Normal POV

May dragged Dawn down to the mess hall for breakfast that morning. The large room was filled with other assassins of all ages. The juniors sat quietly in one corner whereas the seniors were very loud and rowdy in another. A red head with denim shorts, red suspenders and a yellow midriff waved to May and seemed to look questioningly at Dawn who was being dragged towards the table where the red head and another girl sat. She was wearing a white hat and blue shirt with a crinkled dark pink skirt while aqua leg warmers that sat comfortably on her calves. She seemed to be watching Dawn with great curiosity when the Bluenette and the Brunette sat opposite them.

"I'm Dawn Berlitz," the girl with the white beanie smiled. She began to play with her sapphire hair nervously.

"I'm Misty, Misty Waterflower," the girl with the red hair waved, taking Dawn's hand and shaking it enthusiastically.

"And I'm Leaf Green," the girl with the leg warmers smiled, there was a cheeky glint to her eyes as she took her other hand and shook it vigorously. May grinned and she hauled Dawn to her feet leading her over to the long line at the end of the giant room. Dawn looked on in awe.

"I swear this line was never as long as this!" She sighed grumpily. May grimaced in agreement, her stomach began to growl and she blushed furiously as Dawn began to giggle. The bluenette then narrowed her eyes and beaconed for May to follow as she marched further up the line, getting closer to the food. A young man stared straight ahead, his arms crossed and a constant glare plastered to his face. Dawn tapped him on his shoulder earning a few surprised stares from the students around them. May shrank back nervously as Paul spun around glaring daggers at her.

"What is it you annoying girl?!" He growled, standing above her in an intimidating way. Dawn didn't shrink back like any sain person would have, she glared at him with just as much power instead.

"I just wanted to get further up in line with my friend, we're starving and considering I know you, I thought we could shove in." She said stubbornly. Paul narrowed his eyes dangerously and stepped towards her in attempt to intimidate her even more.

"Well maybe if you were a little more considerate you would think of all the people that actually wait in line. Maybe it was different for you back when you were roaming the world but here, we have rules and curtesy. I'm sure you should know this considering you were a student here before you fled." Dawn gulped, stepping back ever so slightly feeling guilty that she hadn't thought of those people. She flicked her hair and stormed towards the back of the line dragging her speechless friend with her, refusing to admit defeat.

Dawns POV:

I ignored the stares from the other students around me; I refused to let myself blush in embracement as we waited for the toast and waffles at the othersider of the line.

"Oh Dawn!" May grinned. "Trust you to make an enemy with someone like Paul." I scoffed.

"He's just an unemotional grape headed jerk, least I tried to get us further up in line." The brunette giggled, causing me to lose my cool demeanour and giggle with her. We eventually got to the front of the line where I picked out two slices of toast and covered them in jam. I stared wide eyed at May's plate as she shovelled three pancakes, a slice of toast and a waffle, covering them all in syrup.

"What?" She asked innocently. "A girl's gotta eat!" I sighed and grinned at her. The room seemed to become a bit quieter as three seniors stepped in. One had green hair; another raven black and the third brown. A great proportion of girls began whispering and giggling with one another while the guys seemed to shrink back ever so slightly. The three strutted over to the table where Paul sat; to my surprise. He seemed to greet them with a small smirk, May tensed up as their gazes swept the room and the green headed boy lingered his on her for a few seconds before returning to his friends. I raised an eyebrow questioningly as we shoved through the now busying crowd of students as the hall returned to normal. We got to the table and Misty placed her hands on it in a matter-or-fact kind of way.

"Those four are basically part of the elite field team; Ash Ketchum, Gary Oak, Drew Hayden and Paul Shinji. They're practically celebrities at the school; everyone worships them although I don't see why because most of them are jerks." She snorted.

"I see…" I muttered glancing over in their direction. "While I was… away, I had my fair share of high schools. This is no different I see, who are the 'popular' chicks?" I asked curiously looking around the room.

"Ursula, Brianna, Serena and Giselle," Leaf answered pointing to a group of girls sitting around a table near Paul and co together giggling.

