They say in a small little town in the middle of nowhere, came a darkness no one could have ever predicted.
Well that's what I was told as I stared at the VCR tape in my hands as I walked outside the post office, my breath visible in the cold air. This tape apparently held a secret related to the hit show 'Lazy Town'. It better be a damn good secret, it cost me 50 bucks! But you know what they say, curiosity kills the wallet.
I pocketed the tape and countinued my way home, the only light being the streetlamps that I occasionally passed. I would have been wary but I knew this street like the back of my hand, and the people of the street knew me.
I walked up to my apartment complex, swiping my keycard and slowly lumbered up the steps to the room that I called home, it was little more than an over-glorified broom closet but it was cheap and that is all that mattered.
I walked over to my tv that was straight out of the 90s, and struggled to reconnect the old dusty VCR instead of my second hand Xbox. The tvs screen turned blue and the speakers let out a buzz, showing I had been successful.
Was I really doing this? About to watch a show made for kids that anyone with half a brain would find boring? Yes, yes I was.
I popped in the tape and flopped back into the old torn up armchair beside me. The show started normally, and from what I could tell the episode was named 'Robbie's Dream Team', dumb I know, but it seemed normal nonetheless. I ground my teeth together in frustration thinking I had been ripped off and all I could picture was the seller counting my hard earned cash and laughing all the way to the bank. Needless to say I did the only rational thing anyone would do in that situation...I went to the fridge and got some ice cream to eat away my troubles. 50 dollars I could have spent on entertainment or clothes! What a waste!
I turned off the VCR and turned on some good ol cable tv, maybe I could rot away enough brain cells watching baseball in order to forget the fact I had been conned.
I don't know how late or early it was when I woke up, the empty bowl lay on its side beside my feet. The apartment was dark, likely either a blackout or the lightbulbs finally died on me. I let out a groan as I forced myself up, letting my hand wander between the cushions looking for the remote. I paused went I felt something soft and warm but before I could get a better feeling to get an impression on what it was it had already moved away...
"Shit..mice."
Just what I needed. Maybe I would get the plague and appear in the news, wouldn't that be something? I rolled my eyes and let my back crack, turning my head side to side. That's when I noticed the old mirror on the wall behind me showed the tv...turned on. I looked back at the device and could see that it was very well turned off yet, looking at the mirror again...It was very clearly on!
"What the fu-"
"I'll teach you how to be villains!"
While the TV behind me stayed as dark as ever, I could only watch in horror as Robbie Rotton crawled out of the televisions reflection like he was the grudge or something and looked at me with hollow eyes...His jaw dropped open and I could see in clear horror the many sharp teeth protruding from the gums.
"You are number one...in my digestive tract"
The next thing I knew he had vored me.