PokePastas (Pokemon Pastas)

PMD: Explorers Of Death V2 Part 2

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On this floor, the now standard pink hue was starting to turn into a pinkish grey. More blood stains, skulls, and torture equipment. This time though, a white and dark grey Rattata appeared after I had taken only a few steps. It looked as if it was limping. It looked shocked once it saw my Vulpix, and instantly turned savage. It slowly started walked towards her. Seeing as it was obviously hurt, and just the fact that it was a Rattata, I thought I could take it out in one hit. That turned out to be a major miscalculation. It took thirteen turns to knock it out, and it had dealed a fair amount of damage on Myra before it fainted.

Thankfully, there weren't many Pokemon to fight throughout the whole dungeon. As I progressed onwards though, the environment slowly became more gruesome. I soon found a table that had some sort of internal organ on top of it, with a knife stabbed into it. I stupidly stared at it for several moments, not believing what I saw. "Whoa... I think they went a little too far with all this..." I shivered as I spoke to myself. A little blood and a couple of skulls were neat, but I thought this was starting to be too much for a kid's game.

That was when I noticed something. I could now hear a heart beat in the background music. It was faint, but definitly there. There was also a long pause in between each pulse. I didn't think much of it, too focused on the visuals of the game, and pushed it to the back of my thoughts.

I slowly walked through the rest of the floors, each more painful to look at than the last. The walls were now a complete sickly gray pink. The heart beat would get louder and quicker with each floor I went to. Pokemon corpses started littering the floors, skulls and skeletons with bits of flesh still clinging to them were abundant, torture equipment were plentiful, and blood was practically everywhere. A few more grey and white Pokemon appeared to challenge me, each more violent than the last.

Just as I thought I was about to lose my last strand of sanity, I made it to the final floor at last. Static burst onto the screen before it had finished loading though. Lilly yelped beside me at the sudden noise. I patted her head and stroked her fur, calming her down. This time the static lasted for a solid minute before it went away. I was starting to get suspicious, thinking that the static was more than just my DS going dead.

The floor loaded. The walls and floors were crimson red, as if drenched in blood. The heart beat had stopped, so there was no music at all. Myra slowly walked forward, without me even controlling her. A text box suddenly popped up with no icon, "???: L-Love, is t-that you..?" Myra walked a few more steps forward, then leaped backwards in shock as she saw something off screen. She then slowly crept forward, each step taking a few seconds.

What I saw made my breath catch in my throat. A severely beaten up and bloodied Squirtle was chained to the wall. Parts of its skin were ripped off, exposing muscle tissue. Its eyes were ripped out, only black eye sockets remaining. "???: S-Speak to me... P-Please, love, s-say something..."

Myra backed up a few steps, then turned around and ran. She didn't make it far though, and crashed into Shadow. The two stared at each other for a few moments, when a text box for Shadow appeared, "Shadow: ...M-Myra..." There was a pause. "You idiot!!" His icon looked furious, as if he was about to leap out and tear Myra to shreds. "???: W-What?! S-She's here..?! K-Kill her! Kill her now!!"

Shadow started charging up an electric attack. Myra shivered, and backed up a step. The light from the electricity slowly grew larger and brighter, so much that it got painful to look at. Shadow suddenly stopped charging his attack. A text box appeared, "???: ...L-Love...?! What are you doing..?! Kill her this instant!! Before she destroys us!!"

"Shadow: ...I can't." Shadow's icon looked sad and defeated.
"Shadow: I can't kill her.
???: W-Why not?! Why can't you kill her?! L-Love, snap out of it, please!! Slaughter her, give us our life back, make us right-
Shadow: No.
???: ...No?
Shadow: We'll never be right.
???: What are you talking about?! Just kill her, this will all be over, things will be perfectly normal-
Shadow: I don't love you.
???: ...What-
Shadow: I-I hate you!! Y-You sadistic monster!! W-We'll never be right... A-And... I love Myra..."

There was a long pause, the longest so far. I gawked at the screen, uncertain of what to expect next. Several minutes passed. I thought that maybe I was supposed to move, so I tried pressing a button, but nothing happened. It was still in the cut scene.

Static suddenly burst onto the screen once more. Except this time it would flicker for a brief moment then go back to the dungeon. "Shadow: N-No!! Kill her before she" I could hardly read Shadow's dialougue through all the static, and I couldn't read the last part of his sentence. The screen suddenly cut to black.

