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Normally, when he encountered things that didn’t fall under the umbrella of ‘big’ and ‘strong’ he would leave them without a second thought.

But he was here to challenge that perception by going into the Safari Zone, since anything and everything that appeared in here were all babies—young ones, more like—and had to be raised up in order for them to hit their full potential.

His Noivern, Ava, was hovering above him and keeping an eye out while he traversed the undergrowth, wondering if he was going to be able to find what he was looking for. While a Dratini didn’t normally go well with his team, the image of having a big-ass, strong Dragonite was more than enough driving force for him to actually go into this strange place and start catching Pokémon to add to his collection.

Hence the big brain moment of him traversing the Safari Zone right now.

His Noivern let out a screeching cry, a few moments before Arashi was suddenly smacked in the face by an oncoming Dratini that had used a Dragon Rush attack right at him! “Whoa! What the hell!” he exclaimed as he tried to duck down but ended up getting a face-full of dragon instead.

Shoving the Dratini off, he was unsurprised to see it try to charge at him again—only this time it was met with a sudden Air Slash attack from the Noivern who had come sweeping down in an attempt to keep it away from her human companion.

“Ah, gee, really?” he remarked, before the Dratini before it charged at the Noivern this time with an Aqua Tail attack. Snickering to herself, the Noivern then positioned herself before swooping down and aiming a well-timed Dragon Pulse at it.

The little Dragon-type let out a squeal of pain before Arashi took aim and lobbed a Safari Ball at it, hoping for the best…

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