Burn in Violet

===Hi, I'm Whitefibre and this is my first creepypasta. I don't expect it to be super good, I expect it to be decent enough to be reviewed by you guys. I got inspiration for this from watching Haunted Gaming while I payed attention to Mutahar's critique, one day deciding to try and make a good creepypasta in his eyes. Sorry about the text appearing colored differently in certain parts, I don't know how to change it for I am new to submitting stuff to Wikia. I hope you enjoy, it's about Touhou.===

When I was much younger, and still in Middle School, my best friend at the time was a girl named Violet. We were inseperable, we shared so many common interests like video games, television shows, and Japanese  culture. We loved Japanese culture so much, we listened to their music, watched their anime, and even played some  games that were never released outside of Japan. But there was one series of games that stood out among the rest,  Touhou. Violet and I were always anticipating the next one and playing the windows games. However, it wasn't until  our last year of Middle School that Violet introduced me to 5 Touhou games which were released on a  Japanese only   computer called the Anex86.

As of now, there are 14 games in the series with 6 spin-offs. But back then, I had no idea those 5 games  on the Anex86 existed. During our last year of Middle School, Violet came over one day and introduced me to those 5  games and she even showed me where to download them online due to the fact that they never got an official English   release. However, there was one game she couldn't find a link to. Touhou 4: Lotus Land Story. I was disappointed but  she reassured me she'd continue her search for she had never played it either. In the mean time, I had to play with  Touhou 1, 2, 3, and 5.

  It wasn't until almost 2 weeks later that me and Violet finally got in touch again. When we met at the usual  place, my house, I could tell there was definitely something different about her. She didn't seem as chipper or  joyful. She seemed kind of melancholy and the mood she put out was depressing. When I finally had the gall to ask her  what was wrong, she merely reassured me that everything was okay. As we continued on with business as usual, I asked   her how the hunt for Touhou 4 was coming. In an unassuring tone, she said that she had found it. I eagerly jumped on the  computer and had her direct me to a website with the download link.

The website was rather baron, containing nothing but a few download links with a very bare description for each  download. There weren't even any adds but I didn't care, I was too excited to finally play the one game from my favorite game series  that elluded me. With haste, I downloaded it and set it up to install. However, as I was getting it all ready to play, Violet merely   stood up and headed for the door quickly. I stopped her and asked her what was wrong and all she did was turn her head and tell me  that she hoped I enjoyed the game. Without another word, she left. I didn't pursue her as I figured she was just having a bad day  and I finally had my hands on Touhou 4: Lotus Land Story.

A half hour had passed before I finally set up the Anex86 emulator and started up the game. The normal opening that  introduced me to ZUN rolled on by and the main menu finally appeared. I noticed something though; the game was quiet. No  main menu music was playing as I was accustomed to from all the other Touhou games I had played. It was dead silent but I  figured, since it was an emulator, that it was just glitching.. I selected single player and immediately chose Marisa as my  character. As the first stage began, the music appeared again. At the time, I didn't notice a difference, but after listening  to the song over and over again how I usually do, I realized that the first time I played it, the notes were much lower.

The usual assortment of Anex86 Touhou enemies swept over me, ghosts, random floating orbs, the usual. When I reached  the first boss, I beat her with ease. But where she was defeated, I saw tiny red pixels. I figured it was torn cloth fragments  since other Touhou games I played showed tattered, ripped clothes on your enemy after you defeated her. Without a care, I moved  ahead. Now I don't use an English translator, but sometimes in Anex86 Touhou games, some of the words appear in English. The few words I noticed instantly was "Lake of Blood." Ironically enough, the background appeared red like the torn cloth fragments  from the previous stage. I wouldn't say this is the first time ZUN encorporated something a little odd in his game, so I shrugged  it off. As I came to the stage 2 boss and her theme began playing, I realized it cut out in some parts and was higher pitched than  others. I figured the same thing as earlier, the emulator was glitching. I defeated the stage 2 boss and yet again, I saw  red pixels on the black ground she was defeated on. The odd thing is though... she wore all black clothes so shouldn't her torn clothes appear black  or not at all since it would blend in with the background?. I took note of it and pressed on. It wasn't until I read the game's story translated to English t hat I found out I was going to the Dream World.

