After calming down, resting and contemplating on what he should do next, Toothless decided that staying in this hole won't get him anywhere. The odds of portal appearing again are insignificant, as it was this dungeon's intention to shrink him like that, looks like, and he will have to leave this place anyways, if he wants to eat or drink. But the flocks of birds flying around on the outside were not making him feel any confidence in himself.
After some more thinking, Toothless decided to risk - get out, fly away from the birds, and then try to hide somewhere in the grass.
He gathered courage, took a deep breath, standing on the edge of the hole, and took off.
Toothless tried to fly as closely to the cliff as possible, to give birds less room for maneuvering if some of them decides to catch him, and maybe to blend in with the soil, although, its light brown tint was not helping at all.
He was quickly gaining altitude, but in fact, was only getting a little more than a centimeter higher per second - he was just too small and had to use a pretty limiting flight route.
As he was still far away from the edge of the cliff, a single bird swooped from above, flying closely to the cliff, and seemingly was aiming right at him!
Toothless immediately turned around, and began to descend to the nearest hole in the cliff, but he was just too slow again, as he suddenly felt something wrap around his body, pinning his limbs to the sides of his torso, and a painful pressure followed shortly.
A bird caught him in its foot!
The bird began to gain altitude, seemingly moving back up to the edge of the cliff, that it dove from, and Toothless just couldn't miss this chance!
He fired up a plasma blast to the bird's belly, that was above him. The bird didn't expect a bug to sting it, as usually they are pretty harmless to it, and...