This morning, the Snack Pack went to the Castle City Zoo and they marveled at the sight of all the wild animals, both real and mythical that were found all over the world. Rose carried her notebook with her to draw each specie and their details while the others took pictures. Branch is reading a book about all types of creatures and their habitats, behavior and other features.
"Look at those striped doplings!" Rose cried as she stopped and drew a picture of them.
The rest of the Snack Pack took photos of the animals in their enclosure and Satin and Chenille are amazed.
"Good, show me your wild side!" Chenille said.
"No, do it like you're keeping a secret!" Satin added.
"Please don't." Rose said. "I'm trying to draw it properly for my work."
"What's the big deal, Rose?" Biggie asked.
"Mr. Elfmore told me that he needs concept art for the latest animation project and I have to do my part." She hushed.
They continued taking photos till Satin paused her camera.
"Wait, wait." She sighed. "This isn't working."
"Stripes are unfluttered." Chenille agreed.
After viewing the striped doplings, they look around the animals in their enclosures. Rose had already drew many animals and did concept art in her IPad while eating lunch. Branch noticed Rose drawing so hard and looks at it.
"The horns look uneven." He said.
"Sorry, I should pay attention to the detail." She blushed as she fixed the horn.
DJ Suki, on the other hand, is using her cellphone to mix animal sounds that she recorded from the animals in the zoo.
"What's that for, DJ?" Poppy asked her.
"Sampling sounds for the experimental album I'm working on, it's a working progress." She responded.
They noticed one of the striped doplings nearby is eating a purffles nearby. Guy Diamond was interested with the fruit.
"Delicacy? Exclusive?" He drooled as he grabbed one of the purffles and ate it.
"Guy, did you just eat one?" Branch asked sternly. "I told you, we are not supposed to disrupt the habitat."
"And they cause massive indigestion." A tour guide added.
Guy Diamond denied eating it but judging by his fart, it was evident. Rose and the others pinched or covered their nose when it happened.
"Cmon, guys." Poppy assured him. "We promise Branch that we would keep our hands to ourselves."
"Yes, that's right." Branch agreed. "Cause if we interfere with nature we know nothing about, we risk destabilizing it."
"Jonquil is gonna give me my first gift and he'll be there in my flat when we get home." Rose said.
"He's giving you a gift?" Cooper asked her.
"Yeah." She nodded.
After a day in the zoo, the snack pack flew around Castle City until they saw some pretty dragons nearby. They look so cute that Poppy and her friends, minus Branch and Rose flew right up to them.
"DRAGONS!" Cooper cried as they flew right up to the alleyway where they saw them in an abandoned box.
"They're living in squalor!" Guy cried.
"It's so sad!" Satin sighed.
"Adorable!" Chenille added.
"We gotta give these dragons a good home, don't we, Poppy?" DJ Suki asked Poppy.
"Well..." She sighed.
"Poppy, no!" Branch refused. "These dragons might be wild, there are only a half of dragons that are domesticated and a fair number of wild ones. We have to call Everwing Veterinary and Beast Rescue."
"Call the beast rescue?" She cried as she looked at the dragons but she immediately refused to have Branch stand on her decision. "I decided that from now on, these dragons will have a good home, our home! Guys, grab those dragons and take them to our flats!"
In a flash, the sprites gathered all the dragons and brought them back to Pop Village Apartments. When they came back, the delivery man arrived there just in time when Rose unlocked her apartment.
"Is Rose here?" He asked her.
"Yeah." She said.
"Someone sent you this." He said as he gave her a large gift box.
"For me?" She squealed as she went inside and opened the box. A white unisus sprang out of the box and started to get comfortable in her flat, causing so much damage to her property.
"Great, my parents sent me a winged unicorn as a pet." She sighed. "Good thing it's not a wild animal."
Poppy and her friends started feeding and taking care of the dragons they found while Rose struggled to care for her new pet unisus, Majesty. She would talk with her coworkers about winged unicorn care and about its species, learning that the species that she got from her parents, is a monocerian unisus and it needs so much care. When Rose came by to Sweet Pop, riding her new pet, she noticed that Poppy is feeding the dragons.
