Author's Note: This is a work of fanfiction, I do not own Higurashi or Silent Hill. Higurashi is property of 07th Expansion, Silent Hill is property of Konami.

This story takes place in a modified "Disaster Awakening Chapter" ending where Satoko wakes up from her coma but is not murdered, instead waking up with no memory of what happened.

Near Silent Hill, Maine, 1989.

Satoko Houjou lay, half asleep on a seat on a bus travelling along a highway through a densely wooded, mountainous area somewhere in the US state of Maine. Rain pounded on the roof of the bus as lightning periodically lit up the night.

Satoko was in the United States as part of an international transfer student program. Satoko was assigned to spend a year attending a high school in a town in Maine called Silent Hill, and was nearly there, after spending the last day either in a plane or changing planes twice- once in Tokyo and once in Los Angeles.

Suddenly, Satoko heard the tires of the bus squeak loudly. The vehicle started sliding across the road, rousing Satoko, who reached for a handle on the side of the bus. The vehicle slid off the road entirely, tumbling off a small cliff, the vehicle flipping over and impacting with a crashing sound.

After a few second, Satoko opened her eyes. "Am I… still alive?", she asked herself as she got up, realizing she was standing on the ceiling of the bus – the bus was upside-down. Satoko walked over to nearest passenger, a man in his 30s. He appeared to have hit his head as the bus crashed, blood was smeared on ceiling where his head had landed. Satoko placed her hand on his neck, he didn't appear to have a pulse. He was dead, she realized.

Satoko walked to the end of the bus, the windshield had shattered. Large glass shards pierced the driver's chest and blood covered everything. He too was dead.

Suddenly, an image flashed into her mind, the image one of her old friends from Hinamizawa, Rika Furude, lying dead in a pool of blood on top of the shrine her family took care of.

"No…" Satoko thought, "Rika… Rika died a volcanic gas leak, the whole village did… I was the only survivor."

Satoko did not remember anything about the Hinamizawa incident. She had been told, after waking up from a coma one year after the incident that a volcanic gas leak had claimed the lives of everyone in the village, except her. Satoko was shocked and horrified of course, but by now, but she had gotten on with her life, "It was what Rika and the others would have wanted", she told herself many times, and so, Satoko told herself this yet again.

Satoko grabbed a first aid kit and map of Silent Hill lying next to the remains of the bus driver and stuffed them in her backpack. She didn't know why she took the first aid kit, but she got the feeling she might need it. Little did she know how right she was.

Satoko put on her raincoat and climbed through the broken windshield, being careful not to injure herself on the broken glass, and exited the bus. The bus had come to a stop by a tree, in the middle of a dense forest. The cliff the bus had fallen off was too tall to climb, especially at in the rain that pouring down. She had to find another way back to town.

Fortunately, Satoko found just that in the form of a trail leading along the edge of the cliff. It was very dark, the only illumination coming for what little moonlight filtered through the dark storm clouds, as well as the occasional flash of lightning. Satoko followed the trail for about 100 meters until she came to a wooden sign that read "Pilot Rock, 0.2 miles, Silent Hill, 0.3 miles".

"Good", Satoko thought, "At least I'm close to town. Wish I had a light source to use the map though".

As Satoko continued forwards, she thought she heard something moving in the bushes. Just as she turned around, a bright flash of lighting momentarily lit up the night sky. As it did, Satoko could have sworn she saw a dark figure move through the bushes.

"Hello", Satoko called out into the darkness, "Is anyone there?"

No one replied.

"Anyone?", Satoko said, "I've been in a bus accident, I need help."

Again, no one replied. After getting no response for a second time, Satoko walked further into the forest, assuming the sound and the dark figure must have been an animal, or perhaps her mind simply playing tricks on her.

Satoko walked further along the trail, until she found a lit flashlight lying on the ground. "Well", Satoko thought, "This is convenient".

Satoko knelt down and picked up the flashlight, and noticed there was something else lying next to the flashlight, a magazine, Paranormal Investigator. On the front cover were the words "The Ten Most Mysterious Places on Earth".

"But why would someone have this magazine here… unless…", Satoko thought as she flipped through the pages of the magazine. The cover article listed the usual places- Area 51, the Bermuda Triangle, as well as some less well known locations, most interesting to Satoko, however, were two particular entries: "Silent Hill, Maine, USA" and, Satoko gasped as she read it, "Hinamizawa, Japan".

Satoko knew of course about the rumors of the curse of Oyashiro-sama, but surely, the deaths had to be some kind of coincidence, right?

