This is my first fan fic so any constructive criticism would be awesome. This chapter is not very detailed because I'm covering the main characters past in one chapter, and overall he is not the main focus of the story. The story takes place in Silent Hill during the 60's in the Wish House a cult run orphanage on the outskirts of Silent Hill.
(Also Silent Hill is owned by Konami not me, etc)
Jody and Tom Miller were laying on the bed strung out as usual until Jody had to get up and vomit. "I thought you could handle your heroin" he said mockingly while she was in the bathroom, "Fuck off ya' limp dick bastard!" she retorted, the morning sickness repeated for the next few days. They were getting worried, Tom decided he was going to take her to the doctor but she was making up excuses not to go "Oh not today baby, I'm too tired to go anywhere" "We cant today, we have to go visit my mom" or she would simply tell him to go away. Eventually after a few weeks of her excuses he finally gave up trying to get her to go, they both knew she was pregnant but Jody did not want to accept it. Tom did not want Jody shooting up while pregnant so he would try to hide their stash but that failed horribly. On the first day he hid the stash Jody flipped out and began throwing objects at Tom screaming "Where'd you hide you bastard!", Tom caved quickly and handed it over to her. For the next few months Tom would heavily cut her heroin with flour "You need to buy this off someone else, this is shit!" she would yell at Tom.
It was a long nine months but she was finally in labor, Tom was at work when the hospital called he got permission from his boss to leave. He drove down there as fast as he could. But he got to the hospital too late the child was already born, the hospital staff all looked mortified one of the doctors pulled Tom aside "your child..is well below the average weight that a normal child should be..." Tom looked worried "w-what does t-that mean" he stuttered "Well..we did a blood test on Jody and she tested positive for opiates.., as for the child we have delt with this before this isn't that severe of a case as some of the others we've seen" Tom looked relieved. He walked over to Jody kissed her forehead "it...it's a boy.."she whispered Tom smiled "what'd you name him" he whispered back "L..Logan" she mumbled "That's a wonderful name" Tom lied, he wasn't too fond of the name most of the Logan's he knew were assholes. While they were talking the doctor had called Silent Hill social services he had told them about the mother testing positive for opiates and the father looking strung out, they agreed to come right away. Logan had been sitting on a chair beside his wife for an hour before a woman dressed very conservative walked in followed by two police officer's and informed them that they were taking custody of the child, Jody was too sedated at the time to care and Tom punched the woman in the mouth and was quickly arrested. A few months after being incarcerated Tom Miller hanged himself in his cell using his bed sheets, shortly after that Jody overdosed in their apartment.
After the child was healthy enough to leave to hospital he was taken to the Wish House Orphanage, they weren't used to having children so young but they gladly took him. The social worker and one of the priests working there exchanged grins and she went on her way. A few years passed Logan was walking and talking, now he would be given the same treatment as the rest of the orphans and take part in their religious had difficulty sleeping at time's with the scream's of the other children during the night when they got their daily beatings, he was lucky to have been brought in at such a young age so that their teachings and strict code of conduct were taught to him at a young age. Logan was a quiet and well behaved child, he only had to be disciplined a few times and it was over minor things. Logan spent a lot of time with Priest Toby Archbolt (while Toby was young) he looked up to him like a father and Toby treated him well, actually he was the only orphan he treated well. A few more years past he was ten years old now he had a few friends at the orphanage Johnny Taylor, Alex Thompson and Kelly Richards, they were the most devout in the orphanage and tended to stick together. They eventually grew to be hostile towards the less devout orphans referring to them as "blasphemers" and "dirty heathens" they usually just shunned them and iinsulted them but there were a few they began assaulting, the priests and priestesses looked the other way with this behavior.
Logan was sitting on the bench reading some of the cults scripture when two larger boys approached him, Billy Green and Jason Turner, Billy was tall with short brown hair and brown eyes while Jason was slightly shorter than Billy but was a chubby ginger. Logan and a few of his friend's would gang up on Jason and beat him calling him a glutton and a pig, and they'd beat Billy because he tried standing up for Jason once. "Look who it is" Jason said smugly Logan looked nervous "Not so tough without your friends are ya" Billy added "leave me heathen scum" Logan said attempting to sound tough. The two boys just laughed then Billy proceeded to grab and throw Logan onto the ground and the two boys began kicking him while he was on the ground, a priest quickly grabbed them both and took them inside the house. A priestess quickly ran out of the house and came to Logan's aid, he was brought inside and was laid out on one of the beds. A young priest walked in and he did not look to happy "You won't have to worry about those two harassing you any time soon" he smirked, Logan saw out side the door Billy and Jason were being escorted out by a priest and they both looked white as a ghost. After the priestess who helped him into the room left Toby went up to Logan and began using disinfectant on his wounds and began Idle chatter with him. "How's your studying going?" Toby asked "Well..Religious studies very well..math no so much" Logan stated, Toby grinned and said "Yea, I was never too great at math either" Logan smiled then asked "uum..where are Billy and Jason going?" Toby looked a bit awkward "Don't worry about that, there being punished that's all you need to know" Logan nodded "I'm sorry but I have to go" Toby stated then patted Logan on the shoulder and left in the direction the two boys were being taken.
