Of course. Of course, today. Gradient's parents had told him that when he got a C, he would be kicked out.

He didn't know they were actually serious.

Gradient had gotten a C in art when some guy decided 'Hey, I'm going to pull a stunt and blame it on Gradient~!' Ugh. Some people.

Gradient stumbled out the front door without house keys, only his Eevee to guide him now. Oh, and his tutoring money.

"Hey Eevee." He said to a chirping Eevee that was chasing after him. Gradient bent down to pick him up, but the Eevee wiggled out of his grasp and went to chew on a boy's pant leg. Gradient sweatdropped, before following Eevee.

"Hi, I'm so sorry if my Eevee's bothering you." Gradient said, smiling politely. "I'm Gradient."

"It's alright, Wooper can be a bit of trouble sometimes too" Leo said, gently pulling his leg away from the eevee. "Speaking of Wooper, isn't he just the cutest!" Leo said, picking the little Wooper up. Sylver just motioned for him to say yes from behind Leo.

Newt was about to answer their question when another young man approached them. After being certain he could interject he did. " As for your question, I'm headed to different caverns all about the region.... I do believe Sandgem has a cavern that would work well with the study if i'm not mistaken. I had been debating on where to go first. " He said politely felling it rude to ask for their acquaintance on his journey.

"Oh, that sounds cool, you definitely are going to want to check out lake Verity, which is really close by, but you need a swimming pokemon to get there." Sylver told him. "Wanna go to Sandgem with us?" Sylver invited Newt.

Newt smiled politely " That would be splendid" he said before turning to their new comer. " I apologize if I seem a bit preoccupied, but I do believe I missed your name." he said reaching out his hand politely

"Oh, whoops, I guess it's a bit rude I didn't introduce myself" Sylver said "My name's Sylver" She greeted him, shaking his hand.

He smiled " Don't worry, i was certain I had just missed it during our conversation." he said shaking he hand.

"Alright then, anyways, lets start heading over to Sandgem town first, Leo can lead, since he has Wooper, plus he knows the area really well." Sylver said, her brother stepping ahead. "C'mon, I wanna get there before it gets dark" Leo said, motioning for the others to follow him.

Newt stuck his hands in his pockets and followed the others.

Leo was leading, him and the wooper easily taking down whatever came their way. "Wait a sec, where'd Sylver go?" Leo asked, looking around for his sister. "Sylver? Sylver!" Leo called out, looking around for his sister. "Oh... I know where she is, follow me!" Leo said, turning the other direction and taking off.