his calm answer. The herd rushed out from the cave. The water was only a few feet away.

"What now?" Manny asked once again, panic leaking into his voice as he saw the water. They were trapped. Almost.

Diego scanned the area one last time. Where should they go, anyway? As if they had any choice…

"We'll travel north, and then find a safer route home again", he hoped his voice sounded like he knew where to go. Seemed like it did, because they followed him with no doubt. But he really didn't know where to go. He had never been here before…Suddenly the water reached his paw. He wrinkled his nose in disgust. Just because he wasn't afraid of it didn't mean he liked it…"Hurry", he barked and begun to climb. He glanced backwards. Where the heck is that water coming from?

As soon as he put his paw on the rocky ground he knew they had problems. The ground was unsteady and irregular. It would be difficult for a saber, but for mammoths? This is going to take a while… And yes it did: Manny had only taken a few steps before he was ready to fall. Sid was soon flat on his back. Diego rolled his eyes. That sloth was the clumsiest creatures he ever seen.

"Diegooo, can't we take another way?" Sid whined.

"There's no other way, unleash you don't want to swim."

Sid suddenly grinned. "Aw, poor Tigey-wigey's still afraid of water? Poor little saber…"

"Well, why don't you go and demonstrate how to swim in that peaceful river, sloth?" Diego snarled and pointed to the very not-so-peaceful river.

Eddie interrupted before Sid answered: "Well, can't we just go-"

"-before all of us have to take a nice bath?" Crash filled in.

"For once I agree with them", Manny said.

"Boys", Ellie sighed before she walked past the others, with Peaches on her side. "Coming or not?" she shouted to them.

The others stood dumbfounded, before Diego shrugged and ran up to Ellie.

The herd had only traveled a few minutes before Sid fell again: this time the twins had tackled him.

"Hey, would you stop that?" he cried out as he struggled to get up.

"Just keep walking", was Mannys cool reply.

"This is booring", Sid sighed. Then he turned to Manny. "Hey, Manny, can I ride on your back?"

"Not a chance."

"Diego, old buddy, care to give a poor sloth a ride?"

"Anything for the sloth", Diego answered, voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Really?" Sid exclaimed happily.

"Keep dreaming, sloth."

"Ellie, pleeease?" Sid asked pleadingly, doing his best "puppy eyes".

"Jump on", Ellie sighed. As soon as he was up he begun to sing. Diego grimaced. Why do I have the feeling that this is going to be a long day?..

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