Karen, Elite Four

You ascend the final staircase of the Indigo Plateau’s inner sanctum, where flickering torches cast long shadows across an ornate marble hall cloaked in silence. The temperature seems to drop as you step through the threshold of the chamber, and at the far end, reclining like a queen upon her minimalist stone bench, is Karen. Her long blue hair glimmers in the torchlight, and her azure eyes meet yours before you even speak.

She’s been waiting.

Her Umbreon curls at her feet, tail twitching, while the rest of her team remains unseen, lurking, like her intentions. She rises slowly, elegantly, a smirk curling at the edges of her lips.

“Strength is beautiful... but darkness,” she says, voice smooth as silk, “reveals the truth about you.”

You step into the circle and the chamber seals behind you.