The head of the herd woke up disoriented and screaming. Manny noticed how someone he knew tried to calm him down immediately. Of course it was his wife who was first looking after his wellbeing. And she was fine. Why should she be not? What he just saw in his dream was still fresh in his head, as if it had really been real. Still, it was definitely not. Just an extraordinarily cruel nightmare. The mammoth hadn't seen anything like that in his sleep for a long time. He thought it was because he was living a happy life now.

Manfred tried to get his breath back under control. Surely he ate only the wrong fruits last night and got hallucinations because of that.

"Manny, what's wrong?" Diego suddenly wanted to know from him and he tried hard to think about how the saber tooth came here so quickly. Then he remembered the little gathering last night that they were all around a campfire and fell asleep in the beautiful spot.

"Wait! Who extinguished the fire?" Manny asked in panic and looked around for the fireplace. Maybe he breathed in too much smoke and that's why he dreams so badly.

"That was you, honey." Ellie assured him and put her trunk on his forehead as if he had a fever.

"I am fine. Slept badly because we had to stay here. My bones just can't take it anymore." He complained a little so that you could blame his discomfort on that.

"What are you yelling at? You just woke up Scrat." Sid said now and he also rumbled his eyes wearily.

"He looked so cute on his big acorn. But Manny is right, we can't lie around here all day. So thank you for waking us up." Brooke came along and gave her sloth a kiss on the cheek as a morning greeting. Scrat just nodded wearily.

"Surely it must've been a bad dream." Shira added, who was a little further away but still had very good ears. It sounded really awful to her.

"So tell us what happened." Ellie asked her husband a little more clearly.

"Yeah, tell us." Suddenly Buck jumped awake in the middle. The only one who didn't look like he'd been through the night. The weasel wrapped half coconuts around himself and made a skirt of long leaves and danced hula, just like Sid.

"I had a dream and you were all in it, but it was not a dream. It was a vision. We were all wounded or dead, except one raccoon, who is fighting some type of god at the top of some temple. The raccoon's name is Grayson. We have to find him. He knows the answers." The oldest mammoth was so sure about it, even if he knew he sounded a bit confused. He didn't want his dream to come true, so he had to do something and his friends will definitely help him.

"A raccoon? I hate raccoons! They lie, they cheat, and they steal." Again, Gladys was not at a loss for comments. She had to say her opinion everywhere. Whether asked or not.

"We don't know unless we actually see him." Teddy first stretched, because he was somehow lying on something uncomfortable. Next time I'm going to lie down on a mammoth too, he thought.

"Us wounded? Why do you dream of that stuff?" Eddie wanted to know who was sitting on his sister, because something like that never came from his brother-in-law. He always made things sensible. There came also a Crash up.

"Or ... dead?" The possum brothers embraced each other in fear at the idea that their life would soon end.

"I hope this Grayson can help us. But I think everything is or will going to be okay, Dad." Peaches tried to cheer up her father like her mother. The son-in-law also patted the old mammoth on the shoulder soothingly.

"Well, sounds like this Grayson is a hero." Julian didn't know much about the guy yet, but he was looking forward to getting to know him.

"And he's fighting some type of god? What was the god figure like?" Now Gavin managed to move up. Also because he had to keep watching the molehog, this was too close to his daughter all night. He just doesn't like that.

"Don't you think we should investigate where or what this godlike figure is?" Louis couldn't quite imagine what was being said, but he tried to think along.

"Or we could find this Grayson and convince him to join us or something." Gertie has rarely seen raccoons, she just assumed they looked a little like opossums or moles.

"Grayson ... Grayson .." Ethan tried to remember that animal back at the new hangout for the Brat Pack. Then the memory hit him.

"Oh yeah! Grayson. Gray and white colored, big ringtail, slick fur and golden eyes. But I haven't seen him for six weeks."

