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Hypno is number 97 in the Pokedex on Pokémon Red.
Its entry read: It carries a pendulum like device.
There was once an incident in which it which it took away a child it hypnotized.
I didn't expect what I would find when I played an ancient
Pokemon red cartridge I had uncovered at a garage sale, ran by a peculiar old man
I was extremely excited since I had previously lost my older version of Red
and he was getting this one to me for free.
Saying he never even remember buying it.
The game ran perfectly up until I came to a later part in the game
I found this forlorn cave hidden off to the side of the land and I couldn't remember it being
anywhere in the version I once had
I even grabbed my game guide to see if it was on the map, but
strangely enough it wasn't. I soon believed this was a hacked version of Red I had come across
I was thrilled and I quickly cut down the trees to explore the unknown cave.
When I walked in the cave's name popped up. Lullaby Cave.
And disturbingly, it had the infamous music from Lavender Town playing in the background.
Excited as I was I was beginning to grow intimidated as to what I might find.
After two passages, I had went through I saw Pokemon I couldn't make out,
but I couldn't move to talk to it and it walked
deeper into the cavern when it caught sight of me. The more I ventured
the creepier it became as the next part in a cave shrouded in fog the music
seemed to
in turn into an increasingly
deeper pitch.
I was absolutely daunted by the sight I would see in the next part in the cave.
There was a female NPC lying in front of the Pokemon,
but it seemed to be tied down. The Pokemon came closer to me, but I couldn't move.
A battle scene was triggered and I soon discovered the Pokemon to be Hypno.
Instead of being able to call up any of my own Pokemon,
Hypno had used hypnosis on me. After the battle scene ended, I had fallen asleep
and the Pokémon was standing in front of my character. I tried mashing
any buttons I could to awake my character. But it was all in vain...
He started to drag my character over to the girl's body
and then proceeded to tie my character down. He stayed there for a couple of
seconds, before the screen faded to black.
A few hours later...
The cave was darker than it was earlier and Hypno was holding something.
It started to swing in front of my character's eyes.
The cave turned blood red and his eyes seemed to turn the same shade when shortly after
underneath the sprite of Hypno it read:
Hypno used Nightmare.
Then the highest pitched sound I ever ever heard came from my speakers
And I dropped my gameboy immediately. It looks as though the girl and my character
were starting to bleed.
A claret line came from their mouths as they writhed about,
and after a bit their lifeless bodies fell into a pool of crimson.
Hypno just stood there.
He seemed to be laughing as the screen faded to black yet again
Text then started to appear underneath Hypno.
It read: Oh, little children. You weren't clever. Now you shall stay with
me forever. Then, the game changed back to the opening screen.
It had the option of new game, but no continue.
Hypno is a psychic Pokemon that seems to have a dark past with him.
He was one of my favorites in fact
up until that point. I pray that someday I'll stop waking up to find rope burns
on my wrists.