Shira gasped as she turned her head and saw the humans in their hiding places.

"Diego!"Shira shouted in a panic. Diego turned his head annoyed in the direction Shira was facing and saw their hunters. He growled and ran after them.

Seeing that their prey had already spotted them, the men leapt out of their hiding spaces and ran towards Diego. Two of the men stopped in front of Diego and were fighting him off as the other men ran passed them toward Shira and the cubs. Shira roared and stood in front of her kids in a menacing stance. Her bright blue eyes slanted in rage as she bared her fangs and tensed up as she saw the men get closer.

"STAY AWAY FROM MY BABIES!"She shouted. Of course they couldn't hear her as they surrounded her and the cubs. Some wore evil grins on their faces while others maintained their stone face to seem menacing to the saber. One of the men just so happened to be the teenager who was awkwardly holding a spear circling along with his fellow men around the sabers trying to look tough. As he came face to face with Shira, she growled and pawed at him practically daring him to take another step closer. He yelped and lifted his spear ready to strike when he heard faint little mewing from behind her. From behind the female saber's back leg poked three little heads with green and blue eyes. The teenager looked at them with pity seeing the fear in their eyes. While he was doing this one of the men beside him lifted his spear ready to attack. Shira was prepared for the attack and was about to pounce and swap that spear out of his hand when the young teenager stepped in front of her and blocked the man's spear grunting as if telling him to stop. The man he stopped is angered and grunts back angrily in a way that says 'get out of the way'. The teenager refused and then made a gesture toward the cubs for the men to take notice of them. The men looked at the teenager confused and then at each other. They all eventually nodded in unison. Shira is watching this happen and doesn't know what to make of it.

Diego is still being held up by two of the men and sees none of this happening. He is pawing at them warning them not to touch him or else. The men block his view of the crowd of men surrounding his family.

"What are you waiting for?! Either strike or get out of my way!"Diego shouted.

The man that was currently being blocked by the teenager lightly approached the teen and nodded. The teen smile, but it was short lived. After he smiled, the man grunted and pointed at a male that behind Shira and in front of the babies and pointed down towards them. The teen looks frightened and pleading letting out a shout that could be translated as 'NO!' The male behind Shira started grabbing at the cubs getting Alex and Zander with the daughter clawing at his arm to let them go. The teen rushed over to the male making a pleading noise. As Shira saw the human try to pick up her babies she pounced. But she didn't pounce on the man. The teen was in front of the male trying to get him to let the kids go, little did he know he would be the victim of Shira's claws as she got him in the back and practically threw him to the side ripping the back of his shirt. She let out a mighty roar as she did this and that caught Diego's attention. He looked to the side of the men blocking him as they turned as well in horror as they saw one of their one of the ground injured.

"Oh no"Diego let out.

In the distance Manny and the rest of the herd heard that roar as well.

"That sounds like Shira"Ellie says concerned.

"Something's wrong, let's go"Manny said and rushes off the Ellie right behind him. Sid runs next to Ellie.

"What do you think happened?"He asked. "I don't know, but it doesn't sound too good"Ellie responded. Peaches runs off as well with Granny on her back.

"Get the led up sugar! Yah! There's danger goin' on!"She shouted down towards the teen mammoth. "Why do you always have to come along?"Peaches let out annoyed.