Kitty.exe

I'm a total Kitty Kittenton fan much like everyone else, I like the newer games, but I don't mind playing the classics. I don't think I've ever played glitchy or hacked games before, though I don't think I want to play any after the experience I had...

It started on a nice summer afternoon, I was playing Sonic Unleashed (I liked how you get to explore the towns in it) until I noticed, out of my peripheral vision, that the mailman had arrived and put something in my mailbox as usual and left. I paused my game to go see what I got in the mail... The only thing in the Mailbox was a CD case for computers and a note. I took it inside.

I looked at the note first and realized it was from my dear friend Riley (AKA Ross), whom I hadn't heard from in 2 weeks. I know that because I recognized his handwriting, though what was weird is how it looked; it looked badly written and scratchy and somewhat difficult to read, as if he was having a hard time writing it down and did it in a hurry.

This is what he wrote...

"Andreanna,

''I can't take it anymore, I had to get rid of this thing somehow before it was too late, and I was hoping you'd do it for me. I can't do it, she’s after me, and if you don't destroy this CD, she'll come after you too, she's too fast for me....''

Please, destroy this god-forsaken disc before she comes after you too, it's too late for me.

''Destroy the disc, and you'll destroy her, but do it quick otherwise she'll catch you. Don't even play the game, it's what she wants, just destroy it.''

Please...

Ross"

Well, that was certainly weird. Even though Ross IS my best friend and I haven't seen him in 2 weeks, I didn't do what he asked me. I didn't think that a simple gaming disc would do anything bad to him, after all it's just a game right? Boy, was I wrong about that...

ANY way, I looked at the disc and it looks like any ordinary computer CD-R disc, except it had black marker on it written "KITTY.EXE", and it was much unlike Ross's handwriting, meaning that he must've gotten it from someone else, like a pawn shop or eBay. When I saw "KITTY" on the writing of the CD, I was actually excited and wanted to play it, since I'm a a BIG Kitty fan.

I went up to my room and turned on my computer and put the disc in and installed the game. When the title screen popped up I noticed that it was the first Kitty game, I was like "Awesome!" Because like I said earlier I liked the classics. The first thing I noticed that was out of place was when I pressed start, there's was a split second when I saw the title image turned into something much different, something that I now consider horrifying, before cutting to black.

I remember what the image looked like in that split second before the game cut to black; The sky had darkened, the moon and stars were black, the title emblem was rusted and ruined, the kittylover75 1980 was now instead kittylover75 666, and the water had turned red, like blood.

But the freakiest thing that was in that split second frame was Kitty, her eyes were pitch black and bleeding with two glowing red dots staring right at me, and her smile had stretched wider up to the edge of his face. I was rather disturbed about that image when I saw it, though I figured that it was just a glitch and forgot about it. After it cut to black it stayed like that for about 10 seconds or so. And then another weird thing happened, the save file select from Kitty Kittenton 3 popped up, and I was like "WTF? What's this doing in the first Kitty game?", anyway, then I notice something off, the background was the dark cloudy sky of the Bloodied Dreams level from Kitty Kittenton: Dream Kitty, and there were only three save files. The music was that creepy Caverns of Winter music from Earthbound, only it was extended and seemed to have been in reverse. And the image for the save file where you see a preview of the level you're on is just red static for all three files.

What freaked me out more was the character select, it showed only Bom Bae, Chau Si, and to my surprise, Nightmare! Now I was sure that something was up, I mean, how can you play as Nightmare in a classic Kitty game, for crying out loud?

