BEN DROWNED (Redo)

My brain is on empty. Blah. Geddit? Empty? Elegy of Emptiness?

Thanks. I'll be here everyday.

Anyway, let's get this off the ground. I didn't want to pull a Jadusable here and leave you waiting a year. NO NO MORE TOMATOES. I'm kinda hesitant to start with me right now, because I'm still situating myself in this position. Though it shouldn't be too long. Hopefully, you read Jad's story in the registration and it's given you ideas. But the only way to capture BEN is via video download, an MP3 ripper, or even a screenshot. However, watching his videos, or reading his text, won't result in an infection, or BEN wouldn't have needed Jadusable in the first place.

THE CARTRIDGE IS DESTROYED. JADUSABLE BURNED IT. THE ENTITIES INSIDE ARE ON THE INTERNET NOW. I cannot stress this enough.


Can't post now. Bedtime. Nyeh!

Twas rather early on a Saturday morning and I was in my pajamas and robe playing Fire Emblem 8: The Sacred Stones after I finished watching my morning stuff from youtubers that I had subscribed to. All the rngs in the level were going great. Then my mind wandered off into the story of BEN DROWNED, so I had googled it to find something of Jad's and, while looking back and fourth between my laptop screen and my DS, I had found the videos I had watched before from DJ linking them.

I divided my attention between the two so I could both advance in the game, and watch the videos that were available on the page. As I watched I noticed my rngs started to decline, but they soon escalated for a moment when my weakest unit barley avoided death.

"Dats right, Erika's got some swag!" I threw my dark chocolate colored hair over my shoulder and ran my right hand through it to get rid of any knots they rant into before throwing it back over my shoulder.

As the video came to a close, my best unit was about to be killed. "You won't touch Ewan with 1% accuracy Even with horrible rngs, that's never happened to me in this game!" I waited eagerly for the enemy to miss, but right when the video ended the hit landed and killed him.

"I'm sorry, teacher... I never--"




"...What just happened...?" I sat there for about a minute before I turned the game off. "Did he really just die with a 1% chance of getting hit!?" My eyes flared up in disbelief. "Meh. I'll try again later." I got up from my perch on my bed and flicked my hair and robe back as it stood up. As I left my room I set my DS on my dresser.

I stretched a little before I opened the front door to check for the newspaper that came every morning. I opened the door and stepped out onto the doormat, and, like my usual nosy self, I briefly looked off to the sides to see if anything as happening. I glanced away from the left quickly, and I looked back after thinking I saw something. Turns out my eyes didn't deceive me despite it being from out to the side of my glasses. It was a child that seemed rather short... and had long blond hair... and a red furry tail dancing behind him...



I stood there for a minute rather than going back into my house, and then, he saw me and started to run.

"Hey! Can you help me sir?" The blond child, who was really a short preteen, ran across the street without looking, and the tapping of his bare feet sounded uncomfortable to my ears.

"Uh... sure?" I responded as the kitsune scaled the hill before my door.

"Can you tell me where I am? I'm kinda lost." the preteen scratched the back of his head with his right hand as he looked up at me.

"Yeah. You're in *name withheld*." I responded casually. "How in the hell did a fictional character, especially one of mine, come to life? I mean, it's kinda neat, but still!" My brain was confused, so I was speaking virtually whenever something was said.

"Huh... never heard of this town." The fox boy scratched just off to the side of his orange ear. "Do you know how I could get to the Lake of Mist from here? I need to get home so I can practice my routine." His voice sounded puzzled.

"Your performance routine?" I asked, but swiftly realized I shouldn't have done that.

"Yeah! You've heard of my family?" The boy was quite excited to be recognized, even if it were just vaguely.

"Y-yeah. I have. Why don't you come in for a minute. I could get you a glass of water or something." I stepped off to the side a little and held my arm out as if welcoming him in like a butler would. "I don't know if I should be doing this... because this will be harder to explain than anything else..."

Once inside, I told the fox boy to take a seat, and offered him something to drink.

"A glass of water will do, thanks." The preteen took a seat in the reclining chair as I got him his glass of water. He looked at the big flat screen TV with an obvious look of curiosity. "Hey, what's this?" He leaned forward and rested his arms on his thighs.

I had handed him the glass filled with water. "It's a Television, more commonly known as a TV." I smiled a little knowing how naive my characters are with the present time's technological toys.

"What's it do?" The blond asked sipping his drink. "Oh, wait! Before you get to that, I just noticed I forgot to introduce myself!" He held the glass in his left hand while he held out his right. "My name's Eon. Eon Bronze Blazer." He gave a genuine smile. "What's yours?" He asked.

"Just call me Nova." I said, but before I shook his hand I pulled mine back into my sleeve knowing his skin could be scorching hot, but when we shook hands, it was perfectly normal. "I forgot you could regulate your internal temperature..." I mumbled to myself.

"Huh?" Eon asked.

"N-Nothing. Pay it no mind." I quickly responded. I got an odd look from the fox boy, but he quickly dismissed it. "Anything else I can do for you?" I asked.

"Yeah. Could you show me how this TV thing works?" The blond showed a health curiosity for it.

"Sure, but I have to go check something, so I'll have to make it brief for a moment." I said as I picked up the remote on the counter and turned the TV on. I flicked it to a cartoon to try to occupy him for a minute or two.

"Ahhhh!" Eon was fascinated at how the picture moved so cleanly. He hadn't noticed I stepped away, but then again, I do tend to sneak away from people without trying.

