Boredom. It was all Korrina could feel at that moment.

She was lying with her limbs spread out on a grassy hill overlooking her gym, skates discarded on the path above, and her face a picture of blankness as her gaze focused on the clouds above her. She took in a deep breath, then exhaled, pure frustration driving the air from her lungs. She groaned as she sat herself up with effort, crying aloud, "Aaaaaaaaah, there's no-thing to do! I can't even be bothered to skate I'm so bored!" With that, she collapsed onto her back once more, letting out a small whimper as she lay there. Just then, Korrina heard a click from above her, making her open her eyes again and lift herself back into a sitting position. Her head swivelled to look over her shoulder.

"Having fun?" Viola chuckled, holding her camera in such a way that would suggest - if the clicking sound didn't already suggest this - she'd just taken a photo. Korrina pouted, unamused.

"What do you think?" she deadpanned, getting to her feet and walking onto the path to join her fellow gym leader. Viola flashed the blonde a sympathetic smile and simply said, "You're having one of those days. Don't worry, everyone gets them." Korrina's eyes rolled as she put on her skates. Then, she asked, "Actually, why are you here? Something wrong in Santalune?" Viola shook her head.

"No no, nothing's wrong. I just decided I wanted to take some pictures of the coast. I asked my sister to drop me off in Ambrette Town since she was going there too. She's doing a piece on the Glittering Caves," she explained. The two began walking toward the Shalour Gym - skating in Korrina's case - as the younger girl said, "Cool. I wouldn't mind seeing that when the issue comes out. Alexa's articles are the only reason I even read the Lumiose Press, since everything else in the paper is just over priced, over hyped trash."

"It's not all bad, y'know," the blonde replied, "It can be informative when it tries, other than my sister's stuff. Though I can see where you're coming from; some of the clothes they advertise are a bit too pricey. I could never afford them, not on the salary the League pays me." Korrina snickered.

"Yeah, the League is stingy. I heard Valerie actually travels all the way to her home region just to get cheaply priced fabrics for her furisode girls' clothes. Speaking of which, d'you think the other Leagues are as cheap as ours is? Or do they actually give their leaders enough money to let them live?" Viola thought it over, finger on her chin.

"I'm not sure. I could ask Alexa if she could look into it, since she's good at researching stuff. Though we should be careful if we do, she might decide to turn it into a proper story and get into hot water over it," Viola laughed, with Korrina joining in, "That'd suck! I can already see the headline; 'Big News!: Top Journalist Jailed for Uncovering Cheapskate Secrets'. Poor thing."

"I wouldn't be surprised though if the Unova League doesn't pay it's gym leaders much, since they can support themselves with their gyms doubling as additional businesses," the Santalune gym leader pointed out, trying to calm herself and turn the topic away from her sister potentially getting sent to the big house. Korrina looked at her with confusion, one eyebrow cocked.

"Huh? Y'think it would work like that there?" This caused Viola to shrug and reply, "Its just an assumption. Ah, we're at the route gate," she suddenly said, surprising Korrina.

"Eh? That was fast." Viola turned to her and held out her hand, which Korrina took with a smile.

"Thank you for keeping me company. We certainly had an...interesting discussion," she said, their conjoined hands bobbing up and down in a shake. Korrina nodded.

"Yep. And thank you for getting me out of my rut. Now, if you'll excuse me," she said, turning away from Viola and beginning to skate away, continuing to toss the rest of her sentence over her shoulder, "I'm gonna head to Cyllage City and challenge Grant to a race! Because why not!" With that, she raced away, leaving Viola to smile at her retreating back.

"Well, at least she's feeling better now," she chuckled, then continued on her way to Coumarine City.

I'm trying a thing.

These'll mainly be drabble shots about the Kalos gym leaders cause I actually really like them. Some will be super short, some will be super long, some may have other gym leaders from other regions, and some may even go over one chapter.

I've written some already but I won't post them all at once; I'll space them out to give me time to write more. Speaking of which, requests would be nice, though nothing too complicated please.

Thank you for reading, review if you want to.

Angel-chan x