***- I think this one is pretty good.^^
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It was glitch, right?
I mean, that couldn't have possibly happened when I had my back turned at the game right?
Oh, what? I'm sorry, I'm just I tiny bit skittish here at the moment. I'm kind of traumatized, actually. You see, a few years ago, I met up with a friend, whose Gameboy still worked. Mine did not. So, he lent it to me; I was ever so grateful. I had not played any of my games in ages, though I knew I could no longer play Pokémon Red; it was dead. But, I believed that I could still play my Pokémon Gold; it was still working. So, when I began the game, I was still where I had saved four years ago; Lavender Town. It was happier now, the music was cheery, and the area was lighter in general… And then there was the Radio Tower. I was not very pleased to see this, I admit. In Red, instead of the Radio Tower, there was the Pokémon Tower, home to all the dead Pokémon; I remember fighting the Marowak ghost here… It scared me so much, but it was part of the memories I had of my first Pokémon game… But, they took that away. So people could listen to the radio. This angered me… How was this allowed? I mean, these were GRAVES, not an old coffee shop…But, it was only a game, so I left it alone quickly.
I walked around Lavender Town a little, walking into the House of Memories, thinking I would see the moved graves, like I always did. But, it was only a blank house. Just brown floor. No tombstones at all. Instead of being confused or worried, like I very well should have been, I shrugged it off. It's a glitch, I thought, this games IS very old. So I left out. Then, I walked upward to visit the Radio Tower anyway, just for kicks. It seemed regular, but the music had stopped. Another glitch.
Suddenly, my mother called me for something, and I left the game, unpaused , lying on my bed. I was gone for about fifteen minutes; my mother wanted me to assist her in looking for her briefcase for work. Then, she left the house, leaving me alone. I hurried back to my room to continue with my game. But, I stopped at the door to my room. There was an awful sound emitting from my room; it was a loud, ear-splitting screeching, I thought I could hear it from the hallway… I entered my room with caution, and found that the noise was coming for my game. I let out a frustrated sigh. It's crashed; I said to myself, it'll be doing that a lot, since it's so old. I walked over to the game, but I walked slower as a got a better look at what was on the screen. The entire tower was pure white, no longer in color. And there were red, and also 8-bit, splotches everywhere… I walked around a little, the red marks on the walls, on the counter, everywhere, the horrendous noise continuing. No one was in the tower, not even the policeman guarding the elevator. In fact, there was a red spot were he used to be, with an overworld sprite standing on it.
I faced the sprite, and pressed the "A" button.
"…………"
"They must die…"
And it floated out of the room through the broken door of the elevator. I followed it. Great, I thought, now I can see what's up here. The elevator's interior was also white, but had no red marks, just debris of the destroyed door. Soon, it was at the next floor, saying;
"You are invading…"
So I left out as fast as I could. When I did, I almost passed out. There was even more red everywhere, with broken equipment. But even I could tell that the devices had not broken on their own, but someone- or rather, something- destroyed them. The marks were oddly more realistic than on the last floor… I could sense some sort of texture… On one of the white walls, there was something scratched on the walls… I walked up to the scratch marks, and pressed the "A" button again…
"They deserved it…"
I walked away from the marks, and walked over to the stairs, but before I could reach them, a battle began. Why was there a battle going on in the radio tower…?
"Wild GHOST appeared…"
I remembered the ghosts from Pokémon Tower… But what were they doing here? And, as a note, I noticed that after the word "appeared" was followed by a series of ellipses instead of an exclamation point… Of course, it showed the same ghost, but the ghost had a frown instead of the horrifying smile it used to have.
"Sent out WANION!" Wanion was my Feraligatr, by the way.
Before I could throw out any attack, the options menu was replaced by a black text box, saying…
"She killed the evil…
…They took our resting place…"
"WANION fled!"
And the battle ended. I encountered more ghosts, each of them saying equally disturbing and confusing things:
"Punishment…"
"Our revenge… Their selfishness…"
"They are dead like us…"
And ninety percent of the ghosts said the same spine-chilling thing:
"They deserved the demise…"
With every floor, the red marks grew more realistic with each step… Until I came to an impassable area. I was ready to leave… So I walked back to the stairs I just walked from… But something was blocking the way… It was the overworld sprite from last time. I talked to it…
"Get out…
…GET OUT…"
The screen blinked, and a battle began yet again. It was a Marowak, level 30, female. Its name appeared for a few seconds, and then disappeared, leaving a blank upper half of the screen. I almost immediately realized it to be the Cubone's mother, whom the Rockets killed…
Her sprite's eyes were incredibly terrifying, open extremely wide, containing intense anger and hatred and the sprite itself showed her skin to be virtually colorless; the bone she was holding was dripping with the same red marks, which were more realistic than ever… And soon, it hit me; how could I have been so STUPID?! They weren't just any red marks, they were BLOOD SPLOTS. Blood of the people from the Radio Tower. Marowak and the ghosts killed them, and possibly in the most gruesome, violent way imaginable… Their words made sense now… They had gotten revenge on the people for destroying their final resting place for their own entertainment… Marowak said, the text moving slowly;
"My soul…
…It shan't rest…
This place is mine…
Mineee…
Mineeeeeeeeeeee……
Fooorrreeeveerrrrrr………
A…n…d e…v…e…r……"
She slowly faded away.
And the screen faded, and the screen was black for a few seconds. When it cleared up, I was in front of the Radio Tower. I tried to go in, but a text box appeared, saying;
"This place is for no mortal… DO NOT RETURN."
That was OK; I decided that I didn't really want to go in anyway. I was scared. Why was there BLOOD in a children's game?! I switched the game off, and back on again. I was still in the same spot I was when I first turned the game on. I didn't go in the House of Memories; I just went to check on the Radio Tower. Everything was normal; there was music, people, the usual. I decided to save in the place; maybe that wouldn't happen again if I did. If that was a glitch, it was the most bizarre glitch I'd ever seen. I returned the Gameboy to my friend, not telling him about the Radio Tower… And I never will. Only the people reading this know, actually… I'm going to go sleep now; I hope because I let this out, I don't have anymore nightmares…