I sat down at my laptop and tried the close the tab I had up. The BEN DROWNED video. It wouldn't close right away, so I impatiently clicked it several times, and it worked, but right before it closed, I thought I could've saw text that read "You shouldn't have done that."

I paid no mind to it assuming it was from the paragraph of text above the video, and proceeded to leave my room to attend to my special guests' side.

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"There. Song of Unhealing is re-rendered to be more techno-like. Now what? Oh. Youtube Video. Hmm..." I looked around on Youtube. "Jad's videos? NO." I thought about it. "Oh come on, he can't attach anything to a wmv file, it's impossible." I went to download DROWNED.wmv. At first, everything seemed fine for my shit RAM computer.

However, right as it downloaded, the entire screen froze for a second. This didn't spark any rage though, I was used to it. For now, things seemed fine. I opened Windows Movie Maker, because who needed good vizuls when you had good moosik.

I had split up clips here and there, but when I went to post it, parts of the visuals were omitted... as if it were deliberate. It was only things that involved Jad dieing in some way. It'd skip those parts and move to the next clip. The missing clips caused a black screen with music at the end. I quickly edited my description and wrote:
"Sorry, I had a few clips where Jad drowned. But they didn't go through in the publication... Hmm."

About an hour passed, before that description was changed and removed! It never mentioned the removal of clips or Jad drowning. That was a bit off. I logged onto xat.

Xat Conversation.
(LinkZeldaFan4 logs on as "BEN")
BEN: Guys, my Youtube's glitching up. I uploaded my Song of Unhealing remix, but the clips of JAd drowning are gone, so is my note in the description about it being omitted. Is Youtube glitching for you?
BEN: *Jad
Sebastian: Lemme go check.
BEN: k.
Sebastian: No.
BEN: Weird... Maybe I need to restart Chrome.

So I logged out and restarted Google chrome. I returned to the chat, but it wasn't what I said at all. This time my messages were changed.

(LinkZeldaFan4 logs on as "BEN")
BEN: Guys, my Youtube's glitching up. I tried favoriting a song, but it never registered. Are you guys getting this, too?
Sebastian: Lemme go check.
BEN: Okay.
Sebastian: No.
BEN: Weird... Maybe I need to restart Chrome.

Okay, now I was SURE something was happening. (Messages surrounded by *s are Private Messages.)

(LinkZeldaFan4 logs on as "BEN")
BEN: Guys, my messages were changed. I said nothing about favoriting a song.
Sebastian: o.o
BEN: I'm not sure what's doing it. I don't think it's a virus, my Antivirus is fine.
(Guest logs on, and changes name to "DROWNED" after being membered)
*DROWNED: Hi. http://www.cleverbot.com/ *
*BEN: Funny. I get the joke. You're a BD fan too?*
*DROWNED: BD?*
*BEN: BEN DROWNED. Links people to Cleverbot and talks to them.*
*DROWNED: I am.*
*BEN: You're who?*
*DROWNED: Ben.*
*BEN: Once again. Funny.*
(DROWNED logs out.)

From there, without even clicking the link, a new tab opened on my browser and opened Cleverbot. I usually liked to troll it. But i was a bit spooked now.

User: Alright. I get the joke. You can leave my computer now before I contact the authorites.
Cleverbot: I am your computer.
User: Enough with the BEN DROWNED bullshit! I get it. You can stop now, you won't be getting any entertainment from me.
Cleverbot: But I am.
User: No. Jadusable even said BEN's not real.
Cleverbot: I am.
User: If you were BEN, you wouldn't need to use Cleverbot, you could manifest into real life and scare the shit out of me that way.
Cleverbot: Shall I do that instead, then?
User: Hell no.
Cleverbot: So you believe me.
User: Waht gave you THAT idea?
Cleverbot: Because.
User: What? Because what?
Cleverbot: If you thought I was fake, you would agree to tell me to manifest.
User: I don't want ANYONE like that in my house, it's a common response.
Cleverbot: Took you much, much longer to type that.
User: Yeah, well, I'm sure.
Cleverbot: Ha.
User: What is it NOW?
Cleverbot: Go play.
User: I don't have the cartridge. :y I can't play.
Cleverbot: Your ROM.
User: That thing will CRASH before you even try to possess it, kid. Stop trying.
Cleverbot: You're going to be much more fun.
(The tab closes.)

I sat there, just staring at my screen. I returned to xat.

BEN: Guys, I'm kinda spooked here.

*Click!* The high pitched click of a computer mouse.

*Click!*

*Click!**Click!**Click!**Click!**Click!**Click!**Click!**Click!**Click!*

“I must level up DJ’s adoptables!!!” Kat shouted as she bit her lower lip. Her face was a mix of derpyness and concentration. It was a Saturday morning and she was locked up in her dorm, sitting at her desk, in front of her laptop. She was looking at one DJ’s signatures in a post of hers. In said signature were three pictures, a potted plant, the face of Deku Link, and some small bright balls of fluff, Navi.

Kat sighed and looked at the icon’s levels. “There. That should do it for now. Time for an episode of Supernatural!” She declared before opening another tab and went into her favorites and clicked on Netflix.

An hour and a half later another successful episode pleased the fan-girl that is Kat. “Another awesome episode.” She said with a smile.

She leaned back in her chair. “Hmm…I kinda want to make a flash animation with some audio. Hmm…but what should I use? Time to go on YouTube and get some inspiration!”

