Part 5/Mortal Kombat

I'm on summer vacation and I have nothing to do, all my friends went for a walk so I had no one to have fun with. So I decided to go out for a while to the street just to distract myself a little bit.

I was walking down the street when I saw a small garage sale outside a house. The house was too old and the wood was totally rotten, so I thought that the old man who lived here needed money by selling his junk, I decided to help him by buying something.

At that moment I had 32 pesos, I was looking at things for quite a while when suddenly the old man asked me:

"You don't have anything to have fun with do you?"

I answered him sincerely:

"No, my friends are on a trip and I had nothing to do".

The old man said to me:

"Wait for me here I will bring you something you will like".

I was confused and waited for the old man to see what he would show me. When he arrived he said to me:

"Look this video game was one of my son's favorites, but at the moment he is not with us so I am going to give it to you".

I told him:

"I can pay you for it", but he insisted that I keep it I said "Thank you" and left.

I started to notice the disc was a little strange as it was red on the back. I was confused since it was supposed to be colored.

I had the play station, decided to try the disc and said to my parents:

"I'm going to my room".

They said:

"Okay, we'll come back later we're going to your grandparents' house".

I went to my room and took out my old play station to try the game, inserted the disc and sat down on the couch. The disc didn't work, I kept trying it until I gave up.

I was about to pull the disc out when I saw it say on the screen:

"Loading".

Finally the game was reacting. I sat down and picked up the joystick. I turned off the lights and waited.

When the game started it said:

"Mortal kombat Black" or "Mortal Kombat Black."

I was happy because I never heard there was this version of the game, then a box popped up that said:

"You are about to enter Mortal Kombat Black, there is no turning back".

I without hesitation clicked on "continue" and the game started with the music of mortal kombat something weird and creepy but apart from that it sounded like there were people screaming. They were very low screams, you could hardly hear them.

I kept playing and the options were weird because they just said:

"Let the killing begin."

The character selection point appeared when suddenly I see a rather curious and rare character that I had not seen in all mortal kombat. It was a red and black character with demon wings, its name was logical, it was called "Dark Demon" and the strangest thing was that at the top it didn't say "Choose your fighter" but it said "READY TO DIE".

I was surprised and with a little bit of fear I selected the demon and I had to fight with Sub-Zero. My character moved in a strange way, he moved his head from one side to the other. Sub-Zero approached my character and I hit him.

It was the strangest thing I saw because the demon started hitting him very fast. Sub-Zero was screaming in pain but his screams were too real to be from the game. The demon kept hitting him as if it was a fatality.

The blood was immense and very realistic, the ground was covered in very dense blood. The demon stopped and could be heard with a very hoarse voice as it laughed in a diabolical way.

The character was already moving alone, grabbed one of Sub-Zero's feet and began to devour him in a sadistic way. The way it was devouring was very horrifying because its blood was still coming out and the demon was throwing its visors into the air but the demon was moving its head in a strange way when it was devouring Sub-Zero's stomach.

The demon stood up and instead of "BRUTALITY" the word "KILLER" came out. I started to fight with Scorpion, again my character moved by himself. Scorpion used his famous Harpoon to pull the demon but what he did was to take his chain and pull it towards him.

Scorpion tried his best to get free but it was all in vain. The demon took off his mask and began to devour his skull drinking his blood from his head, threw him to the floor and again the message came out:

"KILLER"

Then the screen went all black with a red message said:

"I WILL SATIATE MYSELF WITH YOU".

I thought the game was damaged, I wanted to stand up from the couch but I can't move I feel that someone is holding me back. I am scared, claws are grabbing my arms.

I want to turn around but I feel a pulling force that prevents me from looking back. I can only see on the TV how in the game children and people are being devoured by a strange creature. I start to vomit from seeing such morbid images.

I hear the door to my house open and I start screaming for help. my parents scream:

"Why are all the lights off?"

Then I feel the claws let go of me and hear loud scratching on the walls and stairs. It can't be that thing going for my parents, I tried to open the door but I couldn't open the windows either.

Everything is dark I can't see anything my father starts screaming horribly and my mother screams at the top of her lungs to help my father. Something hit me in the back of my head and I fell to the floor.

I woke up in the morning with my face covered in thick saliva and my back scratched. I start walking down the stairs until I see a pool of blood on the floor. My mother is in a corner staring at the floor expressionless and my father is dead.

I only remember that there were limbs and many organs scattered all over the house. The police and doctors arrive and at that moment I faint. When I woke up a policeman asked me for information about what happened. I told him everything, I told him about the game and the things that were recorded in it.

Now my mother is in a recovery center and I am in a boarding school.

The policeman told me to take him to the old man who sold me the record but when we arrived I was totally terrified because the house was in rubble and burned as if it had burned years ago. The policeman asked a homeless man who was around what had happened to the house and where was the old man who lived here. He told us that the old man committed suicide 21 years ago because his son had died a violent death by a strange creature.