Happy Thanksgiving (week) for those who are celebrating. I won't have anything posted next Saturday because family is going to be down and writing these chapters kinda killed me so sorry, but enjoy what I've got written for today.

Luna made it her goal to battle every wild pokemon she came across. If she found any interesting ones she would catch them but so far that hadn't happened. The only things she had seen were Rattata, Sentret, and Pidgeys. She had left late this morning because she woke up late, procrastinated, and had a battle with freakin Silver! The sun was setting and Tot seemed to be in a good mood. HootHoots came out at night. Nothing new to her, but she was almost in Cherrygrove. From the pictures and maps, it couldn't be any bigger than New Bark there. She was looking forward to the beach even though she wouldn't be able to spent much time there. This was all new to her. She need to get as far from New Bark Town as she could before tomorrow, but there was no harm in hanging out with Tot at the beach for a bit. As long as she beat Silver. Luna couldn't stand to lose, another reason she didn't want to come on this stupid journey. If she lost, she would probably kill someone. Luna's mother had beaten the Elite Four when she was a trainer. She couldn't beat the Champion, but she did marry him. He was beat by some kid and came to stay in New Bark, but once Hannah was born, he started drinking. He got into fights with mom then would leave the house for a bit, but he didn't come back one day. Without his pay, they couldn't take care of Hannah's medical bills. That was about the time her lung collapsed.

"Miss?" A old man questioned. Luna snapped out of her thoughts.

"Oh, yes?" Luna replied.

"Are you Luna?" He asked.

"Yes?" How did this guy know her name? "Who are you?"

"No one of importants, just a friend of Professor Elm. I'm here to take you to the pokemon center. That's where you'll be staying for the night." The old man started to walk off. Luna slowly followed behind, but held Tot's pokeball tightly. She didn't trust anyone who was a friend of Professor Elm. She wasn't some lab experiment. "Well, here is the pokemon center. Nurse Joy will find you a room to stay in." Luna nodded and the man left. Instead of going inside, she started heading towards Violet City. There was no point in staying here plus she needed to stay ahead of Silver. She wasn't going to lose to him. That dolt. Luna wasn't going to take it anymore. She could go to the beach when she got to Olivine City.

Silver yawned and watched the clock. As soon as it was midnight, he could leave. Luna said tomorrow, midnight was tomorrow. Cinder was sleeping peacefully in his pokeball. Silver wanted to sleep, but he needed to catch up to Luna. Knowing her, she wouldn't stop for sleep. She often called him moronic, but she was the one who would come to school on a half an hour of sleep. Emily would laugh as Luna stumbled over words and Ethan would worry about her. Luna was going to hurt herself one day or worse. Silver would just watch the three friends laugh from his seat in the back. No one like him. They all knew. They all pitied him. All except Luna, who just purely hated him.

The time on the clock changed; now it was midnight. Silver grabbed his bag and ran out of Elm's house. He rushed down the stairs and started towards Cherrygrove. He needed to catch up with her. He didn't know what was wrong exactly, but Ethan had explained in brief. Luna didn't sleep often. Silver wished he knew exactly why, but that wasn't the problem at hand right now. At his pace and the distance between the two, he would be there after an hour or more. There was no why he could run that entire time, but he had to try. He could be running for nothing, but at the same time, Luna could have already collapsed on Route 30. Why did she have to be such a pain? No, he couldn't think like that. It couldn't be her fault.

Silver didn't think Route 29 was that short. Once you past the way to Route 46, you were basically there. It was probably around one o'clock right now. All lights in the city were off. The moon reflected off the ocean water. Corsolas played and splashed in the water. Silver could imagine Luna, Emily, Ethan, and their pokemon playing on the beach sand. He couldn't see himself in that dream. When he tried to imagine himself, it wasn't ever anything good. Usually it was him in a black uniform with a red R on it, laying on the floor next to a puddle of blood. The cries of Totodile being torchured by the hand of his parents. That was only one of his recurring nightmares. Others included the burning of the burned tower, Team Rocket in the Slowpoke Well, and some others.

Unsurprisingly, Luna was nowhere in town, so obviously she left for Violet CIty already. After his little break of watch Corsola, he took off running. Route 30 was longer than Route 29, but she was hours ahead of him. How in the world would he catch up to her?

Luna struggled to keep walking. She wasn't going to stop till she got to Violet City. Tot had tried to get her to rest and failed. He forced himself out of his pokeball and now was walking along side her for support. Luna refused to stop. She wasn't going to let him beat her there. She wouldn't be able to sleep anyway. Her first night without Hannah in the same building. Even when Hannah was in the hospital, Luna would stay by her side or be sleeping in the waiting room. Luna fell to her knees. Tot jumped, startled. "I'm fine Tot. Just a bit fatigued." She let out a light chuckle. She couldn't move her legs. Her whole body ached. She wasn't even that far into Route 30. Maybe less than half way.

Luna tried to drag herself off of the path and leaned up against the trunk of a tree. She hoped there weren't any Spinaraks in the tree. Tot sat down and leaned on Luna. She smiled. He would protect her, wouldn't he? Maybe she could get some sleep. Just a little bit. Tot could protect her from anything except for what she need protected from. No one could protect her from that. Not Hannah, not Emily, not Ethan. Not even her own mother could protect her from that.

Tot dug in Luna's bag till he pulled out her bottle of pills. She took them from him and threw it back into the bag. She didn't want to take them. She hadn't even realize she had packed them. She wasn't going to get a full rest. She didn't want to. Half an hour was just enough for her. She did it in school, she would continue to do it. "Totodile!" She patted him on the head.

"No, I won't. You're too small to do anything about it." Tot glared at her. "Leer doesn't do anything on me. If you scratch me, I'll put you back in the pokeball." Luna told him. He was just worried about her. She looked him in the eye and he nudged her bag. She shook her head and then closed her eyes. "Just try." She thought. Slowly, she could feel herself falling asleep. Now it was just a matter of how long till she was forced to wake up.

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