Stalgins: Prologue

     The shinning fields formally known as Silver Plains reflect the sun's rays with their tall silver grass. In the massive field laid a smooth, flat-top surface with squished-like sides, holding a charmeleon on top soaking in the sun's rays in a sleep.

     Shifting in his sleeping, the charmeleon looks as if his pleasant dream turned into a nightmare. "NO! NOT ANOTHER ONE!" The charmeleon wakes from his nightmare, realizing, as he looks around, that it was just a dream, as he catches his breath.

     This charmeleon, with the normal red skin of a charmeleon, has a more yellowish underbelly then most. His eyes are a sapphire blue. A unique feature on him is that he has a light coat of fur on his entire body, and, unlike most charmeleons, he has five clawed fingers instead of three. His accessories include a yellow tail band with a pokéball logo on it. Another is his fingerless gloves, exposing his clawed fingers. His fingerless gloves are a basic yellow with a capital orange v with a thick black outline on the back of them. On each pinky side of the gloves appear two small brown stripes, like the brown stripes on the back of a Pikachu.

     Morning is still on the horizon as the charmeleon slides off the rock, with him breathing normally. He drops to the ground surrounded with the higher silver grass of Silver Plains. He grabs his shoulder bag, which lay against the rock, and puts the strap over his shoulder. He unhooks and reaches into his gray bag, with a lighter gray stripe vertically on the right side, and takes out a letter.

     The white letter with a fire seal to keep the letter closed is already opened, and was given to him a few days ago. The letter was given to him by a traveling pelipper mail pokémon. The pelipper said the letter was from another pokemon named Shadow, the name ringing the charmeleon's head; he knew who it was. He greatfully accepted the letter from the pelipper.

     Now the charmeleon is close to his destination, Deviant City, where he is meeting Shadow. He makes his way out of Silver Plains, checking his belongings first. Then he takes the letter out of the envelope and reads it to himself as he's walking.

"Dear Nick:

     I've been doing well. Had a few good battles since you last wrote.

     One interesting thing has happened recently. I've acquired an old broken café here in Deviant City a week or so ago, who would have thought? Well a few friends and I spruced up the place. It seems like a good place for pokémon to hang out and chat. We are still trying to figure out some things in there, it does look nice. You should visit sometime.

-Shadow N. C."

     Nick re-opens his bag and tucks the letter back in, his eyes catching the fact he's out of Silver Plains. In his sight the walls of Deviant City are a bit far; Nick dashes to them to save time.

     Nick enters the city when he crosses under the Southbound Gateway of Deviant City. His first thought was on the swarming crowd in front of him, and the huge tree in the middle of the city. "It's been awhile…" he mumbles as he searches for a certain pokémon.

     He makes his search by heading to the Deviant Tree, the huge tree in the middle of the city, and wondering if he'll find him there. Many Pokémon intersect in front and behind him as he ventures through the middle of the street.

     A voice shouts behind him, "Yo, Nick, there you are!" Nick shifts his body around to meet a familiar voice, "Hey Shadow, long time no see." Nick views a black charmeleon named Shadow, his friend. This black charmeleon has a lighter black underbelly to his black skin, and blood red eyes. Like Nick, he also has five clawed fingers, instead of three. He also has a tail band like Nick, except his is red, but still has the pokéball logo.

     The two charmeleons come forth to each other to bring a conversation. "You've been traveling again Nick, where've you gone?" Shadow starts off. "Oh, just too some regions not familiar to most here, I've also been training with Explosivo some more, and man, he doesn't make things easy…" Nick trailed off with some memories, but got a hold of himself, "a-and he's been teaching me new uses with my new move." Shadow got a little suspicious but let it go as the two chars trailed to the Deviant Tree, lengthening their conversation.

     "So what about this new café you mentioned in the letter?" shifting the conversation onto a new topic. "Well it's interesting on how I got it," Shadow began explaining. "About a couple weeks ago I received a letter. I opened it up to find a deed and a message from someone named Gregory. It said that he couldn't run that building on the corner by the Deviant Tree" Shadow points to the two story building he's talking about, looking up and running.

     "Why did he just give it up?" Nick says confused. "I don't know, and I don't know why he gave it to me; it had my name in the message so he meant me." Shadow answers, "But I said I might as well check it out, and so I did."

     They cross around the Deviant Tree to head toward the café, Shadow continuing, "And so after I see it, inside and out, I decided to work on it, and I asked a few friends to help, and made a few friends along the way. Even though we got it up and running again, we are still working on a few things, and figuring out some others. There is a basement to still explore, and there is this orb upstairs we are trying to figure out, what to call the café, some designs on the café, what to do with the fresh supplies left in there, and someone to take over the café for us." "Why have someone else take over it?" Nick questions. "Because non of us really want to take over it." Shadow answers.

     Shadow touches the golden colored oval doorknobs when Nick speaks up, "Wait, who do are you going to ask to take over this café?"

     Shadow opens the thick glass door, revealing some other pokémon inside, "You!" and shoves Nick inside the chat, following suit.