Gym Leader Beginnings: Roark
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As Roark approached his new place of work, he had a sense of an anticipation and excitement. This was an entirely new adventure.
THIS was where he would prove himself worthy as a gym leader, just as powerful as his father. He had to thank Riley for such an opportunity. Roark wouldn't be here if not for his recommendation.
But before that he must introduce himself to the other gym trainers. He didn't see why he had to seeing that he already met most of them during visits to his grandfather, a.k.a the head of the Oreburgh mining facility, as a child.
But than again there may be new members who haven't been seen during his visits. "I guess I'll have to get to know them as well," Roark thought. So ready for his introduction Roark walked up to the doors. As he did,thoughts of uncertainty and insecurity filled his head.
But what if they didn't like him?
What if someone stronger came by for his position?
No. He can't think like that. Whatever happens will happen. Taking a deep breath, Roark pushed the doors open.
He walked into the building and immediately had his breath taken straight from his lungs, as he looked at the inside of the gym.
Outside the building it was all steel and paint. You'd have no clue that the inside had a stone interior. Aside from being stone there were a series of stairs and bridges, each leading up to a platform at the end of the opposite side of the wall with an enlarged coal badge hanging just above it.
At the sound of opening doors everyone turned their heads to see their new leader. Words were spoken about him.
"That's our leader?"
"Never expected him to be so YOUNG."
"C'mon. I hear Eterna City has a gym leader about his age."
"Yeah! Besides he's the son of Gym leader Byron."
"WHAT?! BYRON HAS A SON?"
"Well I'll be damned."
"Ummmmmmmm. Hi," Roark said in attempt to get their attention. Surprisingly at the sound of his voice, everyone quieted down and cleared a path to the platform with the enlarged coal badge replica. Supposing they wanted him on the platform, Roark walked forward until he reached the platform, glancing at faces some new some old. When he got on he turned around to face the many gym trainers that now followed him.
"Um. Hello, as you may or m-may not know I am Roark Cobalt. I may not be the leader you expect but, I-I promise I will prove myself to you. Not only as a gym leader but someone you can trust."
Everyone clapped. Roark smiled. His speech wasn't much. But it showed his intentions and that seemed to be good enough for them. "Well with that being said I will now report to the sinnoh Pokemon association. Everyone else, get to work. As the gym trainers either left the gym to work on the mines, or took position in the gym, Roark pushed on the enlarged coal badge replica. Said replica rose revealing a TV screen. The screen blinked to life and showed a man with tall hair in the shape of an ice cream swirl, square spectacles and a mustache.
"Mr. Berry, Gym leader Roark reporting. "
"Ah yes Mr. Roark good to hear from you. So how did it go?" asked Mr. Berry.
"It went pretty well. The trainers seemed enthusiastic to work with me."
"Excellent now, like other new gym leaders, you will be given one month to prepare your team and customize the inside of the gym to your liking. Unless of course the gym's interior design is satisfactory to you and already have a team prepared."
"The inside seems pretty good to me sir and I'll have a team ready soon enough."
"Very well contact me as soon as your team is formed."
The screen then faded to its original black. Roark than pulled out a pokeball and released a small blue and gray dinosaur creature with stubby arms and legs. "Hey Cranidos." He said.
"hey" it said back in response.
"So here we are taking Grandpa's gym."
"Yep"
"You don't seem to be excited for some reason. Mind telling me why?"
"I just don't see what the big deal is. You don't need to be a gym leader to be better than your dad"
Roark having not understood a word he said, misinterpreted his words and said "look I know this needs getting used to but this is a HUGE step for us. If we maintain our position well, we could be better than our fathers!
"You'd think he'd understand me after all we've been through. *sigh* Well I guess it IS nice to have a small change of pace" Cranidos decided to nudge his trainer as a gesture saying "fine I'll go with it for now". Or something along those lines.
"Thanks buddy" The (new) gym leader said.
And that's where it began for our little gym leader.
AUTHOR NOTES
A/N Okay um PG84 here just finished my first chapter to my first story . Now I'm going to say this right now. I'm not going to rush straight into the mossshipping. I'm going to take my time with it and throw it in when the time is right. Now is not that time.
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