I take a bite of my sandwich, dipping my feet into the stream. Gold lays beside me, occasionally catching a fish in the stream to eat. Bree grabs another sandwich from the picnic basket and takes a bite. We hung the saddle up on one of the trees, not wanting Gold to have to wear it for too long.
"It's nice hanging out for a weekend," she comments, taking a sip of one of the sodas. I nod and we watch as Gold catches another fish, walking over to us and dropping it at our feet as an offering. I look over at Bree and raise an eyebrow.
"You can have the fish Gold. We have our own food," Bree says. Gold nods and picks up the fish, eating it in one bite. I shake my head and finish my sandwich, standing up from where I'm sitting and walking into the stream. I put my feet in first before deciding that it's warm enough and getting in deeper.
I hold my hand out to Bree and she takes it, getting into the water with me. We swim for a while, splashing around, and at one point, even getting Gold to come play in the water with us. We finally get out and dry off with our towels.
We roll one of them out and sit down on it so we can dry. Gold walks up to us with a log in her mouth and drops it at our feet. Bree picks up the log and throws it, both of us laughing as Gold runs to go get it, splashing through the water to get the log in the other side. 
"I didn't know lions played fetch," I say to Bree. She snorts and laughs harder. Gold brings the stick back and sets it down again. I throw it this time, using both hands because of how heavy the log is. We play fetch for a while until Gold gets bored and we're dry.
I walk over to one of the saddlebags and open it, taking out our clothes. I hand Bree hers and then walk behind a tree to change into mine.  I walk back and put my bathing suit away beside Bree's. I close the saddle bag and look over, seeing Gold look up at me expectantly.
"She wants to take us for a ride?" I say to Bree. She nods and I teasingly sigh, picking up the saddle and fastening it to Gold. She lays down and we get on her, me sitting in the front like I usually do while Bree sits behind me, as she's said multiple times that she likes sitting in the back better.
Gold starts running and goes across the fallen tree, running into the woods. I hold onto the handle of the saddle as the wind whips at my face. One of the perks about having short hair is that my hair doesn't get in my face while we ride.
"This is fun!" I yell back to Bree as Gold runs through the woods. She nods and we duck as a tree branch comes really close to where we're sitting. Gold jumps over a log and I grip the handle of the saddle tighter. She keeps running and a soft yellow light starts to surround us.
"What in the world?" I mutter. The yellow light keeps getting brighter and brighter until I can't see anything but it. I close my eyes and hold on tighter to Gold's saddle, not wanting to fall off. Suddenly the light goes away and I slowly open my eyes.
"Where are we?" Bree asks. Gold lays down and we get off of her, walking around the nearly empty room. I run my hands along the walls, trying to see if there's a hidden door somewhere that will let us out of here. After a while I give up on trying to find a door and walk back over to where Bree is.
"What's this thing?" She asks, staring down at the podium like rock in the middle of the room. I shrug and lean on it. Bree's eyes go wide and I turn around to see what she's looking at. There's a holograph with a jaguar standing and staring at us.
"Hello! I am Queen Jaguar of the cat world!" The jaguar says. I look over at Bree and she shrugs turning back to where the hologram of the queen is pacing around.
"If you have found this, you have found the lion cub. We are in the middle of a war and we had to save the princess," she says, stopping her pacing for a second. A few pictures come up on the hologram and it shows cats and a bunch of other animals fighting.
"We've been moving through the worlds for a while now, and by the time you see this, I'm not sure which one we will be at. It's your duties as the princesses protectors to find us and return her, " the queen says. I look over at Bree and see her staring at the queen in shock.
"There should be a tracker in the bag. It's a small cat toy," the jaguar says. I pull the bag out of my pocket and sure enough, there's a small ball on a stick inside. Gold walks over and bats at the ball with one of her paws. The ball starts glowing a deep blue.
"The ball will turn green the closer you get to where we are," the queen says. Suddenly there's a huge noise for the hologram and the queen whips around with her teeth bared. Then the hologram shuts off and the room is plunged back into semi darkness.
"Can you talk too?" Bree asks Gold. Gold nods and walks over to where we're standing. She sits down and looks up at us, before quickly looking away and to the other side of the room. She then runs back over to us and lays down.
"Get on! The room is going to explode!" She growls. We quickly climb on, deciding not to dwell on the fact that she can speak for the moment. Gold runs for a minute before the yellow light starts. The room starts to crumble and Gold dodges huge chunks of ceiling and walk as she runs.
As a particularly large chunk falls from the ceiling, the yellow light takes us back to the shed. She lays down and we get off of her, sitting down in front of the talking lion.
"You can talk?" Bree finally asks. Gold replies with a small yes and then walks over to us, nudging the bracelets on our wrists. I look down at nine and see it still looks normal.
"They're what lets you hear us," she says. I take mine off and feature for her to say something, but I can't hear anything but meows. I put my bracelet back on and I can hear her talking.
"We should start looking tomorrow. Sleep today," Gold says.