Akea jumped around the den, her newly found mother and father watching with love and pride. This was the first time Akea had jumped, and she was now a pro at it. She stummbled and fell with a yelp, blowing a leaf from her nose. She smiled at her adopted parents, got up and sat down by the den entrance. " How come I don't look like you." Akea asked, looking back at her large,Elk parents. The Doe sighed, and said with a suppresed smile. " Your just a bit small for your size, Akea." Akea tilted her head, looking closely at her own pelt and theirs. Her pelt was a dark, dark brown with spots on them. She had a very, very white undertail. She looked at her parents, and they where a lighter brown, with all white tails and they where much bigger then any adult deer she had seen. She got up and walked out of the den, sniffing around. A pond reached out before her. frogs jumping from lillypads, making all kinds of sounds. She looked up, and saw many fawns. They glanced at her, and one boy fawn troted over to her. She gulped as the fawn approched. It was big for it's size, but it was clearly still a deer. " Who are you?" He asked, looking down at her with somewhat-kind eyes. She stood up, her head held high. " Akea." She anwserd. The fawn nodded, and said. " My names Kota, and this is Chris, Paled, and Starflight." He nodded to the other fawns as he said out there names. All of them smiled and said hello..... all of them, execpt starflight. " Charmed." Starflight said, holding her nose up in the air, like Akea was nothing more then a bug. Akea didn't seem to notice, and she jumped around with the others, playing around till the sun went down. She said goodbye to all of her newly made friends, and turned and left. Kota looked back at her as he left too, and smiled. Then he bounded off with his mother. Akea ducked in her head as she enterd the den. Her mother smiled, and said warmly " So? How was it?" Akea smiled and said " It went well." Her father smiled and noded, leaving the den to do whatever he liked, for it was " bucks night out" as he called it. Her mother called it " leaving and eating." Akea sat by her mother and watched the moon rise. A few hours later-around midnight- Akea fell asleep.