Chapter 95

"Dro?" the Dragonite with the sitrus berry tilted its head to the side in curiosity.

"Not for me though, I already caught a Dragonite earlier, a nasty guy with a nastier temper," I continued explaining, "He attacked just outside the storm around your island out of nowhere and I caught him after my Fearow beat him in a battle."

Dragonite blinked again, and then to my surprise, started laughing, head thrown back and feelers on its head wriggling in pure amusement.

It was my turn to blink.

Hell, it literally reached up and with one long razor sharp claw wiped a tear of mirth from its eyes.

For some reason, me catching what I assumed to be Iris' Dragonite, was utterly hilarious to this one.

Heck, a wide smile even spread across the face of the other Dragonite beside the laughing one.

Hmm, actually, now that I looked at these two. They're a decent big bigger than the Dragonite I just caught.

I'm getting serious deja vu feelings right about now.

The laughing Dragonite stood up, towering over me, it had to be nearly ten feet tall and reaching down to pat me on the shoulder, pure amusement still dancing in its eyes.

It was congratulating me? Or praising me maybe?

It was positive either way.

'…Don't tell me my Dragonite is a young runt?' I goggled. But then, that actually made so much sense in retrospect, why it was so prideful and why it was always trying to prove its strength, why it was always so disobedient and why Iris had such a hard time controlling it.

After all, a prideful runt isn't exactly gonna know how to train another prideful runt.

"…So anyway, like I said, I'm hoping to catch one of you guys for a friend of mine," I coughed and pushed on, "I'm a bit worried about her, and feel like she's gonna be in some danger she doesn't want to tell me about. But, I'll have a lot less to worry about, if a badass Dragonite like yourself was with her."

Dragonite tossed the sitrus berry up into its mouth and chomped down, swallowing it in one big gulp before bending a bit down to look me in the eyes, "Dro?" it, questioned? I think, and gestured at me, then waved its arm to the side of me.

"Are you asking about her?" I guessed.

"Dro!" Dragonite nodded in confirmation.

"Eh, alright," I shrugged, "Her name's Hilda, she's not a battle focused trainer like me, or at least not fully. She's taking on the gym challenge to get her name out and make money, but her real goal is to become a producer and produce movies about pokemon like yourself, making pokemon the big stars."

To my surprise, Dragonite's eyes practically sparkled at my words, "Drodrodo!" it pumped a fist happily at me, then jabbed a thumb at itself.

"…Are you saying you'll do it?" I asked, a bit stupefied.

That was a hell of a lot easier than I thought it would be.

"Drawo!" Dragonite nodded eagerly, then to my surprise, pointed at one sitting beside it, making it give me a little wave, before it then swept its arm out gesturing to all the various Dragonite out and about on the beach.

But then pointed to itself, and then to the space beside me.

I'm seriously not following.

If I had to guess though-

"Are you saying that any of you would do it if I asked, but you personally want to do it because of the movie thing?" I put out.

Dragonite paused, before cupping its chin and a small humming warbling noise escaped its throat. Then, it just shrugged and nodded.

Huh.

"Well…alright then." I nodded in a bit of a daze.

I reached into my pocket and withdrew a pokeball. I had barely enlarged it though before Dragonite reached down and pressed the button at the middle itself, and was promptly sucked within the pokeball, just before it disappeared within the red light, tossing a light wave farewell to its sitting buddy.

And captured a second later without resistance.

"…That was easier than I thought it was going to be." I gaped at the ball in my hand, then slowly looked to the other Dragonite.

It shrugged at me, before lifting a fist up over its shoulder and banging it against the tree. It then opened said fist, just in time for a berry to land in its grasp.

And it began chowing down once again.

"…Points for style," I laughed, "So, before I go is it okay if I give a look around the island a bit?" there was still one little thing I wanted to get my hands on while here.

The Dragonite gave a casually shrug and gestured idly to the main island behind it, as if telling me to feel free.

Arceus man, these dragons are so damn chill.

I bid the Dragonite goodbye and with its blessing, made my way inward into the island.

The vast majority of the island was a large green area full of berry trees, beautiful flowers, gorgeous and crystal clear streams of water, and everywhere I looked I found members of the Dragonite line.

The vast majority of them were Dragonite, most of them just sleeping, eating, or in other various forms of absolutely chilling out. The most active of all were the Dragonair I saw, and the few cute little Dratini.

It really was odd that the most abundant pokemon on this island were Dragonite themselves, especially considering how long it generally took dragon types to grow and evolve.

…Then again, this is basically their own personal habitat, tailor made for them by them, if there was anywhere they'd grow and evolve quickly, it would be here.

Or maybe Dragonite get stronger through chillaxing and that is why Iris' Dragonite was always so weak.

Either way, it didn't take me all that long to find my destination. I just had to follow a river running through the island itself, leading to a small mountain in the centre of the island.

A gentle waterfall sprinkled down the front of it into the river itself, and just beyond it, was an opening of a cave into the mountain itself.

It didn't go very deep I noticed as I stepped around the waterfall, which was good, because it meant what I was looking for was right in view.

The shed skin and scales of Dratini. All around the small cavern I could see the molted scales, like long sleeves of glimmering pale blue, multiple feet long.

I quickly made my way into the cavern and started grabbing them up and slipping them into my backpack.

Fun fact, these right here? They can be fashioned into Dragon Scales from what I read, and be used to evolve certain pokemon. On top of that, these shed skin were generally used to make dragon scale clothing. A pair of stylish boots from from a half of one of these, could easily go for ten thousand.

And in total, I found twenty six shed skins.

I left the island minutes later atop the back of Fearow, flying straight up into the eye of the storming tornado surrounding the island and leaving it behind. A massive grin was spread across my face.