Feelings of That Day and That Time

That night after Lunensis won the Dino League Tournament's champion title and confessed his love to Maia, she couldn't stop thinking about it while she was taking a bath.

"I love you!" Those words kept repeating in her head.

"Lunensis... Is this how you really felt about me all this time?" Maia questioned herself while blushing.

This may be her first true and sincere confession she ever felt. While it's true in the past, during her years in childhood till teenager, the males were attracted to only her beauty and they didn't pay any attention to anything else. While some prefer to watch and some made unwanted attention to date her instantly including to the point of stalking. However, when she met Lunensis, everything changed. Unlike the other guys, he made his steps to know her as a person.

"Ah-choo!" Maia sneezed, feeling the cold chill from bathing. "I should probably get out before I catch a cold.

After she got out of the bathroom, she changed into her nightgown and prepare for bed. She look at the picture frame on the bedside. It's a picture of her as a newborn baby with her parents together when they were still alive.

Maia's father in the picture is very handsome. He has short silver-grey hair and blue eyes while her mother is very beautiful with her long apple red hair and green eyes. From the looks of it, Maia has inherited both her parents' charm of beauty but not as much from her mother's side while she inherit her apple red hair from her mother and blue eyes from her father.

"Mom... Dad..., what should I do?" Maia asked.

The Deinonychus trio noticed that Maia's troubled, they walk up to her from their beds.

BARK X3

Maia look down on her feet and saw the Deinonychus trio were looking at her in concern.

"Dino. Dano. Sue. What's wrong? Can't sleep?"

"No, it's not that. Is there something bothering you, Maia?" Dino asked.

"You've been acting weird when you came home." Dano followed.

"You could talk to us if you want. Maybe we can help." Sue finished.

"Mmm... Well I'm just confused, that's all." Maia smile softly as she carry the 3 chibis onto her bed telling them that Lunensis had confess to her about his feelings. Of course the 3 were shocked but they decided to support her in anyway they can.

Sue noticed the frame Maia put aside, tap on it. "Maia, who are those humans?" She said and her brothers follow.

Maia pick up the frame and tell them. "Those people in the picture are my parents. My mother's name is Mary and my father's name is Tsubasa."

"Ehh?! Maia's Mama and Papa?" The trio said looking closely at the picture. They noticed the little baby, Maia's mother's holding with the father. "Oh, is this little baby, Maia?"

"Yes, that's right. I remember this picture's taken a week after I was born. I only have memories about my mother but nothing much about my father." Maia smile telling her past to the Deinonychus trio.

"Why? How come?" Dano asked the part about her father.

"My father died in an accident when I was 2 years old. So my mother was my only relative and she raised me all by herself until she join my father when I turn 8 years old." Maia continued.

The Deinonychus trio continues to listen to Maia's past. They felt sorry for her when both her parents passed away leaving her all alone. But she didn't felt bad because despite her father died first with little memories of him while her mother raised Maia with love until her last breath.

"Speaking of family... What about you 3? How were you raised?" Maia asked wanted to know from her dinosaurs partners.

"Um... Well..., actually for us." Dino stammered.

"We don't know who our parents were." Dano start of.

"We were raised by humans instead." Sue finished.

"Oh? Is that so?"

"But, the humans who raised us were strict with us!" Dano cried.

"Yeah, the old man who called himself our 'father' forced us to train to be ninjas!" Sue said in disgust.

"The old man trained you 3 to be ninjas? But isn't your ninja training, the tradition you 3 spent through all those years?" Maia heard from Wanda that the Deinonychus trio had trained themselves to honed their skills as ninjas despite their so called father already passed on.

"That was then. At first we took interest in it because we're confident to work together to improve our hunting abilities. However, despite us doing our best to follow that old geezer's instructions..." Dino said remembering the trio's past.

"He forced us to work non-stop without any rest!" Dano cried.

"To the point we became tired of him and wanted to shred him into pieces with our claws!" Sue said as she flare her chibi claws.

"Oh my. You 3 must having a tough time together with him." Maia pitied them. To sooth them, she embrace the trio in her arms.

"Oh, Maia's so warm!" The 3 snuggle in her arms happily.

The trio were glad to have met Maia and they became her partner. But most importantly, she treated them with love and kindness like they were her children unlike their previous parent who only trained them harshly out of his so called 'love'.

After the trio started to sleep peacefully in her embrace, she tuck them to bed and kiss each of them goodnight. Sitting on her bed, she grab her picture frame to place it back on her bedside table. "Goodnight, Mom and Dad."

