Chapter 1

You know that feeling you get sometimes? When you want to know more about humanity….purpose….destiny….the paranormal? When you want to know what is the point of everything. When you want to know more than the human mind can take.

Or is it just me who gets that feeling? I just want to….know. Why? Why are we here? What's the point of those who get murdered or those who die seconds after their own birth?

I don't know. Maybe I'm just fucked in the head.

But either way, I have a feeling that there's one place I can at least gain some answers, or maybe even just learn more or experience something paranormal.

You know where I'm talking about.

Jayne suddenly halted her writing in novel/diary. She turned to her computer and opened up the web page she was previously looking at on ghost towns. The town in question that she was looking at had been the host to many mysteries in the past couple of years, and was host to an underground fire which still burns to this day.

She returned to her writing and wrote the last sentence to the paragraph.

Silent Hill.

She looked back at the computer screen. This town had been homes to a number of inhuman cults, it appears to have been abandoned yet activity is still spotted and reported from there, people have been reported to have gone missing there or killed in savage ways by the unknown. Jayne knew she was crazy on even contemplating the thought of going there, never mind writing a diary of what will happen to her there and hopefully turning it into a novel about the paranormal.

Nevertheless, she was drawn to the place, despite its horrible stories, she just felt that she had to go there. Like it was her purpose.

On the plus side she could make a few bucks by releasing the novel.

Jayne closed her leather book which was playing host to her diary of events, slid it into her rucksack, which also contained some extra clothing, 3 bottles of water, a towel, a packed lunch, wallet and a torch.

She planned on squatting in one of the abandoned houses there when night came, seemed logical to her, why bother blowing money on a motel or lugging around lots of camping equipment when there are numerous abandoned houses to choose from. Not as if anyone would mind, the whole town is supposed to be abandoned.

Jayne headed out of her flat at South Ashfield. It was only a short drive to Silent Hill.

She chucked her rucksack on the backseat of her car, and drove. Leaving South Ashfield behind her.

Jayne wasn't fully aware of what she was dragging herself into, but she just felt that she needed to do this for her own good and for the good of others. She felt by doing this she could educate her readers on what is really out there in the unknown, waiting for them.

Jayne turned on the radio for company and ascended up the winding twisty roads to Silent Hill.

I've stopped at a gas station to eat my pack up and maybe get some rest before my big arrival. Although…I'm now kinda worried. I'm told no road goes through Silent Hill anymore due to the fire an all, which kinda sucks, so I'm a bit lost as to how I'm going to get there. But anyway, when there's a will there's a way. I'll get there.

There was a sudden tapping on the window to Jayne's car. It was a tall scruffy haired man wearing a long beige trench coat, sunglasses and had a small neatly cut "goatie" on his chin.

Jayne wound down her window and said to the man,

"Is there a problem?"

"Don't let them in the shop see ya eatin' that there girl," he laughed, "They'll throw a fitty seein' ya eat food that's not made by them n' all."

"Erm…OK…" Jayne replied, with a confused look on her face.

"What you're looking so confuzzled there for missy?" The man said.

"May I ask…" Jayne said hesitantly, "Why are you wearing sunglasses when it's clearly night time?"

The man smiled and then said,

"Where ya headed?"

"Silent Hill."

The man suddenly changed his tone.

"What's a little thing like you goin' up there for!? It's dangerous! 'Things' happen there."

"That's precisely why I'm going there," Jayne explained, "I want some answers…I want to know if the paranormal exists or not."

Jayne quickly wound her window up and started her car engine. The man banged on the window yelling "STOP!" but she drove away.

She turned her radio back on and stared expressionlessly at the road in front of her, completely unknowing of where to go.

Well…she thought she didn't know. She found herself turning corners and braking for sudden turns in the road as if she knew exactly where she was going.

The air suddenly started to become misty. A sign she was close. She's read on the website that Silent Hill seemed to be eternally misty.

Buildings started coming into view. Boarded up tall buildings. The place didn't actually look as run down as she expected. There were cars parked on the side of the road, trees on the sidewalks, displays in dusty shop windows… it just looked like a normal town. Of course the only thing that made you know it wasn't any normal town was the fact that most of the windows were boarded up or smashed and there was absolutely no one in sight. Not a single person. The town really was abandoned.

Jayne stopped her car in the middle of the road, and observed her surrounding from inside the car.

She got out her diary and begun writing.

Well, by the looks of things nothing has changed from the pictures on the website. Misty, creepy, boarded up buildings, abandoned vehicles. Basically this place just looks like an empty shell of what used to be a bustling town full of people. Ordinary people. Sure I've only been in the place a few minutes so nothing major will have happened just yet. But basically this place is simply an abandoned, forgot about town…makes you feel kinda sorry really, leaving all this to waste. Sitting here, you wouldn't think there's a huge fire burning under it, I was expecting maybe cracks in the road or just small signs of damage, but there's nothing. Nothing at all. Just me, my car, and the only noise is my car radio and the scribbling on my pen on this paper. It's quite creepy to be perfectly honest.

Jayne closed her book and chucked it onto the back seat. She went to start the car again, but it wouldn't.

"God! You always do this!! You pathetic piece of junk!" Jayne yelled at her car.

Suddenly the radio went extremely fuzzy and loud like there was an interference with the signal.

"Whoa!" Jayne yelled in surprise at the behaviour of the radio.

She fiddled with buttons and dials but nothing made it any better.

"Has the aerial fallen off or something?" she mumbled to herself.

Suddenly there was a bang followed by the car nearly tipping over. It's like something big was running into it.

"What the hell!?" Jayne shouted in shock. She looked out of the car windows, and nothing was to be seen. The car banged again more violently.

Jayne screamed in shock and terror at what was happening. Something was banging into the car that she couldn't see and she was too terrified to get out and meet whatever was causing it. Her heart was pounding, her face covered in cold sweat, and she was trembling madly. Suddenly the banging stopped. Jayne slowly raised her head to look out the window, gasping for air. That's when she saw the cause of the chaos.

It was a humungous, four legged monster. It appeared to be maybe a large dog, only it had no fur, was covered in blood, had huge fangs and was roaring like a lion. It had friends. It was they that were running into the car and attempting to flip it over.

Jayne panicked and was screaming and crying in pure fright inside her car. Suddenly the beast at her window managed to break the glass.

Jayne's life flashed before her eyes, she truly thought this was it, she was going to die, now covered in cold sweat, her heart pounding so fast she was on the verge of heart attack, she decided she was gonna die fighting, and began madly kicking her legs at the creature which was now trying to squeeze through her car window.

"I'm gonna die!!" Jayne cried at the top of her voice, her heart was pounding faster than ever, and tears were streaming down her face, "SOMEBODY HELP ME!!"

Right on cue. Gunshots could be heard. Powerful gunshots like from a shotgun. The creatures suddenly withdrew, backing away from the car and running off like in fear.

Jayne lied there, across the front seats gasping for breath.

"What the hell just happened!?" she gasped.

She slowly calmed herself, and even more slowly opened the car door to look out and see who or what was causing the gunshots.

There, stood not to far away from the car was the man from the gas station. His trench coat blew in the wind, and the shotgun in his left hand was smoking. He lowered his sunglasses, revealing shocking bright blue eyes, and looked at Jayne.

"Told ya not to come here girl," he said, smiling.