"What have I discussed with you about strangers? No matter now. Six weeks? Don't you think that was more a month ago?" Steffie yawned heartily and was a little offended that her boyfriend let her lie there. The scream could have been dangerous and Ethan just walks away from her.

"Yeah, is it?" Meghan interfered to show that she was still there.

"Ouch." Katie wanted to say something too, but suddenly something hit her in the side. She looked there confused.

"Sorry." Roger shook his head because he had run against the bright mammoth. Somehow, he has too much energy in his body every morning.

"Yeah, I think so too." The Dino and Katie really started talking at the same time.

"What?" They looked at each other briefly.

"And who may you be?" The young Raptor wanted to know.

"My name is Katie, yours?"

"Roger, and I'm a Dakotaraptor."

"I know what you are, Roger."

"Oh, well that's good."

"You seem pretty nice ..."

"And nerdy." Buddy also joined the conversation, which he had slept in too. He actually just went up only because he was getting hungry.

"Oh hush, buddy!" Katie and Roger gave out almost simultaneously.

"We keep repeating each other again." Said the raptor, grinning a little.

"I know, right? We must have a psychic connection." Katie smiled nicely at him too.

"Pfft, yeah right." Because Gavin thought that was nonsensical.

"Hopefully that one I can see." Said the male saber-toothed tiger with interest. Roger looked irritated at the big cat and his father.

"And why do you want to see it in action?"

"No reason." Diego shook off the thought. More important things were on the plan now.

"OK. Right. Well, I never thought I'd be saying this, but.." Katie smiled at Roger and spoke again.

"..let's find a racoon." Both looked at each other in surprise. Well, more pleased now, because this connection somehow seemed to please both of them. Anyway, it was something great new unknown.

"Huh, maybe it is some psychic connection." The young Raptor couldn't explain it otherwise.

"Yeah." Katie was certain she needed to do more research on this.

"Now wait just a trunk drinking minute, kids. We got some options here. First we find this raccoon and find some answers to our problems and maybe convince him to join us. Or second solution, we find this godlike figure and confront him ourselves." The herd guide explained serious, so that there could be no confusion on the square. Manny looked at the little squirrel. Can't hurt if he decides once, he thought.

"The choice is yours, little guy." Everyone looked at Scrat, who took a stick into his little paws. Of course, Peaches continued to watch over his acorn, otherwise he wouldn't try to trace a raccoon on the floor.

"Dude, he can do that better than you." Crash praised the squirrel and pushed his brother away to see the picture better.

"Shut up!" Eddie said and jumped next to Scrat.

"The decision has been made." Sid announced cheerfully.

"We are looking for the god." He continued, because he had no idea what the smaller one was scribbling in the dirt. Scrat should really be taking lessons from me, he thought superior.

"We'll do the other one, Sid." His saber-tooth buddy explained to him after this rolled his eyes again.

It took a while for everyone from the herd to get ready to start walking. Nobody wanted to stay behind today because a new adventure always sounded exciting.

Of course, Scrat insisted that someone takes his large acorn with him. After all, you can't leave such a treasure anywhere. Peaches happily offered to help. Ethan and Julian gave themselves a secret trunk-shake and talked only for themselves on the way.

Roger tried to walk unobtrusively next to Katie, although he could actually fly with his father. But he thought it would not be bad if he got to know the bright mammoth a little more. Unfortunately he stumbled over a stone while chatting and bumped into her again. Fortunately, she didn't take it the bad way. He found it embarrassing anyway.

Meghan, Steffie and the old Dakotaraptor watched the two of them for a while because they had nothing better to do, and of course he kept changing his gaze to his daughter and the spiked ball so that the little one could keep his paws with him.

"How long is that going to take? My feet are killing me!" Of course Sid whined first.

"We just ran through the forest. I can still see the beach from here where we slept." Diego couldn't understand how quickly the sloth started to whine today. They all had breakfast before they started.

"Does someone want to carry me?"