Looking out the window, she saw a full moon together with the first star in the sky. "The moon's beautiful. The first star is there together. It's just like that day and that time."

(FLASHBACK)

It was during the night just like now. The night sky has a full moon with the first star. The 12 year old Maia and Lunensis first met and were talking to each other before the Orphanage's event.

"Oh, so you live with your grandparents?" Young Maia said.

"Yeah. My parents died from an accident when I was 7. They were on their way home 1 day when they came back from their trip before my birthday. Erwin was a gift from them. They managed to at least save him in his egg before he hatch." Young Lunensis stroke the young Eoraptor's body as he purrs.

"I see. I feel sorry for you. But at least you have Erwin safe and sound."

"Yeah. I'm happy to have Erwin by my side. My parents gave me the best present ever. If only they could see me all grown up together with him." Lunensis smiled softly looking at the sky.

"I'm sure they are." Maia smiled.

(FLASHBACK END)

Remember that flashback made Maia thought about her parents too. Both she and Lunensis lost their parents at a young age. But Lunensis still have his grandparents and Erwin by his side who love him.

Suddenly she remembered something from that time. During the time when her mother was still alive, she did said that when she grew up, she would have a family and a child of her own. However because of some experience with men in her teenage years, they've been very persistent with her asking her to date them without getting a chance to know her personally.

However after she reunite with Lunensis, she could still see his innocent side in him when they were kids. Unlike other men, he asked her to hang out together, getting to know each other more in order to catch up during the years since they went separate ways since her orphanage's Event. Furthermore, in the Dino League Tournament, when he used the Tag Team move card, he command Erwin to heal the damage the Pawpawsaurus took to rescue him during the pinch despite the fact that the Pawpawsaurus was just a supporter of defense. Looking back, the way Lunensis did was something other people never even thought of doing and it made her heart flutter. Finally when he won and confess his feelings to her, she felt in her heart that his confession was true and sincere.

"Lunensis..., I'm starting to think. Maybe I do feel the same way."

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(MAIA'S DREAM)

Maia as a baby was sleeping during the moment of her birth while being carried to the hospital room where she'll be with her birth parents.

"Congratulations! It's a healthy baby girl!" The nurse said carrying the baby wrapped in a pink blanket. "Here you go, Mrs. Sauropod."

"Oh, my baby! Look Tsubasa darling. Isn't she beautiful." Maia's mother said to her husband who's sitting on a chair next to her bed.

Maia's father had silver grey hair and blue eyes. He was dressed in a black butler uniform.

"Yes she is. She's perfect." Tsubasa smile at the cute baby in his wife's arm. "So, Mistress Mary. What should we name her?"

"Oh Tsubasa, you don't need to call me Mistress anymore. We're already married for a year. Just call me with my name." Mary chuckle by the fact her husband who worked as her butler, called her in a formal way.

"Oh forgive me. I couldn't help it. I'm not used to it." Tsubasa apologize.

"Haha! It's alright. I have a name for our daughter already. Her name will be Maia. Named after a Maiasaura." Mary look at her baby daughter in her arms.

"That's a nice name. When she grows up, she too will be kind and beautiful just like you. Mis- I mean Mary." Tsubasa said as he tried to say his wife's name without the mistress part.

"Thank you Dear. We'll be good parents for our little Maia. I couldn't be any more happier." Mary smile.

"So am I, Mary. I swore to love you and protect you will all my heart." Tsubasa embrace both his wife and baby with a happy smile.

(MAIA'S DREAM END)

The next morning, Maia woke up from the dream she had. Despite just being a newborn, she still remembered that memory like it was yesterday.

For some reason, when she tried to get up, she felt dizzy and hot. "Urgh... I don't feel good." When she got out of bed, her legs felt wobbly and she fell down on the floor breathing hard.

The Deinonychus trio, hearing the loud thud, they woke up and found Maia on the floor breathing hard and rapid.

"M-Maia! What's wrong?" Dino got out first followed by Dano and Sue.

"I feel dizzy..." Maia weakly said to the chibi Deinonychus.

Sue feel Maia's forehead. "Ah! It's hot! Maia's burning hot!"

"Eh!? That means she's sick?!" Dano said in panic.

"W-what should we do?!" The trio begin to panic.

Maia tried to sit up and calm them down. "Dino... Dano... Sue. Please don't panic. It's nothing much. But looks like I really caught a cold from bathing too long." She whisper the bath part.