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">That's when I realized that this wasn't a glitchy game, it was a hacked game.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Yeah it definitely looked hacked, it was really creepy, but as a smart gamer, I wasn't scared (or at least I tried not to be), I told myself that it was just a hacked game and there's nothing wrong with that. Anyways, shaking off the creeped out feeling, I picked File 1 and chose Bom Bae, and when I selected and got started, the game froze for about 5 seconds and I heard a creepy pixelated laugh that sounded an awful lot like that Kefka guy from Final Fantasy before cutting to black.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">The screen stayed black for about 10 seconds or more, then it showed the typical level title thing, except the simplistic shapes were different shades of red and the text showed only "LAND, ACT 1". The screen faded in and the level title vanished revealing  Bom Bae  in the Grass Land from Kitty 1, the music was different though, it sounded like a peaceful melody in reverse. Anyway I started playing and had him start running like you would in any of the classic Kitty games, what was odd was that as he was running along the level there was nothing but flat ground and a few trees for 5 minutes, that was when the peaceful music started to lower down into slow deep tones very slowly as I kept going.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I suddenly saw something and I stopped to see what it was; it was one of the characters lying dead on the ground bleeding (That was when the music started to slow down),  Bom Bae  had a shocked and saddened look on his face that I never saw him have before, so I had him move along, and he kept that worried look on his face. As he kept moving I saw more dead characters as  Bom Bae  moved past them looking more and more worried as the music lowers and he moves past more dead animals, I was shocked to see how they all died, they looked like somebody killed them in rather gruesome ways; Purrier was hanged on a tree with what appeared to be her entrails hanging out, Purrshian had all four of her limbs torn off, and Rag Dalle had his eyes gouged out and his throat slit. I felt sick to my stomach when I saw this massacre and apparently so did  Bom Bae. After a few more seconds there were no more animals and the music seemed to have stopped, I still kept him to continue.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">After a minute passed after the music stopped, he was running up a hill and then he stopped, it wasn't until I saw why; Kitty was there on the other side of the screen with his back against  Bom Bae y with her eyes closed. He looked happy to see her but then his smile faltered, obviously noticing that Kitty wasn't responding to him, if not acting as if he was totally oblivious of  Bom Bae 's presence. He walked slowly toward her, and I noticed that I wasn't even moving my keyboard to make him move, so this had to have been a cut scene.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Suddenly I began to have a growing feel of dread as he walked closer to her to get his attention, I felt that he was in danger and something bad was going to happen. I heard faint static growing louder as  Bom Bae  was but inches away from Kitty and stopped and stuck his hand out to touch him. That foreboding feeling in my gut was growing stronger and I felt the urge to tell him to get away from her as the static grew louder.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Suddenly in a split second I saw Kitty's eyes open and they were black with those red glowing dots, just like that title image, thought there wasn't a smile. When that happened the screen turned black and the static sound was off.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">It stayed black for about 7 seconds and then white text appeared forming a message, saying, "Hello,  Bom Bae, do you want to play with me?"

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">At this point I was creeped out, I didn't want to continue with the game, but my curiosity got the better of me when I was taken to a different level with the level title now saying "HIDE AND SEEK".

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">This time I was in the Angelic Moments level from Kitty Kittenton: Dream Kitty and it looked like everything was on fire.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;"> Bom Bae  looked as though he was scared out of his wits this time. He actually looked at me and made frantic gestures to me as if he wanted to get out of the area he was in as fast as possible. I was starting to get freaked out by this...I mean he was actually breaking the fourth wall, trying to tell me to get him out of there.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">So I pressed down on the arrow key as hard as I could and made him run as fast as he could, a pixelated version of that creepy theme when you meet Russ Shian Blu from Kitty Kittenton: Memories was playing as I made him trek through the desolate forest, trying to help him escape from whatever he was trying to run from.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Suddenly I heard that creepy laugh again... that awful, Kefka laugh... right after 10 seconds have passed as I helped  Bom Bae  run through the forest, and then I started seeing flashes of Kitty popping everywhere on the screen, again with those black and red eyes.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">The music changed to that suspenseful drowning jingle as I see her behind  Bom Bae  slowly gaining up on him FLYING; Kitty wasn't running, she was actually Flying ! The flying pose the sprite was making looked very similar to Angelic Kitty's flying pose in Kitty Kittenton: Memories, except it was just Kitty and he had the black and red eyes again, only  THIS time she had the most deranged looking grin on her face, she looked as though he was enjoying the torment she was giving the poor little kitten as he gained up on him.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Suddenly when  Bom Bae  tripped (another cut scene) the music stopped and Kitty vanished. he laid there and started crying for 15 seconds. The scene was rather upsetting to watch and I kind of teared up myself. But then Kitty appeared right in front of  Bom Bae  and he looked up in horror.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Blood started to come down those blackened eyes of Kitty's as a grin slowly grew from her face as she looked down at the horrified kitty. I could do nothing but watch.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Just in a split second she lunged at Bom Bae  right before the screen went black, there was a loud screeching noise that only lasted 5 seconds. The text returned only this time it said "You're too slow... Want to try again?" and then that god-awful laugh came with it.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I was so shocked by what had happened...did Kitty murder  Bom Bae ? No, she couldn't have... She and  Bom Bae  are supposed to be a couple, right? Why did Kitty do that to him?

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I shook the shock off as I was brought back to the character select, the save file that had  Bom Bae  was different; he was no longer in the box itself but in the TV screen itself, which was flickering with that red static. His expression scared me, His eyes were black and bleeding, his blue fur had gone black and he had an expression of anguish on his face, Trying to ignore it I picked  Chau Si  next.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">The laugh came again and the screen cut to black again and stayed there for another 10 seconds, this time the level said "YOU CAN'T RUN".

