1
A lone human walked through a rocky desert, the early morning sky above him. He wore a shirt and pants, just like any human, except that they were close, but not tight, allowing him a great deal of mobility. Anyone who judged him by his clothes would say that he was dressed for hand-to-hand combat. He was moderately skinned, looking almost like he was white, except he was just a little darker skinned, and he had dark brown hair to compliment it. His chestnut eyes had a determined look on them. But anyone who thought that he was on earth was wrong, for this world was not his own.
He originally lived on Earth, just like any other human, and he was from South Africa. He was born from a marriage between a Scottish Man and a Zulu woman who had fallen for each other, resulting in why his skin was a little darker than you would expect for someone who was white, and it also explained why he was fluent in English (albeit with a mild Scottish accent) and Zulu. However, because of this mixed background, he was relentlessly bullied and called things like "half-breed" and "mongrel", so he hated his life on Earth. But the Earth that he lived on was an alternate version of Earth where many humans, him included, had an ability called "bending", which allowed humans to utilize elements, which were Fire, Air, Water, Earth, and their derivatives. And he was capable of learning all 4 elements fairly quickly. This allowed him to be able to do something to keep the bullies out of his mind, and because of this, he had now mastered all four of them, something that very few humans could claim to do, let alone at such a young age. But this didn't stop the bullying.
So when he finally got something no one else could have possibly dreamed of: a chance to go to another world, he took it graciously. Once he got to this world, which he was on now, he took notes from his Zulu half and renamed himself Shaka, after the most famous of the Zulu kings. Shaka, as he was now known as, was hoping to find a better life on this mysterious new world, but what he didn't expect was that it was ruled by dinosaurs, not humans. Not that he would really care. Anyone was better than another human right now.
But as Shaka walked through the desert, he heard two roars, and he turned around to find two Yutyrannuses snarling at him. A normal person would just scream in terror and try to run. But Shaka, who wasn't easily scared by anything, just looked at them. He had the ability of bending, and he was pretty sure that they hadn't seen seen a human before, so they would likely have no idea how to fight a bender. Plus, as he looked over them, he noticed that they were covered in feathers. And since he knew that feathers could burn, he now knew what element he was going to fight them with.
Fire.
Shaka turned back around, as if to just walk away without noticing the two Yutyrannuses, but then he turned back to the sharpteeth and unleashed two long streams of fire at them. The two jets of fire set the feathers of the carnivores alight the moment they struck them, engulfing them in flames. As if on cue, they ran away in panic, roaring something that sounded almost like "Fire, Fire, Fire!". Shaka cracked a sly grin for a moment before turning back around, continuing on his journey.
"Well, that was random." Shaka said to himself, amused.
Just a few moments later, Shaka leaned against a rock wall to rest. He was comfortable with the heat, and always had been, and he wasn't sweating much, if at all, because he could tell that it wasn't at the hottest time of the year. So, while the weather was dry, it was comfortable. He could spot a nearby water hole anyways, so water wasn't much of a problem.
2
Just a minute of resting later, though, Shaka was treated with an unusual sight. On the rocks in front of him (about 50 feet away), Shaka spotted 5 dinosaurs (well, 4 dinosaurs and one pterosaur, but it'll be kept as 5 dinosaurs to make it easier to say) walking along, and they all looked young. There was a young Apatosaurus, a young Triceratops, a young Saurolophus, a young Pteranodon, and a young Stegosaurus. But that wasn't the most unusual thing about it, though. The most unusual thing was that they talked!
"When are we gonna find water?" the young triceratops asked with the voice of a snappish little girl.
"The water doesn't come to us, nope, nope, nope." the young saurolophus, who was riding on the young stegosaurus, answered, also with the voice of a little girl, though sounding much nicer. "We need to find it, we do, we do."
The young stegosaurus grunted something to back the young saurolophus up. Shaka could easily tell that this one wasn't a talker.
