The Hypno Card
I am a big fan of Pokemon, mainly the trading card game. I love Psychic types the most. During the 2011 World Championships, I needed a strong card. I wanted a Psychic Pokemon if possible. More specifically, I wanted a card of my favorite Pokemon, Hypno.
So I searched for Hypno cards on E-Bay. The cards were all either suck-ass, or not in rotation, or both. After 55 pages, I skipped to the last page. Still nothing. But wait, was that Hypno in one of the ads on the page? Why yes, it was! The ad had the text "Strong Hypno Cards For Sale". So, I clicked it. FireFox went to a blank white page, with nothing but a picture of the card, a bit smudged, a "BUY THIS!" button, a price ($3.00), and a very small description.
I remember it like I had viewed it recently, though the page has been dead for over a year. "This card picture smudge. Real card not like such. Sorry,". So, I could tell English wasn't this man/woman's first language.
I examined the picture of the card. 160 HP? Yes. An attack that does 100 damage? Yes. "Confusion" took one colorless energy, does 100 damage, and has the effect of confusing your opponent's defending Pokemon. The second attack looked a bit blurry, but I managed to make out that it healed 30 HP from Hypno. It was cheap, and it was good, so I bought it. I clicked the "BUY THIS!" button, and my computer crashed, before I could give my address. I rebooted my computer and went back to the last page of results for "Hypno Pokemon Cards" on E-Bay. The ad was no longer there. Dammit! Well, I just began buying other cards on E-Bay. After three days, a small, white box came in the mail. It certainly didn't look like something from E-Bay. No return address. No text on the box. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. suspicious, I opened it up.
Very hastily thrown-in packing peanuts. I rummaged through the packing peanuts, and I found something you could probably predict, the Hypno card. Like the man/woman said, it wasn't as smudged as it was in the picture. The second attack was "Recover", it took 1 colorless energy, and one psychic energy. One thing I neglected to mention before, is the artwork. It was like on of those "prime" cards, Hypno's face was almost 3D in appearance, and it had a dead blank expression. He seemed to be staring right at me. It was a bit creepy, but it kicked ass, so I decided that I was going to use it. It was one of those holographic cards, so I went up to a light and turned it. I dropped the fucking card after what I saw.
Hypno's eyes turned red, he was holding his hand out as if he was choking someone, and there was blood all over it. I turned it another way, and Hypno seemed to wink at me, human winking, not a picture change, it was fucking human! It creeped me out, as you would've guessed, yet I kept turning it. The text for "Confusion", had changed. The attack name "Confusion" changed to "Slaughter". The text under the move said "Hypno will kill you with a knife, John,". Holy shit, how the fuck does it know my name. Nevertheless, I only had 59 cards, not counting this. One of them was Drowzee, so I needed this card. But wait, I ordered all these other cards. But the first competition was in 3 days, so if the cards didn't come, this was my only hope!
They...didn't....fucking...come. So I had to go to the tournament with this crazy thing. I managed to defeat 3 people using Hypno. The next day, before going back to the tournament, I grabbed myself a newspaper. Normal headlines. I went online to look for some news that wasn't so boring. "3 participants of a Pokemon Tournament DEAD". It had pictures, pictures of the same people I faced the day before. They all had the same cause of death. A murderer slaughtered them, with a knife. Authorities say that the murderer was dressed as Hypno. They had a picture of him, poor quality, and shadowy. It didn't look like a costume, it was the exact size that I had imagined Hypno, and had the exact colors of Hypno. They were no seams or anything, it WAS Hypno! At this point, I grabbed the Hypno card, and, since I didn't have a lighter on me, I flushed it down the toilet. I didn't go back to the tournament, I never went to any Pokemon related events. I took a bus back to my house.
That night, I went to sleep and nothing happened. I woke up, and there it was, the Hypno card, on top of me, with...a...mother...fucking...knife! I swatted it away, and, since I did in-fact now have a lighter, I burned that bastard, threw a bunch of wood on top of it, and went to sleep, with nightmares. I have made a sort of reconstruction, what you see to the right. It sucks, but it is all that I have. Pokemon has never been the same for me. Whenever I encounter a Hypno in the game, I cannot defeat it, and it has bright red eyes. Even on the original Game Boy, The Hypno was black and white, yet the eyes were red! Whenever I watch an anime episode, Hypno is in the background, staring at me. My current location is at my house. So why have I kept this story secret for so many months? I was in a mental asylum. I know what I saw, but then again, would you believe me?
Credited to Powerstars
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