Pokemon Lost Soul Silver

Lost Soul Silver

As a Pokémon creepypasta fan, one of my favorite story is "Lost Silver". I've also tried the game made by its fans, I must say, that's almost perfect. I always thought it was only a story, until something like this happened to me. Or rather, I became a creepypasta player.

It all started 8 years ago (P.S. about 2013, when I read some Pokémon Creepypastas that scared me a lot back then), and I didn't have long been a Pokémon player and only played the first three generations of games. At that time, I didn't even know what is ROM hack. Somehow, I suddenly wanted to get in touch with the fourth generation of Pokémon games, So I decided to play the "remastered version" of Pokémon Silver. which means, Soul Silver. It's a bit dramatic, and that would have been me thinking about how to get the Soul Silver game card, and then I found it next to a trash can near my house.

The box cover was badly worn. Lugia was marked with a pen that was completely unrecognizable, there's not much problem in the box but a hand writing note in it: "No, don't play with it, this is a torture tool made by a madman. Don't pick it up again." That's what the note says. but curiosity drives me to want to know more about its game content. "Could it be a prank by the original owner?" I had to say, I'm kinda regret to to pick it up.

It was the weekend, and I I took the box home without telling my family. I don't want them to know that I actually brought back the trash when I went out to play. I went back to my room, put the Soul Silver game card into the NDS and started the game. The opening animation is normal, the background music is normal. But there is already a save in the game. The player's name is Ethan, saved in Violet City but didn't catch any Pokémon. II tried to choose "New Game", but it didn't work at all. So I was forced to start the game with that save.

After entering the game, my character stood in front of the entrance to the Sprout Tower, and I turned around and let the character walking around Violet City for a while. I noticed that the game graphics were slightly dark, without any NPCs on the road. Even the road out of Violet City was blocked. And all the doors are as inaccessible as if they were locked, including shops and Pokémon centers. The game seemed to be deliberately guide me into the Sprout Tower, so I had to back and go inside.

There was no one in the tower either, and I couldn't get out of where I came in. So I tried to walk towards the top of the tower. As I moved the character, there was a tone coming from the lower screen, and then I have the "Pokémon" button. I clicked on that button to view my team, and then I was a little frightened.

The team is full of Unown, which only have level 5 and 1 HP. I looked at them in order, and their letters make up "ESCAPE". Ironically, I had no way to get out of the tower. At this time, I understood the meaning of the note, this card is like the "Lost Silver" in the story, which was maliciously modified and thrown somewhere to tease others. I reached the top of the tower, and then found a huge hole in the pillar, and at this point the ladder for return disappeared. I was mentally prepared, that hole must be the entrance to the blood-red room.

I controlled the character to go inside, and it just what i thought. But compared to Lost Silver, Ethan has a faint halo around him, just like he didn't use flash in the dark zone in Generation 3. I walked around the blood-red room, trying to find something, but only saw some crimson words in the corner of the room, and nothing else to investigate. These words are "REBORN", "REPLACE", and "ETERNAL". So far the team haven't been changed, it's still composed of six Unown that make up the word "Escape".

Below the blood-red room there is a road about two blocks wide. As I go farther and farther, the room gradually becomes brighter. In my mind, the road was longer than the fan-made version of Lost Silver, I even pressed the B button and ran for nearly a minute before reaching the end. I tried to investigate the wall at the end, but just a dialog box popped up with "prey" on it. Options are only YES and NO. But YES is not optional.

I selected NO four times in a row, and then Ethan's sprite spun a few times and moved out to the top of the screen. Then I found out that the game's scene had become the outside of the Mt.Silver, but it was gray. The inner of it is the same as the Silver Version, the graphic is completely NDS-like, and I don't need to use flash to light the cave.

Reaching the depths of the cave, there was supposed to be Red, but standing another person. His sprite on the map without limbs or color, and his eyes look very hollow. I tried to get closer to him, but I was pulled into the fight. The background is pitch black, without any music. His image looks even more horrible when enlarged.

“... Want to fight!"

“... Sent out Celebi!"

The opponent sent out a shiny half Celebi, but its level was as high as 255 with no cry. This simply can't happen. Before I could react, Ethan sent out a Cyndaquil. It named "CRY". Level 0, with 0/0 health. Its image has no iconic back flame, and is crying. I checked the team at this point and found that the rest five Pokémon were fainted Unowns. Their word is "DEATH". I tried to fight, but when I pressed the battle button it just popped up a text with the words "CRY can't move". Then the opponent's Celebi used Perish Song.

For the next three turns I couldn't do any active because I couldn't move, and my opponent's sprite kept fading in and out after each turn, with only silence. till three turns were over, Celebi's health is cut out the screen, just like some game glitches. My Cyndaquil also started decreasing the health, eventually reaching -255/0. The game suddenly begins to emit a sharp and piercing noise that lasts for 5 seconds, and then the Cyndaquil disappears without any animation on the screen, and the text box tell me that it's dead.

The opponent's image appears again from the right side of the screen, now he has arms. After pressing A to skip a bunch of blank texts, I lost the battle with "blacked out". When the screen lights up again, my game character is in the Pokémon Center. There is no one here, but the hue and brightness are normal. At this point I noticed something was wrong with Ethan, I opened the trainer card to check him out and found that he had lost both arms, and it looked like he had been violently pulled off, and he was bleeding. The level 5 Unowns in the team has changed again, this time is the word "BELONG".

