"Come on you son of a bitch get in the barn!" Florian watched his father try and get the last Tauros into the stables.
"António! Get over here he's got to leave for Porto Marinada in 5 minutes" His mother calls from the porch.
"In a minute guys! This is the Blaze Breed we got last week" his father replies tugging on the rope.
"He came from a bullfighting ring so he's not too fond of people" his father shouts back before the Tauros pushed him off his feet.
"Don't tell me that's the one that was retired for jumping into the crowd?"
"Ya, that's the one" His father groans stumbling over to greet his family.
"I'm so happy for you buddy" his father patted him on the head.
"You know my family have been Tauro's breeders and fighters for generations, but kido I'm so proud of you for choosing your own path with Pokémon battles"
"Pokémon contests dad"
"Well those are still battles they are just battles with style" Florian cringed at his dad well he did a contest pose.
"But you know if you think about it Tauros fighting also requires a lot of flair so in some ways you're really not straying that far from the path" His dad started rambling on about something that Florian mostly tuned out.
"I'm just gonna go I don't want to be late," Florian said to his mother as he began heading down the road.
The farmhouse where he lived was about 10 minutes away from Porto Marinada so it wasn't a far walk despite his parent's concern.
"Rember Florian you what did we tell you?"
"Yes, Dad I know" Florian rolled his eyes as he looked for a song to listen to.
"You have nothing to prove!" Florian found one of the Kalos songs had been fond of recently well his parents devolved into another conversation about the farm's new Tauros.
"You don't cause too much trouble now," Florian thought as he saw the Tauros in the field, knowing his dad would be spending the rest of the day fighting with the bull.
Lost in the music he was listening to the bus was at his stop in no time.
To Florian's relief, there was a seat no one was sitting at.
As he let more of the music drift through the earbuds he started thinking about attending Naranja academy.
Finally, he had a chance to be out of Porta Marinada a chance to make a new name for himself free of the person he was before.
"Yo is it it cool if I sit next to you?"
Shit.
He could just say no the guy asked him.
No, that's what the old Florian would do the new Florian could handle someone sitting next to him.
"Yo dude sick music"
"Huh? Oh ya, I found it a few days ago" Florian stammered.
"Can I have you're snap?"
"Um I actually don't have snap but I'll um download it right now"
"You don't have to do that"
"No! I just never got around to downloading it" Florian replied which was a great way to admit he didn't have friends.
"Awesome bro you're gonna love it here"
"I'm Florian"
"Cool dude I'm Javier"
Florian quickly searched up and added his friend.
Friend. It felt crazy to Florian that he had managed to make a friend before even getting off the bus.
Things were really looking up for the new version of him.
If only it was that simple.
It turned out that making connections was a lot easier when people came up to him.
Because right now he was standing in the back of his orientation group like an idiot because he was too anxious to talk to people.
Right back to the old Florian.
The Florian he hated.
The Florian he wanted to disappear from his mind and body.
To his luck a snap from his new friend.
It was a photo of Javier with a Yungoos on his lap, presumably his Pokémon.
At least he had one new friend and that was enough right?
That was better than he had in Middle School.
He just wished he could do better than this. He had one friend and even then would Javier consider him a friend? They barely knew each other and Florian was probably being too optimistic.
Plus how was he going to make any more friends? He can't hope to make friends like this if his only chance was having people talk to him.
He wasn't that interesting especially when he didn't talk to people.
Why couldn't he just talk to people?
He had never wanted to talk to people and he still didn't care about being popular but he couldn't spend all of his time at the academy without friends.
These thoughts plagued him as he made his way through the school.
"Why can't you talk to them their right there"
"Well they haven't talked to me yet that's why"
"Why won't they talk to you? You're boring nothing interesting about you when you're not being weird"
Florian finally gets out of his head when their tour leads them to the main building.
He knows what's coming next.
"Now for the most important part of you're day"
"Before we start I'll let our academy's director Clavell take the stand" Salvatore steps aside to reveal the academy director.
"I would like first to thank you all for attending our fine academy we are all grateful to have you here"
"Second off, I'm sure you all know what our students receive on their first day at our academy, and that's a starter"
Florian took a deep breath and waited for his turn to be called.
End Credit Song-"If I Lead"-Kiltro
The second of our main characters is introduced
If anyone red the original story you'll know why the Tauros is a big deal