4This AU story will have a lot of differences compared to the original plot of the show, so enjoy.
A new morning has come in the cold expanse of Arctic winter, that was left as the norm in these regions and remained masked by the darkness of war for a century.
100 years, though it sounded absurd, has been so much time since this whole foolish masquerade was started by Fire Field. With the wrath unleashed from Sozin's comet, the instigator of this war himself, the nation of Triceratopses who were the rulers of the wind was wiped from the earth in a flash.
Therefore, he set about raiding the Earth Homeland of pteranodons and estabilishing colonies, on which the flying dinosaurs were treated like the fifth wheel of a cart and in short of proper rights.
But that was not all, when he put his stinking claws on Southern Water Herd, trying to clear it from any sign of a waterbenders.
This is where this all began.
It was afternoon, and the ice sheet on the water, in a sense, released the ocean underneath, that the two Styracosaurus siblings silently eyeballed.
Sokka and Katara, that was their name, had the task to remain with hatched children, adult females and elders and provide them with food, as soon as their father, the chef of the southern herd, had to cross the border of the residence in order to join the other males and resist the Baryonyxes threatening areas of his home.
Sokka was displeased by his father's order. The herbivorous dinosaur wanted to go into battle with them, but Hakoda sternly disapproved, explaining to him, that needs to guard his grandma, and in the village a male will come in handy.
Even if it meant that his son was the oldest boy among the other kids, who have barely trascended the few weeks following a moment they left the eggshell.
Katara, on the other hand, was different.
In the recesses of memories from her early childhood, the female Styracosaurus discovered ability within herself which no one else from the herd had, but she wouldn't talk about it. This topic was mainly the reason why her mother paid with her life.
What to say next, the siblings were looking for leafy food right at the moment. It was not effortless at all, considering that they lived in winter.
Sokka, focusing on the power of his own mind like all quadrupedal dinosaurs of his age, sniffed each bush conducive to this weather in the hope that one of it would be edible, but the only thing he mostly sensed were the spikes.
His younger sister paused by the water, taking turns to discover that her brother was feeling more irritated at all times, if that involved removing the spikes from his snout.
The female young Styracosaurus puffed her chest, serenely inhaled and pinpointed her thoughts on Sokka's head.
With drops of water lifting the spikes up, her older brother finally could breathe and restore his search for food,
as if he immediately forgot that Katara had helped him.
"Um, hello?" Katara growled vexed. "Where is your "thank you my beloved sister"? I just helped clean your nostrils"
The young male herbivorous dinosaur turned to her with annoyed glare.
"I didn't need your help" he replied with a raised eyebrow, shaking his horned head from the remnants of water. "Look, I'm just saying that If I had your powers, I'd keep my weirdness to myself"
Katara blinked and glared in return.
"You are calling me weird? I've been doing everything to keep you safe, while you kept playing the warrior!"
"I, playing the warrior?" Sokka pointed out. "I didn't ask to stay here with you"
With one furious head movement of the female dinosaur, a wave rose behind, slightly destroying the iceberg in front.
Sokka froze as soon as he spotted it. "Er... Katara?"
His sister didn't seem to notice it, continuing hers reprimand composed of insults on behalf of her older sibling about how stupid he is towards her.
With every movement of her head, the mountain crumbled more and more.
"Katara, settle down!"
"From now on, you are on your own!"
It was the final blow. The decisive move of her head halved the iceberg into two directions, loud enough to finally get attention of a waterbender dinosaur.
Katara gasped, while Sokka caught her with his bite and both quickly rushed to hide before any of the pieces of ice could slap them.
To the thorny bushes that Sokka had previously taken for food.
When it was over, Katara stuck her head out. What she saw exceeded all her expectations to the point her snout remained widely open in awe.
Another iceberg has emerged from the ocean, but different from the previous ones.
A large chunk of frozen water glowed in the beautiful different shades of the blue color, just like the northern lights during the polar night.
The most interesting, however, was the content.
Staring at it carefully from corner to corner in the deepest placement, she yelled with shock as the shadow opened its glowing eyes wide.
It implied that this mysterious being was alive.
"He's alive!" the female Styracosaurus ran to the ocean and leaped onto the ice platforms. "We need to help!"
"Katara! get back here!"
His sister was no longer listening to his orders, gathering momentum she aimed at the target of the cold wall with her horns and repeated this routine three times.
The icy surface, deflate so hard it nearly blown the siblings away and then emited beam of light toward the sky, enough for other dinosaurs to see.
Both Sokka and Katara regained consciousness with their heads hidden deep in the snow. Sokka was the first to stand up, and like a caring brother, embraced his sister close to the scales in protective manner.
Looking at what was left of the glowing object, they almost immediately reacted as a small creature emerged from the hiding. The eyes of the unfamiliar dinosaur stopped shining, right after he rolled helplessly from the top ironically right on Katara's back afterwards.
The female Styracosaurus crouched and helped it land on the ground, just to have a closer look.
It was very small in size and seemed to be a orange colored copy of the duo with the difference focused on horn placement.
It was run-down little hatchling with frosbite in a need of a immediate help.
The siblings couldn't leave him like this. Sokka picked up the baby and placed it on his sister's back without hesitation to left this terrains straight to their village.
