Proto:Shining Force II/Prologue

Shrine
'Slade – an anthropomorphic rat thief – and two hired goons enter an old shrine. They go over to the lower-right hallway and find nothing.'

Then, Slade goes over to the lower-left hallway.

Slade directs the goons over to the other corner.

Slade enters the hidden Room of the Ancient Shrine.

He looks in a nearby treasure chest.

Slade looks to the center of the room, where two objects shine through the darkness.

Granseal Castle
'The scene switches to Granseal Castle's throne room at night. There's a thunderstorm outside.'

A lone soldier walks into the king's chamber.

'The soldier walks off. Suddenly, the king feels a gust of wind.'

The candles are quickly blown out.

Shrine (again)
'Cut back to Slade and co. working on trying to pull the jewels out of the chamber. Slade tries last...'

Slade decides to pull out both of the jewels at the same time...which works, though Slade gets thrown across the room.

The shrine starts shaking violently.

While Slade and his cronies escape...

Granseal Castle (again)
...King Granseal and the minister are in the dark throne room.

'A blinding lightning strike lights the room back up. The minister looks out the window at the Ancient Tower...'

'King Granseal believes that the tower is disaster-proof. The scouting soldier comes back and says the tower doors have opened! The minister decides to go with the scout.'

The King contemplates his situation while the minister is away.

'More lightning strikes. King Granseal sees a flash of a shadowy figure in the chamber. Then the figure appears again.'

The figure, revealed as a green demon, materializes in front of the king and begins to cast a spell.

'The King is knocked out by the spell. End of game. I mean, end of prologue.'