I had seriously underestimated the distance between my destination and Vermillion City.

It was a lot farther out than the maps I'd seen implied. Actually, the maps couldn't even locate it, only give me a general area that was always storming. That was how I knew it was where I needed to go.

Sitting thousands of feet in the air, secured tightly to Fearow's back, I wiped the screen of my phone, getting rid of the mass of rain that blocked out the screen.

It was filled up again a second later, only allowing me a glimpse at the screen. But it was enough.

I'm soaked to the freaking bone, and Fearow isn't looking too much better. It was a good choice of mind to pull out a thick rain jacket when I left Misty behind to come out here.

'Something is odd here.' I thought, jostling lightly as Fearow forced his way through the powerful gales of wind that could send a small child flying, even though we were easily hundreds of metres away from the origin of the storm we were in the middle of.

And not the storm itself. I looked up and briefly eyed the massive storming tornado thousands of feet wide and thousands of feet high, reaching higher than myself and Fearow were in the air currently.

No, crazy and impressive as the storm is, terrifying even from a standard point of view-

What is really odd, is my phone.

I still have a connection with it. Like, even out here, I can connect to the internet, make calls…and the GPS function is working and I can actually see a listed island.

That doesn't make sense at all, 'This wasn't possible with any of the computers I tried.' my frown deepened. All they could do was give me a general overview of the area, that it was always storming and couldn't see very far into it.

It's been at the back of my mind for a while and I'd mostly just been ignoring it. But, what the hell happened to my phone?

I wiped the screen again, peering at it once more, before it was covered in rain a second later once again.

I sighed. There's nothing I can really do with it now, is there? Whatever brought me here had definitely modified it somehow. The only question, was who, or what?

'Best thing I can do on that front is probably get a Rotom and stick it in it.' I clicked my tongue.

And that would have to wait until later, because even I knew of only some places I could find wild Rotom. Actually, only like two or three places came to mind.

I stowed the phone away before patting Fearow's sodden feathery neck, "Take us in a bit closer mate." I told him.

"Row." Fearow glanced back at me from the corner of his eyes, before nodding and spreading his wings wide, before, he'd kept them half out, riding the currents of the wind to keep as level as possible for him.

Which was only possible because of his size and sheer raw physical strength, I'm betting that without my special brand of training, any average Fearow would have been incapable of doing so.

With a flap of his wings, Fearow scythed through the air, wings each as long, if not longer than I was tall cutting through the storming gale force winds like butter.

Quickly, Fearow carried me through the remaining distance towards the stormy hurricane.

Just as we got close and I was about to direct Fearow town towards the ocean itself and switch out for Milotic-

My heart leapt into my throat as Fearow suddenly made an instant bank to the right, tilting to the side, my heart hammering in my chest and a yelp leaving my throat as I dangled there in the air for a split moment before Fearow re-oriented.

And allowing me to see the large trio of jagged icy blue beams of energy that tore right through our previous position.

Ice Beam!

"ROW!" Fearow spread his wings wide, and shrieked furiously at the direction the attack came from, and my eyes went even wider.

There, a hundred or so feet below us, wings flapping slowly and measuredly and keeping it level in the air right at the front of the storm itself, was a large bipedal pokemon with light yellow scales, a white underbelly, small green cyan blueish green wings and feelers atop its head-

Was a Dragonite.

A Dragonite with a foul look on its face, eyes narrowed into a furious glare and mouth pulled up into a savage snarl.

What the fuck?

I already knew that Dragonite Island was hidden within that stormy hurricane, so I'm not that surprised to see one here, albeit, I can already feel excitement flooding into my veins.

The odd thing that stood out to me though, is it attacking us. Dragonite are genial, gentle even for the most part, and the ones here always lent a helping hand to those in need if they got ship wrecked in the general area and such.

So why is this one-

I didn't get the time to finish that thought.

With a howl, the Dragonite's claws sparked with electricity and it zipped up through the air towards us.

Fast!

Incredibly fast even.

