A/N: These are the new beginnings of a Silent Hill FanFic, i'm still ludicrously green after a -long- break from writing these things, I carried on writing other things though so I hope you enjoy it, R&R constructively, i'll happily listen to criticism so no matter how cruel it is, so long as it's valid! Note:

Konami® is a registered trademark of Konami Corporation Silent Hill™, characters, settings and Silent Hill are © Konami Corporation or their respective owners, I own none of the features of this story that are featured in any of the games featured in the Silent Hill series, I make no money from this fan fiction and simply wrote this for the fun and sake of writing a fan fiction after taking a long break, don't sue me bro!

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Enjoy,

Anna! ^-^

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Apprehension

Dad? It's me. Yeah. Sorry I didn't call sooner.

Yeah, I guess I was. Anyway I'm coming home now. Oh, I

didn't get that thing you asked me to. Okay. Okay, I will. I

love you too dad.

Peering out into rain, I felt grateful for the shelter of the cinema's generous banner.

The rain wasn't going to let up, i'd been standing there and shivering for the past half hour, if I wanted to get home I was going to have to get wet. Harry should've been there by now, or at least called my cell to write off another abstract excuse. Thing was, I just didn't buy the 'lost track of time' act anymore. At any rate, I wasn't getting any closer to home by complaining about what a wreck of a father I had. I didn't plan on spending the night shivering out here either, so there was only one way for it. I sighed and took my MP3 player from my bag. Plugged in and zoning out with the music, I darted out into the gloom.

I kept my head down, my eyes scanning the bleak furnishings of city life for anything not grey or dripping with rain. I had no luck. In fact, I began to notice the streets were entirely devoid of life. I had considered hailing a cab and getting a dry, if not expensive, ride home but there were no cabs. To that effect, no cars whatsoever were navigating the urban typhoon. I strained my ears, struggling to hear anything above the downpour, perhaps it was paranoia, or simply my over-exaggerative mind. I couldn't hear the commonplace sounds of the city, there were no sirens nor planes or helicopters, not even any beggars asking me for my bottom dollar. It sure was quiet for Richmond, i'd grown up with the screech of car horns and the wail of police sirens in the distance, but tonight, nothing. Had the city come to a standstill because of the rain? It certainly didn't feel natural to be the only life form lurking in the night.

Suddenly, a loud noise dragged me from my reverie, I blinked and faltered to a stop as the sidewalk below me turned dark. Through the rain I could see that the street light had blown out, along with a couple of my nerves. I sighed and waited patiently whilst my heart thudded itself out against my ribs, typical that it should happen to me. I let my gaze fall back to the floor, wiping my eyes with the back of my hand and continuing my journey. I sped up as the rain became heavier. The sound of rain on civilization became deafening, growing beyond the level of the music in my ears, drowning it out to replace it with the sound of rain. As I stepped into the next circle of light on the sidewalk, there was another noise from directly above me, I looked up and almost instantly regretted it. I covered my head with my arms and crouched down on an impulse as sparks rained from the heavens..the heavens? I find comparing anything from this place to the heavens entirely ludicrous in my current situation. I felt points of red-hot light fall past my cowering form, a number of sparks landing on my bare arms. Stinging pinpricks left behind made me wince. I warily untangled my arms from my head once sure I wasn't about to be fried on the spot and glared upwards regardless of the rain. Two lamps in a row? It seemed that someone in the clouds hated me, whoever was controlling this night certainly wasn't fond of me.

Now fully saturated, I decided to pass on the night's light show and hurry home, I was drenched to the bone, my hair heavy against the rest of my head as it stuck to my neck. My bag closer to my chest, I began walking again as my footsteps were punctuated by low shivers. I could see in the corner of my eye that the light turned on again as I left its presence. Great! Now I was being mocked by inanimate objects, it was just going to be one of those nights.

Deep in thought and numb to my surroundings, I frowned at the sidewalk as the track on my MP3 changed, it wasn't like my klutz of a Dad to make me trudge home on a night like tonight. Harry was lazy but certainly not neglectful. Predictions of what excuse he would come up with swirled in my head. Although it was likely to be entirely fabricated and unbelievable, I predicted my resolve would crumble as always beneath his childish grin. Smiling faintly to myself, eyes fixed on the ground, I neglected to stop as a figure ambled out of an alley and into my path. I collided with whoever it was mid-thought and, taken entirely by surprise, tangled my legs with theirs and flew a fair distance head over heels. I skidded across the sidewalk on my front as my bag flew from my hands and slid away across the sidewalk as I fell. Rising into a stoop and groaning, I wiped down my front fruitlessly and prepared for a barrage of insults from the unfortunate figure I collided with.

