Always Crying

This all started when I borrowed Pokémon Yellow from my friend. You see, I always wanted to play it. My favorite Pokémon is Pikachu. And I thought it would be so awesome to not only get all three starters in it BUT you get to have Pikachu as your starter! And that was even before I knew it actually said "Pika!" And "Pikachu" and was the voice of Pikachu! As soon as I played it, I fell in love! But anyway, this isn't about that. Heck really it isn't even about Pikachu. No. It's about a Pidgey. You see on my first play through, I actually about had a freak out and had to check

Bulbapedia when I caught my first Pidgey and battled with it. Have you ever noticed the back sprites in Red Blue and Yellow look like there crying? That one long white line of pixels? Well with me being a creepypasta addict I thought it wasn't normal till I checked and saw it was. Well THAT was a relief… for a time. So I beat it, and yes I did the Mew hack and all sorts of other stuff, but with my friend's permission. After that I returned it. Surprised huh? Thought that maybe it was with that play through? That game? No. I wanted to play it again though, so I downloaded a ROM for it. And if you're curious I played through the ROM once just fine, catching a Pidgey and all. So it was fine. It wasn't a bootleg or hack, if that's what you thought. Nope, nothing odd happened on that play through either. Nothing really happened till the third…

So I beat the ROM and played around on it for awhile, till I got bored finding nothing to do. But I still loved the game so much. So I decided to start a new game on the ROM. I smiled as I rebooted it up and selected New Game. I then, once again, as I had the first and second time playing it, because I felt uncreative, named my character ASH. Everything was normal still. It was normal as I got my Pikachu, it was normal when I battled my rival, who by the way I named GARY like every time as well. If you're going to name your char ASH, then might as well name your rival GARY. Well anyway it was normal as I fought Pidgey's and rattata's off as I went to Viridian City. It was normal as I went around and just for the hell of it tried to walk past the old guy who hadn't had his coffee. Normal as I got Oak's Parcel and delivered it. Normal Normal Normal. Until I got my first pokeballs. Of course I went out to get new Pokémon. I first ran into a Rattata's who I named RAT and quickly deposited it in the PC; I had no use for it. I then went around I kept finding Pidgey's, but kept accidently fainting them as I tried to weaken them. I then went off to Route 22 and caught a Mankey, who I named Monk. As I walked around I was thrown into a battle screen. There was a Pidgey. I smiled. I now had a Mankey who didn't have a super effective move on Pidgey yet. I quickly swapped out and weakened the Pidgey. I then tossed a pokeball and almost cheered out loud at catching it, after fainting so many on accident you probably would to. I named the Pidgey WING. I quickly went to heal it and switched to the first slot, wanting to train it. This is where it gets weird. I got into a battle with a wild Rattata again. I shrugged and said "Alright WING! Show your stuff!" I sent out WING. He looked normal from the back except… was the odd white streak a bit thicker and a bit more blue? I shrugged it off as my imagination then went to fight and Gust. Here's where it got really weird. It said as I pressed it "RATTATA feels bad for WING, RATTATA didn't attack." I blinked and said "Huh? What it say?" I shook my head then it said "WING used Gust. Wild RATTATA fainted. WING cries out. WING gained 55 EXP!" I blinked and said "Wait! What it say before that?" Now I was a bit freak, but again brushed it off. 'I must have read too many creepypastas.' Is what I thought. I sighed then checked WING's Status, to see how close he was to leveling up. I blinked when I saw that instead of the front sprite, WING's status showed his back sprite. And wait, was that white streak thicker and bluer? I shook my head and said "OK, calm down, your imagining things." Yeah, I didn't want to believe what was going on.

