Episodie 1: Gamelot

"Hey Crystal!"
The girl opened her blue eyes and groaned. Everytime was like that, everytime was 'Crystal do it' and 'Crystal do that', even like that, she just hated that place so much.
But there was the only place she had since she was ten and before she passed her life in that orphanage...
She just didn't knew why her life like that. What about her parents? Had they abandoned her? Were they death?
Well... Back to her life in there, had begun with little house works, but as she grew up she begun to receive even more work, at home and now in the cafe. The present moment she was the waitress.

Crystal Fixton, at least a name she had, it was writen on the blankets she was found with, on the curbs of a random street in New York.
She tied her blonde hair in a ponytail and looked at her image on the mirror. She could say she was a beautyfull eighteen years girl, tall and slender, with a fierce look but a sweet smile, in the rare moments she had a reason to smile. Some people had already said she looked like a wild phanter. But she hadn't one thing a phanter should have, freedom.
"Crys!" She heard Bob, her older brother, call again and walked out of the room.

"All right, all right, I'm here, what's up?" She asked.
"Dad said to you take the day off. Sharon will take care of your job today."
Crystal's mouth drop open. A day off?! A whole day off?! She never had a whole day off before! Not that way, without a pay back, what had just happened?
"What's this now Bob? I did something wrong? Something happened?"
Bob shrugged.
"It's all I know. Better you go before he changes his mind. He asked me to give you this money, he said it should be enough for the whole day."
Crystal received the money and, without another word, runned out.

"Last game everyone!" Called Mr. Blake, ower of Sunshine's Arcade, the local Arcade Crystal goes everytime she had a chance to.
She didn't knew where that passion for games had come, but that was the one aspect of her life she really loved.
So she noticed a boy not so distant from where she was playing, he seemed looking directly to her. It was okay, Crystal was used to people to look at her, but not with that curiosity.

With her attention turned to the boy, she quickly lost the game and walked off and quickly noticed the boy followed.
She walked by a time but as she noticed the boy kept following her she run for some random streets for around ten minutes. She finally stopped, but the boy was still there.
"You're running of me?" The boy asked, sounding so sweetly as he seemed.
"I'm not used to kids following me." Crystal replied, a little rude but was true.

"Sorry. Name's Truffelio Marshmint. And obviously I know your name."
He had chocolate brown hair and minty-green eyes. He was wearing a minty-green jacket, up a white shirt with three truffles on it, dark brown chocolate pants and brown and white sneakers, with minty-green laces.

"How you know?"
"Because I know who you really are." He replied.
"Oh yeah. A orphan girl who work for have a home and enough food to survive." She muttered, turning back to him and walking away.
"No. You're not an orphan. You're more than you think you are."
Crystal rolled her eyes and not replied.
"You know why you're so good at games?" Truffelio asked.
"Because I train and never give up?"
"No. Because you're part of them." The boy said.
"Serious?" She asked sarcastical. "So why am I here?"
"Because your parents sent you to here to protect you. You need to come with me. We need you."

"You think I will believe this stupdness? No boy. Just go home and leave me alone." She replied and walked back to her home.
She entered the cafe with no suspect of anything 'till she heard a voice calling.
"Hello beauty!"
She turned to see a man, blonde hair and black eyes. She could say he was around three or four years older than her.
"Who are you?" She asked surprised.
"You're more beautiful than they said." He said, smiling at her and steeping forward in her direction.
"Look, I don't know who you are but if you approach me you will really regreet it." Crystal warned.

"So hard too. I like girls like you." He muttered, not paying attention and approaching still more.
But Crystal wasn't in a good mood to handle stupidness like that. She punched him hardly and run to her bedroom.
Her "sister", Amanda, was there reading a book.
"Crystal, what happened?"
"Who was that guy?"
"His name is Charlie, he's the ower of this cafe."
"And..."
"Well, he came here to collect the rent."
"And..."
"Well, it happens we haven't money."
"So why are he still here?"
"He wants a deal."
"What kind of deal?"

"He will give us the cafe... But he wants you."
Crystal gasped in shock.
"And what your parents said?"
"I dunno." Amanda shrugged. "But I'm sure mom tried to complain about it. Dad by other hand... I'm not totally sure."
Imediattely Crystal hushed to where she had left her bag, where already was mostly of her things.
"What are you doing?" Amanda asked worried.
"Getting out of here."
"But where you will go?"
"Any place is better than here."
"Well, at least take it." Amanda offered some money to Crystal. "I think will help."
"Thanks. I will miss you, but I have to go."
Saying it, crystal jumped by the window and ran.

She just stopped when she felt she was safe. She was in her second favority place, after the Arcade, and a place that no one else knew she liked to go, the Zoo. It was calm and she knew she haven't anything to be afraid in there. Plus, she knew how the animals in there felt, because she imagined it was the same thing she ever felt living where she lived.
But the problem now was: Where she should go? Of course the police was going to be looking for her soon, and without family or friends...
It was when she saw, sat down on a bench, next to the lions place, the same boy who was following her early.

He was distracted reading a book, but as he saw her he smiled and waved.
"You're still following me?" She asked a little angry.
"Not this time. In fact I was waiting for you."
"How you knew I was going to be here?"
"She loves the zoo too." He replied.
"Who?"
"Your mother."
"Look kid, I'm an orphan, I haven't a mother."
Truffelio rolled his eyes.
"You have a lot to learn. But here you can't. You need to come with me."
"To where?"
"To Gamelot. You need to come."
"All right boy. I still don't believe you, but anywhere is better than here."