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I was really freaked out by now, I couldn't really tell if this was a glitch, or a hack, or some kind of sick twisted joke... or anything really. But despite my fear of what happened next, I kept playing.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">The next level looked much different, it had the ground of the Metal Jam zone, but the sky background looked like the main menu; it had the dark reddish cloudy sky. But it was the music that creeped me out the most: It sounded like Giygas' theme right after you beat Pokey in Earthbound. I also noticed that  Chau Si  looked afraid just like Bom Bae did, though not as much, more rather he looked a little unnerved. He broke the fourth wall just like Bom Bae and looked as if he wasn't sure about going on, but I made him move anyway.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">He ran down the straight pathway in this dark level, and as he did the screen started to flicker red static a couple times and then that maddening laugh came again.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;"> Then after a few seconds of running I notice several bloodstains on the metallic ground. I felt a growing sense of fear again thinking something horrible is going to happen to  Chau Si. He looked nauseated walking down this blood-stained road, but I still kept him going.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Suddenly as he ran, Kitty appeared right in front of him with those black and red eyes and then red static appeared again, when the static vanished showing nothing but black screen with text saying "i FOuNd YOu chAu sI!", I was now scared, Kitty found  Chau Si  already?! What was going on?!

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Anyway red static came again and then I was back to the level, he looked like he was panicking, and Kitty was nowhere to be found. And this time that high-pitched squealing from the Silent Hill 1's final boss was playing.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Was this some kind of boss battle with Kitty? I hoped to God it wasn't, honestly.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Suddenly she appeared right behind  Chau Si  in what appeared to be pixelated black smoke, I made him turn and then punch her, but she vanished in black pixelated smoke before I could even land a hit, that terrible laugh went off again. Then Kitty appeared behind  Chau Si  again and then I made him punch again, and she vanished again laughing. He was panicking even more, and even I felt like I was going crazy. Kitty was practically playing with us, she was playing a sick twisted little mind game with me and  Chau Si ...

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Another cut scene played as he fell to his knees and clutched his head sobbing. I felt his agony. Kitty was actually driving us BOTH crazy.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">And then in a split second Kitty lunged at  Chau Si  and the screen went black with another distorted screeching noise that lasted for at least 3 seconds.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Another text message appeared, "So many souls to play with, so little time. Wouldn't you agree?"

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">What the hell... Just what is going on? I started to think Kitty was actually trying to talk to me through the game... But I was too scared to think that.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I was brought back to the main menu and this time the second file box had  Chau Si  in the TV screen, his yellow fur had darkened to a yellowish grey, his dreadlocks were dripping with blood and his eyes were black and bleeding too, and he had a look of sadness on his face. I began to think that those are the actual characters trapped in those TV screens on the save files, but I couldn't believe it... I didn't want to believe it...

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">So I shut off the game and took a break. I took a nap, wish I hadn't, 'cause I then began to have the most disturbing nightmare, I was in pitch black darkness, though I was under the light given off by a lamp that hung high above my head. I could hear the cries of  Chau Si  and Bom Bae nearby. They were saying stuff like, "Help us..." and "Why did you give us to her?" and "Run away, before hse gets you too..."

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Their cries died out as I then heard Kitty laugh, her laugh... it sounded a lot like the distorted Kefka laugh.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">"You're a lot fun to play with kid, just like your friend Ross, though he didn't last long..."

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I was scared and looking around for the source of the voice...

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">"Won't be long now until you join him and all my other friends..."

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I saw her walking toward me, flickering in and out in several directions...

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">"You can't run, kid. You're in my world now. Just like the others..."

