Chapter 188 - 188. Surviving the strange world

She made a bunch of fires. She would then go and gather as many wild vegetables as she could. Onions, wild carrots, wild edible roots that tasted like potatoes. Actually she gathered mostly the vegetables now. She would cut them and dry them on self-made racks. 

Two days passed. She realized she can use her powers every two days. So she used the waterway to bring the dried food to the mountain and just throw them on the shore of her small stream. Then she climbed up, put them on the sun and let them get sundried as well.

For almost a dozen days she did that and finally, all the food was up. She chose this time to stay up as her vegetables started seriously growing fast. She watered them with the combined powers of plant and water that gave them the needed boost.

After she met those chickens they never appeared again. But she sent one more time almost small hills of vegetables to the crew. This time she sends enough for everyone to eat at least one month. 

She planned to check the forest bit further away from the mountain, but first, she needed to build a house or dwelling. As she was just a small child she used the most simple way. She chose to use the cave. Making a simple stove, hotbed and couple items took her whole two weeks. 

She would use her powers to build things while the plants increasingly fast bloomed and made progress with building up the fruits and vegetables. Yes, fruits. She chose to help bushes as well as get the fruits. Every two days she would combine the plant and water power and would speed up that process. Not only that, in the forest she found many mushrooms before. Her choice to use the plant power to grow them into the immeasurable sizes made them produce bigger fruits. 

She would then dry them on the still bright sun and send them as proviant to the people. As she could see all the food leaving she knew that all of them are still alive. She gathered herbs, healing plants and much more these few days and left them to dry. 

Her house was almost finished. She used old three branches to close the door and added her cloth as a shield from the wind. Everything was ready. She made entrapment for the vegetables to get watered and choose to leave the mountain one more time.

The trip down was faster this time. She had time to nourish herself. And she became faster, stronger and more agile. Going down was no big deal. From the mid of the mountain, she could see many different animals but a bit further away. 

Rabbits, chicken, all kinds of birds but not even one dangerous or feral animal. That meant as soon she could she needs to kill as many of these and send them to her people. If she successfully gathers enough maybe she can sit still over the wintertime. 

Her quick steps couldn't be even heard as she rushed towards the river. Yes, she will use it to go down to the lake without being attacked by the chickens. She just hoped to find their lairs. She could get some eggs.

''This is so Robinson Crusoe. Should I find some stone and talk to it? It seems I really need humans to be human. Let's finish the task as soon as possible. But wait. He never said I have to stay at one spot. When the winter is over I could just travel per water further and find more humans. Now is too late. I don't know how cold this place can become, better not take any chances.'' She was not dumb. That mountain was the safest place for her at the moment. 

Somehow she could feel the fall and winter approaching. That made her already prepare enough dry wood for the winter, she had enough now dried fish. The vegetables and fruits will come soon as well. If she extra dries by taking all liquid from them, they might be almost as good as the ones she took as proviant from her home. 

The run towards the river went fast. Even before arriving at river small cloud directly over the surface appeared and she jumps right at it. She just let it float on top of the water like a boat and at the same time she looked around.

Humongous trees, beautiful plants, big animals. Down the river was even more plants that she recognized. Pumpkins? Huge orange pumpkin of the size of a truck. This thing could feed everyone for a while. But she still continued floating down the river. Curiously she glanced here and there and just sighed. 

On trees were apples and pears of the size of a human car. Plums of the size of humans itself. Did the grounding fairies plan to bring huge humans here or are they turned into ants? But neither made actual sense.

She just shrugged while going faster and faster towards the lake and suddenly it became still water. She looked around and saw a huge amount of small animals drinking. Somehow she started feeling bad. Killing them all? Why kill?

All those plants are actually so big that humans didn't have to kill anything if there is no need. And if they do kill, it's enough to get one of the chickens to eat for a few months. She started recounting and slowly floated towards the shore. She slowly and calmly walked towards the animals that looked at her with big eyes and when he arrived at the first rabbit she patted his head and smiled.

''Let's be good friends. I won't kill anymore. It is enough.'' She could provide the fruits and vegetables if they want meat they can hunt themselves. Somehow her calmness made her be accepted so even the chickens didn't react like last time, aggressive. They let her pass them and walk to the forest, looking for the fruits and vegetables she could send.

Two weeks long she stayed down the hill. She found chicken eggs. She gathered enough eggs to send each person one. Before sending she made sure that they were not small chicks inside already. The big pumpkin was quite a thing. She cut it in big pieces and after seeing how much of pumpkin meat was inside she was quite happy.

She would send all kinds of fruits and vegetables, not knowing if they had the same stuff or not. On the end, she sent the humongous seeds and send them a message. ''For this winter you can press oil out these seeds and use it to fry. I hope you all found a way to make habitats. I personally arranged a tiny cave and will start traveling from here as soon as the winter passes. So I hope I sent enough food for everyone. Please stay alive over the winter. In spring I will send more. See you soon.''

She sends them how to extract oil out seeds and the rest to be eaten as power food to keep them alive. Every time she would send them advice, how to make fireplace, how to built simple houses, how to clean animals, how to use the meat, how to dry meat and vegetables and many more.

She became friends with one of the rabbits that followed her until the mountain. She hugged it one more time and started climbing up. Yes, she could use the same way to go by the water but she used the power to send a few more live fishes to her stream. She found many other fish arts inside the lake. 

Freshwater crabs, crayfish and shrimp as well. She found so many arts that she happily sent them all to her little stream as well. But that task made her loose the power for the next couple days so she just chose to climb up.

When she arrived she could see lush vegetables with enormous sizes as well in her garden. Vegetables of the size of a human head made her so happy. She looked at the amount and realized that it would be enough to send each one of these and will be left with more than enough for her own use over the wintertime. She gathered vegetables one more time into heaps an on top of the hill she left a message. ''Take out the seeds. Plant it. You will be able to survive for some time only from these.'' 

Suddenly a message was sent to her. ''Subtask was finished: sending materials for them to survive on their own. Subtask is finished: helping with four quests. Subtask is finished: providing for own survival. Subtask finished: feeding without killing a living thing.''

After she heard the voice disappearing a huge smile was on Kendra's face. ''I knew it. It was impossible not to realize this fact. I rushed to kill those chicken but they actually attacked me so it was self-defense, but when I caught fishes without reason that was murder. After choosing to send them only vegetables the task was finished. Is the grounding fairy vegan?''

But if she let the animals grow this big and so many after a while they would become treat to the vegetation as well. Same with fishes. But considering that she could just kill them when its real need for meat it seems grounding fairy took it all into motion. But woman, why these huge insects.

Even the insects, worms and all kind of another thing that should be small-sized was so big that she got scared. She had to fight mosquitoes of the size of her arm. But later she could see that mosquitoes avoiding plants that smelled like tropical fruits and smiled. 

She extracted some of the juice and rubbed onto her skin. After that, not even one bug came near her. She even rubbed the fur of her friend rabbit and he had no more problems with fleas... that were the size of her hand. If they bit her...that would hurt. Kendra even sent some of the plants to all her companions and explains why in the hope it will save their tiny lives. 

What she didn't know that actually most of them ended up being saved only because of that plant. Why? Those bushes and rivers, lakes and forests all had the bugs. So whenever they saw the bug they would get into crisis. That was actually the biggest problem in the whole world. The bugs. Millions of them. Including huge ants.

So after she sent them the description of the plant and how to use it their lives became quite relaxed as they finished the task. From one side she got extra points for using the plant life to help them, from the other side... Not everyone was that lucky.