I finished brushing myself down and, standing upright, turned my attention to the person who stood motionless just as they were before I hit them. I took a self-conscious step forwards.

"Uhm hey, i'm sorry about that, I wasn't looking where I was going at all, I was really in a rush to get home, what with the weather and all, I really should've been looking where I was going," I was rambling. "So anyway if you'd accept my apologies I really have to go... sir... ma'am?"

At that point, the light that illuminated the clumsy scene blinked out of existence, plunging both me and my shadowy victim into darkness. Paying little attention to the sudden change of lighting, I took to examining the figure. The closest working street lamp lit the wrong side of the figure, the side that faced away from me, where I had come from. It appeared typical in shape, taller than my tiny frame and certainly bulkier. But it appeared distorted, disfigured or deformed in a manner that I couldn't quite put a name to. It did however seem.. strange. Whoever it was, I could understand if they were angry about my clumsiness, but their manners were beginning to irritate me. When I thought about it, they were most likely lost or something, perhaps I could make up for my embarrassing blunder by pointing them in the right direction. On that note, I stepped forwards and, my curiosity reaching tipping point, tapped the person on the shoulder. "Hey, are you o-". Suddenly, an ear-piercing screech filled my ears, I pulled my hands up to cover them and felt my earphones there, still buried deep inside my ears. I groaned and, as the world began to spin before me, fell onto my knees and pulled out my earphones in an attempt to cover my ears. I stared, shocked at my earphones as the sound suddenly faded somewhat. In an instant, the world was plunged into darkness, and silence, had the rain stopped? What had just happened, had all of the streetlights blown? Even then I could still hear the horrific screeching of white noise emanating from the buds in my hands through the darkness and. As I flipped over the earphones, the sound suddenly grew far louder as a low gurgling sound made itself heard. It came from in front of me, from the person.

I looked up in surprise, and saw the figure had begun to have some form of fit, its body twisting and writhing, staggering around to face me. I stared in shock, and horror, as the street lamp above began to flicker on and off erratically, illuminating the person. It didn't appear to be a person, not human, a creature. As it lumbered towards me, I could see it clearly. It had no arms, and its legs were disfigured. The legs appeared larger, as if making up for for lack of arms, but in turn making the creature unstable. Every inch of its rotting frame was twitching, its jerking movements leaving behind small puddles of a liquid, the sidewalk appearing to burn and fizz in its wake. I stared up in horror as the creature slowly worked its way precariously towards me, a stench of rotting meat growing as the white noise emanating from the earphones became louder. The creature then leaned back on its legs, shaking violently as its chest and throat bulged, a low gurgling sound building up in the depths of its throat. I willed my legs to move, horrified when they stubbornly seized up, rendering me paralyzed before the growing threat staggering slowly towards my cowering form. Move move move! My legs screamed with the exertion of performing such a simple action, my every sense and nerve shrieking at me, urging me to move. I moved one leg at a time, slowly pulling up my knees, straightening my feet and pushing downwards with all my might, swaying dangerously. I pulled myself to my feet and took a shaky step away from the figure. As I watched, the creature lurched forwards and retched, a jet of hissing substance flying from a deep gash in its chest aimed directly at me. I shrieked and took a step backwards, jerking every part of my body away from it at the same time. I stumbled and, in a blind stagger, swung my arm through the air. The hissing liquid collided with me. It clung to my arm, a searing pain bursting through it. I screamed as the liquid bit into my flesh as it ate away at my jacket. I quickly pulled off the hissing jacket and turned to snatch up my bag from where it lay untouched since I fell. Wiping tears from my eyes with a shaking hand, I fled blindly into the night, leaving my jacket corroding into nothing on the sidewalk.

I stared at my arm in horror, any longer and I would have lost use of it entirely. I shuddered and turned my attention to my MP3 player, the earphones had returned to normal, the murmur of my music quietly bubbling out into the night air.

What just happened?

What was that thing?

Are there more out here?

Am I safe..?