[center][color=palevioletred][h3]Korie Meagher[/h3][/color]— [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4094104]Coraick City[/url] —[/center]
[color=palevioletred]“I’m going to call you Laetus,”[/color] Korie said, looking the Lotad up and down as it sat with a blank stare. [color=palevioletred]“Not because you [i]are[/i] happy, but because you aren’t.”[/color]

At her side, Daigh snorted, poking the lotad with a hand. The Lotad looked up with aggravating slowness before lowering its head at at the same, slow speed. Giggling, Korie scooped up the Lotad and made for the gym. [color=palevioletred]“C’mon Daigh. We’re going to go scout out the competition.”[/color]

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The Coraick City Gym was a rather innocuous-looking building that, once you entered, appeared much larger than it’d looked from the outside. Built into the side of one of Coraick’s ports, the gym sprawled from land-level to a floor or two below sea level, making most of the diving facility and the gym itself underwater. The majority of the diving facilities were located on the right side of the main entrance and covered the first and second floors; the basement floor saw a large open area where rubber-covered metal floors vanished opened into the ocean itself. The gym, therefore, consisted of battles staged on — or perhaps in — this opening into the ocean where the gym leader’s Water-type Pokemon could swim without much trouble and the challenger’s Pokemon would be put on a platform that slid into position at the middle of the large pool.

Today, however the leader’s Pokemon were having some trouble keeping. The Gym Leader — Cameron — wore an intense look on his face as the opponent’s Gible — a brief scan with her Pokedex produced the Pokemon’s species — felled the Gym Leader’s Whooper with yet another Dragon Rage. The challenger, from what Korie could make out of him from behind the glass, appeared to be a black-haired boy around or perhaps a little older than herself. He appeared rather apathetic about the entire battle, recalling his Gible without a word after the Ground-Dragon type had single-handedly beaten Cameron’s first two Water-types, by the look of the dashboard.

“You’re strong,” the hawaiian-shirted Gym Leader said, picking up his third and final Pokeball, “but let’s see how you like this.” 

A Qwilfish emerged — again, Pokedex — eyes narrowed as it sized up the challenging trainer. The black hair boy threw out his Gible again, silent as ever as it sprang forward into action with the purplish beginnings of a Dragon Rage spewing from its mouth. “Dodge it and hit back with a Hydro Pump!” Cameron shouted, the Qwilfish shooting forth a gushing stream of water half a second later before ducking underwater to dodge the opponent’s Dragon Rage.

“Gible, Sandstorm,” the challenger said tonelessly. With a raspy growl, the trainer’s Gible whipped up a Sandstorm. And by whip, Korie meant [i]produce sand from nowhere and whip it into a fierce, buffeting storm of sediment.[/i] The sand clacked against the glass as it flew by, causing most of the people inside the closed area to shriek and flee for cover in the observation area. Within a few seconds, however, the storm cleared to reveal the black-haired challenger receiving his Deep Badge.

[color=palevioletred]“Whoa,”[/color] Korie said, eyes wide as she watched the boy walk out of the gym’s battle station, dusting his jacket off for any sand that’d gathered as he stepped into the observation area. 

“Whoo! Nice job!”

“Damn, awesome!”

Cheers and clapping rang out, causing the boy to look around him with a slightly surprised look. A faint ghost of a smile graced his face, and he made to leave the gym.

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[b]Inventory:[/b][list][*]Collapsable Bike
[*]Laptop
[*]Smartphone
[*]Wallet
[*]Pokedex
[*]Pokeball x 4
[*]Potion x 5
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[b]Pokemon:[/b][list][*]Daigh “Dei” ♂ — Charmander (12)
[*]Laetus ♂ — Lotad (9)
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