Sweet Green Nature!
(AT THE SECRET GARDEN)
A week later in Dino Village's Secret Garden...
"Weee~"
"Can't catch us~"
"Wait up~"
Saura and Miku were playing with Suzy the Deinonychus all around the garden. The one thing different was that Saura discovered that she unlocked another power inside her: Wind Magic.
It's all because of the good deed when she rescued Suzy, a partner of Sleet, the Guardian of Wind.
During that 1 week, after Sleet realized that his blessing was the second after the Goddess, he was glad and he volunteered to tutor Saura, how to use the power of wind wisely.
Saura was a quick learner which Sleet compliments. She mastered her wind powers in just 1 week. However, there's a flaw when it comes to her emotions.
Whenever she's upset or angry, her powers tends to get out of control which irritates her if she can't do it right.
But, thanks to Suzy's advice of staying calm and natural, Saura learned to control her wind power normally without giving in to her emotions. The same goes for other elements if they surface.
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Meanwhile, somewhere in the Secret Garden, the Grass Guardian, Lampla was busy taking care of the plants in her own garden with her partner, a Therizinosaurus named Thea.
Lampla's garden not only has flowers, she also raised berries, fruits and vegetables! She called this part of her garden, an orchard. Thea the female Therizinosaurus was in charge of the orchard and its her duty to care and harvest them so that they would be sent to the herbivore dinosaurs, the hadosaur and ornithopod while the sauropod ate from tall trees.
The Secret Garden has both Grass and Wind Dinosaurs who were normally prey and predator in each other's views, but it's not the case when in Dainason Kingdom.
The dinosaurs that lived in Dainason Kingdom's Secret Garden respected each other's beings thanks to the royal family and their Guardians.
The wind theropods don't hunt the grass dinosaurs so instead, they hunt for fish in rivers since marine creatures are meat in a way.
Not to mention, Lampla and Sleet were good friends as fellow guardians.
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After Saura and Miku finished playing with Suzy, they decided to explore a new part of Secret Garden when they smelled something sweet.
"Oh, hello Saura. Good afternoon. What brings you and Miku here?" Lampla smile.
"Good afternoon, Lampla. Miku and I were exploring when we smelled something sweet. So... We followed and ended up here." Saura answered.
"Well, congrats on finding this place. This is my very garden and orchard. Welcome!"
Lampla gave Saura and Miku the grand tour of the Grass Guardian's magnificent garden.
The field is filled with many colorful flowers with a path in the middle.
Walking along the path, Saura and Miku were amazed to see so many flowers all in one place. The wind blow and the flowers dance by the blowing winds that some of their petals flown off, making them fly in the air and making them fall like rain. It's a winderful sight indeed!
When they arrive at the end of the path, they found another surprise waiting for them.
They found Lampla's dinosaur partner was taking care of plants different from flowers. They're berries, fruits and vegetables!
Lampla's dinosaur partner, Thea was called a Therizinosaurus. Her dinosaur name means Scythe Lizard because she possessed the longest claws of all dinosaurs. Thea's long claws are used as a weapon to defend herself including the crops from danger. She's proud that her longest claws were useful in these situations when cutting the crops into slices small enough to eat.
"Thea!" Lampla called out.
"Lady Lampla! Welcome back." Thea respond and bow down.
"Thea, we have guests today." Lampla show Saura and Miku to Thea.
"I see. Welcome to Lady Lampla and my orchard."
"The pleasure's ours. Thank you." Saura said and Miku nodded.
"Please give these sweeties a tour of our garden. I have some work to do."
"Understood. As you wish, Lady Lampla."
While Lampla left Saura and Miku in Thea's care, she escorted them to give them a tour all around the garden.
Thea show them all the foods that've been grown for all the herbivores of the Secret Garden. With Lampla's knowledge and help, she learned how to take care of them and send them to the dinosaurs.
It just so happens that for today's delivery, it's the Maiasaura family.
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At the Maiasaura home, Thea, Saura and Miku arrived with their delivery for the day.
