The PRT had started and Quartz and Lapis were off, having already failed it four times so they knew the basics that they kept in each year, but each year they added a few new questions and what do you know, they were in the extremely hard category. Quartz blazed through most of it but then got to the extremely hard part.
"What are pinesine berries and where would you go to find the smallest amount in the whole region?! My Arceus if I ever meet the person who made these questions I'll give them a good kick up the ass-" whispered Quartz in a VERY angry tone.
"Quartz no talking!" said a warning Mr. Junsig.
"Sorry sir won't be happening again." said Quartz.
Quartz started to think, he knew that a pinesine berry was a berry that boosted your pokémon's attack potential for a limited time, but he DEFINITELY didn't know where to go to get the least amount in the region. Then he suddenly remembered overhearing his mom's cooking show that she always watched during the middle of the afternoon. Luckily the episode he was remembering happened to be the rare berries episode. The host said that the worst place to get pinesine berries would be the area around Squirtle Grotto because of all the Squirtles loving the damn things so much. He checked at his answer sheet and there it was, B. Squirtle Grotto, hey who knew that cooking shows could be so helpful thought Quartz.
After their hour was up Quartz, Lapis, and the rest handed in their tests, for Quartz and Lapis this was extremely nerve racking for them, failing again would mean that they would have to wait another whole year to take it again. For the other pre-teens and teens in the room, they weren't as "old" as Quartz and Lapis, so even though it was stressful, they had no idea of the fear that was creeping up inside their bodies. Then came the dreaded announcements, when they announced your full name in alphabetical order and you had to go into the PRT building to see if you passed or not. After a decent amount of names, Quartz was called.
"Quartz-"Mr. Junsig started calling, but the rest was drowned out by Lapis wishing him luck as he went into the PRT building shaking like heck.
"Well Quartz, I'm not going to be like those annoying competition shows on TV when they wait too damn long to tell you how you did just to build up the suspense, you passed with flying colors-" started Mr. Junsig,
"YES!" screamed Quartz at the top of his lungs, startling Mr. Junsig so much that he almost fell over.
"Well, I'm very happy to see you so thrilled about it, not that I expected any less excitement from the you, the greatest acrobatic in town. Well here's your trainers license for completing that pain in the ass test. Ah yes I remember taking the PRT when I was a boy." said Mr. Junsig as he gave Quartz his very own trainers license.
"You took the PRT too sir?" Quartz said, slightly startled.
"Yep, I was SO prepared that I passed first time around, but believe me I hated it. After that I started my journey, collected my eight badges and decided what I wanted to do with my career, you need to have passed the PRT the first time around and have eight badges to be a teacher, so I chose that." exclaimed Mr. Junsig with a sort of dreamy expression in his eyes.
"Anyway, I can just tell you're going to be great Quartz, and I'm not saying that just because I have to." said Junsig.
"Thanks sir, I'll pop in and visit sometime." said Quartz, feeling sad knowing that tomorrow he would have to wave goodbye to his beloved home town and all the people in it for a long time.
After he left we waited for Lapis to be called, she also passed with flying colors, they both raced off towards Lapis' home to pop in and tell her parents the good news, then Quartz' home, then they both went off to hang out in the town park.