Dark Tunnel

I remember that when I returned from a party with friends it was too late to walk to their houses, so we had a sleepover at my house since it was the closest.

Once at my house, we started playing Super Smash Bros Ultimate until 4 am. My friends fell asleep but I took the opportunity to play Banjo-Kazooie on my Nintendo Switch, until I got bored and decided to join my friends and fall asleep.

When I "woke up" my friends were gone. My mother told me that my friends' parents already took them home.

Once that mystery was solved, I went into the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth, until I noticed that there was a strange black ink-like substance inside the toilet. For some reason I thought it would be better not to ask what that was, since my mother works with cleaning supplies and surely the reason why that substance was there would be something I couldn't fully understand.

I go back to my room and start playing Banjo-Kazooie. For some reason, it seemed like the game had a noise effect, which is strange to see in back then 2022.

When I started the game, I decided to load a save state I had made at night, in Clanker's Cavern. Once loaded, Banjo and his companion Kazooie found themselves in what seemed to be the depths of Clanker's dirty pool, but to my surprise, the protagonists were inside tunnels full of murky water, with different paths, which all led to the deep darkness.

I was a newbie at the time, so I didn't think much of it, believing that those paths led to some kind of area with collectibles like Jiggies or led back to Clanker.

The further I went along the path of the strange labyrinth of tunnels, Banjo's life began to drain at a slower rate than normal. he was drowning and there were no enemies nearby that they could defeat to gain some lives.

However, I didn't start to worry until I became increasingly short of breath, when Banjo lost his third life. I'm someone who takes my time to figure things out, so I just decided to keep progressing through the game, while thinking about possible reasons why I was short of breath.

On my way through the labyrinth flooded with water, some strange sharks began to appear, emaciated looking with large bite marks from which some type of black blood was coming out, exposed flesh (in the purest Clanker style), their eyes were completely white, and Their textures were of poorer quality compared to those of the protagonists and the background.

Without a second thought, I tried to attack them somehow (I know, at the time I was terrible at playing Banjo-Kazooie), but just getting close to them was enough for them to take a bite, taking a life from Banjo and apparently one from me. too. With each bite of the sharks, the pupils of the protagonists dilated, turning their eyes completely black.

Already with a life, and the fatal fate of the protagonists around the corner. I was desperate, I felt like I couldn't breathe and that my end was closer than it seemed.

The thought of turning off the console or removing the game never crossed my mind, I was too confused and scared to think about anything.

When all seemed lost, a white flash came from the screen, leaving me almost blind. The truth of this whole strange occurrence would finally be revealed to me.

Sunlight broke through the transparency, illuminating the darkness of my property, accompanied by the tired noises of my friends writhing on the cheap inflatables.

My mouth and nose were buried in the comfortable surface of fabric and feathers.

// now let's go back to reality:

All of this that you just read really happened, in that order, and evidently from "woke up" everything that happened was a nightmare.

I think the fact that it was a nightmare hinders the writing of the creepypasta a bit, with extra information and other errors. This is because I don't know how to tell it in any other way than as an anecdote. Also my English is not very good, so I need help from Google translation, which can also hinder the writting and it can ruin the grammar of creepypasta a bit.

And yes, the images were generated by AI