Chapter 1: Just a game… or not?
It's been five years since I burned that haunted Majora's Mask cartridge. Everything was fine now. I had no more creepy conversations with Cleverbot. Was this really the end? I don't think so…
It was Saturday. I was at home with my friend Tyler. We were alone, my parents were working and so were Tyler's. We were playing some games on my laptop. But… Saturday is always boring for me. As we usually do, we surfed the Internet in search of any cool thing. We came across a suspicious page. But we love mysteries, so we entered it. It had a download link for a game, called . "Interesting. Should we download that game?" Tyler told me. I nodded, I was curious of what that game could be about.
After a long wait, the game was finally downloaded, in a .zip file. I extracted it. The game's icon was a black square with two shiny white eyes. "I think this is a horror game. Cool!" Tyler said. I giggled, we loved horror games. We opened it. I was mouth-opened. It was a game about Majora's Mask, fantasic! No, that was sarcasm. I already hate this game. It was seen through Link's point of view. We were on a strange place, it didn't look like any map from the actual game. There were three rectangular houses. As I entered the first one, which was empty, the Happy Mask Salesman appeared for one second in front of us. I almost fell off the chair. "What the hell was that?!" I screamed, remembering my experience in the haunted Majora's Mask gameplay. Tyler calmed me down and we kept playing. I entered another house. This time it wasn't empty. Guess what I saw? Exactly, that same creepy-looking statue. I realized I couldn't get out of the house, neither move away from the statue.
I could only move towards it. The screen started to get black. In a second, the statue approached more and more, along with a terrifying sound. We both screamed when it stared directly at us for some seconds. The screen turned black, and various texts appeared. "Isn't it nicer to dismiss what scares you as lies?". "Isn't it safer to play a game?". "Come and play with us". Skull Kid's giggle was heard in the background.
Now we were on the same map, but this time it was all dark.
Underwater noises were heard in the background. The moon was there. There was a light, and so I approached it. The statue was following me, appearing closer and closer each time I looked behind. When I touched the light, the moon started to descend towards me. The counter appeared. I was looking at the moon, and when I looked at front, the Happy Mask Salesman was there. "You made the wrong choice" he said. A grave with the names Jadusable, which is my Youtube username, and Tyler were written on it. "Close this game!" Tyler said, totally terrified, but not as much as me. The game closed. "Thank you" he said, but, I didn't closet he game. Some seconds later, we heard the Happy Mask Salesman's laugh in the background.
This made us scream. The game was closed, how the hell?! The Skull Kid's laugh was also heard. Tyler signaled a notebook note. Creepy thing, it was named "ben" and it was next to the game icon. I selected it. "Long time no see. Do it again". That was what the file had written on it. "Do it again"? What does that mean? I thought I had to play the game again, so I did. I really didn't know why.
The screen was black for around 5 seconds, and an error message appeared. "Leave". The game closed. "What the…" Tyler said. He told me to go search something about the game. Nothing.
There were no more links to download the game, no videos, no information at all. What is happening here? I tried to run the game again. Didn't work. It just showed a window with the elegy statue laughing at us. It couldn't be closed. 5 minutes passed. It was still there. Another error message appeared. "You shouldn't have done that" it said. I turned off the computer, I was totally scared.