Episode 1: Life as a human girl.

I thought that I was an ordinary girl with extraordinary memory and with somewhat athletic ability that I made the school's track team and the girl's soccer team and did very well at both, glasses wearing brown hair, left handed, brown eyed girl with a natural sandy beach tan. About to graduate high school as a valedictorian one of ten students in our class and class student speaker at Hillstead High School, home of the mustangs. Living my life in Sunnyvale, California with a famous tiger healer for a dad Jose Rosas, a famous therapist for a mom Guadalupe Rosas, who helps tigers and humans to get back to their full mental state. Two siblings a brother Joe and sister Sheila. Both of my siblings are older than me, but are in the same grade due to the fact I skipped a grade in middle school. They're currently 18 and 16 and I'm 15. Two pets that I own are one silly Welsh Corgi Pembroke called Moncho and a hopeful Bengal Tiger called Fire. The pet my dad owns is a venom-less Egyptian Asp named Naga but I called him Niles. But sometime later, I found out I was  completely wrong.

Months before I got my wonderful powers, my sister and I got these two wonderful pets in weird, but very cool ways. The first of my two loving pets I got was Moncho and he is currently 11 years old, but he looks like a healthy 2 years old. My sister and I were pleading for months with our parents to get a dog. After months of pleading, my parents gave in and accepted getting a dog. One day, my dad was helping my uncle for the day because my dad took the day off from the sanctuary to give some documents to my uncle at his locksmith shop. After he finished helping my uncle, my dad, my mom, Sheila and I walked to the small pet shop across the street from my uncle’s locksmith shop. The small pet shop had a cartoon dog on the window. As we entered, some wooden open pens, all the pens had this cardboard like paper and the walls were plain cream color.

Sheila, my mom and I were looking around at all the dogs, but didn't find the right dog for us until my dad called us over to see this little lonely dog. We saw this cute little dog getting no love or attention because all the other people in the store were looking at all the beagles. When we looked into his wonderful, cute, affectionate, mysterious and luminescent brown eyes, we knew he was the one. The thing that made my dad be completely for having this little welsh corgi in our home was finding out from the owner that he was almost at his full size. Then he asked the owner of the pet shop "How much is the dog on the left closest to the door?" The pet shop owner replied "The dog closest to the door is on reserve for an old couple and they are coming this afternoon." Then we left a little disappointed, but came back a few hours with our uncle with a little hope that he was still there in the afternoon.

When we came back to the pet shop, he was still so happy to see us again and in that moment, we knew it was meant to be. The funniest and cutest thing my dog did was while we paid for him, he ran around the pet shop after they took him out of the pen with a big smile on his face and looked like he was laughing and bragging at the other dogs. While he was laughing at the other dogs, I thought he was saying this while he was laughing  "Ha Ha! I'm getting out and you thought I was crazy and never got out, but I proved you wrong." The way the workers stopped him from running around the shop they had to body slam him. My dad on the other hand thought this "Ah, we just paid for a crazy dog, so we can't send him back!" Ever since, he has been our loving, but crazy dog. He even helped raise our other pet Fire and fell in love with her and produced 3 fertile kids.

Also quite surprising that some felines and canines can breed and produce fertile offspring. My family proved it with genetic tests using their kids' blood. Before we did any tests, we believed it could be possible to produce fertile kids instead of infertile ones like mules, but most people thought we were nuts because the status quota said that no canine and no feline species can breed fertile offspring or kids. Our extremely accurate results shocked the science community to its knees and they knew the could not deny it because our family had so much evidence to back it up, so they regrettably changed the theory.

The second pet I got in a wonderful way was Fire the Bengal Tiger. When our family's sanctuary got her she was 6 months old, now, she is 8 years old. Before we got her, my dad made a promise to me that he would let me help get the next tiger back on their feet and go back to the wild, but you need your siblings approval as well because I don't want you to get hurt if they start getting aggressive. So, I used my way of convincing them by making their favorite foods Joe being chorizo and steak and a bucket of steamed clams. They had a look and tone of being grateful for the food and suspicious as well while asking this question "Dolores, why are you being this nice? What do you want?"

