Y/n POV:
Darkness, it was the only thing I saw, coldness, it was the only thing I felt, until...
"-love you, I love you, I love you, open your eyes, Y/n open your eyes..." I heard Diego saying quickly next to me but his voice was still a little distant.
"Y/n, darling, open your eyes, don't leave me, don't leave us, please..." Diego continued saying quickly but this time his voice was much clearer and closer. I felt like I wanted to open my eyes and cough the waters out of my mouth, and that's exactly what I did.
"Y/n!" Diego shouted as I got up and spun to my side and coughed the waters out of my mouth and took a deep breath.
"You're alive, good, you're alive..." Diego said with relief and pressed his face to my neck.
"You're alive..." Diego said and this time he laughed in relief.
"Yes! Y/n you're okay! You're okay!" Sid said and hugged me.
"Is Ellie-?" I started asking and when I looked up I saw Ellie standing next to Manny and she interrupted me.
"Yes, I'm okay sweetheart." Ellie replied and I nodded.
"Good... good..." I said with relief and got up on all four of my legs.
"We're gonna live!" Sid shouted happily in front of us and raised his hands in the air. Then his look changed and he looked down and we all noticed that the water was starting to rise again.
"We're gonna die!" Sid shouted again but this time he didn't sound so happy.
"Y/n, come here!" Diego said and I walked next to him and I was now between him and Manny. However, the water level continued to rise and Crash and Eddie jumped on Ellie's back while Sid jumped on Manny's tusks.
"Y/n, climb on my back!" Manny said next to me. I was tired but I tried anyway and Manny and Diego both helped me. Soon I was on his back and I saw Diego raising his front paws against Manny's side.
We heard cheering and as we looked up we saw that the rock under the boat was crushed which caused the boat to drip onto the water. All the mammals there sounded happy as they had survived the flood and were finally safe. This made me sad because I was wondering what was going on for us. Diego noticed this and lifted his paw in front of me and looked me straight in the eyes, giving me a gentle, comforting smile and I, for my part, laid my own paw on top of his paw.
We all soon heard a loud growl and as we turned our gazes we saw that a huge crack had entered the wall of the iceberg from which the water began to flow away. We also saw that two things dripped down between the crack point but I didn't distinguish what, but it didn't matter because the water started to erode quickly and soon I got to jump off Manny's back and we saw how the water around us was leaving.
"Hmm!" Ellie hummed happily.
"Yeah." Sid said speechless as he looked around. Now was the time when we could all sigh with relief.
"Should we join the others?" I asked playfully and went for a walk to the boat from where all the mammals were heading back to land. Everyone seemed to be happy.
"I'm gonna get you!"
"Oh, no, you won't." Two young mammals said to each other, laughing as they ran past me, Sid and Diego. Manny and Ellie continued to walk in front of us.
"I don't know, I'm thinking about starting a swim school; Sid's Squids." Sid explained to me and Diego with joy until he suddenly shouted fearfully and jumped a step back. He climbed over Diego and hid between me and Diego.
"Huh?" Diego hummed questioningly and raised his eyebrows as we looked at what Sid was so startled at, we saw many small, different colored sloths in front of us.
Oh, so these are the ones Sid talked to us about a couple of nights ago.
"All hail Fire King." One of the sloths started and all of them bowed to Sid.
Sid, in turn, gently came out from behind us and stepped in front of us.
"Uh... hi." Sid started uncertainly and raised his hand to them.
"Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi!" All the sloths said at the same time and jumped up to stand.
"What?" I asked and I, Sid and Diego, shared a questioning look and none of us knew what to say until one of the sloths spoke again,
"Fire King avert flood. Join us, O great and noble flaming one." The blue sloth said and praised Sid while bowing to him.
"Hmm!" Sid hummed but that was not just any hum, but that was a questioning hum. Sid really was going to join them until Diego interrupted him.