Logan did not see either of them for a while there were rumors spreading that they were taken to "the building" apparently it's shaped like a giant can and is surrounded by water, he did not believe that rumor he just assumed they were kicked out of the orphanage. Three years later he was the first orphan allowed to leave the orphanage and go to the lake due to his excellent behavior or so they said, this made him very happy but put a huge target on his back. After he got back from the lake all the other children were glaring at him and whispering to one another this made Logan very nervous even his so called friends were glaring at him. Logan was now afraid to leave the house or even sleep, so he spent most of his time around the priests and priestesses they "happily" let him hang around them but even he felt somewhat suspicious of their motives. The clergy members were always teaching him extra knowledge about their faith, and Logan was highly interested in it. After a few months of this his devotion to faith was noticed and he was approached by George Rosten and discussed the 21 Sacraments with him, he tried to persuade Logan to preform the ritual but Logan promptly refused, George didnt look too worried because he a back up plan. This got Logan thinking though and he decided on what he wanted to do when he was older, become a priest he always looked up to the priests and enjoyed the rituals. He devoted the next three years to studying of the cult's teachings, some days he would be so into his studies that he would forget to eat it took quite a toll on him. He looked even more malnourished than the rest of the orphans but he felt it was all worth it, when not studying he would dream of the Holy Mother being reborn and feel regret for not taking George's offer. Toby was worried about him which he found surprising he almost felt that Logan was his own child, he would have to force Logan to eat at times because he would be too wrapped up in his studying.
After those three years he felt ready, he spent most of that morning finding the best way to ask without sounding pathetic, after trying a couple times he felt ready and approached Toby Archbolt who is now the new leader of the Holy Mother Sect and asked to be inducted into priesthood, normally Toby would say no and usually beat the child for even asking but since it was Logan asking Toby was pleased and agreed to let him be inducted into priesthood, but he needed a teacher and now that he was the leader he wouldn't have time to do that. Logan was euphoric when he heard that he was permitted to become a priest but a bit upset that Toby wouldn't be teaching him, Archbolt assigned a priestess named Elizabeth Carter with the duties of mentoring and teaching him the code's and rituals all priests must know . Elizabeth showed him step by step how to preform the rituals then made him preform them and watched and corrected him. As a priest initiate he sat through rituals only clergy members were allowed to attend, and he had to lead a few to show he was learning (although he knew most of their rituals through his intense studying), he messed up a few times on his first few rituals by mixing up a few words and he accidentally knocked the obsidian goblet spilling its content on the table. While Logan was sitting at a table reading Toby at down at the table and began conversing with him "so far the other clergymen are quite impressed with your progress" he stated "really?" he said grinning from ear to ear "Yes" he grinned "We're thinking of sending you to our main church on Toluca Lake" Logan just smiled "Keep up the good work" he said before getting up and leaving. After a few rituals he was preforming them flawlessly, they were impressed with how fast he memorized the rituals it took most of them quite a few years to reach the level he was at. They decided to give him one final test before sending them to the church, he had to preform a large complicated ritual that is seldom used. The clergymen called Logan into the underground altar for his final test, he panicked a bit when they said what ritual it was. It was the old "Appeasement of the Holy Mother" ritual from the eighteen hundreds, no one does this anymore it brings way too much attention to the church, he thought for a few moments then remembered what to do. Logan looked at the altar there was an athame (ceremonial dagger), white chrism,a obsidian goblet and a poor reporter that got a bit too nosey about the wish house, he was tied to the altar and gagged. The priests and priestesses were all wearing ceremonial robes and were standing still as stone waiting for him to begin the ritual. Logan walked up to the altar picked up the athame and read a passage from the cult's holy book.
oh holy mother
you who grants us life
you who frees us form sin
you who frees us from corruption
you who will bring us to paradise
we offer the blood of a sinner
to pay for the sins of man
in the hope that we can all be redeemed
After he read the passage he removed the gag off the reporter then plunged the dagger into the reporter's heart, he screamed in pain and begging him to stop Logan grinned at his pathetic plea' slit his throat to shut him up and collected some his blood in the obsidian goblet and placed it back onto the altar for the others to end the ritual. Toby approached him after the ritual and congratulated him on his amazing performance and informed him that I'm being sent to the island to complete my training. Logan began packing his belongings (which did'nt consist of much) when Toby came into the room "all ready to leave I see" he stated "yes, well I'm eager to learn more" Logan said enthusiastically Toby grinned "well this is the first time I've said this to any of you kids, but I'm going to miss ya" he then playfully punched Logan in the shoulder Logan laughed a bit and said "yea, I'm going to miss you too" Toby smiled and nodded then walked out of the room.