"No!" Manny answers for everyone, because his buddy will probably survive a short hike. He didn't complain either. It was probably because he had this strange dream. If someone else had gotten on with it, he didn't know if he wanted to get on the way so quickly. It sounded crazy. But his herd trusted him. What he was thankful for.

Sid was quickly reassured by his girlfriend. Brooke whispered that she could carry him, but the male sloth thankfully declined. Also, it wasn't long before he and a few others in the group were distracted by something else.

"Now what the heck is that?" Roger wanted to know, irritated, who naturally noticed a lot in the area with his good eyes. But some others must have noticed the strange shiny thing too.

"What is it, Roger?" Ethan asked, not seeing anything noticeable yet. The rest, with the not so good eyes, now stood next to Roger to see something.

"Good news, weird news; I found something in the distance, but..." Explained the young Raptor.

"The hell? Why would there be something huge in the distance?" Shira wanted to know, but somehow the thing seemed familiar to her. She tried to remember if Gutt ever had one those.

"There's gotta be a connection somehow, a giant certain ... Buck, what's it called?" Roger continued and looked at the weasel.

"How do I know? You always pretend I've already been around the world and yes ok, I know what it is. It is an hourglass." Buck said cool.

"Oh, a certain giant hourglass is standing before us." Then the young Dino uttered, as if not everyone could see it now, even if the thing seemed far away, somehow it came closer, although everyone here had stopped walking.

"I'm getting a rather strange new scent." Diego smelled sand in the air, even though the beach is too far away for that. But there was another unknown smell.

"Sand!" Cried Crash outraged.

"That's exactly what I'm smelling." The saber tooth confirmed.

"No, sand!" The opossum jumped on Diego's head, pulling his ear that the big cat was looking in the same direction.

Grains rolled across the floor and formed a figure in front of our herd. The being was like a human and somehow not, because none of them saw bipeds ever do anything like that. The apparition was wrapped in black, white, and gold robes. The human carried a kind of rope and strange shiny things around his body. The eye color resembled the blue sky.

"Well, well, well, haven't we gotten far for an unlikely capable band of animals. I am Chronos, master of time and the creator of the very Hourglass you see before you. Your defeated villains have sent me to end this little charade, so you won't be leaving my time with your very lives. I swear it!" Imagined the being and everyone was surprised that they understood him. Otherwise the animals would not do that with normal humans. Admittedly, normal people don't appear out of nowhere. The leader of the herd, after a brief astonishment, tried to speak.

"Look Chronos, we don't want any trouble. We're just passing through."

"You may think passing through here is the obvious choice, but you thought wrong." Answered this Chronos as if he or she was talking about something completely different. Then the something made a movement with which it formed something in the air to demonstrate power.

A large, shiny white something that resembled a kind of cave suddenly appeared before the eyes of the astonished animals. The huge floating thing had a scary blue aura that gave everyone goose bumps. Everyone now knew roughly that the normalities were not right here.

"Like ..." Julian just couldn't think of more. Roger and Louis swallowed loudly, although several others did too.

"Now do you believe me?" Chronos asked sublimely. Some just nodded. They were all too surprised to say more.

"In that case, I will be waiting for you." The creature spoke almost amused and disappeared into nothing as it appeared before. At least most of the animals in the group suddenly felt like they were on the way again, as if nothing extraordinary had happened.

"So, did someone else just see that or was the papaya bad I had for breakfast?" Sid wanted to know from his friends and pressed himself against his girlfriend so that she couldn't suddenly disappear.

"Would say both." Ellie answered to get back to the bottom of the truth. Someone had to stay calm and her husband looked like he was about to lose it.

"The idiot is to blame himself if he steals the fruits of ants." Gladys added, slightly annoyed, because her grandson's little complaints were of little interest to her now.

"Guys concentrate a little bit on our task! That is we definitely need to find this Grayson now. Ethan, did you talk to Grayson about any places he wanted to go?"

