"I severely regret coming here today," Korrina deadpanned, holding herself tightly as she shivered from the cold, despite being wrapped up with several layers. Wulfric chortled as he slapped the petite blonde on the back playfully, almost causing her to collapse into the snow.
"Relax. Besides, this isn't even as cold as it gets in Snowbelle," he told her, blatantly ignoring the girl's overly hostile glare that was pointed right at him. He smiled, taking a deep breath in. Exhaling, he nodded as he looked over the frozen lake in front of him and Korrina.
"So," he said, rubbing his hands together as he turned to the girl, "you ready to try ice skating?" Korrina buried her face deeper into the scarf she wore tightly around her neck and muttered, "Don't you mean am I ready to go home with a frozen butt?" Wulfric shook his head, though he was actually quite amused by the normally perky girl's current personality.
"Now, don't be so pessimistic," he chuckled, grabbing her arm and taking her over to the lake's edge. As he took the two pairs of ice skates off his shoulder and set them down, Korrin pouted and said, "Wulfric, I can't do this! I'm serious, I tried when I was younger! I can't skate!"
"That's ironic coming from you," the Ice-specialist laughed, causing Korrina to smack his arm and say, "I mean I can't ice skate!" Wulfric leaned closer to the blonde and tapped her bright red cheek, saying with a smile, "Still ironic." Korrina grumbled something he couldn't hear as she bent down and replaced her normal shoes with the ice skates. Standing up straight again, she snapped, her legs quivering either from the cold or from having to balance on the thin blade of the skates, "Now what?"
"You wait for me to put on my skates, then we go on the ice," Wulfric chuckled. Korrina sighed, breath coming out in a white puff through the fabric of her scarf. She looked around the snowy landscape as she waited for Wulfric to finish putting his skates on. She saw a small group of about three or four Snover milling about a small distance away until an Abomasnow emerged from behind a snow and, calling the group over, to which they began to follow the pokémon, like that of children following their mother.
"Alright," Wulfric groaned as he got to his feet again, now wearing his own pair of ice skates, "there we go now. You ready?" Korrina turned away from the family of Grass/Ice types and folded her arms. Swinging her foot to kick at some snow, she asked, "Do I have a choice? Or are we too far gone now?"
"You're wearing the skates, aren't you?" the large man said, smiling. With that, he stepped onto the ice and held out his hand, inviting Korrina to join him. The blonde hesitated at first, greyish-green eyes glancing over the sheet of ice with uncertainty. When Wulfric twitched his hand with a slight air of impatience, Korrina sighed and took the hand, stepping onto the ice. The minute she did, one of her feet began to slip away from her, causing her to lunge for Wulfric's arm. She gripped the man's limb tightly, fear etched onto her face as her legs trembled. The man couldn't help but laugh at the display.
"You really surprise me, Korrina," he laughed, belly shaking with the effort. The girl squeaked and her grip tightened even more as she hissed, "Don't do that! Oh Arceus please!" Wulfric placed his hand over hers and, loosening her iron tight grip, told her, "You need to relax. And trust me. Okay?" Korrina nodded, though her expression was still a picture of absolute terror. Wulfric loosened her other hand and, with both her hands held in his own, he began to guide the younger gym leader slowly to the center of the ice, away from the safety of the shore.
"Loosen your legs, they're too stiff," the man told her. Korrina whimpered as her legs shook dangerously, threatening to collapse beneath her.
"Wulfric, I think I've changed my mind. Can we stop? Please?" she begged, clutching his hands like they were her only hope of staying alive. Which to her, they were. The man shook his head to Korrina's despair. He gave her frozen hands a reassuring squeeze as he told her, "Like I said, I need you to trust me. You do that, and I can promise you, you'll be as much a pro on the ice as you are on land." When Korrina's expression didn't change from its worried frown, he added, "Plus, I might even bake you some Persim Berry pie if you at least attempt to learn. If you can't do it, then fine. But at least you tried." Korrina's head instantly perked up, eyes shining with anticipation.
"Persim Berry pie? If I at least try and learn?" she repeated, making sure the conditions being offered to her were clear. When the man nodded, Korrina's face lit up. She giggled, her feet shuffling on the spot to compensate for her inability to jump with glee, "Oh, you better not be kidding me here, old man! You know I'm serious when it comes to my Persim Berry desserts!" Laughing at her personality's sudden 180, Wulfric said, "Do I look as though I'm kidding?"
"Oh hell yes!" Korrina cheered, actively jumping into the air, only to then land not so gracefully onto her behind once her skates touched down on the ice again. Whining as she rubbed her sore bottom, she muttered under her breath, "This better be worth it." Wulfric helped the girl to her feet again and continued to lead her around the lake.
By the time the day was done, she had fallen over 8 times and threatened to give up twice, saying the prospect of her favourite dessert wasn't enough to keep her going. However, while she still had a long way to go before she could be considered as good an ice skater as she was a roller skater, she could at least skate around the lake once without Wulfric's help. Admittedly, while near the shore and while going ever so slowly, but it's the thought that counts.
This was going to be at least a little bit longer, with Wulfric's teachings being a bit more in-depth, but, like most of the drabbles I've produced so far, I wrote this in one day, and by the time I got back to it after leaving it alone for most of the day, it was late, I was (read: am) feeling tired, plus I've got a cold to top it off, so not feeling the best.
So I capped it off there. I might write a continuation of this later, not sure yet. Hope it was still okay though for what it is.
This was actually based on a headcanon of mine that I thought up: what if Korrina can't ice skate. It'd be ironic since she's a roller skater. I just thought, why not?
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