"Luna. If you don't pick up the pace, I'm going to have Cinder drag you." Silver complained.

"Silver, I'm tired. Stop yelling at me." Luna yawned.

"And you think I'm not? I nearly fell asleep during your battle with Morty which I still think you should have lost."

"I shouldn't have won. Morty must have been going easy on me because two to four are not good odds."

"Maybe he just wanted us out so he didn't owe him anything else. He probably went easy on you cause you kicked that Grunt's butt last night. He owed you."

"That's stupid. If he did that, I request a rematch!" Silver turned to her and glared.

"Luna, I swear to all of the Legendary Pokemon that if you go back to challenge Morty I will shove pokepuffs down your throat."

"Someone's grumpy this morning," Luna muttered. Silver just continued walking. Of course, he was grumpy. Some lunatic told him that his witch of a mother was still watching for him. The same woman who had threatened everything he loved and cared about. He also had to help a delirious Luna back to the Pokemon Center at eleven o'clock at night.

"Let's just make it to the next town please." Silver told her. He was getting closer, but at the same time, he was putting Luna at risk. Silver was going to have to part ways with her soon. For her safety. Maybe he could call Ethan to come met up with her before he left. Then she wouldn't be lonely.

"Silver, is that a Taillow?" Luna questioned. Silver looked to where she was pointing and sure enough, there was a Taillow up ahead on the side of the path.

"Where'd it come from? I thought most of them nested over in Cherrygrove." Silver asked. "Did it come looking for food?" Luna stopped for a second and stared at it before she ran towards it. She got on her knees and picked Taillow up.

"Silver, it's hurt. There are burns on its wings." She told him, pulling a potion out of her bag. She used the potion on the small bird and it woke up. The Pokemon stared at Luna and bowed its head to her. Then Taillow tried to fly away only to face plant into the grass.

"It needs to be taken to a Pokemon Center." Silver explained. "Without a Pokeball, it might be harder to heal it though."

Luna nodded and stood up, leaving Taillow in the grass. She pulled a Pokeball from her bag and tossed it at the Taillow. It didn't take long to confirm that Taillow had been caught because the pokemon had been too weak to fight back. "Let's hurry and get him to the Center." The two started to run towards Olivine City. They were still quite a ways away from Olivine City. If they had bikes, they could have made it there faster.

Luna's pace started to slow, but once the two spotted the lighthouse towering over the city, she started sprinting towards Olivine. Silver started to crash after her.

A group of Miltanks were grazing in a nearby pasture. Two girls ran around the field, playing with one of the Miltanks. A couple was standing in front of the barn door with crates of MooMoo Milk by their feet. Two girls noticed Silver and waved to him. Silver smiled and waved back before looking ahead to where Luna had been. Except she wasn't there. Luna had already made it to the door of the Pokemon Center by the time Silver had entered the City. Silver sighed and sprinted to the door.

Silver pushed opened the door and walked inside. Luna was standing at the front desk talking with Nurse Joy as a Chansey took four pokeballs to the backroom. He walked up to her and lightly shoved his friend. "Thanks for leaving me behind." He spoke.

Luna quickly turned to him and said, "Never look back when running," before she turned back to Nurse Joy.

"So you found it on Route 38. Did you notice any other injured pokemon?" Nurse Joy asked. Silver looked at her, puzzled. Normally, the Nurse Joys didn't worry about random wild pokemon, so why did she ask?

"No, that Taillow was the only one we spotted," Luna answered.

"That's good. I'll have to report this to Jasmine though." Nurse Joy muttered.

"Why did you need to report it?" Silver questioned curiously.

"Because lately a lot of pokemon around Olivine City have been getting sick or seriously injured. It's normal to find a fainted Pidgey or Rattata every once in a while and Pokemon can get sick, but it has been occurring quite often lately. Gym Leader Jasmine hasn't left the lighthouse for anything other than medicine and pokemon food for three days now. We can't have ships go out to Cianwood after certain times because the Ampharos that lights the lighthouse is sick. He refuses to leave the lighthouse as well so we can't bring him to the Pokemon Center and the medicine he needs is made in Cianwood." She answered.