There was another small pause. A loud cracking noise suddenly burst out from the speakers that sounded like glass breaking. I nearly leaped out of my skin, caught off guard. Lilly started throwing a barking fit at the sudden commotion. I petted and stroked her fur, trying to calm her down again. "It's alright, it's alright, it's alright..." I was mainly trying to calm myself down. This was one of the most emotionally, nerve wracking games I had definitly ever played.

I turned back to the screen, which was still black. Moments turned into seconds, which turned into minutes. Static started to slowly fade in. Text would pop up at random places, but it was too difficult to read. I prepared myself for anything that could possibly happen. With everything I had just recently seen, I believed that nothing could shock me anymore. Despite how much I braced myself, I let out a slight scream of sheer terror at what I saw next.

That Squirtle appeared in the middle of the screen admist all the static. It looked different though. Its flesh was completely torn away at parts, exposing internal organs and bone. Blood poured out of the numerous gashes all along its body. The thing's shell was cracked open, a vile, bubbling, green goo oozing out. It now had small, red eyes, with eye sockets that were much too large. The top of its head was cracked open, exposing its still pulsing brain, with even more blood gushing out of that. It had razor sharp teeth, its grin stretching off the edges of its face.

But the worst was the tail. The tail itself was very long and torn just like the rest of its body. But the end of the tail curled around a sharp, blood stained dagger. The knife was the main reason I screamed, since I had a large fear of knifes, along with the fact that the thing was a zombie, which isn't my cup of tea either. After a couple of moments it disapeared from the screen, as did the static, leaving a black screen behind.

Lilly leaped on top of me, yapping in my face while showering me in licks, knowing that something was wrong. I pushed her off of me and started heavily breathing, trying to recover from what had just happened. I sighed deeply, and glanced at my Dachshund. She was staring at me with that innocent, adorable face only a puppy could pull off. I gave her a pat on the head, and she licked my hand in response. Feeling a bit better, I returned to my game.

Instead of seeing a black screen, Myra was standing inside of a dark, grey cave with dead Pokemon corpses littered all on the ground. Everything was in shades of black, grey, and white, except for the blood stains and Myra. I was really starting to get sick of all this. That's when my brain clicked into motion, "I don't have to deal with this crap!!" I pressed the power button, thinking all of my problems were solved. But they were far from over. The game wouldn't turn off.

"???: I'm not finished with you yet." The text box appeared. I was now utterly freaked out, and had no idea how to react. I could've just thrown the DS away, but something urged me to keep playing. I made Myra take one step forward, and one of the supposedly dead Pokemon started shaking, and then rose. It looked like a zombie Marill, and took a step towards Myra. Another corpse rose that was a Poochyena. Soon they were all rising and swarming around my poor little Vulpix.

"???: That should keep you busy for a while." It sure did. They went out in one hit, but with so many of them they were difficult to keep at bay. After countless minutes, the last zombie Pokemon fell, just as Myra's HP has at near zero. I ran Myra out of that floor quickly before they could rise again. Instead of going to the next floor, the screen just went to black, and text boxes appeared,

"Shadow: W-Why are you doing this?!
???: I could ask you the same thing... love.
Shadow: What did I do?! Myra did nothing to deserve this-
???: She stole my life, my destiny, she replaced me, then stole you from me... She deserves every last bit of this torture.
Shadow: ...M-Maybe, our desinties have changed-
???: No. They didn't change. They were corrupted. I was going to be the hero, you my partner, but then she came and massacred it all...
Shadow: Maybe she was supposed to be the hero after all, and you-
???: I was supposed to be the hero!! I was supposed to go on adventures with you!! But then she stole it all... But I wasn't going to give up that easily... You weren't supposed to give up that easily...
Shadow: ...I-
???: You were supposed to kill her and set everything back on course. Everything would have been peaceful and normal... We would have been right-
Shadow: We would never be right! I hate you, but I love Myra-
???: You love something that doesn't even exist!! She isn't supposed to be here, she isn't supposed to be real, she isn't real-
Shadow: I-
???: S-She's everything I'm not... Everything I wanted to be... A collection of unrealistic dreams that could never come true and never will be...
Shadow: ...
???: But you couldn't accept me for who I was. I wasn't good enough for you. I was the real one, the one in need who was crying out to you for help... But you succumbed to your greed and left me for her...
"Shadow: ...
???: Now I've turned into this... thing. I'm my own nightmare. I didn't want to be this. You turned me into this horrid creature, and now nothing can be undone...
Shadow: ...
???: Well, what do you have to say for yourself..?
Shadow: ...I'm sorry.
???: Sorry, huh? Well-
Shadow: But I still love Myra.
???: ...
Shadow: ...I-
???: I can't believe you. You greedy, self centered demon."
Shadow: I'm not the demon here-
???: Yes you are. You can't look past my flaws and just accept who I truly am, so you desert me for someone who I'm not.
Shadow: I-
???: I've had enough of this. I'm done trying to reason with you. She's corrupted your thoughts beyond repair.
"Shadow: Wh-What?!-
???: If I have to take you back by force, then I will. I will slit her throat and tear her apart limb by limb. Once you see she's truly nothing, then you'll come back to me, and we'll be right...
Shadow: No, don't you dare-
???: We'll be right... We'll be right... It will all be right...
Shadow: No!-"

