Candace knew from the moment she laid eyes on the sign 'SILENT HILL' that her world, and her brothers would face terror that no person should ever face. Secrets are revealed and beloved characters must face inner turmoil that could very well mean the end to them. Silent Hill Crossover with Phineas and Ferb. Rated T for Violence and Gore and Disturbing Concepts. I do not own anything from either series. I'm just writing for entertainment purposes only.
Chapter One
Restless Dreams
It was dark outside, well through the few gaps could be seen against the towering trees. Not your regular dark night, not at all. It was pitch black, complete and total darkness, yet everything seemed to glow lightly as it blurred past. Feet hit the ground and as quick as they did they pull back up, launching the body further and further. Water was starting to dribble from the sky, soaking the demented never ending trees as the figure kept running, and running. Panting, a pair blue eyes stared ahead, just praying and hoping for some exit, for some release from the never ending scurry.
A light came from ahead, between two tall trees. It was the end finally and with a few more pushes she broke through and stumbled out into the open. The rain was pouring more consistently now and she raised her hands into the air, collecting the water that bounced against her skin. She stared a moment looking at the droplets as it drenched her to the core.
" Why is the rain red?" Candace questioned, quirking an eyebrow at it up in the sky. " Is it fruit punch or something?" Luckily, Candace didn't think about it to hard saving herself from total disgust. She glanced around where she was a bit confused and her heart pounding. 'What am I doing here? I'm not sure but I know I'm looking for something… What am I looking for?'
The clearing had lead to an open area, a large old looking bridge was right before her, trees surrounded both sides of the overpass blocking any view of the road ahead. She began to walk towards it catching her breath as she did so. 'How the heck did I get here… It doesn't make any sense…" A sign was attached to the metal frame and she reached out a hand wiping off some grime and rust from the words. '10 MILES TO SILENT HILL' it read and Candace only stood even more puzzled, she never heard of a place called… Silent Hill.
Candace ambled up to the bridge glancing nervously down at the wooden boards beneath her feet. ' I hope these old rotten things will hold.' She fretted, then looked up towards the other end. She took one nervous step, and with a loud creak, the board held for her. She wiped the collection of red water on her face and suddenly froze when she looked up ahead. She could see two figures walking up from the dark patch that swallowed the road. Her heart was pounding for some reason, and some how she knew it wasn't excitement or relief.
At the opposite end two small boys came into view. Soaked to the core from the red rain as well, that kept pouring from the pitch black sky. Candace could only stare ahead her brain already confused enough as to why she was even there. ' What was I looking for- What was I looking for- What-'
" Phineas! Ferb!" Candace called out, recognizing her two little brothers as they stood with their heads hanging low. She was smiling, of course! This was what she was looking for!
'Right?'
"Come on you two!" She called out again, growing nervous and irritated. " It's raining bad, I don't want us going back home and getting me yelled at because you two got sick!" The two boys just stood there once more, not moving an inch. The big sister began to fret that there was something already wrong with them. Carefully she stepped onto the next board to go over to them.
" Since when have you really cared about us?" Phineas asked. His voice was a whisper and yet against the pouring thundering red rain, she could hear perfectly.
" What are you talking about? Stop being silly and just come over here!" She gulped realizing how far down the water was underneath them. The river bellow roared and swirled, spewing white foam as it crashed against it's rocky borders. If she fell into that water- if her brothers fell in too, there wouldn't be anything that could rescue them from it. " You guys are going to get in so much trouble-"
"SHUT UP!" Phineas shouted which seemed to echo through the dense air, continuing on and on and on. His face was emotionless, dark circles around his eyes as he stared at her. No, wait… He was staring through her. She could feel her skin tingle in an icy way. Her brother… He would never shout at her like that! " You act like you have so much authority but never back it up."
" If we are such a burden why do you continue after us." Ferb spoke, a monotone voice, not really asking her at all.
" We can't stop now." Phineas continued hands hanging lose at his side. " We have to finish it. We have to wake 'her up."
Candace blinked. "Wake… her up?" She whispered.
" Run to mom now… Like the coward you've always been. Like the coward you used to be."