==Well I exited out and decided for now to go back to training MONK, so I went to training him. Everything was fine. Till I decided to train WING again. I was now in Viridian Forest, and had just got a Caterpie who I named BUTTERFLY since when I got the time I was going to evolve it to a Butterfree. Well I tried training BUTTERFLY just a bit, and he fainted, of course. I shrugged and knew that WING needed training anyways. I sent him out. But his back sprite's white streak was even thicker now! And it wasn't even that white anymore! I rubbed my eyes and said "Alright…" But I decided to battle anyways. I selected Gust, and again the opponent went first, oh yes the opponent was a Kakuna if your curious. Anyways it again said "KAKUNA feels bad for WING. KAKUNA uses HARDEN to HARDEN its heart to be able to fight." I gasped, and instead of the usually box animation thing, it showed a red heart being incased in the box instead. There was nothing saying that Kakuna's defense went up even! I was scared now. Next the text read "WING doesn't want to attack… But WING knows he has to… WING used SOLEMN SONG" I of course thought 'Wait that isn't an attack!' But it still attacked anyways. It played the Sing animation only the tune was an 8-bit version of My Immortal by Evanescence, so it took awhile. I found that VERY odd. The text read "SOLEMN SONG hit KAKUNA! KAKUNA couldn't ignore it! KAKUNA just couldn't harden his heart enough! KAKUNA started crying. KAKUNA fainted from sadness. WING is crying more now! Wing gained 򃈴ÿ񘵼2ℤ𞅉8卪K5 EXP ࡮𡄾󪭚㯺続36񎠜" I gasped as the text glitched out. It then faded back to the overworld, only Pikachu wasn't behind me! I gasped and quickly checked my party, happy, yet scared, to see that he was only fainted… so were MONK and BUTTERFLY as well.. The only one NOT fainted was WING. I checked all my other Pokémon's status's and they all had tears in there eyes, but were otherwise normal, other than there stat thing said "FNT FRM SDNESS" I easily found out it meant Fainted From Sadness. I gasped then checked WING's status page. For once WING was facing me, but even his front sprite had tears on it. But now there were bits of red mixed in and his head was cocked up as if looking into the sky and his mouth was opened as if he was crying out sadly. I was rather scared and decided to try and go to the Pokémon Center. But as soon as I turned around the screen flashed white then WING was in front of me, I could tell because somehow it was a shrunk version of WING's status screen picture. A box popped up like when you talk to Pikachu and it showed WING's head in high quality with his eyes closed and tears streaming down. Bits of red mixed in to them. My heart twanged for the poor mass of pixels. After awhile it dropped down and a text box appeared. "WING: … Why? Why'd you take me away? I had parents… I hatched not that long ago… Why'd you take me away? Will I ever see them again? 𸢉󨃩3吹3񌾳󹵍詬詬褼𷩑Ţ3ࡩ143 4񚵟436321ᓟ25453" The text box glitched out then, but a Yes, No box popped up. I thought then sighed. Most likely he wouldn't. I wouldn't go back there anytime soon, and the thing is, how in the hell was he going to see them again anyways, other than in battle? But… He'd be sad. I decided to choose yes. But then a text box popped up that read "WING: …. Don't lie…. Tell the truth…." Another yes no box popped up. I frowned and picked No. Another text box appeared "WING: Of course… not with you… but…" There was a sorrowful cry then another text box popped up that said "WING wants to be released. Will you release WING?" A yes no box popped up. I frowned and thought then said "WING will see it's alright to be with me. He's sad now… but most likely he wouldn't even find his parents again… It's safer to be with me… He'll see." I didn't want to think of having to catch another Pidgey. I selected the NO option. I really wish I hadn't. Another sorrowful cry screeched through my computer speakers. I had to cover my ears. A text box popped up that said "WING: YOU WILL PAY!" Then the screen flashed and I was thrown into a battle. On the opponents side of the screen was WING, only his mouth was wide open and his eyes were black pits, with one little red dot for a pupil. Red blood tears streaked his face. He looked mangled, His head mostly turned up to the sky, his wings spread out to show his ribs. Black goo seeped from his feathers over his chest. I shuddered. What happened to my poor Pidgey? On my side was just my trainer. Of course, all my other Pokémon were fainted. I frowned and a text box popped up that said "WING: I ONLY WANTED TO GO HOME! WHY WON'T YOU LET ME GO BACK! I ONLY WANTED TO GO BACK!" Then another text box appeared "WING 𺬧򜂶3𥨗43吼3635􀗮3󴇣3󖌁3𫠎񕱺2ç񖤈ş u񖝗3࡬1s񁗖ො43ȟed񒛯3𣌵14 SORROW CRY! IT HURT ASH􀃳3􀃳3£ᓪ35ꨜ3𽣈4135󷌠4฀卪CRITICALLY!" A blaring screech mixed with