The matches were underway and I could already hear JT screaming as Sin attacked him. But right now I couldn't focus on that. I had a very fast Jolteon sprinting at me, a silver trail behind him. I dived out of the way and he continued sprinting away and turned a corner for a second attack. This time he hit me and got some distance from me. I picked myself back up and glared at him for a second. My eyes started glowing white and he had to cover his for a second allowing me to dive at him with my claws. I made a big slash against him and threw him back.

"Not bad Zori. Cheap tricks always work." I smirked and took a small bow. A Leer-Scratch combo was something I picked up last year and always seemed to work. "But still, your not the only one with tricks."

The Jolteon ran toward me, not as fast and dove beside me, kicking up dust as he went. I looked around quickly, but couldn't hear him or see him. Suddenly a shock came from behind and I could feel the electricity pulse through me. I turned around and could see the tail end of Jay running back to the other side of the field. Alright, cheap tricks,eh?

I covered my eyes and let out a cry. Tears were flowing through me and I could tell that Jay was running toward me. "Jay! Help my leg gave out!"

He walked over to me with tears running down my face and let me lean on him. "It's probably paralysis from th-"

He was cut off as he met my paw mid sentence. I slashed across him again and again, pinning him to the ground. He was still stunned as he covered his face when Nidoking blew his whistle and called the match. I had total of 195 points and Jay had a score of 180. The last battle ended with Connor losing by a mere five points. "ALL RIGHT! BACK TO THE LOCKERS!"

"Hey, Teacher Nidoking, are we allowed to wear our neckerchiefs for the rest of the day?" asked Jay.

"SURE!" he said with a smile. "THE TEACHERS WILL HAVE THERES ON STARTING TOMORROW!"

"Sweet!" said SIn.

"NOW GET OUT OF HERE! SCHOOL IS OVER!"

"YAY!" cried everyone as we hurried into the locker room to leave. I put my bag on and carried my basket in my mouth out the doorway.

"That Riley girl is pretty good." said Connor on our way out of the gym. "But Sin was definitely the best one in there."

"Probably his instincts from the wild."

"Probably." he turned around as the Zangoose girl from earlier tugged at his sleeve. "Oh hey, Zoey. What's up?"

"Oh.. I um just wanted to say good job out there today…" she said. He shrugged her off and we continued on our way past the lockers. Jay dropped his glasses as he violently shook his locker until it finally came open. He said he'd see us later and we went on our way.

"Dude don't forget about the proj-"

"Hey mans!" we turned around to see Sin calling us. "Does you want to goes to a dungeon this end week?"

"Dude we aren't allowed in dungeons until we graduate."

He didn't seem to believe us and got a little angry. "Fines then if you twos are too scare to go to the dungeons with me, I'll go by myself!" He huffed off and left us in a confused haze.

"Hey Connor!" we turned around to see a limbing Joltik crawling toward us. "Try not to anger Mr. Machoke. I heard from my brothers that he is very emotional." and with that he, too, scurried away.

"Hey guys wait up!" we turned back around a final time to see Jay running up to us. "Do you want to hit the movies later? He said. "I can pay for you guys and everything.

"Dude that'd be awesome!" Connor said. "Let's go!"

So we went to the movies and watched the movie Donegeon. Jay bought everyone pokecorn, candies, and drinks as well as our tickets. He said he didn't mind since he had quite a bit of money on him anyway. On our way out we even saw Mr. Nidoking and his wife and daughter. His daughter's name was Nina and her mom taught the other class at North Star. We waved to them on our way out of the movie theatre, but they didn't seem to see us. Halfway home Jay said he needed to be somewhere and ran off in a hurry. We continued home and passed a couple of students on the way home. They didn't see us, but it was pretty clear what they were talking about. 'Hey did you see that loser who tripped on those stairs earlier and ate it?', or 'Elayna, why'd you go give him that basket back? We should have kept it!'

I hid my face and continued on my way home. "Cheer up dude." Connor said. "They'll all forget about it tomorrow."

I decided he was right and continued in silence the until we got home. We walked home and started playing opened our package. Sure enough, it was our Pokecube. We plugged it up to our TV, which Connor forgot to turn off, and played it for a couple of hours. When I went to turn the light off downstairs, I could see Jay coming home with a new bag in the middle of the night. I decided to ignore and went up to sleep.

