~Dora's POV~

I was looking out for any sign of my parents having been here, I know that if I can find their car I can figure out where they started hiking, that will put us a step closer to finding them and getting home.

After 5 minutes of driving I spot something in the bushes. "Look! In there! That's their car!" I called out, Alejandro pulled over towards the bushes and parked in front of my parent's car. "This is it. Our family symbol." I said, as I quickly exited the car. "This is where they started hiking."

"Are we there? Where are your parents? I don't see your parents." Sammy panicked.

"We can't go any further by car." I explained, "The jungle gets too dense."

"We must enter the jungle on foot. Luckily, I prepared for this possibility." Alejandro said, opening his boot showing many very unnecessary items, including a toy fairy wand, strange sunglasses and a pitch perfect DVD movie set. He also had many juice boxes. "Okay, I may have gone a little overboard on supplies. Be my guest." He grabbed his hat and bag and a juice box.

We all prepared to enter the jungle, everyone seemed scared, I guess it makes sense, I'm the only one who really knows the jungle. "You all have nothing to worry about. The jungle is perfectly safe! Just don't touch anything. Or breathe too deeply." I tried to comfort them. I don't think it worked very well, but at least I got us started on our journey to find my parents.

~Sammy's POV~

We had been walking for ages and we hadn't seen Dora's parents. I just want to get home. I never asked to be here in the first place. While walking down the path we began to see these symbols everywhere, they looked like suns, but they seemed ominous.

"Warning signs. Totems." Alejandro said, referring to the symbols. "Legend tells of a deadly ancient militia dedicated to protecting Parapata from outside eyes. No one has seen Los Guardianes Perdidos... The Lost Guardians, for centuries." Well that's great, theres a group of people who would kill to protect Parapata from being see. Maybe Dora's were killed by them and right now we are putting our lives in danger, hiking through the jungle. For no reason. I just want to go home.

Dora began speaking in a weird language none of understood. It clearly wasn't a modern language that we would've learnt in school. That girl is so weird.

"What was that?" Randy asked.

"Quechua. Ancient Inca. Impressive." Alejandro answered. Ok, maybe alejandro understood what she said.

"What does it mean?" I asked, I'm really curious as to what she Is saying.

""All those that seek Parapata... shall surely perish."" Alejandro repeated in English. That was scary.

"Okay, I am ready for my parents to come and get me now." Randy said, he sounded terrified.

"You have nothing to worry about. I promise. I mean, there's no need to overreact." The man who rescued us said as he walked into a spiders web, and began running around and screaming, before running straight into the branch of a tree and falling over.

"And that was just an example of the dangers of overreacting" Alejandro claimed, we all knewhe was terrified of the spiderweb.

~Randy's POV~

After Alejandro freaked out over a spiderweb, I found one of those red loops Dora saw where we started hiking.

"Hey. I found one of those red loops." I called out to let them know. Dora ran over quickly.

"My parents' symbol. We must be getting close." She said. Everyone was relieved to hear this (especially Sammy, since we got here all she has done is complain about how she wants to go home), this meant we were going home soon.

We continued down the path and find a camp nearby. It looked like it had been searched, and people had left in a hurry. Bags were open and the beds were still set up, but no one was there.

"This is my parents' camp. Or was. I mean, this is their stuff." Dora seemed a little upset seeing the camp empty. She must be worried, especially now. she had found her parents camp and there stuff but not her parents. Along with the fact that her parents won't answer her calls, she probably worried there dead. The fact that it looks like they left in a hurry isn't helping.

I ran up and gave her hug and reassured her parents are probably fine. She looked like she needed it.

"Someone's watching. I can feel it." Sammy wearily said, we all looked around trying to find who or what was watching us.

A monkey jumped to the ground in our line of sight, "kill it!" Alejandro screamed. He was clearly terrified of everything.

Dora ran up to the monkey yelling "Boots! Oh Boots, I'm so happy to see you" she knew that Monkey.

"Of course she knows this monkey" Sammy said sarcastically, it didn't faze Dora.

"He saw them" Dora said, relieved, before introducing us to boots as friends. I'm glad Dora sees me as a friend.

"No. We're here to get saved. Oh, and FYI, we are not friends." Of course, Sammy had to say that, that girl seems to hate everyone and everything.

Dora spotted another red loop. "hey did this quickly. See how they rushed it? Still, I can track my parents better than any mercenaries. We just have to get to them first." Dora says before continuing along another path.