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// Chapter 2: The First Few Steps 
// Story: Fluttershy's Animal Adventures 
// by Darkmyster 
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As Fluttershy looks outside poking her head out first to see if no pony was in site before carrying the little dragon out into her backyard.
She laid the little dragon on the ground as he began to run around, trying to flap his wings. Though Fluttershy could only see he could only hover above the ground for a few seconds before landing on his feet once more.
This slowly reminded her of first time she had to learn to fly in Cloudsdale, as she recollected her thoughts about her life; the little dragon suddenly spotted a butterfly a few feet from him. He slowly followed the little creature and started to chase after it, Fluttershy watched in amusement seeing him happy making playful grunting noises.

“Hehe, you’re pretty energetic for a baby dragon that was just born a few minutes”

Looking at him once again, getting a response from the little guy as he looks back at her with a cute toothless smile and ears perked up as if he understood what she just said a few minutes ago. Fluttershy watched on as the little dragon continued to play upon the grassy null floor for a few hours, before finally the sun was over their heads. In the mean time, Fluttershy felt confident to leave the dragon on his own for a few minutes as she went around her cottage to feed the rest of the animals. As she returned to find him on the ground munching on something, she noticed the butterfly was not in sight. Fluttershy gasped as she rushed over to him and checks into his mouth,

“No no, don’t eat the butterfly, please” 

as she pulled a drenched saliva covered butterfly in her hoof. She quickly cleaned off the butterfly and made sure it flew away in one piece or another, she then turned her attention back to the dragon as he began to whimper in hunger towards her.

“You must be hungry from all your playing, I bet?”

The little dragon nodded his head as he rubbed his stomach with his claw, giving out a low grumble in response.

“Oh you poor thing, lets get inside and make you lunch”

She carried the little obsidian drake in her hooves as she flew into her house and checked in the kitchen. She rummaged through her cabinets to find something he could eat. She finally grabbed a bag of pet food she fed her other pets and poured into a bowl in-front of the dragon. She watched as he looked curiously at the strange pellets in-front of him, sniffing at it, and finally munching on a few, before realizing what they were. He spit the half-chewed pellets on the floor and pushing the bowl away from him.

“Huh, so you don’t like pet food I take it?”

The little dragon shakes his head and makes a hissing noise at the bowl of pellet food. As he turned around to show his disapproval of the food presented to him. Fluttershy thought for a few seconds as she quickly remembered on occasions dropping by Twilight’s house at the library and how Spike usually ate gems to satisfy his hunger. She quickly rushed to her bedroom as she quickly came back and poured some gems in another bowl and gently nudged the new bowl in the little dragon’s direction.

The dragon noticing a new bowl behind him turns around looking at this new meal sniffs it, but once more, he pushes the gems away and looks round the kitchen to look for something else to eat. Fluttershy confused about the dragon’s taste in meals looks at the gems and tries to study them,

“Maybe his a little too young to eat gems right now, after all he was just born a few hours?”

Contemplating, Fluttershy wonders if he cannot eat gems, what baby dragons young as him can eat. As she looks around to find some other food to feed the little guy, the dragon wonders around and finally sniffs the air and heads in the direction of the ice box and quickly paws at the ice box. Hearing his claws scratch against the ice box, Flutterhsy quickly opens it and finds a hefty stack of fish she keeps in there to feed the more, carnivorous pets she cares for. The little dragon licks his scaly lips in anticipation trying to grab a fish; Fluttershy quickly grabs one and gently places the fish in a bowl and watches. The little dragon moves near the fish instinctively, and opens his mouth wider than before, revealing no teeth at all.

“That’s strange,” Fluttershy watched in amazement, “I thought dragons had teeth?”

As her question was cut off by the retractable teeth that appeared in his mouth as he chomped down on a piece of fish and swallowed it whole. As the little dragon continued his fish feast, Fluttershy slightly frightened looked again at the dragon, wondering what new surprises this little drake had in store for her. Her suspicion of the dragon disappeared as he gave a cute burp after devouring the fish completely as he lay on his side with a full belly of fish. Fluttershy giggled as she carried the little dragon into her living room and gently rubbed his stomach, hearing him purr softly as he slept. The dragon curled up in a ball, spread his wings across his tiny frame, and dozed off.

“I guess fish is what new-born dragons eat before gems I guess” 

Fluttershy said as she watched him sleep in her arms content with his meal and long day of play. She noticed as she looked into his mouth, his teeth missing once more, she giggled and petted him once again.

“From now on, you’re going to be named…Toothless”

Flutterhsy noticed a louder purr that came from the dragon, she understood he liked his new name as he drifted off to sleep once more in Fluttershy’s loving arms, wondering what new things she could learn from Toothless and maybe even one day overcome her fears of dragons…