User:MrCluckersGaming

 The Ghost Of Emerald

  I have been collecting and searching for hacked or modified Pokémon cartridges for years. Then in the year 2005 I stumbled upon a Pokémon Emerald Game on the floor of my school Gym. I picked it up as any sane person would and took back to my house ready to play. although I had no clue or any hopes of its being a hacked game I still always loved to play an old game for a bit of nostalgia. I searched my room for the whole day looking for my GAME Boy Advanced. Then I finally gave up and begged my parents to drive me to the local GameStop to pick up a Gameboy. I grabbed a simple blue Gameboy looked like it was in mid condition but I couldn’t say the same for The Pokémon Emerald game it had a gash along the front of the Pokémon Emerald picture. I still didn't mind though all I wanted to do is to start playing. 

  Once I got home I shoved the game cartridge in the Gameboy so overwhelmed to play an old game again. I turned on the Gameboy and the Pokémon screen popped up but as soon as it did it looked different but almost the same. I clicked the start button and as any long time Pokémon gamer would do is check out the previous game that was available so I hit the continue button. I came into the game in a dark cave with only one Pokémon on me. That Pokémon was Ghost from Pokémon Red I didn’t even think it was possible to have such a Pokémon in this game. I still had to figure out what I was doing in the cave though so I looked around the edges but I couldn’t see a thing the screen was so dark. So instead I opened my player card and I didn't see the normal boy or girl character for Pokémon Emerald what I had seen was a similar to the normal emerald boy character but he looked sad and had bloodshot eyes and he looked older by maybe 5 or so years and his name was simply "..No..". 

  I was a little weirded out at this point but then i looked at the stats of Ghost and to my surprise he knew the move flash I immediately used it and the whole room suddenly become visible. I looked around and could see all along the wall what looked like dead versions of the Pokémon main characters. I sat there with a disgusted look on my face. I had no doubt in my mind now that this was a hacked game. Now that I was sure it was a hacked game it only made me want to find out more to what was happening. I searched in the room and right when I was about to give up on the whole thing and start my own save I found the exit to the cave. I walked through glad to be away from the severed heads of the main characters. The screen turned black for a while than finally I could see that I wasn't in a normal part of the game the area I was in as told in the top corner of my screen I was in a village called Haightville. I was on the edge of the mountain with a long stair case leading down toward the village. I walked down the stairs but then I remembered that I should probably save the game before I get too far just in case the Gameboy crashes. 

  Then half way through saving it said "Why would you save now we are just beginning......" I was now confused it was just the beginning even though I had put in 1 full hour to just getting out of that cave. So I just went with it and exited the game menu and continued down the steps then some creepy music started to play I didn't recognize the music at all from any Pokémon games. I still kept going out of curiosity. I made it into the town and there where NPC characters here so as I would I started talking to them most of them just said "......" but there was one in the town who gave me an item called the "Spirit Flute". As someone would normally do when you got an item that you had no clue what it did you looked look in your bag and read the description. It said "This item calls upon the spirits around you" so I used it. Then my Ghost Pokémon came out of its ball and came towards me with a faint expression of dislike. He started coming slowly then he flew straight threw my character and returned back to its poke ball. Then on the screen it said "...No...” Has lost some of his life to Ghost. I then checked my Pokémon my player card when I opened the player card I saw that I had aged many more years I know looked in my mid 60's It was like Ghost had drained a part of me. My character expression became even more displeased than before. I checked Ghost and he looked livelier or as lively as you can get for a Ghost. 

  I searched a few more houses then I finally noticed that all the houses looked identically to one another the same dark purple roof with light wooded walls. There was no Pokémon center no market all it had was rows upon rows of houses. I searched every single one and still had found nothing other than the Spirit Flute. I got to the edge of the town and there was a great big forest resting there. I tried entering multiple times and each time it had said "...No...” Is too week to enter this place. I had no clue what to do beyond this point so I left the game for a few days and came back to it and when I loaded the game again on my screen all I could see was the lifeless face of my trainer then a flash of light struck my screen and then Ghost appeared then went off the screen and it all faded black and I was back in the room with all the headless main characters. I sat there with a lot of confusion in my mind I had no idea what to do next. Then suddenly the main characters started to rise up and come toward my trainer but I couldn’t control him anymore. Then my trainer said "Take me, it’s over anyways rid me of this horrible spirit there is no purpose, I give up.......” The screen went black and all you could hear was the shallow screams of the trainer as he was taken by the other characters. I looked at the screen for a long period of time in disbelief. The only question in my mind was why would someone make something like this? <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">

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<p style="margin:0in0in0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;"> The next day I went to GameStop and sold away the Gameboy and the horrifying game. I wanted to forget all about it but I guess in such a kid friendly game like Pokémon it’s hard to forget something like that. I still haven’t picked up another Pokémon game because of that day. I guess there is no need to when Ghost is by my side haunting me. <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">

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