"Me see water!" the young pteranodon suddenly exclaimed with the voice of a little boy, albeit with a verbal tic, pointing at the nearby water hole.
"Good job!" the young apatosaurus responded, also with the voice of a little boy, though sounding more normal and mature. "Now, let's get some water!" Shaka guessed that this one was the leader of the little group.
But just as the 5 young dinosaurs had started moving towards the puddle, Shaka got up from leaning against the stone wall and walked towards the water hole. As he did, the young dinosaurs noticed him and stopped in their tracks. When he was at the water hole, he turned to look at the dinosaurs, squinting because of the bright sun in the sky. Unfortunately, his squinting had apparently made him look to the young dinosaurs like he was angry, and they backed away a little bit. Shaka didn't know that he was scaring them, and he took a few steps in their direction to keep up with them, making them back off even more. But that's when the 5 young dinosaurs screamed something at him.
"SHARPTOOTH!"
Apparently, the 5 young dinosaurs mistook him for a predator, and they ran away as fast as they could, their faces filled with fright. Realizing this, Shaka didn't want to scare them even more, so he just followed their footprints.
Okay, I know that you might think that Shaka is a mary sue, what with the power to control the elements and all, but this is incorrect for a few reasons:
1. Shaka isn't overpowered. Well, not too much, anyways. Shaka's ability to control the elements is a story element that I took from Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend Of Korra and put in what I like to call a "crossover platform", which is a basis for where I can make crossovers with various movies, video games, and tv series's. This crossover platform is what I'm going to be using in any human-insert series that I make, and it's basically an alternate version of the real world where bending exists and is a common ability. Now, as for Shaka's bending ability, it may seem to make him a mary sue, as it's common in various mary sue fanfics for the mary sue to have some sort of extremely powerful skill at a young age, and in ATLA and TLOK, only one person (the avatar) can bend all 4 elements. But the bending in my crossover platform is far different. Here, anyone who has the ability of bending can learn all 4 elements if he or she wants to. However, people still usually learn just one element and stick with it, since they have other things to do in life most of the time. Shaka, however, devoted almost all of his time to bending, so because of that, he was able to master all 4 elements by the age of 14 (he's 15-16 at the moment). To reign back his power, Shaka hasn't really trained himself for hand-to-hand combat, so he is much like an archer: he DOMINATES at long range (explaining why battles against large, slow moving sharpteeth are a piece of cake for him, just look at the yutyrannuses), but if someone who is small, fast, and fights with melee combat (like a hatchling dinosaur who knows how to fight at close range, for example) is his opponent, he's going to have a lot of trouble fighting.
2. Shaka's relations with the gang aren't perfect. I know that a lot of these mary sue fics with TLBT have the mary sue and the gang befriending each other almost immediately. To fix this, Shaka doesn't immediately become friends with the gang. In fact, in their first meeting, the gang actually fights him! The fight, and the reasons behind it, will be explained in a few chapters.
3. Shaka isn't the only new action guy around here. I know that in these mary sue fics, only the mary sue is powerful, and sometimes, the canon characters are often weaker, as the stories of these fics revolve around the mary sue protecting them. I'm not doing that, though. Instead, I've made it so that the gang is adaptationally tougher in this fic, and they are also much tougher mentally as well, now being able to keep a clear head in a tough spot.
With that out of the way, hopefully you'll understand that making a mary sue isn't my intent. Anyways, enjoy the story!
By the way, there's a soundtrack to this fanfic. You might notice numbers on random areas in each chapter, and these are the points where the various songs listed at the bottom of the chapter will play. Of course, they come from a variety of movies and games (though I have been playing a lot of Civilization V and Fire Emblem Fates recently), so when it comes to soundtracks, expect the unexpected on this one. Here are 1 and 2 for you.
1. Shaka Zulu (Peace) - Civilization 5 (PC)
2. How Can That Be? - Fire Emblem Fates (3DS)