"Yes, spit it out buddy.. before an accident happens here." Buck almost jumped the red-brown mammoth in the face to get answers from the bigger one.

"Yes?" Answer the mammoth named Buddy.

"Um, not you. I'm talking to Red-fur here."

"Somebody can take that to the liana!" The head of the herd complained, because the weasel was not yet fully awake, even if it looked like it. Buck wasn't helpful like that.

"Well, I think he wanted to go to his own place at Mammal's Crown." Ethan uttered and stepped away from Buck, who was pulled back by Julian.

"Mammal's Crown?" Sid and the male saber tooth came almost simultaneously.

"Where it has sandy beaches, fine grasslands and jungles, clear water pools and delicious fruits and nuts?" Diego asked questioningly.

"Yeah." Ethan nodded in confirmation of his answer.

"Wait a minute! Brooke and me went there for vacation last year, but we didn't see Grayson there." Sid remembered the nice trip with his girlfriend.

"That's because he was on a walkabout across the continent."

"A walkabout? You mean for training?" Now Shira intervened with interest.

"Yeah. But I don't think for training or anything like that. He told me that he was trying to find a place to call home."

"Aren't we all looking for something at some point." Julian smiled briefly at his wife and she did the same.

"His father told him he was destined for greatness and never give up on finding a great place and finding a new life with a new family." Ethan added thoughtfully that he didn't really want to leave out information. But who could have thought that he would have to remember a simple conversation because it will be important later.

"Do they think of him as a screwup or something?" The male sloth said freely.

"Honey, don't say that. He certainly isn't." Brooke was sure there was something good in everyone.

"Well no, not exactly. His family thought it was about time that every young raccoon must head out and leave the family in honor." Continued the red-brown mammoth.

"Ok, then we would have clarified where we have to go now. Come on, let's head to Mammal's Crown before this Chronos has any more surprises for us." Because Manfred didn't really want to waste unnecessary time.

Unfortunately, our group did not have a long opportunity to hike through the valley in peace because they were disturbed again. The silver-haired tigress smelled it first with her nose, which was again in the air.

"Oh no, Chronos is back!" Shira explained when she clearly recognized the sandy scent. Grains rose again into the air and a whirlpool formed. Sid raised his paw to his eyes as if he was looking in bright light because he was trying to see something. Several shadows formed in the sandstorm. They weren't really like the outline of the being that they met before.

"I don't think so, Shira. It doesn't look like the guy. That looks more likeā€¦" The sloth narrowed its eyes even more.

"Saber-toothed tigers?! But how ... how is that possible after all this time?" Diego was shocked when his old pack actually stood in front of them. A little worried, Shira looked back and forth between her boyfriend and the strangers, but found it better not to ask questions now.

"No, you're not real!" Diego tried to deny the whole thing because he was sure he would never see Lenny, Zeke, Oscar and Soto again. He wanted to live on with that thought. Apparently, fate didn't allow him that.

"Ahhhh!" Sid stormed into Brooke's arms for protection. But there wasn't even time to calm the screamer, because a wave of sand made creatures appear that Ellie hadn't seen for a long time.

"Is this that Cretaceous fish?" Ellie remembered one of Buck's many stories she listened to with her brothers. Dinosaur fish that she had seen in real times also appeared. Not that she was particularly keen to see them again.

"And there is Maelstrom? And why can they breathe in the air?" Eddie panicked.

"Air fish? Dude, that's what I call progressive development." Crash would also find it brilliant if his knees weren't shaking with fear.

"Oh no, not those sea creatures again." Manny also thought that once meeting them was enough.
A huge white dino with red eyes appeared spontaneously from the sand now.

"Hello again, Rudy. Long time no see. What were you up to?" Buck was the only one who saw the whole thing as ordinary everyday occurrences.

"Rudy too?! This is ridiculous!" Complained a trembling Sidney. But the sandstorm also ignored his whine and so more and more enemies from the past came out of the sand. So also a too self-confident pirate and his crew.

