Ice Age

A New Island

Usually, it seems that no one else was coming to rescue them. After she destroyed the ship, Gutt left Shira behind. Now they seem to be stuck on an iceberg from now on. Fog was no starting to cover the ocean.

"Hey, chew this sandwich for me," Granny called out, handing Sid a giant clam.

She was trying to bite it although she doesn't have any teeth. Sid began to think of why his family didn't want them, although he hasn't seen his family a long time.

"Granny, why didn't our family want us?" Sid asked. "What's wrong with us?"

"They think we're screw-ups and we can't do anything right," said Granny.

Sid grabbed the giant clam and pulled it out, revealing an odd fuzzy shape. Sid screamed in alarm, realizing that it was a saber tooth squirrel.

"It's a rat!" Granny panicked.

She hits the fuzzy mammal with her stick cane, knocking it out and fell into into the water. The clam shuts all of a sudden, causing Sid to scream and tries to get it out and slams it into the iceberg. Some of the pieces break and drift off. Silver fell into the water with a splash.  It made Pip jump in surprise and leap onto Manny's back. She was sleeping the whole time when the ground sloth slammed the clam on the iceberg.

"Screw up," Granny groaned.

Silver poked her head out of the water coughing, her hair so wet and swimming in the water. She had no choice but to push the iceberg with her own hands. She was getting very sick of being in the water and Pip kept getting wet further still.

"We'll never make it home on this thing," sighed Diego.

"Well, maybe you should have thought of that before you capsized our berg, genius," hissed Shira.

Diego: Yeah, trying to escape," Diego hissed back.

As they argued, Manny looked to see something far ahead. His eyes went wide with hope and called out,  "Land!"

Silver perked her head up. Did he say land?

Diego became quite confused. "What?"

"Not her. There!" Manny called again, pointing to where a huge form is clearing. "Land! Everyone, paddle!"

Silver looked up and there it was. An island near the horizon. The woman's eyes filled with so much hope she started to mush the iceberg along witht he herd's help for everything they ha. Finally, after swimming to shore, they had finally arrived. The mammals got off the melting iceberg, exhausted and tired. Silver was the last one to climb on and placed Pip down. All around her, the island had tropical forests and mountains just far beautiful unlike her old island. Sid walked over to a nearby bush with so many yellow berries. 

"Food! I missed you so much!" he cheered. "Look at me, I've wasted away." He shoved them into his mouth but it turns out the berries are bugs. Sid yelped in alarm, causing the bugs to fly around his face.

"Okay, snack time is over. We got to build a raft," said Manny.

Diego looked and saw that Shira was gone. "Manny." Following his gaze, Manny, Sid, Silver and Pip saw Shira who had ran away into the forests.

"Wow, Shira must really hate building rafts," Sid complained.

"Go get her," Manny told Diego. "She can help us get back."

Nodding, Diego started to give chase after her through the island. Shira seemed to be quite faster than Diego and more skilled than him. He dodged many obstacles like rocks, branches and logs. Shira climbed up the rocky wall causing Diego to stop. Diego took another way around the cliff so he can get closer to her. Stopping in her tracks, Shira looked around and noticed that she escaped from them. However, Diego pounced and held her still.

"Let go of me!" she shouted.

" Where do you think you're going?" Diego demanded. He paused, and looked up to see something ahead. Below the cliff was a covev with a passage leading to the ocean

"Switchback Cove. It's the way home," he said. His hope ran out when he saw Gutt's team. They had swam all this way here to find a new ship to build with and they had been capturing and enslaving small creatures to built it. He knew that this is gonna be harder than they thought.