It cleared the distance in all of a few blinks of an eye, swinging out with a heavy, albeit incredibly telegraphed Thunderpunch.

Though with that kind of speed, telegraphing wasn't as big an issue.

Usually.

Metallic silver burst into existence and Fearow lashed out with a massive wing enhanced with the power of a steel type.

Steel Wing met Thunderpunch and the rain around us was parted from the force of the blow.

I grinned.

Dragonite's eyes widened when Fearow gave a howl of his own and the large angry looking dragon and flying type got forced back.

Fast and strong for sure, but it isn't dealing with the average Fearow here.

Forced back a few feet, Dragonite didn't have time to block or dodge as Fearow swung out with his other wing in a heavy slap to the side of the face.

Dragonite was slammed down through the air, hard, its body shooting down towards the ocean easily a thousand feet below like a bullet.

Easily as fast as Ash's Scizor when using Quick Attack, and with strength to match. Impressive considering Ash's Scizor was only that strong and fast because of Technician.

But, nowhere did I ever claim that Ash's Scizor was superior to my Fearow. And Fearow has already gotten used to fighting an opponent far faster in Pidgeot.

Amazing as Ash's Scizor was, Technician did have one pretty big glaring weakness that I'd found out from the Pokedex. For some reason, it could only affect offensive type attacks, so it wouldn't boost the likes of Agility or Dragon Dance. That wasn't a weakness though, and I can't figure out why it doesn't effect those types of pokemon moves despite how different it already is here from the games.

Rather, the real weakness of it, was despite amping up all the physical attacks and abilities of a pokemon, it did so by drawing upon excessive amounts of energy, according to the Pokedex entry on it, an estimate of three times the energy needed normally, and pokemon that had Technician, did it automatically and tended to lose steam quickly.

They needed to be real stamina monsters to last long in battle.

Dragonite disappeared a moment later between the roiling ocean waves down below as I was thinking and my frown returned.

"Get ready, it's not done yet." I cautioned Fearow, the giant bird giving me a single nod and his keen eyes watching the water surface for movement.

This Dragonite…It's familiar.

The angry look, the sudden attacks, both Ice Beam and Thunderpunch, I'm sure I've saw it before.

If I'm not wrong, it answers a lot of questions on where that particular Dragonite even came from.

The water surface exploded in a massive geyser and from it, erupted a huge serpentine dragon of glowing blue, roaring energy.

"Dragon Rush!" I gasped, "Ascend up!" I quickly ordered.

Quickly, Fearow shot up higher into the air, and I had to force myself not to panic. I trust Fearow, but holy fucking fuck are we high in the air.

Fearow was faster than the attack, and we gained distance from it as we went up, giving us time.

Exactly what I wanted.

Forcing myself not to tremble I grit my teeth, "Hyper Beam, blow it outta the air!" I commanded.

Fearow's long beak snapped open, a familiar sphere of inky black energy swirling and compressing into existence, the distance we got from ascending, giving him well enough time to charge it.

Then, just as Dragonite encased by the power of Dragon Rush was a mere fifty or so feet away from us, a mere second at most from reaching us-

Fearow spread his wings wide to brace himself and unleashed his attack straight down.

A large and powerful black beam of pure destruction exploded down out of his mouth and slammed straight into the Dragon Rush attack.

A massive sonic boom erupted as the attacks clashed, blowing away all the rain for hundreds of feet, near creating a new eye in the storm.

"DROOOOOOOOOOOO!" I heard a furious howl even over the roars of the clashing energy, serpentine blue energy dragon pushing against the black beam of power.

A single foot, then a second, and suddenly it was tearing up through the Hyper Beam attack, gaining easily a good thirty feet-

Before losing momentum, the beam of power swelling as Fearow fed more energy into it and tore straight through the Dragon Rush.

For a split moment I saw Dragonite as the attack was torn away, its furious looking eyes widening in shock before the Hyper Beam slammed straight into it head on and carried it back down.

"Follow it!" I barked quickly.

A Dragonite wouldn't go down this easily!

