The Playful Shadow

This is a follow up from the 29,000,000,000 tape.
It’s 2016, and recently me and my team are hunting for our 1000th abandoned tape to repair to its former glory. This time however, we went internationally to find it as we wanted to make our 1000th tape special for us. We headed off to New Zealand in hopes of searching for one. As we went down the forest, we noticed something around the corner of our eye in what stood to be a tape consisting of scribbled letters that we hardly understood. Once we retrieved the tape and headed back to our home, we began the restoration process. The restoration for this tape took us longer then expected lasting us 2 months, especially compared to that dreadful 29,000,000,000 tape we found 7 years prior.
By December 24, 2016 which was also Christmas Eve, we've soon got the tape up and running again and began to play it, but expected something, different…
==The Tape==
===Part 1===
The tape showed the point of view of a young girl. In the morning, she wakes up and heads downstairs for breakfast before she gets her daily shower and gets changed ready to walk to school. The trip turned out smoothly until about a few miles away from her home, she noticed that a manhole cover was not covering the manhole. Worried that anybody would fall she would try to pull it back onto the manhole, but it seemed too strong for her before she soon fell down it eventually causing the tape to glitch for a few seconds.
After it stopped glitching, it cut to the inside of it. Dark, cold, bruise and alone, the girl wondered about to try to find a way to escape. However it didn’t take long for her to stumble upon what appeared to be an abandoned humanoid animatronic that was dumped inside months prior. The moment she got to close to it however, was the moment the animatronic awoken and grabbed the girl towards him eventually ending the tape before a piece of text saying "find the next part for me"
===The hunt for the next part===
Curious, scared and concerned about what he meant by the "next part", we flew back to New Zealand on New Year’s Day and went to the forest where we previously found our 1000th tape. It took us a few hours before my mate Kelly stumbled upon a tape reading out "you found part two" which could be the sequel to the tape we've previously found prior. We soon headed back to our home and began restoring. The time took us just as long as that 29,000,000,000 tape and we were able to get it done by February 24, 2017.
However, like that 29,000,000,000 tape, we saw something that haunt us forever.
===Part 2===
The father of the girl in the first tape now worried and desperate to find her daughter, goes to the place where she was last seen in the middle of the night. Like the girl, he noticed that the manhole cover was loose and tried to pull it back on but also proved to be too strong for him before falling inside the manhole too. Like with the girl, the tape glitched for a few seconds before he soon stopped falling and found himself in pure darkness. The man decided to explore the place for the bit whilst calling out the girls name which just so happened to be Lizzie to be exact.
After minutes of exploring and finding other stuff including a few of Lizzies items, the father sits down for a rest. However it didn’t take him long for Lizzie's cries to be heard. Disturbed, the man followed where the sound was coming from and after just a few seconds of walking, he stumbles upon that same animatronic Lizzie stumbled upon in the first tape. However, the animatronic was… different. It was pure black and had white eyes and mouth. The animatronic soon stood up and stared at the man for a few seconds whilst various flashing colors and hallucinations appeared for split seconds. Afterwards, the tape just cut to an image of the show animatronic in a pure black void with "IM A S.H..A…D….O…..W" on top in white.
Soon, after a few seconds. It cut back to the shadow, who admitted to the man that she was his daughter trapped inside the animatronic suit and became The Playful Shadow. The background soon started to brighten up covered in various pools of blood with various dead bodies consisting of other people who feel victim to The Playful Shadow whilst exploring the place and witnessing her. Frightened, the man tried to run away but there were strings attached to his body, which didn’t take long before there weakness set him free. He continuously began running whilst The Playful Shadow was chasing him yelling out the following phrases; "Play with me", "Let me play with you", "Be my toy", "I'll play with you forever".
And during the chase, a creepy music box could be heard in the background. After a few minutes of running, the man was able to find an exit and get out just in time before The Playful Shadow got to him. However only a few seconds, various flashing images and jumpscare frames blocked the camera eventually cutting to the dead body of the man inside the sewage one that all finished and then glitching for a few seconds before finishing as a whole. We could not believe what he just saw on both our 1000th and 1001st tapes, we really couldn’t.
==Aftermath==
Afterwards, me and my team decided to give up on tape hunting for a good few months. We also pretty much had to undergo therapy due to the frightening tape we saw whilst we also had various nightmares about it too. On May, one of our members passed away due to various heart attacks encountered from the nightmares he received due to the tape. It was at this point that we couldn’t recover nor forget what we saw from that tape that day despite the concerning amounts of therapy we received with another member committing suicide from the nightmares too.
We briefly returned to tape hunting in October before eventually stopping indefinitely after finding our 1110th tape due to what we saw. And it will never get out of our head…
No matter how much therapy we had to undergo…
It wouldn’t leave our minds…
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