one [c/gym]

[attr="class","smdbody"]he was not worried about the gym battle at all. from what he's read online the gym specializes in rock types, and the only two pokemon on his team have moves that will dominate them. or at least that was what he hoped would happen.

he had been delayed for a day or two doing missions for galactic, but that also gave his team enough time to recover and rest. mira rested up to full and fifteen, well, he was new to the team. he was a reward from one of the missions, but he had to give up the sandile, which wasn't a bad trade at all.

the gym was decorated to fit the specialization; it was on a plateau that had big rocks scattered across the battlefield. it was very unlike anything in the wild, one could tell that it was man made.

liam stepped up to the battlefield and eyed his opponent that stood across from him. "liam," he introduced. there was not much else he needed to say. roark sent out his first pokemon, a geodude, and liam sent out his trevenant.

"do your best, fifteen," he told the ghost tree. since roark's team was all rock types he could just spam one move. and if trevenant fell then mira could easily sweep through their team. he just wanted to give the trevenant a chance.

"just use energy ball," he ordered. the ghost tree started to suck in energy through its roots before firing off one large ball at the geodude. maybe roark was feeling cocky, or maybe he was just inexperienced, but for whatever reason he didn't instruct the geodude to dodge: mistake one.

the energy ball hit the geodude and made it instantly faint. the level difference was coming into play. not only that, but also the type advantage. a smile grew across liam's lips as his opponent called out an onix, who was almost as big as the gym.

now it was liam who was feeling cocky, so he let his opponent go first. the onix started off with a screech attack before following it with a rock throw. the trevenant was not the fastest pokemon, so it stood still as the rocks literally fell onto him. he took quite a bit of damage from the rocks, but still nothing serious.

"same thing, energy ball," he ordered. the ghost tree repeated its actions however this time it sent out two balls of energy. the onix dodged the first but fell short of the second. it did not survive. 

"sorry about your team!" he shouted out. he felt a bit bad challenging the gym with a team that basically had the advantage in all aspects. but roark kept quiet as he sent out his last pokemon: a cranidos.

"a dinosaur?" he questioned. he's only ever seen one before, and he remembers how that ended. wanting to recreate events he called for the trevenant to return to his side. "you did great," he whispered. the ghost tree seemed happy. liam recalled the trevenant and sent out his milotic.

"mira. there's only one left," he said, pointing at the cranidos. she understood what she needed to do and slithered onto the battlefield. the cranidos rushed forward to deliver two headbutt attacks that did little damage to mira. "scald!" he called out. the tender pokemon sent out two hot streams of water. one missed and one connected, and that was more than enough to faint the cranidos.

once that was done he folded his arms and stood still. he wanted the gym leader to walk across the gym to hand him his rewards. mira made her way back over to him and placed her nose underneath his hand. 

"good job."