It didn't feel that long until I was woken up by a knocking at the front door. It was like five fucking am! I went down the stairs, careful not to wake up Connor on my way down. When I opened the door I was met with a berry to the face. Followed by another, and another, and another. A rain of berries came down on me as I heard laughs all around me. I tried to cover my face but I just rubbed juice into kmy eyes. "Have a nice night Berry Boy!" I heard one of them yell as they ran away.I hobbled back inside carefully as I made my way to the bathroom. I opened the door and took a nice long shower and just cried for a solid minute. They didn't forget. They won't forget.

Before I knew it I had been in the shower for an hour. Connor came and knocked on the bathroom door. "Dude are you okay? There's a crap ton of berry juice on the doorstep!"

I stepped out and dried myself before exiting. I still smelled like berries and he could see the pain in my eyes. "Yeah I know." before I could protest I was pulled into a hug.

"Ignore those assholes. They'll forget when someone else does something stupid." he pushed me away. "Now move so I can take my shower. He smirked.

I smiled feeling a little better before going downstairs. I fixed myself a bowl of Pokepuffs and another bowl for Connor. He came down about ten minutes later with the Pokecube. "Oh yeah I almost forgot about the project. Are you sure Mr. Machoke will be okay with us bringing that in?"

"Yeah I'm sure." he said. Then his eyes widened a little bit. "Do you think he'll let me play it?"

"Nah. Anyway, meet me at the door while I get my neckerchiefs." I walked back upstairs and brought my bag onto my bed. I went into my drawer. In there was around ten neckerchiefs with different emblems and years on them. They were all jet black. I grabbed them in mouth one at a time and put them into my bag. I tossed it over my head and went back downstairs.

"Hey Connor, do you think they'll still be out there?" I asked. I really didn't want another berry bath.

"Nah man. And if they are we'll beat 'em up alright?"

I nodded and followed him outside slowly. We passed Mr. Machoke on the way to the Snack Shack. The other students were already there. I walked silently in there and realized I had forgotten my basket. "Hey Mr. Kingler, can I buy another basket off of you?"

"Why so you can trip and fall in it again." my face went red and I turned to see Seph snickering in the corner with Joltik beside him.

"Hey, Seph why don't you just screw off!" Connor called from behind me.

"HEY!" yelled Kingler. "Knock it off. Here Zori. Take this new container. You can keep the berries in your bag alright? Free of charge." I thanked him and went to go pick up some berries. Seph and JT had already left and were headed down the street. I feel like I know who threw those berries at me earlier. "That'll be $10.50." I handed Kingler the money and me and COnnor walked out.

"Hey guys check this out!" Jay called from the outside window of the store. We went over to him to see a crate in the back of the Snack Shack. Jay pushed his glasses up. :What do you think is in there?"

"I really don't know, but I want to find out." I said. Kingler saw us and shooed us away from the window. We continued across the street to school and went to our lockers. I placed my lunch in there and Jay, surprisingly, got his open easily. I heard the bell ring and we all looked at each other before sprinting up the steps to class.

"Well, if it isn't Mr. Jolteon, Mr. Zorua, and Mr. Cubone. What are you doing late to class." I looked at the front of the classroom to see Mr. Machoke in a dark grey tie with a black circle on it, 1990's Hollow tie I think.

"Sorry Mr. Machoke! See we ha-"

"No excuses, Mr. Jolteon!" Jay put his head down and walked quietly to his desk. "You missed the introduction of our newest students, and Mr. Sandshrew who wasn't here the other day. As punishment for being late, Mr. Cubone will present his project first."

I went to my seat as Connor stayed with his bag up front. One of the new students, a Chimchar named Charlie, was sitting next to me and next to him was a Mankey named Miley. Everyone waited patiently as Connor took out his PokeCube. "Ladies and gentlemen I present the latest in gaming technology, the Pokecube!" he said. We had practiced his public speaking on the way to the Snack Shack and he seemed to have gotten better, but also got a little carried away. "With this amazing device I can play all typ-"

"Mr. Cubone, I apologize, but I will have to confiscate that device until the end of class as no videogames are allowed on school property." he grabbed the Pokecube and put it in his desk. "Please take your seat, Mr. Cubone." stunned Connor obeyed. Mr. Jolteon, I do believe it is your turn to come up here."

