Chapter 1: Holiday
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! The digital alarm clock dragged the teen out of his dream world and into the real one, he reached over and slapped numerous buttons hoping one would shut it up. The alarm stopped and the young man sat up in bed revealing messy blonde hair "Stupid alarm, don't you know it's Saturday!" he muttered to himself.
Ron slowly got to his feet and grabbed any clothing available to him and put them on, he looked over to an open drawer in his bedside cabinet. A small naked creature slept inside a sock with it's head peeping over the top, Ron thought about waking the animal. 'Nah, the little guy's probably tired from last night.' he thought.
Last night had seen Ron and his best friend Kim travel to Australia to stop Dr. Drakken taking over the world, again. This time Drakken planned to use a laser from space to target Washington D.C., of course Kim and Ron had stopped them. Well Kim did anyway.
Ron come downstairs to hear his mother and father talking to someone, as he walked into the kitchen he realised who it was. The man heard Ron and turned around and stood up "Hello, Ron. How have you been?" asked the brown-haired, middle aged man. His moderately lengthed hair just stopping short of his eyebrows. This was Harry, one of his fathers closest friends and had visited regularly for as long as Ron could remember.
"I'm doing a-okay, Mr. M!" Ron said cheerfully as his attention shifted to breakfast.
"That's great, Ron. Now I've been talking with your parents and if it's okay with you, would you like to come on vacation with me and Cheryl. Sometimes she likes others to play with and I was thinking since she likes you so much…" Ron interrupted,
"I'd love to!" he beamed.
"How long for?" Ron asked
"Don't worry I'll have you back in time for the new school year. It's just a short five day vacation. It's in a small town called Silent Hill, Cheryl suggested it to me." Harry caught a surprised look on Ron's face and Ron felt he had to explain
"It's just a bit odd for a seven-year-old to suggest a place that isn't an amusement park. I've never heard of this place. Usually kids are all 'Disneyland' and stuff"
"I'll tell you all about it on the way there. And, Ron, if you like you can bring a friend to keep you company." Ron smiled, he and his parents knew that only one name flashed through his mind at that moment.
A telephone rang amongst the bustle of a family kitchen at breakfast "I'll get it" said a red-haired girl loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Kim." come a voice on the other end, a voice Kim would recognise in a room full of voices.
"Hey, Ron. What's up?" Ron then told Kim of the invitation with his 'uncle' Harry.
It would need to be talked over with Kim's parents first, but they never usually stopped Kim and Ron going places. Moments later Kim come back to the phone "Ron, they said it's cool. I can come with." Kim said brightly,
"Cool, we're going on Monday so be packed for then." Ron replied before exchanging a "later" and hanging up.
Before they knew it, Kim and Ron were sitting in the back seat on their way to Silent Hill.
"Harry can you put this tape on, I'm getting bored of the radio" enquired Ron.
"Sure" said Harry with a smile and put on his tape, sudden distortion cleared into the first few chords of a rock song. Not too rock, but rock enough to nod his head to.
"Who is this?" asked Kim pointing her thumb to the tape
"Stereophonics" said Ron.
"Never heard of them" Kim said to herself.
After some car trouble they arrived late on the outskirts of Silent Hill, the tape had long since finished although Harry hadn't switched the car stereo off. Cheryl, his daughter, sat in the front seat with the window slightly open causing enough of a breeze to flick Cheryl's black hair about. Kim and Ron were awake, but were too tired to talk and simply sat looking out of their respective windows.
Harry's black jeep followed the snaking road around a hilly area. The sun had just set casting a red shadow across the sky, lighting up clouds. Pine trees covered the area giving the whole place a very scenic touch.
The sound of a motorbike rapidly gained on them as a police motorcycle pulled alongside the car, causing Kim and Ron to watch. Harry checked his speedometer, he was inside the speed limit 'What could they want?' he thought. Just as he was about to pull over the bike sped off ahead of the car and into the darkness. Odd, but nobody in the car mentioned anything and kept the comfortable silence.
"Hey what's that up ahead?" asked Ron as he looked out of his window, Kim stretched over to see.
"It's that cop who just passed us" said Harry, looking to the side of the road to see the dumped motorcycle lying by the roadside, but no person in sight.
"LOOK OUT!" screamed Kim pointing ahead, Harry jerked his head back to the road only to see a figure wonder in front of the car. Harry did his best to swerve out of their way and ended up throwing the car out of control and off the road into a wall. They all heard the blinding noise of screeching tires, glass smashing and metal crunching before all were sucked into darkness.