Sorry about the holdup, I had some homework to finish. Damn you Chemistry! Anyway, here's Chapter 1. Enjoy!

Chapter 1

Belas Cove

Greenwood, Ohio

May 16, 2010

It was night. Well, not really nighttime, but it was more like sunset. Countless store signs lit up as if fireflies came out to create a summer lightshow. In the quiet neighborhood of Greenwood, everyone seemed to be in a hurry. Day or night, they bustled everywhere, since the season of summer was fast approaching. This included the students of Oakland High of course. The season of summer means last minute exams as well. This was all normal routine for Luna Whykurt.

Luna was any other average teenager. Smart, cute, funny, and the fact that she's half goth. No, not like the "I worship Satan and the darkness" goth. Today, she's wearing a red and black T-shirt with the mischievous grinning face of Jack Skellington, a jean skirt with black denim jeggings, black boots, and her most prominent feature; a small bat-winged heart shaped necklace with a blue jewel in the center. She just likes to wear black, listen to rock music, and having the worst case of freaking out at everything. But in the end, she always has a way of brushing it off and moving on. Right now, however, is a different story.

"Luna, get down here!" bellowed her mother.

"What! I'm doing my homework!" the teen shouted. She grunted before putting her face back on her history textbook.

"No, I know you're lying! You are not doing your homework! You're probably just watching TV on that laptop of yours or playing videogames on your Nintendo DS!" she yelled with enough force to make a nearby person go deaf.

"Ugh, fine," she grunted as she stepped out of her cozy blue room to go downstairs to the kitchen.

By the time she arrived there, her mother stood there with cold, heartless eyes. Seeing that this was another one of her mother's complaints or temper tantrums toward her, Luna prepared for the worst. For in her arms was her work laptop and the one website that Luna wished the school board had never told her parents about; .

"What's the meaning of this?" she questioned her so called 'delinquent' daughter.

"What do you mean? Mom, what's wrong?" Luna replied with worry.

"What's wrong? I'll tell you what's wrong; most of your grades here have turned into C's," she complained. She then turned the laptop around towards her daughter and showed her the results. Luna looked closely and noticed that her Chemistry grade had dropped to a C+. Her mother was expecting a scream out of her, but she did nothing but shrug her shoulders.

"So, it's a C+. It's a passing grade," she explained.

"No it's not. People who get C's are people who end up working as a store clerk or in McDonalds. I raised you so that you could be above the rest. You know, where I came from, I had no one to tell me to study for any tests or quizzes at school because they were all busy. And you know what I did?" she told her as she set her laptop down and put her hands on her hips.

"Okay, what'd you do?" Luna played along.

"I studied on my own accord. What I want you to become is an office accountant or a computer programmer like your father and I," her mother added.

"Well, what if I don't want to become an accountant or a programmer? Those jobs are boring! All I've ever wanted to be when I grow up is a musician! Why don't you care about that?" Luna wailed.

"Because I'm your mother and you have to do as I say! As long as you live in my house, you have to abide by my rules!" she pointed her finger and touched her nose.

"Get your filthy finger off my face. Plus, I'm 15; I'm almost an adult now so you need to give me a little bit more freedom! Like letting me have a boyfriend or going to my friends' parties more often. Heck, I want to start driving a motorcycle; not some stupid stake-shift car!" she continued.

Her mother took a step back after hearing her own flesh and blood talk back at her. She had never been so horrified in her life. All she wanted to do right now was to set her back in her place.

"Silence! That's it; I've had it with you and your proud attitude. Starting tomorrow, you will work in your father's office and sort out every single one of his employees' files. No breaks in between, from now until the end of three months," her mother ordered.

Luna knew that she was at a standstill. But, she wasn't the type that would "bow down" before a pushover adult like her mother. She clenched her fists and stood her ground before she replied back to her.

"Never," was her only answer. She turned around and started her way back to her room. Her mother, now driven off the edge, stomped toward her and grasped her right wrist tightly; her nails digging into her skin, making it bleed.

"How dare you! You have no right to talk to your own mother that way. Now I want you to hand over your laptop, your ipod, and your DS to me right now. I will lock them up in a safe so that you will never get back until you complete your job," she demanded.

Thinking quick, Luna broke free of her mother's grasp and knocked her off balance. She then ran quickly back into her room and slammed her door with force.

"Luna, you are a sick, spoiled, and a stupid child. I can't believe that one of my own daughters could torture me like this! What am I going to do with you?" she hollered.

Luna used one of her decisive thinking and told her the most logical answer she could think of. Holding back her tears, she took a deep breath and responded to her now furious mother.

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe you could send me to an orphanage. Or perhaps send me to another country. I don't care, as long as I'm away from you!" Luna screamed.

Mrs. Whykurt, now even more enraged, stomped her feet on the ground and screamed at the top of her voice.

"Yes, that's a grand idea. I'll send you away to a homeless shelter!" she answered.

"Okay, that'll be fine! At least I don't have to see your ugly, screaming face anymore!" Luna wailed back.

"Quiet! I don't want to see you for the rest of the day! Make that a week!" she howled.

"Fine! Because by tomorrow, I'll be gone!" Luna replied.

"Shut up!" her mother screamed.

"Go away and leave me alone! If you ever disturb me, I swear I will strangle you by the neck!" Luna threatened.

