Welcome, dear Reader, to my Pokémon fairy tale.
I have been wanting to write a story set before the invention of the Poké ball for a long time. Naturally it would predate the regular characters and would require original characters for the story. However, try as I might, I found a good storyline elusive—until one day I had an inspiration. It involved using the regular characters in original roles, preserving most of their characteristics but altering others. So for example, Samuel Oak has the same face and age, lives in Pallet Town and has a grandson Gary, but is a king instead of a professor.
If you find this distasteful, I can only apologise. Please bear with me and give the story a chance. If you have no objection—after all, even the official game, manga and anime each have different interpretations of the standard characters—then please relax, read and (I hope) enjoy my tale, a tale of kingdoms and princes, of a princess needing rescue, of courage and manhood, of sword-fights and fire-breathing monsters.
One more liberty I shall take, dear Reader. Since the story is set before the invention of the Poké ball, I can't bring myself to refer to "pocket monsters" as Pokémon, since they can't very well fit inside someone's pocket! For this reason, to the inhabitants of Pallet Town and beyond, these marvellous creatures are know simply as "monsters".
Enough of me. Please sit back, dear Reader, read on and enjoy the story.
Raichu
15 October 2006
