Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: The Shroud of Darkness

Chapter 01 - Not in the right place

I tell you, the entire day can be summed up by how you wake up. I didn't wake up on the wrong side of the bed, if that's what you're asking, I woke up on…well, to be honest, I didn't even wake up on a bed.

Before waking up, however, I remember thinking to myself "Okay, so it's Saturday. I gotta do the lawns today or else Mom'll throw a fit, right self?" My self obviously answered yes. However, I didn't necessarily want to wake up, the river washing past me felt kind of good and relaxing…

…river?

My eyes flew open immediately upon revelation that I was no longer in a bed. Well, I was in a river bed, but that's not the point, the point is was that I had no clue where I was or how I'd gotten there. Eventually, I heard a voice yelling out to me.

"..eeyy! Hey, you okay there?"

My head turned of its own accord to the source of the sound, i.e. the speaker. The next thing I saw took a second for my slow brain to register. See, I had seen a Treecko just sitting there, and I was looking for the person who had just spoken to me. The Treecko bit, I could just ignore for the time being. More important things had to be considered, like this big grove of trees I had washed up in.

"Hello? Are you okay there?"

This was about the time my brain kicked in, and a million things just went through my head. "Ah, so that's who was talking." "Wait, Treecko don't actually exist, soo…" "Wait, even if Treecko did exist, they don't talk." "Where the heck did I end up?" My first reaction was to panic slightly. I seem to recall the conversation going somewhat like this:

"Aah!"

"Wait, woah, what's going on, you okay?"

"….erhm….eh…..uh…."

"Well, at least you're not a mute, eh? Hehehe…"

"…Where am I?"

You see, by this point I had come to kind of accept this. In fact, I'd had a few instances where my idle mind conjured up fantasies like this, but I never really expected it to happen. Man, real-live Pokémon was a cool prospect. I wasn't thinking much past this however, and failed to recognize a few other factors that could have influence on my reaction.

"Uh…you're outside Trebel Town. Are you okay? You seem lost."

Well he could talk a bit, couldn't he?

"Trebel Town?"

By this point I had stood up next to a respectably sized oak.

"Uh…yeah." It was his turn to be confused. "Right, anyway, what's your name?"

"My name? Oh, right, it's…"

*PANG* It hit me.

"It's…uh…"

I started getting tunnel vision.

"…what…wha..why…"

I had to lean against the oak for support as I began to get dizzy. Understanding and a bit of fear began to dawn in me as reality hit me hard enough someone might as well have hit me with the bone I was holding in my hand, the hand that was no longer its proper color. I realized 2 veeeery important facts:

I was a Cubone. A Cubone with amnesia.

The Treecko began to look worried. "Excuse me, but do you need help? I can get my friend Ian to come over and help get you to the hospital or something."

"…I…I can't remember…"

"Can't remember what?"

"…Anything."

I slumped down to the ground, my dizzy spell only getting worse.

"You can't remember anything?"

"No…I…"

And then my dizzy spell grew too great, and I blacked out.

Not bad, eh? This story has been floating around in my head for a while now, and I just HAD to get it out on paper, or the digital equivalent thereof.

Basically, this chapter sets up the premise for the story, an amnesiac teen-turned-Cubone in a high-wire quest to save the world from darkness.

Now I had thoughts as to where to put this story as far as Communities stand, but I figured that since the story takes more influence from the Mystery Dungeon games, I should probably make it a Mystery Dungeon Fan Fiction.

Also, I won't force people to review, but I'd highly appreciate it.

Anyway, I could prattle on for days, but I'll leave it here.

Hope you guys like my story, and I'll see you later.

-JacobDaGun