Pure terror crossed the red heads face. 'How-How-How-How-'
" It's time." Ferb spoke to his brother who nodded back at him.
" Wait!" Candace blubbered tears threatening to fall from her eyes. " This isn't like you two! What's going on-"
" GO AWAY!" Phineas shouted as Candace took another step forward.
" Leave us be." Ferb quipped.
" You're too useless anyways, you always have been, always will be. That's the reason why he's dead-"
" THAT'S NOT TRUE!" Candace shouted back her eyebrows furrowed and pathetic tone in her voice. " IT'S NOT MY FAULT! You- You guys don't really mean this!"
Then a most nasty smile crossed both of their faces, one that Candace would never believed could be formed by such young cheerful brothers. The dark path behind them seemed to quiver and two large white eye shaped orbs opened up behind them. Candace froze as the eyes peered into her very body consuming her thoughts and causing her body to go numb.
" Oh foolish sister… but we DO."
The darkness began to wrap around the boys, and seemingly pull them in. Candace watched, her mind numb as the two boys walked away from her. " PHINEAS! FERB!" She called out and began to run across the old bridge that separated them. Phineas gave a small unseen smile. With a thunderous crack the boards under Candace broke and without anyway to save herself, she fell down, descending down the abyss.
Her screams echoed through the air and seemed to deafen herself at the same time. Her scrunched closed eyes did not see the rocky earth walls of the abyss changed into rusty steel girding. Inhuman sounds began to shriek and cry out as the girl fell. She opened her eyes to see the water bellow her was no longer there, a stone floor stretched on before her, forever and ever. Strange symbols and worlds from ages past were painted bright red before her falling body. As her death flew closer she could make out a figure standing right underneath her.
Time began to slow. As she hurdled down faster and faster, her body seemed to stop for the slightest second right before the white haired figure. Candace's eyes widened as she stared back into a girls completely black face, that was smiling at her with wire bound , bleeding lips. With outstretched arms Candace continued falling not even having the time to shriek, as her body collide with the ground bellow her.
'Where they what I was really looking for?'
Candace fought with the sudden water that had swallowed her up. Thrashing about she gasped as she resurfaced. Sucking in air, she coughed trying to figure out what had happened. Her eyes caught the bridge up above her, red rain was still pouring down relentlessly.
" SOME BODY HELP ME!" She shrieked into the void, but was pulled under again. The waters currents tugged her body around like a rag doll. Her tears were impossible to create no matter how much she wished. Sinking ever more into the pitch black, Candace closed her eyes and gave in to the greater power.
' I can't even protect my brothers…'
' I couldn't even save my…'
Warm hands grabber her shoulders and began pushing her up. Everything was blurring away and she felt water filling up her lungs.
' I'm so sorry… Dad…'
A bright light began to shine through the water, she opened her eyes just as she was breaking the surface. Into the air! Into the world! Back into the-
Phineas and Ferb jumped a little when they heard their sisters scream ring through the house. Ferb nearly lost his spoon that he had been lifting to his mouth with a load of Chunky Coco Bits. The two step-brothers looked at each other blankly as their sisters ringing voice came to an end. A bit of silence followed the unusual outburst.
" That scream was approximately 4.2 seconds longer then yesterdays." Ferb stated and Phineas quirked his eyebrows, then returned to eating his cereal as well.
Linda came around the corner an unhappy look on her worried face. " Phineas could you be a dear and check if your sister is okay? I'm really starting to worry about… She's been screaming every morning for over a week now." Linda was holding a suitcase and set it on the table before the two boys.
Phineas finished drinking his milk and smiled at his mom. " Sure, I'll go get her." Phineas zoomed out of the room as his mother peeked her head around the corner after him.
" Also, don't forget to remind her that we need to be on the road in about an hour!"
Phineas climbed the stairs and walked down the hallway to his sisters door. It had a sign that read 'KEEP OUT' in pink girly letters. So he merely knocked on the door a few times. " Hey Candace? Are you okay in there?" He heard feet approach the door and it opened slightly revealing his sisters worn out looking face behind it.