"Whoa, no, not so fast there." He started and got all the attention for himself and stepped forward and continued,
"Okay? Y-You make a quality offer, but Fire King has a prior commitment. His herd needs him. He is the goodey..." Diego continued and tried to find the right words until I helped him,
"Sticky...?" I said and Diego continued,
"Sticky... stuff that holds us together. He made this herd, and... "
"We'd be nothing without him." Diego and I said at the same time and we both looked at Sid.
"You mean it?" Sid asked, moved by Diego's speech.
"Sure Sid, every word, right Diego?" I asked with a smile.
"Yes, of course, every word, just like Y/n already said." Diego answered him.
"OoOh~" Sid said and walked quickly to us and pulled us into a hug, a tight one.
"Sid, Sid... That doesn't mean 'want to touch'" Diego said but sighed to the end knowing that Sid wouldn't release the hug no matter what.
When we looked at the other sloths, we noticed that they were imitating Sid and hugging each other and making small 'Ooh' sounds. Then we heard that Ellie, Manny and the boys walked behind us.
"Don't ask." Diego simply told them.
"Don't worry Diego, they're not even going to." I said in a hug. Then we heard a low rumble from afar and raised all our gaze toward it.
We narrowed our eyes and noticed that a large herd of mammoths was walking far away towards us. I told you they weren't extinct! Didn't I? Manny and Ellie are guaranteed to be happy to see other mammoths.
I, Diego, Sid, Crash and Eddie went closer to see how all the mammoths walked proudly past us and we heard the other mammals say 'woah' sounds with their mouths open.
Soon we noticed that Ellie was going to walk with them but stopped because she noticed Manny was missing. They chatted for a while but then Manny turned around and Ellie turned around and went after the other mammoths. Crash and Eddie looked after Ellie and then turned to us and said goodbye to us until both of them ran after Ellie. For our part, we looked at the sad Manny and walked over to him.
"Manny? You've come a long way since we met... and I'll take full credit for that... but you need to let go of the past, so you can have a future." Sid said and looked at Manny.
"Sid is right Manny, you won't find the happiness of your life if you stay with us because Ellie isn't here. And I know I'm not a good saying goodbye but I want to say; thank you, for everything..." I said and I started to cry a little.
"Go after her." Diego told him.
"It's okay." Sid said to him.
"We'll always be here for you, just like you were here for me, and for all of us." I said and tried to keep the tears from flowing.
"I'll keep in touch." Manny told us.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're a... you're a good friend. Point made. Now go on, scat." Diego said because he was clearly not good at saying goodbye, none of us are. Manny looked at us once more until he went for a walk towards Ellie.
"Our Manny's growing up." Sid said proudly and we watched with a smile as he left running after Ellie.
"Well, it's just us now." Sid started and we went for a walk away from them.
"Fine, but I'm not gonna carry you. I still have my pride, you know." Diego said and made it clear.
"Oh, come on, buddy. For old times 'sake? Y/n?" Sid asked and turned to look at me.
"Sorry, Sid, but I can't, I'm still tired of what has happened." I said.
"I'll carry him." Manny said from behind us and lifted Sid from the neck to his back. Diego and I stopped and looked at them with a smile.
"But your herd's leaving." Diego told them.
"We are now." Manny replied.
"Boom-shakka!"
"Whoo!" Eddie and Crash shouted as Eddie jumped on my and Crash Diego's back.
"Manny, who do you like better... me or Diego?" Sid asked Manny.
"Diego. It's not even close." Manny replied and this made Diego laugh at his victory.
"Told you." Diego told Sid.
"Well, what about, Diego or Y/n?" Sid asked again.
"Well then it's going to be Y/n, sorry Diego." Manny replied.
"Don't worry, I'd choose her too." Diego said and looked at me.
"And from what you said earlier, I love you too, hotshot." I said and kissed him.
"Of course you love, tell me next time something I don't already know, kitty." Diego said back and this made me laugh.
"I'm going to love you now..." I started and we both said the end,
"And always."
~ The End ~
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