Greg promised Zircon that he would check the SD Card for her, it might seem weird to keep someone's camera and video footage they found, but people rarely lose their stuff here, let alone for months (judging by the amount of dust and marks on the camera, it looks like it's damaged a little too.)
Greg and Zircon sat down on the couch with the laptop being on Greg's lap, he had an SD Card reader on him too.
he put the SD Card into the reader and plugged it into his laptop, "It's a video file, should we check it?" Greg asked, he didn't feel comfortable opening a random video from unknown person, "it's been recorded in 2014/12/28, it's pretty old."
Zircon nodded, she thinks this could be gem related somehow, and if not, they can try to find out who's camera was it.
Greg opened the video file and played it, it started with some breaded ginger man counting, 1, 2, 3
"WHAT IS UP GUYS!" the man in the video said, it was so loud Greg turned down the volume.
"It's ya boy, NikoRealm back with another 24 hour challenge!" Zircon found it odd how he called himself a "their boy" and how his name is "NikoRealm"
"'24 hour challenge'?" Greg paused the video, took a heavy sigh before resuming it.
"now today I'm going to spending 24 hours in NOME!" Niko stated, "Nome is known to be one of the most cursed places on the earth! I don't know why no other tubetubers go here."
"oh great, he's a 'Tubetuber'," Greg was frowning the whole time, "what does that mean?" Zircon asked, she knew there was a thing called "TubeTube" where humans could share videos to each other, but what would a "TubeTuber" be?
"doesn't matter right now..." Greg lets the video continue playing.
"unfortunately, my friends couldn't come, Guys, they said this was too crazy for them!"
Greg chuckled, "yeah, no kidding,"
"before we continue guys, make you sure you guys like and subscribe so you can join the NikoRealm!"
"Join the NikoRealm" that confused the crap out of Zircon, join him or "the NikoRealm"? to her, it sounded like some gem location, the amount of times this dude said "Guys" annoyed Greg to the core, but Zircon was still thinking about the "NikoRealm" thing.
"if we reach 50,000 hearts, I'll go spend 24 hours in beach city!"
"50,000 hearts?" Zircon was losing her mind, she didn't know what any of this meant.
the video then cuts to NikoRealm in a forest with a campfire and a tent, "camping is like the worst thing to do here, what is he doing?"
NikoRealm brought the camera closer to his face, "okay guys, it's currently 3 AM, the haunted hour, I figured this would be the best time to continue recording,"
haunted hour, this dude's a fool, Greg couldn't handle much more, but Zircon insisted that they keep watching, to at least find out why he left the camera.
"on the way here guys, I've noticed weird crystal spikes around the place,"
Greg was angrily scratching his head, if it has crystals, then maybe it is gem related.
NikoRealm then got up and it looked like he was grabbing something, probably a flashlight.
"Okay, guys, one of the natives here told me that the weirdest place was this cave, which had the crystals I was talking about,"
Niko took a deep breath, "guys, I'm gonna go inside,"
"Okay! do it already!" Zircon yelled at the screen, even she was getting angry.
he slowly stepped into the cave, it was dark, but it looked like there was a loud of writing on the walls, and purple and red crystals all over the place.
"woah! guys, there's a bunch of writing on the walls!"
the video footage was too dark make much out, thankfully, NikoRealm said out loud what was in front of him.
"there's a weird crystal ball here, and there's... oh my god, guys!" Niko awed in amusement, "it's a sword! it's very broken, but it's a sword!"
he went on and off about swords and stuff, making theories about what these "things" might be, and just kept rambling.
He explored the cave for 2 more minutes before heading out, "alright guys, it's getting cold, I'll see you tomorrow!"
the video then cut to Niko eating pizza, in "John's Crispy's Pizzeria", he kept eating for a solid 30 seconds, then counted up to 3.
1
2
3
"Alright guys! I'm here at John Crispy's Pizzeria, and my gosh, it's one of the best pizzerias I've seen in Nome!"
he said it as if he's been to other pizzerias in Nome, which Greg doubted heavily, "he didn't stay at the forest place for long, what's that about?"
"Now, the reason I'm here, Guys, is because this pizzeria was where the famous rock-man incident happened!"
Greg did hear a lot about grown-men breaking stuff in popular places, but never about rock-men, Zircon was eager to know about this "rock-man" though.
"basically, Guys, there was a really guy with a purple rock in his chest, breaking stuff, actually, I think it was a mineral!"
rock in his chest, Greg knew where this was going, and Zircon kind of did as well.
