A/N : Daaaaang... There's like a million reviews! I'm gonna cry :D and thanks for the advice on being careful about rushing things. I need to slow it down a bit. I reread the whole thing and noticed that. Sometimes you just need to pause and look at the whole story. Ok. Here's the next one...

Chapter 14

I continued the simple task of turning and actually, I got pretty good at it. I even went as far as making them tighter and tighter, until I could turn on a dime. I was proud of myself, as was Tooth, the fairies and Jack. Now, I needed to know how to fly backwards. Since Tooth was pretty much a hummingbird, she could do all kinds of directions. Her favorite: backwards. What luck. She approached me with the fairies a second time, and everyone got into their positions. I found that hovering wasn't that hard, especially with a couple hundred fairies holding you up, but that's not important. I could hover. Then, the fairies tilted my wings back a bit, and I started sliding backwards through the air. It felt a little scary, because I couldn't see where I was going. I looked down on the buildings of Tooth's kingdom. Everything was bright and colorful. It reminded me of the board game Candy Land. I could see Jack, watching me from below. He must have gotten bored, and I saw him make his way upwards towards everyone.

"Hey, Tooth. I can take over for the last lesson, if you want."

Tooth glanced at her fairies. They looked worn out.

"Well... Ok. Come on girls, let's go get some teeth. And Jack? She still needs to learn how to fly down. Not fall. Fly."

Tooth went off with her fairies in tow. I hovered in the air in front of Jack. I asked the obvious.

"So... How are you gonna teach me?"

"I honestly have no idea. I don't know about you, but I like improvising."

He had a mischievious grin when he saw my suspicious face. What did he have in mind? Hopefully not falling. It scared me so much to fall. Even if I did have wings. It felt so unnatural. Hopefully I would get used to it. Jack looked like he was thinking, his arms crossed, and looking intently at me.

"Hmmm. Let's see..."

He flew a quick circle around me, and returned to the front.

"I guess I could just let you try... Over and over. And I could be your safety net. Like trial and error. Just safer. Wanna do that?"

"Well, no. But I don't have much if a choice, do I?"

"That's the beauty of it."

I sighed, looked at the roof tops of the shining towers, and flew a bit higher. The pointy spires of gold seemed too close. Jack followed me up, and I hovered, waiting for him.

"Ok. So just... Try?"

He nodded at me. Well then. Here we go? I stopped my wings altogether, and started falling. I positioned my head to face the ground, and fell faster. Then, I tried to actually fly, not fall. My wings were glued to my sides by the rushing air. Well, this sucked. I looked around for Jack, and noticed him right beside me. He raised his eyebrows, asking if he should intervene. I took his hand, and he flew up away from the buildings, pulling me behind him. I broke out of the fall, and flapped my wings, hovering. That was a total fail. I face palmed, then looked at Jack.

"Well, trying on my own sucks. Any better-"

"Hey. You only tried once."

"Ya, it's just that..."

His face wouldn't take no for an answer.

"Again?"

"Again."

I flew higher, gaining distance once more from the sharp roofs below, and waited a minute, thinking of the best way to do this. I flashbacked to a movie I had seen a long time ago. There was a scene where an angel came down from the clouds. How did she fly again? Head up, wings slow... That must be it! She looked like she was standing. I would try that next.

"Jack, I think I figured it out. I need to stay upright. Like if I was standing. And I need to slow my wings down."

"Sounds like a good plan. I mean, if you like that sort of thing."

I laughed a little, and tried to ease my nervousness. Jack was here, he would catch me. It was perfectly safe. I glanced at him, then slowed my wings a bit. I lost a couple feet in altitude. I slowed more, and descended gradually. I smiled at Jack, who floated beside me. He grinned back, and I slowed even more. I half flew, half fell towards the towers of color, and felt cold arms pull up on me. I looked at Jack in confusion. He looked frightened.

"I'm ok Jack, I meant to go that fast."

"Oh."

He let me go, and I carefully hovered next to him. He looked embarrassed, and I decided to not torture him with my gaze. I turned, and looked down. Sure was pretty.

"Well, um. Looks like your lessons are done. Where are we going next?"

"Hold on, I wanna stay a little longer."

I flew straight up, as fast as I could, and was surprised to find Jack floating in the same spot below. I flew back down, slowly, as I had done before.

"Um. You coming? Maybe you could teach me a faster way down?"

"You mean falling?"

"Ya. But the right way. Like controlled falling. With steering."

He took my hand, and tugged me up into the air, past a couple clouds. When he stopped, he looked at me.

"I'm going to fly right beside you, ok?"

"Ok?"

He pulled me down, air rushing into my face, towards the ground. I could hear him laughing. My wings were glued to my sides again, but Jack's hand was there to guide me. We rocketed through the sky, head first.

"I'm gonna let go, ok?!"

I yelled back through the wind.

"Ok!"

His hand left mine, and I free fell. He was right beside me though, an arms length away.

"Lean towards me, _!"

I leaned with my shoulders and wings towards him, and knocked right into his side. I hadn't expected that, and neither did he. He managed to grab my shoulders and stop me from flailing around though. Then, once I was stable again, he let go. I carefully leaned away, and steered myself back to my place beside him. I leaned right and left, weaving through the air. It was easy when you realized that the smallest change made you drift a great distance.

The ground started to show through the clouds. I quickly thought up a way to pull out of my fall. Just let my wings out carefully? They might be yanked back from the air. That would hurt. I decided to gingerly stretch them a couple inches away from my sides, and was rewarded with the feeling of slowing down a bit. I let them out inches at a time, until I was slow enough to let them out fully. I caught the wind, and sailed upwards away from the city. Jack was behind me, but sped up to reach my side. We glided together over the colorful towers and platforms of gold. Everything seemed to be covered in glitter. It reminded me of my home, the snow, the forest. Especially the pond.

A/N : In answering someone's question: the character/you has the same color hair as before. She looks the same... But she's got wings. Unless you want her to have white hair. That's up to you. Actually, that's not a bad idea. So, if you think your hair should be white from now on, let me know in reviews or PMs, if not, just tell me. If there are a bunch if you that want white hair... I'll go with it. I'll even add something to the chapter where she wakes up. Ok everybody, please let me know! Thanks so much! Need to know before writing Chapter 15!