I replied to them annoyed "I'm nice!" They replied back "But not that nice!" Replied back "Alright, the truth is I want to help the next tiger that comes in.” Daddy said "I need to get your guys' approval before I can do so because Daddy doesn't want me to get hurt if the tiger gets aggressive!" Joe answers  "Even though you are bribing us with food. I think it would be fun and a good bonding experience as well." Sheila replied to me "Alright, it seems like fun!" Ran to Daddy "I got Joey and Sheila's approval to help me with the next tiger!" My daddy replied to me "Good for you, but you need to be very careful raising a tiger because tigers are wild animals not like cats or dogs!"

 The day came when my dad fulfilled his promise to me it was to Take Your Daughter to Work Day. I was in the car when my dad got a phone call from the Santa Clara County Highway Portal and in the phone call the Highway Patrol Officer said "We have a tiger problem! The tiger is walking around making traffic on Lawrence Expressway and also can hurt someone. Can you help us catch that tiger?" My dad replied, "Yes, we can right away!" So my dad makes a U-Turn towards the expressway.

 When my dad and I got there, we saw right away that the orange Bengal Tiger was a girl and seemed like she was abandoned by her mother and needed mother's milk. It was a miracle that this scared and lonely girl was even walking at all. Using our earpieces that my dad has a patent and also invented to able to understand any language animal or human alike and it is waterproof, fireproof, shockproof, freezing cold proof, get step or sat on, any kind of weather powered, has a very long battery life, look so hidden that no one knows you are wearing and so comfy that you can sleep with it, lasts for a long time and works great at night also my dad gets money from it as well because he sold the product to a company but not the right to it.

Within minutes of talking with it  we were able to calm her down by saying "It's alright we're not here to hurt you, but to take you to be more safe than here. Where you are fed and loved rather than scared, confused or even hurt." She answered me "You promised!" I replied to her "Promises!" So, she followed us to the truck without any struggle on her part. I knew this one was special just by talking to her. Before leaving the expressway, I squeezed a juicy Porterhouse steak through the bars holding the steak to her just for being a good girl and not fighting with us. When my dad was driving back to the sanctuary I asked my dad "Dad, can you let you raise her with the help of Sheila and Joe because you promised that I could!" We went to the sanctuary and got her checked out, she was very healthy, but very hungry. After giving her a good meal, I gave her a bath and found out what I'm going to call her. I was washing her back and found a birthmark that looked a lot like  a symbol of fire. I asked her with the earpiece on "Do you like the name Fire?" She replied to me with real contentment as she said "I love the name Fire because I was never named by my mother because she abandoned just after birth!" I replied to her "That's really sad!" Then I finished washing her and feeding her baby formula like a little baby  because was so weak and too young to eat hard food.

After months of raising Fire with my siblings and Moncho, she and Moncho really surprised me and learned that we were like family members. One night, Fire was at our house not at the sanctuary where she usually is because she wanted to spend the day with us and we also train her at our house, so she can be close to the humans and the dog she loves. On this night, my siblings, Moncho, Fire and I were playing some games in the backyard like hide and seek, monkey in the middle and just enjoying the cool night until my pets were alert mode and both got into the protective stances of a usually herding dog. Ten minutes into their protective stance, a huge full grown American Black Bear that can easily tower Moncho and Fire. My pets were jumping on the bear and biting the bear to protect us and getting tossed around like rag dolls.

My brother hurried inside to get my dad. While Sheila froze up in pure fear and I pushed her out of the way of the bear coming towards her, but while I pushed her, I fell on my back and got my pants caught on a loose branch. In seconds of falling to the ground, the huge black bear started charging towards me with his jaws and body language in a fearsome way. Two seconds before he was able to strike me, Fire and Moncho charged the bear to the right side together as one and were able to break the bone of the bear because I heard a huge crack from that different as I broke free from the branch and ran inside to get my dad.

While I was inside, I ran to my dad and dad that had a look that already knew what I was about to say while grabbing a broom from the walking closet, but I said it anyway "Daddy, there is a huge black bear in our backyard and Moncho and Fire protected Joe, Sheila and I like loyal pair of dogs. Moncho and Fire protected me from the charging bear by hitting it at the right side hard!" He told me "Stay inside with your siblings!" Daddy went outside with the broom clutched in his hands and he saw Moncho and Fire and the bear covered in blood and bleeding out of their mouths. Then they ran in front of my dad to protect him and even though our pets were getting in the way to keep him out of the fight, he was able to get a few good hits on the bear. After an hour, the bear ran off with his head down learning that I should not mess with this family again because they will fight back. My dad saw my pets fall to the ground from their injuries with smiles on their faces because they protected the family. My dad picked them up and put them on stretchers because he didn't have the tools he needed at home and took them to our sanctuary's hospital that is one of the top hospitals for pets in the city.