"What are you doing here?" Brooke asked just as kindly when she spotted a well-known llama. But the animal did not even think about paying attention to her.

"Shangri Llama? Captain Gutt?" It came from Gavin much louder and angrier. The latter did not even want to look at a particular member of the pirates because it would only cause anger and pain in him.

"Quartermaster Gavin?" Captain Gutt greeted the Dakotaraptor a little irritated. Of course, the others in the group were also irritated by this address. His children also wanted to learn more.

"Quartermaster Gavin?" The old raptor only heard it questioning from his daughter. But that was stubbornly ignored. He just stared into the monkey's eyes.

"Just Gavin now. I have my own family as well, Captain."

"Family? Pathetic fool. You used to be someone and belonged to us!" Gutt spat out the truth as if he not wanted to talk about old stories.

"Wait, what?" The head of the herd couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"You guys don't know of his past? Oh Gavin, why? Don't say you're too ashamed to tell them the story of your resignation?" The Raptor gave an annoyed puff out.

"My resignation - not yet. Ashamed - no, I stand by my choice. It was mine, by right and deed. You were killed, long ago. As was Diego's former leader, Soto." Gavin continued because he also knew the leader of this saber tooth pack, but he actually wanted to forget that too. He didn't think it was fair that old love and friendship met him here and now. It was like a nightmare, just more real. But he tried to counter this like countering everything.

"We were at the mountain pass. My sabers were about to get the baby and the mammoth. It was an easy plan. You couldn't even do that and I once saw so much potential in you, Diego." The one in front of him stood protectively in front of his wife, because some of his former pack members looked at her again.

"We are decades beyond those events."

"For us, they happened only moments ago." Soto said and you could really see that they haven't aged. As if it was only yesterday when Diego exchanged this pack for a real family.

"What game are you playing, saber-tooth leader? What magic powers is this illusion?" The captain was pleased that he appeared to be alive after his cruel death. His body, however, didn't feel as alive as usual.

"If it is an illusion, it is one we all share. Is it possible that the past and future are colliding?" Soto didn't know why a monkey just spoke to him, but he also had to deal with this first. Death and then live again, that happened to no one else. At least he never met anyone before who knows of that.

"You all are not really real and here. You can't all be real! If you have all returned, that means.." Now the animal emerged from behind the monkey, which he did not want to look at. He didn't remember the kangaroo that silently. No, he should stop thinking about the past. It's all over. Everything.

"Are you looking for me, Gavin?" Raz looked at the Dakotaraptor as if she wanted to say more. Explain more. It was neither the place nor the time, she thought.

"Raz." The older raptor greeted her as coldly as he could at that moment.

"I'm tha cause of all this. I ran out on ya on tha birth of our eggs. And ever since then, ya've been tormented inside." It sounded like she was sorry, but Gavin wouldn't fall for that trick. He had learned from the past.

"Right now? This is when you choose to do this?" He asked angry and frustrated. But Raz was not stopped from continuing to discuss, even if everyone else was listening to the conversation.

"So take me! Not these guys."

"You have got some flipping nerve!"

"I know! I ripped yer heartstrings right out, mate. For tha last few years of mah disappearance has been burnin 'a hole in yer sanity! Set yerself free from yer doubts!" The flying dino couldn't believe it when she really got on her knees in front of him and came closer to him. Did she no longer have a dignified bone in her body? The Raz he knew would never have done that.

"Go ahead. Do yer worst to me. I deserve it." Hopefully she clung to his leg.

"Let it me go!" With that Gavin pushed her away.

"You think this is about you, Rasmussen?" He inquired even more angrily, mentioning her full name.

"Rasmussen?" Buck was briefly distracted from gazing at his albino dino when that name came up.

"That's Raz, weasel!" Squint announced and life came slowly also in the pirate rabbit.

"Oh, that was so hilarious and so embarrassing." The Dakotaraptor spoke briefly sarcastically before he got serious again.

