Darla, Amber, and Dot were in an African jungle together, all wearing safari clothing. Short-sleeved pocketed shirts, jungle shorts, brown boots, and hats to shade their eyes and skin from the blistering sun. However, Darla, of course, had a bow in her hat. They were walking all together, wearing backpacks.

"Day 1 in the Savanna," Darla narrated like a Captain's Log. "We are searching for amazing and exotic creatures... Such as the king of the jungle that is the African Lion..."

"We have enough food to last for weeks, but who knows if we'll really all need it?" Amber added.

There was then a rustling in the bushes and a white lion with black spots jumped out at them and roared.

"LION ATTACK!" Dot cried.

"Run!" Darla cried.

The three girls screamed and laughed as they ran off as the estranged lion chased them.

"To the cave!" Dot called and pointed ahead. "He'll never catch us in there!"

The three girls went into a cave.

"Hold it, girls, there's only one way to hold off THIS lion!" Amber called before taking out a bone and squeezed it, which made it give a squeaky noise like a dog's chew toy.

And where this caught the young lion's attention, causing his tail to start wagging.

"Thatta boy!" Amber called and threw the bone at the lion cub.

The lion cub smiled, then bit down on the bone and started to chew at it like a playful puppy.

"Wait, that's just a lion cub?" Darla asked. "Then where's the father lion?"

"What're you kids up to?" Lucky asked, coming over.

It was revealed to be just their crazy imagination and they were playing a game. Patch was teething on the chew toy Amber gave him, revealing he was being a lion cub.

"We're having a jungle adventure." Dot told her dog.

"Yeah and we're looking for the father lion of the lion cub," Darla said. "And I think we found him."

Lucky chuckled. "Sorry about that, kids... I had to take a small break if ya know what I mean."

"That's okay..." Dot patted her dog on the head.

"Great bone, Amber." Patch smiled to his former owner's niece.

"I thought you'd like to have one of your own." Amber smiled back.

"Yeah." Darla smiled.

While they were enjoying each other's company in the backyard, there came a knocking at the door.

Atticus got to the door and opened it. "Hello?"

"Is this the Fudo residence?" a man asked.

"Yes?" Atticus nodded.

"I have a delivery for a Atticus James Fudo." The man told him.

"That would be me." Atticus said.

"Sign here please." the man handed out a clipboard.

Atticus signed his name and handed the pen back.

"Enjoy." the man smiled, giving him a sealed envelope.

"Thank you, sir." Atticus said before closing the door and then started to open the mysterious envelope.

The kids and dogs decided to come inside.

"How was the jungle?" Atticus asked, knowing that they were playing a little game and not really had gone to the Savanna.

"It was so much fun, we found the rare lion and his son." Darla smirked.

"Oh, you did, did you?" Atticus smirked back with a laugh, then opened the envelope.

"Whatcha got there?" Dot asked her cousin.

"I dunno, that's what I'm finding out..." Atticus said before reaching inside the envelope.

Darla wiped her forehead. "Oh, wouldn't it be exciting to really go to Africa?"

As if on cue, there were tickets to Africa inside the envelope.

"Tickets to Africa." Atticus said then.

Darla blinked. "Okay, uh, now I wish I had a big bowl the size of the Earth with a hot fudge sundae with marshallows!"

Nothing seemed to happen as they just stood there, waiting for something to happen.

"Dang it." Darla groaned.

"Next time." Amber chuckled to her best friend.

"So, tickets to Africa?" Patch looked up from his new chew toy.

"Yep." Atticus nodded.

"But who sent them?" Darla asked.

"Isn't there a return address?" Amber looked at the mysterious envelope.

"No, there doesn't seem to be one on it." Atticus said after not finding a return address on the envelope.

"That's peculiar, I wonder who sent them then..." Amber looked puzzled.

"So, Darla, you think you might really wanna come to Africa?" Atticus asked his little sister.

"Hmm..." Darla curled her finger in her now short hair, her curls had been cut off a long time ago. "Well... It'd be kinda exciting to have a real adventure for once... I've never been on one before..."

"Alright, then let's do it." Atticus smiled.

"You wanna come?" Darla asked.

"Mom has time off tomorrow, she wants a spa day," Amber replied. "You go have fun with your family."

"Okay, if you're sure." Darla said.

"Next time." Amber smield.

Darla smiled back to her best friend and hugged her.

"Can me and Lucky come?" Dot asked out of hope.

