"This is so exciting! I can't believe we're finally on our way to New Bark Town. I hope Professor Elm lets us start our journey. But we should probably make camp. It will get dark soon." Keena said. She had tried to start a conversation with her friend all day, but Sunfall had remained quiet. It was obvious he was worrying about something but she didn't know what. They had left home a few hours ago and it was getting dark. Keena needed to speak with Professor Elm to gain a Pokedex. Keena wanted to keep going even in the night but winds had picked up. It was cold so she needed to build a fire.

"How about under that tree? It's big, there is hardly any snow underneath it and the ground will be dry." Sunfall suggested. He was a little chilly even in Keena's warm arms. Sunfall hated being insided his pokeball so avoided mentioning being cold.

"Good idea. I'll get a fire going and we can sleep." Sunfall collected dry wood and twigs for a fire while Keena cleaned up the area they planned to sleep in and got a sleeping bag ready. She piled the wood in a small, pyramid shape. Keena took a match out of her bag and lit the wood. The air slowly warmed and Keena and Sunfall climbed into the sleeping bag.

"Keena, what do you want me to evolve into?" Sunfall asked the raven haired girl. Concern glittering his light brown eyes.

Keena gave him a thoughtful look, not knowing what to say."You should evolve into what you want. I don't want you to become something you don't want to be." She told him. "Is that why you were quiet all day?"

"Yeah" Sunfall stood up and paced by the fire. "But I'm worried you won't approve of my choice." He told her.

"I'm not going to be angry with your choice. You choose what you do with your own life Sunfall. Don't let me or others choose for you." She told him. She really didn't care what eeveeloution Sunfall chose to evolve into. "Now come here and sleep. If you're cold you won't sleep well." Reluctantly, Sunfall crawled up beside Keena. "If you're scared don't be. You have plenty of time to choose. And we should start your training while your still an eevee anyways. Now please sleep." Keena yawned. Sunfall found comfort in her words. He crawled back into her warm arms.

Keena fell alseep soon after their talk but Sunfall was wide awake. He didn't know what he wanted to be. When he was sure his partner was asleep. He climbed up the tree. The bark was dry and easy to claw up. When he reached the top, he raised his head to the stars. When Sunfall couldn't sleep, he looked at the stars. Sunfall was very reserved and calm most of the time, but he was scared. There were only 8 types of eeveeloutions to become. Problem was, none of the evolutions jumped out as amazing him.

A small flock of Taillow and Swellow flew overhead. Jealousy coursed through Sunfall. He loved the feeling of wind in his fur. He always wanted to fly high. Above the clouds. But there was no flying type eeveeloution. His dream was unreachable and it killed his spirit. Sunfall sat there pondering over his lost dream in the dead of night. Soon he fell alseep in the tree, not wanting to climb down.

Early the next morning, Keena woke up to find Sunfall gone. She searched and finally saw him in the tree. Quietly, she climbed up the tree and sat on a branch just underneath her eevee. The view from that height was amazing. The morning sun sent a soft glow over the snow covered land. She could see the cresent moon dipping below the horizon in front of her and the sun behind her rising.

"Sunfall wake up. We should start moving." She whispered. Sunfall, deep in sleep, didn't stir. Keena simply picked her up and jumped down the large branches onto the ground. Keena placed the sleeping eevee in her sleeping bag and cleaned up their simple camp. Soon, everything was packed except for her sleeping bag. Now that the sun was up, she could see all the twigs in Sunfall's fluffy fur. Slowly, she picked out the twigs. Keena packed up the sleeping bag, picked up her sleeping friend and continued their journey to New Bark Town.

Keena knew Sunfall was stressing over something, but she didn't think he was upset because he didn't know what eeveeloution he wanted to become. She knew he often looked at the stars as if he was wishing for something. Keena didn't want to make him tell her what was bothering him and decided to let him tell her when he was ready.

Sunfall stirred in her arms. "Hey sleepyhead, you're up." Keena said sweetly. "We should be in New Bark town soon."

"Ok, can you put me down now? I gotta stretch my legs." He replied. Sunfall's legs were stiff from sleeping the tree and the cold had seeped to his bones. Keena simply nodded and put him down. All of the sudden they both heard a noise. It sounded like two pokemon fighting. They quickened their pace, not wanting to get caught up in a fight.

Suddenly a larger pokemon jumped out from the bushes and ran past them. It just seemed like a lavender coloured blur to them. Next, a person on an ATV soon followed, with a weavile and arcanine following close by. Sunfall swiftly climbed up the nearest tree but Keena was frozen in shock at the sudden commotion in front of her.

"You're mine Suicune!" Yelled the man riding the ATV.

"Suicune?" Keena asked. She had heard stories about it but never thought she would see one. Before Keena could react the man was heading straight for her and obviously had no intention of steering around her. The pokemon he was chasing noticed this and jumped in the way instead. It hit the ATV with a powerful ice beam. Or tried to. The weavile jumped in the line of fire and defected the ice beam.

Before Keena could process what just happened, the beam hit her square in the chest. She instantly collapsed.

"Oh shit!" The man on the ATV cried out. "Weavile, Arcanine return!" He called out and returned the pokemon to their respective pokeballs. He took off, not wanting to get involved with the collapsed girl.

"KEENA!"