At our sanctuary, my dad called other vets to help Moncho and Fire get better, but none of the other doctors were free to help. My dad knows how to help them because he got a bachelors, MD and Ph.D. in veterinary science, archaeology and magical arts from Stanford and Ravenwood School for the Magical Arts. He had to do the surgery all by himself, but not traditionally done because it's a conflict of interest, but they needed the medical attention now and he had to hold his emotional attachment for them to help them survive the night. After an hour of surgery that went beautifully, he put them together on the huge non-wire floor instead of it being wooden with a  big comfy bed. They both woke up at the same time to what my dad was saying to them with tears down his face in gratitude "Thank you for protecting my children and saving my daughter's life!" Then they said while they were yawning from being tried and the medication  "Your welcome, protecting and loving our pack, or family is our job." When my dad got home without them, all three of us asked in unison  and worried in our voice "Are they ok?"

My dad reassured us that they are ok by saying this "They're perfectly fine, but they need to stay there to rest tonight and stay until Monday before they can be released. You guys can see them tomorrow." The very next day, we went to our sanctuary's hospital. They were awake so happy to see us. Before we picked them up to take them home, my daddy asked me, "When we get to take them back home gives them both a lot of treats like steaks, bones, hot dogs, ham, shrimps, bananas and apples with no skins and donuts holes in their meals for today, tomorrow, the day after as a thank you to them." So, we feed them both with the orders that my dad told us. They were fed very well and they were spoiled rotten with love.

 Months after the bear issue, another thing surprised me as a trainer of one tiger and pet owner is that family sticks together no matter what. It was the time of the year to let go of our tigers that are not in permanent captivity, hurt, or still being rehabilitated. My siblings and I looked at the list of which tigers are getting set free in the wilds of the state of Assam in India and the one we personally trained was on the list of one to go. Our sanctuary take them to the best tiger reserve in India called Kaziranga National Park. Weeks before our trip, everyone, even the zookeepers got their shots and my dad acquired all the government documents to be able release our tigers. On the day of our trip to Kaziranga National Park in the state of Assam in India and in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of that state, we went to San Francisco International Airport to fly to Jorhat City, India. I was sitting, but kind of sad, so my dad asked me "What's wrong Dolores?" I replied hiding my sadness with my normal smile "Daddy, nothing wrong."

After we ate something near our gate A14 to Jorhat City, India, our flight was called that we are boarding. When our plane was taxiing, I was looking through the window. I started to cry sitting in my favorite seat of a plane the window seat and my daddy asked me "Little Peanut, why are you crying is there something bothering you?" I replied to my daddy "Yeah, there is something bothering me since we entered the airport, the thing that's bothering me is realizing the reality that I'm never going to see Fire again. I'm really going to miss her so much. I'm scared of letting her go." My dad told me some good advice like always and he said to me "I know it's hard to let go, but remind all the good you shared with her and she will always be in your heart."

After hearing that, I felt so much better that I had a desire to drink some coke given by the flight attendant in small, but bumpy plastic cups. After hours of trying to sleep on these uncomfortable chairs with no success, I decided to write a little in my diary and when you know a book is good that a person starts reading your work over your shoulder while you have your chair back as far as it can go. Then I felt like walking to see how Fire was doing, so I crept so quietly that not even a mouse could hear my footsteps along the hallway of the cabin. I got to the baggage hold where Fire was hanging out.

When I got there, I took my earpiece out of my purse and I could hear all the other tigers excitement about going into the wild except for one Fire. Fire looked so sad in her big steel with wooden floors in the cage like she didn't want to go. I said to her "Fire, how are you doing?" She replied in a sad tone of really missing Sunnyvale and living with us "Dolores, I want to go home with you and become your live in home pet like Moncho my love is. I want to go back home by my own decision, not by someone who wants me too." Few days ago, my dad told me "Fire was acting similar to how Moncho acts when he's stubborn, not in an aggressive way, but will just not move from his stop at that moment and he does it when he is on his lease for a walk.

