Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It perfectly depicts summer weather.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

When Buttercup was young she asked her father what she would grow up, to which her father replied, "You will be grown once summer is over and the leaves from the trees turn brown."

Upon hearing this, Buttercup then made a correlation in her mind between summer ending and her growth. And so, being a dragon of summer and not wanting summer to end she decided to stunt her own growth, making it so she would never grow up and summer would never end.

She was very disappointed when it didn't work as she had thought.