Blank Screen,

Blank Screen, an Animal Jam creepypasta
(This is my first creepypasta, please tell me how I did.)\

My parents were at home.

Animal Jam was safe

Nothing could go wrong.

It was a Thursday, and I eagerly logged on to see the new update. But when my avatar spawned in Jamaa Township, no popup awaited me. I was disappointed, I would have to wait another week to see updates. Bored, I went to my den, and sent out a chat invite on Google Hangouts. It was set on private, so only people I knew could access it. One of my buddies on Animal Jam and in real life joined the call. I went back to Jamaa Township, and looked for anything interesting. A nonmember light blue wolf with dot eyes was dancing and saying- "Unreleased items my den!" I quickly clicked the visit den button, not bothering to look at the username.

I notified my friend, and she followed me to the den in the form of at eagle. None of us spoke as we took in the den.

The den, as promised, was filled with unreleased items like I had never seen before. There was a sparkling sword set in a stone pedestal, a banner that seemed to stretch the whole den, and an egg that was splitting apart to reveal something within.

I gaped in awe at those items, and waited for the owner of the den to come, impatiently. What if Animal Jam Headquarters saw this and banned the account? I would be so close to getting rare!

"This is so cool!" I told my friend. They replied with "Ditto!"

In my boredom, I checked the username. To my dismay, it was a long stream of numbers- something like 25-15-21-01 18-05-14 05-24-20. I snapped out my reverie when the long-awaited owner of the den appeared here. There was only me, my eagle buddy, and a rare-looking arctic wolf. I myself was a nonmember wolf with a couple of good rares like fox hats and bows on me.

The wolf spoke-

"I have the items on trade, but I will not accept any of the trades unless you will play a game."

I was set on the possibility that the nonmember wolf was a new jammer who had logged on only to find their account the rarest in the game. They were going to use that not for rares, but for have someone to play with. I was mildly disgusted. The rare arctic wolf said "Noob", and promptly disappeared. My buddy, however, was sent a game invite and started playing. They told me of their progress.

"I've almost won!" A moment later, "What? That's not possible!" This was followed by a gasp, and the call abruptly ended. I assumed they received the rare items through a hack, and rushed to tell her family. She'd call back soon.

The wolf said

"Your turn!" And sent me a game invite, to Four Gem. I accepted, and started playing. My buddy was right, this user was easy to beat. I was about to win, when the game ended. I clicked the player's name-tag to send them an invite, but I only caught a glimpse on the username before my screen blanked out. The username changed. It was now called 'Blank Screen'. I gulped, and tried to get my computer working, but a bright button indicated that my computer was still on. It was like my screen blanked out, and I lost control of my computer.

Then, the sounds started. First, like an unnerving humming, but that quickly escalated to a terrifying scream. I rushed out of my room to tell my parents, but they were nowhere to be found. I shuddered, my parents were supposed to be here. I walked into my room, to see that my computer was back to normal.

Google Hangouts was a popup. so I covered my whole Animal Jam screen. I looked at my call history. It said that the call I had with my friend was still going. My eyes widened with the truth. Something had caused the call to end. But the call didn't end, my friend stopped talking. I recalled the strange thump noise when my friend disappeared. Before I could but the pieces together, I got a text. It was from my friend's account, but not in her writing style. It said-

'' Look at your screen. ''

With shaking fingers, I closed Google Hangouts. And my screen blanked out. Then, a second after, an image showed. I gasped.

It was my friend, lying on her bed, in her room, with a bloody gash slitting her throat. As soon as it appeared, the ghastly image disappeared. The image returned to a Blank Screen, and something closed around my head as the world went dark.