Despite my orders, Fearow didn't move much for a small bit, panting deeply. It wasn't that long though-

After all, one of the first things I'd done upon teaching Fearow Hyper Beam, was have him spam it constantly during training to get him used to it.

It's his strongest attack by far and I want him to be able to charge it rapidly and fire it on the fly without having to wait long to recharge.

We found a way of using it as well that was quite interesting, quicker, but weaker, but that didn't matter right now.

Fearow moved once he recovered just a second or two later, quickly scything down through the air towards where the Hyper Beam carried Dragonite down.

It had already faded away and the large yellow scaled dragon was currently free falling through the air.

The momentum behind it from Hyper Beam was pretty stellar, but still not fast enough to escape Fearow.

We caught up to it rapidly, and I noted, its eyes were shut.

Had it fallen unconscious al-

Dragonite's eyes snapped open

Fearow spun mid-air, swerving around a sudden large gout of flame that erupted from its throat.

"Nice try!" I laughed, "Throat Chop!"

From swerving around the gout of flames, we quickly got behind Dragonite, and now, before it could swivel around fully to attack once again, Fearow's wings sparked and exploded with dark power, wings glowing ominously and slammed one of his wings into the back of Dragonite's neck.

Dragonite gagged and got stunned, freezing up from the blow and falling limply.

I don't think that's enough for a Dragonite though.

"Razor Wind!" I followed up.

The colours of his wings shifted in vibrancy to a bright brilliant and gleaming white a split moment later and Fearow beat his wings hard and rapidly, unleashing a barrage of dozens of condensed wind blades.

Dragonite of course, couldn't dodge or block and was caught easily by the barrage of attacks slicing into its body.

And moments later, the large dragon pokemon slammed into the water surface, a much smaller geyser splashing up over its body in comparison to the one that erupted from the Dragon Rush a minute ago.

Fearow levelled out quickly above the water, ready and waiting to react, dodge or attack, either or really.

But, there was no need.

A second later, Dragonite surface in the water, belly up and floating there in the roiling waves, unconscious.

A massive grin spread across my face, "Really wasn't expecting this." I laughed, reaching into my pocket and pulling out a shrunken pokeball.

I enlarged it and had Fearow take me down just low enough so I could reach over and tap the pokeball to Dragonite's body. The ball snapped open and a beam of red shot out, encasing Dragonite's body, before slurping it up like a wet noddle and closing quickly.

It took in my hand for all of a second, before letting loose a ping of success, notifying me of my capture of Dragonite.

And good thing I'd sent half my team back to the Pokemon Centre in Viridian City so he didn't get sent off there.

I'll need to discipline this guy a but to get him obedient, "Can't be that hard considering that clown Iris did it." I snorted.

I'm almost certain after all, that this Dragonite is the one that Iris later caught, and she was a completely trashy and incompetent loser, nothing at all like her based manga and game self. Now that was a woman!

Not that 'you're such a kid' trollop.

I attached the pokeball to my belt and grinned at Fearow, patting him heartily on the back, "Way to go buddy, you're on fire today!" I praised, "You beat Pikachu and Scizor earlier, both monstrously strong really and now you've clapped a Dragonite as well!"

Fearow grandly spread his wings and squawked happily in victory.

After all, he might not be a match for Pidgeot, but that doesn't mean this big birdie boy isn't a beast himself.

While Fearow was celebrating, I pulled out my phone again and brought up the pokedex app, checking out the information of my newly captured Dragonite.

'Dragonite, the Dragon Pokémon. Dragonite is said to live in the sea. With its small wings and large body, it can fly faster than the speed of sound. Gender: Male, Height: 7'03, Ability: Multiscale - Attacks Known: Wrap, Thunder Wave, Ice Beam, Flamethrower, Dragon Rush, Thunderpunch.'

Hmm, a bit different from what I remember, with the Wrap and Thunder Wave attacks, but then, all Dratini practically knew those attacks, so probably just a left over from then.

'Right, time to get a move on to the Island itself them.' I nodded to myself. I still have to see about catching something to help Hilda out just in case something is actually going on and she isn't just visiting family.