"Don't!" she was about to speak.

"Shut the heck up! I hate you and I don't want to see or talk to you anymore! Can't you get that into your head?" she interrupted her mother for the last time.

With that said, her mother could say nothing more. She stormed out of the garage, started her car and left. All was quiet now that she was gone. Luna, not caring about what she had done, started devising a plan on escaping the hell she calls her home.

9:00 PM

There wasn't much in her room. Just blue painted walls, a lounge chair, a wooden dresser with a stack of drawers, a sliding closet just south of the outside window, a nightstand with a lamp, and a blue-monochromatic colored bed. This was her only place of sanctuary, away from her dictator-like mother, her father that's never around, and a younger sister that could never do anything to help. To Luna, every single day to her was a nightmare, but not anymore, because tonight, she is leaving forever.

It didn't talk her very long to plan her escape. She had already packed two changes of clothes, sneakers, her ipod plus charging supplies, her black-and-blue Nintendo DS plus charger, a bottle of water, some packs of granola bars, a toothbrush with toothpaste, and finally, a flashlight. As soon as she was finished stuffing all of her essentials into her medium sized book bag, Luna quickly opened her window to the outside world.

"Well, this is it. Time to leave this dump," she told herself with confidence.

Unfortunately, there was a downside to her escape; how to get down to the ground from a two story high house

"Oh great, I forgot. Geez Luna, why'd you have to be stupid at a time like this?" she yelled in her thoughts. With a frown, she turned around and slumped on the carpet in front of her window. She sighed, knowing that escape couldn't be possible.

Then, the teen thought of something. She looked up at the curtains and gathered her thoughts.

"Wait, that's it! I could use these curtains to create a rope!" confiding with her own idea, the Jack Skellington fan hastily ripped the curtains off the window pane and tied them together. After that, she connected the makeshift rope onto one of her bedposts before starting to climb down. As soon as she touched ground, the young teen made a break for the exit of the neighborhood.

"Okay, all I have to do is head from here until I reach the "haunted" house. It wasn't really haunted; her family called it that since it was so old that it looked like it would crumble to pieces any day. Luna knew that wouldn't happen; once she found that the interior was supported by four iron pillars. Knowing that a house wouldn't collapse with those, she chose that house as her hiding place, since no one would bother to look for her there. She then smiled in triumph as she passed the Belas Cove exit.

Meanwhile, back in the Pokemon world…..

Somewhere deep underground, a group of people were digging around a mining tunnel looking for something. A few days ago, they had received orders from their boss to look for something that was critical in their master plan; a plan for world domination, or so their boss said.

"Yeesh, why is the boss making us dig here again?" a grunt asked his partner beside him with an exhausted voice.

"I don't know, but from what I do know is, there isn't anything in this abandoned mine. Just rocks, slag, maybe some tiny fossils, and oh yeah, MORE ROCKS!" he yelled back at his neighbor.

"Will you two stop your bickering and get back to work!" the voice of a teenage girl, their high-and-mighty supervisor, nagged. Knowing that she's their superior, the two men immediately went back to work.

"Uh, ma'am?" a thin looking grunt approached her from nearby.

"What!" she gritted her teeth.

"You'd better come and take a look at this," he inquired with no fear.

"Ugh, this better be good. If it's more slag, then you can kiss your raise goodbye," she warned her employee.

A few minutes passed and she reached the section of the tunnel where the grunt had told her what he had found. What she had seen had probably made almost anyone blind. Lying on the dirt covered tray was a brown colored shining shard. This wasn't like any ordinary diamond you'd find in a mine, because it gave off a light that could act like an improvised lantern.

"Well, I guess you get that raise after all," she said with a mischievous smile. When she was about to touch it, the light got brighter as a powerful surge of energy erupted from the shard. The pulse was so strong; it knocked every single one of the workers from their positions and either left them unconscious or with minor bruises.

Rancher's Road

At the same time, Luna was halfway towards her destination. She had just passed a local farm, along with the smell of manure. She grimaced in disgust even after a few seconds of being in the area.

"HOLY CR!" she was about to finish her curse before she bent over in sickness.

"Man, that's just wrong. At least clean them up before you go to bed!" she complained.

"Crap, I think I'm going to be sick…" she thought to herself. "Okay, just little further and I can lie down on a nice comfy sofa."

Suddenly, right after she was about to run again, a portal of swirling blue energy opened behind her. Before she could turn around to look, she got sucked into the swirling mass. The image of the road she saw was shrinking smaller and smaller until the entrance closed in.

"AAHH! What's going on!" she screamed as she fell further from safety. All around Luna were countless stars and planets passing by. Like a comet, she was literally flying through space; or so she thought it was. For some particular reason, she started to gain speed. As she gained speed, the stars around her have become blurs to the naked eye. Seeing this phenomenon, Luna looked ahead and saw a blue light getting brighter and brighter. Not knowing that this was her destination, she prepared for the worst.

"NO! I'm too young to die!" the teen cried before being engulfed in the cerulean glow.

Okay, cliffhanger time. Yep, Luna is quite the screamer. I kind of had to think about what she had to say to her mom before she ran away. It took me about two days to develop it. Well, I hope you enjoyed it. And don't forget to review and send comments.