Animal Crossing - Cinders

When I have nowhere left to go, I head to the Internet. So. That's where I'm heading now. I want to tell someone because if I don't I feel like it'll hurt me too. I shouldn't be scared. It's so stupid. I'm so stupid. Anyway. I'd better begin.

I'd recently bought a 3DS by selling my old DS Lite and most of my games. However, the 3DS's new games cost around £40 each and I didn't really have enough, so I tried my friend instead. She said she was willing to sell a games bundle for £22 and in that bundle was Animal Crossing: Wild World. I'd remembered owning the game a few years ago and I'd enjoyed it imensely, so I took the games, feeling proud for my luck. I got back home and as soon as I got into my room, I popped that game in, I was so excited! The game was in mint condition and worked perfectly. There was already an exsisting town named: Lmphee.

"Limp-he? Limpy?" I pronounced, trying to make sense of the name. I didn't get it. Still I looked at the old characters in the game. It's the bit where you see all the characters in their beds (asleep, as I later learned.) These characters were all awake however. A blue haired boy called Onira was laughing, a girl with brown hair called Suzanne frowned and plaited a piece of string/rope repeatedly, never stopping and a blonde character with a bow sat swinging her legs on the end of the bed, with no name. I thought this screen was just a normal part of the game to make characters more real, so ignoring it, I quit the selction screen and made a new character. I couldn't name her anything other than Danni- my name! I guessed the game looked up my details on the console and entered them. Far-fetched, but possible. When I got to town I spent at least an hour running around, shaking trees, chatting to neighbours. I quickly became friends with her. Cinders. Then I walked into my house. The house had four rooms. The main room had custom wallpaper with the word "ha" repeated in shaky red lettering over and over again. The floor was red with giant white letters spelling "IT ISNT ME, LEAVE IT! LEAVE ME! I'LL RUIN YOU ALL!" The furniture consisted of all the regal furniture collection, but that was strange too. The furniture was hacked and slumped. The only other item was a custom picture. The picture said "You'll all burn. All of us. Fun. Fun. Fun!" Then there was a picture of Onira smiling eerily, his smile stretched wide. I actually laughed out loud.

"My friend must have been so drunk when she made this!" I thought to myself, still laughing I procceeded to the next room. It was a tiny room, more custom wall and flooring, this time both white with plaited bits of rope. A small froggy chair sat in the middle, knocked over and above it was a short rope with a hole in the middle. I still laughed a bit. Then I checked out the third room. That room was just filled with custom portraits saying "You got away." in silver text. The rest of the room was completely normal. The last room still causes me to shake violently. I-it said on the wall and floor "currently deciding your fate.. Danni." How did it know my name? How? Did my friend just set this whole thing up? Just to troll me. What a bitch. So.. I facebooked her.

Me: Wendy?

Wendy: Yea :3

Me: You know you sold me Animal Crossing?

Wendy: Y?

Me: Why do u have those weird rooms in ur AC house? R u trollin me?

Wendy: I got that game from a relative. Never played it.

Me: WTF?! That game has my name in it. You can stop screwing now.

Wendy: The heck is wrong wit u? I said I never played it!

Me: Who's Onira & Suzanne? Their in da game 2.

Wendy: What the heck is wrong with you?!

Me: Wut?

Wendy: Suzanne was my aunty. She died you f***ing jerk! Satisfied?!

Me: WTF!?

Wendy is offline.

I still didn't believe her. I left her a bad message. The last one I ever sent her.

Me: U stupid cow! why did u do this? It aint funny. I'll find out what you've been doing and I'll report u 2 Nintendo. Thanks 4 nothing, "Friend"!

I don't usually get so explosive and I don't usually cuss, but I was so mad at her for doing this. I took pictures of the rooms and went out of the house expecting Tom Nook to go through his whole job rigamole. Instead he ran up shouted "LEEEAAAAAVVVVVEEEEEE!!!!!!" then ran away again. I tried heading to his store but it just said it was closed. I went to go talk to my new friend. Cinders. Did I mention her previously? Anyway she's a cat. A cute little cat. She's smaller than normal AC characters and she talks a lot more too. She has fluffy white fur with red limb, muzzle, fringe and ear patches and she always carries around a golden axe. I don't think any neighbour can carry axes and they definetely don't carry golden items, so I knew from the get go she was special. Also, like I said, she talks more. She asked me more interesting questions and I could respond with many more options than with other neighbours. Soon after she asked me to deliver a letter to Gaston. I delivered it to him and he shoved it into his pocket without showing me. Then he laughed. Demonically, not the original cutsie laugh. Shaking it off, I ran back to Cinders. She smiled, thanked me and then handed me her photo. If you've played AC: WW you know it takes ages to obtain a neighbour's photo, but I got this one in the space of around 50 minutes. I placed the picture in the rope room. The message on the back simply read "Hee-Hee!" Nothing much else seemed to be happening, but I took a few photos again. That's when I decided to add stuff to the other rooms. Of course I couldn't add much because Nook's store wouldn't open, but I had a stool and I wanted to put that in the fourth room (I'd since cleared the room of all the messages and custom objects.) When I got inside, a single note was on the floor. The note read:

Cg Mimon

Love and Blood

From your friend

Closing the note in anguish and confusion, I became shocked as the wallpaper and flooring was replaced with Cg Mimon --> I'm Coming. Danni ran out of the room on her own. Still, intrigued I tried to work out if Lmphee translated to anything. It could be translated as Helpme. Danni read the back of the photo on her own. It said "Closer" and it almost seemed that the picture of Cinders got creepier, the smile getting much larger. Something gold glittered in the pixelated hand. I left the house soon after. I was confused now. Wendy could decorate rooms but she wasn't a IT genius. She couldn't hack the entire script and create animations for items. Could she? I rolled it around in my head. "I got it from a relative." Maybe Wendy's aunty originally owned the game? It would explain why she was a character in the game. The two other characters didn't make sense. Unless.. the blonde character was Wendy. She got away, because she'd never played the game. It was deciding my fate because I began playing. I began thinking that somehow, Onira had cursed the game. Or hacked it, more likely. I had to admire the guys work. He was a good hacker. So as a stupid player, I went back to Cinder's house. Only this time she stood outside the house and talking to her only brought up the message "HEE-HEE" and a real voice actually spoke out. Not getting any responses I trailed home. Then I ran into a neighbour. I can't recall which one it was. They cried. They ran. But Gaston suddenly ran into view, full pelt into the sobbing creature. He began repeatedly kicking, biting, scratching the poor animal while shrieks ran through the speakers. The animal started to develop large wounds and bruises. Gaston even bent down and pulled an eye out with his teeth and the poor thing suddenly coughed blood and banged their head on the floor repeatedly, so the pain would stop. I ran, too confused and frightened to comprehend what was happening. I went back to the house and Danni automaticly looked at the photo again "By the pond" it said. Again, Cinder's smile got wider and scarier.

I would write more about what happened but essentially, each time the photo showed a location, Cinders showed up there and every time it was closer to my house. Until finally she was inside the house and the game began a cutscene. Cinders stood above me. Her eyes closed. A tiny smile on her anime face. Then she raised her axe.

"Chip!" She sang. The smile broadened. Then speedily, the axe lowered.

"Chop!" Followed by a loud THWACK sound effect and a splatter. A scream rang out, as loud as a car horn. Danni had a pained look on her face and red flooded out of a chip going halfway down her arm, the axe still lodged inside.

"Chip!" Cinders pulled the axe out and more blood flew out. Then she moved the axe towards my left arm and did the same, to both my legs too. Then she carved a fish on Danni's stomach. It was depressing to see that Danni also seemed to be enjoying it. Cinders completed the ritual by  "Hee-Hee" before the screen faded to black. Then a story appeared in red text.

''My name is Oscar, but I am Onira. I deeply thank you for playing the game and for playing with Cinders, she has taken a shine to you. My family wanted the happy lifestyle. I hated it. I was so alone. But the game made me feel needed. And I needed it in return. I also needed Cinders. Even after she was run over by that stupid woman, I needed her. So I kept her alive in the game. I LOVE YOU CINDERS. Even after I played the game and you took my life, I still love you. I'm not alone. But before I died, I passed her legacy on. To her killer, Suzanne. Suzanne had fun but she got hung with a ball of wool. Your friend escaped from the mouse trap. But cats can scratch and Cinders scratched you. You're it! Join us soon. You'll only have to wait a while, because s-h-e-s-c-o-m-i-n-g! We play forever in the city. I'll never be alone again.''

My name is Danni Smithson. And if you're reading this it's too late, because even now as the door slides open and I lie down not caring, I want someone to save me. I can feel it. The blade of an axe heavily dropping onto my right arm and the harsh bitter hurt of the blade being dug around. I cry silently, bearing to scream. But as always, she talks a lot. "Chip" The weight is lifted and I clench my fists, numbing the pain slightly. I hate it. But I love it. I don't want to live on this world anymore. I want to play. All day long. The pain is like chocolate, the chanting my sweet  music. You know they're bad, but you love them. My stomach tickled as a rounded pointy shape is drawn. I smile and she smiles. So as I fade from this earth, I laugh and I hear the sweetest little voice mutter "Hee-Hee!"