"and apparently, Guys, he ran off to a forest, east of Crispy's Pizzeria, so I think it'll be a good idea to try and find him, guys!"
Greg was getting convinced that this man was crazy, but he's hoping that if he did find him... "wait," he thought to himself, "maybe that's why he left the camera..." Greg said out loud,
"oh..." Zircon replied, maybe the human male in the video didn't make it.
"I have all the things ready for this type of hunt, Guys!"
"I hope you're right," Greg said to himself, there's no way this man could fight a gem monster, let alone by himself.
then the video cuts to Niko walking to a place with huge amounts of dark skinny trees, it was night as well.
"the cameras on," Niko whispered before shouting, "OKAY GUYS! we're here at the forest, guys, we're going to find this monster and record him, on Tubetube!"
he seemed pretty upbeat and happy about getting a monster on camera, which Greg found unsettling, the whole video felt off, especially considering the fact that the camera was found by Zircon near a forest.
he stepped into the the forest, it's very and foggy, thankfully, he had a flashlight on him.
"guys, the monster the attack this place was messed up-looking, like he was super buff and had a amethyst in his chest, I searched that up," he said the last part quieter, like he was embarrassed at calling it a rock earlier.
"I hope slenderman isn't here, guys, cause this looks like his place! right, guys?"
there were lots of awkward, long, pauses, though he was probably going to edit them out, if he didn't lose his camera.
it was getting so quiet to the point where only his breathing could be heard.
STOMP
"OH MY GOSH, GUYS!"
Niko screamed at what seemed to be the rock man he was looking for... kind of.
"this is so fake," Greg laughed a little, "I knew this was going nowhere!"
Zircon was pissed, although it still doesn't explain why he left the camera, did he forget about it, or did something actually happen?
the "rock-man" was doing mediocre-sounding screams, like a father trying to playfully scare his child.
"Raaa! I'm going to kill you!" the rock-man stated, "so you better heart and subscribe right now!"
"OH MY GOSHNESS! GUYS, MAKE SURE TO HEART AND SUBSCRIBE!"
Niko ran like he was going to die, by a fake monster... Greg was laughing at this point and Zircon smirking, trying to hold it in.
"what are these humans doing?"
"oh, these guys are idiots, they probably made this for 8 year-old children,"
"wait, but they didn't, the camera was damaged and abandoned, keep it playing,"
there was solid minute of Niko running away from the monster, he stopped for a second, panting heavily and switching glances at every direction.
"Guys guys! I think I lost the monster," he paused for a moment, "I'm gonna get back to you guys if I escape!"
the camera pointed to the ground, kind of dangling off of his hand, "bro, where did you go?"
Niko whispered, he began calling for his friend, louder and louder, "You're actually scaring me, where did you go?"
Greg readjusted himself on the couch, seems like they're getting to end of the video.
there were sounds of loud footsteps coming from somewhere, Niko was shaking really bad, "wh-who's there? Bill! bill, where are you?"
"who's 'Bill'?"
Niko flinched, almost dropping the camera, that voice was deep, but kind of sounded feminine.
Greg sort of recognized it, and Zircon definitely did.
"wh- who's that?"
Niko sounded like he was gonna piss his pants.
he pointed the camera at every angle, trying to the get one speaking on video.
there was a figure, a tall one, slowly walking up to Niko from the bushes.
the video was dark, so it was hard to tell, but it was definitely her.
"that's Jet black!" Zircon snapped, "oh so THAT's her name?"
"g-get away from me! I don't mean any harm!"
Jet black just stared at him with a natural face, "Leave, or I'll make you," she stated calmly.
Niko, without another word, ran as fast as he humanely could, although looks like Jet was also running behind him.
"Hey, wrong direction!" Jet yelled at him, it didn't seem like he heard her.
he kept running and running and running until-
CRACK
he tripped on something, a log maybe, the camera went flying to a stone wall, and so did Niko.
"FUCK!" Niko screamed, or at least that's what it sounded like.
there was a couple moments of silence, until Niko picked the camera back up.
"Okay... Bi- where the fuck man..."
the camera pointed to Niko's face, full of fear and on the verge of tears, "i-if anyone finds this, if anyone is watching this, pl-please send help..."
"I TOLD YOU THAT'S THE WRONG DIRECTION!" could barely be heard from the video.
"please.."
then, the video ended, Greg's jaw was hanging, he was thinking how scary this was for NikoRealms.
"Welp, that explains the camera being damaged..." Zircon didn't sound agitated from that at all.
"Y-yeah. I'm gonna go call the police now, I made a copy of the video, you might want that..." Greg stood up from the couch, and dialed 911.