"They are terrible assassins though." Misty stated in a somewhat board tone. I snorted at this and quickly covered my mouth as the others began to laugh. I continued to glance in the direction of the other girls. They were sitting on a table not far off from the boys. Rolling my eyes, I nibbled on the rest of my toast as Ursula twirled her pink curls and pranced over to their table in an attempted to make conversation with Paul, but he just waved her off; he was the most unsociable guy on the planet. I watched May and realised she was watching one of the girls at the other table too; I think it was Brianna. The girl had cute short redish pink hair with a yellow and orange outfit. She seemed to be giggling at something that Drew had said as he was smirking and flicking his green bangs away from his eyes.

"So, what happened between you and Brianna?" I asked, pointing a fork in May's direction as there was obviously something up. She blushed and attempted to obscure her face from my view.

"Um, well, we used to be friends… then came to a disagreement…" She broke off, staring into space while the others sighed.

"She refuses to even tell us!" Misty said with an exasperated tone. I narrowed my eyes and looked back towards Brianna and then May. I began to drum my fingers on the table in thought and I noticed Misty giving me a curious look.

Misty and I had been passing notes back and fourth for what seemed like hours. Our math teacher; Professor Jacuzzi was going on about some complicated equation that no-one was really paying attention too. Scrawled all over the crumpled piece of paper was a discussion about May and Brianna. I was attempting to piece together what had happened between them to make May hate her so much. Apparently sometime before I ran, they had been pretty good friends. Misty explained that when May wasn't with her and Leaf she would be talking to Brianna; however, one day the girl started hanging out with Ursula, Serena and Cassidy, they still talked together but not as much and then one day May ended up literally knocking her out... Pretty much out of the blue as far as we're concerned.

'What about Drew?'

I wrote passing her back the note. Misty looked at me for a second as if something had clicked together inside her head and began to furiously scribble down her next sentences. At this point the professor began to pace towards us, I flinched and tried to motion for Misty to stop without drawing attention to myself. I looked over at the white board at the front of the classroom and quickly wrote down the equation we were supposed to be solving. I could see Jacuzzi glance suspiciously at me from the corner of my eye and then at Misty who had noticed him just in time. As he turned to walk towards the front of the class again, misty passed me the note.

'I'm not exactly sure; but before the guys became one of the elite teams, believe it or not, we were all pretty good friends. Drew used to tease May a lot but they really liked each other. Sometimes Brianna would hang around with them but eventually it became apparent that she had a major crush on Drew. She stopped hanging with May right after we went into grade five which was when the guys went into grade six. (Well, except Paul who went into seven.) Serena and that started hanging out with; or trying to hang out with them because of their sudden rise in 'fame'. (Even though they're one of the best teams and the girls were pretty much the most pathetic.) Maybe May found out that the only reason Brianna hung around with her was because she wanted to get to 'Mr. Drew'

I raised an eyebrow at the 'Mr drew' part at the end of the sentence. It was apparent to me that May was jealous of Brianna and I was going to get to the bottom of it all. I began to write my next words on the note when I felt a presents next to my desk. I froze and slowly looked up to see Professor Jacuzzi glaring down at me.

"Care to share with the class the conversation you and Miss Waterflower appear to be having? He said loudly so as to get the attention of my fellow class mates.

"No sir…" I mumbled, sinking down into my seat. I could hear a few snickers from around the room and I glanced behind me at Misty who was flushing bright red. Another figure caught my attention; he was casually standing at the back of the room, arms crossed and glaring in my direction. Plumb head's presents seemed to make it all that more humiliating and I could feel my cheeks growing warmer. I caught his eye and he glared at me before returning his gaze to the board.

"Detention after school for the both of you, meet back in this classroom." The professor's voice snapped me out of my humiliated daze and I glared at the front of the room. Hang on, what's Paul doing in my math class? I asked myself suddenly. I was tempted to pass Misty another note but decided against it as I would get her into more trouble if we were caught.