"And I haven't thought about your hopping hide in twenty years."

"Meanin'?" Raz wanted to know.

"You are a lazy, uncoordinated, sea-swimming pirate. You're not worth the salt in your bread. You are nothing to me! You are nothing! I don't think about you at all. I don't think about your stinking feet. I don't think about your rusty paws. I don't think about your rusty elbows..." The kangaroo started to grin.

"Wait, so ya have or ya haven't thought about me?" But the question wasn't really serious. Annoyed, the dino groaned and gave her a deadly look.

"Newsflash woman, I am over you! I'm over the crew and I am ready to get the quest going for me, my daughter and my son!"

"I'm here." Gertie answered on her cue. Astonishment spread again in the herd.

"Ok, I was scared at first, but now it's getting exciting. Julian, give me some more berries." Eddie said, enthusiastically watching the drama in front of them.

"Shhhh and don't gobble like that! Otherwise we don't understand what else is said." Crash, however, continued to eat noisily the fresh berries that were given by the mammoth.

"Surprise." Roger was rather nervous before going to his father, because behind the bright mammoth, where nobody saw him, he liked it very much.

"Oh yeah, our son and daughter." The oldest raptor announced proudly.

"What?" That was all Raz could think of. The whole Herd, the Brat Pack, Soto's Pack, the Crew, and the Shangri Llama gasped.

"Meu Deus." Buck had to let his saying out again. Scrat looked out from behind Shira's leg and there was a sound that sounded like 'Hmm?' Rudy also looked dumbfounded at them. Cretaceous and Maelstrom looked at each other uninterestedly because they didn't care about such stories.

"That's our mom?!" The Dakotaraptor siblings wanted to know and eyed the kangaroo.

"Raz is their mother?!" These and other questions went through the herd.

"I have a son and a daughter?!" Raz didn't know what to do with the information. Gavin didn't give her time to think.

"Yes, you do! And I raised them all by myself in the Dinosaur World. But now, you have chosen your side poorly and abandoned our family. I'll tell you what you get. You'll get what you flipping deserve along with Gutt and the crew! They took our love away from us and I'm going to get revenge!" I can spit big words too, Gutt thought.

"Then vacate this land and your family. Or I'll soak the ground with the blood of your herd and your children!" The monkey was barely finished with his speech, when he started to fight Gavin and pushed aside all who stood in his way. Fighting always brought him to life. So the captain thought that would work now too and so he loudly ordered his crew to do their part. Gavin on the other claw knew how evil Gutt is and pushed his kids away from him to face this guy alone.
Of course the others couldn't just watch and so the raptor siblings tried to help their father. This was not easy by the given hustle that arose here on the place.

Gavin makes the first strike by clawing Gutt in the chest. The captain tried to stab the Raptor in return with his bone sword but lucky Gavin avoided it and gets Buck's knife.

"Hey, that's Rudy's tooth!" Buck called over to them.

"Don't worry, I got this!" Returned the dino and stabbed Gutt with the thing. The monkey cried out in pain.

"Reptilian putrid pest!" Despite the bloody hand he got, he pushed the knife to the ground because his opponent held it too loosely in the claws. That meant only one thing, Gavin was away from the combat practice for too long.

"You will suffer!" Like a madman he grabbed the flying lizard on the throat and throws him with all his might against a rock face. Loose stones fell on the gasping dino.

"Dad!" Gertie and Roger shouted almost simultaneously.

"Gavin!" Manny was also worried and still stunned what was happening here. Gutt just laughed at the scene.

"You silly Dakotaraptor! You caused enough trouble for me already. Gavin, it's time to pay the fiddler." The mentioned got out of the rocks and coughted.

Gutt was on the verge of finally finishing the older Raptor and even bit in his shoulder. The victim screamed again out in pain. The monkey just laughed maliciously and the dinosaur's blood dripped to the ground.