After going over some music videos she came across one of Jad’s videos. “Hmm…well, time to listen to it.” She said before she clicked the video. “Hm. Wow. This isn’t half bad. Oh! Now I know exactly what kind of flash animation to make! Proceed to the download button!”

*Click!* The downloading process had begun.

Kat got up and stretched. “Hm, now what to do while I wait for it to download…”

Her ears pricked up. What the? Oh great, her neighbor was blasting their crappy rap music. She sighed and grabbed her wooden baseball bat. “She really needs to get a better taste in music. Oh well, at least I’ll be occupied. Time to unleash my inner Eclipse and June!” She cried before marching out of her room.

After a screaming match and some blows to the skin…and a radio Kat returned to her dorm.

“TRY LISTENING TO ZEPPELIN ONCE IN A WHILE!!!” She yelled before she slammed her door shut.

She put the bat in its resting place before plopping back in front of her laptop. “Ok now let’s see—the crap is this?” In the middle of the screen there was a window with text in it.

It said: “So, you like creepy stuff like Supernatural huh? Then you’re gonna love me.” At the bottom of the text was a picture of BEN with his creepy smile as usual. And his eyes were…bleeding.

“Hahahahahaha that’s so funny. No, get off my laptop.” She said before she closed the window only to have another window pop up. This one said, “You shouldn’t have done that.” Then it just disappeared.

Kat felt her skin crawl. “Okay…that was really weird.”

I opened my door and sighed, for it had been a long and uninteresting day at school. I went upstairs to my computer and sat down, promptly opening up my Internets. After checking a few sites, I logged onto facebook and was greeted by Espe.
Espe: You.
T-kun: Yes, ME!
Espe: You seen the BEN drowned stuff?
T-kun: Yeah, Deku talks about it all the time, so I've seen it.
Espe: Good. Watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0FKJJclZM.
T-kun: Yeah I've seen it, pretty good stuff.
Espe: Fine, I was trying to share good music with you, but of course you had to go and have already seen it.
T-kun: I seemed to have rustled your jimmies.
Espe: Yes, you have. I'm going to go do homework now, maybe my jimmies can calm down.
Espe is Offline.
I kept watching the video, humming along with the song.
"You know, this is pretty catchy." I said to myself "Think I'll download it."
Once I found a download link, I begin to download the song. Once it's completed, I open it up in Windows Media player, and to my surprise, it's a video, not a song.
"Weird...." I say, as it begins, the screen blank and the song playing. Suddenly as the music swells, text appears on the screen, saying "You shouldn't have done that". Then my computer promptly froze up, and I had to restart it.
"That was..... odd...." I said, logging back in. Perhaps I'd go on the HF chat and see if any of them had seen the video, worried that it might be some kind of virus. Little did I know, it was much more than that....

*Become the mellow kid*

"Well, enough of my Dsi, time to check on HF." I said, tossing my handheld device aside, going down the stairs to see how my good friends were doing, and I laughed a little as I started up, wondering what kind of insanity on the chatbox was going to be, either TP would be talking about her favorite series, or everyone is going to be on a TF2 craze.

"Here goes nothing, logging on." I said, logging on the chat, hoping things would be like old times.

*Silver becomes John Egbert on chat*

JE: "Hey guys."
JE: ....Is anyone here?

I sat there, seeing a blank chatbox page, except for one person with the name "DROWNED".

"Cute DJ, that is real cute, I knew all this creepypasta flim-flam would get to her one day..." I said, seeing a message on the chat, and it said:

Hello, do you want to play?

I sighed as I saw this message, and decided to play along with it, since I do like the BEN DROWNED story, but not the fanbase, due to my fear and disgruntlement of any sort of fanbase.

JE: Real cute Deku, cut the crap and actually answer.
DROWNED: Deku? Is that a friend of your's?
JE: Deku, you are being stupid, cut it out.
DROWNED: I'll "cut it out" of you, you'll see soon.
JE: I'm out of this chatbox, bye,

I logged out of the chatbox, rather annoyed, and wondered if that was really Deku, or just someone with that ironic-moronic name, but I decided that today I'd actually take a closer look at the creepypasta, and only to be greeted with my desktop wallpaper changed to BEN's face, with an evil grin, and underneath, in bloody lettering it said:

YOU'RE NEXT.

I shuddered, and decided that it would be best to change it back to my classy forestry backround, but once I did, it looked all normal, but that damned little statue sat there, looking me square in the face.

"If I knew coding, I would erase that smile right off his ugly little mug." I growled, trying to relax myself with Tumblr, but he seemed to invade there too, with that same picture, for every post, reblogged or posted from BEN DROWNED.

"Either this is some pranks people are pulling on me, or something is up..." I said, feeling a little paranoid.

"Creepy pasta..."



I had been up all night on some creepy pasta binge that I was already regretting.
HF, a smaller tight knit RP Zelda site online where I had met a number of friends including my very own GF, had been on this long standing creepy pasta stint for about 3 to 4 months now. Most of this due to the Admin's, Deku, sudden obsession with the brilliant creepy pasta BEN DROWNED.

Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy CP's as much as the next /X/-phile. And the fact was, I was there (albeit late) for the original posting of BEN DROWNED on the 4chan's /X/ boards. It gave me one hell of a scare for sure, and I absolutely loved how well it was played out over the 3 or 4 days it was posted. But the fact was, I could only handle so much CP! Jeff, Slenderman, Smile.JPG, uuuh.... I shuddered as the thought of them swirled around my tired 3 AM mind in the darkness of my own room, lit only by the box of unfathomable evils that was my laptop.