There was static for a few seconds, then it dissapeared. Once it had left, instead of the screen being black like I was expecting, it actually went straight to Myra standing on what appeared to be a large, solid white platform, with a black background. There was no audio at all.

I walked a few steps, but nothing happened. I pressed every button and looked through every option available but nothing would occur. Several minutes passed, and still nothing. I couldn't think of anything I could do, so I just waited even more. Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes... Nothing would happen.

I sighed and put my DS down, still leaving it open. I sat up, causing Lilly to grunt in annoyance next to me at disrupting her slumber. I half-heartedly giggled, and patted her head. She licked my hand and laid her head back down, trying to get back to sleep. I sat on the edge of the bed for a few minutes, trying to decide what to do.

Just as I was about to get up and leave, a sudden beeping noise from my DS caused me to stop short. I picked up my DS to see if anything had changed, but Myra was still at the same place. A loud bleep emitted from the speakers again though. I walked Myra a few steps to see if that would trigger anything, but still nothing else would happen. The bleep sounded for the third time.

I looked at the screen and realized that Shadow was standing in front of Myra. I hadn't noticed him before, as he had blended in with everything else. A text box popped up with Shadow's icon looking defeated, "Shadow: ...It's no use." Electricity started to spark from his paws. Myra backed up a step. "Shadow: Please stay still..." The electricity grew even larger, covering up almost half of the screen. My hair started to spike up, like when you're about to be hit by a lightning bolt. "Shadow: This should be enough to kill both of u-"

The electricity suddenly went away. Shadow shivered, then collapsed to the ground. Blood started to pool around him. Myra looked shocked, then ran to his side, allowing me to get a better view of what had happened to him. I gasped at what I saw. He had been sliced in half. The scene stayed the same for a few moments, until Shadow raised his head and spoke, "Shadow: H-Ha... L-Looks like I... failed..." He fell back to the ground once more, and didn't move again.

"???: Such a waste, isn't it?" The text box appeared. Myra looked shocked and jumped up, then started looking around. "???: If only he could have looked past his greed, then none of this would have happened, and you could have peacefully died... But what's done is done I suppose." There was a pause. "???: ...Ready to join him?" Myra's sprite shivered.

There was a flash on the screen, then another, and another. Each time Myra was forced backwards, until she collapsed onto the ground. There appeared to be cuts on her, with crimson blood gushing from her wounds. She was heavily breathing. She struggled, and started rising. Just as she had stood back up, there was another flash. When the brightness had cleared away, I saw a knife had been embedded in her forehead. She staggered, then fell over on her side, unmoving. The text box appeared again, "???: You should have just accepted who you are." Then disappeared.

Several minutes passed, and nothing happened. Eventually the light on my DS went red. A few more minutes came and went, with still nothing. The screen suddenly cut to black. Large white text appeared, "You aren't dead yet. You never will be." A pause. I waited. "Have pleasant dreams." My DS then turned off, out of energy.

Relief unlike ever before washed over me once my DS died. I sighed and laid back on my bed, Lilly grunting in annoyance once more. I laughed and ruffled her fur, causing her to moan agitatedly. I gave her a kiss on the forehead, then pulled my blanket over me. I was extremely tired, and desperately needed a nap. I closed my eyes, and soon fell into a deep slumber.