She only stopped her stubbornness by putting some very non-lethal sleep potion in her meat by one of the zookeepers." It wasn't  like her to not listen to us. The only thing I want from Fire is to be the happiest tiger in the world even if it's not with my family as our pet. I started having the desire to write again while a lot of tigers were party down all around me in their cages after minutes of writing, I fell comfortably asleep on a hard steel floor next to Fire. Then an hour later, I woke up checking my pocket watch for how long I slept and saw two guys telling me "Get out of here! You shouldn't be here and we will give you ten minutes to get back your seat." I hurried out of there and waved to Fire while saying "See you later!"

At the Jorhat City airport, we hurried to the Hotel Du Pree to meet Gunha because our flight was delayed by over an hour due to a blockage that resulted into a crack in the fuel line. We made it to the hotel that looked nice elegant Victorian styled with the windows looking of that period, but unfortunately smelled like overcooked curry. We found Gunha sitting at the bar drinking a beer. Gunha is a tall good looking light skinned man at 6 feet 8 inches, is a part timer at the Kaziranga National Park as well as he is going for his Masters in wildlife science in town, but he's a pervert in from that he checks my sister and I while we are undressing or changing. Gunha said to us, "What took you so long?" My dad replied to him "Yeah, our flight was late." Gunha said to us with a perverted look in his eye through my sister and I, but Joe fired a look of if you touch them I will personally kick your *** Gunha "It's too late to bring you all to Kaziranga National Park but you guys must be tired after your flight, so let's all rest then go tomorrow." We all agreed while yawning a lot and then we got our room numbers and key cards.

When we got room assignments, I bunked with Sheila, but Joe bunked with Gunha. Our room number was 2045 on the top floor of this 20-story hotel. Our room looked like England with posters of the rock bands from England, lamps of Big Ben and all sorts of soda, coffee and British tea on the counter and other British stuff all over the room. I saw in a magazine down in the lobby while we were for our room assignments about different places. The very next day, we all woke up in the afternoon and had a good lunch in a very busy part of town like everyone needs to get somewhere fast. Then all pack into two cars and trailer full of tigers that just got fed drove two hours to down an uneven road to the national park.

When we got there, I saw an arched wooden sign saying Kaziranga National Park and tons of lions and tigers chasing gazelle in the grasslands and marshes. After an hour of exploring the park and feeding them, we started to take out the ten crates filled with very fed and very happy tigers out of air conditioned trailers. All our workers except my siblings and myself used crowbars to release the tigers one by one and they ran so happily out of their cages to the wild. When the tiger my siblings and I raised to full maturity was up next, my dad gave all three of us a crowbars to be able to release the baby we raised to the wild. When we opened her cage, she saw the door of her cage opened but all she did was lounged around with a look of this the right time for a good night sleep in her cage like she was relaxing on a beach in Mexico.

        After ten minutes of talking to Fire with no change and using the help of our employees with no luck, some of the employees went to get our dad. My siblings and I suggested we give meat and close it, but the other adults thought it would not work because we are too young. Few minutes later, they found my dad drinking soda in the shade then they told their problem to their boss or my dad by saying this "We got a problem one of the tigers is not moving out of her cage and what should we do?" He asked his employees with a look of unsurprised "Which tiger is giving you guys trouble and did you use meat to take her out?"

     They replied to their boss with dumb looks and nervousness on their faces "It's Fire sir and no, we didn't give her steak while trying to get her out." My dad got really annoyed by them due to their unimaginative stupidity and said "If you can't get something done right you have to do it yourself!" Few minutes later, we all saw my dad and the two idiot employees then my dad asked  his three children "Did you suggest give her meat and closing the cage?" We replied to our daddy "Yes, we did but no one listened?" My dad complimented us by saying this "Good children and now, some people are using their brains in this room!" Dad dropped two cooked pieces of meat outside of her cage because for some reason raw meat makes her sick to her stomach like when my mom gave Moncho,  Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and few days later, he was sick to his stomach due to the fact that dogs can't process chocolate like humans can even though it's in her nature to like it. She likes cooked meat tons better than raw meat ever could. She started moving out of her cage and she tried to quickly take her steaks back to her cage in her mouth, but the workers shut the steel door before she could get in.

     Then she sat down with her steak and ten minutes later, she was done. Everyone was hoping that she would run free into the wild but all she did was sit on the ground looking very comfy. Then a few people including my dad tried to push her to run into the wondrous grasses and trees of the reserve, but they could not push her because she was too heavy. While they were doing that, Fire asked me for my gold submariner diver's watch to check how long they have been trying to push her to move and my watch showed 5 minutes now.

