First Impressions.

I have no idea...where I'm at. There's just open land and black lines that the car things were flying past on. I had gone north since I left Salone's house. I was SUPPOSED to be in Canada, but yeah. No clue where I'm at. The nearest sign said Excalibur City 85 Miles.
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"It makes you sound unintelligent." A voice said. It was familiar. I rubbed the back of my neck and chuckled nervously.
"Oh sorry Ale-!" I froze dead. No one was there...I just heard Salone's voice and almost called her.... I needed to sit for a second. I just made the most heartwrenching error ever.

Salone had left the house five hours ago, after Penny had gotten a proper meal into her that wouldn't come back up. So far she hadn't seen anything from the air, the hawk sat in a tree, the pendant glowing around her neck. She had a faint idea where he was, more of a feeling in her stomach. A gut pulling sensation in his general direction.
That is when she landed and started walking down the highway, hands in her pockets. She got honked at, wolf whistled at, and then a guy pulled over.
"Hey gorgeous, wanna ride?" He stated, getting out of the car.
Salone gave him the stink eye, "I'd rather walk."
"Oh come on," He said grabbing her wrist in a tight grip, "I insist."
Bad move, Salone was having a very bad day. She twisted out of his grip, snapped his wrist, kneed him in the gut, and smashed his head into the windshield.
"When a girl says no," She stated, her eyes glowing amber, "She means no."
She whipped out her phone and called a number, generally her reward claim number. She fished through the guy's pockets and pulled out a bunch of money, examining the bills. The appeared not to be counterfeit... then she gave the man on the other side of the line all of the creeps information. When he stood up again she gave him a left cross , bruised from his tight grip, and he crumpled knocked out. Unlike the fake reality on TV, hitting people actually hurt, and she massaged her stinging wrist.
She turned into a hawk again and took off, soaring though the sky, finally spotting him.
Turning human she, landed quietly, looked at him for a few seconds before saying, "Tired of being lost?"
Her arms were crossed and eyes narrowed. Her bruised wrist showing.

"Hey, I'm fine okay?"I said, purposefully in a playfully challenging tone. It was like the whole come at me bro thing the younger guys said. I smiled at her reassuring her it was a joke. I stood up and looked around."Well I get lost easy....but for a random guy who came from the water.... I'm a heck of a lot better than Aqua-man"I said with a smile. I began laughing a little crazily "I have no clue what that has to do with anything at all!"
I was glad to see her, but upset because I knew it would most likely end with her trying to talk me out of this. I was going to the Focus Sites. End of story. Final Chapter. Omega sentence. The End. She shouldn't be using her shifting powers should she? Maybe this was my out. I let my eyes narrow at her.
"So...should you be shifting like that?" I asked her, raising an eyebrow and smirking. I noticed a bruise on her. Poor little thing is so fleshy and squishy. I felt myself growl like a dog. I swear Sasha would have been like 'He shouldn't b able to do that!' It was THAT bad. "What happened, who did that?" I asked her. My, now dark, blue eyes peering into her.

Salone was unmoved by his jokes, her face hard and cold as an iceberg, her arms still crossed across her chest. It didn't look like she was going to unwind anytime soon. When he took the time to finally notice her wrist she stepped forward and prodded him in the chest.
"How dare you," she said in a cold voice. "Knock me out just so you can go play the hero. I-I can't believe you did that! Then you get mad when you figure out I can fend for myself in trying to find your sorry butt."
It was her turn to snarl at him, a legit angry puma snarl with yellow eyes and pointed teeth. Salone ground her jaw and looked down trying to control her quite rage. Slowly her facial features turned back into regular. She sighed and started walking down one of the paths at the edge of the highway. She turned back, tired.
"You thought I wouldn't notice, you obviously don't know me well enough." She was talking about the personality changes along with the hair and the eyes. "Dang it Yam!"
She looked at him with her now brown eyes and they were full of hurt, the biggest issue that she had not spoken of was that Jake had broken her trust...
"Come on, let's go..." She said quietly, she had apparently spent all of her energy ranting at him. "Where are we going anyway?"