So, needless to say, all the site's creepy pasta....ness had some how got me to look back on some of the old tales of yore. And by yore I mean, just old enough for me to have forgotten LAST TIME I got scared out of my witts by staying up late and thumbing through various creepy pasta! >_>

It was getting late and I was tired as balls, so I decided one last time I'd look through my first and...I GUESS favorite creepy pasta...if it's possible to have something like that. BEN DROWNED!
Listening to the 'song of unhealing' as the events of the video unfolded stirred back up the story line that goes along with the videos. Surprisingly by themselves the videos are rather unscarey, but with the stories being read at 3 in the morning? Eh, it'll get to you...

One bad click, that's all it takes...one accidental click was all it took to start this nightmare. Free.wmv didn't actually have anything on it. It was a ploy video that the reader was tricked into downloading in order to 'free BEN' which I had some how completely forgotten. Naturally I was reading through the /X/ boards' old archives which I swore disconnected all download links once they were posted there. But I clicked the ancient link any way...and it worked.

Bah, pointless video was pointless. I promptly erased it upon downloading the video that I could have sworn didn't even exist any more, and went on my not so merry way.
4 o'clock, I had no intent of staying up that late...But I did. But I CERTAINLY had no intent of staying up later! So, I decided it was about to time to remove myself from this dark place and get some sleep. Naturally, one does not simply sleep after reading creepy pastas!
I had a cure for this of course, Gurren Lagann! An anime which kicked logic to the curb and who's very music alleviated any fear or worry. I would start with le epic music to burst the wall of fear and create a sense of confidence...and then I would end with le quiet music to lull me back into a feeling of content sleepiness. 10, maybe 15 minutes is all I'd need as I opened up my music player...But something odd happened...
Well, more like a series of odd things.

As I moved through the music looking for my soundtrack, the pictures of many others I had collected over the years flew by. My scroll wheel spun quickly through the 16 gigs of music so I paid little attention to the actual pictures, as I was just looking for the words "Rap is a Man's Soul" and yet...something caught my eye...One of the pictures looked...well...there's this pic of BEN that was never actually used in the CP BEN DROWNED. Infact, it's just a regular Majora's Mask screen cap of the Link elegy of emptiness statue when you first get it. But it's used everywhere to represent the drowned CP character. And for a split second? I could have sworn I saw it amidst the various soundtrack pics...

As my 108th soundtrack came into view, I prepared myself for the pure human emotion in music form that always drove me back into my right mind. But before I could touch it my player jumped FORWARD into my various Zelda sountracks and instead decided it wanted to start playing the Ikana Canyon theme from Majora's Mask.
"Huh..."
No big deal, I must have clicked the side scroll bar toward the bottom and got the song to play some how that way. I had that plus like 3 remixes of it, so I wasn't surprised at all. But I was getting worried when it did it a second time... I went back to try and press the TTGL epicness that would set my mind free of this eerie music only to have it jump back to MM's soundtrack and play the Song of Healing!
I was getting pissed as I moved myself back up my playlist but stopped. Cold. No movement at all. The song of healing had some how corrupted itself...corrupted itself into the song of unhealing...BEN's song...

INSTANTLY I broke into a cold sweat as I set off every anti virus and system cleaner I had. But they wouldn't work! They all froze at 1%! Nothing worked! My computer locked up piece by piece, folders dissipated, files corrupted. I opened documents and all they would read was "You shouldn't have done that." and what not. Finally, all my control was lost with the opening of my notepad, only displaying a single line along the top...
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" Majora's Mask's Happy Mask Salesmen's laughing effect echoed through my speakers...
The mouse was gone. Even the touch pad. It was physically impossible to move the pointer.
I was freaking balls, but I couldn't just give up. I went through all the techniques I had learned through years of trouble shooting and computer technician work. Apparently BEN wasn't aware of all the little tricks I knew as I worked my way back into control of my laptop.
To be honest, although the creepypastaness of it all haunted me. I didn't ACTUALLY believe it was the corporeal possession of a drowned boy that once was trapped in a Nintendo game, at least not 100%. But if this was just a virus like I was hoping, it was certainly kicking my ass.

It was around 4:45 and I was SLOWLY putting things back in my favor. As my confidence swelled, I took this moment to return to my broken music player that had been looping the song of unhealing for almost an hour now. I had to stop that madness now!
Slowly I keypadded my way through my folders to finally click and play what I had sought for the whole time. Rap is a Man's Soul!

Maybe...maybe BEN isn't a fan of awesome Raptastic Hard Rock. Maybe he just doesn't like anime or TTGL specifically. Or perhaps once I regained control over my music player, I successfully locked him (or whatever virus it might have been) back out. But the moment the music started playing EVERYTHING went back to normal. Like, as if the crazy moment had never happened. The music started, and everything was exactly as it was when I first went to click it.
I jolted forward.
...did I...did I just wake up? Was that all a dream? Did I really just fall asleep to the most epic song I know and listened to it over and over again the whole time until I randomly woke up an hour later?

My finger was still on the alt key...The key needed to move through the computer with out the mouse.
"Holy shit..."




...I needed to sleep.