" Yeah… I'm fine, now please let me go back to miserable sleep." She was about to close the door but her short brother intervened.
" But- We're leaving in an hour, don't you remember we're leaving for our aunts house?" Candace stared at her brother with a blank look, then quickly shut the door with a loud thud. He was unsure what she was doing in there but the sound of things crashing and her mumbling to herself told him that she was probably in a hurry to get ready. " Okay… I'll see you later then." He smiled heading back down to join the rest of the family.
" Oh man of course I would sleep in like this today!" Candace whined as she quickly put on her makeup and was trying to decide which outfit to wear. With an exasperated sigh she sat in front of her vanity mirror resting her cheek on a fisted hand. She looked at herself and groaned at the dark circles that had been lurking under her eyes. The nightmares had been going on for a while now. The dark forest, the bridge, her brothers, the strange world that was made of steel, rust, and monsters that only a child's imagination could come up with… The strange pitch black girl was new though, as well as actually falling into the water. Normally her dream ended with her screaming awake right before she hit the stone ground.
Then there were the hands that were trying to save her from drowning.
" It's been a long time huh… Dad." She whispered to no one in particular.
" Candace!" Her mothers voice called from the stairs. " Jeremy's going to be here in twenty minutes, and I have yet to see your pretty little face out here yet."
" That's right Jeremy's coming to say goodbye!" Candace felt a new power rushing through her veins, the power of obsession-No- The power of love! She told herself anyway. So with renewed energy she quickly went about getting ready at speeds sane people could never achieve.
" Well I do believe that's all your suitcases dear." Lawrence told his wife who raised an eyebrow and he quickly reworded his statement. " I mean- Our suitcases dear!" She smiled and he smiled cheekily back as the two sons came walking into the room. They both carried their own luggage and Dad went about putting it into the car… As best as he could with all of Linda's baggage taking most of the space.
" You boys all done packing right?" Mom asked.
" Yup! Though there is one thing we were wondering about…" Phineas began, as said 'thing' waddled into the room right after that, releasing a purring sound between the two boys. Phineas picked their dear pet platypus Perry up who look dumbly and innocently before him. " Please can we take Perry with us? You know he'll be good, he's a platypus it's not like he could get into much trouble. They don't do much you know."
Linda knelt down and patted Perry on the head, he chattered in response. " You know I would love for Perry to come with us but I'm afraid he can't. My sister can't have pets where she lives so the little guys going to have to stay here for a while. Mrs. Shapiro's going to be checking in on the little guy when we're gone, your friend Isabella will probably be watching him too, so he's in good hands."
" Sorry Perry, I'm sure you'll have a great time with the Shapiro's anyway." Phineas set the small egg laying mammal back down on the ground. " I can't wait for this trip mom! Can we do some sight seeing while we're traveling? Me and Ferb have these list of cool places that we'd really like to see especially-"
" DID I MISS JEREMEY?" The older sister cried running out into the garage with two bags slung across her shoulders. Despite the dark circles under her eyes she was looking like her normal self, even with the over excited panting. Good old Candace.
Mrs. Fletcher sighed but a honk coming from the driveway made her smile. " Nope honey, you're right on time. I do believe that's him in the driveway now." Candace giggled her excited giggle and then ran out to the front yard to be with her boyfriend one last time before the trip. Ferb just blinked and stood there quietly like he always did.
" I'm going to finish packing our lunches then. I thought we could stop for a pick nick this afternoon since we'll be driving so much." Linda said head back inside.
" I'm almost finished here boys, you can go play in the backyard and we'll call you when we're leaving." Mr. Fletcher said as he was desperately trying to hold down the trunk of the car that looked as if it were about to explode.
" Are you sure you got everything?" Phineas asked, quirking a brow apprehensively.
" Yes, Yes, go on you two."
" Okay!" The two boys walked out of the garage leaving Lawrence alone struggling to hold back the flow of suitcases and bags. He rubbed his chin in thought.
" I think I may need a blowtorch this time… "
Candace bound up the front steps to see the boy of her dreams smiling handsomely at her. Her heart throbbed and she calmly approached him as best as she could.
