"Whaddya mean I have to take Evina out berry picking with me?" an agitated Treecko by the name of Scepter groaned, "She'll just get in the way!"

"Scepter, I know you don't like having someone else go with you whenever you harvest the berries, but Evina needs to learn the basic ropes of a Treecko, and, as one yourself, you can teach her." Leena picked a Wurmple off of her back, "Besides, she seems more attached to you than Gex or Seva, so it will be good to bond with her as you travel."

"But I don't want to bond with her!" Scepter whined, "She doesn't know how to do anything right!"

"Then you teach her," Leena said, "you're one of the smartest Treeckos I know, and I'm sure you'll be able to teach Evina anything if you just give her a small chance." She looked up where Evina was playing with some grass, "Evina, could you come here, please?"

Evina heard the call and ran over to her mother, "Yes, Mama?"

"Scepter here wants to take you out for berry picking," Leena said, "so I want you both to be on your best behavior, don't talk to any strange Pokemon, and stay away from Trainers."

"Trainers?" Scepter questioned, "I've never heard of that Pokemon before…"

"Neither have I," Evina added.

Leena knew she would have to explain to the two what a Trainer was, but the Oran berries were getting riper the more they talked, and she did not want to lose any more food this week.

"I'll tell you two later," she said as she nudged them on their way, "right now, the Oran berries need picking."

Without a word, the two Pokemon nodded to their mother and left the safety of their nest. As they were walking, Scepter stared at Evina, who looked as if she had trouble walking.

"Are…you okay?" he asked, a little confused as to why the strange looking Treecko could not walk as well as he could.

"It's…" she took a small step and fell forwards, "it's hard to walk with these legs, I don't think they were built to walk."

"Of course they were, why would Arceus give you legs if he knew you wouldn't need them?" he said as he helped her up, "But they are stubbier than mine…"

"I want to try something else." Evina said as she got on her belly and used her legs to push herself, her arms tucked neatly under her body as she made a movement that looked like slithering, as if she was some sort of snake.

"That's freaky," Scepter said, "come on, we're wasting time trying to teach you how to walk. Mama needs Oran berries now."

"Were would we get the berries?" Evina asked, trying to stand upright.

"Ya gotta sniff them out," Scepter said as he did just that, "they have a distinct smell to them, the problem is that there are so many other berries to confuse you that you have to focus."

"Focus…alright." She tried her best to sniff, but it did not work well. She fell backwards trying to sniff the air, falling on her tail, "I can't smell!" she said, "it's so hard, but I can't smell anything with this silly nose."

"First you couldn't walk right, now you can't smell?" Scepter asked, Evina nodded in shame, he sighed, "Fine, leave it to me, then."

Sniffing continuously for the Oran berries, he led them to a small bush with a bush full of them, "Ah! See, I found some! Come and help me carry them."

Evina agreed, and helped him pick as many ripe ones possible, which was hard; there were only ten or so that were ripe enough to be eaten. She noticed that, but she did not want to upset her brother, who worked hard to get the berries and looked proud in finding a bush. She was getting hungry, and, behind Scepter's back, took a little lick at one of the ripe berries, that was then she found another strange ability. She flicked her little tongue out and "smelled" the berries that way! Her tongue still flicking in and out, she ran to a bush farther away from them and, to her surprise, all of the berries were ripe on it!

"Brother Scepter, come and look at this! I found a bush!"

"What? But that's impossible! You need to smell berries in order to get at them, how did you…" he saw that her tongue was still flicking, and he made a face like she had evolved into a Grimer, "What."

"Isn't it cool? I found these patches with my tongue! I could taste the air, and when I tasted the Oran berry…"

"Wait, you tasted one of the berries we were going to pick?" Scepter said, "Evina, don't do that! Those berries are for the family, and we can't have you eating them all!" he scolded, "Besides, these berries are probably rotten."

Evina looked sad, she just wanted to help, why was her brother so mean at times? She grabbed as much berries as she could and used the large leaf on her tail to carry them all.

"They don't look rotten." Evina pointed out as she looked at the top berry on her leaf, but Scepter just ignored her, fully believing that his bush was the better of the two. Evina shook her head and retraced her steps back to their nest.

"Stupid Evina," Scepter muttered, "just because she's different than we are doesn't make her better than us! I'll show her I can get as many berries as she can from the bush I picked!" he pulled the Oran berries off of the branches as quick as possible, however, at one point he felt something that did not feel like a berry at all.

Something rustled violently in the bushes, and out came a very angry Seviper, who hissed furiously at the young Treecko. Scepter, terrified out of his mind, dropped the berries and ran with the Seviper chasing after him in a flash. As he ran, he could feel in his gut that this Pokemon was at a much higher level than he was, and fighting him was useless.

"Help!" Scepter yelled out, "Help! A Seviper is after me! I must have pulled some of the berries from his bush by mistake! Evina, Mama, Dad, help me!"

Evina heard his brother's cries and scurried over to where he was after placing her Oran Berries in a safe spot. She was shocked to see the Seviper rip through the vegetation like a hot knife through butter. She, like Scepter, knew that it was at a much higher level than they were, but she would have to try defending her brother, even if one hit meant her life.

"Hey!" Evina yelled out to the angry Pokemon, "Hey, Mr. Seviper!"

The Seviper stopped to see who dared interrupt it when it was about to catch potential prey. It lowered itself to meet the strange Pokemon eye to eye, and then it said:

"What in the name or Arceus is a Tsutarja like you doing in a family of Treecko?"

"What? What is a "Tsutarja"? I'm a Treecko!"

The Seviper, who they could tell by its voice that it was female, laughed loudly, "You silly Pokemon! Pokemon Researchers call you a Tsutarja, the Grass Snake Pokemon, and you are not supposed to be here; this is Hoenn!"

"Hoenn? If…if I don't belong here, where do I…"

"Look, I'm not someone to ask for answers like that," the Seviper looked at Scepter and then back at Evina, "look, I'll let your little crime slide for now, little Treecko…only because your "sister" made me laugh with her stupidity. A Pokemon that doesn't even know what it is, HAH!" she smiled at Evina and pat her little head with her large blade tail, "At least you're one of us; a snake, a vile, poisonous creature. Maybe if you look hard enough an Arbok family might adopt you or something." The Seviper turned around and slithered back to her Oran bush where she continued to sleep.

As soon as the Seviper left, Scepter looked at her like she was evolving into a Muk, "A Grass AND Poison type! That's gross! I bet when you evolve you're going to turn into a drooling gas ball that can kill us just by smelling you!" he assumed. Evina looked sad, a Poison-type is dangerous, she remembered that they were almost always the bad guys in the stories Leena told them when they were still little babies, either that or Dark-types. She sighed, "Oran berries are under the tree…" she walked away sadly, "I'm going home…"

Scepter watched her leave; however, she was going in the opposite direction of their nest, "Hey….HEY!" he followed her, "Where are you going? Our nest is this way!"

"But it's not my home." Evina replied, "It was never my home. I'm going to find where I came from. If you want to follow me, fine."

"But you're still so young!" Scepter said, "Our levels are as low as humanly possible, and a simple Tackle could even kill us! Come on, Evina, let's go home!"

"I AM going home! I don't know where, yet."

Well, she had learned to be as stubborn as a Treecko, despite being a…whatever she was. Scepter knew there was no way to convince her to come back to the nest. His heart raced at the fact that their mother and father would be worried sick as soon as they found out they went beyond the nest, but even more worried of what was beyond the forest. In a way, he was kind of excited. He still did not think it was a good idea, though. He sighed as he slowly followed Evina, who was crawling at a fast pace, trying to find a way out of the forest.