ANIMAL CROSSING: THE RED CURSE

"Thanks mom" I said as I collected catridge from inside the Christmas present. It was christmas day and i had just recieved a copy of the new animal crossing game for nintendo switch - Animal Crossing: New horizons I was really excited to be playing this as this was my favourite game series. I couldn't wait to find out what my best friends - Isabelle, Tom Nook and the Mayor had been up to in a crazy new town, and try out all the cute and fun new minigames and activities. It was gonna be a great christmas.

I plugged the game into my switch and pressed play. The logo loaded up and everything seemed normal, however when I pressed the new game button the screen came up with an error, a sign saying

"error a save file already exists"

I chose to load the saved file, and found that there was infact someone's game in the save file already.

"Mom!" I shouted Did you buy this game preowned

"Yes we had to buy the game pre-owned she said "I hope you don't mind."

I explained that I didn't care and that it would be fun to see what kind of crazt decorations this person might have had in their town before I started my own game.

I loaded the save file and it was called "RED". Hmm that's strange, I thought, as I didn't know anyone called Red, but hen I didn't think too much about it as I thought it might be an Irish name. So I loaded up the game and pressed select.

There was a beep as the town loaded up and I found myself standing in the town square.

"Hello RED" said Tom Nook, "It's been a long time since you've played. Would you like to see what's changed?"

I selected No because I wanted to be looking arond on he town on my own, noy yakin domr diyyu yoit eiy yom nook nor vesuder jor esed se .

I walked awat from mr nnok. And I sat myself when I came t the first house. Something was dfferent. the house was not normal. Instead of four walls and a wall and a roof it came off looking like some bizarre twisted sculputre. There was weird spires everywhere and arches and strange shaped windows. It was bizarre. And that wasn't the worst part. The walls werren't make of brick, instead they were made of some weird fleshlike substance glistening wetly with blood. It was a horrific dwelling. I went inside.

Inside was a sac-like space like dwelling inside of a stomach. There was a little bed made of a skin, I saw Zipper T bunny sleeping in the bed, but had been transformed into a strange buglike creature with a bunch of little wriggling legs. I screamed out load, and almost threw up.

I ran out of the house, and across the town, but I saw whever I ran I was leaving little red footprints, like the ground I walked on was become weird red flesh. It was tocuhing everything. As I watched, it touched Tom Nook and he screamed and his flesh began to grow weird red spots and fleshly patches, growing all over his skin like a tumor. He screamed loudly as he transformed into another red bug like creature.

On the screen, my character, RED, laughed loudly, and turned towardst the camera. In a daiologue box appeared the words

"ITS SPREADING"

I jumped to my feet and pulled the disc out of the switch. I ran to the window and threw the game out of the window as far as I could. It landed somewhere out in the backyard in the snow. Then I went to bed.

Late that night I woke up, tossing and turning. I couldn't sleep. the image of the red curse spreading all over that town infected my dreams. I woke up, and my hand was throbbing. That's weird I thought. Then I looked down at my hand. It was bright red and seeping upwards to my arm were tendrils of bright red flesh. I screamed as I thought of what that demonic character had said to me in the game all those hours ago.

"ITS SPREADING."

I gasped as I was trying o breath in shock. My bed stank where I had shat myself in terror. I jumped up and ran into the bathroom,trying to prevent myself from tuoching anything with the infected Red hand. It hurt immensely. I quickly grabbed one of my dad's razor blades, knowing what I had to do. With a deep breath, I slide the razor across the skin. The red flesh fell away, as I tried to peel it off. Underneath though was only more putrid flesh, rotten and infected.

"NO!" I cried, as I realized my hand was infected to the bone. There was only one option left now. With a yell, I ran down to the garage and brabbed the saw. Quickly I tied up my hand just above the infected section and grabbed my hand with the other hand with the saw. Ip ressed down the blade and began to cut. Because of the infection, I didn't feel anything. I cut all the way through the bone. It snapped, and the hand came loose. As soon as it was seperated it began to twitch wildly. I fell hbackwards, blood spurting out of my arm now handless. On the table, the hand twitched and spazzed. Suddenly, it jumped up. It was moving like a little spider, crawling along on its fingers. I grabbed a baseball bat and waved it at the hand, smashing down on the table. I smashed the table to pieces, but it had got out the way. It jumped away. I aimed another hit with the bat again, but only got concrete. It was fast. It ran out the garage door, into the snow.

That was the last I saw of the Red Curse, crawling away to spread in secret, its bizaaree and twisted curse. For all I know, it could be out there somewhere even now, growing, spreading ... looking for its next victimn.