You're My Ugly Pineapple

Chapter two

When awoke I was still on Manny's head, and it was nearly pitch black, the only light being a soft blue glow from above. I shot up and stared around, piles of old bones littering the cave around us. 

"Sky! You're awake, we're going to find Sid," Ellie exclaimed, picking me up with her trunk and setting me on her back. I yawned and stretched my muscles, my bones cracking. 

"So, what'd I miss?" I asked, leaning back to look at Manny. 

"Well, Sid got kidnapped by an angry dinosaur, we discussed that if the baby was coming the code word was 'peaches'....and that's about it," Manny recounted, staring around him as if something was going to jump out and eat him. Which, in his defence, was likely to happen. 

We kept walking before the tunnel opened up in front of us, a huge stretch of jungle as far as the eye could see revealing itself to us. My eyes widened and I slid down off Ellie to her trunks, getting as close to the scenery as I could. Something about it all seemed familiar, pleasant in a peculiar way.

"Are you guys having the same dream I am?" I whispered, moving some fur out of my eyes to see better.

"We've been living on top of an entire world, and we didn't even know it!" Ellie breathed, walking closer to the edge of the cliff that overlooked it all. From behind us I heard something move, and I looked around to see a massive, spiky dinosaur glaring at us.

"Guys! We have company!" I yelled, pointing at the creature. It's tail came crashing down beside Manny before shrieking at us, sending a shiver down my spine. 

"Run for it! Hurry!" Ellie yelled, following Manny as the creature pursued us. Crash and Eddie fell off Ellie's back and played dead almost instantly, catching the attention of the sharp-toothed reptile. Just as its tail was about to come down and squash them both into possum pancakes, Diego came out of nowhere and scooped them up in his mouth, almost falling off of the cliff in the process.

"Diego? What are you doing here?" I asked, helping Crash and Eddie back up onto Ellie. 

"Sight seeing," He replied, sarcastically. The creatures tail came down beside him and he jumped out of the way, still running. "Looking for Sid, same as you."

"Well aren't you noble," Manny scoffed, rolling his eyes.

"This is not the time guys, we need all the help we can get!" Ellie exclaimed, turning a corner. 

"Can you boys put your petty, drama seeking behaviour away for one minute and act like adults?" I exclaimed, holding onto Ellie for dear life. The dinosaur bumped into the side of the wall and sent a heap of rocks tumbling to the ground, trapping us between a rock and a sharp place. The dino pushed past the rocks and Diego jumped forward, roaring at it. The dino roared back, the sound sending vibrations through the ground. 

Diego leaped back in terror and uttered a small "Never-mind." The dinosaur moved to attack, realising that it had gotten its tail stuck in between some rock pillars. I looked around, seeing a massive long-necked dinosaur eating plants beside us. I ran over to a bunch of leaves and grabbed them, waving them to catch its attention.

"Hey hon, have a snack! Come on, over here!" I exclaimed, waving it in its face before it took a hold of them and bowed its head down. "Climb on!" I added, looking towards the others. Ellie jumped at the opportunity to get away and started running towards me.

"Are you nuts? We're not getting on that thing!" Manny exclaimed, furrowing his brow stubbornly. 

"It's either this dinosaur, or that one!" Ellie exclaimed, pointing at the spikey dinosaur who had just broken its tail free. "Pregnant lady, wants to live! Yabba dabba doo!" Ellie exclaimed, sliding down the back of the much tamer dinosaur.

Manny and Diego followed suit and I got on after them, doing a graceful back-flip before landing daintily on my feet. Blowing my fur out of my eyes, I moved to the side as Manny and Diego fell beside me.

"Don't ever yabba dabba do that again," Manny groaned, getting onto his feet.

"Aw, can Manny not handle his pregnant wife being cooler than him?" I cooed, leaning against Ellie with a smirk on my face. Manny went to retaliate but held his tongue when he saw the amount of dinosaurs that were surrounding us. Dino's of all different shapes and sizes stared down at us, as if trying to decide whether we were worth the hassle. 

"I feel so...puny," Manny shrunk down slightly as he stared up at the colossal beasts.

"How do you think we feel?" Eddie asked, holding onto me. A horn like sound played from up in the treetops and I stared up, confused as to what was making the weird noise. It was another weasel! I ran forwards to see the other weasel better and I caught its eye, the figure smiling at me before jumping onto a vine and making some sort of war cry before the vine snapped and sent them flying away into the flora. 

"Ow!" 

The dinosaurs resumed approaching us and growled again before the weasel jumped out o the brush covered in grenade-like berries. "Ah Ha!" They exclaimed, pelting the berries at each of the dinosaurs. They all exploded into gas that made the dinosaurs cringe and recoil.

"Take cover!" They yelled, pulling off the stem of one and grabbing onto me before throwing the berry onto the ground, enveloping us in a cover of smoke, before he whisked us away into the undergrowth.