Tigris watched her brothers continue to play fight again
"When will you two stop" she sighed
"Till Chase gives up" Nigel gave a challenging stare at his younger brother
"Which will not happen" Chase yells and lunges at him
"Whatever you guys are hopeless, I'm going home" she rolled my eyes and walked away
They always fight she bumped into a stinky sloth
"Oh hi uncle Sid"
"Oh hey Tigris, wanna help me with my new idea?" He asked
"No thanks Uncle Sid, Mom told me not to go with your ideas" she smiled
"No this idea is a good way to communicate when your far away!" He yelled but she didn't understand
"Well I got to go home hope your idea thing works" she smiled and ran to the cave
"Tigris where's your brothers?" Shira said as Diego dragged the buffalo in the cave
"Ok here's out dinner, where's chase and Nigel?"
"Their playing fighting again" Tigris said while almost drooling over the buffalo
"Ill go get them" Shira sighs but was stopped by Diego
"No I'll get them" he smiled and tracked them to the same spot they were fighting before
"I won I trapped you and you couldn't move" Nigel said to his little brother
"I let you win next time i won't go easy on you and I'll be pack leader" Chase yelled
"You two so know that I'll pick who's gonna be pack leader right?" Diego said
"Dad?! We didn't heard you coming" Nigel said in shock
"That's because I'm better than both of you combined but you boys are too young to be worried about being pack leader" he smirked "let's go home your mom is waiting"
The boys cubs ran in front of him and he followed
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"I'm sooo full" Chase groaned and laid down
"Buffalo meat is my favorite" Nigel
"For the first time I agree with you" Tigris licked her lips
"Okay bath time" Shira laid down next them
"Aw...." The boys whined
"I'm First!" Tigris yelled and climbed into her mother's paws
After Tigris, Shira cleaned Nigel, who fell asleep during his bath then Chase who she had to pick up in order to get him to cooperate.
Now all their cubs are sleeping between Shira and Diego. "They grown so much..." Shira whispered to Diego
"Yeah Nigel and Chase are already talking about being pack leader" Diego chuckled
"if you had to choose who would you think could be pack leader" Shira asked
Diego thought about it and sighed "right now let's just talk about that when their older" he said and licked Shira before calling asleep
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The next day, Shira woke up before Diego for the first time and began to stretch. Then a thought came across her mind.
"Diego!" She whispered and slightly shakes him awake
"what is it?" He asked while sitting up
"Ill go get breakfast this time you'll watch the kids" she smiled
"Are you sure?" He raised a brow
"Yeah, its been awhile since I went hunting so why not" she said and walked away
Diego watched her leave and sighed then glaced at the cubs
"Might as well let them sleep" he said and moved closer to keep them warm
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Shira kept running until she finally found a herd of deer.
"Found ya" she smirks to herself and sneaked around until spotted a elder male deer in the middle grazing on grass
When she got closer she jumped out of hiding and started chasing the old deer away from the herd. She pounced on him and slashed his throat and broke his leg
"Finally, now to bring it back" she pants and drags the deer
Meanwhile....
the cubs were running around the cave full of energy while Diego tries to calm them down.
"Hey-"
"Come back here you two" she growls
"Leave me Alone! I didn't step on you it was Chase!" Nigel yelled
"hey" -.-
"No it wasn't!" Chase argued back
"hello" -.-*
"Who cares I'll kill both of you!!" Tigris yells louder
Diego roars and the triplets immediately stopped and looked at him.
"You three need to calm down its too early to be arguing, your mom will be here with Breakfast soon" Diego said growing a headache
"Ok dad" all three of them said
A moment later, Shira came came with the deer she hunted. "Ok everyone here's our dinner" she said with excitement
"Uh what is that" Chase sniffed
"A deer" Shira answered
"I hate deer" Nigel said with disgust and Tigris agreed
"your mom worked very hard to get us breakfast now is not the time to be picky eaters" Diego said supporting Shira
The family finally ate their breakfast and went out to hang out with the rest of the herd
"Hey Shira, Diego, Triplets what's up?" Manny greeted them
"Oh nothing much we just had breakfast and decided to chill outside of our cave" Diego answered
"You look tired" Ellie laughed
"You would be too if you were raising triplets" Shira chuckled
"I know how you feel" Ellie smiled
"Ellie! Shira!" Brook yells as she was running towards
"Where's the fire" Ellie joked
"I have exciting news Sid and I are Officially Engaged" Brook announced and showed them her ring
"Congratulations when's the wedding?" Shira asks
"We don't know yet but everyone is invited"
"Great, I'll talk to you girls later I need to find the cubs" Shira said after realizing the cubs weren't around
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"OK are you guys ready?" Nigel asked his siblings while standing in front of a lake
"are you sure this is safe?" Tigris gave Nigel a look
"of course its safe I've seen dad and mom do this once so why can't we do it?"
"yeah and if things go south we know who to blame for this Tigris" Chase and Tigris laughed
"anyway, the first one to go to the other side of the lake wins"
"ReadySet Go!" Nigel said quickly and jumped in the water before
"hey!"
"Cheater!" Tigris and Chase jumped in after him
...
"So do any of you know how to swim" Nigel asked trying to stay above water
"I thought you knew how to swim so I can copy you!!" Chase was struggling too float
"Help!" Tigris yelled and the two cubs yelled for help too
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Shira heard some screaming in the distance and ran towards it to find the cubs in the lake
"Mom help!" the cubs yelled nearly drowning
Shira immediately jumped in and swam, the way Diego taught her to the cubs. Tigris and Chase climbed on Shira's shoulders while she grab Nigel and pulled him to land
"what were you kids think?! All of you don't know how to swim!" Shira yelled after taking a breather
"sorry Mom it was my idea to swim across to win" Nigel confessed sadly
"You cubs take this competing habit too far, your still cubs. You need to remember that" Shira sighed "we'll talk about this later let's go home" she walked away and the cubs followed
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Shira and cubs made it home to find Diego with a deer
"Again?!" Chase yelled
"yes again there wasn't any buffalo or boars out there but plenty of deer" Diego explained then noticed the cubs and Shira was wet "did I miss something?"
"it's a long story but I'll tell you later" Shira laid down
"let's eat" Nigel mumbles and the cubs ate their share along with Diego and Shira
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"oh so that's what happened maybe we should teach them how to swim for emergences" Diego looked down at the cubs
"yeah, a lot has happened ever since I joined the heard. I fell in loved with you, my old pack, the meteor, us having cubs and now Sid and Brook are getting married" Shira thought out loud
"yeah and I loved every minute of it with you... Well except your old pack and the meteor of course" Diego chuckled
"I love you Diego" she rubbed against him making him slightly blush
"I love you too Shira" he kissed the top of her head and they both fell asleep with their cubs
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