Stage 3 hit me like a truck, things got alot harder. It was actually the first time I lost a life while playing the  game and I noticed that I didn't have the red stains beneath me when I died. I was baffled why it only appeared under enemies  but I thought that's a question I should ask later. The first thing I realized was the gigantic portal in the background of my  stage 3 boss. I didn't find this out until earlier, but it's supposed to be blue. This one was purple and actually appeared a tad  bit more menacing than the blue portal with the red border around it. Coincidentally, the boss wileded a scythe which just further  encouraged me to think I was traversing through Hell like in Touhou 1. At last I delivered the final blow, but the explosion that  you see after your enemy is defeated was alot bigger this time. There were also the red stains on the ground and they appeared bigger as well.



As I entered stage 4, I wasn't feeling very justified in what I was doing. One of my favorite songs from the series began  playing, Alice Maestra. I had listened to it before so I caught the difference. It was playing much more slowly as I began to  assault the enemies. They were little maids in blue dresses with blonde hair and... they too left the red stains. As I came to the  stage boss, I quickly skipped through the text and began the fight. I was watching the enemy health bar and as it was nearing the  <span style="font-size:14px;line-height:24px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;">half way point, the fight stopped. I couldn't attack her, she didn't attack me. She began speaking; her face was covered in purple  <span style="font-size:14px;line-height:24px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;">pixels, I guess to represent bruises. She flew off. I had no idea what was going on, I just continued to think it was part of the  <span style="font-size:14px;line-height:24px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;">game.

Stage 5 rolled around and I began to get a feeling that maybe I should just stop. If what I've been thinking at this point  was true, then I've been killing all of those bosses rather than just beating them up. I couldn't tell between what was supposed  to be and what wasn't supposed to be. With that and my burning curiosity, I continued. There was no music this time which made  me disappointed because when I later listened to the song, I rather liked it. The stage 5 boss appeared and I was ready to put up   one hell of a fight considering I was so close to the end. Something was amiss, Yuuka wasn't putting up nearly as much of a fight  as I thought she would, she was as easy as a stage one boss. I quickly beat her and instead of an explosion, she flew away, leaving  a trail of the red pixels that my character followed eagerly. I got the picture of what was going on by then. This wasn't a regular  incident like in all of the other Touhou games. This was a killing spree.

At last, I arrived at the last stage, stage 6. I wasn't very excited for what was to come and a part of me dreaded it. I didn't want to have to watch Marisa brutally anihilate anyone else so I paused the game and turned away from the screen for just  a moment. Even though it was paused, I could continue to hear the music and the sound effects as if the game was still going. I turned  and realized that it was. It wasn't paused and Marisa was controlling by herself. I watched in confusement as she teared through  the enemies and reached the final boss, Yuuka yet again. The dialogue was short and as soon as the fight began, I tried to control  Marisa but to no avail. I watched helplessly as Marisa dodged everything Yuuka desperatley threw at her and within a quick minute,  Yuuka was nothing but a red, pixelated blood smear in the background. Marisa danced around in glee as the credits rolled.

I shed a tear for poor Yuuka and myself as I realized what Violet was talking about. At the time, I couldn't believe that  ZUN had put this into a game. After my traumatizing weekend, I went to Violet's house to confront her about this. When the door opened,   it was her mom. She wasn't happy and I asked her where Violet was. She frowned as she invited me in to fill me in on what happened. She   told me of Violet's strange behavior as of late and how she would just hole herself up in her room. She couldn't tell me what she was exactly  doing, but she told me she sat at her computer on the web browser all day and night. Violet was sent to a mental hospital because  she apparently had homicidal thoughts and dreams.. I couldn't figure out what might've gave her these thoughts for the life of me. But then again  she wasn't very open about how she was feeling or her opinions on life and the world around her. It's as if she was a fire, and  everytime she was asked anything, she took her opinion and fed it to the fire until it was too large for her to control.

I wondered, if she wasn't sent to the hospital, would she have ended up like Marisa? At that thought, I rushed upstairs to her room. I got on her computer and went through her files. As I read, I was amazed and found out things about Violet I never even knew. As I   checked the last few files, some of them were codes. She knew how to code games apparently and I was impressed. Until I found the last  document. It was titled Touhou 4: Lotus Land Story. I had no idea what the codes meant, but before I left her computer, I pulled up her web browser  I noticed she bookmarked the website where I found Lotus Land Story. I then got up from the chair, horrified as I came to the realization that she lied   about her experiences with Touhou 4 and did this to me. She put me  through that murder fest of a "game" that SHE created. The fire that was her disturbed  psyche took over her and she must've projected it out through Marisa. She was consumed by the fires and we both burned. To this day, she's still in that hospital... fighting for control.