Light Demon

DISCLAIMER: Don't own Dark Angel T_T Don't own Silent Hill (Don't really want to)

A/N: This is homage to the scariest play station game I have ever played and the most disturbing movie I have ever watched combined with my favorite series and my two favorite characters off all time.

Chapter 1 -The dark road ahead

Max stopped in her tracks as she heard a strange, eerie noise coming from the higher level of the building. Her pulse sped up as she thought of the danger that the person she was looking for might be in. Then Max heard the siren. The grey light that streamed in from the windows and the doorway disappeared as darkness replaced it. Max knew that she only had moments to find Alec before the walking nightmares would find her and she would be all alone as she tried to escape the very things that made a not so proverbial bump in the night. As Max ran to the stairs as fast as her shaking legs would take her she resisted the urge to hide in the nearest cupboard and curl up into a ball of fright.

…...

Max walked through the entrance of Jam Pony with a determined expression on her face. She had hoped that normal wouldn't catch her but-

"Late again Missy Miss! It's a wonder why you still work here!" Normal called after Max as she walked straight past him without a second glance.

"It is a wonder." Max muttered under her breath. Just before she got to her locker her pager began to flash with Logan's number. Max looked down and sighed. Just when she was looking forward to a normal day's work…

Alec put down the phone just as Max pushed him out of the way to get to it. He glared at her but she seemed to be oblivious to the death-rays coming from his eyes. Max had ruined his reputation with quite a few of his clients already and the new one that he had just been talking to was highly temperamental when it came to manners. He was grateful that he had ended that call when he did otherwise Max would've ended it for him. Alec didn't bother waiting for an apology. He walked to his locker and then went to get his first package for the day. Just before he picked it up Max pulled him by the arm towards a quieter area.

"What?" Alec asked, getting out of her grip. He turned to look at her but instead of the tolerating expression she usually had when she spoke to him, she had a stressed one. Alec's expression immediately mirrored hers, all signs of playful irritation disappearing.

"I need your help with something." She almost whispered.

Alec couldn't help the worry her voice stirred within him. "Sure Max. What's wrong?" He asked in the same tone as her.

"Logan paged me so I phoned him back." Max started, her face became even more worried. "When I got through there was static on the other line and Logan begged me to come to Silent hill…"Max ended her sentence with a confused frown.

"Silent hill? What's that?" Alec eyebrows rose.

"I don't know, but Logan sounded…scared." Max shook her head inconceivably.

"What do you want to do?" Alec asked, hoping that Max wasn't going to live up to his expectations.

"I need to find him."

Alec had expected as much. He shook his head at her. He knew he didn't have much of a chance of persuading her otherwise but he could try. "No, Max. Bad idea."

"I have to!" Max frowned.

"You don't know where he is, you don't know who he's with, you don't know what he's doing there and you don't have a plan."

"I can't just leave him there! I have to try!" Max ground her teeth together. She was more than a little frustrated with her predicament. And not to mention worried out of her mind!

"You don't even know where to start looking."

"I can start by finding out where the hell that town is."

"Then what?" Alec tried to let his tone tell Max that she was being illogical.

"That's why I need you." Max looked at the floor for a moment before looking Alec in the eye again. She hated asking him for anything but right now she had to swallow her pride. "I need your car." She admitted.

"My car?" Alec asked with incredulity.

"Yeah."

He began to shake his head slowly. "I sold it a month ago Max."

Max closed her eyes in frustration. "Great."

"Why do you need my car anyway?" Alec asked.

"My bike got busted up by the sector cops again. It's at the impound and it's too damaged to get it out without paying for its release." Max said impatiently.

"Do you even know where this place is?" Alec asked, crossing his arms.

"I'll ask around. I'm pretty sure it's towards the North West."

Alec didn't like the worry on Max's face. He made the split decision to support her on her crazy mission as he knew he wouldn't be able to talk her out of it.

"Listen, you find out where this place is-I'll get a car." Alec said calmly.

Max smiled slightly at him. "Thanks." She said feeling a little better.

"Meet me back here around lunchtime." Alec said.

Max nodded and turned to walk away, towards OC. She hoped that she would be able to tell her where this place was.

At 1 o'clock Max walked towards Alec who was getting his jacket out of his locker. She held a map in her hand and she noticed that Alec had a set of car keys in his.

"You find out where it is?" Alec asked, putting his jacket on.

"Yep. Got a map just incase. Did you get a car?"

Alec smirked. "Got it off some gangster guys."

Max held out her hand and Alec dropped the keys into it. He knew that she would want to drive anyway.

"Thanks again, Alec." Max smiled a small, genuine smile.

Alec couldn't help but get the feeling that he wasn't invited along for the ride.

Max turned to walk and Alec followed close behind. She turned suddenly to give him a confused look.

Alec couldn't help but smirk again.

"Where're you goin'?" Max cocked an eyebrow.

"Do you honestly think I'm gonna let you go by yourself and have all the fun?"

"Uh, yeah I do." Max nodded.

"No ways." Alec walked past Max in the direction of the Hummer type vehicle.

Max grabbed his arm again. "I'll do this alone. It could be dangerous Alec."

Alec pulled his arm away. "Exactly. And you think I'd let you go by yourself with no backup?"

Max crossed her arms defiantly.

