Request from Tannerh012. Kiko and Tackle are my ocs. Requests are still closed but since this one is a 4th of july request I will post it but please no requests until further notice. Thank you. Happy 4th of July guys! 🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆

"Come on come on!" Tackle yelled excited as he ran ahead of his parents. "Race ya!" Kiko yelled back as he followed after his friend, the two side by side as they raced eachother. They were to the beach where the Herd was and the two kids were heading straight to Manny who was eating a watermelon.

"Slow down Manny. I think you had way too many watermelons. If you keeping eating anymore, you gonna bloat" Ellie warned her mate sternly. "Aw relax Ellie. I'm big guy. It ain't gonna hurt me as much as that time Sid got a whole watermelon stuck in his stomach without chewing it. He's lucky it was a small one" Manny replied back, as he took another bite.

"Incoming!" Tackle and Kiko both yelled as they zoomed straight to him. Manny got startled and stood up, staying still as the kids raced under his legs and smacked into the watermelons with a BAM! and SPLAT!

The cub and ferret kit pop up from the crushed up watermelon, red juice and black seeds on their fur. Tackle had a green watermelon on his head. "Wow! Watermelons!" Both exclaimed excitedly and started munching on the juicy fruit, forgetting about their race. The mammoth breathed out relieved, glad that he didn't step on them or anything.

"Sorry about Manny" Diego said to him as he and Shira approached the Herd. He glanced at his cub and chuckled at seeing him a mess with all the juice and seeds on him. He looked like a watermelon himself. Kiko too.

"Tackle buddy. I know you love to race and all. But you gotta learn to slow down kiddo" Shira told him as she moved the green watermelon off his head. "Come on. Let's get you cleaned up. We still got time before the fireworks" Diego told him, picking him by the scruff as Shira picked up Kiko too, bringing them to the water.

The brown saber dropped the cub in the water with a SPLASH! Tackle started splashing water at his best friend who splashed back at him. "He still got some seeds sticking to his fur. Hey Manny. Sprinkler?" Diego asked his friend. "On it" the mammoth told him, sucking up water into his truck and spraying it on the kids.

Once the kids were cleaned up, everyone was sitting on the sand, ready to see the fireworks while Sid, and Buck were getting everything ready. Shira licked her cub cleaned, his fur tasted like watermelon. Kiko was lying on Diego's back. Everyone was excited. Well, except for one.

Manny moaned a bit sick, feeling a stomach ache coming up from too much watermelons. "Hey Manny you good?" Diego asked his friend, noticing he looked a little sick. "Nope. I think I ate way too much watermelons. I'm gonna lie down" he said, lying down as his stomach started grumbling.

"Alright guys! The fireworks is about to happen!" Sid called out and that got the kids' attention. They glanced at Manny and had an idea. "Hey. Manny is very bouncy you know! Maybe if we jump on him, we will get so high that we'll see the fireworks better!" Tackle suggested excitedly as Kiko listened. "It's worth a try" his friend told him, sliding off Diego's back as Tackle climbed out of his mom's paws and scampered torwads the mammoth.

However, instead of going directly to him, the duo headed straight for a tree, climbing up to a branch high above with the mammoth below them. "Ok on the count of three. One....two...three!" Tackle yelled and both the kits jumped off and landed right on Manny's stomach.

"Oof!"

Manny suddenly felt the air knocked out of him as the kids bounced on his stomach like it was a trampoline. "Whoa! Woohoo!" Tackle and Kiko yelled excitedly as they bounced up and down. "Tackle! Oof! Kiko! Oof! Don't do that! Oof! I don't feel good!" Manny told them as they just continuing going up and down. The bouncing on his stomach with it bloating started to make it feel worser and started to grumbled in discomfort.

"Oh no..." Manny said, groaning in discomfort as he felt his stomach ache getting worse. "Tackle! Kiko! Get off of Manny!" Diego told them firmly as the two continued jumping while the Herd watched. "No way dad! Not until we go up really really high so that we can touch the sky!" Tackle told him loudly as his paws swatted the air.

"Alright mammals! Get ready! Because here comes the fireworks!" Buck called out as he lit the fireworks and ran for it with the sloth behind him, starting the countdown.

"Three..."

Manny felt his stomach get worse and he felt something coming out of him. Meanwhile, Tackle and Kiko were determined to jump as high as they can to get a good view of the fireworks that they kept bouncing.

"Two....ONE!"

"BURP!"

Just as Buck finished the countdown, Manny let out an enormous and loud burp. Tackle and Kiko zoomed up in the air and right on cue, the fireworks appeared in the sky, illuminating it. Their eyes widen and sparkled in awe at the view of colorful sparks bursting in the dark blue sky. The two fell down on Manny's stomach, sliding off on his red fur and running back to Diego.

"Excuse me" Manny said, sore from that. Thankfully, his stomachache was gone so that was a relief for him. "I told you you were eating too many watermelons" Ellie told him flatly and everyone bursted out laughing, finding it humorous yet perfect timing that Manny burped just as the fireworks were unleashed. He smiled sheepishly at them as they watched the show.