GAROU: Flight of the Wolves
By EpicCardcaptor29
AUTHOR'S NOTE:I. Am. Getting. ANGRY! You trolls!! Stop vandelizing this page! This is my first Creepypasta, so cut me a break. YOU IDIOTS! Stop calling this a Trollpasta, it is very scary and I like to think I did a good job. So LEAVE ME ALONE. Trolls.
Have you ever about the fighting game called “GAROU: Mark of the Wolves”? It was apparently a fighting game by SNK and a sequel to the Fatal Fury series about South Town’s next generation. I didn’t really care for SNK’s games, I was more into games like Super Mario Bros. I wasn’t even that big into Street Fighter.
But, as fate would have it, a copy of this game would end up in my hands. I didn’t even order it, I had originally ordered a copy of EarthBound on SNES on eBay from some seller, hoping to kickstart myself a retro game collection, but that jackass sent me something completely different! Instead of an SNES game, I had received what appeared to be a bootleg copy of Garou: Mark of the Wolves burned onto a disk for PC. The box was even very shoddy looking, looking like it was made in MS Paint, with the game’s logo and characters not even have transparent backgrounds, still surrounded by white squares. “This looks like some sort of Creepypasta waiting to happen” I said aloud.
I could have just returned the game to the seller, which is what I planned to do, but as soon as I got on eBay, the seller’s profile looked different. The description of their page read: “We are this seller’s family. We regret to inform eBay users that the seller, our grandmother, has passed away recently, so the shop will be unavailable for contact the next few days”. I just stared at the screen. I didn’t want to bother these people clearly dealing with a very heavy loss, so I just decided that since I was stuck with this game, I might as well give it a shot. Maybe I could become a fan of this game like how I am a fan of The Legend of Zelda.
So, I hopped on my computer and ed the disc into the cd reader (which my computer still has), and soon, the game loaded on my desktop as “garoudeadwolves.exe”. Um, I don’t think the game is called that, and an .exe file? Flashes of Sonic.exe ran through my head. Was this some sick modded version? Was this some kind of sick joke? Whatever it was, I got intrigued, so I opened the game and prepared for what was to come.
The game’s intro was laggy, but the contents of it appeared to be normal. It kept freezing on certain frames and skipping others entirely. But. The way it was glitching didn’t appear to be random. It looked as though whenever Rock Howard, the game’s protagonist, was in frame, the quality got extremely pixelated and jumbled, but whenever he was off-screen, the quality got slightly better. However, I was not paying attention so I did not notice.
When the intro finished, it took me straight to the character select for what appeared to be arcade mode. Strangely, the only available character was Rock Howard. I thought other characters, like Terry Bogard were supposed to be in this game, but I guess not. “Maybe this is a demo” I thought to myself. So, I ended up picking Rock. “Rock?” I thought to myself. “What a gay name. That’s like if I named my kid Orange. Fighting games are real stupid,” I laughed.
When I selected him, the screen cut to black, and text faded on screen that read “PINIONING”. I had no idea what this meant. Fighting games are too pretentious for me, I never got any of this crap. Why do people like these? Ryu is boring, nobody even knew who Terry Bogard was before Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Kazuya is too realistic, and Mortal Kombat is made by sick fucks who like blood and killing. Super Smash Bros. is the only one I can get, because what other game can you have Super Mario himself duke it out against Pikachu? But, nonetheless, I watched this play out so I could at least laugh at it.
When it finally loaded, it cut to an empty stage, a dark-alley looking stage, but it didn’t look like the one already in the game, it looked like a hyperrealistic city, like it was a photo from real life. There was no health meter, no opponent, only the option to walk to the other side of the screen and beyond. And so I pressed the right key and made Rock go forward. Luckily for me, he could sprint, making the experience faster.
As Rock kept running, at some point, an audio clip played of a character screaming. I couldn’t tell who it was, but a text box popped up for Rock. He said “Huh?! Terry?” so I’m assuming that who was supposed to be screaming. I had Rock keep running, but as he kept going, the screen kept getting darker and darker, until only Rock’s footsteps played on a black screen. This kept going until the game played the audio clip of a large metal snapping sound, then a scream, which jolted me out of my seat and onto the floor. Annoyed, I got back up to see the screen lit up again. Rock had stopped moving, for one of his legs had been caught in a jagged metal bear trap. Or a… wolf trap? With the theme of wolves in this game I assumed. Despite only being pixels on a screen, it was hauntingly realistic. The blood dripping from his legs looked hyper realistic, like it was real blood and not just a drawing, and the grunts of pain Rock was making seemed all too real, like they were making his voice actor watch A Troll in Central Park, or some other form of torture.