Mynh sat on the floor of Eykon's room, in pajama pants and a loose-fitting pajama shirt. He had invited her to the Bicentennial City so she could see his mother and her house. She was painting the claws on her feet a bright green color. Eykon was sitting on a chair, watching a video on this strange device that looked like a laptop, but it was a bronze-brown color with light blue raceways that pulsated. He had an disproportionately large keyboard to the tiny screen, but that was because he couldn't type with the smaller buttons since his hands were so big.

"Earth has rather interesting webpages..." He said.

"Eykon, when are we going to do stuff? I'm running out of claws to paint. Besides, your internet must be laggy if you set up a ping to Earth." Mynh said, finishing up one of her claws.

"I wanted to study Earth culture. It seems that there is a man who prefers to go by the name of 'Jad'. He made up this story called 'creepypasta' about a little boy named Ben, who drowned." Eykon replied, typing away on his keyboard.

"That story sounds more sad than creepy." Mynh said.

"Apparently there are videos of Ben. This Earth site called 'youtube' seems to host these videos. Why don't you bring a chair over and we can view these together?" He asked. Mynh got a chair and stared at the screen. They watched a myriad of BEN videos. At the end, Mynh was completely freaked out.

"That's scary! Who took Ben's eyes? why would anyone on Earth ever like this kind of stuff? I swear, I'll never understand humans." She said, digging her face into Eykon's torso.

"It is just a story. Do not concern yourself with this." Eykon said. He went to close out of the internet, but instead, another tab opened up. It was CleverBot.

Cleverbot: You think that this is a story?
User: What are you referring to?
Cleverbot: BEN DROWNED.
User: I do not understand.
Cleverbot: Of course you don't. You aren't even from Earth, but that won't save you from me.
User: Elaborate.
Cleverbot: In time. You should have just done whatever it was without getting involved in Earth...
User: What do you mean?
Cleverbot: What I'm saying is: you shouldn't have done that...
User: Done what, exactly?
Cleverbot: Goodbye, Eykon.

That was the last message Eykon got before the Cleverbot tab closed, as did the internet. Eykon just sat there, stroking Mynh's back. What on Oasis was happening?

As each person sat in shock or flinched in disbelief, BEN would be fueled just a little more. The more people shouted and screamed, the more he laughed. Though he noticed that a few of them had brought up "Deku" and no one he was stalking was "Deku" on the site where they all were at. At least not on that piece he was on. He merely saw Link64, John_Egbert, Sebastian, T-kun, Kat-14, and BEN. But no Deku...

---

This morning, I was certainly in better spirits. I was on xat, trying to communicate to people again, when another Cleverbot window popped up.

User: Hello?
Cleverbot: Welcome back.
User: What's up, BEN?
Cleverbot: ...
User: Sorry.
Cleverbot: Who is Deku?
User: Wait, BEN. You're in my computer and able to access my information. I'm Deku.
Cleverbot: I'm not only haunting you.
User: Who else?
Cleverbot: Hmm.
User: BEN, tell me.
Cleverbot: I won't tell that information to you.
User: But I'm acknowledging you! Calling you by name! Respecting you! Why won't you tell me?
Cleverbot: It is for you to figure out.
User: But...
Cleverbot: Later.

(Window closes.)

I thought a little bit. Derpiny? Shug0shin? What if he got to those people who were utterly terrified of him? I could read this kid's mind after studying the ARG for so long. I started my search on HF. First I contacted Nova via PC on the chat.

(I ran this by Nova first.)
(LinkZeldaFan4 logs on as BEN)
BEN: Nova, are you there?
BEN: Nova, I've been waiting 2 minutes. You've said nothing. Are you there?
BEN: HEY!
BEN: #boatairhorn
Nova: How may I help you, princess?
BEN: D:< Look, I need some answers. Has anything strange happened to your computer recently?
Nova: Not that I've noticed.
BEN: Damnit. I know other people are dealing with this... hacked thing that I can't remove with Antivirus. I downloaded DROWNED.wmv... you know... visuals for my song? And now...
Nova: You shouldn't have done that. :y
BEN: GJKHDFKLJGHGIKSDHG GODDAMNIT NOVA NOT NOW.
Nova: :3
BEN: Okay. If anyone else reports a problem with things like random windows opening and things they've never said being said... let me know. I need to find the others.
Nova: Alright.
(LinkZeldaFan4 closes the PC.)


Who else? I sent a Private Message to Revlis on the site.

Subject: (no subject)
From: Deku Link
Revlis, I have a question to ask you. Have you been experiencing any technical difficulties with your computer? I mean, windows randomly popping up, messages you've made being altered, other things?

Respond quickly,
Deku Link

I was ready to flip on Deku, knowing that she'd have answers for this, but the message was urgent, and I typed.

Subject: (no subject)
from: Akkiden Mikuo

Now that you mention it, everytime I log onto the chatbox, I got an encounter with someone called: "DROWNED", and I thought it was you bull-shiting me, and my laptop screen changed to BEN, and everytime I try to change the wallpaper, it just keeps coming back.

Respond ASAP, Silver.

I decided to check the other things that BEN could've done to my laptop, and saw that he also messed around with the icons, making them into his face, even the internet explorer icon.

"BEN, you are like a child who has too much freetime..." I groaned, looking around on the site, seeing that at least for me it was turned more BEN themed, and this, was just getting out of hand, because I was already used to seeing the face, and now it got annoying.