Maiasaura was an ornithopod Grass Dinosaur type. It's dinosaur name means "Good Mother Lizard". It just so happens that in this Maiasaura family, they consist of a mother Maiasaura and her two children, a male and female.
The mother's name was Millie while her children's name was Mookie and Michelle.
Millie was watching her children playing together while making sure they're always in her sight so that they don't wander off.
Mookie the male Maiasaura and Michelle the female Maiasaura were playing a game of chase when they heard footsteps. They turn their heads and saw Thea with two unfamiliar faces.
"Mom! Miss Thea's here!" Mookie and Michelle said.
"Miss Thea...! Welcome!" Millie greeted.
"Hello, Millie Maiasaura! Mookie and Michelle too! I've brought today's harvest for you." Thea showed the veggie in Saura's arms.
"Thank you. And... Who's this? A human?" Millie said.
"Nice to meet you, Mrs Maiasaura. My name is Saura." Saura greet and give the veggies to her.
"Saura...? I see... Thank you." Millie look closer at Saura. She felt she heard that name before. She shake that thought off and smile at her, thanking for the veggie.
"Hey, hey!"
"Let's play together!"
Millie's children suddenly run for Saura, asking her to play. Looks like Saura's charm of dinosaurs attracted her yet again.
"Sure!"
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After finishing playing...
"Mom, I'm hungry."
"Me too."
Millie's children said feeling a rumbling in their tummy.
Rumble~
Another rumbling sound came from Saura's tummy too as she blush in embarrassment. "Excuse me..."
"I see you're hungry too." Thea giggled.
"How about you join us for lunch?" Millie suggest.
"Me? Can I?"
"Of course."
"Thank you!"
Using the veggies, Thea used her long claws to slice them, each one into small sizes for each, perfect for all of them to eat except for Miku since he's a Carnivore, so instead he just watched them eat.
While eating, Millie noticed that her children were not eating some of the veggie.
Mookie didn't eat the spinach while Michelle didn't eat the carrots.
"Mookie... Michelle...! You're not eating the spinach and carrots again!"
Saura, Miku and Thea watched in confusion.
"But, I don't like carrots!" Mookie said.
"And I don't like spinach!" Michelle said.
"Don't be picky! They're really good and healthy for you. How can you both don't like them? We're herbivores." Millie argue.
"We know... We know... But, we don't like it!"
Saura looked disturbed by this scene of family when Millie the mother tries to get her children to eat the food that's good. She thought about her situation. She didn't know who her parents were since she's been in Erma, a Dinosaur, care from when she was a baby but she's never alone because she was surrounded by good dinosaur friends and she thought of them like a family with Erma as her mother.
Back to reality, to cheer up the 3 Maiasaura, she had a nice idea.
"Um... As thanks for sharing a meal, how about I make some desserts?"
"Desserts?"
"What's that?"
"You'll love them! Saura makes the best desserts ever! You have to try them!" Miku exclaim.
"We'll be right back!"
Saura and Miku went back to Lampla and Sleet's treehouse's kitchen to bake the sweets while Thea accompanied the Maiasaura family.
(30 MINUTES LATER)
"We're back!" Saura and Miku returned with the baked dessert in a small box.
She made an orange-colored cake with some white substance spread on them.
"Wow!" Thea gasp.
"It's called a cake!" Saura said.
"Please enjoy it!" Miku said.
The Maiasaura look amaze by this new delicacy. They never seen something like this before. So, all 3 did in.
However... When Mookie and Michelle ate the cake... They made a disgusting face!
"W-what's wrong?"
"Is it bad?"
"There's spinach in it!" Mookie frowned.
"Carrots too!" Michelle added.
"Eh?! That's right... I used them as ingredients for the cake. H-how did you know?"
"The moment I felt the chewiness, I knew it right away!"
"The smell of carrots are really strong!"
The young Maiasaura siblings state their complaints about the cake. When Millie and Thea give a taste, they don't look bothered by it at all. They said it's delicious in a normal level.
"Really? I think it's delicious though." Thea.
"I don't mind the spinach or carrots at all." Millie smile.
"Eh? Even with this smell?"
Saura took a bite of her handmade cake and made her own review about it.