" Hey Jeremy, it was really nice of you to see me off."
" Of course, it's going to be really lonely with out you here for a week. I'm sure Stacy is going to miss you too." He smiled rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly. Candace felt she was almost reaching cloud nine with her beloved Jeremy when he spoke up out of the blue. " Candace… Are you okay?"
She snapped back. " Oh- Yes. Of course I'm fine, why wouldn't I be fine." She oozed quickly smiling a little crazily.
" I heard that you've been having some really bad nightmares and I can see you're not getting much sleep." Candace blushed and turned her head slightly. Great, everyone in the whole neighborhood could probably tell she was having even more problems. " Not that you look bad-" He corrected. " You look great- Look. I'm just a little worried for you, you know you can talk to me about anything." He placed a hand on her shoulder and she felt happy, but a dark hole in her heart could not let Jeremy know what was plaguing her to this level of insomnia. She had tried to forget along time ago, the dreams were bringing the memories back and it was starting to really get her.
" If there was something wrong I would tell you… I promise." She lied to him, but covered that lie up well with a cheerful smile. Jeremy beamed back and the two talked a little more before they had to go there separate ways. Candace felt awful that she had to lie to even her own Jeremy. The pain, the secret, the hole was too deep for even him to heal… Candace began to think that no one ever could.
" What cha doing?" An all to familiar voice called out making Phineas smile. Phineas and Ferb stood up from under their special tree and set down their plans they were making. Isabella noticed them and bent down picking one up and reading it quickly. " I heard you guys are going away for a week. Are these places that you're going to be visiting?"
" We hope so!" Phineas declared. " We don't usually get to travel out that far to our Aunt's house, so Ferb and I compiled a list of amazing and outlandish attractions that coordinated to our decent of travel."
" Let's see… You're going to see; The Worlds Largest House of Cards, A Space Laboratory Museum and… The Worlds largest fake panty hosed leg?" Isabella looked at the two with one eye squinted a bit. Phineas grabbed the paper and read it over looking surprised himself.
" Wow. I don't know how that got on the list. Must have been an error. Who'd want to go see that?" Phineas said as Ferb looked to the side for a moment but kept rather quiet. " The coolest place we want to see is a ghost town along the way. The town was built over a coal mine and they say one day a fire broke out catching the whole town on fire."
" That does sound a little scary."
" Yeah, but that's not the scariest part! They managed to evacuate the town in time but when they got there half of the people just vanished. The coal fires are still burning under the town to this day. According to our research they won't burn out until another thirty years or so. It's not safe to go there though so we'll probably only get to see a little of it."
" Well you two be careful all right?" Isabella put her hand on her hips. " I'll make sure Perry is okay while your gone, I don't have to feed him any live bugs though right?"
" Nope, it's already all processed food- Hey wait a minute! Where's Perry at anyways?" Phineas asked as the three kids looked around unable to find any signs of the aquatic creature. " Don't worry he'll show back up."
Meanwhile said Platypus had snuck off to the front lawn hiding from the sight of Jeremy and Candace. He approached a sprinkler in the neighbors yard, he looked around to see if anyone was in sight and then reached down twisting the sprinkler. Instead of a door or tube opening the sprinkler shot out a jet of water soaking the mammal, then dying down to a dribble. Perry just looked at the sprinkler with an irritated look and then began to turn the sprinkler the other way. Now, a tube opened beside the sprinkler. Perry jumped down inside and slid down the lengthened pipe way leading down to his secret underground base.
Perry stepped out of the tubes landing dock trailing water after him. His uni-browed boss stood on screen looking down at his agent. Perry glared at the screen silently as Major Monogram glanced about.
" Oh- I forgot to mention you have to turn the sprinkler counter-clockwise to… get it to work."
Perry stared angrily on.
" Don't be so mad, you're an aquatic mammal aren't you? Amway's, moving on. Our team of spies have reported that Dr. Doofenshmirtz is no longer in the vicinity of the Tri-State area. We have obtained a list of items that he has recently purchased from the all evil site V-bay. Basically the Villains form of E-bay. Except sometimes they do have some stylish clothing that I can't resist buying." The camera zoomed out to show Major Monogram in a pair of ugly looking tight pants that made Perry cringe a little on the inside. " Carl what brand were these called again?"