Misty and I began to walk through the hall ways, she was showing me to my next class because back when I was younger, I only ever ventured through the primary school children's areas.

"Do you have any idea why Paul was in our math class?" I asked suddenly, Misty shrugged.

"I think it has something to do with him being your mentor, he must have had a free period and was coming to check up on you." I shrugged and Misty smirked at me which caused me to send a glare back.

My next class was luckily with Leaf. For that I was thankful because I wasn't exactly top of chemistry either. I seriously do think they're trying to bore me to death here, what, with a triple math lesson and then a double chemistry?! I already need a break and it's only my first day.

I sat down with Leaf at the back of the class room. Our teacher for this subject was Professor Oak. He seemed to be quite a bubbly person with a weird love for poems, although I admired him for it. He was very cheerful and a good laugh and when it was time for the practical work, we got to work in pairs. Throughout the lesson, I found out that Leaf was an extremely cleaver girl. She was the top of the class for apparently pretty much anything and the Prof seemed especially fond of her.

I watched, feeling slightly bored as Leaf added more water to a bowl. We were doing very basic stuff because Leaf was way ahead of the other students and I was pretty far behind. The professor agreed to let her help me with the basics to help me catch up a bit. Her green eyes were hard with concentration as she added some more dishwashing liquid to the mixture of water and corn syrup.

"Leaf," I dragged on. "This is baby stuff!" I whined realising that the ingredients she was using would be what a kid would use if they were making some random potion in their kitchen.

"Hush, you're gonna love the outcome." She muttered only half paying attention to my complaint. I huffed and continued to watch her mix the ingredients together, slumping further down in my chair. Leaf eventually grabbed an object which looked very peculiar. It was kind of like a hoop on a stick but the hoop was very bumpy. She dipped the bizarre object into her concoction and took it out again. She blew on the liquid which was stretched around the hoop and a bubble formed on the opposite side to where she was blowing. I raised an eyebrow at Leaf.

"I think bubbles are a bit too basic for my liking," I said matter-of-factly. The teen in front of me raised a hand as if motioning for me to wait as the now huge bubble released it's self from what I realised now was an over-sized bubble blower. It floated upwards before making its way down. Leaf grabbed my hand and made me put it out under the bubble. As it landed I was expecting it but pop but what it actually did surprised me greatly. The bubble lingered on my hand, it didn't pop at all and so I gently threw it higher in the air. Leaf giggled as a goofy grin spread its self across my face. The child inside of me had come out to say hello and I began trying to catch it. Leaf joined me and we'd soon made a game of catch the bubble.

"This is awesome!" I exclaimed after a few minutes. Leaf gave me a pointed look but grinned all the same.

"See, you can't judge a book by its cover… or a bubble by its contents for this matter," She said, giggling. "I knew you'd like it!" At that moment the professor came over to us, and amused smile planted on his features.

"Why don't you show Miss Berlitz how to make it glow in the dark Leaf," he suggested almost excitedly. Leaf squealed at the suggestion and hurried out of the class room to get something. The professor chuckled and added, "You're going to love this even more!" Before walking off to see how other people were doing with the original experiment.

Leaf re-entered the classroom waving a yellow highlighter above her head. She hurried back over to the table and handed it to me.

"What am I supposed to do with this?" I asked curiously.

"Take the ink out and break it in half, causing it to soak into the mixture," she instructed. I did as I was told and the continents of the bowl turned a bright yellow colour. Leaf took out the bubble blower and brought it through the mixture for the second time. The professor brought us to an empty classroom and closed all of the blinds and turned the lights off causing the room to become as dark as possible. He left us alone and Leaf blew the bubble up. I stared in awe as a luminous yellow bubble slightly lit the dark class room. I giggled with delight as Leaf and I began to pass it back and fourth.

Eventually, one of the students from our class came to get us and bring us back. By this time, it was time to go and I unwillingly popped the bubble and left the room to collect my bag. That class seemed to have been my 'bonding time' with Leaf as I was now great friends with her as well as May and Misty.

