I pace around the room, occasionally looking over at the sleeping figure of Bree nestled up to Gold. I couldn't fall asleep but she did a few hours ago so I set her up beside Gold to sleep for a while. I look over at the blow dart sitting in the corner of the room.
The lizards had shot a tranquilizer dart at Gold and hit her in the side. She shouldn't be out for much longer considering that she's already been asleep for at least ten hours that seem to last forever in this tiny cell. I lean against the wall and watch as Bree sleeps.
Her chest rises up and down and she looks absolutely adorable. I shake my head and look away from her, my cheeks tinted red. I glance back over at her after a minute and decide that I most definitely have a crush on her.
I groan and bury my head in my hands. I hear someone sit down beside me and I look up to see Gold lying down next to me. Bree is laying on the saddle, her arms wrapped around it. Gold nudges my arm and I look down at her.
"What's wrong Cloud?" She asks me. I quickly assure her that it's nothing and that it's just that I don't like to be in this cell. I can tell that she doesn't believe me but she nods anyways, standing up and stretching, her paws reaching both sides of the cell when she stretches.
"Go wake Bree up please," she yawns. I nod and get off the floor, walking over to where Bree is sleeping. I shake her lightly and she quickly sits up, almost smacking me in the face. She gives me an apologetic look before looking around and seeing that Gold is up.
"Can we leave now?" She asks Gold. Gold nods and we put the saddle back on her. We get on and Gold breaks open the door to the cell, letting us out. She runs down the hallway, some reptiles in cells hissing at us. Gold skids to a stop and I look over her head to see the reptiles that kidnapped us standing in front of her.
"Where the hell do you think you're going?" One of them asks. I see another lift up a tranquilizer dart and I look around frantically for something to throw. I feel something in my hand and I look down to see a rock. I decide to question where it came from later, chucking it at the lizard with the tranquilizer dart and making them fall to the floor.
More rocks appear in my hand and I throw them at the lizards. Bree throws some from behind me, hitting the lizards with surprising accuracy considering that she probably can't see them sitting behind me. Soon, all the lizards are knocked out or groaning on the floor.
Gold gingerly steps over them and starts running through the hallways again. I look down at my bracelet and decide that it was what was giving me the rocks. I look back at Bree and she seems to have come to the same conclusion. The yellow light glows and then we're back into the place where we got kidnapped.
"Always helpful to have a teleporting lion after fighting lizards," Bree says, leaning over my shoulder to pat Gold on the head. I look up and see that it's already dark outside, streetlights illuminating the tarmac. Gold starts walking in the direction of the palace but I tap her on the shoulder.
"We should find somewhere to stay for tonight. It's really late," I say to her. She nods and we quickly find a hotel to stay at. We get off of the saddle and walk into the hotel behind Gold. The receptionist looks at us in awe before motioning is over.
"It's twelve roaches for a room," she says to us. I look at Gold panicked but she just nods her head towards the small bag. I open it and find an even smaller bag that has the word reptiles on it. I open it up and sure enough, there are dead roaches inside.
I grab twelve out of the bag and set it down on the counter. The receptionist grabs them and puts them into a bin, reaching down and grabbing a key. She hands it to Bree and then we walk over to the elevator, waiting for it to come down to the first floor.
The doors open and we walk inside, Bree pressing the button for the seventh floor. The elevator starts to rise creaking and groaning from the weight of all of us. I wring my hands together, silently hoping that the elevator won't stop or get stuck.
The elevator stops and the doors open, letting us off on our floor. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding as we step into the hallway. We walk to our room and Bree opens the door. I close it behind us, grabbing a chair in the corner and seeing it under the handle for good measure.
"Well, we're sleeping on the ground," Bree states. I turn around and see that there are two huge rocks on one of the walls. I walk over to one of them and set my hand down on it, recoiling as the hot rock burns my hand. I wave it around, trying desperately to cool it down as Gold and Bree laugh behind me.
"Yeah, we're sleeping on the floor," I say, walking over to the other side of the room and taking out some blankets from Gold's saddle bag. I set them down on the floor and then, after getting a pointed look from Bree, walk into the bathroom and take my binder off, lying it on the sink. I look over at the shower and decide that I'm in need of one after not having one for a few days.
I throw my shirt back on and walk out of the backpack, taking out a change of clothes. I tell Gold and Bree, who are sitting down and watching something on a hologram, that I'm going to go take a shower. Bree nods and I walk back into the bathroom and set my clothes down on the counter next to my binder.
I turn on the shower and strip from my dirty clothes, making a note to wash the dirty ones in the shower and dry them on the rocks later. I walk into the shower and sigh as the warm water hits my skin, relishing as the days of dirt wash off my skin.
I grab a bar of soap and wash the dirt off my skin, watching as it swirls into the drain. I hear a knock on the door and Bree talking me to hurry up so she can take a shower too. I quickly wash my hair and get out of the shower, wrapping a towel around my torso.
I dry off and change into clean clothes, grabbing my other ones and putting them in a pile by the sink. I walk out and Bree walks in, closing the door behind her. I walk over to Gold and sit down, watching the hologram until I fall asleep.