Nightkit opened her eyes. She wasn't in the den anymore.

"Papa?" She squeaked, suddenly frightened. A shadowed Eevee padded out of the woods. Nightkit looked up at her.

"Hello little one," whispered the eeveelution, "my name is Nightclaw." Nightkit looked up at the umbreon. She drank in her scent.

"Mama!" She ran froward and buried her face in her mothers chest fur. She hugged her with her wings, and felt a paw hugging her close. "Mama I miss you!" Nightkit cried, voice muffled through the fur.

"I miss you too little one." Purred Nightclaw. "I see you have... Wings." Nightkit looked up at nightclaws face, which was looking down at her.

"You won't call me a psycho right?" She asked tentivly. 

"Of course not dear one. I like them. But danger is coming, and you must learn how to use them." Nightclaw nodded and a vaporeon stepped out of the shadows. Nightkit stopped embracing her mother and stepped back. "Ripplewind here welcomed me to starclan." Explained Nightclaw. The vaporeon stepped forward. Nightkit realized she had white wings.

"Eevees aren't supposed to have wings," explained the stranger, "but we are special." She spread her wings, showing Nightkit. "We have an advantage. Danger lies in your path young one, so you need all the advantages you can get." She padded into the middle of the clearing. "Ok, so first you need a running head start, and you usually want some height." She clawed her way up a tree, expertly, even though her large tail got in the way. She crawled out on a firm branch and spread her wings, crouching, and springing off the branch. She plummeted to the ground for a blood chilling moment before gliding steeply up.

"Wow!" Nightkit breathed, as ripplewind did a loop-de-loop. The vaporeon landed. 

"Ok, now you try." Nightkit gasped and looked at her mom, who nodded in encouragement. 

"O-ok." She squeaked.

"Just remember to flap!" Nightclaw called as Nightkit scrambled up the tree clumsily. She realized that leaping branch to branch using her wings to glide was much easier. 

"Good job!" Called ripplewind, "that's high enough!" Nightkit landed on a good firm branch and looked down. Her heart lurched at how high up she was. ^This must be the tallest oak in the woods!^ she thought, looking out over the treetops, and at the little figures in the clearing below. She took a breath, and backed up until she thudded against the trunk. She raced forward, snapping her wings out just as she jumped off the edge.

She was flying.

Nightkit squeaked in joy as she felt the wind in her feathers, blowing her ears back. For a moment, she was happy, her heart felt light, her body, weightless. Then she realized a vital thing.

"I can't stop!" She squeaked down, but the two couldn't hear her. She swerved around a tree and saw in alarm that the clearing was nowhere to be found.

"Mama!"  She cried, "nightclaw! Help meeeee!" She started to cry, when she heard a swooping behind her. For a sickening moment she was sure it was a pidgeyotto, ready to eat her for catching a pidgey. She turned around for a moment and saw that it was ripplewind. The vaporeon swept forward with two powerful beats of her wings and caught the kit between her paws. The umbreon slumped forward in exaustion, wings drooping over the vaporeons paws.

"Hey, you're safe." Whispered ripplewind when Nightkit started to cry again, "you did great. Far better then I did." Nightkit sighed.

"Really? But I couldn't stop!" 

"No, but you flew, you flew for awhile actually. A mile away!" Nightkit realized that it had been awhile. 

"Ok." She managed. Ripplewind gently set her on her back, were Nightkit snuggled into the space on her back between her wings. The gentle rocking of the wing beats amde her tired, and she snuggled into the vaporeons fur.

"And remember, angle your wings down, slow down, and fly to a clear area to land. Don't stop flapping before you feel all four paws on the ground." Ripplewind whispered, before the kit was fast alseep.

Nightkit woke up with a pleasant smile on her face. She realized with a sinking feeling that she was back in the den. Love kit and Softkit were out in the camp, but sparkfang was there.

"Good morning sweetie," he purred.

"Papa, I dreamed of mama!" She told him excitedly, "I was up in starclan I think, in a strange clearing, and mama was there and a vaporeon named ripplewind andshetaughtmehowtoflyandiflewandicouldntstopandripplewindsavedme!" She gasped, speaking so quickly sparkfangs head hurt.

"She taught you how to fly and you couldn't stop and she saved you?" He asked. Nightkit nodded.

"And Nightclaw was there. Mama."  She finished. Nightkit could smell a faint scent lingering in the den. ^nightclaw!^ she thought in excitement. She padded out into the clearing. 

"Hey watch this!" Nightkit called to lovekit and Softkit. The two instinctively turned. Nightclaw crouched low to the ground, tail lashing. She jumped up, wings snapping out, but fell back to the ground. Lovekit and Softkit laughed.

"Watch what?" Softkit jeered. Lovekit smacked him with her tail and glared at him.

"Watch what?" She sneered. Soft kits ears went down dejectedly. 

"This!" Snapped Nightkit defiantly. She remembered what ripplewind had said, and she backed up. She wiggled her haunches and sprang forward, running as fast as she could, she leapt into the air, wings spreading, and this time catching an updraft. She felt as if Gravity realesed itself from her. Softkit stared up in amazement. Lovekit was still laughing, eyes shut, but Softkit prodded her in the  side. She glared at him, then looked up in astonishment. She was actually doing it. She was flying.

"She's flying!" Gasped lovekit. Slowly the rest of the clan flooded into the clearing, looking up and seeing Nightkit swirling above the camp. Lightstar smiled. Nightkit glided down, slowing down. The crowd parted in a circle. ^first landing!^ thought Nightkit. She shot down, flapped furiously, and waited until all four paws were on the ground before folding in her wings. 

Lightstar padded forward. Her gaze was stern. Nitkit was afraid she had done something wrong. Then lightstar smiled.

"You're just like your mother." She purred. Nightkit gasped. Sparkfang bounded up and gave Nightkit a few licks on the head. The crowd congratulated Nightkit before dispersing into patrols and such. Lovekit turned away with a scoff, but Softkit padded up to her. 

"That was pretty cool," he purred, "sorry about earlier." Nightkit flicked her ears in surprise.

"Oh, that's ok. And thanks." She replied. Softkit nodded and padded away, pouncing on lovekit. The two rolled over in a playfight. Night kits ears drooped.

"Hey." Said a voice, "you ok?" It was briar kit.

"Yea..." Muttered Nightkit. She felt his fur brush up against her and his breath in her ear.

"Do you want me to show you a hunters crouch?" Nightkit looked up at him.

"Yes please!" Briar kit shot down, slipping forward with his tail above the ground and his belly up.

"Now you try." Nightkit did, copying the older kit. "Nice! You're a natural!" Congratulated briar kit. "Hey, I gotta go. See ya later!" He padded away and Nightkit felt a flutter in her heart. She smiled. With a yawn, she decided to go back into her den. She looked over her camp. She was proud. Curling up in the nest, she drifted to sleep.