I was about to let out Milotic and return Fearow, since I'll have to go under the hurricane storm surrounding the island and hiding it from outsider, but just as I was about to, my phone began ringing.

I blinked, wiping away the rain that covered the screen again to see the caller ID.

'Misty'.

Huh, she's already calling me? I only separated from her like an hour ago, maybe two at most.

"Sup?" I answered the call, bringing the phone to my ear, I should look into seeing about getting some good ear buds actually now that I think about it, hmm, can the ones I have already pick up my voice? Questions for later, "Miss me already?"

"You wish," Misty snorted on the other line, "Are you still around Vermillion City?"

"Not really," I replied, "Why?"

"Well, we're kind of in a bit of a situation," I could practically hear the grimace in her voice, "You remember when Nurse Joy came by earlier and asked for Ash and Brock to go with her?"

"Yeah?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Well, apparently there's been some kind of pokemon egg in this place for a while now, it's been drifting about for ages from place to place, starting out in Sinnoh," Misty replied, "It's been dormant for years with no sign of hatching, until today, it apparently started reacting to Ash according to Nurse Joy, no idea how she figured that out or why."

I blinked slowly, "…And?" I asked, not sure how that concerns me. Cool to know, and I guess Ash will be getting his first baby pokemon earlier than usual, but that just seemed par the course for him, especially here.

He was quite forthcoming with all the pokemon he had this time around and I made sure to memorize them, because fucking hell were things different here, wildly different.

Pikachu, Butterfree, Pidgeotto, Beedrill, Venomoth, Scizor, Quagsire, Ludicolo, Cloyster, Bulbasaur, Staryu, Squirtle, Charmander, Krabby.

His original counterpart in the anime only had seven pokemon by this point, this Ash has thirteen, more than half of them fully evolved already. And considering how free he's been with item evolutions already, that'll probably be bumped up to eight fully evolved pokemon when he buys a water stone for his Staryu.

"The pokemon hatched about a half hour ago, not one I'm familiar with either, apparently it's super rare, a pokemon called Riolu," Misty expounded and my eyes widened in absolute shock, "It ran off as soon as it hatched though and has been picking fights with wild pokemon in the area, it almost got crushed by an Onix if not for Ash managing to find it in time and beat it with Bulbasaur, by the time he caught the Onix though, Riolu had run off again."

Okay…okay, what the hell!?

That was a lot to digest there. It made sense to me why a Riolu egg would react to Ash, he's Mr. Super Aura after all, but what the fuck is a Riolu egg doing in the Vermillion City Pokemon Centre?

And on top of that, Ash now has an Onix?

Good on him I suppose.

"Riolu aren't just super rare, they're ultra rare, they evolve into Lucario an incredibly powerful pokemon, they're stupid strong," I informed, and also, once it evolves, alongside Onix, Ash will have three steel types, and he already has six water types, is he trying to put gym leaders out of business? "They use some kind of power called aura, so if it reacted to Ash, it must have felt his own aura and liked it, and if it the fact it's running off to fight wild pokemon is anything to go by, it's a little battle nut, so it must have really liked Ash's fighting spirit or something."

At least, that's as far as I can roughly guess.

"Good to know. but what's aura?" Misty asked.

That is the billion pokedollar question, now isn't it?

"It's some kind of energy, life force I think?" I shrugged, "Every living thing has it apparently, but only a few can use it, kind of like psychics, but more physical oriented, leaning more towards like fighting types while psychics tend to lean towards…well psychic types."

"…There's stuff like that out there as well, huh?" Misty hummed, "You sure do know a lot though."

I smirked, "I'm just awesome like that," I chuckled, "Anyway, I won't be much help, I'm too far away right now and in the middle of something important as well. But, while I don't know a whole lot about aura, I know that it can be used to sense things, kind of like sonar, so it'll have a much easier time finding opponents. If it's really looking for strong opponents though, I think you guys should let out all your pokemon and give it chase, it'll feel how strong your pokemon are and might come running straight to you."