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">When she grabbed me and I saw his bleeding black and red-eyed, grinning face, I woke up with a fright.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">After a couple of hours I decided to continue playing the game. I don’t know why, but I had to know, I had to figure out why this was happening... So I turned on the computer, turned on the game and selected Nightmare next.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I still thought that was wacky, playing as Nightmare, but anyway the level title appeared again and this time it said "...", which I found really freaky.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">This time I was in some kind of hallway, didn't really look like it was from any of the classic Kitty games, though it has the pixelated style; the floor was shiny and checkered, the walls were a dark greyish purple with animated candlelight’s and a few dark bloodstains here and there, and there was a dark red curtain hanging above on the top part of the screen. Every 12 seconds or so that red curtain sways very slowly, but whenever you're playing the game you can barely see it move. The music was oddly pleasant, a piano playing a rather sad yet peaceful song, but I knew better, this was the song that played in Land act 1, only it wasn't in reverse.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Nightmare didn't look entirely nervous like Bom Bae and  Chau Si  did, but he did have a suspicious look on his face as if he was just a bit paranoid. He did a little animation when I just left him standing, he turns his head to the left and then to the right at least twice and then shrugs at me, as if he has no idea where he was or what was going on. Even though I was scared outta my mind about what was going to happen, I had Nightmare continue onward. He did his usual running animation (You know, when you've beaten him at the end of a classic Kitty game and you chase him) as we continued going through the hallway.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Then I stop at a long flight of stairs leading downward, now I was nervous, even Nightmare seemed unsure of himself, though I pressed onward.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">As I led him down the stairs, I noticed that the walls have gotten darker and more reddish; the red torches are now an eerie blue. Then we landed onto another hallway, this one was longer than the last one (or at least it felt like it) and then we headed down another flight of stairs down, this one was much longer, took at least 1 full minute.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">And then I heard that horrid Kefka laugh again and then the music slowly faded until it was quiet, as it did the walls turned more dark red and the torches were a black flame now.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">When he landed onto the 3rd hallway, I noticed he now looked really creeped out, though he tried to hide it, I couldn't blame him, I was scared too.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Suddenly, Kitty popped right in front of Nightmare the same way she did  Chau Si  and then red static. The red static lasted for about 15 second and then it showed me a most unpleasant image...

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">The image showed a hyper-realistic of Kitty standing in the darkness where you can only see her face while her head and torso faded into black, and when I say hyper-realistic, I mean like she looked so real you could actually see the lines in her periwinkle fur, as if you could actually feel it if you touched the screen.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Her face...oh god, she had the most horrifying smile I had ever seen.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">And that's saying something considering I saw that image at the start of the game.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Her eyes are wide and black and once again crying blood (Which also looked hyper-realistic) and there were two small glowing red dots in those black eyes staring RIGHT AT ME, as if staring into my mind. Her grin was wide and demonic, it literally stretched to the sides of her face like a Cheshire Cat except Kitty had fangs, VERY SHARP fangs, much like the Werekitten's teeth except more vicious-looking, somewhat yellowish and from the look of it, she had stains of blood and small bits of flesh on her lips and fangs as if she had eaten someone.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I stared at that gruesome image for a good 30 seconds, never taking my eyes off it, I felt as if he was actually looking at me, smiling at me...that face, it just took 10 seconds for it to etch itself into my brain for good.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Then the screen flickered with red static again 3 times, and on the 3rd time I heard the Kefka laugh, except this time it sounded distorted, demonic even...

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">It went back to the image again except this time there was the text again though it was messed up, but it was pretty much one of the most horrifying things I looked at since I had this game...

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">"I AM GOD."

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">It was when I read that message while looking at Kitty when it hit me, I realized right there and then.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">This Kitty was a monster, a pure evil, sadistic, all-powerful, nightmarish, demented monster... and all of his victims, including Bom Bae, Chau Si, Nightmare and possibly Ross, are just her little toys, and the game is the very gateway into her chaotic, nightmarish world and the very Hell her victims are trapped in.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Suddenly in an actual split second I screamed as Kitten lunged at the screen screeching loudly with her mouth wide open to an unnatural length revealing nothing but a literally spiraling abyss of pure darkness before the red static came again, this time much louder and distorted, so loud that it hurt my ears, I yelled and grabbed my ears as the red static screeched for a good 7 seconds.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Then it stopped and showed nothing but black screen.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">As I sat there staring at the black screen, one last text came up.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">"Ready for Round 2, Andreanna?"

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">The Kefka laugh, now sounding more clear as if Sonic was right behind me, played again 3 times as I looked at that text in shock and confusion.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Then I got booted back to the main menu and this time the third save file had a TV image of Nightmare in the same, tormented state as Bom Bae and Chau Si; his "skin" had bits of blood, he looked more withered, and he had a mere dead like expression on his face.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I looked at the three and I cried a bit. I pitied them for the agony they're going through. They were forever trapped within the game, forever tormented by that horrid hedgehog, and always will be.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Then the computer shut itself off. I couldn't turn it back on no matter what I did.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I sat there for maybe 25 seconds, horrified by what had just happened...

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Kitty is the very embodiment of evil, she tortures people who play her game in more ways than one and then when she gets bored, she drags you into the game, literally drags you to Hell, where she can play with you always, as her toy....

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I can't get the game outta my computer. I think it's stuck in there, but at least I managed to turn it back on now.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">After I sat there for 25 seconds I heard a voice right behind me, like a whisper...

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">"Try to keep this interesting for me, Andreanna."

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">I turned around to see where the voice came from, and what I saw made me scream...

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">Sitting on my bed... staring right at me...

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;">... Was a Kitty plushie, smiling with bloodstains under its eyes.