The next day Logan got up even earlier than usually to catch the boat heading to the island, he spent a few minutes looking into the mirror amazed by how much he's grown in the past few years. He played with his dark greasy hair he was surprised how long he's let it grown, but he kind of liked how it looks. He checked his watch to check the time and realized how long he's been looking in that mirror and started to panic, he threw his dirty black suit on with a dirty white dress shit that was almost Grey due to it's lack of being washed and a black polyester tie. He rushed out of the house it was almost seven am and that's when the boat arrives, the sun was blinding and made his pale completion stand out horribly. He rushed to the docks and caught the boat just in time, it was a long boat ride to the island because the boat stopped at a few other docks on the lake before heading to the island the people that were being picked up were mostly people heading to the church for prayer and confession. when he arrived on the island he spoke to Father Carter (who is Elizabeth's father) "Ah, yes I was told you'd be arriving today" Logan just nodded "well let me show you around" Carter stated. Carter showed him to his dorm first "drop your bags off here" he muttered Logan threw his bags on the bed then followed carter out of the room, Next he showed him the library it wasn't huge but it had everything on the order and a few books on other religions that are poisoning silent hill. carter brought him back to his room "we begin your training tomorrow" he said unenthusiastically. For the most part he was taught information he already knew so he found it quite boring until Carter brought up a ritual that only one other person has mentioned to him "The 21 Sacraments for the descent of the holy mother", Carter read a passage from the cult's holy book.
"The First Sign And God said, At the time of fullness, cleanse the world with my rage. Gather forth the White Oil, the Black Cup and the Blood of the Ten Sinners. Prepare for the Ritual of the Holy Assumption.
The Second Sign'' And God said, Offer the Blood of the Ten Sinners and the White Oil.
Be then released from the bonds of the flesh, and gain the Power of Heaven. From the Darkness and Void, bring forth Gloom, and gird thyself with Despair for the Giver of Wisdom.
The Third Sign And God said, Return to the Source through sin's Temptation. Under the Watchful eye of the demon, wander alone in the formless Chaos. Only then will the Four Atonement's be in alignment.
The Last Sign and God said, separate from the flesh too, she who is the Mother Reborn and he who is the Receiver of Wisdom. If this be done, by the Mystery of the 21 Sacraments, the Mother shall be reborn and the Nation of Sin shall be redeemed." *
He began talking about how they are training a young boy named Walter Sulivan to complete this ritual to rebirth the Holy mother, He talked about their plans and how they grudgingly are working with Jimmy Stone and George Rosten to make this happen. The only other interesting information he heard was about the Cylindrical Building on the lake and the Wish House's true purpose, The Cylindrical building was developed roughly a hundred years ago they aren't sure what purpose it used to serve but it now acts a prison for misbehaving orphans Logan jokingly wondered if Jason and Billy are still in there. The wish house's purpose was to find a "conjurer" to preform the 21 Sacraments, it makes sense now why George asked tried persuading him to complete the ritual and why he occasionally saw that old bat Dahlia hanging around the orphanage. Two years passed rather quickly here and he was promoted to a full fledged priest, A large ceremony was held for this occasion all the high ranking priests of the sect were there. After the ceremony Logan came up to Toby who lead the ceremony "Haven't seen you in a while!, how have you been?" Logan asked Toby smiled and said "Busier than all hell, espesially with the Conjurer and having to teach him all the proper rituals" Toby sighed "and our new source of income" "new source of income?" Logan asked "yea, we've been selling pot to the stupid teenagers, we've been making quite a bit of money from it" Logan snickered "oh yeah, us in the council have decided where you're going now that you're done training" Toby stated "Oh yea where?" Logan asked, "The Orphanage, helping the conjurer with his studies and dealing with the rest of the orphans" said Toby "Oh?" said Logan "You leave tomorrow, so pack your belongings tonight the boat comes at nine am" Logan nodded. He wasnt too thrilled about having to go back to the orphanage but he isn't one to deny orders from a superior, he is happy he gets to see the other clergymen he hasn't seen in years..but the kids he hates kids. Logan decided to stop worrying about it, Packed his small number of possessions and went to next morning he got up early said his "tearful" goodbye's and headed back to the orphanage.
Well that was my first fan fic I hope you enjoyed it, review please :).
* Quoted from a Silent Hill 4 Memo which probably is copyrighted by konami.