[center] [color=007236][h1]Rheese Laudat[/h1][/color][/center]
 [center] [color=007236][h2]Pokemon Center[/h2][/color][/center]
[center] [color=007236][h1]The Next Day[/h1][/color][/center]
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Rheese walked back into the lobby of the Pokecenter. For once in his life it seemed he was pretty early as the lobby seemed almost empty aside from the Nurse at her desk with a cup of steaming coffee. 

[color=007236]"How fresh is it?"[/color] Rheese asked as he poured himself a cup. [color=f49ac2]"I just brewed it about fifteen minutes ago."[/color] The nurse replied groggily. From the looks of it, she probably pulled an all nighter. [color=007236]"Oh, thanks."[/color] Rheese responded. he wasn't exactly tired, but coffee was just a morning thing for him. [color=007236]"Have any of the other trainers left yet?"[/color] Rheese asked not wanting to be ditched. [color=f49ac2]"You're the first I've seen in a few hours."[/color] The nurse said with a yawn, her coffee clearly not taking effect just yet.

Rheese took a sip of the hot coffee and sat down in one of the chairs near the front desk. [color=007236]"So...Why did everyone look at me weird when I mentioned Windshire's gym leader?"[/color] he asked nonchalantly. The nurse visibly flinched, a look of bemusement quickly forming on her face. [color=f49ac2]"He's...kind of a blemish on this town. Ever since he took over the gym, he's just been spending tax money to make it look high tech."[/color] Either the coffee or ranting about Vincent seemed to be waking her up. [color=f49ac2]"What's worse, his 'upgrades' have been drawing power from the windmills, so we haven't been able to produce nearly what we used to. Between the complaints from Mesalon and Vareena having power outages and his claim that we should just 'build more windmills' the professor's been working nonstop."[/color] When she mentioned Professor Bonsai, Rheese cringed slightly. That guy could hardly handle regular professor work, let alone managing a town. He remembered that region professors were usually involved in the local Pokemon leagues as well, no wonder there had been so many papers.

[color=007236]"So, this Vincent guy is a real piece of work huh?"[/color] Rheese muttered, it was slightly disgusting that one man was responsible for so much trouble. [color=f49ac2]"Yeah."[/color] The Nurse replied. [color=f49ac2]"The old gym was the inside of an older windmill that wasn't producing much power. It barely ran the lights inside, so if the former gym leader hadn't moved in it would have probably been demolished. The former leader didn't want the thing destroyed, so she decided to put it to use. I really wish she was still around.[/color]" The nurse said with a sigh, clearly something had happened to the former leader.

[color=007236]"You didn't really answer my question though. I get that he's not exactly upstanding, but everyone seemed almost afraid."[/color] Rheese said, now the nurse had him curious.  [color=f49ac2]"Oh, well there are a lot of rumors floating around...None that probably hold water, but a few of the residents think that he had something to do with the old gym leader's untimely passing."[/color] She said sadly. [color=f49ac2]"But that's not exactly likely, there isn't any evidence and the woman was almost eighty. It was just her time."[/color] Rheese went silent afterwards, he didn't really know what to say. He doubted this Vincent guy had done anything to the former gym leader, but the residents had to have some kind of reasoning for such a nasty rumor. Could this guy really be [i]that[/i] bad?