First Flight as Midnight

I stand proudly in my backyard, grinning from horn to horn as I look over the scene around me.  I crane my head around to look at myself.  Scales as dark as the night itself, a tail like a telephone pole ready to smash whatever I need.  And wings...oh...yes...wings. I finally have them.  I have finally become who I truly am inside...Midnight.  And today, I am going to take my first flight, and I don't care WHAT pathetic humans would see it! I am a mighty dragon!  There is nothing they could do to stop me!

I then raise my head a bit, looking over the old barn-colored house.  I won't be going back there anytime soon. I slowly look around the rest of the yard, breathing in slowly, my chest expanding a bit, before I let out a heavy sigh, closing my eyes for a moment, to take in what was happening.  

I then open my eyes gently, looking back at my wings, flapping them powerfully, and growling at the pleasure I get just from the thought of flying. I flap them again, smiling. I can't wait any longer! I have to do it!

Looking forward, I run a few steps, before leaping into the air with a mighty beat of my massive wings, as I feel the wind rush against my scales and wings, tearing up into the sky as I see everything dwindle below me. The houses getting smaller, the trees soon nothing but twigs. I simply roar my approval, sucking in a deep breath of the thick air from above, spiraling a bit, before evening out, and just hovering, flapping a bit, and looking down at the small world below me.

Everything seemed so...distant...and strange.  Like I could barely recognize it. I looked around, and after a while realized, I could see for miles. The town hall, I could see the vineyard, everything, stuff that would take me five minutes of driving to see normally was now within my eyesight all at once! And I had gotten here within a few seconds. I roar again, and begin to slowly circle around my house, slowly gaining altitude as I do, before finally stopping. I decide to fly to the closest ocean I can see.

I look over everything I do, and feel the clouds against my scales and wings, simply grazing over them and tickling slightly, causing me to chuckle. Once I find the ocean, I swim out to where no one can see, before tucking in my wings, and diving.

The wind rushes against me, as I feel almost deafened by the force of gravity, and wind scraping against me and buffeting my scales, but I don't care. I dive faster and faster, before with a roar I flare my wings, raking my body forward and just barely touching the ocean, before laughing and sighing a bit dreamily, slowly gliding above the waves, staring into the water at my reflection.  I didn't stare back at the me I knew for nearly 20 years....I stared back at the me that was always hidden inside, the black dragon known, as Midnight Yaimikidate.