"Maia, what should we do to help? How can we do to cure you?" Sue said walk up to Maia's lap.

Seeing them willing to do something, Maia told them to give her Dinoshot so she could send a message to tell Cosmo and Wanda that she's ill and resting at home.

(COSMO AND WANDA POV)

Meanwhile at Maia's workplace, Cosmo and Wanda were just finished feeding the baby dinos when Wanda's magenta's Dinoshot beep.

"A message? Oh it's from Maia." Wanda read the message. "Oh dear, Maia's sick!"

"What's up, Wanda?"

"Cosmo, Maia's sick. She said in the message that she's taking a day off."

Hearing the news, the baby dinosaurs all bark in concern.

"Should we call a doctor?" Cosmo said.

"Yeah we should. But 1 of us should stay and look after the babies." Wanda said.

"In that case, I'll look after the babies while you go get the doctor." Cosmo volunteer to take over.

"That's a good idea. But don't do anything stupid and dangerous while I'm gone." Wanda gave a warning.

"Right!" Cosmo salute as Wanda immediately run off to call a doctor. "Alright then kids, I'm in charge while Wanda runs off to go to an errand."

The baby dinosaurs not pleased that the idiot human was in charge of them. They all wanted the kind Maia to look after them instead. Ignoring the green hair man orders, they all go into a dog pile biting him as Cosmo scream.

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Wanda reach to the closest clinic she could find. The clinic's name was called "Lee's Clinic".

"Welcome!" A nurse at the counter said. "How may I help you?"

"Hi, is Doctor Lee here? I was wondering if he's available today?" Wanda asked.

"Oh you're in luck. Doctor Lee's free for today. Please follow me." The nurse escorts Wanda to the doctor's office.

"Doctor Lee, you have a customer." She said to the doctor with black hair and light green eyes wearing a white doctor's uniform together with a woman in a nurse uniform beside him.

"Oh thanks. Hello there, I'm Doctor Haru Lee. What seems to be the problem?"

"Actually..." Wanda told the doctor about Maia's condition and asked if he could follow to her house to check on her.

"Oh dear, of course I can. Midori, can you accompany me?" Doctor called out to the woman beside him.

"Yes, dear! Let's go!" The woman who's revealed to be the doctor's wife had black hair and violet eyes said.

After the doctor and his wife as his assistant, grab everything needed. Wanda show them Maia's apartment where she stayed. On the way, they encountered Lunensis in front of the apartment's main entrance.

"Hey, I know you! You're Lunensis O' Sauria the Dino League Champion!" Wanda pointed.

"Huh? You mean The Champion?! Midori said.

"Um.. Hi?" Lunensis muttered.

"Oh my gosh! May I have your autograph?! I'm your biggest fan!" The doctor excitely said.

After Lunensis gave an autograph to his first fans, Wanda tell him why is he here? Lunensis answered that he's nervous about the answer Maia would give him after he confess his love to her which shock the women. As for Wanda, she came here to bring the doctor to check up on her cold.

"What?! Maia's sick?!" Lunensis said in shock.

"Yeah and that's why I'm here with the doctor. Well come on! There's no time to waste!" Wanda ran straight to Maia's apartment floor with the doctor and assistant behind.

"Wait! I'm coming too!" Lunensis followed.

(MEANWHILE)

While Maia continues to lie in bed still heavily breathing, the Deinonychus trio were doing their best to keep the rooms all neat and tidy in their chibi forms.

DING DONG

"Someone's at the door?" Dino said.

"Maybe it's Miss Wanda or Mr Cosmo?" Dano thought.

"Let's answer it."

Hearing the doorbell ring, Dino, Dano and Sue stack themselves to open the door. Looks like their answer was right... with a familiar face and 2 unfamiliar ones.

"Oh, it's the Deinonychus trio. Say, you 3. Where's Maia? I've brought the doctor." Wanda asked as 3 escorts the humans to Maia's bedroom.

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"38.2 degree Celsius. That's very high! But don't worry, miss. I have just the medicine for you." Doctor Lee took out the medicine pack just right for Maia to take.

"Thanks Doctor." Maia take the pack and she swallow the pill with water.

"Well Maia, looks like you'll be fine in no time." Wanda said.

"Yeah. Thanks for bringing the doctor, Wanda." Maia smile thanking Wanda.

After the Wanda left together with the Doctor and his wife, Lunensis decided to stay to look after Maia for the time being.

The Deinonychus trio were looking at him with glaring eyes which made him felt like being watched by hunters. Lunensis then summon Erwin so he could explain things to them.