"And you're so modest about yourself, huh?" Misty laughed in return, "Not without reason I guess. Thanks for telling me this, hopefully we'll be able to grab that little annoying thing up quickly so I can finally get that shower."

"That wouldn't have been a problem if you just accepted my offer to get into the shower with me." I pointed out, my smirk widening. I'd brought it up while we spent an hour making out before I left.

"No, nice try, you'll have to work a bit harder for that buddy," Misty snorted, "Anyway, thanks for the info, I'll call you later and let you know how this goes."

"Good luck," I replied, before biding her goodbye and letting her hang up, I leant back on the saddle atop Fearow's back and looked up at the storming sky above, "Now isn't that interesting."

Not just Scizor, but now he'd have a Lucario in the future as well. Both were pokemon incredibly suited to Ash, fast and strong hitters, but tanky as well due to their typing.

Not to mention a possible Steelix as well, three possible mega evolutions of the steel type.

This really is a whole new breed of Ash Ketchum I'm dealing with.

After finishing up speaking with Misty, I stowed my phone away, clipped my new Dragonite's pokeball to my belt and sent out Milotic.

Despite the roiling waves all around us, she easily rose up out of the water and steadily waited for me to climb off of Fearow's back onto her own and return the large bird.

Going straight through the storming tornado itself, was a no go. Oh, no doubt Fearow, or Pidgeot actually would love to challenge it head on and break through, and I wouldn't put it past either of them them.

But the safer and smarter option, was just going straight under the tornado and avoiding it altogether.

"Ready girl?" I asked her as I reached into one of the side pockets on my backpack and pulled out a re-breather. It was a small spherical breathing apparatus the likes that came from a scuba-tank. But, instead of being connected to an air tank, it had two tubes coming out of each side, each around seven or so inches long and about two of my fingers thick.

This little baby, cost me five thousand pokedollars. Pricy as all hell to be honest. But, there's a reason why. One would think that with how small it is, it couldn't contain much oxygen.

They'd be wrong. For one thing, this, like my backpack, has some of the same storage technology from pokeballs implemented in it, it can hold a lot more than its size implies. And on top of that, it had a feature where it could draw in air.

I'd bought this back in Hollywood, not long after dealing with that clown Goh, they were being sold at the beach-river place where I caught my Krabby.

It even had a little waterproof screen on the inside just beside one of the bars, that told me how much oxygen it contained.

A real marvel of technology, and hell'a convenient.

Currently, I had over ten hours of oxygen saved up. Well enough to get what I needed done, and it had barely taken any effort at all. And all that effort amounting to taking it out of my bag, and leaving it sitting for a while after pressing a button.

Milotic trilled happily and nodded eagerly. Grinning, I inched myself forward and wrapped my arms around her long, graceful serpentine neck, feeling her soft smooth scales under my fingertips.

Milotic glanced at me from behind, making sure I had a good grip, before easing down into the roiling waves around us, and under the water we went!

The salt water stung my eyes as we dipped down, and all sound resounding in my ears became muted.

It didn't take me long to adjust to the salty water though, and my vision cleared up within ten seconds at most.

But by then, Milotic had already dived down over a hundred feet.

I almost expected there to be all types of water pokemon as far as my eyes could see. That was how it was in the anime and all, the ocean was absolutely teeming with pokemon.

But even this far down, the water was still very turbulent, and it was only the sheer size and strength possessed by Milotic that allowed her to push through the raging currents.

Like, it wasn't just water pressure pushing us backwards, I could feel the water twisting and churning, almost constricting in a way like a serpent. It really was a testament to the power pokemon held, that a small group of Dragonair could cause such chaotic weather that effected even this deep into the ocean.

It was only huge, powerful water types like Milotic, or that huge Gyarados coming our way from the right that could handle the intensity down here-

Wait.

My eyes widened.

I gave a quick frantic pat on Milotic's neck, making her halt in her tracks. She looked back at me, only for her eyes to widen like my own as she caught sight of the Gyarados racing towards us.

