User:Callum Chapatte

I admit, like most guys my age I have always been into gaming and it has always been in my life to fall back on when times were tough or just for fun =] but there has been a game sega that I was not particulary familiar with...This sega was Halo. Well at least not till the Christmas of 07. I was asked by my cousin to come up and play a new game he had got on the new console, the Xbox 360. Now haha being honest, I was practically jizzing to play it! the Xbox 360! Halo 3! from what I have seen on the short but sweet commercial looked, pretty fucking awesome! So after unwrapping all my presents at about 10AM and after eating the early Christmas dinner at lunch (yeah, weird) I bolted it up to my cousins!.The day was Pretty overcast, where I come from it's always overcast/raining and quite dark(Guessed it?) so it probably doesn't make any difference. When I got there I was welcomed him with a big smile on his face meaning: Cous, this game is the shit! and we both ran up his stairs.his room was pretty dark but weren't all enthusiastic gamers rooms like this?. So anyway when I saw the new console that I had been begging my parents to get for me i shivered with exitement, seriously! then he handed me the controller.I was studying everything to do with the console but then I was told "c'mon ya eidjit" so then I concentrated on the paused game. The moment he unpaused it we were right in the action, getting shot by plasma bullets and little hunchbacked alien men that everytime I shot seemed to scream with fear, anguish and pure pain and horror and I almost felt really bad for them but this was blurred out and ignored due to the fact my shields being low and my cousin just died...again.. So anyway, we've been playing campaign for a good few hours as it was nearing the evening and the sun had just about set. I haven't played online multiplayer on any console nor have I ever even played anything over 2 players. We started and I was suprised when I seen that there was 14 people joining us!.We started off and it was amazing!. All the bullets flying everywhere, everyone using tactics to best one another, suffice to say, I was in heaven!=] Now i'm no stranger to warped games, games that've been tampered with and are meant to scare people and even knowing this, they still scare the shit out've me regardless but most of the ones I had heard hadn't came from a first person shooter if none at all. We were getting man handled at this game. Probably because we're "noobs"?. So we decided to retreat to the corner of the map so we could stay alive a little longer and so my cousin could go to the toilet as he had been holding it for a while.(TMI?) So there I was with my cousin's spartan, peeping out from the bushes then, a plasma grenade came out've nowhere and as I tried to get away I was blasted away down to an unknown area off the map but...I hadn't died. the grenade was practically next to me...why?. my cousin's spartan was dead and his screen was on spectator mode. I ended up in this off the map area, obviously glitched and as the battle continued, I continued to trek on and explore this...place. I kept walking and scouting around. Even though this was glitched, it was amazingly vivid. Moss on the rocks and trees, the crunch with every step taken. As I kept walking it had gotten darker and darker. the bullets fired from the battle were fading out. same with any sound for that matter. It was getting a tad creepy I admit, nothing was happening or anything it was just...eerie. My trooper marched on. Then, barely visable, I saw a shack. Or a shed. Why was this here? what was its purpose?!. then as I stopped walking to investigate the shack I heard it. The crunching....The Crunching.....THE CRUNCHING. I turned my spartan around to where I had came from and I had seen it. A shadow. It didn't move, it just stayed there. Not sure if it was watching me or what it's true intensions were. I lobbed my last grenade at the figure if it even was a figure and as it exploded...nothing happened.. I waited there for what seemed like a few minutes. and nothing happened. At this point I was pretty scared. What the hell is this?! was this meant to be in the game? has this even been dicovered before?. This was shit creepy but.. I wanted to go on. Then.. the cruching. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. I saw the "figure" again and I turned and ran as fast as the spartan could go which wasn't that fast but just as fast to get away from it. I was running towards the shed. The door opened by itself which was creepy but I was being chased so I didn't think of it that much. As I ran past the door it snapped shut along with a hiss behind me. Wtf?!. before I explored the shack I looked at the time left in the match "00:00". the match was over so why was I still playing in this "glitch"?. I pressed back on the pad and it showed that there was no other players left and my cousins screen has faded to black when I wasn't concentrating on it. I pressed pause to quit the game but there was no options, no settings, nothing. I pressed the pause button again to have the figure right before me and it looked like it was vibrating or something then....BANG. my spartan had just died... I was still able to see my body though and it was weird I didn't respawn. I could see this Thing walking towards the dead spartin and start to caress it. As I was increasingly getting scared and scared I dropped the controller and ran to my cousin leaving the crunching behind. The bathroom that my cousin was in was a little bit away from his room, 3 stories down to be precise and it was very dark. I had no idea what time it was at all and there was no light on so I kept hitting against walls and doors etc. I was nearly at the bathroom door when I heard it. the crunching....The Crunching.....THE CRUNCHING. I just stood outside the door..waiting... scared and crying a little. I've seen enough Shit to know something had happened to him and this crunching sounded...wet. Finally I had worked up the courage to twist the cold dark handle clockwise. as I was opening the door, a burning breeze of heat gaped out from the inside then the all to familiar screams came welling out and I had almost jumped with fright but continued to open the door, slowly. It was revealed. The small shadow on my cousins body with these horrendus screams coming from it and...THE CRUNCHING!! I even think it looked up at me and...and..I ran, I ran for my life to make it out've the house. Sobbing, screaming with cries, I made it out and ran home as fast as I could, barely stopping for breath, those torturous screams were the only thing on my mind... I was at my house and I bust open the door to be greeted by my parents with an eerie expression on their faces and they spoke in a warped and etchy voice. "What is wronggg..." then they both started turning, darker and paler. I can't explain it... I pushed them aside with all my strength and ran to my room and shut that door behind me!. lieing on my bed I started to cry thinking about all that had happened today and eventually I fell to sleep, lost in the voidness, the darkness of my dreams. Just before I fell into unconciousness I was met by that sound... that sound that scared the very fibre of my being... The.. Crunching... I was asleep and in my dreams I heard it... "the screams"....but now, they were my screams... =[ "Why did you do this to me?!" *grunts* (Get it?) --

Alot of this is based on stuff that'd actually happened one christmas except the the death of my cousin and the weird parents. it turns out that my cousins dad had gotten the game illegally off the guy who sells him rip-off ciggarettes. but this shadow wasn't fictional and has been in my life ever since. I can still hear it though, that crunching...