The freckled intern spoke behind the scene. " I think the brand was… 'Baby Seal' Sir."
" Ah yes, this 'Baby Seal' brand is my new thing. So now you have some ideas for me for my birthday." Monogram stated and Perry just wanted his mission information and just leave. He didn't even want to think about what type of pants he was wearing called 'Baby Seal'. " Right- The mission. Agent P I need you to head on out and locate Dr. Doofenshmirtz and find what he's up too. It's odd for him to leave the Tri-State area like this so be on guard. We'll keep in contact with you and update you when we have any information. For now all we can give you is the last seen course Doofenshmirtz was on. Good luck Agent P!"
The platypus saluted to his boss and then hopped into his platypi-shaped car. With a roar of the engines he flew off in search of Dr. Doofenshmirtz. Major Monogram turned looking over to where ever Carl was standing. " Carl, how is my bid going on those new 'Baby Seal' brand boots?"
The Flynn's and Fletcher's were gathered all outside, starting to pile into the overloaded car. Mr. Fletcher had managed to get everyone's stuff in with out the need of the blowtorch after all. There was a lot of rope, and a lot of duct tape. The Shapiro's waved goodbye as the family drove out heading off on the road, for their long ride. Candace sat in the back behind the drivers seat, Phineas sat next to her and Ferb sat behind the passengers seat. The teenager looked out the window at the passing scenery, as the homes she could recognize so well started becoming less and more unrecognizable. The blurry view hurt her eyes and things looked black for a moment scaring her slightly. She felt something bad in the pit of her stomach. Candace merely swallowed the feeling down and tried to ignore the talking coming from her little triangle shaped brother.
" I don't know if we can stop and visit all of those places Phineas." Linda said looking behind her seat at the boys as Lawrence kept driving.
" Pick one place you want to see the most kids and we'll stop there. On the way back we'll see another one on your list." Lawrence spoke up, leaning over quickly to see what exit they had just passed.
" Only one huh?" Phineas rubbed his chin but he already knew which one the two had both picked. " Hey can we stop at this ghost town we found about on the way then?"
'Ghost town.' The words hit Candace like a load of bricks and she quickly looked at her brother who didn't really notice.
" Ghost town? Which one might it be?" Lawrence asked. " I've seen quite a few on my trips here before I married your mum."
" It's a really cool place that's over hundreds of years old. It's near Brahms, I think the name is still the same." Phineas explained a smile on his face. Candace just continued to stare at him, her heart was pounding in her chest so hard, she thought her head might implode. Ferb noticed and tried to nudge his step brother, but alas Phineas was to excited. " It's called Silent Hill."
'10 MILES TO SILENT HILL.' The sign in her dreams kept popping up in the young woman's brain and she could do nothing to stop it. Candace felt cramped in the car even though she had plenty of room between the younger boys. She gripped her shirt and tired to clam down, but her easily unstable mind couldn't handle it. ' That place was in my dreams and now all of a sudden my brothers want to go there…' The cruel smiles in her dream came up in her conscious next. Smiles her brothers would never wear- Or she thought couldn't. Then… There… Was… Fa-
" It's an old coal mining town that had a lot of people living in it at one time. A while back a fire-"
" Nobody cares about some stupid old dead town!" Candace said loudly looking out the car window. Phineas jumped a little at the sudden irritation that rang from her voice.
" Candace!" Mrs. Fletcher frowned at her daughter, but Candace refused to look over. " I'm sorry Phineas you can continue on with your story. It's sounds very interesting."
" The town had been built on a coal mine so when an unexplained fire happened it caught the entire town on fire. There was no way to completely stop it so they quickly sent in police to save the citizens. When they got there, even though the fire had yet to spread much, many of the people there had disappeared. Reports said no bodies were ever found-"
" SHUT UP! I don't want to here you blabbering on and on about something so stupid!" Candace snapped, she yelled so loudly that Lawrence swerved for a moment startled out of his wits. Phineas shrunk back, honestly scared of his sister for the first time in his life.
