38: From Miles to Origin
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POV of Amber Sohma

I pop out of the snow gasping for air. After I catch my breath, I start digging through the snow to find Adrian.

"Adrian!" I scream as I dig it out. I reach down and I feel him so I pull him up. Well it's not Adrian as I hoped but it's Aaron. Out of all people to get caught in a avalanche with it had to be him?! He pulls himself out the snow when Adrian pops out too. He comes over to us and we all sit there trying to process it all.

"What are we going to do?" I ask so Adrian suggests

"First we should probably get somewhere safe to dry off; then we'll try going back to the mountain lodge where we're all regrouping at dawn."

"Alright General Shang." I joke making him smile, (when we were little his favorite movie was Mulan and General Shang was his favorite character) we stand up, transform, and about to leave when Aaron calls out

"Hey! What about me?!" we glance back so Adrian as a dragon shakes his head.

"Well you can either come with us or stay out here on your own." Adrian lays out his options so he runs up to us. "Amber, babysit Aaron; I'll see where the rest are."

"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea; don't fly out as a dragon though."

"I know, I'm not an idiot." Adrian transforms into his crow and takes off leaving Aaron and I to ourselves.

"C'mon," I get Aaron to follow so I'm tracking down some scents to see where there's a cave we can camp out until Adrian gets back. I see there's some wolf tracks so I lower my nose down to see which direction they went off to. "We're not going through here, we're taking a detour." I inform Aaron so he follows and walks along side me.

"Amber," he starts so I glance over at him.

"Yeah?"

"Thanks, for not leaving me out to die." I shrug

"Meh, now c'mon." We pass through some passes that haven't been snowed in and finally reach a cave. I get settled down so Aaron lays down next to me but I have my back towards him. Adrian flies in and comes over to us.

"I didn't see them but there's a road over this mountain so we can climb up, head down and stick to the road." I nod because even though the mountain's steep we'll be able to climb it up. We head outside so Adrian transforms into his dragon form and nods. Aaron hangs on to Adrian as we start clawing our way up (we could all fly up but there's really strong air shafts that can knock Aaron and I off.)

"Damn it Aaron you're heavy!" Adrian complains as he's struggling with Aaron's weight. (Since we have no ropes or anything to tie down Aaron; he's clinging on Adrian's horns and neck.)

"Well maybe if you were still in sports my weight wouldn't be a problem!" Aaron snaps back so I wait for them before I continue climbing the rest of the mountain face. We press on in silence and reach the road. As we're heading north, Adrian and I stop and give out some cries. I throw myself against the snow and claw at my head because there's a pounding in my head and it hurts.

"What's wrong?!" Aaron cries as Adrian and I give out painful cries. I groan then without my control, I transform. The same happens to Adrian,

"We're near the Origin," Adrian answers our unasked questions.

"Then that means..." I don't continue

"We'll be able to break our curses. First before anything, I'm gonna take Aaron near the lodge then we're had over to the Origin." He states as he transforms back again. "Let's go, you stay here Amber. I'll be back," him and Aaron take off. Who said I wanted to break the curse though? Anyways I stay and wait for him to come back. He does so I transform and we head over to where the pounding starts getting more fierce meaning we're close. We stand in front of a mouth of a cave so we transform. "You ready?" he asks so I shake my head

"I'm scared," I confess so he grabs my hand and kisses me.

"If anything happens Amber, and for some reason I'm not the same; don't forget that I love you." I give a weak smile because who knows what can happen? We press on with hand in hand and our senses on sensory overload. Our animal senses are heightened so much that it's like giving us an amplified image for everything. I glance over at Adrian and his face blurs as I can see his skull, nerves, and everything. "Amber! Calm down!" he grabs my shoulders as his voice thunderclaps into my head. "Calm down, just concentrate on one thing. Concentrate on my eye color. And breathe," he coaxes as I try to keep my breathing under control. "There, all better?" he asks as my vision isn't showing me everything like before.

"What's going on?"

"The Origin's powers are messing up our senses but just concentrate on one thing and we should be good?"

"How come you're not freaking out?"

"When you can transform into two animals that are completely different; you get used it." I nod so we continue going further into the cave. There's voices bouncing off of the walls, my ears transform into my tiger ears and they rotate towards the direction of the voices. His dragon ears pop out of his hair and they do the same as mine. As we go further down and the voices getting louder I see something in electric colors swirling in the air. "What is that?" He questions

"I don't know." We stop and listen as the voices slither into our minds in a Chinese dialogue. He waves his hand in the air and we're taken back by what happens next. Where his hand was there's a fading trail of electric green fading into the air. I smile so I do the same and there's multiple trails of fading colors. So Adrian waves his hands in the air to give us a semi-light to guide up in the dark. There's a sound of running water so we follow it down to the source.

"What is that?" I ask as there's a spring of electric green water in the dead center of the cave. It gives the surrounding rocks an eerie feeling as we advance closer to it.

"I dare you to touch it." he dares so I shake my head. "Fine I'll touch it," he goes to the water's edge and the water transitions from the green to red and laced with some black spots. He touches it and its like the water has a physical body because it pulls him in and under.

"ADRIAN!" I scream and then the water changes to an orange and pulls me under too.

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