"I don't know, Dot, we should see if your parents are okay with it." Lucky said.

"I'm sure they'll agree, but you better make sure." Atticus agreed with the collie.

Dot frowned, but she hoped her parents would agree.

"Still a couple leftover..." Atticus said.

"Well, you know I wouldn't go anywhere without you." Patch smiled to his new owner.

"I know, that's why you're coming with, along with Cherry and Mo and also Forte," Atticus said. "And Lucky will also be coming."

"If it's okay with Dot's folks." Lucky reminded.

"Right..." Atticus nodded.

"Cherry in Africa...?" Patch sounded doubtful.

"It could be good for her." Atticus said.

"Yeah, but Cherry in Africa..." Patch said. "As in the sun, blistering heat..."

"She'll turn around..." Cherry shrugged.

Meanwhile, Cherry was having a lazy day at home, she was reading a handbook with a red ball in her hand. She then put the ball and book down, then took out three plastic cups and moved the cups around and removed one cup to show the ball, then removed the other two to show other balls.

"How did I do that?" Cherry muttered to herself. She simply shrugged, not wanting to question how magic worked and just went back to doing the trick until she heard a knock at the door. "I don't want any!"

"It's me..." Atticus's voice said.

Cherry put her book down and opened the door.

"What're you doing?" Atticus came to her side.

"Oh, nothing much..." Cherry said, until she saw something in her jacket sleeve and started to pull on it to show colorful scarves that went on and on and on... "What in the world!?"

"Wow, I'm guessing your magic is going a little random." Atticus said.

"I don't know what just happened..." Cherry said, she got the final scarf and tried to shake it out of her hand, but when she did, she suddenly had a bouquet of dead and wilting flowers.

Atticus cringed. "Wanna go to the Savanna?"

"Savanna?" Cherry asked with a laugh. "Why would I go there?"

"It could be a nice change for you." Atticus said.

"What's wrong with me?" Cherry frowned as she put the flowers in a vase, despite them already being dead and there would be no point in keeping them in water.

"Nothing, I'm just saying that it might be fun." Atticus smiled.

"Well... I guess..." Cherry said. "My parents have been very busy lately... I've been home alone a lot lately..."

"So...?" Atticus asked, leaving out one more part of information.

"I guess maybe I could come..." Cherry shrugged. "But if I get eaten by a lion or something, you're not invited to my funeral."

"Okay, okay, oh, and before anything else, Forte is also going to be invited." Atticus said quickly.

"HOLD IT!" Cherry heard that and suddenly had handcuffs on him.

"Where'd you get the handcuffs?" Atticus asked.

"Uh... I have no idea... Anyway... Forte!?" Cherry then asked.

"Yeah." Atticus nodded before breaking the chains from the handcuffs and then broke the cuffs.

Cherry frowned at the broken handcuffs. "D'oh... I could've used this for... For... Umm..." she then checked her handbook and flipped through the pages. "Handcuff tricks... Handcuff tricks..."

"Don't you have more than one?" Atticus asked.

"Probably up my sleeve..." Cherry rolled her eyes with the magician cliche of 'nothing up my sleeve'.

And where she got a magic hat out of one her sleeves after showing there was nothing there.

"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!?" Cherry was annoyed.

Atticus never really came to the church that was in Cherry's neighborhood alone, but he decided to this time to have a word with the former villanous court composer who took a liking to Cherry. "Maestro, are you in here?"

Forte was sitting in a chair next to the old fireplace and he had a book that he had gotten for Christmas.

"Oh, is this a bad time?" Atticus asked after noticing the court composer was reading.

"I can talk..." Forte put his book up and looked to the boy. "I have not seen you come here without Cerise... Is she well?"

"She's fine..." Atticus nodded politely. "She's coming to Africa with me."

"Oh... How nice for her..." Forte tried to hide his worry for Cherry's safety.

"And I was wondering if you would like to come with us?" Atticus asked.

"I don't travel much..." Forte twiddled his fingers. "I'm an old man... I'm not the spring chicken I used to be."

"I know, but I thought that maybe it could be a great experience for you." Atticus smiled.

"I am not so sure..." Forte shrugged.

"We'll need an adult to go with us." Atticus smirked.

"Atticus..." Forte sighed.

"Okay..." Atticus walked the other way with a shrug. "I guess I'll just go with Cherry and she might get seriously hurt and won't forgive you for letting her get hurt or attacked by some wild animal..."

Forte's eyes widened. "Atticus, wait!"

