10. Freezing Era

"Manni! MANNI !!" As fast as the short legs of the sloth Sid allowed, he ran to the large mammoth Manfred and the saber-toothed tiger Diego, who had sat down with relish at a lake that was surrounded by tall trees and bushes. He turned around slowly and looked at Sid, jumping up and down in front of him, questioningly and angrily. "What's up now, Sid? Do you actually have to tell me everything when you know something new?" Diego couldn't help giving a cheeky grin and also turned around. "What is Sid, what do you have to show us?" He stopped jumping and looked at both of them expectantly. "You never think of that when I was going for a walk and I was running after a butterfly and passed many beautiful dandelion blossoms ..." Diego shook his head in annoyance. "Sid, finally get down to business, what did you find so great?" This paused and looked at him somewhat offended."I was just at it, but I was interrupted so rudely. When I was walking, I found an old tree and when I stood in front of it, I found an ... acorn!" He started to jump again, while Manfred and Diego only sighed in annoyance when the saber-toothed tiger got up and approached Sid, who had turned around and stopped, startled. “If I weren't your friend, I would have eaten you long ago, you know that?” He slowly purred closer and now saw what had frightened Sid. He started to tremble and turned his head slightly on its side. "Diego ... help me ..." The squirrel Scrat, whose acorn Sid had taken, came closer and was anything but happy. Even Diego backed away a little while Sid tried to do the same, but tripped over his own legs and took Diego with him. Exactly at this moment Manni got up and was carried away by the force of the two and the sudden attack of the squirrel and everyone fell into the ice-cold lake while the roaring darkness washed over them.