All righty, here's my next chappy~! You guys, remember to review! *Reviews are like chocalate-chip cookies~!* And I haz news! I will be adding a new charry! (Simply because my plot is evolving, and I kinda wanted to stick this charry in anyway - it's someone I've created, kay?) My new charry will be a Fallen named Sparks (originally intended for a Winx Club fanfic, don't ask me why, it just popped into my head one day - this is what happens when I get bored) and she's gonna be one of those oddball characters that show up randomly that appear to have no big part in the main plot, but she does have a big part, only later on, when the evil part finally happens. :) Feel my awesomeness!

Disclaimer: We know it already!

Summary: Kurt is a Fallen, an indescribably beautiful race of demon–angels. Kitty is a fledgling priestess with a hidden power. Kitty knows that Kurt isn't her enemy, but can she prove it?

Fallen Angel

5. The Gift

Kitty yawned. Her mind was frazzled as she tried to remember what she was doing—somehow she'd managed to sleepwalk out of her house in the middle of the night and ended up tangled in the branches of her tree. At least she hadn't fallen through the branches and hit the dirt, which was, unfortunately, a good long drop away. "Oh, this is so not going to be my day…" she muttered, disentangling herself from the twigs. As if on cue, something dropped from the branches above her and, sadly, hit her on the head.

Kitty ran a hand through her hair, checking for bumps; and, finding none, picked up the object, an odd circular device. She peered at it, twisting it this way and that, poking it, but nothing came to mind at what it did. Shrugging, she decided to take it to practice—again with Shade, this time learning the dark/light element.

Kitty trudged into the sandy hollow, tired and confused. She set the round object on the nearby rock with a thunk. Shade noticed it and questioned, "What's that thing?"

"Don't know," answered Kitty truthfully. Shade's eyes flickered and she picked up the object, bouncing it in one hand, looking at the inscriptions on the side.

"Hmm…" She inspected one of the symbols; then tossed it back to Kitty, who caught it, barely.

"What is it?" Kitty questioned.

Shade shrugged. "I don't know. Only you can open it."

"Huh? Me?"

"You see the inscriptions on the side? There are seven—one for each element. It apparently divides dark and light into two different elements. Just use each element on the specific symbol. It'll open."

"There's something inside?" Kitty looked at it carefully.

"There should be, or that'd be an awful lot of trouble just to open an empty thing." Shade shrugged. "Just open it already."

Kitty tossed it up and down, closing her eyes as she tried to concentrate. She felt the now-almost-familiar tug of the elements, and carefully she directed them—all in a wave of jumbled-up power—to the designated place; then the sphere was popping open at her feet.

Kitty poked through it, picking out a small, tooth-like object covered in runes. The tooth was the only thing inside the object, apparently. "What's this?"

Shade walked over to her, holding out one hand for the tooth. Kitty gave it up without complaint—she was just as curious to find out what it did—and better Shade than her, because Kitty doubted she could make it do anything—if, that is, it did anything at all.

Shade's eyes narrowed as she looked at the tooth, her dark eyes fixating on the runes, as if she might be reading them. She looked over at Kitty—and froze, her eyes widening in shock.

Kitty stared at the Fallen girl, wondering what had happened. What did the tooth do? She started to move forwards, but Shade shook her head very slowly. Her voice was a whisper. "Don't move."

Kitty looked sideways at the trees, then back at Shade, whose grip on the tooth had loosened enough for it to fall to the sands. With the tooth out of her possession, Shade slumped to the ground, her eyes staring off into space. Kitty knelt beside her. "Shade? What happened?"

Shade stared at the ground. "That…thing…lets you see the elemental powers of someone else… You, Kitty…you shine like the sun…too bright to look at for long…"

"What? I'm like the sun?" Kitty picked up the tooth. The world seemed to go grayish, muted everything in shades of gray and black, and all she saw were the swirling elements of Shade, as well as herself—although it appeared to be nothing like looking into the sun. All Kitty saw was a faint silvery light surrounding herself. When she looked at Shade, she could see the conflicting elements of dark and light, as well as the lightning, but Shade's powers, although better exercised, were nothing compared to Kitty's vast untapped power.

She dropped the tooth hesitantly; instantly the trees reappeared and the gray darkness vanished. She sat down beside Shade, eyes wide. "What…how does that happen?"

Shade shook her head. "I don't know…but it's a useful talisman to have; no one else with it can look at you for long… You can't see the light?"

"Light? No…not a very bright light, anyways," Kitty looked down at her hands. "So…this light… I really look like the sun?"

"Possibly brighter…" Shade trailed off as Kurt appeared in front of them.

"What are you two doing? Aren't you supposed to be training?"

"Yeah, but I got this weird thing…" Kitty showed him the tooth. He looked at it; then picked it up slowly, inspecting it. Then he looked over at them, confusion on his face, freezing as soon as his eyes fixated on Kitty.

"No!" Kitty ran forward, ignoring Shade's warning, and wrestled the tooth away from him. He rubbed his eyes. "What was that?"

Kitty muttered, "Something you don't want to pick up."

"Very funny, but is that all it does?"

"As far as we know," Kitty replied, tossing it up and down. "However, I'm the only one who can use it."

"Interesting…" Kurt murmured. "It is a valuable item to have in your possession; keep it—someone went through a lot of trouble to give you that, if what I can see of that sphere over there is anything to go by."

Kitty nodded. "Weird, huh?"

"Mmm-hmm."

Kitty was wandering along the path back to Treehaven—funny how even the trees were becoming familiar to her… She had elected not to fly, because she wasn't sure if Kurt would come around like the other day and flying by herself seemed a little lonely, all by herself soaring above the trees. And so, the safest route—by land…er, forest.

Something flitted among the trees at the corner of Kitty's eye. Kitty looked around quickly. "Anyone there?"

There was a slight rustling in the bushes, and a head poked out. It was a girl with red hair and colorless eyes. She looked at Kitty, simply staring.

"Er…hello?"

The girl stared at her; then crawled out of the bushes. Kitty gasped in surprise at the girl's appearance—but most of all her wings, which weren't feathered like the other Fallens', but more like a butterfly's, veined wings with tinges of color.

"Who are you?" Kitty asked; surely she was a Fallen, right? If not—well, what could she be?

The girl didn't answer, just cupped her hands and created a small flame. She held it out to Kitty. "Huh?" Kitty looked at it slowly. "What…is it?"

The girl's white-colored eyes blinked solemnly. "Dragonfire," she said quietly.

"It's…for me?" Kitty looked at the tiny flame the girl was offering. The girl nodded, holding it out to her. Slowly, Kitty reached out a hand, picking it up slowly, finding that it didn't burn her. "Wow…" she blinked and looked up, but the girl was gone.

Kurt appeared next to Kitty, who was sitting quietly on her front porch, watching the fire twist in her hand.

"What's that?" Kurt crouched down next to her.

"Someone gave it to me…a girl with red hair."

"Oh…so you've met Sparks already?" Kurt poked at the fire with one finger.

"Sparks?"

"Yah. She's a fire elemental, but her fire's different from most other's—it's a form of fire called 'dragonfire', an extremely powerful form of the element." Kurt looked over at her. "But why would she give some to you?"

"I don't know, but I'm sure gonna find out!"

So that's the end of meh fifth chapter! Review peeps, you know you want to! *points to innocent looking review-button* Go on!

~Shadey