Sam gently shakes his head, tapping the button on the Pokeball to shrink it down again and put it back in his pocket.

"It takes them a while to warm up toward strangers, but they won't hurt you if I don't tell them to. Just don't make any sudden moves, especially toward me. Dragonite is pretty protective."

Dragonite lets out a burst of air from its nose at that, doing its best to look intimidating (yes, it's a huge dragon, but it's also cartoonishly cute with those big eyes and that Barney-like face, so it all evens out in the end?); darn straight, no one hurts its master while it's around.