Listen, this isn’t some random, creepy story. This is not a creepy pasta. This is serious. Call me crazy. Or superstitious, or whatever. I know what happened. And I wish I could forget. Okay, let me calm down and start from the beginning. First, my name is Carter. And I’m a pretty serious gamer. But, after a recent event with a certain game, I think I might have to change my habits.
It all started about two weeks ago. I had grew bored over the weekend and didn’t feel like playing any of the games I owned, being that I beat all of them. So I decided to mess around on my computer, trying to entertain myself. And just when I thought there was nothing to do, my friend, John contacted me on skype. He said that he found an emulation for Soul Calibur 2! He said he got for me out of return for a favor. He knew I couldn’t find it on any console I owned and that is was my all time favorite game. I begged him to send me the file ASAP. Once the game was downloaded, I immediately started it up.
Once the game started, it opened with it’s original intro cinematic. It showed all the characters, but Link for some reason. It seemed to have skipped his scene. I shrugged it off and skipped off to the start screen. The only thing I seen that was different was that the announcer’s voice didn’t come and say, “SOUL CALIBUR 2” as usual. Remembering that it was an emulated game, I discarded the thought, figuring whoever had the game first, must’ve cut those things out. Moving onward, I went to arcade mode and looked at the list of characters. As usual, they were all there. Taki, Nightmare, Yunsung, all of them; including Link. I hovered my cursor over each character, seeing their full forms, just for fun. But, once I got to the end and landed on Link, the game crashed. I groaned in disappointment. “Damn game.” I said to myself, starting it up again. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to use Link. He used to be one of the best in the game.
Once I rebooted the game, it started to get a little glitchy. Now, the cinematic was playing really slowly. The music slowed with it and also started to warp. I ignored this and just skipped right to the menu. I again went to Arcade mode and picked Ivy. The first match came up. Ivy vs Nightmare. I hit the X key on my keyboard, like on the gamecube, doing this make’s a character say a line, like, “Out of my way!” or something. But, when Ivy spoke, her voice was muffled almost. I tried to make out what she said, but couldn’t. Once the match started, the announcer wasn’t heard again. He didn’t say anything about a warrior or some cheesy wisdom line. But, the music again was slowed and warped. I found it a bit annoying, but proceeded on with the match. Once it started, I proceeded to deliver a healthy beat-down on Nightmare. Ivy’s fighting was quick compared to his and made him easy to beat. I celebrated a bit and moved on, excited to keep playing.
I’ll admit, everything was going great. I beat Taki, Talim, Necrid, and Cassandra. I was on a roll! Then the sixth match in a row started. And it looked like I was going to fight Link. But, once the characters’ shadow’s came up, the game crashed before they loaded. But, as it did, I looked over at Link. Just before the game went out, he seemed to have red eyes. I was unsure at first, being that it was just a short glimpse. But, all the same, I started the game up just one more time. I went to Vs mode this time. I figured I’ll just do a quick fight before quitting. As I scrolled through the characters again, a strong feeling of concern came over me for some reason. I scrolled over to Link. I made sure to look closely at him before the game crashed once again. Again, I get just a glimpse of him just before the crash. It was then that I had an idea. I loaded the game up one last time and went to arcade mode. I hovered one finger over the print screen key before hovering over Link’s picture. I quickly slammed the print screen key, just before the game crashed. I went to photoshop on my desktop and posted the screen cap. To my surprise, I seen that I was right about Link having red eyes. I tried to adjust the quality of the image to better see it. Then I seen that everything about Link, but his eyes were black. His clothes, skin, hat, sword, everything. But, what got me worse, was his position. Usually, the characters face to the left or right, depending on what side you were on and which player you were. But, Link…..was looking right at me. To be honest, this freaked me out. I quickly deleted the image, thinking it was just my imagination. I looked at the time on my monitor. It was late. I hadn’t noticed how tired I was til gave a long yawn. I closed the game, shut down my computer and went up to bed.