We made our way down the corridor towards the mess hall, I did enjoy the chemistry class but my stomach was grumbling and I needed food.

After careful examination of our timetables, I found out that May and I had a free period while Misty and Leaf were in English. May smirked at this while to other two groaned. Again, I glanced in the direction of the Boy's table and saw the other girls right next to them. Brianna seemed to be eating up everything Drew was saying, Ursula was battering her eyelashes at Paul, Giselle was flirting with Gary and Serena was giggling at something Ash had said. The other three groaned with me as Serena's giggling could be heard from half way across the hall. Misty scowled and glared in the direction of the table.

"I wish they would quieten down over there!" She grumbled crossing her arms and squeezing her eyes shut in frustration just as the bell went. Misty immediately stood up and stormed out of the hall with a grumbling leaf in tow. May sighed and stood up, collecting all of the trays from the table with me.

"My my June, left to do the dirty work are we?" A voice teased from behind us. We both whirled around and May glared at the green headed boy.

"Well at least I'm doing something grass head, I don't use all my fangirls to treat me like royalty!" She spat fiercely, Drew smirked and flicked his bangs causing May to puff out her cheeks in annoyance.

"At least I have fans, May." He retorted stubbornly, crossing his arms. As if on cue, Brianna came skipping to Drew's side and he hung his arm loosely around her neck giving May an 'I told you so' look. May's face began to turn red. With either rage or jealousy I'm not quite sure but her next word came as a harsh whisper, her gaze turning cold as she looked towards Brianna.

"Maybe it's good that I don't have fans, especially if they're people like her." After she said this, Drew's smirk faded, I couldn't tell what he was feeling as his eyes betrayed nothing; those of an assassin. He stepped away from Brianna and gave her a look which made her scamper away.

"Leave me alone grass head." May snarled, walking away from the boy while I jogged to catch up.

As we stopped under a giant oak tree in the court yard, I gave her a questioning look. May glared into the distance and slumped down against the trunk of the tree. I sighed and sat next to her, May concerned me; I knew something had happened between them before. "May… what did Brianna do to you?" I questioned her worriedly. She looked at me from the corner of her eyes, they were slightly glazed over and she gave me a small smile.

"I used to think that Brianna was the nicest, cutest girl, she seemed to look up to me and she would always follow me around like a shadow, I kinda liked it because she felt like a younger sister." Her expression darkened and she scowled ahead of her. "Drew and I were pretty close too and us three used to play together as kids, then when the four boys all training to became one of the elites, they stopped hanging around with us and seemed to grow a fan base. Brianna turned, following Serena and the rest of em'. She completely ignored me, Drew only saw me to tease me and they would always be together." I raised an eyebrow suspiciously, standing up and pulling her with me.

"Why are you telling me this? Apparently you didn't tell the others." I sated with a surprised tone. She shot me a meek smile.

"Well, I really like you Dawn, and besides, I've had that truth cooped up inside of me all these years, I needed to let it all out, ya know?"

I gave her a reassuring smile and squeezed her hand.

"Don't let them get to you, it will all work out in the end," I said, trying to convince myself as well as my friend.

I was originally gonna make leaf make some kind of poison but I came across that and was all like :O BUBBLEZZZZ! and besides, they're having way more fun than I've ever had in a chemistry class (I seriously wanna try it out for myself too XD I wonder if it works) But hey, it also defines Leaf's personality a bit more so that's always good. Tell me what you thought on this chapter, not much happened but it sorter introduces the girls a bit I guess. And yeah, I know it's now got the 'classic' teenage American high school drama movie shit feel to it but I swear the story isn't based solely on that. Think of it as a small side story if you will, one where I can indulge you guys with the feels :3 I have a much better plot in mind mwahahaha!

~X-Ray

Oh and because I'm not specifically stating it in the story, here are their ages if anyone was confused about that.

Paul: 18
Gary: 17
Drew: 17
Ash: 16
Misty: 16
Leaf: 16
May: 15
Dawn: 15