a Pidgey's cry blasted through my speakers and hurt my ears. I watched as a health bar suddenly appeared by my trainer and it sunk down into low yellow. Now looking up I saw that WING's health bar said "WING𞮗󫠆詫𲗜𰥭򅹠ʙᖪ𛕤񖨠𙭵⭧☼Ǥ LVL.54684564" His health bar now stretched around the screen. I gulped as another text box popped up and said "WING: IT HURTS DOESN'T IT! I'M NOT DONE YET!" then another text box popped up that said "WING used 𚎌421ȃ񚻑񽞝3񒖱󯒛584񺓮453󎏼54񌰼5򵎣󛏉8♦3󖌯4 𴡨񖣺纳 SORROW SONG" It played the Sing animation and it played an 8-bit version of PMD2's I don't want to say goodbye song. It wrapped around my char and once the song was over a text box popped up that said "ASH started to cry, ASH collapsed to his knees." A new text box then popped up that said "WING: I'M STILL NOT DONE!" another popped up that said "WING used CURSE! ⳻o𛈇𳢧⭧y񵵼♂☼Ȅ䠢𥟌Ü㯺㓌҃҃4𜍜⯘࡫諜誜󧬃486􅩏ȢȢ℀℀ᕎ훈 Amber's games are now cursed!" I gaped at that. How'd it know my name? A new text box appeared "WING: Your suffering has just begun… you'll never own another Pidgeot again… From now on any Pidgey you breed, catch, or get in a trade will die once it evolves… Any Pidgeot's you already own shall die… any Pidgeotto's will die as well… any received through trades that are evolved shall be lost in trade… You won't have any more…" I shook. No it couldn't be true. It was all in my head. Yes. Another text box appeared that said "WING: Goodbye…" I then watched in horror as somehow an evil grin stretched across WING's face and a text box popped up that said "WING used DEATH" A horrible screech played out my speakers. Once it stopped it said "WING and ASH has died…." The screen then faded to black. I watched in terror as the simple message of "The saved file has been corrupted…" Appeared. I quickly exited out of the ROM. It took days before I decided to play Pokémon again. I decided to play my SoulSilver version. I smiled as I saw my old team… only one problem… My Pidgeot name Akira was missing! I quickly went to the nearest Pokémon Center and to the PC, only to find her not there either. I started crying. I quickly went to catch another Pidgey just to test and see if what WING said was true. I quickly leveled it up, and evolved it. You see, the odd thing is after every level up my new Pidgey seemed to get sadder. Once it evolved, the Pidgeotto was always in a position with its wings out, head to the sky, black eyes with little red dots, crying blood, and black goo seeping from its chest. Once it went out of the evolution screen, I took a step thinking about taking it to the Pokémon center, only to have a text box say "Pidgeotto has died" Pop up after one step. The escape rope animation then played and I was taken to what looked like the old Pokémon Tower in 1st gen. But it was in an odd room, there were only a few gravestones. My char did an animation like she ran into a wall, and a new gravestone appeared. On it, when I clicked it, it said "Here lies Pidgeotto, RIP." I went to the one nearest to it and it said "Here lies Akira, a faithful friend and beloved companion." Tears welled in my eyes. So Akira had died as well. I went over to the others only to be horrified to see it had the name of every Pidgeotto, or pidgeot that I ever owned on my games, including mystery dungeon. I cried for 10 minutes. (I'm not a long crier.) I walked to the last one to be horrified. On the gravestone was "Here lies WING. He told you this would happen… I then turned off my game. Curious though I inserted my PMD blue rescue team game, went and tried to find my friend Pokémon Pidgey. I went to a dungeon with it and talked to him. His text horrified me "Pidgey: I feel so so sad… Goodbye's are coming soon…" I made it through the dungeon and the next 'day' in the game my char moved without me. She went to Pidgey's friend area and then I gained control, I tried to leave but a text box popped up and said "You can't leave yet, you have to take Pidgey to evolve!" I gulped and went over to Pidgey. A textbox popped up that said "It's time…" The screen faded to black and I was automatically Pidgey. I checked my team but it was only him. I gulped and left, I knew where I had to go. I went to Luminous cave, and went to evolve him. Once evolved the sprite was a mini version of my SoulSilvers Pidgeotto. The sprite then crumpled and a text box said "Pidgeotto has died. Akira buried him…" I turned off my game and cried again. I have never caught a Pidgey since. I also haven't played that ROM since… ==

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 * Authros Note* Short, and probably very clicheded... either way it has some reason to it, when I first played Pokemon Yellow I DID freak out when I saw pidgeys back sprite since I was way into Creepypasta. After confirming it was normal, I was fine, but this story started to take form.