The article on Silent Hill read: "The town of Silent Hill, Maine is said to have many dark secrets lying beneath its picturesque surroundings on the shore of Toluca Lake. Mysterious disappearances, rumors of an doomsday cult involved kidnappings, murder, and human sacrifices, and tales of a gateway to an alternate dimension shroud the area in mystery."

Hinamizawa's article stated: "The abandoned village of Hinamizawa has been in the center of a military quarantine zone since the year 1983, when all of the town, save for one survivor perished mysteriously. While official reports state that the result of the disaster was a volcanic gas leak from a previously unknown vent in the nearby Onigafuchi swamp, the continued quarantine years after the event is not explained. Numerous other theories attribute the disaster of 1983 to secret testing of biological weapons by the JSDF in the area, the involvement of aliens, or the curse of the deity of the local Shinto shrine, Oyashiro."

Satoko had heard stories of the curse of Oyashiro, but she had never heard of any of the conspiracy theories, or the involvement of alien in Hinamizawa. She was sure it was the usual nonsense that these kind of magazines publish, and the same must be true for Silent Hill….

Suddenly, a chittering sound came from ahead of her on the trail. Satoko pointed the flashlight ahead of her and gasped in horror at what she saw. The dead body of what looked like a hiker lay collapsed on the ground in a pool of blood. On top of the dead body of the hiker stood something unlike anything Satoko had seen before.

Standing over the hiker's body was a creature similar to a gigantic insect, the flashlights rays reflecting off the shiny, black, chitinous integument. The creature had a rounded back similar to a beetles, but no signs of the wing covers normally seen on a beetle, instead, having a simple, rounded carapace. Where the mouth should have been, the creature that a long sharp object that was stuck in the body of the dead hiker, and it had two, sharp blade-like appendages on either side of its head.

As the creature pulled its long, sharp mouthparts out of its victim's body, Satoko realized it was a hollow tube like an oversized version of a mosquito's proboscis- used to suck blood. As soon as she thought this, the creature turned to her and lunged at her with frightening speed. Satoko let out a blood-curdling scream as the creature pinned her to ground, its sharp proboscis moving closer and closer to her neck.

Satoko had to do something if she wanted to live to see the next day. She felt a rock about the sized of a grapefruit near her left hand and, thinking quickly, seized the stone and struck it against the side of the creature's head. The creature let out a high-pitched shriek, but continued attacking. Satoko struck it in side of the head three more times. With the fourth blow, Satoko heard the crunch of breaking integument and felt the creature's head give way. The monster stopped moving, killed by the blunt trauma to the head.

Satoko pushed the remains of the creature the off of her and got up, pointing her flashlight towards, revealing that two more of the insect-like creatures about twenty feet ahead of her, presumably attracted by the sounds of the struggle.

Satoko looked around for any means of escape or anything she could use to defend herself. Next to the body of the hiker was an aluminum trekking pole, hardly an ideal weapon, but it was better then nothing. Satoko seized the pole just as the first of the two creatures lunged at her to attack. Satoko jumped out of the way, the creature landing a few feet from her. Satoko turned to face the monster, blocking a strike from its blade like arm. Then fueled on pure adrenaline, Satoko thrust the trekking pole forward like a spear, right into the creature's head, killing it.

Suddenly, Satoko felt something barely miss her leg. It was the blade-like forward appendage of the second insect-like monster. Satoko turned and brought the trekking pole down on the creature's head once, twice, three times, before thrusting the trekking pole through its head as she had with the other one.

Satoko walked away from the remains of the creatures that had attacked her, towards a rock spire not far in the distance. "That must be Pilot Rock", Satoko thought, "I must be close to town now".

The trail ran around the side of Pilot Rock. Satoko encountered no one else, human or monster. Not long after, she reached the trailhead, exiting onto the side of a road in the town of Silent Hill. The rain had by now slackened off, but was replaced by a dense fog that allowed a visibility of only twenty feet.

Satoko got out her map. She had to find the nearest police station. According to the map, she was in the Pleasant River neighborhood of Silent Hill, on the south side of the lake. The nearest police station should be the main police headquarters in the Centennial Building, a tall tower that, even through the fog, Satoko could make out the dark outline of, ominously rising out in the distance, distorted by the fog.

New Items:

Silent Hill Map:

A map of the town of Silent Hill, including Pleasant River, Paleville, and South Vale, and Central Silent Hill

First Aid Kit x1:A kit containing bandages, antiseptic, etc, for treating injuries.

Trekking Pole: An aluminum pole used as a walking stick when hiking. Not the best weapon, but is still capable of making rapid, if not particularly powerful strikes.