From the dinosaurs view, Erwin talk together with trio that there's nothing to worry about. It was difficult to convince them but since Maia already told them about his human partner's love confession, they step back and watch how Maia would give her respond which made Erwin sigh in relief.

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The cold fever Maia had caught was slowly going down. However she's breathing hard from her sore throat and felt horrible. As Lunensis look on, he wonder if there's something he could do to help. Looking at the bedside table, he spotted a picture of a family.

He pick up the frame and observe it. "Could this be... Maia and her parents?" He notice the baby in her parents' arm. "She's cute as a baby too. Reminds me of myself with my parents."

Suddenly a flashback played in his head...

(LUNENSIS' FLASHBACK)

It was the time when his parents were away to find a birthday present while he's staying with his grandparents. Just like now, Lunensis caught a fever a few days before his birthday. He had a cooling pad placed on his forehead and he was breathing hard with his face red.

"Tori, is Lunensis' fever still not going down?" Lunensis grandfather said to his grandmother which he could hear from his bedroom door.

"No. I gave him the medicine that the doctor gave us and he's asleep now. Should we inform his Mom and Dad?" Grandmother said.

"But they're still aren't back from their trip and they said they won't come back until they find the perfect gift for Lunensis." Grandfather said.

"I'm getting worried. Maybe I'll stay by his side to keep him company."

"Alright then.

The door open revealing his Grandmother walking towards Lunensis bed and sit down on a chair. She then stroke his cheek gently as she encouraged her grandson to hang in there. She then began to sing him a lullaby which she always used to put her son; Lunensis's father to sleep in peace whether from having trouble sleeping from loneliness or from getting a cold.

As she continue to sing, Lunensis' breathing slowly calm down as he close his eyes, feeling he's safe.

(LUNENSIS' FLASHBACK END)

Lunensis hums the song his grandmother sang to him as he look on to Maia. An idea pop up in his mind. Remembering the song Maia sang during their reunion, maybe there's a disc that plays that song.

"Erwin, could you ask the 3 for help?" Lunensis ask his Eoraptor to call for the Deinonychus trio.

Erwin tilt his head in confusion.

"I need their help with something and they have the ability to help cure Maia. Please?" Lunensis beg.

Erwin hearing his partner's plead, nodded and run to tell Dino, Dano and Sue that it's their turn to help. The 3 immediately run up to Lunensis and see what he had in mind.

(AFTER THAT)

The trio finally found what they were looking for. A disc that plays the song Maia had sang to them.

"This is it, right?" He carefully put the disc in the music player and press the play button.

[Strong, Kind and Beautiful]

[Japanese lyrics]

#Boyaketa ketsui de wa koko kara susunde ikenai

Tada mae dake wo muite sesuji wo nobasu no

Tanin no kotoba de wa kono kokoro wa ugokasenai

Sotto me wo tojite ōkiku iki wo haku no

Kikoeru no wa hashiru jikan no shōsō

Miete iru no wa tatta hitotsu kawaranai

Tsuyoku utsukushiku mayowazu ni yasashiku

Sō hoka no dare demo nai

Watashi wa watashi de aru tame ni

Massugu tsudzuiteku miushinai sō demo

Sō tada hitori dake no

Watashi wa watashi wo atsume ni iku no

[English lyrics]

Even though my will has blurred and you can no longer proceed

All I have to do is face forward and straighten my spine

Other people's words can't bring my heart down

And I close my eyes gently and take a deep breath

The sound I hear is the uneasiness of time slipping by

But I can only see one thing, and that won't change

Strong, kind, beautiful without doubt

That's right, it isn't for anyone else

I am who I am for my own sake

I shall continue frankly even if I might lose sight of my path

That's right, for the one and only one

For me, I shall embark on this journey to collect the pieces of me#

Maia could hear the song she had sang before. Her breathing slowly calm down and she's sleeping peacefully as she smile. "Thank you... Lunensis." She whispered.

Hearing that made Lunensis smile. He check her temperature again and it looks it's going down, slowly healing. "You're welcome." He hold her hands, praying she will get better.

(MAIA'S DREAM FLASHBACK)

Maia as 1 year old baby, was in her mother's arm drinking milk. Her father was next to her mother watching the scene.

"Aha, Maia's so cute!" Tsubasa said with a kind smile.

"Hehe. She sure is." Mary said smiling back.

"Burp... Yawn~" Mary softly pat baby Maia's back to burp her from drinking milk and she fell sleepy.