As Rock’s sprite tried to free himself, the screen shifted a bit, and a figure appeared on screen. It was an all-black sprite, completely in shadow. It seemed to be a recolor of the character Tizok, but. It didn’t seem to be the character itself, but some sinister demon just barely mimicking his shape. Like…. Sonic.exe!
I tried to close the pc, but the screen stayed on, the same image still on screen. The figure had a text box of his own, it said: “Worry not, Wolf. You will take flight soon”. Just as he said this, Rock was able to just barely get his leg out, now torn to shreds, as he attempted to limp away. The game finally allowed me to control it again, this time allowing Rock to slowly limp to the other side of the screen. I mashed the left arrow key, but he could only muster a slow limp. As the figure started approaching Rock from the other side of the screen, slowly but surely catching up with him. It really was like Sonic.exe, I got really scared. I don’t even like Rock Howard, but even this made me feel bad for him. But I couldn’t do anything as the figure catched up with Rock and the screen went dark again, playing a very loud audio of bones crunching that was so loud i fell out of my chair again, which made be break my tailbone, so I had to put the game on hold to go to the hospital.
Two weeks later, I was able to get back home and continue the game. The game cut to another cutscene, or at least sprites with textboxes. It was another gay looking character called Kain. He was dressed in all black, like he was mourning something, but I didn’t make that correlation. I just thought he was some goth emo faggot. He seemed to be sad about something, his sprite occasionally looking very sad, with a hyper realistic look in his eyes. I could also make him walk around what appeared to be his large house, but he could only walk. Eventually, after some walking, the figure from last time appeared. Unlike with Rock, it didn’t confront Kain, only leaving to a large door, highlighted like it was interactable. I was very scared at this point, but I couldn’t even exit the game, so I braved the door.
Inside, it cut to a scene of a very hyper realistic piece of pixel art, almost like it was real. It was Rock again, but this time, he wasn’t alive. Rock was killed in a manner that I Iater looked up and found out was called “The Blood Eagle”, as his ribs were severed from his spine and his lungs were pulled through the openings. Creating a pair of “wings”. It looked like a real snuff photo.
This scared me so bad I violently pissed myself and vomited until I could feel the inside of my stomach lining. I rapidly pressed the off button on my PC, trying to get the nightmare to end, but it stayed on the image. Kain fell to his knees, and could only stare at the scene in horror. From behind him, the figure appeared from the entrance to the door, but this time, he had Terry with him. The figure showed Terry the graphic display, and said to him “Are you really going to let him get away with this?” Terry locked eyes with Kain, then to the sight in front of him, before also dropping and vomiting violently, sobbing and hyperventilating in a hyper realtic manner. Oh great, I hate misunderstanding plots. Why is Terry trusting that scary guy instead of the normal human being? Sure, he looks gay, but I would rather trust him! After his breakdown, Terry looked right at Kain, and, as if being influenced by the demon, sprinted over to him extremely quickly and started violently punching his face over and over again, before long, Kain’s face was just a pile of raw meat, only in pixel form, as the game got lower and lower quality.
I had enough of this crap, I said aloud, as I grabbed my PC and proceeded to take it outside and blast it with my flamethrower. As it burned, it sounded like it was screaming in agony, but at least I was finally rid of it.
I later looked into what happened with the seller. This was obviously not SNK’s fault, the game didn’t look or feel legit. Turns out, before the seller passed, they were visited by someone who swapped the game they were meant to send me with a game of their own sick creation. That man? Ed Boon.
AFTERWORD:After this experience, I got a knock at my door. To my surprise, it was the character Freeman. He told me: “Hey man getting cut from COTW was bad enough couldn’t you have at least made me the killer scary guy in your pasta.” I told him he was gay and to fuck off.
* NO ROCK HOWARDS WERE HARMED IN THE WRITING OF THIS CREEPYPASTA.