"I did my best to cover the smell. I guess not." Saura said sadly.
"They must be really sensitive about the things they didn't like." Miku commented.
Thea look up and saw the sun's about to set. It's time to return home for Saura and Miku.
"Thank you for your time, Mrs Maiasaura. Mookie and Michelle too!"
"Will you come and play again?"
"Of course!"
They wave goodbye to each other when Saura thought about the cake she made earlier.
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The next day, Saura and Miku were in Sleet's library looking up some books about how to make sweets.
They're looking up each page showing how to do.
"Hmm... There's lots of ways to do. What should we do, Saura?"
"Well, Mookie doesn't like spinach while Michelle doesn't like carrots..." Saura think back about the Maiasaura sibling's dislike of veggie.
In Mookie's case...
'Ugh, it's so chewy...'
"It must be the texture..."
In Michelle's case...
'Ugh, the smell's too strong...'
"An the smell too... Alright then, if that's the case!"
(IN THE KITCHEN)
The kitchen that Saura used to bake her sweets in Secret Garden belongs to Lampla. Whenever she wants to bake sweets when in Secret Garden, Lampla allowed Saura to use her kitchen anytime she wants.
On the counter, there's plenty more of spinach and carrots to experiment how to make better tasting cake.
"The one I made today was for using ingredients for salad, so I used them raw... This time I'll boil it...then strain them into a paste using cheesecloth so the texture should be settled. After that, I will seal the carrots by turning them into a paste."
"To fix the smell, we'll use cinnamon, right?" Miku spread a teaspoon of cinnamon into the spinach paste bowl.
... Ching!
With the ching of the oven, the first cake is done. Unlike the first with just orange-colored, this one has a swirly green pattern on it.
"See? It turned out so pretty."
"It's great, Saura! But they still might not like it."
"In that case..."
"It's taste-test time!"
Despite Miku being a carnivore, he made an exception for Saura's sweets.
"Time to eat~!"
When Saura and Miku ate the cake, they felt something off.
"Hmm... What do you think, Saura?"
"I don't think so. Nope, this one's no good."
"Is that so...?"
"Hmm, how about if we separate them, maybe it won't taste as bad?"
... Ching!
The second experiment cake is done!
"How about now?"
Saura taste the second cake. The result is the same like the first.
"No, not even close. Carrot cake and spinach cake aren't supposed to be mixed. They caused imbalance when put together separately." Saura shake her head.
Just then...
"Saura?"
"Miku too."
A female voice said from behind. It's Lampla the Grass Guardian and Thea the Therizinosaurus!
"I thought something was up when you came back from yesterday. You're here making that cake again?"
"Well..."
Saura told Lampla everything that happened yesterday with Thea backing up since she's there too.
"Oh? Making cakes for the Maiasaura kids who hate carrot and spinach, huh? Their mom will be happy." Lampla said with interest.
"You're working hard. I've tried helping Millie before but..." Thea commented.
Before Saura came, Thea tried to think of a way to help Millie's kids to eat the food they hate but since they're dinosaurs, there's no method on how to work it out even with Lampla's help.
To think the princess was doing it ahead of them, they're speechless indeed.
"It's only turning out so-so, but it seems I can't find a way to make it delicious. Lady Lampla... Thea, do you have any ideas that could work?"
"Well, it's just a thought... Why not try camouflage it in something they liked? That way, they'll never notice a thing." Lampla suggest.
"Hmm? Put it in with something they like?"
Saura thought back at Maiasaura siblings when they first ate her cake. She noticed they liked the white substance as a topping.
That white substance was yogurt cream.
Saura had an idea!
"What if I put that yogurt cream in it? I noticed they really like it!"
"Oh, that's a good idea. Let's give it a try!" Thea said.
"I'll go get it!" Miku.
"I'll lend a hand too, can I?" Lampla.
"Sure! Let's get to work. I'll lead."
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Lampla wears an apron and ready to help with Thea and Miku too with Saura's leading.
"First, let's put the yogurt in the batter and then the carrot!" An orange batter is ready and then in the oven.
