[b]The outskirts of Cleveland[/b]

Drake stood atop a pine tree as his bright golden eyes looked at across the landscape and to the city in the distance. Looking at the city made the memories of his previous life as a human come back to him and he felt his heart begin to ache. The stories about dragons said that they were monsters without hearts, but he guessed that they must have been wrong. Unlike so many other superhumans with powers, James couldn't change back into a human and he was stuck as this beast. The thought of being trapped in this horrible body made his mind fill with a frightening anger and smoke began to fume out of his mouth and nostrils. His scaly body began to heat up and off gas.

He was close to igniting on fire and burning the tree down. A pine tree with so many of its needles would surely burn very quickly. This is what that witch had done to him, made him a monster. He was able to get his anger back in check and his body stopped simmering. James took in deep breaths to keep calm, but he still felt the great well of anger inside him boiling. 

[i]"What if that witch had simply changed me into what I really was deep inside? My anger was always a problem for all of my life."[/i] he thought to himself and didn't feel like having his mind stay on such things. No it was the witch's fault for him being the way he was and he would find her and make her change him back. James then thought about Anna and he felt sorrow wash over him. He couldn't bare the thought of how he had heart her by hiding out of fear of her gazing upon what he had become. He had to find a way to end this curse, he needed to be human again and pick up the broken pieces of his life and find peace with his love.

James decided that he needed to clear his head and stretched his leathery wings before taking off into the air. He flew over the landscape at very fast speeds. Flying always made his mind more relaxed and even though he hated being trapped in this form James had to admit that being able to fly was very cool. His flight took him close by the city zoo and his keen eyes spotted what looked like some kind of commotion going on below and animals running about. He dove down and landed in near the entrance to the zoo and as if on cue people gave out screams of terror at the sight of him and began to run in the opposite direction out of fear.

"Just a normal part of my work as a hero" James said to himself and he watched as other heroes and the woman who had let the animals run loose begin to combat. He gave a booming roar to let his presence be known and James went on the attack, igniting his body in flames and charged Mama Bear looking to smash into her with a great amount of force and burn her with his bodily flames.