Lavender's Fate

Hello, just call me EpicOmnom. This is a creepypasta about a game I encountered. Trust me, this is not going to be cliché, well not as much as other creepypastas. You wanna know why? It is because this one is totally true.

It all started about one year ago, when I was about thirteen and I was really into Pokemon. The movies, the cards, the figures, etc. But eventually, the games got old. Pokemon Black and White 2 were coming out and I had quite a few games; Platinum, Ranger, Heartgold, Soulsilver, Pokepark, Pokepark 2, Snap, Stadium 2, Rumble Blast, Black, and White. But I stopped buying the new games after Black and White.(God, I hate the Unova).

Anyway, a while back I played Yellow until I got to Brock’s gym, and for some reason I put the game away for a while. A few months later after I was sick of the new games and I started playing Yellow again. After playing for a while I got really into the game. Sadly, I wasn’t born for Red and Blue and I was a baby for Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal. Also, I didn’t get into Pokemon until Diamond and Pearl so I have no Nostalgia for the games since I am so young. But then I realized that the older Pokemon games are the best!

Since I was so in love with Yellow, I looked eBay and amazon for a Pokemon Blue game hoping to get one for cheap, but every one was $200-$300! Even the ones that were pre-owned. My only chance was my local retro video game stores. I went to about three of them, but no luck. As I rode my bike home, I bumped into my next door neighbor, Derek. He was about fourteen at the time, a year above me, and he was sitting in the grass in the middle of his lawn. It looked like he was holding something. I stopped my bike and ran up to him and asked “What’s up?” concerned. I noticed he was shaking.

He covered his ears like he was ignoring me. I kicked him gently

<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“Don’t ignore me.” He uncovered his ears.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“Oh sorry, it’s still playing in my head.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“What?” I asked, confused.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“Oh nothing,” he replied, depressed.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“What have you been doing?” Derek asked.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“Just looking for this freaking Pokemon Blue game, I can’t find it anywhere!” Derek’s eyes widened.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“You serious?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“Yeah,” I said blankly.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Derek uncovered what was in his hand. It was a Pokemon red game! I eagerly grabbed it from his hand. It was an actual Pokemon red game. “Whoa, this is too cool,” I said with excitement.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“Meaning you’ll take it?!” Derek yelled, also with excitement. “Heck yeah! Thanks!” I said. Derek jumped up and ran into his house, cheering with joy.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">I walked into my house, guessing Derek just didn’t like Pokemon something. I really wanted to get Blue so I could get Ninetails and Persian but Red is pretty cool, I do like Growlithe. The cartridge was in perfect condition, no writings on it, no scratches, no missing label. I plugged it into my older sister’s old Gameboy Color that she gave to me about six years ago and turned it on. The intro popped up and I was so excited to play my new game. The Nidoran and Gengar popped up, but it was weird; their faces were sorta evil looking. They were smiling evily, even Gengar's was more evil than usual. And instead of jumping at each other, they both turned toward the screen, looking straight at me, and jumped toward the screen.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">The screen went all static, and I turned it off. I thought for a second, hoping that Derek didn’t give me it because it was broken. But I thought about how the Pokemon turned towards me. I looked on the internet before playing again, and I watched the real intro, making sure that it matched my game, but it didn’t. It was the way I thought the intro was supposed to be. I ran over back to my Gameboy and took out the cartridge. I read the label on the back, and saw that the official Nintendo seal wasn’t on there.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“Crap,” I said, “He gave me a hacked game.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Here is one of the cliché parts, my curiosity got the best of me and I gave the game another try. I skipped the intro to avoid the game glitching up and pressed start.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">There was one continue game that was named Lavender. I thought that was weird but I pressed new game because I really didn’t give a crap about Derek’s profile. I skipped through what Oak said because I have been through it so many times. When it got to the names, the only name Oak suggested was Lavender. Um, that’s weird, I thought. I picked new name and the word box showed up, but the blank spaces for the letters was filled with the word Lavender. But, I didn’t fill in Lavender.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Also, names can only contain seven letters. I tried backspacing, but it wouldn’t do so. I decided to choose my only option, Lavender. The only weird thing so far was the lavender thing. But I didn’t let it phase me. I was in my room as usual, nothing wrong. I went downstairs, and my mom in the game ran up to me with and exclamation mark. “Oh Lavender, I love you so! Please have mercy on me today”. “I’ll think about it” said my character. My mom gave me 99999 Pokedollars. Mercy? Here I realized this is one of those creepy hacks.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">I get scared so easily, so I called my little brother into my room to keep me company. Anyway, at least I got the money. I thought about some videos of hacks of Pokemon I had watched and people sometimes said different things in the game. I walked outside into pallet town, the music was normal, and the graphics were normal. But when I walked around and talked to people, they say things like:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“Please..Don’t”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“*Cry*”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“…”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“I’ll do anything you want just leave me alone please.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">"I want to live another day!"

