The Darkening- An Animal Jam Creepypasta

A creepypasta written by Diamonddragon88

Please do not edit without my written permission

''Warning! Not suitable for children under 13!''

Enchanted Eaglescout logged onto her Animal Jam account, eager to get the latest RIM item. As she logged on, she hurridly rushed through the daily spin, earning herself 3 diamonds in the process.

The township she landed in was strangely barren. She checked servers, and surpisingly realized that she was in Aldan, the most popular server. Confused, she switched servers multiple times, only to find that each one was as empty as the devil's heart. Enchanted shook her head, and controlled her eagle to the clothing store, where the new rare was supposedly going to be found.

As the area loaded, she noticed a change in scenery. The store was surprisingly dark, and the masks and assorted items found on the walls had become spooky, grinning faces and bones. "Maybe..maybe it's a Halloween update.." she said to herself. She clicked on the item desk, to find that each spot where an item should have been were pictures of the mutilated alphas, ranging from an eye-gouged Greely to the rotted corpse of Cosmo. Horrified, Enchanted looked down at the item names. Every "item" name read:

"yOu ShOULd NoT HaVE StAYED hERE, LiTTLe OnE"

Enchanted frantically tried to close the window, and even tried shutting off her laptop. Nothing worked. Finally, she screamed at her computer,"WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!?!?" The computer screen began to glitch in a way Enchanted had never seen before. The glitching twisted into a large, glowing mouth, which swalled Enchanted whole into the world of Jamaa.

When Enchanted awoke, she screamed. She had transformed into her blue and purple eagle. After adapting to her newly found wings and beak, she launched herself into the air, and surveyed the land around her. She soon saw that she was not the only one here. As time passed on, more and more children fell into the world of Jamaa as their favorite animal. Lions, wolves, koalas, pandas, hyenas, cheetahs, horses, you name it. As they woke up, they screamed in terror at their new bodies.

Enchanted shook her head, and looked around some more. In the far distance, in the unknown area the map of Jamaa always showed on the side, the one that didn't quite have a room, she could see darkness looming over the horizon. It didn't look like a phantom. At all. In fact, she could see phantoms fleeing from it, terror in their eyes.

Curious, she flew towards the dark area. As she flew closer, she could feel something was amiss. Out of nowhere, she felt a tremendous pain in her chest, almost as if her heart itself was being crushed. She fell from the sky in paint, and hit the ground with a sickening thud. What almost seemed like an hour later, she slowly opened her eyes. As she got to her feet, she noticed that her blue and purple feathers had turned completely black, as if she had been doused in ink. The feathers themselves were dripping a black, oily liquid unlike any she had ever seen.

She looked up, and screeched as a massive, hulking animal she could not identify emerged from the bushes near her. It was in the same state as her, black as night and dripping the mysterious ink-like substance from it's fur. The monsterous being roared, and charged at her, its large mouth filled to the brim with teeth. Enchanted attempted to get away, but she could not fly away. The creature gripped her in its teeth, and swallowed her whole.

Back at the township, chaos erupted. Animals were being torn to shreds by the huge, mysterious beings, and AJHQ could do nothing about it. No matter how much the moderators combed through the files, there were no traces of the creatures within Animal Jam. Finally, the lead moderator pulled the plug on Animal jam. Literally. The game was shut down, and forgotten.

As for the children who were sucked into the game, their bodies were never found. Some say that they live on, in the harddrives of AJHQ's computers. Others say they were completely eliminated from this plane of existence, consumed by the Darkening.