Author's Note: Hey all, Buffalo Groove is the name but Buffalo will suffice. I started writing this a while ago, so excuse the rough edges, but it will get better, if you like the content.

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon, but if given the opportunity, I would seize it.

Prolouge

A long time ago, in a distant realm belonging to pokemon, the world was at war with itself. The conflict's source is unknown, some say religion, others say political, and still others say it was conspiracy.

The world is dotted with factions and clans, as well as the occasional neutral zone, where peace and freedom of voice is practiced. Each faction and clan acts as a tributary to the two main kingdoms, The Watermark Empire and The Red Wing Legion.

The first leader of Watermark fell in battle and left his daughter and successor, a Greninja named Zena, to the throne. After the death of their first king, the empire was left in shambles and open to attack by the Red Wing Legion. Hundreds of Watermark cities were raided and The Red Wing began to occupy more and more territory.

One day however, the attacks mysteriously stopped. In the middle of the Reds' raids, shadowy figures moving at un-pokemonlike speeds would zip around all of the Reds and carry them off into the forest, and it would be over just like that. The Legion wasn't very happy about this third party in the war.

The Red Wings' leader, a Typhlosion named Inferno, withdrew his troops from any more attacks on the Watermarks, the unknown assailants had clearly outmatched his own warriors. However, the unkindly king would not rest, and seeing that his go-to strategy of sending hordes of soldiers in to fight was not the answer in this case, decided to try something different. After a letting Watermark rebuild for a few years, Inferno created several small undercover militias to be posted in Watermark territory. Each group was made of three or four elite warriors of the King's choosing. The story begins in a large Watermark city called Falstaff, located on the edge of a grassy cliff, bordered by pines and hills with a great river running through and falling off the edge of the cliff on the other side.

The first of four warriors assigned to infiltrate the cliff side city is Blight, a Gengar specializing in Hypnosis and sleep related spells. The others consider him the spellcaster of the group, seeing that in this time period, only a few a given the gift of special powers at birth.

The second is a Chesnaught named Ragnar, who is the brute force of the group. He was born into the King's palace and shaped to be colossal warrior from childhood, in both size and strength.

The third is an Espeon named Yomi. She prefers not to get her paws dirty on the battlefield, but rather be the brains of the group, and come up with flawless tactics, which correlates with her previous duty of being the king's advisor.

Lastly is Apollo, a Jolteon whose birth origins are unknown, only that one day, he wandered into the Red Wing kingdom as a kit with no memories. On the same day of his arrival, a commotion broke out in the town market about some pokemon stealing food. The town guards were drawn to the scene, but when they arrived, they only saw a yellow blur. The kit took a few hours to chase, and left most of the guards wheezing. The only reason they caught Apollo was because he ran straight into the palace, and crashed into Inferno. The kit was disoriented from the collision, and dropping a half eaten apple, collapsed on the floor from exhaustion.

Inferno took thee kit under his wing and trained him separately from Ragnar. The training was focused on helping hone Apollo's speed and agility, as well as mastery of the shortsword. He would occasionally have them spar against each other as a test of skill, and most of the time, the battle results were unpredictable.

The two pokemon's fighting styles were polar opposites of each other, and their battles would draw onlookers. Ragnar would take his signature warhammer and take a great swing at Apollo, but the Jolteon would simply dodge and run up the massive shaft of the hammer, and with his practice short sword in his mouth, deliver multiple strikes to Ragnar's head. Other times Ragnar's stamina would outlast his rival's and he would take victory.

Getting back to Falstaff, Inferno has sent this group on a mission to blend in with the Watermark pokemon and do everything they can to slowly chip away at the Empire, as well as acquire valuable information on the Queen and any information on the mysterious group of assailants.

Hope that spiked your interest, there's more coming. Just a bit of info on the story if you didn't get it from the prologue, powers or abilities are a rarity in this Pokemon world. Red Wing is currently looking like the superior force since they have taken the most land from Watermark. (And yes, looking back, I realize I probably shouldn't have named it Watermark but whatever.)