Emy was a normal highscool girl who was currently in Zoom class that afternoon, it was around 1:04 and she had just come back from her lunch break. Her brother Jackson was in the room next to her, and she could hear his teacher teaching. Considering Jackson’s bad hearing she wouldn’t doubt he had turned his audio turned up all the way. She sighed and turned back to her Chromebook with a long face. It she had finished her assignment around twenty minutes early and she couldn’t leave her breakout room until the teacher closed them. Emy just groaned loudly and slammed her head on the key board which accidentally typed “kskfj. fk rkdkdjdkkkwsjs kkkkkk” on it. Emy just sniggered to herself and decided to just chat to “everyone” just for fun.
As she typed “hello how are you?” In the chat as she knew nothing would happen for no one else was in the breakout room with her. Emy walked away from her computer for a minute to fill up her water bottle and when she returned she was a small notification that the chat was replied to. She had thought it was her teacher but realized there was no one else in the participants section. She opened up the chat and the person’s username was “?????” Emy couldn’t help but feel unsettled.
As she thought about what to do the small voice of sensibility rang in to screenshot and tell the teacher, but the less sensible side told her to reply which overpowered her sensible side. She then typed “haha who are you” and sent it. Almost an instant later popped up another message which said “no one special. I know, Emy Yosika.” That sent a chill down Emy’s spine, which made worse when she remembered she was home alone with only her half-deaf brother because her mom was out getting groceries and her dad was at work. Emy stared at her computer terrified and then began typing another chat message.
“Okay, but how do you know my name?” She typed. It took a bit longer for this one but it read out “I’m right here” and Emy’s eyes were glued to her computer screen unable to tear her gaze away. “Maybe I shouldn’t have replied,” she whispered to herself in horror and a second later her lamp sailed across the room and was smashed on the ground next to her. She shrieked and ran to her brother’s room only to find it locked. She screamed again for him to come out and her brother opened the door. His messy rusty red hair was sticking out at odd angles as if he just woke up and his bright green eyes were wide with worry. “Sis are you okay,” Jackson asked and he saw Emy on the floor shaking. “NO I’M NOT! Come here,” she said and lead Jackson to her room.
As she lead him to her computer she noticed the Zoom chat was erased and her lamp was back on the table where it was before. “Emy, nothing’s in here,” Jackson said sounding dubious and Emy looked at her computer, confused. “B-but I-I chatted an unknown person in the room I-I-I-I,” she stutterd beginning to babble burying her hands in her blond hair. Jackson suddenly gently hugged her. “It’s okay we all get stressed, but don’t worry about it. Besides I heard dad’s making spaghetti tonight for dinner,” Jackson whispered in her ear and Emy instantly felt worlds better. “Okay,” she sighed deciding to drop the subject to her poor brother. “Okay. I’m going to go back to class, see you later,” Jackson said smiling his normal sweet smile. Emy nodded and looked back at the Zoom chat only to see the chats back.
Her big blue eyes widened as the next message said “you told, now pay the consequence” and she let out a choked noise as she felt hands wrapping around her neck and slowly lift her up. ‘W-what is this an invisible noose or is someone choking me’ she thought frantically clawing at her own throat, as Emy felt her breath leave her. On the verge of fading to nothing she was dropped as though she was a broken toy, and took the opportunity to gasp for air. Then she heard a nasty sounding chuckle echo around her.
Instantly she ran to her computer to see what the Zoom chat said “I hope you learned your lesson about telling” and she snapped, “WHO ARE YOU?!!!!?!!?!?!??” She wrote not caring she absolutely lost her supposed-to-be calm compusure. Her screen suddenly went completely black startling her, and a few seconds later a black screen and there were words in dripping neon green bubble letter were the words “I am Virus.”
Emy barley had a minute to process what was happening before a face flashed on the screen. She didn’t get a very good look but from what she saw, she saw waterlogged looking green skin and black sclera with bright spring green eyes. He had green hair and appeared to be wearing a tattered white shirt. He smiled a bit showing his sharp teeth.
Emy stared at the face and then as soon as it came it vanished.
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A week later a report came out. “15 year old Emy Yosika died in a mental hospital after claiming to see a face named “Virus” please let us know if you have an encounter with this thing and don’t hesitate to reach out” she said, and soon more rapidly, more reports were spread on online chats such as Discord, Instagram and mainly Zoom.
It is different for everyone but the most common were the famous words “I am Virus”