     Then she asked me this with a look of wanting them to give up and let her stay with me and my family "Are they going to give up now?" I replied to her "I don't know." The next thing and the last thing they tried was leaving steak in the grasses and then leaving. They left the steak deep in the grasses and she went into the grasses. Ten minutes later while everyone was about to pack up, she came back with the steak in her mouth and had a look of Really, you just did that.! Wow, you're really dumb to the others expect for Sheila, Joe and I as she rub her body on my siblings and my legs like she was happy to see us. I was happy that she came back. Then my dad raised his hand swiftly and shouted in pure annoyance by Fire's behavior and said this "I had it!" Then with a tone of regret said this "I give up! Dolores, can you ask Fire what she wants to do."

Then I walked a few steps up to Fire and I lowered myself down to a crouch position then asked her this "Do you want to live here, or live at our family's sanctuary or at our home as our family's pet? Answer this question wholeheartedly." She answered wholeheartedly to my question and said this "Finally, someone is asking the right question! I want to stay with you as your family's pet because ever since I met you and you are my family, I always felt this feeling that I was meant to be here like when you needed protection against the bear or just being a polite pet to guests, not at the sanctuary or in the wild." I answered her "Ok but I need to tell dad first." I rushed to my dad overlooking the watering hole and drawing the animals to relieve his stress from Fire's actions and he asked what she said "Dad, the reason she was stubborn today and for the past few days because she wants to live with us can she?"

Before he answered, Joe, Sheila, Fire and myself gave looks of please daddy! He replied to us with a look that he had one condition for us "Alright, because I love her as a pet too, but I have one condition, Fire if you hurt my family you are automatically going back to the sanctuary!" She replied to my dad "I agree to your condition. I don't want to hurt you guys. I love you guys too!" She went back in her cage that packed up. Ever since, she has been living with us and there has been no problems. By her actions of giving up her freedom in the wild for a life with us taught me that pure loyalty is much more valuable than freedom and it can also bring love to you.

The reason I have a submariner diver's watch is because my dad and I are licensed master scuba drivers. Only do it recreationally, but my dad also does it commercially because he’s a marine archaeologist as well as a tiger healer. My dad has been researching about Krokotopia and Egypt, but has to go deep underwater to investigate buildings, objects and even sunken ships. One time, my daddy made a promise to me that we would scuba dive in Egypt. He kept his promise to me by sending us a letter with 4 round trip tickets to Cairo, Egypt and he put a p.s. and it said "Dolores, bring all your scuba equipment. We are going scuba diving on the fourth day of our break." When we got to Cairo, my dad was so happy to see us at the huge airport and my mom asked dad "How were you able to get these tickets for us?"

My dad answered my mom "The head of the research team Professor Arevy gave everyone tickets to bring our families here and to rest for two weeks. We were doing such a great job and to air out a temple we recently found a week ago.” I knew all our kids were on summer break. Three days of our vacation, we went exploring the city and saw Egyptian temples, shopping and went to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. On the fourth day in the afternoon 4 hours before sunset, my dad asked me "Did you bring your scuba equipment?" I replied to daddy "Yes, I did and when are we going?"

My daddy replied to me "Very soon, so get ready. If you want to go?" I got ready so fast that I was a little jackrabbit zooming back and forth in our hotel room. When we got to the place we were going to scuba dive, I saw the most beautiful water equally compared to the waters of Mexico. And he could see me so happy by this trip and that he kept his promise. We did our checks little and filled our oxygen tanks to the brim. We saw so many fish and coral. I took pictures of everything on a waterproof camera. When we went out because our tanks were getting low and it was getting dark but there was enough to get to the surface, we got to see the sunset and we took a picture of ourselves and the sunset.

 Before we left the beach, I told dad "Dad, all the trips we go on are the greatest trips because we got to be together like always and thanks for keeping your promise to me Dad." My dad answered me "I 100% agree with you that every trip is the greatest because spend it together and your welcome and I wanted to go scuba diving with you in Egypt too." Then for two days straight, we relaxed at the hotel and played in the pool. Scuba diving is one of the ways, we have bonding time and our favorite places to dive is anywhere in Mexico with water and a secret stop halfway to San Francisco. These events in my life taught me to always honor, love and care for your pets and your promises and these life lessons were important to learn this when I got a really huge surprise.

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