"And add in the yogurt cream then we'll add this in." The spinach is next and whisk it, turning the white into a grass green color.
Saura taste a bit how it goes. "Needs more sweetness... And something else to change the smell as well."
"How about peaches?" Thea said with some peaches in her claws.
"That could work! Peach has a good smell too. I'll use my wind magic to slice them and mix them."
Using Saura's wind magic, she cut the peaches and spin them around like a sharp tornado (or like a blender).
Miku became dizzy watching it.
Ching!
The carrot base cake is done! The cake's orange color turned out beautifully with some light and dark coloring.
"How is it? Can you smell any carrots in it?"
"Nope." Miku.
"You can't tell at all." Thea.
"Instead I can faintly smell this cinnamon, right?" Lampla guessed.
"This feels like it'll work out somehow." Saura smile now that Michelle doesn't have to worry about.
For the finishing touch, it's spreading the spinach part on the whole cake.
"It's done!" Saura sigh. "Now all that's left is to decorate it with some cream and it's done!"
"And to taste it!" Miku.
"Yay! We'll get to eat another of Saura's sweets!" Lampla said excitedly with Thea nodding.
At last after adding the cream, the new cake is finally finish!
"Time to eat~!"
All four start eating the cake as they made their reviews and comments.
"Yeah. The spinach and carrots' presences are perfectly hidden, and wrapped around with the fluffy texture from the yogurt cream. Also, the combination of peach and cinnamon is refreshing!" Saura smiled that it's a success.
"It is. So delicious! How wonderful! And they all come from the very veggie that Thea and I grown!" Lampla said happily.
"So true! I can eat a lot of it and never get tired of it!" Thea agreed.
"Now all that's left is to take them to Mookie and Michelle! I hope they like it." Miku said.
"Yeah! Let's go!"
Packing 2 slices of carrot and spinach cake, Saura and Miku head off to visit the Maiasaura family.
Lampla and Thea look on proudly that the princess did a good deed to help the Maiasaura family.
(AT MAIASAURA'S PLACE)
Saura and Miku arrived with the cake and the siblings ate the newlymade cake they worked so hard.
"Well? How is it?"
Mookie and Michelle eyes widen and quickly gulp down every last bit of the cake made from the very veggies they hate.
"It's delicious!"
"Thanks for the cake!"
"Ah! Thank goodness! I'm so happy!" Saura sigh in relief.
Millie, the kids' mother give her own thanks to Saura and Miku now that she doesn't have to worry about her children leaving their food that's healthy aside, and not shaming about being a herbivore dinosaur that dislike certain greens.
Filled with happiness in Saura's heart, she and. Miku said their goodbyes to the Maiasaura family as they return home.
When Saura was walking, she didn't realize that tiny flowers were blooming from behind with each step she take.
(MEANWHILE)
Somewhere outside of the Kingdom at a cold region where everywhere's white, a new dinosaur was making preparations.
"Winter... Are you ready yet?" An adult male dinosaur said to the young one.
"Yes, Father. I'm ready." The young one said to the adult one in a female voice.
"Don't worry. You'll be fine at your new home. Please do your best. I'm sure you'll make some friends as well. After 3 years later, that is." The adult male dinosaur said giving a caring nudge on her head.
"Thank you, Father."
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Here's the new chapter about Grass Dinosaurs!
This chapter was inspired by Yumeiro Patissiere's episode 23 since it's about making a sweet using vegetables. The Maiasaura names also came from Dinosaur Train. I don't own it!
Try and guess who's the dinosaur at the end of the chapter.
The next chapter will take longer to update.
Respond to Reviews:
HunterHQ
I'm not writing any spoilers. Just keep reading each chapter and you'll find the answer in the end.
I'm not even sure if what Seth said is true about his theory about the Cosmos Stones were made during the beginning of time and space, I think he's just guessing his theory.
Other than the Stone Plates, I have my own ideas involving both the Stone Plates and Cosmos Stones.
Anonymous
I've just searched it after reading this review and from Dinosaur Family's review.
The part about Maia time traveling to the past was just a one-chance or decided by fate or destiny. I'm not sure if I'll add it again in future chapters.