Jay walked up to the front of the classroom with a small bag in his mouth. He set it down gently and pulled out a small object. "This is my seed collection" he said as he put one of the seeds in his mouth. He swallowed a seed and a clone of him appeared beside him. "As you know from last year, various seeds have various powers by consuming or holding them. This is a clone seed."

"Very nice Mr. Jolteon. Very educational." he wrote something down and called me up to the front."Please begin your presentation Mr. Zorua." I

Took my bag to the front of the classroom and took out seven neckerchiefs, each one with a different design. "This is my collection of Team Moon neckerchiefs. I have seven neckerchiefs, plus the one I'm wearing now. They are between the years 1987 and now. Each one has-"

"Thank you for the presentation Mr. Zorua" he cut me off. He was writing something down furiously.

"But I wasn't finished with-"

"Mr. Zorua, please go back to your seat." he said with more authority. I sighed and put my neckerchiefs away and carried my bag in my jaw back to my seat. "Alright class, that will conclude yesterday's project. I will now hand out today's project." he said as he passed papers out. It turns out our assignment was to go and post various signs around town advertising our teams and the school. We had to try and make our team the most visual by tomorrow. The bell rang and we head out to our lockers. Jay strutted confidently over to his locker, only to find out that it wasn't opening. Again. I grabbed my lunch out of my locker and headed to where we were sitting yesterday.

"Hey Berry Boy! Are you going to eat those berries, or wear them." I could hear the snickering from the cafeteria and ducked my head.

"Just ignore them." said Jay. Meanwhile Connor was looking around for whoever said that. "Those neckerchiefs were pretty cool. Can you show me where you got them so I can get some for Team Legend?"

"Sure, but can I get a look at those seeds really quick?" he nodded and reached for his bag. He emerged a second later with the small, purple object. I picked out a seed and ate it, but immediatly regretted it. It was a Revive seed and tasted terrible. I turned around and spit it our, narrowly missing JT.

"Watch it!" he cried as he dodged the crushed seed.

"Sorry JT!" I said and sat back down embarrassed.

"Hey Berry Boy! Can you get me some of that berry cologne? It smells great!" I heard someone call. I sat back down face glowing. "What's the matter? Your look like that berry you took to the face earlier!"

The entire lunchroom was full of OHs as most of them had heard what had happened. I put my head down against the table and was stuck somewhere between wanting to fight and wanting to cry. "THAT'S IT!" I heard someone scream. The table beside me shook as Connor got up and ran over to face Seth who was the one cracking jokes. He swung his fist around and socked him right in the jaw.

"Mr. Cubone!" called Mr. Machoke. "Come with me! Fighting is not allowed at this school!"

"See you sucker!" snickered Seth as he rubbed his cheek.

"You too Mr. Scraggy! This school has a zero bullying tolerance as well. You will come with me to report this to the principle and most likely detention later." He drug the two of them off by the arm towards the principal's office. The entire cafeteria was silent for a couple of seconds before chatter continued as usual. Except for a few comments asking who 'Berry Boy' was and why I was called that.

I waited a few minutes and Connor came back. Elayna and a bunch of girls came up to our table and told Connor how courageous it was for him to stick up for me. He blushed and awkwardly rubbed the back of his skull. They soon dispersed back to their table.

"What happened?" Jay asked.

"He let me off with a warning since I was instigated and Seph has detention with Machoke." I smiled.

"Sweet dude!" The bell broke our small celebration and we headed for gym. We headed to the locker room and dropped our stuff off. We all were already wearing our neckerchiefs and met Mr. Nidoking outside in a dark green Safari neckerchief.

"ALL RIGHT TAKE TWO LAPS BABIES." he called. The new students were surprised by his voice while the rest of us were already used to it. "AS YOU RUN I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT TODAY'S ACTIVITIES! YOU WILL BE PUT IN TEAMS OF THREE TO FACE OFF AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. THIS WILL TEACH YOU THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION AND PARTNERS!" he said. Despite Nidoking's brawn he had a lot of brains as well. "NOW MOVE FASTER BEFORE I CHASE YOU!"