Eve Murphy
The older woman with the handsome Blaziken appeared in the nurse's office and requested a heal for her Pokémon. Noticing Link, she made her way over and asked again for the battle that her fire Pokémon so craved. Eve blinked at the pair, incredibly tempted to watch the Blaziken and Link's Gliscor in combat.
Not only that, but she admired how calm Link was when battling, as she saw earlier when he faced the Gyarados. Remaining levelheaded was one definite way to improve your chances of winning a battle; not that winning was the only way to go, but it sure was nice. Eve wanted to pick up a few new strategies herself and watching other people was a great way to do so. It also gave her a strange warm feeling to see the usually grumpy boy so focused and determined to reach his goal.
Eve wanted to speak up and let them know that she was looking forward to watching their match, but she didn't want to rudely interrupt and was also a bit wary around older adults like this woman. Her own parents hadn't been around her for very long and her sister wasn't exactly sweet as a Chansey.
Link explained that he missed getting off at the Fuchsia City stop and didn't want a repeat of that to happen here at the Seafoam Islands. He was also intent on facing the gym leader, Blaine. Blaine specialized in training the fire type. Eve was curious as to why the gym leader had fire Pokémon while the Island's landmark was home to ice types. Was it because their natural weakness to his Pokémon helped him train them quicker?
"To the caves then?" Link asked. Eve looked at the woman quietly who then politely excused herself. The Blaziken did not want to leave his opponent, but then sullenly went off with his trainer as she tugged him by the arm. Eve looked at Link with a smile.
"Sure, let's go!" She was tempted to ask him to race her off the boat, but she didn't want to crash into anybody on the way out. She almost did, last time she decided to speed through. Eve walked out as fast as possible with Achilles quickly following, a calm smile on his face. Once they made it out of the ship, Eve peered around and noticed a brown mountain like structure in the distance.
"Come on!" she exclaimed, this time not hesitating to dash toward the cave, her raven black hair blowing backward. Achilles followed behind and in no time at all was at least a few yards in front of her. Even if Eve had been given a minute long head start, Achilles would still pass by her with ease. Despite all that time he spent lazing on her head, he was still a Sneasel and they were very agile and speedy creatures.
As she got closer and closer to the cave, Eve hoped she would be able to see the Articuno just to be able to gloat to Link. The problem was, she didn't know where the elusive bird generally stayed. Did it stay inside the cave, or did it ever leave to go elsewhere? After thinking about it, she decided that it wouldn't matter either way. If it did leave the island, they wouldn't see it now, no matter what they did. If it didn't leave the island, it had to be in the cave and so they surely had at least a tiny chance of seeing it. Eve stopped running and stood at the mouth of the cave. A dark abyss glared back at her as she stared in awe. "Whoa! Cool!" she remarked as she took small steps into the cave.