"Yes?" Atticus asked with a knowing smile.

Forte looked anxious, but he went along with it. "I-I'll find a way."

"Great, thanks." Atticus smiled.

Forte nodded back before going back into his temporary home.

"Great, we're all set..." Atticus said to himself.

"Don't you have to go and ask Mo to come along?" Patch asked.

"D'oh!" Atticus hit his forehead before running off. "How could I forget!?"

"What would you do without me?" Patch asked with a smirk.

"Oh, bite me..." Atticus replied. "That's a metaphor by the way!"

Patch chuckled to his owner.

Mo was forced into a fluffy pink dress with white gloves as she sat on the couch of her home, Aunt Sarah came to visit and was talking with Elizabeth while Junior was on the floor, dressed in a sailor suit. Mo looked like she would rather be dead than in a dress. She then heard a knock at the door and decided to pick up her dress so she wouldn't trip over it while she went to answer the door.

"Hey, Mo, you wanna-" Atticus was about to ask, then saw her in a dress, then cupped his mouth.

"Get it out of your system." Mo said to him, knowing he probably wanted to laugh.

"One moment please." Atticus said before going to the side of the house and burst out laughing.

Mo folded her arms and waited for Atticus while tapping her foot.

After a while of laughing, Atticus came back.

"Sorry, I had to get that out of my system because that dress is so not you." Atticus said.

"It really isn't..." Mo wrinkled her nose in agreement. "I know she's family now, but I don't think I'm ever gonna learn to like Aunt Sarah."

"Give her time, maybe you might like her in the future, anyways, getting off topic of why I'm here." Atticus said.

"So, why are you here?" Mo asked as she played with the hem of her gloves.

"You wanna go to Africa?" Atticus asked.

Mo looked surprised at that invitation. "Uh... Sure... Right after I ask a griffin if I can fly with them."

Atticus showed her the flight tickets to Africa to show that he was being serious.

"Where did those come from?" Mo then asked.

"I dunno, but I have enough for you too if you wanna come." Atticus shrugged.

"Hmm... Let me check my schedule..." Mo leaned back, though she was going to agree anyway, anything to get away from her adoptive grandaunt.

"Monique, Aunt Sarah wants to take us to the community center for a tea party tomorrow, won't that be fun!?" Elizabeth called from indoors.

"Get me out of here!" Mo begged.

"Okay, then I guess that means you'll be coming." Atticus said.

"Yes, please take me with you, I beg of you!" Mo begged.

Atticus chuckled. "Don't worry, I knew you'd come along..."

"You did?" Mo glared. "Then why did you make me beg?!"

Atticus then ran off with a smirk.

"Come back here!" Mo chased him, carrying her skirt.

"That boy is going to drive her crazy." Sarah sighed.

"Oh, come along, Sarah," Elizabeth smiled gently to her aunt-in-law. "Atticus is a wonderful boy."

"Yes, I know, but when I said that, I didn't mean it in a mean way, I meant it in a teasing way." Sarah explained.

"Oh, good, you've warmed up to Monique." Elizabeth smiled, then picked up Junior in her arms.

"Oh, come here, little Jimmy..." Sarah took Junior and covered his face with kisses.

Junior pouted firmly and seemed to stick his tongue out from his great-aunt's kisses.

"Hopefully he'll warm up to me." Sarah said.

"It'll take time..." Elizabeth giggled.

Junior frowned to his grandaunt and mother, really wanting to be put back down on the floor with the puppies now.

"I hope you're right." Sarah said.

Mo stopped running and then got out of her dress and climbed up the tree in the backyard and lay down as she was wearing her tomboy clothes underneath and rolled around in the dirty tree. "Ugh... Freedom! Sanctuary!"

"Hey, Mo," Angel smirked. "So, did you get him?"

"I made him fall into a creek." Mo laughed.

"That is cruel." Angel laughed.

Mo laughed back. "Yeah... That's what you get when you trick me."

"So true." Angel laughed.

Atticus arrived back at his house, soaking wet, seeing his pet on the porch with a smirk at his owner. "Shush..."

"I didn't say anything." Patch chuckled.

"I know, but I know what you were going to say." Atticus groaned.

"So, is Mo coming with us?" Patch changed the subject.

"Yeah, I have to take a shower now..." Atticus forced a chuckle, heading to the bathroom.

"Human girls..." Patch shook his head.

"We heard that!" Dot, Amber, and Darla called out.

Patch looked nervous, then chuckled sheepishly in response.