"Go! Go! Go!" she shouted at the top of her lungs, glancing behind her at her partner. Her partner's sandy blonde hair was pulled back in a tight ponytail that whipped around as they ran.

"It's right behind us!" she shouted as they ran through the sweltering Amazon rainforest, "you had to go and mess with her!"

Glancing behind her, she saw her partner and the closely pursuing jaguar. Its teeth flashed a brilliant white and its eyes a crisp hazel with dilated pupils.

"I just wanted a picture!" her partner shouted back as they both panted from running.

Both their skins glistened from a sticky sweat that soaked their shirts. "Well was it worth your life?!" she yelled over her shoulder and pulled her revolver from her belt.

"Duck!"

Two bullets fired from the long-barreled revolver with two loud bangs. Both shots missed the creature and seemed to only make it angrier and gain more speed.

"You almost shot me!" her partner shouted with a face full of offense and fear.

"Better than being eaten don't ya think?!" was her simple reply as she hacked her way through the large, dark green leaves of the forest.

"Watch out!" her partner caught her before she ran straight into the renowned, winding, and treacherous river.

"Oh no! Now what do we do?!" exclaimed her partner and glanced back where the jaguar had slowed to an intimidating prowl. Its growls could be heard and they rumbled like the thunder of a storm on the verge of being born.

"We have to swim, it's the only option!"

"B-But there's alligators! A-And snakes! And you know… Piranhas! And more!" her partner exclaimed with a frightened stutter.

"Either way we're food!" she shouted and tied her sandy blonde hair, the same as her partners, up into a bun on the top of her head. She swiftly removed her gun and belt and stuffed it in her satchel. "Let's go!" she quickly ran into the water.

He reluctantly followed her and the jaguar watched from the shore as if watching his favorite show on television. "And our next two contestants on What's for Dinner Tonight…" played out in her head as she tried to swim swiftly as possible.

They tried to ignore the movement around their body's and just kicked harder. The slit eyes of a Black Caiman breached the surface of the water nearby. A Black Caiman is like an Alligator on steroids growing up to 20 feet long.

"Careful!" she shouted back to her partner "we're in alligator territory!"

"And Electric Eels too!" her partner added as a slimy creature slither across their legs

"That's no Eel! That's an Anaconda!" she shouted and they both swam faster.

They were almost to the other side when her partner screamed as a long Green Anaconda wrapped itself around its chosen prey.

"No!" she shouted and tried to help her partner but the snake pulled her partner into the murky water "No come back!" she screamed and they surfaced only for a moment for her partner to shout "go on without me!" before they went back down.

She swam quickly to the shore and pulled a few leeches off her legs. She would have stopped to mourn if the Black Caiman wasn't making its way out of the water. She ran back into the forest, almost to safety when a large—

"Casey! Markus! Time for dinner!" Casey's mother called from the house.

"Awe five more minutes!" Casey pouted from the large garden and looked at her dad who sat loosely wrapped in an old rope in the stream that ran through their backyard.

She held her backpack over her head as they waited for a response.

"No sweetheart, now" her mom called back sweetly.

"Come on, pumpkin" her dad scooped her into his arms "don't want your mama to see you in her garden" he smiled as she played with his wet ponytail that hung down his back.

"Can we play tomorrow too?" Casey dropped his ponytail and found interest in tracing the black tattoos on his arms that she had colored in with washable marker earlier.

"Sure pumpkin, go put your toys away then come inside alright?" he kissed her little nose and sat her down. She ran in and put her wooden toy revolver away and picked up her stuffed animal before running inside to eat an adventurer's dinner with her mom and dad.