How to Train Your Dragon Fairy

*cue "Eye Of The Tiger"*

After the Winx scared off the wyvern, they were left with the iguanodon that was burned to a crisp. That was actually in their favor because they had planned on hunting one after all. Now they didn't even have to kill or cook it because the wyvern had done it for them. All that remained was cutting the iguanodon up and drying the meat, so it would last longer.

So, Subari reassumed her role as survival expert and told the other fairies what to do. Wood had to be collected to build fires to dry the meat while the iguanodon carcass had to be cut into jerky-size strips. Because Natsuki hated hurting trees for their wood (and she had a bad experience collecting wood in the past), she volunteered to cut up the carcass. Subari showed her and Cristina the ropes while the two princesses searched for kindling.

When Melody and Jenny each returned with a big bundle of firewood in their arms, Subari went over to them and helped them set up the fires. Jenny had arranged a couple branches in a tipi-shape and Subari took out her equipment to start a fire. Last time she did this, Jenny had wondered why Subari didn't use her magic, but now she actually asked her.

"Use magic to start a fire? Why? I'm perfectly fine with my pieces of flint and fool's gold," the dragon fairy shrugged.

"But with magic you'd just need the snap of a finger," Jenny beamed. "I mean, I know you wanted time to think about joining us at Alfea, but don't you want to learn to control your powers?"

Subari frowned and thought about it. She had gotten to know the Winx and really felt part of the group. She didn't know what she'd do if they left. She had also seen their magic in action, which had come in handy against the wyvern. Her own magic had even taken out a T. rex. Why am I hesitating? she asked herself.

"Okay, fine. Show me how to start a fire with the snap of a finger."

"Show you? Better yet, I'll teach you!", the Princess of Solaria scooted over to the dragon fairy, "Now from what I've seen from your powers, you need to say the name of a dinosaur/dragon, right?"

Subari nodded, so Jenny continued. "Well, point your finger to the kindling and say the name of a fire-breathing dragon. Picture the dragon's fire coming from your finger and lighting the branches."

Subari aimed her right index finger at the tipi of wood, closed her eyes, and imagined fire shooting from her finger. "Gronckle!"

A big fireball shot from her hand and cannonballed into the swamp floor near where the other Winx were cutting up the iguanodon. Her attack missed them by a hair.

"Hé, watch it!" Cristina shouted back, sitting closest to the smoldering crater where the fireball hit.

"Sorry!", Subari waved apologetically before whispering to Jenny, "Maybe I should have picked a weaker dragon?"

"You think?" she raised an eyebrow. The dragon fairy repeated the exercise, but this time she named a different dragon:

"Terrible Terror!"

With great accuracy, a beam of fire shot from Subari's index finger and lit the kindling. The dragon fairy jumped up and cheered, "I did it!"

"Good job!" Jenny applauded. "Hé, how about this: you teach us how to survive on Pyros and we'll teach you magic?"

"Deal!"

***

The following week, Subari and the other Winx exchanged a number of lessons. Subari first taught the girls how to place fish traps. Wading in lakes and setting up the traps was all fine and dandy, but collecting the fish caused some problems. At least with Melody. Apparently, the point of fish traps (trapping fish) didn't fully resonate with her. Instead of pulling the traps from the water, she opened all of them and screamed: