Kiara Snow was hungry.

She couldn't remember the last proper meal she had. Lucky for her, she'd picked up a scent a few days ago; a COUPLE of scents. Kiara tracked the herd, but no one was ever really alone, for her to stalk and prey on. There were families, packs, watching each other's backs.

"Eenough!"

Kiara suddenly heard a frustrated yell and quickly crawled up into the nearest tree to get a better view. To her surprise, she saw a mammoth.

Now wouldn't THAT be a meal!

But little alone her couldn't take on a behemoth by herself, so instead she settled on the sorry green creature walking her way.

Kiara followed the sloth from her spot in the tree, slowly climbing down the trunk to stalk her pray. As soon as she leapt, there was a growl, louder than she had let out.

There was another saber in front of her, the sloth behind him. The other saber looked more interested in fighting her than eating the sloth.

Was he... protecting it??

Kiara looked between the sloth and the tiger, then growled at the beast before her. The sabertooth returned her roars as he walked in an arc, leading her away from his friend, but the sloth was stupid enough to stay in his place.

Kiara saw the opening and launched at her prey, but the other saber jumped at her, hitting her shoulder, and they tumbled down the small hill, with him on top of her.

"Ow," Kiara finally spoke, and the tiger got off her with a shocked expression on his face.

He probably just realized she was a girl.

Kiara rolled to her feet and stood up.

"What's going on here?"

Kiara looked up the hill to see the mammoth looking down at her.

"He tried to EAT ME!" The sloth incorrectly accused from his spot on the mammoth's head.

"She," the male saber corrected the sloth.

"Kiara," she introduced herself.

"W-well, kiARA tried to EAT me!" The sloth rephrased himself as he prematurely slid down the mammoth's trunk.

"And I would have too," Kiara instantly growled in his face, "if not for the oversized rABBIT!" She spat at the tiger.

The cat was instantly in her face.

"Who you calling bunny, kitty?! I could take down a herd of antelope."

Kiara laughed a single laugh.

"You can't even take down a lone MAMMOTH!" She pointed out.

"M-Manny's a friend. He doesn't count."

"Thanks, Diego." Manny said with sarcasm.

"Come on, Sid. Let's keep going."

As the mammoth lead the sloth away, the tigers picked up a new threatening sound and instantly turned their heads towards Diego's friends.

"And wHere exssactly do you thhhiinnk you're going?"

Kiara followed Diego to where his friends were to find a boa standing in front of the mammoth. It was tall enough to reach the middle of Manny's trunk, and as thick as his trunk as well.

Kiara snarled at it. If anyone was going to eat a sloth today, it would be her. The saber next to her growled for other reasons, obviously.

"We'll just be going home now, thanks."

"Not sssoo fasst!" Another boa came around the left as a third snake blocked them in.

With a roar, Diego jumped at one of the side snakes, but Kiara wanted the king. She raced over the mammoth and jumped in front of the snake, leaving Manny with the third one.

It was a match of hisses and growls, until Kiara knocked out one of the snake's fangs.

The serpent wailed and lamented, sliding its forked tongue over the cavity.

And then he got mad.

He struck at Kiara, aiming its surviving fang at her neck.

He missed.

In the next round, the king snake kept the tigress busy with his head, while his tail wrapped around her front leg. He teased Kiara into striking at him, and when she did, her leg cracked.

The cat cried in pain as she fell.

Hearing the distress, the sloth of all creatures came to her help, but he was wildly unprepared. As the boa turned its attention to Sid, Kiara jumped at it from behind, catching the snake's neck in her teeth, piercing through.

Her victory was short lived as the pain in her leg worsened.

The other two snakes saw their dead leader and slid away.

"Wow, you really got 'em!" Sid said in awe as he came to her. The other two made their way over as well.

"Guess I get to eat now," she smirked at her last prey.

Then she turned to Diego.

"I got the king snake, and on a broken leg!" she teased him before finally having a bite of her meal.

"Guess that makes her the better hunter then, huh Diego?"

The saber grunted and started back towards his original walk.

"Great. Guess miss top of the food chain can make it fine on her own out there!"

Sid watched between his friend and his wounded predator.

"We can't just leave her here, she saved, my life!"

"Her mistake."

Suddenly they heard a cringing crack followed by another short yell, which was kiara resetting her broken leg.

"Here, you can have my spoils." She said to the saber before making a failing attempt at walking away.

"Ohh, come on." Manny groaned and picked her up with his trunk, setting her down on his back.

"You can at least stay till you heal. You did save our lives."

"S- save your li...???" Diego repeated what the MAMMOTH said.

"Let it go, Diego. Come on."

Diego whined and picked up the half eaten snake to take back to his cave.

"So, why are you all by yourself?" Sid asked Kiara.

"Yeah, don't sabers live in packs?" Manny repeated the question, nodding his head to his friend saber.

"I... "

Diego heard the hesitation in her voice, and already decided to not believe whatever she would say next.

"I got lost when I was a kid. All the water and snow made me lose their scent. Why are you lot of yourselves?" Kiara deflected.

"I got left behind my herd." Sid said almost proudly.

"Sid's an undesirable." Diego remarked before getting bonked by Manny's trunk.

Hearing the other saber's callous remark made Kiara sink lower into the mammoth's fur.

"We don't care about Pasts. If you need a herd, you can join ours." The sloth obliviously welcomed her.

"Provided we don't try to eat each other." Manny added.

They walked to the valley as quietly as they could with the sloth. Kiara had fallen asleep, and Diego was still carrying the snake.

The other animals gasped in shock as the saber walked through them to his cave, a half eaten snake in his mouth. Kiara woke up when Manny put her down on the snow. She watched Sid try to create order among some kids, but they gave him no respect.

"You know, you should probably listen to him. He faced off against a king snake for me." Kiara told the children and they all oohed.

"Tell us the story!"

"Yeah, tell us! Tell us!" The kids shouted in unison and Kiara smiled at their excitement.