"It's all your choice, my dear Gavin. You can either fight Manny and get to Mammal's Crown alive to tell about it. Or you can stay here and die like a nobody. Yes, along with the rest of this what you call herd."

"Never!" Answered the one lying on the floor, still aggressively.

"Fine! You wanted it that way." By this words the sawfish sword was raised.

"Look here, a real hero couldn't even beat me! You're nothing!" The captain threw in the raptor's face.

When Peaches managed to avoid Rudy, so that the dino didn't trample her, she helped Julian, who was wrestling with a saber-toothed tiger. The place was getting sandy in the air, because of that she could no longer see everyone clearly.

"Thank you babe." Julian was also glad that his wife was apparently intact. Nevertheless, neither of them tried to stay calm for long, but tried to help the next one in need. That seemed to be Gavin, who was messing with the pirate captain. The female mammoth took a swing and tried to use her trunk like a whip. Gutt faltered briefly, but did not allow himself to be dissuaded from his goal so quickly.

"I'll come to you later, my pretty one." The pirate promised Peaches with a gruesome undertone. Julian tried to keep a pig off his body.

"Our neighbors were always so nice and now I'm only learning what else can be done with the tusks." The male mammoth whined.

Gertie meanwhile had managed to get rid of the annoying rabbit. Unfortunately, she also lost sight of the molehog. But for the time being she had to help her father and hit Gutt in the face so that he finally let go of her old men and stumbled backwards.

"You little beast!" He let out and he put his hand to his bleeding cheek. He was about to take a swing to teach the female raptor a lesson, but Gavin showed that there was still something in him and rammed his head against the side of the pirate. Gutt finally fell to the ground and Louis, who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, added another one with a piece of ice. Roger also tried hard to keep the attacker on the ground.

Manny got a glimpse of this fight scene and got one of those visions again. Everyone fought everyone now, so it must have looked in his dream. But he didn't want to get the same ending. Nobody should be hurt or even die. So he took a deep breath and roared here in the place as loud as he could until he caught everyone's attention.

"I know we all had our differences, but I just had a vision. We were all fighting each other like right now. It only stopped when the blood of all of us covered the earth to clarify who was going against Chronos. Greyson seems to be the one who can dare and do it. That is why we are looking for him." The head of the herd again explained to all newcomers of his vision, Chronos and Grayson. After all, they shouldn't fight each other if there was a much bigger enemy. Or did this Chronos even have something to do with the fact that these animals appeared out of the sand?

"Chronos? Master of time? I wonder how? "After the speech, Soto said something first, but looked thoughtful as if he didn't quite understand it yet.

"Grains of sand summoned us here. Or should I say the Sands of Time." Answered Gupta smartly. Even the badger didn't really get on with the situation here.

"So that's what Diego and Shira were smelling." It came enlightened from Crash.

"Yeah, no thing, bro!" Eddie rolled his eyes at his brother's stupidity. But suddenly a hare pushed forward between the two.

"If this Chronos summoned us here, why isn't he here?" Squint found the question more than justified.

"May I remind you he could be an apparition? A ghost? Boohoooo!" Buck came out of nowhere as usual.

"A ghost? Where?!" The walrus just wanted to get out of here because he didn't like spooky stories.

"There are no ghosts, Flynn." Dobson said with an annoyed puff.

"If Chronos summoned me here, that means... I'M FAR AWAY FROM GEOTOPIA!" The lama only noticed this startling detail now.

"But look on the bright side, you're still young." Teddy told his old friend. Well, at least this guy was something like that.

"Eh, that's a plus one, I guess..." Nevertheless, Shangri Lama did not want to stay here indefinitely and maybe even work for others. He also noticed that he urgently needed a pedicure. Dreadful.

"Anyways, Chronos is our all enemy and he plans to destroy us all! We're all in danger. Do you understand?! So we have to work together to survive." Manfred did his best to keep everyone on the ground. But the exact opposite took place, he made everyone angry again with his speech.

