Don’t Look Into It

It was the year 2000. The world had entered into the new millennium and the Summer Olympics and Paralympics came to the New South Wales capital of Sydney, in my home country of Australia. The games had three mascots: A kookaburra named Olly, a platypus named Syd and a echidna named Millie. Not to mention that there was a Frill-necked lizard mascot named Lizzie for the Paralympics there. They had merchandise ranging from pins to puppets to chocolate as well as calendars, etc. As I am a former watcher of the games, I was looking through a box of memorabilia from the games that happened in my city when suddenly, I picked up something unexpected; a old VHS tape, but I couldn't look or read the title of it, because it was scribbled all over. Below the scribble was a message: "Don't look into it." 
This tape was sent to me by a friend of mine in 1999 one year prior, which he also watched the 2000 games with me. My friend discovered the tape which was lying somewhere in the remains of an abandoned animation studio which permanently-closed and became quarantined for some time the same year, due to a an incident of the tape causing some diseases and a curse which was caused by a murder miles away from the animation studio. 
The tape, scribble and the message below was done by an unknown animator who worked there. He or she was concerned about it being leaked to the public, so he or she scribbled the title and wrote the message below it to prevent that, but however my friend discovered it days after it was closed, so he sent it to me, and for years it was hiding in my box of memorabilia. 
By the way, I was confused at the scribble and decided to ignore the warning anyway and turned on my old TV, inserted the tape into my old VCR and pressed play on the remote.
It began with Olly and Syd in a blank white void. The two had a unsure expression with their eyes looking around the void.
"Where are we? What is this place?" said Olly, his voice filled with confusion.
"I don't know, Maybe if we look around, we might find something special." replied Syd, his beak slightly quivering in curiosity.
And so on, they looked around it, and after 1 minute of looking around, Olly and Syd talked about how long this would take:
"How long is this going to last?" said Olly.
"I... I don't know.." replied Syd, his beak stuttering for a second.That was, until all of a sudden, the screen cut to black for 6 seconds before cutting back to Olly and Syd who are now tied to chairs in a dark, abandoned room.
"This ain't right, Syd!" said Olly, startled.
"I feel like I need to get out of here!" Syd replied in shock.
After a few moments of the two having a conversation, a creak suddenly echoed in the middle of their conversation and the two turned their heads in confusion to see the door in the room slowly swinging open, which revealed Millie as she entered the room, but she didn't look like the yellow echidna I remembered; her once friendly smile was now a menacing grin. Her yellow fur was now gray, her eyes being very small pupils, and her teeth was sharp with jagged edges. In her claws, she was holding a chainsaw. It then cut back to Olly and Syd with their expressions now being a slight state of panic.
"After all these years... it has been decided that... ...that your time has come, little ones.", Millie hissed with an eerie echo and a eerie pause after each sentence, spooking Olly and Syd slowly as they heard her voice, followed by a maniacal laugh.
"Oh no...." said Olly, about to tremble in fear.
"We're done for...." followed Syd, trembling in fear too, as her shadow slowly casted on them.
Her shadow slowly got closer towards Olly and Syd as soon as they heard the chainsaw's revving. The two screamed with fear as the screen cut to their blood being splattered across the walls so the viewer can't see the carnage with the only thing heard being their screams, blood splattering, and the chainsaw's noise.
I watched in horror and I was shocked that my childhood, beloved kookaburra and platypus mascots were being killed by the now-murderous echidna off-screen as the blood splattered on the walls.
After that, Millie's very small pupils started moving slowly to lock with mine's. After that, the screen suddenly cut to a pitch black screen and two texts in white faded in one by one. The first one read "You could've done something to them..." and the second one read "but instead...". As the second text faded in, a black and white picture of Lizzie with her face partiality melted appeared very briefly behind the text. After a few seconds after the texts faded out, a white silhouette of Millie staring at me slowly faded in, which after 10 seconds started doing a maniacal laugh.
As her evil laughter got scarier and louder, the silhouette became fully colored, revealing her entirely, but she was more detailed and more horrifying than she was before. The black background behind her became TV static which, once she was fully revealed rapidly flashed between black and red on a loop, complete with a long screeching noise. As that happened, the words "yOu LeT tHeM sUfFeR", in a mix of uppercase and lowercase written in a font made from mixing letters from the Sydney 2000 logo and the Binary font (which was the official typeface for the games) was flashing from black to white and from white to black on a loop in the center overlaying her creepy face and the rapidly flashing red and black static.
I was spooked so hard enough I had to turn off the VCR player and TV with the VCR remote and the off button on the TV. After that, I put the VHS tape into a box in which I wrote "This tape is not as it seems" shortly after turning it off. 
In conclusion, I dare you not to look for the tape or look it up online, as the tape has since been given away by me to somewhere else.
Category:VHS
Category:Animation
Category:Lost Media
Category:Original
Category:Mascots