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">It seemed that Lavender had a reputation of violence. I encountered Oak. He turned away from me. I talked to him. “No..please not today!I have three days left!” he said. Holy freaking crap. This is the creepiest game ever. I was so shocked, I stopped breathing for a moment.From there I knew I had to write about this, so I caught my breath and continued.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">My character said, “Too late”. Oak replied “No! I’ll do whatever you want. I can tell you where a masterball is, I can give you my Charizard, my Blastoise, and my Venusaur. PLEASE!!!!”. A ‘yes’ or ‘no’ box popped up. I chose ‘yes’ because I knew something gruesome would happen otherwise. “Obtained Oak’s Pokemon”. Automatically, a pidgeot used fly and took me off to a cave.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">It was all red and lavender town played softly. CLICHÉ ALERT! Anyway it was a huge hallway that was blood red. There was also a sign that read “Masterball ahead!”. I checked my party, and there were the three fully evolved starters Oak gave me, all level one hundreds. I walked down the cave hallway. Slowly the Lavender town’s music increased in volume.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">I kept on walking. It was like an endless hallway, but I knew there was a masterball somewhere, unless it was a lie. When the music grew at max, my ears started to hurt bad, so I turned down the volume so it wasn’t as bad. But suddenly, a dialogue box appeared:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“Venusaur has fainted”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Thank God it didn’t say die like every other creepy hacked pokemon game, but I was still concerned.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">I checked my party and all my Pokemon were there, including Venusaur who had just fainted. But the scary thing was that Charizard and Blastoise weren’t poisoned, instead, it said frightened. My little brother started to freak out. I guess the music and words were getting to him. He left my room and I was freaking scared, but I needed to know what would happen.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Soon Charizard fainted, and then Blastoise, but I was still able to keep going. After walking for another minute, my character stopped, repeatedly ran into walls back and forth and a dialogue box appeared and said:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“Lavender had died.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Figures, but another one appeared, “This is what you get, Lavender for all you have done. Now you shall suffer”. There was a scream, and then static. The Lavender music finally played so loud, it was like a screeching sound. I dropped my Gameboy. I shaked wildly. I couldn’t take it. Then a screamer of Lavender appeared, totally disfigured. His eyes were full of hate, his eyes were missing, he had tears of blood, and bloches of flesh were missing from his face. It seemed like he was smiling. One last dialogue box appeared.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“You’re next!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">I shut off the Gameboy, my ears were causing me unbearable pain. I took out the cartridge and threw it against a wall, and smashed it with a hammer.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">The next day, I went to Derek’s house, but he wasn’t there. His parents said he is at a mental hospital, something about “That music” and “Lavender”. I hadn't seen him since. A few months later, his parents told me there was a new phase of Derek's insanity; he would attack others and would always crazily bump into walls randomly...just like Lavender... From there, I stuck with Pokemon Yellow, and I swore not to touch Red or Blue ever again