Just like the one I saw before, back in Viridian City, it was a sight to behold. A massive intimidating head larger than I was tall, thick armour plate like scales, powerfully constricting muscles that allowed it to bully its way through the raging ocean.

Even with how strong I'd grown since coming here, I feel like I'd break my hand punching it as hard as I could.

Milotic cocked her head back, before throwing it forward, her mouth opening and spewing out a torrent of yellow-green flames that zipped through the water, tearing through the current and blasting right into the Gyarados before it could reach us.

The force of the blast stopped it in its tracks and the huge beastly pokemon roared. The force from the roar was so powerful it made the roiling water around it tremble and I could even hear it despite how muted everything was down here.

Stopped in its tracks by Milotic's Dragon Breath attack, it left the huge water and flying type a ripe target and Milotic's eyes began to glow a bright scarlet red.

Moments later, rings of red energy were emitted from her gaze, once, twice, three times in a pair, over and over until there were dozens, each quickly growing in size until they were as big as I was and they swept over the stunned Gyarados.

It shook its massive head, glaring angrily at us, a familiar sphere of black energy swirling into existence within its massive maw-

But, before it could fire the Hyper Beam it was charging up, its eyes began to droop, and not long later, just in time even, they closed fully and the Gyarados fell asleep, Milotic's Hypnosis attack coming in clutch.

Milotic stared at the sleeping leviathan of size with her, before turning her nose up and sniffing in disdain.

I laughed internally at her reaction, she was completely un-impressed with it. But then, Milotic seemed to not be very impressed with much outside of our group.

She turned her head around and made to continue on, but I pat her again, making her pause. She looked back at me, and then I saw her pout in the corner of my eye when she saw I was looking at the Gyarados.

I don't really hold its loss here to Milotic over it. For one, official battle wise, it hasn't been defeated and looked ready and raring to go even after Milotic's Dragon Breath, for two, it's a freaking Gyarados.

I have plans of course for two other specific Gyarados. A shiny one and a gigantic one. I know the general area where to find both a shiny Magikarp and a gigantic one.

But, there's no guarantee I'll find them.

And I do in fact want a Gyarados, I love these things. I caught one wild during a rainy day in Pokemon Go and it carried me hard, it wasn't even any special Gyarados at all, it was average sized, average weight and below average IV's.

That didn't stop me from always levelling it up though over others I caught. Sub-optimal for sure, but there was something to be said for loyalty and attachment.

Fuck it, I'm catching it. It being normal will actually make it stand out with the other two when I get them anyway.

Reaching into my pocket, I pulled out a pokeball and enlarged it, then directed Milotic over to the floating, snoozing leviathan.

I touched the pokeball to its form, and like Dragonite not long ago, it was sucked inside the pokeball and easily captured without any resistance in just a few moments.

Only then, did I direct Milotic back on course.

'Let's see.' I pulled my phone out, thank fuck for it being waterproof and looked over the latest entry.

'Gyarados: The evolved form of Magikarp. Rarely seen in the wild. Huge and vicious, it is capable of destroying entire cities in a rage. Can fire a Hyper Beam from its mouth that leaves nothing behind. Gender: Male, Height: 21'07, Ability: Moxie - Attacks Known: Splash, Tackle, Bite, Dragon Rage, Aqua Tail, Hydro Pump, Hyper Beam.'

If I could, I would have whistled, my eyebrows raising up to my hairline. I knew already it had Hyper Beam, and figured it would know Hydro Pump, those kind of went hand in hand with Gyarados as a whole really, I wasn't expecting Dragon Rage or Aqua Tail though, and I seriously was not expecting it to have Moxie.

Moxie had to be one of the fuck off best abilities of all, that was for sure, I legit loved running Mightyena with it, made it actually viable and Krookodile of course.

Though, I'll definitely need to look into Moxie, I really don't know how that'll transfer over in a real setting like this. Perhaps some form of adrenaline boost?

Not long later, we surfaced once again, this time on the other side of the huge tornado. And the place could not be anymore different.