" Candace!" Linda shouted her face dropped and she was definitely not happy. " You can't talk to your brothers like that! What has all of a sudden gotten into you? He was just talking about something if you didn't want to hear about it you could have just asked-"
" Of course! You always side with them!" She shouted back at her mother. " They get away with doing crazy things every day! But nooooo, Candace is just crazy and loony and as soon as she doesn't want to hear about some IDOTIC ghost town, she's the bad guy!"
" You better keep your mouth quiet the rest of this trip!" Linda growled. " I have never seen you behave like this…"
Candace didn't say anything. She felt disgusted with herself but the jolting fear in her stomach wouldn't go away. She didn't want to go. No. No. No. NO. There was no way they were going to stop there. Her mind argued that she was getting worked up over a nightmare, a dream that she was having, it wasn't even real! The coincidence was far to great though. Something bad was coming there way and she wanted to avoid it at all costs. She glanced over at her brothers but they didn't look her way once. They sat quietly and she wondered if she had truly scared them.
She couldn't tell them she was sorry though. Maybe after the trip but not know.
" Well… How about some radio then?" Lawrence asked out of the blue rather softly and he turned the radio up a little. A soft melody began to play through the car as the sky above them took on a rather sickly shade of gray. The red haired girl felt even sicker looking at it and it's signs of oncoming rain. " Weird. The weather channel said that it would be perfectly sunny out today."
" You know those weathermen." Linda perked up a little with her husband, holding his hand. " Sometimes they can be wrong and sometimes they're on the dot."
The radio cooed in the background.
' A letter to my future self… Am I still happy, I began.
Have I grown up pretty… Is daddy still a good man?'
The trip continued on in relatively heavy silence. Phineas and Ferb were doodling sketches of upcoming projects once they got back home after the week. They whispered to themselves and the isolation began to effect Candace a little too much. Perhaps she should tell them about the dreams? She would have but the dark hole in her heart twitched and told her that know one should know. It would only hurt people.
' Am I still friends with Colleen? I'm sure that I'm still laughing… Aren't I? Aren't I?
The driving continued for what seemed like forever and the sky seemed to stay it's meek ugly gray. Candace felt her eyes growing heavy. The blurry passing scenery began to lull her to sleep and soon she was lost to her dreams.
'Hey there to my future self if you forget how to smile. I have this to tell you, remember it once in a while… Ten years ago your past self, prayed for your happiness… Please, don't lose hope.'
Lawrence noted the sign ahead and read it as it quickly passed by. The large green dented sign read with bright white letters. 35 MILES TO BRAHMS.
And just 20 MILES TO SILENT HILL.
'Oh, oh what a pair me and you… Put here to feel joy, not be blue…
Sad times, and bad times, see them through… Soon we will know if it's for real…
What we both feel…'
END OF CHAPTER ONE
A lot of you are probably wondering what the heck silent hill is, it's a psychological/horror video game series. XD I suggest you do some research on the subject if you'd like to know more. I'll be explaining a bit more of Silent Hill Universe but not everything.
Now where do I begin explaining what possessed me to write a Horror/Psychological Phineas and Ferb fan fiction? Well the idea hit me one night when I was thinking seriously about PnF. I wanted to write something dark for the show, because PnF is so happy I thought it would be an interesting concept. Will this story get darker? Yes. It will get a lot darker. It will stay on the light side of gore, I'm a horror fan so it's easy for me to get carried away with something like that so bare with me. This story will be my own little twist on some curious questions we PnF fans have. Yes it's going to have Phineas and Candace dad explained in it along with some other secrets about two other characters- Perry and Doofenshmirtz.
The song featured in the end is a song from Silent Hill 3 Soundtrack, entitled: Letter from our Lost Days. The chapter title is take from a line in the second game that was perfect for this first chapter.
So please sit back and enjoy the ride! I thank anyone who feels the need to review my story! :D Reviews help me know if you like my idea or not.