"This isn't negotiable." Alec let Max see the seriousness in his eyes and he saw her sigh in defeat.

Max walked past Alec and they both left Jam Pony. Once they got to the car Max was grateful that it looked incredibly sturdy (and not to mention brand new). The journey would take them the rest of the afternoon and half the night.

Max and Alec drove in silence as they exited Seattle; the already rainy day became even darker as heavy thunder clouds rolled in. Max wasn't fazed. She was an excellent driver -rainy, slippery roads didn't intimidate her. She glanced at Alec when she was sure he wasn't looking. She wondered why he had even bothered to help her in the first place. He usually did things that had something in it for him at the end and Max couldn't find one single thing that would benefit his life from this trip. They drove until dusk, having to get a gas refill and maybe some food from a nearby store. Alec's silence was beginning to worry Max. They eventually found a scarcely populated town with a rundown gas station and a store where they could get some snacks. Max and Alec got out of the car. Max decided to voice her concern. "Are you alright?" She asked Alec hesitantly as he began to fill the car with gas.

"Yeah." Alec replied unconvincingly. "Why?"

"You seem quiet." Max stated.

"I just don't have a good feeling about this."

"What do you mean?" Max asked, knowing full well what he meant. She had been feeling the exact same thing.

"I just feel it in my gut and I've learned to trust my instincts."

Max swallowed and didn't reply. She felt it too. It only made her more anxious to get to Logan. What if he was in serious trouble?"

Alec finished refilling the tank and then they both went to get some food. As they walked into the shop the locals began to stare uncomfortably at them. Max looked up at Alec's face. He only cocked an eyebrow as if to say 'I don't know.'

They left the shop a few minutes later. Max had been anxious to get back on the road. Alec was slightly irritated that the shop hadn't had any of his favorite snacks. As they got into the car, a police officer stepped up next to Max's window and tapped on the glass. Max and Alec tensed as all of their experiences with cops had taught them to. Max opened her window halfway and smiled politely at the woman.

"What's the prob'm officer?" She asked innocently. Alec mirrored Max's polite smile.

"Just wonderin' where you folks're headed?" The officer looked at Max through tinted glasses.

"Out of town. We just needed to get away from it all."

"You wouldn't perhaps be headin' to Silent Hill now would you?"

"No." Max shook her head, not letting the cop have any information.

"Good." She nodded and smiled.

"Why? What's wrong with this Silent Hill place?" Max asked nonchalantly.

"Let's just say you wouldn't want to be caught there during nightfall."

Max and Alec swallowed.

"Now you folks have a safe journey." The policewoman smiled and walked away.

Max did her window up and looked over at Alec. They shared a slightly wide-eyed look. As Max drove away, she and Alec both worried about what this was all about. Hours later Alec felt drowsy as he stared at the unchanging black road in front of him. The rain had subsided into a light drizzle. He looked sleepily at Max. He noticed how beautiful and vulnerable she looked when she was worried. He hated to see her worry though. He hoped that they would soon figure this mess out so that those two seemingly permanent lines between her eyebrows would disappear. He looked away and leaned his head on his window. Soon he was asleep.

Max looked over at Alec's sleeping form and smiled. She was eternally grateful for her shark DNA at that moment because without it she was sure to fall asleep at the wheel.

Max would never admit it but she felt so much safer in this huge car with Alec riding shotgun. Ever since she had gotten that phone call from Logan she had felt an uneasy feeling in her stomach. As Max stared at the unending, dark road in front of her and listened to Alec's silent snores as he slept with his head leaning against the window, she wondered if White and his men had something to do with this.

Suddenly Alec's phone began to ring, startling him awake. He took it out of his pocket and blinked his sleep-clouded eyes so that he could believe exactly what he was seeing. Logan's number flashed on the screen.

"It's Logan." Alec said disbelievingly.

Max grabbed the phone and flipped it open.

"Hello? Logan?" Max said anxiously.

"Max? Why do you have Alec's phone?" Logan asked sounding relieved.

"What do you mean?"

"I've been trying to get hold of you the whole day."

Max glanced down at her pager. It had died somehow. "I phoned you and you told me to find you in Silent Hill." Max was confused.

Alec sat bolt upright, listening to Max's conversation. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a worn out sign that read: Welcome To Silent Hill. His stomach made a sickening flip as he realized that it was all a trap. He knew deep down that it was already too late but Alec hoped that there was a chance of turning back. "Max, stop the car!" He shouted.

Max tried to listen to Logan through Alec's shouting.

"I didn't tell you that!"

"We need to turn around now!"

"Get out of there Max, Silent Hill isn't a good place!"

"Max!"

Max tried to make sense of what both the men were telling her. She briefly lost focus on the road. Then she caught sight of a disfigured shape standing in the middle of the pitch-black lane in front of them. Alec also saw it as Max swerved the vehicle as much as possible to miss the shape. Then the overgrown car made a slightly sickening skidding noise and flipped over in the air.

In the brief moments before the car landed upside down on the road, Max thought only one thought: too late.

A/N: This was my first attempt at writing horror. I just felt like Malec would be great together in a situation with scary, disturbing things and I realized that hardly any people write DA with horror storylines. This took me a few hours to write (spread over two days). My favorite genre is Romance but I would say Horror is close to second best for me. Tell me if you guys think it's worth carrying on.