Desclaimer: im only gonna do this once so listen up: I DO NOT OWN POKEMON NOR DO I HAVE ANY INTENTION OF DOING SO!

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prelude summary: Kaiune is the Shadow City Gym leader, a newly developed city built under Mt. Pyre. Kaiune has been running this gym for a little over a year now and from this moment forward. his Career will move in a way he didnt plan.

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Life as a Gym Leader Chapter 1: False Impressions

Darkness engulfed the gym stadium leaving all occupants blind, the only light was emitted by black lights lining the walls. The sound of flesh slashed and bruised filled the room rivaled only by the sobs of a young trainer.

"No, my Medichan!" A young boy, in white karate gi, cried out in pain as he watched his pokemon be painfully stricken down. Cuts and wounds littered the Medichan's body. However, there seemed to be no other pokemon on the field.

"One last time, Arial Ace!" for a brief moment white fur flashed across the sparsely lit area of the arena before an enormous wind rose from nowhere. The Medichan reeled in pain as a new gaping wound opened across its chest.

"Medichan Return!" The boy forced his pokemon back into its pokéball

"The trainer's pokemon are no longer able to battle. The winner is the Gym Leader."

The boy collapsed to his knees. "How could my fighting team loose?!" florescent lights slowly gained power and lit the stadium. Beginning to take shape, the gym leader and his pokemon became visible; An Absol. The gym leader wore a black jumpsuit with silver lining, his hair and eyes white as snow. A look of concentration and disgust shot towards the boy.

"You trainers walk in here with your fighting pokemon and think you can make easy work of my dark warriors." The gym leader spat "You disgust me." he turned his back to the trainer and took a few steps to his chair, and sat. The Absol nearly disappeared completely as it dashed with great speed to its master's side "Remove this child"

Two of the studying trainers of the gym, each older than the trainer by a few years, seized him by the arms and dragged him out of the stadium, the doors closing behind him.

Once the doors had closed the gym leader moved his head to his right. From the arm of his chair rose a small video phone. After dialing a combination he awaited an answer. The recipient was Brawley.

"Oh, Kaiune what a sur…"

"Quiet Brawley!" Kaiune interrupted "You know why I'm calling you"

"Oh, yes, my students lost then."

"Yes, and horribly, I'm starting to wonder when you will start actually challenging me. You know how I hate obliterating your first and second year students."

"I'm teaching them Kaiune; they're too cocky about type advantages. Perhaps you should come up to the surface for a visit to my gym."

"Hmm, now that you mention it It has been a long time since I've been up to the surface. Let alone had much contact with the other leaders. I'm surprised the league hasn't revoked my gym license since I don't attend the meetings.

"You send in your monthly reports like everyone else. So why should they. Say, I'm going to call a meeting of the gyms at the end of the week. It would be nice if you could join us."

"Yes, I think I could enjoy that."

Meanwhile just outside the stadium doors the gym's pokémon center tended carefully to the wounds of the Medichan and the young trainers other pokemon. The oldest student of Kaiune's gym, Sophia, was patting the trainers back as he sobbed.

"Your pokémon are going to be ok. Nurse Joy has done miracles on cases much worse than yours."

"B-b-but he's so cruel, he has no heart" he sniffled

"Now now, I wouldn't say that. Kaiune's one of the gentlest people I know, and I should know." She giggled and blushed slightly, "He's a good man, but it's hard for him to run a Dark gym without keeping up with his dark façade. If it wasn't for that you'd like him better."

"R-Really?" the boy looked up

"Yes, really." Sophia smiled warmly took her hand from the young trainer's back and placed them on the table where they were sitting

"I heard once that Kaiune was planning to become a fire trainer." Michael started but Doug butted in

"Yeah, He was going to have a Flareon as his first fire type. But during a battle against a fighting type pokemon a couple years back, a solar eclipse happened, somehow exchanging sunlight to moonlight that Eevee turned into an Umbreon before he gave the Eevee a fire stone, he's been a dark trainer ever since."

"Umbreon?" the young trainer was interested "How come he didn't use it when he battled with me?"

"Because, darling, that would have been unfair to you. Umbreon's the strongest of his pokemon by far. Using Umbreon in a gym battle would be against league rules."

"Strongest by far? Oh."

"See what I mean?"

"Yeah." It was then when the doors to the trainer shop opened and Kaiune appeared in the doorway. He no longer wore his gym leader outfit. Instead he wore a pair of baggy black jeans, a white tank top, and an ice blue vest, his white hair lined with a black headband with the Shadow City badge pinned on the center.

"Kaiune-sama!" Sophia got up from her seat nearly knocking over the young trainer and glomped Kaiune. Kaiune laughed light heartedly and held Sophia.

"Sophia, do you agree that Michel and Doug can take care of the gym for a few days without us?"

"What do you mean Kaiune-sama? What are you implying." Sophia darted a playful glare into his eyes. Kaiune sweat dropped.

"Now I know why she speaks so highly of him." The trainer whispered to himself.

"Well, Sophia, you and I are going to go to Brawley's gym for a teaching expo and then going to a OPL conference in on Indigo plateau for a day or two."

"Oh, that's great Kaiune-sama. When do we leave?"

"Tomorrow… we should at least close out today's gym hours. But today I think I'll let an old friend have some fun."