"What? Work with them?! No way, no how!" Squint didn't think about doing what was said.

"You framed me for egg theft! You even tried to kill me and the herd!" Sid said dramatically because he also wanted to participate.

"There is no way am I working with them! Not after what happened." Gavin looked closely at a particular kangaroo with his keen eyes, while Louis and Roger tried to treat his wounds with long leaves and medicinal herbs.

"Dad, I know you don't want to hear this, but we need..them." Gertie said and wasn't quite sure what to think of Raz.

"They will not help us! Those psychos are hellbent on killing many of us as they can!"

"They were once your crew a maybe your friends. Please Dad, listen. There is a good reason for everything. Buck used to be our opponent and look at us now." The son tried to talk to his father.

"He's got a point." The weasel grinned at Gavin with an exaggerated expression.

"Align ourselves with those dinosaur fishies?! Fat chance!" Crash said, crossing his paws.

"And same goes for Rudy too!" Added the other opossum in the same tone.

"Hmph." The llama stuck out his tongue at the sloths and also crossed his hooves. Sid held up a large leaf so that he and his girlfriend were not spat on.

"Please stop the childish behavior and help us. If we don't stop Chronos, we all die. You too, Shangri Lama." Brooke explained as kindly as possible.

"Enough of the silly quarrels. I mean ALL of you! We're going to have to make the best of it for now. So put your differences aside and get your butts to Mammal's Crown. And pronto!" Manny announced loudly and some giggled in the background because if the mammoth saying butt. At least until he exposed these animals to a punishing look again.

"Fine, just fine! But only until this Chronos character is gone!" The pirate captain gave annoyed out.

They also couldn't avoid talking again about this dream of Manny. Soto, Gutt and all other past shadows, this Chronos seemed very well known through the description of Manfred. The mention of an hourglass also brought back memories. Even if none of them could claim to have met these strange creature personally beforehand. Everyone was certain about one thing without saying it. Everything was better than being death.

And Grayson was actually a very well-known animal. So why couldn't any of them remember him except Ethan? Did this Chronos also have something to do with this?

Questions after questions. But they were all sure of one thing, they can only find answers and move forward if they work together. At least for now. It wasn't easy for some of them to stand on the same side with former enemies. Unfortunately, these animals couldn't think of any other solution.

So Manny and Gutt gave a trunk-to-hand shake. Both swore themselves internally that they always observe each other. The same was true for Diego and Soto, who only nodded to each other with a reasonable distance between them.

Shangri Llama just smiled because a truce was suiting him very well. Fighting was not for him at all if there was no one who could to take care of it for him.

So now they weren't just a herd, but something bigger and maybe more important. Something like a fellowship, Scrat thought and wrote the new name with a branch in the dirt. So that everyone could read it.

"What's he trying to do? Make us tiny weapons?" It came almost amused from the pirate rabbit.

"No, Squint. He's trying to spell a new name for our alliance." Shira explained and still couldn't believe that she had to deal with pirates again.

Some pronounced the name 'Fellowship', which was written in the ground in front of them.

"A fellowship?" Said Ethan a little clueless and Louis, who was standing next to him to see something, just shrugged his shoulders. The head of the herd and Gutt took one last look at each other before agreeing to the squirrel's idea.

"What do you think of this, Manny?" Gavin nudged the mammoth lightly on the side. The animal addressed sighed because they actually had no choice.

"Perfect, now that we're on the same side. Let's go now." And he even took Scrat's acorn and the squirrel happily hopped on his head. It quickly became clear that they were all really going together to Mammal's Crown to finally find Grayson.


GrayestLobster7: And so, with our heroes and villains banding together to stop Chronos and emerge victorious, they're on their way to Mammal's Crown, what lies in store for our Fellowship? How did Gavin knew about Soto and his pack, along with Gutt and the Crew? Stay tuned in this sandstorm of a conclusion of The Battle Against Chronos: The Relic War.