Usagi paced on the walkway, biting her bottom lip. Her feet and legs felt like tight springs on the deep green moss. It was finally happening! Usagi was finally going to get her wings! She felt as though she could fly right now! That the deep-blue feathered wings would be on her back by nightfall.

               Her face then fell in disappointment, when she thought of the reality behind the wings of a fairy. It was standard procedure to have the 'Fairy-in-Training' (unfortunately nicknamed: The Little Tikes) to run through a test or specialized assignment in order to prove that you were responsible enough have and take care of wings.

               Usagi was nearing 200 years of age now, and it was almost past her time to receive the wings. Most of her companions and peers had received their wings nearly fifty years ago, and Usagi was beginning to feel as though she were being left behind.

               She looked at the heavy wooden doors, laden with thick vines and tiny blue flowers. It was going to be a long wait before she got her wings. If she knew Luna well enough, she would put her on the hardest assignment possible.

               Luna was the term used by all the fairies to signify their leader, but Tsuki was her real name. Tsuki was nearing 500 years and had been head fairy since Usagi was born and christened. She was firm with her statements and had a talent of seeing your true nature and self, no matter how well you were acting. As the moon governed all of the magic, so did the fairy of the moon govern the fairy world.

               Usagi scoffed for a moment and pouted. Tsuki knew Usagi well, almost too well… that was probably why she was taking so long.

               'Aa! It's not fair!' Usagi crossed her arms over her chest and glared at the doors while pacing. 'All I want are my wings!'

               "Usagi-san?" The door creaked open and a flower fairy stood there calmly.

               "Konnichiwa, Hide-san." Usagi bowed.

               Hide was a head taller then Usagi and was nearing 300 years of age. He'd long since received his wings, and climbed the chain of command to be a messenger as well as head floral fairy.

               "Luna will see you now, follow me." He turned and Usagi followed quickly, eyeing his wings with a deep want for her self. They were vine-covered and had little purple flowers on them, signifying his place as a fairy.

               'I want my own wings…' Usagi's mind drifted and soon the only thing she could hear was the jingling of the little bells at her ankles and at her wrists. Hide looked over his shoulder at the bells with slight disgust. Fairies that were 150 and younger typically wore the bells, not one who was nearing 200.

               She stuck her tongue out at him as soon as he turned back around to the front. Usagi personally thought they were cute, and refused to take the little trinkets off, no matter what age she was going to be.

               Hide then stopped in front of a long curtain of vines and little pink flowers. He turned to Usagi, still eyeing her trinkets and wingless self skeptically.

               "Luna, will call you when she is ready. Sayonara." He bowed quickly.

               Usagi returned the bow. "Sayonara."

               He took one last disgusted look at Usagi before turning and leaving. Usagi again returned the look with her tongue.

               She waited impatiently for a few long minutes before a voice slowly filtered through the curtain and rested upon her ears.

               "You may enter, Usagi-san."

               Usagi pulled back the curtain of pink flowers and gazed carefully into the room.

               Tsuki-sama sat on a very large, pink daisy, moving little golden balls in the air. She was still very beautiful for her age, with deep cinnamon eyes and hair that had once been an amazing shade of black, but was now turning a beautiful charcoal and that dangled well past her ankles.

               To Usagi though, the most amazing part of her was her wings. They were fully-grown and large, as well as brilliant in color and shape, looking oddly like a butterfly's and colored like the sky at dusk. Her eyes nearly filled with tears at the sight of them. She wanted a pair just like that… so beautiful.

               "Usagi-san." She looked over the edge of her half-moon spectacles at her. "You do no have to be afraid to enter my office."

               "Oh! Hai!" Usagi stepped fully into the mossy room and bowed deeply. "Konnichiwa, Luna."

               "Usagi-san, you are here for your wing-test, are you not?" She put the golden balls away in a box and looked at Usagi, who stood against the fall wall.

               "Hai, Sama."

               "Mmm…" She opened another box and took out a blue ball. She gazed at it in the air for a while, then looked again at Usagi. "Your record is very nice…"

               Usagi felt pride swell in her chest.

               "However…"

               The swell crashed on the rocks as she looked at Tsuki-sama with worry.

               "However…?"

               "However, you are lacking in experience with humans."

               Usagi felt her shoulders nearly fall to the ground. Humans? What did that have to do with anything? They were humans, she was a fairy… that didn't make any sense. They were on entirely different levels of life.

               "I… I am?"

               "Mmm… yes, very much so. It seems you've only had one assignment in which you dealt with a human…" Tsuki-sama put the blue orb away and looked again at Usagi, before reaching into a different box and pulling out a red orb.

               "Forgive me, Luna, but I am an Animal Fairy… what do I have to do with humans?" Usagi asked worriedly. It didn't make any sense to her as to why she should care about humans so much.

               "Humans are animals too, after all, Usagi-san. Besides that, humans have and make a large impact on the animal world…" Tsuki's voice was firm now, and Usagi knew what her assignment was going to be… and she didn't like it.