"Poppy, you're toying with forces of nature you can't possibly understand!" Branch reprimanded. "Don't you realize the ramifications of your actions?"
"Not really, why don't you tell me?" Poppy asked.
"Well, dragons are fire-breathers and they might cause fires if we don't get turn over these species to the animal rescue." He said. "Their breath can cause damage."
"Such as..." she stammered.
"Fire, ice, poison gas, explosion, electrocution, laser beams." Rose responded. "Dragons have different elemental breath powers, depending on the species like lung dragons, the common dragons, wyverns, knuckers, amphitheres, night gliders, and lindworms."
"I didn't know there are many species of dragons." Poppy said.
"Yeah, and at the young age, dragons would start breathing fire." Branch added.
In a minute, the dragons started to breathe fire and almost destroyed the kitchen. In a panic, Poppy, Branch, and Rose, who jumped on Majesty's saddle, started rounding up the dragons outside to avoid causing damage in the cafe with their fire breath but dragons started flying around the city, causing mayhem. DJ Suki, Guy Diamond, Cooper, Satin, and Chenille flew right in front of the three, panting while carrying the dragons that they found.
"Great, we got a huge dragon problem here." Rose groaned while riding on Majesty.
"What happened guys?" Poppy asked them.
"The dragons almost burned down the whole apartments and when we took them out, they start causing mayhem all over the city." DJ Suki said.
"The dragons must go to the rescue center." Chenille complained.
"But guys, we can't send them there, I vowed to give them a good home." Poppy said.
All of a sudden, a pack of green snake-like monsters started attacking them. The sprites flew upward while Cooper tried to escape but Rose and Majesty scooped all the jewel dragons and joined the others, who are flying.
"Basilisks!" Rose cried.
"I thought breeding basilisks are illegal." Poppy said.
"Someone bred these basilisks underground." Branch cried.
Rose placed Cooper and the dragons on top of a skyscraper and started fighting the basilisks. Branch, Poppy, Rose, Satin, Chenille, Guy Diamond, and DJ Suki placed the dragons with Cooper at the top of a building and battle the basilisks with their spells. Poppy, Satin, and Chenille zapped the basilisks with their wands while the Branch, Guy Diamond, DJ Suki, and Rose use their magic to keep the basilisks away from the dragons and the civilians.
"How long can we get the basilisks away from the civilians?" Rose cried.
"Well take care of these monsters." A voice cried out. It belonged to a white-haired young woman with brown skin, a tailored suit, and black shoes. Behind her were a group of humans, sprites, and the beast rescuers from Everwing Veterinary and Animal Rescue. They ran to the basilisks and joined in the fight, having to bind these serpents with their magic.
"Great! You're here!" Satin sighed as she flew down to them.
"We're able to retrieve your friend and the dragons." A member of the beast rescuers said. "We got a call from a civilian who saw them that there are endangered jewel dragons that you got yesterday."
"The dragons are endangered?" Rose asked.
"They're listed as endangered." Another beast rescuer replied.
All of a sudden, DJ Suki's cellphone rang, revealing her experimental animal sound samples to be her ringtone. The basilisks writhe in pain as the music lead them away from the civilians. The magic task force and the beast control were finally able to capture the basilisks and put them in cages. The jewel dragons were placed in an enclosure with the other jewel dragons under the protection of Everwing Veterinary and Animal Rescue. The Snack Pack are making their one last gaze at the jewel dragons while Rose is relieved.
"Well, we put it back to normal." Branch said.
"I dunno, I sometimes don't get nature itself." Poppy added. "Which is when it's better to leave them alone and that's when something adorable can happen."
"Majesty has been brave horse when rounding up jewel dragons and fighting basilisks." Rose said. "Too bad, I have to give him to the chief of police. She brought him to the farm for safekeeping."
"And he's a really loyal guy." DJ said.
They continue watching the jewel dragons until it's time for them to go home. Branch took one last gaze at the dragons before he flew back with the others.