The evening was already underway as the three split up on their way through route four. Route four took was a route going south that took on the light brown stony and sandy surface of Pohatu city for a while and then eventually started getting greener. The reason it was like a desert in Pohatu city was because the layout of the Gabbro region happened like this so far. Kopaka Town was the northern-most point on Gabbro; it was situated high up in the Likan Mountains so that was why it was much colder up there. It was green for a short while on the walk towards Pohatu city but then turned sandy before long. At Pohatu City you could do one of two things, go on to route four and let the desert run out, or you could go west further into the desert. There was no route for trainers beyond the desert at the west most point stony and sandy mountains blocked any kind of path for someone on foot. After a long walk through part of the desert everything slowly got greener eventually just turning into a slightly sandy and grassy route with short trees few and far between, it then turned into a forest later on but that was a LONG ways away from the start. Quartz began his walk along the desert part of the route to find some pokémon and some trainers. The pokémon you could find on route 4 consisted of: Spinouse a normal-steel type that looked like a Cairo spiny mouse and packed quite a nasty surprise if you were unlucky enough to step on one. There was also the Oolaroos; an Oolaroo was a giant kangaroo normal type pokémon. It had huge teeth and usually pursued pray for as long as they liked. Then there was the Dungaluss, the dung beetle pokémon. It was ground normal and was a medium sized pokémon. Other than that there were just pokémon that trainers on the route had seen before.

Quartz walked through the sandy part of the route with great frustration. It was very hot today and he was starting to get tired. Of course you would expect a desert route to be hot but Quartz had been to route 4 before (other than that he never went beyond route 4.) in the summer and it hadn't even been that hot then. He let the desert slowly vanish as greener scenery came before him. He kept on walking but it was getting REALLY late, it was past 12:00 am. He saw a group of tents up ahead. Quartz was tired enough that he wanted to go to sleep so he decided to stop at the tent area. Normally it would've been a pain for trainers to carry around tents but Gabbro's head scientists had made a very small and stable compactible tent a few years ago. It could fit in your pocket quite easily. All you had to do was press a button on a remote control and BAM the tent sprang up in perfect form. Of course Gabbro had only shared this technology with the Hoenn region since they were allies in the Great Pokémon war. Speaking of which only a couple more cities and Quartz would be in the historical capital of Gabbro. Considering Gabbro was where most of the Great Pokémon war took place most of the information was stored there and it was one of the destinations Quartz was looking forward to the most. He walked on until he came into the camping area of several trainers for the night.

"Quartz!" said a familiar voice.

"Lapis, well, certainly didn't expect to see you here." said Quartz.

Lapis walked toward him with a smile on her face.

"You going to stay here for the night?" asked Lapis.

"Yeah I've just got to get out my," Quartz said reaching into his pocket only to find that there was no Insta-Tent in there.

He looked in his typical trainer bag on his back but it wasn't in there either.

"Damn it, forgot it I guess. Was so excited about going on the journey that I didn't even bother to check if I had one, out of all the things I could've forgotten. Oh well at least they'll sell them in the next city… I hope." he said.

"Well you could always stay the night in my Insta-Tent." said Lapis.

"Alright that sounds ok, thanks Lapis, glad I can always count on you." said Quartz as he put his arm around Lapis and let her lead him to her Insta-Tent.

They walked inside and Quartz saw there was already a rug with a pillow and blanket for him to sleep on.

"You got the new model?" said Quartz.

"Just in case of company, you never know. Lucky I did." said Lapis.

"Well might as well eat and go to bed then." said Quartz as he rummaged through his bag.

He pulled out some of the food he packed and the same with Lapis and they had dinner.

"Desert was hot today, much more than it should be, at least that's what I think." said Quartz.

"Yeah, I went there twice. Was never as hot as that." said Lapis.

They discussed it a bit more and then Quartz went to bed. However Lapis was unwilling to go to sleep just yet. She had to decide about what she would do next.

(WAIT! This isn't going to turn into a porno or anything, none of my work will. However as it was stated in an earlier chapter Lapis has a crush on Quartz so basically this is about that, so yeah.)

Lapis didn't know if she should confess to him now or not. For whatever stupid reason that everyone gets at this kind of moment she couldn't do it. She just wasn't ready. Going to her bed in the tent, feeling defeated, she went to sleep until the morning.