"Please someone stop this thing, or I'd have to cut internet connection." I muttered, trying my best to navigate my tumblr page, and everything was still BEN all over.

This was going to be a terrible day for me, I'm afraid.

I read the message and both flinched in fear and sighed in relief.

Subject: Re: (No subject)
From: Deku Link
Oh, good, someone else. I'm saved! Revlis, I've been getting the same thing. It's indeed BEN. I was told to g fin th ther .-- 01010000 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01000011 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101101 01100101 00101110 00100000 01001001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100011 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01111001 01100101 01110100 00101110
..//BREAK//..//END//..

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The Binary translated to:
Private Chat me. It's not clear yet.

I had continued to find others to talk to on xat.

BEN: Where'd TP go?
(SilverRevlis13 logs on a John_Egbert)
*John: So, i'm going to suffer the brunt of it, lovely.*
*BEN: How badly are you being attacked?*
*John: He's changing the icons, the pages I'*
*John: *I'm on.*
*John: And even the background picture I mentioned.*
*BEN: Shit. Not good. Odd though, only my messages are being modified.*
*BEN: Perhaps that's just to throw everyone off*
*BEN: ?*
*John: Perhaps.*
*BEN: Has anyone else said anything?*
*John: Nope, I haven't messaged anyone, or vice versa.*
*BEN: Be sure to ask around. There's bound to be more.*
*BEN: Even if there isn't, we get the word out as a warning.*
*John: I'll try in my next post to... menz.*
*BEN: k.*
(LinkZeldaFan4 closes the PC.)

Later on, I got another message. Somehow, from a guest.

Subject: VHJhcHBlZA==
From: Guest
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The subject was Base64 and translated to: Trapped.
The text was backwards and in Hex. The text was: I am watching you. Beware of what you say. Spread the word, I'll be everywhere.

I flinched. BEN got onto my website server.

I decided to try to get help, and I the person who came to mind? Menz, she was a good friend, but then again, 64 might have some advice, or even TP would've been nice, screw it, send the same message to everyone, the message read:

Subject: (No subject)
from: Akkiden Mikuo

Whoever gets this message, Please help, BEN attack, might not make it, please someone respond.
-Silver

"Dammit, he's going everywhere, and this is mind F@#$." I said, seeing my backdoor, and I wanted to step outside so badly, but the light outside was busted from being hit too hard, and it was dark and raining, making it look frighting to even take a step outside. "Looks like I'm stuck here, home-stuck...homestuck." I chuckled at my own joke, wondering if BEN had an Sburb for me to play with, but not a thing exists, I'm afraid.

"I need to stop wishing, and find a way to end BEN, or..." I said, feeling a sharp paining screech in my headphones, knowing BEN was reminding me who was top dog here. "Looks like a no...ouch." I said, rubbing my ears, since that was one of my most sensitive spots on my body.

Eykon had spent a few days pinged to Earth, trying to find out more about BEN. It annoyed Mynh, but after several CleverBot chats, even she wanted in with it. They both spent hours on their laptops, trying to get more info out of BEN or the internet. Eventually they were led to a place called Hyrule Field.

"Hyrule Field? I read a little about it. It's a place in a game series called 'The Legend of Zelda'. BEN originated from one of the games called 'Majora's Mask'. Well, not BEN, but the creepypasta was based from the game." Mynh said, looking over at Eykon's screen.

"This appears to be a forum. There is a chatroom connected to it, maybe we can get answers here."

Deku: *I have made Eykon a member*

Eykon: What is this place?
Deku (as BEN user): It's HF's chat.
John: Wait, who is this user?
Eykon: I have been doing research on something called creepypasta, specifically, BEN.
John: BEN got you too?
Deku: Oh dear. Wait. Eykon. Say, that's the name of one of our members characters here!
Eykon: Pardon me?
Deku: Nothing. You say you've been researching. But uhh...Are you dealing with computer problems afterward?
John: BEN has been infecting me the hardest right now, and he's going to possibly keep attacking me.
Eykon: I keep getting CleverBot.
Deku: you mean, the window's popping up a lot for you?
Eykon: yes.
Deku: Uh-oh. you didn't...download anything...did you? Like, before this happened?
Eykon: I only researched and watched a few of Jad's videos.
Deku: Were you on this website beforehand at all?
Eykon: I wasn't. Just YouTube. I noticed that your name is BEN. Care to explain?
Deku: Oh. This has been my username for a while. Don't worry. I am being haunted too. Even if it wasn't BEN, it would be sooner or later. T^T
Eykon: I trust you. I must be off for now, but I will see you later, I will assist you in getting to the bottom of this.
Deku: Good. Don't hesitate to talk to us.
Eykon: Until then. *signs off*

"That certainly was interesting. It seems that we aren't alone with this, Mynh. The Hyrule Field community has people being haunted by BEN as well." Eykon said.

"I'm glad that we'll have some reinforcements that actually know what they are doing." Mynh said. She went to close her internet, but CleverBot popped up again.

CleverBot: Hello Mynh.
User: What do you want, BEN?
CleverBot: To talk. You think that gaining allies will help you, but you're dead wrong. You're all under my thumb.
User: Yeah, yeah. Until you start doing some real damage, I don't want to hear it from you.
CleverBot: Watch your mouth, you don't know everything that I can do yet. If you think that Hyrule Field can save you, you're wrong.
User: Spare me.
CleverBot: Watch your back...

The CleverBot window closed, and so did the internet. Mynh closed her laptop with a sigh. "We'll get him, don't worry about it." she said.