I walked out of the Pokémon Center, and outside was pale Goldenrod City. There is still no exit here, but there are NPCs without faces. Whenever I talk to them, an red eye Unown appears, and then the NPC disappears. After I finished my last conversation, my character spinning again just like using escape rope, and then returned to the pokémon center in Goldenrod City. At this point the whole city turned to purple, and I had to keep going forward to talk to the characters I had met before. But this time the Unowns has order. They form the phrase: "I NEVER MEET YOU". Then I was forced into battle again.

It was still pitch black with was no music, but this time the man standing across from him was exactly same as himself on the trainer card, he seemed sad and his arms was gone. Neither side sent pokémon out in this battle, and the battle buttons only allowed my Ethan to "use" to Take Down, and the opponent would only use the Struggle to attack me. but he only hit with the recoil. There is no doubt that Ethan on the other side ran out of health first, but then he attacked me with the Destiny Bond, and finally two people disappeared from the screen one after another.

After the battle, I was teleported to the Sprout Tower. The image on the trainer card is even more broken, Ethan has lost his legs, and he's crying. There's also no animation effect when walking on the map. I checked the team again, and at the end there was a 100 level shiny Celebi. It also looks like cut in half, and it's named "MYSELF". The rest is still Unowns. They are also shiny, and the word is "SLAIN". Next I did the same thing again, I walked to the top of the tower into the hollow pillars, and returned to the end of the corridor in the blood-red room. I tried to investigate the walls again, but this time, both options were YES.

I got no choice, so I pressed the A key. Then the bright red corridor slowly darkened, and the pale man who had been seen earlier at MT.Silver appeared and slowly approached from behind. Immediately after that is the start of another battle. II noticed that the man with the hollow eyes now had limbs, and Ethan, which I controlled, had lost limbs after two battles.

"... Sent out PLEASE!" this is a level 255 Typhlosion with no face and lower limbs. I then released that level 100 half shiny Celebi, even though I didn't set it at the front of the team. Due to the level, the Typhlosion's attack faster. It used Dream Eater to attack Celebi, but nothing happened.

"MYSELF used Perish Song!" I tried to attack his Typhlosion with my only move, and the next three turns were all the same, and after the turn was exhausted again, both Pokémon on the screen were ran out health. But the battle is not over.

"PLEASE! Used Pain Split!" Celebi made a shrill noise like the previous Cyndaquil, and then died. The background turns a glare of pure red. After a while, the screen went completely dark. I kept pressing the direction button, even though I wasn't sure if it worked.

"Why..."

The game pops up a text box, and I pressed the A key to close it. Now I'm surely believe that the battle is over and I'm in a completely dark place. I checked the team and found that there was nothing left. The trainer card is also completely blank. Next whenever I control the direction buttons for a while, the game will pop up a text box.

"..."

"Did I do anything wrong...?"

"It hurts..."

"I can't see anything."

"Why?"

After these text were showed, no matter how I press the buttons, nothing will pop up again. I think it was probably the game that reached its final moments. So I checked the trainer card on the lower screen again. Ethan lost his color this time, his eyes, and even his name was completely blank. His eye were hollow, and he was bleeding. The Unowns in the team turns into 6 fainted "IMDEAD".

The screen light up again after a long time, and it was like in GBC, with Ethan standing in the middle of the tombstone group without limbs and eyes, and could no longer make him move. I tried to restart the game and it worked. When I re-entered the game, it turned black again. This time there is not even a menu on the lower screen. After a long time the game popped up a text box, it's also GBC style. And the interval between each letter popping up is extremely long.

"I got what I wanted."

"Now it belongs to me."

After these text were shown, my lower screen is available again. I checked my team for the last time, there was still nothing. But the Trainer Card became very different: his name changed from Ethan to GOLD, the costumes of the characters were the same as those in Gold and Silver Version, he did not lose any part of his body, his pupils were not gold or blue, it was crimson. But also with a smile. The money was maximized, the game time became 999:59, and 16 badges appeared out of thin air.

The person in this trainer card neither GOLD, nor Ethan who was killed before. GOLD didn't change the fate of death in lost silver, but his obsession not to be forgotten by the world was preserved and transformed into a grudge that was exactly the same as GOLD's appearance. It thought that the way not to be forgotten by the world was to go to the new generation, so it killed Ethan and replaced his place then back in the world of the fourth generation. This so-called GOLD is nothing more than an empty shell.

I TURNED IT OFF AND PUT THE GAME CARD BACK IN THE BOX AND SEALED IT, AND TO THIS DAY I DON'T REMEMBER WHERE TO PUT IT. I'VE RARELY PLAYED THE REMASTERED VERSION SINCE THEN, CAUSE I'M AFRAID SIMILAR TRAGEDIES WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. THE EMPTY SHELL GOLD, FULL OF RESENTMENT, DID IT, AND HE LEFT AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON ME THROUGH SUCH CRUEL MEANS. HE COULD NEVER BE FORGOTTEN BY ME. FOREVER.

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