There used to be a story on here with this concept, but it's been gone for two years. I was sad to see it disappear because this concept intrigues me, so I decided to take a stab at it. I'm sorry in advance if any of this seems OOC, however it is a swap AU so some of that is expected. I will also say in advance that while I will try to mainly keep this as familial dynamic between the trio here as it was in the original, I do kind of ship Shira/Gupta so perhaps there might be hints of that… but only if the readers are fine with such. If not, I will keep this 'gen.'
With that said, please enjoy.
It was a calm, chilly day and snow was slowly falling on a snowy mountain range from the clouds above. A gentle breeze passed through, blowing the snow around the area. It was a cold place and there was no life going around, but for one small creature, it wasn't going to stop her from hopping around in search of something. This was a small, saber-tooth squirrel. In her hands was a brown acorn.
The saber tooth squirrel, named Scratte, was looking for a place to store her acorn for the winter. She hopped around the flat, icy ground. She stopped and tried digging through the ice. She pushed her acorn into the ground, but it didn't go in.
Scratte hopped a few inches away and tried again, only to get the same result as last time. She hopped again and tried again— this time doing it three times— but once again, the ice was thick.
Thinking this wasn't a good place to put her acorn, Scratte hopped off. She sniffed through some cold, dry grass, but didn't find anything. She peaked her head above the grass and kept looking.
She dug into some more ice, but could see that pushing her acorn into it wouldn't work. She hopped off, continuing her search, when she noticed that the ice she was now standing on wasn't as thick as before.
Scratte squealed with delight and she shoved her acorn into the ice. The acorn didn't go far in, but it at least dug into the ground.
But Scratte wasn't going to leave it like that. She kept shoving it deeper and deeper into the ice, scrunching it in with all her might. She even got on it and stomped on it, desperately wanting the acorn to go in. But as he did, the acorn suddenly jolted into the ground, confusing the squirrel.
As she thought about why this happened, a crack crept from the acorn's hole and travelled across the ground behind him. Scratte looked underneath her and saw that the crack climbing up an ice wall.
The crack reached the top of the cliff and zigzagged its way across the ground, past ice formations and reaching a glacier. But this time, it reached the top and the glacier was now loose. Unable to hold stable, the glacier broke off and slowly started creeping down its path, right towards Scratte.
Scratte, seeing what he had unintentionally done, quietly squirmed. She saw the glacier coming towards her and fled. But she stopped upon realizing that her acorn was still stuck. She yelped in shock before rushing back to retrieve it.
She grabbed onto it and pulled hard, trying to get it out. It wouldn't budge and she started panicking.
After a mighty tug, it came loose and landed into Scratte's hands. But now, she was in huge trouble. The glacier towered over her and was about to run her over. She screamed loudly upon seeing the glacier getting closer.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
Now making a mad dash for her life, Scratte was also being chased by falling pieces of ice being let up by the moving glacier.
The glacier kept charging towards Scratte, demolishing everything in its path. The squirrel kept running from the glacier, hoping to get away from it, when suddenly, she spotted another glacier coming towards her from the opposite direction.
Now stuck between the two massive bodies of ice, Scratte ran out of their ways. But the two glaciers collided and started closing in on each other.
Scratte, seeing there was no time to run out of there, slid on her acorn, screaming loudly as the two walls got closer and closer like two boxes crashing together.
She kept sliding until she got very close to the edge, where the two glaciers started squishing her, locking her in place. She pushed her acorn out of the way and tried getting herself out as well.
Almost falling into unconsciousness and being squeezed hard, Scratte was finally pushed out, along with her acorn. Now in midair, she grabbed her acorn and embraced with it, only to realize that she was now falling from a high level of altitude.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Scratte landed on an ice wall, sliding down it and going down a dirt wall. A ledge launched her into the air again, but this time, she crashed on the wall as it slid down to the ground.
Bouncing off the dirt, she landed on the ground, with her teeth dug into it. After pulling herself free, she looked around, hoping if her acorn survived the crazy experience. Her acorn was nowhere in sight. But just as it seemed it was a loss for the squirrel, her acorn landed on her head and slid onto the ground.
She squealed with happiness upon seeing her beloved acorn intact. She hugged it tenderly and started to walk off in search of a place to put it.
But suddenly, out of nowhere, a giant gigantopithecus's foot stomped on Scratte, causing him to lose her grip on the acorn.
Flattened by the massive weight, she picked herself up as the gigantopithecus walked off. Suddenly, another prehistoric mammal, a Brontohere stepped on her. Following him was another mammoth and a dodo bird. Another foot landed on Scratte, but this time, she was stuck on it and was being carried away from her acorn.
The foot belonged to a Macrauchenia, a prehistoric mammal that was part of an enormous migration of mammals heading away from the northern regions in search of warmer climates.
An ice age had begun.
Yes, I swapped the squirrels too for the hell of it. Anyhow, what are your thoughts so far? Please let me know in comments. Thank you!