Disclaimer: I do not own Silent Hill 2 or any of its characters.

This is my first fan-fiction. I am just getting the prologue out of the way before beginning the real story. The layout is strange, but I hope it works in catching your attention.

Founded Fears:

Prologue

A TV screen comes on, showing the opening sequence to the Playstation 2 system.

GamePlayer: All right, I finally get to play Silent Hill 2: Tripod.

As the game loads, the Player thinks of the new concept of not only playing as James, but as Angela and Eddie as well. He likes it. The screen has just shown up, and there are only two choices: New Game and Options. Of course New Game is selected. 3 choices come up on the screen. They are boxes with the texts Restless Dreams, Innocences' Dementia, and the currently selected box, Founded Fears. This is the box that is selected and the game starts.

GamePlayer: I need to get the girls out of the way first.

The screen goes black, and words start streaming up from the bottom, with a female voice reading it:

"In my restless dreams, I see that town.

Silent Hill.

You promised you'd take me there again someday,

but you never did."

GamePlayer: What? This is just like the beginning of James' game! What is this!

(the text continues)

"Well, I'm alone there now...

In our 'special place'...

Waiting for you..."

(the text fades, but then the screen starts to show snow, and vague images can be seen in it)

GamePlayer: Huh?

On the screen is a new scene of a little girl smiling. The camera pans out and it shows that the little girl is sitting between an older man and woman. Once the whole scene is shown, it turns out to be a photograph of a family. However, blood sprays across the picture suddenly.

GamePlayer:...!

The picture is toppled over and broken glass is heard as two screams come from offscreen. It sounds like a man and a woman struggling, and there is a lot of commotion. Two shadows appear in the background of a person fending off another person holding a knife. After much struggle, the knife is used by the wielder to cleanly slice the throat of the victim. There is gasping, and finally silence. A new angle is shown of a woman kneeling down, holding a large blood stained knife in her hand. Only her back is shown, but we can see she is wearing a pink sweater and has brown hair. She is trembling immensely, clutching the knife in a tight grip.

GamePlayer:...

Something catches the lady's eye, and the camera shows an upside-down envelope. The lady picks up the envelope and flips it over. There is the following address:

Samantha Orosco

W. Katz St. Apt.109

Silent Hill, PA, 48569

A close up shot is shown of the city, and it is inexplicably underlined in blood:

Silent Hill

The woman finally speaks her first words,"...mama..."

The screen fades to black and the game begins.

GamePlayer: I'm looking forward to this.

-End Prologue-

Notes by the author: I know it is strange to present the story as a video game, but from now on, only the beginning and end of each chapter will have the GamePlayer (he's the one who loads the game in the beginning of the chapter, and saves and quits at the end). The rest of the story, the real story, will be told in the normal way, not from the gamer's point of view. I only added the gamer because I hope to use his thoughts on the game to further the plot, but if it proves to be too much, I'll cut him out. Please tell me what you think, and please read the first chapter (which I plan on making soon) before making any final judgements. I hope to be getting it up soon.