"Awe, she's sleeping so soundly." Tsubasa said with Mary nod as she put their baby in her cradle and head to bed.

"Tsubasa, I'm so happy to be with you."

"Oh, me too. In the past, you were my mistress and I was your faithful butler. But now we're husband and wife."

"Yeah, at first I'm not used to men paying unwanted attention to me but you're always by my side to protect me and listen to me." Mary's life as a lady from an average family was always tough being the most beautiful than any other women.

"But I'm nothing like them. As a loyal butler and servant, it is my duty to be honest and listen to your requests. At first I'm too attracted by your beauty, but as time passed, I learned that you're beautiful from the inside as well. You're pure, kind, but most importantly very sensitive about feelings of both people and dinosaurs." Tsubasa said reminiscing the past.

"Yes, I still remember it clearly about your confession. Your love was true and sincere. That time when you proposed to me, I was so happy!" Mary smiled. "Hey, can you sing that song you wrote yourself?"

"That song? Of course." Tsubasa began to sing.

#Oh, I shall accompany you,

No matter how far are thou,

Be it at the ends of the earth ,

Or to the bottom of the sea,

For it is my duty!

I'll always be by your side,

Like the moon's shadow,

To protect you for all worldwide,

For it is my joy to serve you my love!#

Life... It is the Othello game of happiness and sadness.

All 6 billions of people have their 6 billions of lives.

Oh, remember from that day, that time!

(MAIA'S DREAM FLASHBACK END)

The next morning, Maia woke up feeling like herself again. She felt her fever's gone. Just then she recalled the dream she had. "That day. That time."

She felt her left hand being warm. "Lunensis?" She sees her hand being embrace by his hands together as he slept while the chibi dinosaurs were snuggling together as they slept.

Maia remembered the confession he gave her. From that day and that time during the Dino Tournament, in the final match, when Lunensis played the Tag Team move card, he ordered Erwin to heal the Pawpawsaurus. Thinking back more closely, it's like Erwin was Lunensis while the Pawpawsaurus move card that she let him use was her. She thought maybe it's like his way of telling her about his feelings and why he asked her to come watch him was his strategy to gain the confidence he needed.

She now knows what the answer is to give him.

Not long after that, Lunensis open his eyes and see Maia finally woke up with a smile on her face.

"Maia, good morning. How are you feeling?"

"I feel all better now. Thank you Lunensis." Maia said feeling energetic again.

"I'm glad." Lunensis said in relief.

"Um, Lunensis... About the confession you gave me..." Maia felt like it now the time.

"Oh that? I said you could take your time to answer."

"No, nows the time!" Maia intercept, surprising him. "I... I love you, too!" She said with a blush.

"Ehh? R-really? You mean it?" Lunensis confirmed if he's still dreaming.

"Yes, really. I love you too, Lunensis. I've thought about it a lot and I think I'm seriously am in love with you. From that day and that time." Maia sincerely confess about what she thought when she saw what Lunensis did during the whole tournament and the part when he won to have the courage to confess.

"Oh Maia!" Lunensis suddenly embrace Maia in his arms as he cry. "I couldn't be anymore happier. I really did my best! Thank you!"

She embrace him back as she close her eyes as she and her love's hearts beating together as 1. "Please take good care of me!"

That marks the beginning of Lunensis and Maia's new life together as a couple.

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Finally Cera's parents are together at last. But this is not over yet. Their wedding plans are coming up next with many new stories ahead along with Cera's birth. This chapter marks Maia's parents past in the dream flashback. How do you like it? The small song is something I came up. Once again the "Strong, Kind and Beautiful" song is here. I don't own it. Can you guess who's Doctor Haru and Nurse Midori are related to?

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HunterHQ

Here we have Maia's answer to Lunensis love confession. I hope you like it too. The announcers are probably the only characters I'm going to add for the battles in tournaments. It is a surprise for Erwin to use the move cards that Miku had used. After all, Secret Dinosaurs are dinosaurs that are fused together with the move card like what Dr. Z had explained in Episode: Child's Play.

I'm sorry I still can't PM. I'm using a FanFiction Downloaded App and it can only PM through Pads.

Anonymous

The human name meanings are all related to the attribute of the elements. As for the dinosaurs, I took the first capital from their dinosaur names and put it together that sounds alike or just random. Their first name and dinosaur family name are put together exactly like in Dinosaur Train. Just putting "The" in the middle is too boring.

For Erwin's case could be similar and related to Erma Eoraptor. But I think Erwin suits him anyway.