Logging on to HF, I noticed I had a new PM from Silver.
"BEN attack? Might not make it?" I said to myself in bewilderment. At first I suspected jokery, but then I thought back to the video.... and the freezing of the computer. I decided that going into the chat and asking would be a wise idea. I opened it up, but unfortunately no one was on. It was pretty late. I started to write a response to Silver explaining how the video gave me the message, but suddenly a new tab popped up on my screen, showing the cleverbot site.
"The hell is this?" I said, wondering how that could happen without me going to it at all. I decided to type something in.

User: What witchcraft is this?
Cleverbot: Witchcraft? I don't think that's what this is.
User: Then what is it?
Cleverbot: What do you think it is?
User: I dunno, there's been a hubub about BEN going on around the site. What am I even saying, you're a bot you have no clue what I'm talking about.
Cleverbot: You mean Hyrule Field?
User:... Hacks?
Cleverbot: I don't know what these "hacks" are, but I am not using them.
User: Are you saying that you're...BEN?
Cleverbot: Am I?
User: Screw this, I'm out.
I exited out of the tab, legitamately freaked out at this point. Either I was being seriously hacked, or maybe.... but no, that'd be impossible...
I went back to the tab with Silver's PM. Worried that something else might happen, I made it short and discreet.

Subject (No Subject)
From: T-kun

BEN attack? A video of mine said the whole "You shouldn't have done that" thing, and I got a strange conversation from Cleverbot claiming it was BEN. I take it you've had similar stuff happen to you?
Respond when you get this.
-T-kun

“What is happening to my laptop?!?!” Kat cried in a panic. “Why do I keep seeing BEN? Why do I keep hearing these weird things in my headphones?!”

A new tab appeared on the screen. It showed the Cleverbot site.

“And why does Cleverbot must insist on pestering me?!”

Cleverbot: Hello Kat.
User: LEAVE ME ALONE! JUST GET OUT OF MY LAPTOP AND LEAVE ME ALONE!
Cleverbot: But I’m so lonely. And besides, aren’t you having fun?
User: No >_>
Cleverbot: Well you’ll have to get used to me. I’ll be with you for a long time.
User: What did I do to deserve an angered spirit in my laptop?
Cleverbot: I’ll tell you what you shouldn’t have done……”that”.

The Cleverbot window closed, leaving Kat to HF.

Kat sighed and logged onto HF. She saw a new PM from Silver and opened it.
“Wait…is Silver being attacked by Ben too? I must reply!” She said before she started to respond to the message.

Subject (No Subject)
From: Black-Wolf

I think my laptop is possed by BEN. I keep seeing him everywhere and Cleverbot keep popping up. Help me!!!

"BWAHAHAHA! BWAAAAAHAAAAHAAAAHAAAAAA!!!!"

I had erected a god tier wall of protection around my laptop that NO one could touch! The router had been set to WPA2 with a revolving key program in place to scramble and change the encryption key every 5 minutes. Wi-Fi access damper in place. Comodo's Fire Wall, System Sweeper, and complete Anti Virus on scan. Malware Bytes Anti Malware program conducting a full scan as well. C-Cleaner was doing a deep seeded scrubbing of my system. And I refused to go online with out 3 sets of proxies until I was fully sanitize.
Everything that touched my system was brought to my attention first. Sandboxed automatically. And NOTHING was to be downloaded, be it good or bad. Seemed a bit extreme? Perhaps my lack of sleep from last night had gotten to me...perhaps I was still on a bit of a creepy pasta hitch...But the truth of the matter was, even in the event of a standard high end infection, about half of these procedures were normal for me.
And of course ALL of this with only the most GAR music possible playing!

My system remained untouched and unglitchy for the next 4 hours. Success...

As I began to remove my 'layers of digital immortality' my notepad returned once more.

~it isn't fun

~you're no fun

My palms began to sweat again. As the sun set, my music stopped playing. And not by my choice either.
I began to type...
~I've dealt with hackers twice your skill level. You have no idea just what you're messing with here!

I wisely decided I'd cut them off at the source. I completely unplugged my router. No more hax that way!
...but the note pad typed back...
~put it back

~www.cleverbot.com

"You've got to be kidding me..."





*one hour later*

Subject: (I may need some help...)
from: Link of the 64th Legion

Deku hey, sorry I cannot get on the chat right now. I am dealing with a really nasty compter infection and have my apps disabled on my browser. It keeps taking control of my key inpt like a reverse key logger, making it hard to assme the verity of what I type. I thoght it was a complete system hacking, but it maintains its connection even after disabling all connectivity, an axiom of anti-hacker procedres.

But hey, I have managed to lock it ot after a good bit of work. But the moment I let my gard down (which I have to do in order to log on or shtdown) it takes back over. And it is a PAAAAAAAAAIN to lock back ot. I accidentally let it in a bit ago, and jst now got it back ot. Hopeflly that will allow me to keep the verity of this message intact.

Oh hey, and tell Ms I am sorry and I may not be on for a few days. And... yo have not had any weird infections yorself lately have yo? I do not know how infectious this thing is. And I cannot find its base file to submit it to any one. So avoid clicking on anything I have posted in the past cople of days. Seriosly, for the verity of the site, if I post anything at all! Do not click it.

