I drove down to the Gamestop. I went inside and told the person at the desk that I was told to come there because of a contest. He told me they hadn't had a contest in months. I was really confused. I walked out and was heading to my car when someone called me over. He was a big guy in a black T-Shirt and jeans. He said he was the one who had called me. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a DS cartridge. It was, I guess, my "prize". The cartridge read "Pokemon Gray". He said it was the third version of the Unova region. I hadn't heard of any 3rd version coming out, but I didn't want to argue with a free Pokemon game. He said "Take good care of this" and left. That was it. Nothing. I was kind of weirded out by this. I got in my car and drove home.
The main menu came up. It said New Game, Continue, or Options as always. I selected Continue, just to see what would happen. I was in that big giant city in the middle of the Unova region. I forgot what it's called. I checked my Pokemon. There were 3: a Serperior named N, a Conkeldurr named M, and a strange, unknown Pokemon named E. I thought the "NME (enemy)" thing was just a joke, so I dismissed it. I checked the unknown Pokemon. It's sprite was that of that one grass/bug Pokemon, Sewaddle. But its legs were missing. So were its eyes. They weren't even empty eye sockets. It was just a blank space, like it wasn't even supposed to have eyes at all. I was done looking at my Pokemon. I exited the city and wandered into the first patch of grass I found. A Lillipup appeared. The problem was it seemed noticably worried. It was frowning, and had bloodshot eyes. Even though "E" was number 3 in my party, it came out first. Its back sprite was the normal back sprite, legs included. When I checked its stats before the battle, it only knew Tackle and Stringshot. But this time, it knew Tackle, Stringshot, and a move called Punish.
I used Punish on Lillipup. A sword appeared on Lillipup's side, and immediately plunged itself into Lillpup. All the while, I could only hear maniacal laughing, similar to a Jockey from Left 4 Dead 2, and screaming. Lillipup's sprite turned red and started bleeding. Its health plunged all the way to Zero. Then the caption came up:
"The Wild Lillipup has DIED!!!!!!"
It looked exactly like that. The word DIED was even in all caps, and all 5 exclamation marks were present. The screen cut to black for about 5 seconds, and then went back to the game. I was no longer in the grass. In fact, I had never seen this room at all. And I've beaten my White version several times. It was a big, red room. There was a red puddle of what I assume was blood on the floor. There were also bloody footprints ON THE WALLS. There were torches on the wall like in a castle dungeon. There was a painting on the back wall. It scared me more than anything I had ever seen before.
It was a picture of Pikachu, except he was decaying like a corpse. But just like Lillipup, he looked visibly afraid. I felt sorry for him, even though this was a game. His skin was peeling off, and he had blood running from his eyes. I couldn't move. Suddenly, the entire DS shut off. I didn't touch the On/Off switch at all. It shut off by itself. I took the cartridge out and turned my DS back on. I was lucky it hadn't messed it up permanently. Needless to say, I locked the game in a box just in case someone ever wanted it, and I never played it again. I still play my White version though.