"Apparently, one of the Miltanks in a ranch just outside Olivine City has been sick for a couple of days too. They're waiting for a certain berry to get shipped so they can be cured, but with restricted sailing times it's taking longer than it should." Luna added.

"What's the berry?" He asked.

"Oran berries." She answered.

"Oran berries… Aren't those incredibly hard to find?" He replied.

"Yeah, and they need ten of them."

"That's gonna cost quite a bit." Chansey walked back out from the back, carrying four pokeballs.

"Here you are. All healed up."Nurse Joy smiled, handing Luna her pokeballs.

"Thanks." Luna grabbed her pokemon and the two went to sit down. She pulled two bottles of water out from her bag and handed one to him. Silver took a drink. "Hey Silver, how long do you think it would take to swim to Cianwood?" Luna asked.

"Depends. On average maybe half an hour?" He answered. "Why?"

"We can't get the next badge until that Ampharos is better and it can't get better if the medicine is overseas. If we want to get Jasmine's badge, I think we need to take matters into our hands. Maybe we can even get the Cianwood gym badge while we're there"

"Luna, none of our pokemon know surf. The only water type either of us has is Tot."

"Maybe we can borrow a fishing rod from someone. Most water pokemon can learn surf, can't they?" She turned to face him.

"We would still need the HM to teach them."

"This is a port town. There has to be someone who has Surf." Luna whined.

Silver thought for a moment. He couldn't stop here. He needs to get to Mahogany Town. There had to be something. "Maybe we should talk with Jasmine." Silver suggested. Luna looked at him, puzzled. "She's the Gym leader. Jasmine would have connections to the people who live here. Maybe she could help us if we offer to help her. She could help us find a way to get to Cianwood, we get Ampharos the medicine, and then we get both Jasmine's and the Cianwood gym badges."

"That's a good idea Silver. It's worth a shot." She smiled. "Maybe you aren't as stupid as you look." She joked.

"If you're just now figuring that out, you're the stupid one." He laughed. She playfully hit him and then the two stood up. "To the lighthouse?"

"To the lighthouse."

"WHO THE FRICK DECIDED WE NEEDED TO BATTLE OUR WAY TO THE TOP, DANG IT!?" Luna screamed as they climbed the next flight of stairs.

"Relax, Luna. This was the last floor before we get to the top. Jasmine and the Ampharos should be up here." Silver sighed.

"They better be." She growled.

"Would you mind being a bit quieter please?" A brown haired girl asked. She stood at the top of the stairs and looked extremely tired. "Amphy is trying to rest." Her eyes seemed to be hazel.

"Are you Jasmine?" Silver asked.

"I'm sorry, but I refuse to battle anyone until Amphy is better." She replied.

"That wasn't my question though…" He mumbled.

"We're here to ask for your help." Luna started. "We want to help, um, Amphy, but we don't have a way to get over to Cianwood. We were wondering if you could help us."

"That depends on what you need," Jasmine told her.

"We need a fishing pole and the HM surf." He replied.

"Oh, Grandpa has both of those. What time is it?"

"Around noon," Luna answered.

"Down on the beach, there will be an older man who will be fishing. If you tell him that I sent you and you want to help Amphy, I'm sure that he'll let you use one of his poles. His name is Myron."

"And for the HM?" Silver questioned.

"Gramps has that too, but it might be harder to get him to let you have it."

"Well, maybe we can work out some kind of trade," Luna suggested.

"That might work. Grandpa is interested in all kinds of stuff." She explained.

"Let's try. Come on Luna. We better get moving." Silver started to head back down.

"Wait." Jasmine started. "I can unlock the elevator doors for you. That way you don't have to climb down all of those stairs."

"Thanks." Luna gave a sigh of relief as Jasmine unlocked the elevator doors. She was so thankful that she didn't have to go down all of those stairs. "We'll be back with that medicine for Ampharos." Jasmine waved goodbye as the doors shut and they started to descend back to the first floor of the Glittering Lighthouse.