The water of the ocean here around us was calm and serene, and when I looked straight up, a clear, cloudless bright blue sky met my eyes, the sun beaming down warmly.

Weather manipulation was overpowered man. And convenient as hell. A Dragonair could basically give you any type of day you want.

Feel like getting a tan? Dragonair can move the clouds and bring the sun out. Want a rainy night to fall asleep to? Dragonair's on the job.

…Do Dragonite lose the ability to manipulate the weather like that when they evolve?

I'll need to look into that.

And speaking of Dragonair and Dragonite.

My gaze was drawn forward, a good thousand feet or so away, I saw a large island, it was full of ripe, green trees and at the front I caught sight of a golden sand filled beach.

My eyes weren't on the island for long though.

No, rather, my eyes were drawn to the dozens of long and gracefully beautiful dark blue scaled, serpentine dragons playing in the water near the beach, and the various familiar yellow scaled bipedal dragons relaxing on said beach.

Holy shit.

My mouth dropped low in surprise.

Already I can see a dozen Dragonair and at least seven Dragonite. I knew from meta knowledge this island was fucking stacked with the Dragonite line, but knowing that objectively and seeing it in person was a whole other ball game.

Milotic eyed them all hesitantly, and gave a worried trill to me. I can understand the hesitation.

We're utter badasses, but this is an island full of Dragonite.

"Don't worry, putting the guy I caught a little while ago aside, these guys are really friendly." I assured her.

Her hesitation vanished at my assurance and she gave an understanding trill and nodded.

Then, I directed her towards the island at a slow pace, her graceful body casually scything gently through the water towards the beach.

As we approached the island, the group of Dragonair stopped playing in the water and looked towards us curiously, yet that was all. There wasn't a lick of hostility or suspicion in them at all.

"Heya." I grinned and waved towards them.

"Drooo!" the one closest trilled, a beautiful majestic sound, just like Milotic and lifted its tail up out of the water to wave back, its fellows copying it a moment later.

And then they returned to their playing.

Hmm, they really must be quite used to humans to be so at ease with me despite this place being so heavily blocked off.

Then again, if I remember right, quite a few people got brought here sometimes after being saved by them and the Dragonite after being shipwrecked.

Moments later, we reached the beach and I hopped off of Milotic's back, "Thanks a bunch girl, you did a great job." I praised, reaching rubbing her atop the head affectionately.

She happily nuzzled me back in return.

I returned her to her pokeball a minute later and looked around, my eyes drifting over the various Dragonite spread out over the beach.

Most of them were relaxing atop the soft sand, snoring peacefully away, while two sat beneath a tree, chowing on some berries.

One of them met my eyes as I looked towards them, and greeted me with a light wave, before going back to eating.

…So incredibly chill.

Nothing at all like the rage beast that attacked me outside in the storm beyond the island.

…The urge to go on a massive catching spree is real.

But, I'm not gonna. Even if the idea of a legion of Dragonite under my command is enough to make me almost salivate.

I don't know why. But, it feels wrong somehow. Funny how I don't mind planning on doing so to an island full of Squirtle, Wartortle and Blastoise though.

Heh.

Does that make me a hypocrite?

I chuckled, "Well, I'm fine with that." I mused. Honestly, I would have left already after catching my current Dragonite, but I still have one more thing I want to do.

I want another one. Not for me though.

But for Hilda.

I can't shake the feeling that something fishy is going on, and it made me worried for some reason and I've no idea why.

At least if she has a Dragonite backing her up, I won't have to worry.

With that thought in mind, I made my way over to the two Dragonite eating to their hearts content, "Hey Dragonite, how's things?" I greeted them.

The one on the left paused just as it was about to eat what looked like a Sitrus Berry, "Drodro." it warbled and gave a shrug while gesturing at its berry, while the other one just looked at me curiously.

"Cool, cool," I nodded, I've no idea what it said, but I've got the feeling it basically told me nothing much, just relaxing and having a bite, "So, I'm gonna come out and say it, I'm looking to catch one of you guys." I revealed bluntly.

Both of them blinked at me.

"Dro?" the one 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.