The puma snarl sealed the deal. In an instant my soul blades were out three blades from each hand in an X between me and her. My eyes felt hot, which meant increased blood flow, which meant they were glowing red and my pupils turned into reptilian slits. She wanted a snarl, She'd get the roar of a 3000 yard long dragon from a 5 foot something human. Birds for miles flew away in fear, nature all around us was silent out of fear. My canines grew to sharp points and my body was surrounded in quintessence sparks and electricity. A blade on each arm was alive with energies of my dominion. A blade of water, a blade of thunder, and a blade of sheer Chaos.
"How dare I? HOW DARE I!?!? YOUR'RE RIGHT! HOW DARE I CARE FOR A MORTAL, HOW DARE I TRY AND SAVE A MORTAL FROM A FATE THE OBVIOUSLY DESERVED IF MY BROTHER HAD CURSED THEM WITH IT. HOW DARE I GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU ENOUGH TO KILL MYSELF TRYING TO FIND A GODS FORSAKEN "CURE" FOR YOU!" I roared. Dragons don't cry...so why am I? Why do I give a flying ferret what happens? I can't do this again. A mortal was the source of my downfall last time. I won't let this happen again. I felt wetness on my cheek, I let one of my spirit claws disappear so my bare hand discover what it was. Blood? I was crying...Blood was what dragons cried. I glared at Sal-no...the Mortal. I flicked the tear of blood away and glared at her. "WE aren't headed anywhere...I'M going to the Focus Sites. I'm tired of being Jake....it's time to go back to being Yam... take care Mortal. Have a good few years." I said, venom in my words. A semi truck drove past. I roared and lunged over Salo....the Mortal...that would take some getting used to..... I dug my hand into the semi and it took off. Excalibur City here I come.... I did the right thing. Who was this MORTAL to question me, Yam! It was the right thing....why does it hurt then?

Salone blinked, she could feel her heart crumbling into a thousand tiny different pieces. When she was yelled at, her face had gone white, and she felt her heart stop. Then the coughing racked her body, bringing up the familiar blood and rust taste into her mouth. She wiped it away with trembling fingers.
Then she realized she was trembling all over... this was one of the few times in her life Salone was truly scared.
"You promised me... “She whispered tears falling down her cheeks. "That you would come back..."
Cars sped by whipping her hair around her, Salone's fingers pressed to the medallion around her neck.
She let out a shaky pent up breath and pulled out a cell phone, dialing Penny.
"Hey, can you do me a favor?"....
It was only five minutes away flying and Salone was at the next site. According to the medallion he was either inside or on his way in. She pressed it between her fingers and waited.. trying to organize her thoughts... he would probably only understand her through Latin... because he had changed to a dragonoid creature so abruptly.
When Salone saw him, she stood, scrubbing the blood she had coughed up from the side of her mouth. It was so easy to forget he wasn't human... not some creature that wasn't a wild animal but just as dangerous.  Her weapons were piled in the corner, so it was just Salone and the medallion winking at her throat.
"I know I'm sorry isn't going to cut it," Salone said, stumbling over the language slightly, it was evident she had been crying. "But the reason I got mad was you were altering yourself to try and help me...a-and I don't want you to change... your some one that I care about and I didn’t want you to change for anyone… “
Her fingers were trembling again, from her nerves or condition she didn’t care.  “Not even me…”
Then she did something that any smart person on the plant would not do, she hugged him. Screw it, she didn’t care that she might get her head whipped off or eaten… or something of that nature.
“If your truly unhappy as Jake,” She whispered, “Penny told me you had no idea where the seventh was… she has a faint idea where it is, but she needed to go back to the first one to be sure. If you wanted… we could tell you were the seventh site is…”
That was indeed what Penny was up to at the moment, she was at the first site, she had stepped forward and seen everything… now she just needed to think…  if anyone could figure it out, she could…

I remembered when I broke out of her embrace nad lunged onto the semi-truck. I was already only a few minutes away from Excalibur city. The Next focus wite was actually in a basement of a company, Gene-Tech. I already knew that I wouldbn't juet be able to walk in. I closed my eyes and focused. I was far away, but I could still talk with Salone over the pendant.
    "Salone....I'm sorry. You're not safe around me. I'm going to Gene-tech, i'm finding the next Focus Site, and the one after that...PENNY WENT BACK! DON'T LET HER TOUCH IT! Look, I'll come back, but right now I'm going into a gun fight with a knife. Honestly I'll be on this nations most-wanted within the week. I'll go back and meet you guys to talk this over. Please, just go home and don't let Penny touch the focus Site!" I said through the telepathic connection between my pendant bearer and myself. If a mortal touched that it would kill them. Well, actually really really smart humans touch it and they are mostly okay, but still I can't risk that. Penny means too much to Salone and vise versa. I was entering Excalibur City now. I was ready for the fight of my life...well..so far.

Salone felt relief thunder through her veins,
"I will get Penny away from there, but- don't do anything fun till I get back. As for the wrist, some jerk decided to try his luck."
Her caramel white wings spread and she took off, heading back home to keep Penny from doing something stupid.
"I said no. Don't worry, you should see the other guy."
With a concussion, broken wrist, and is getting arrested as Salone flew back home.
***
Penny reached out to touch whatever it was when Salone came running in.
"Penny! Don't!"
The other woman froze and looked back at her friend, her finger millimeters away.
"What happened?"
Salone just shook her head, "I will explain later. Come on!!"
With that they left the cave.