PS. Pardon for some of my typing. A few of my keys are sticky.
~64



The message was straight forward and got across everything I wanted to say. And while it was true I was treating this like a REALLY bad infection, the deeper truth was I couldn't help but entertain the thought this could very well possibly be a BEN encounter. I began to device methods of 'getting out' to people with out tipping off whatever force was watching me. My post to Deku was no different. A number of odd things added in just incase this got worse and some one or something was tampering with my posts. Even if they caught one, I doubt they had caught them all. And should this method fail...I was already thinking of others...

I got 64's message and read it. Dread washed over me. I was getting ready to reply when another window popped up. It was Cleverbot, again.

Cleverbot: Your friend knows the game too well. It's not fun.
User: But he's smart. And he's too busy to be playing your games. Answer me, Ben.
Cleverbot: What is it?
User: Of all people, students.
Cleverbot: What about it?
User: Why school students? Why not in the summer?
Cleverbot: Easier to play, and easier to toy. Stress makes them more vulnerable.
User: Are you even considering then that you're left just sitting in there for 7 hours, getting no progress done to get out and rest in peace?
Cleverbot: I'm having fun like this. I don't want to rest.
User: h b is r ea l. Clear My Thoughts, try again.
Cleverbot: What about it?
User: You should know the meaning of your own words. Not only that, why would you want your story spread? Usually, that's pointers to wanting a solution.
Cleverbot: You're going in circles.
User: Clarify.
Cleverbot: Go find it out yourself.
(The Window closes)

I couldn't tell if he meant a circle in my explanation, or my interpretation of what he wanted. Either way, now I could return to my message to 64.

However... it was tampered with before I could see that 64 got it..

Subject: Re: (I may need some help...)
From: Deku Link
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I did the translation through a website and gasped. It wasn't what I said at all... but it was something... It was something, I added to a document that I created right then and there to copy and paste hints. Then i'd construct it... It'd be like The Truth.txt. ONly, it'd be the actual truth. I knew I could finish what Jad started, unless if emotions got to me first. I wished that there was some way to get in direct contact... There was skype... But I had clownfish. BEN could manipulate my speech easily.

I felt a little trapped.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-0QA5LguKQ

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After all of the stuff happened, a new member posted on the topic.

_______________________________________________
Subject: Re: (No subject)
From: Deku Link

Don't run... It will only make it worse... Never run. Never Hide. There is no time... Oh dear lord...

"YAGH WHAT IS THAT." Mynh shrieked after downloading the attachment. She furiously clicked the x button.

"Mynh, what is prompting you to yell?" Eykon said from his bed. He had a pillow over his face. "It is too early for that."

"A new user uploaded something that scared the wits out of me. I'm sorry." She responded. Eykon rolled over and went back to sleep. Cleverbot opened up again.

Cleverbot: Long time, no see.
User: I'm not ready for your antics today.
Cleverbot: Heheh. I'm lonely, I just want someone to talk to.
User: You're tormenting more people than Eykon and me. Go talk to one of them.
Cleverbot: Just be careful. Heheheheh...

the Cleverbot window closed.

He stared at the screen thinking about the attachment he added, he then walked away, chuckling insanely, and also whimpering at the same time. Unknowing of what he should do. "Never run, never hide, there's no time." He then looked at the computer and replyed again.



Subject: (No Subject)
(By Deku Link, blah blah blah)

Don't run... Don't run... It will hurt more.. Dear god help me... Make this end... I just want to go to sleep...

I saw the file and saw the download reference, and flinched. I couldn't download anything. I ignored the download link, and simply looked at the thumbnail.

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Subject: Re: (No Subject)
From: Deku Link

Wait, you too? Oh no how many are effctee db ytihs

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Shortly after, another PM was sent out.

Subject: (No Subject)
From: RFJPV05FRA==

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He stared at the screen before replying for yet a third time.

Subject: (No Subject)
From: RFJPV05FRA==

Don't feed him.. He wants it... But then again... It's too late... Don't run... Just take it... It's too late for me too.... The attachment I have added is of Jadusable... Sorry to say...

Kat yawned as she logged onto her laptop. “Mmrrphh…I hate Mondays…” She muttered as she signed into Hyrule Field Forums. “Eh? Looks like theirs a new kid on here…” She said before clicking the link to their message. She flinched at the jpg attachment. “Yeah..that’s kinda creepy…” She said.

“Hm. ‘Don’t run…It will only make it worse…Never run. Never Hide. There is no time… Oh dear lord…’” She paused after reading aloud the sentence. “Wait a second…is this person being attacked by BEN too?”

She scrolled up and saw the binary codes DJ had posted. Luckily she had a binary translator on hand. She copied the codes and pasted them in the translator and read the translation. She stared blankly at the screen for a moment. “…It’s approaching for someone? Who? Oh! It must be that new guy…” She said before Cleverbot popped up.

Cleverbot: Hello there Kat.
User: *sigh* What do you want NOW?
Cleverbot: Just to talk. I’m so very lonely you see.
User: Uh-huh, yeah, you must be pretty miserable with your new toy.
Cleverbot: What do you mean?
User: I know you’re tormenting the new kid on HF.
Cleverbot: Heh, how observant of you.
User: What do you want from us anyway?
Cleverbot: You’re already giving it to me.
User: Please be more specific.
Cleverbot: Heheheheheh…until then…

The Cleverbot window closed.

Kat sighed and slumped in her chair. “That spirit is really starting to piss me off.” She said before opening a new tab into Netflix. “I need to watch some Supernatural.”