***

I woke up in the middle of the night, screeching at the top of my lungs. After a solid minute of screaming, I started to get a hold of myself. I was breathing heavily, and shaking violently. Sweat was pouring off my fore head, and I felt a deep fear I had never experienced before. I swallowed, gasped for air, and started to calm down.

I sat on my bed for a few minutes, trying to collect myself. Eventually my breathing went back to normal, and I stopped sweating. A little while longer and I was done shivering. But the fear never went away. I tried to think about what nightmare I just had, but once I thought about it I couldn't remember it. Whatever it was must have been very horrid to cause me to wake up screaming. I decided it would be best to not remember what had happened.

I waited a while longer, hoping the unreasonable horror would leave. But no matter how much I told myself everyone was alright and that it was just a bad dream, a feeling that something wasn't right would never stop pestering me. I sighed and shook my head, then laid back down. I closed my eyes and awaited for the dream world to come rushing back to me, and before I would know it I would be waking up to the smell of breakfast, sunlight would be pouring in my window, and everything would be alright.

But that didn't happen. I laid there for a couple of minutes. Half an hour. An hour. No matter how long I laid there I couldn't get back to sleep. If anything I was becoming more awake, and the sense of fear growing larger. I agitatedly sighed and sat up. I started to get off the bed, but that nagging horror made me stay. Something told me that I didn't want to go outside my room.

I slapped myself and stood up. I stretched, jumped up and down, trying to get myself active. No matter what I did though, I still felt anxious. "This is just stupid... Everything is alright..." I told myself out loud to try and calm myself down, but then wished I hadn't. It felt like someone might hear me if I spoke out loud. I shook my head, thinking this was all just nothing, and walked out of my room.

I headed for the kitchen, not really sure of what to do. I realized something was odd as I walked through the living room though. Why didn't my parents wake up when I screamed..? They should be home by now... And where's Lilly..? None of my family was anywhere to be seen, and everything seemed darker than normal.

When I actually made it to the kitchen, I was feeling very light headed. My steps were uneven, and I felt like I was about to collapse onto the ground. I sat down in a chair at the table, my breathing irregular. I was getting dizzy, and my vision was blurry. I shook my head to try and clear it away, but it wouldn't.

Drip, drop.

My thoughts instantly cleared and I stood straight up on my feet. Still a bit dizzy, I staggered over to where the sound was coming from. After a minute of searching, I found myself standing in front of the sink. Everything was fuzzy, and I couldn't focus on anything. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and when I was sure I had control over myself again, I opened my eyes. I screamed.

Lilly was hanging over the edge of the sink, her throat slit open. Blood was dripping from her neck onto the floor. Her side had been cut open, with muscle tissue and bones having been torn out. Her arms and legs were ripped off and were put together as an X with her heart on top of it. The whole sink was a bloody mess.

My screeching was cut short as something pierced into my back. I stood there, frozen. Then I slowly fell to my knees as the dagger that had been stabbed into me was slowly slipped out. I clutched my fresh wound, blood starting to ooze out and into my hands. Before I could react any further, I was stabbed again, and again.

Before I knew it I was on the floor, crying and pleading for whoever the attacker was to stop. The stabbing actually did halt for a moment. Thinking I was saved, I slowly started to sit back up. But before I could recover, I felt a piercing pain in my head. I feel over on my side, and slowly started to lose consciousness. Before the darkness completely swept over me, I could faintly hear the words in my head, "You should have just accepted who you are."

***

I saw a bright, white light. I reached out for it, calling for it. It grew brighter, and brighter, then slowly started to fade away. Tears started streaming down my face, and I screamed for it, flailing, trying to run towards it. But it kept getting farther and farther, and soon darkness swallowed it whole. In vain, I reached my arm out, hoping it would come back. But it didn't.

***

I woke up in the middle of the night, screeching at the top of my lungs. My thoughts were scattered, and I couldn't think straight. A wild sense of fear was spread all throughout me, and I was breathing heavily and sweating. After a couple of minutes, I started to calm down. I swallowed, then tried to focus on what was going on.

I assumed that I had just had a nightmare. I tried to remember what it was but nothing would come back to me. It must have been really horrid to have caused me to wake up screaming, so I decided it was best to not remember it. I eventually stopped sweating, and my breathing went back to normal. A few more minutes and I stopped shivering too.

But that awful sense of horror wouldn't leave.