Hello and welcome to another one of my weird ass stories that I don't know how in God's name they come about.

Disclaimer: I don't (unfortunately) own Silent Hill and its characters.

Love of Darkness: Prologue.

"No! Leave him alone!" a young girl cried as she watched her friend struggle with a creature that in a sense resembled an adult male, but also a beast like monster. She saw her friend fall and then she heard a loud beeping noise followed by frantic voices.

The girl woke up in one of the many hospitals that her parents put her in since she was the age of ten. She saw doctors rush in and out of her room.

"What happened?" one of the doctors asked.

"It was just another nightmare." A male nurse stated flatly.

The girl heard all of this before. She let her eyes wander, but they landed on a female nurse that came into the room.

The girl shrieked and tried to get something in her hands to throw at the nurse, but to no avail. When the girl realized that, she tried to get out of her bed, but was pinned down by one of the male nurses. Another ushered the female nurse out of the room and the girl quieted down.

"She can't continue like this." One of the male nurses muttered to a doctor. "she has to go back to her first hospital."

'Silent Hill?' the girl asked herself.

"Maybe the doctors there can get her to talk."

"Yeah."

In three days time, the girl was ready to leave the hospital in New York and go back to her small town of Silent Hill in West Virginia.

"Hello?" the girl called.

'That's funny; I thought I was here already.' She thought as she looked around the ever present darkness.

She then heard a sound that resembled a shriek of terror.

'No. Not again.' The girl ran, but knew she would never make it in time.

She arrived at the usual scene of her friend she made six years ago lying dead and a woman holding the murder weapon.

The girl couldn't stop the tears from falling as the rain washed away her dear friend's blood.

The girl gently touched her friend's hand.

"You're still warm." She whispered as the murderer walked away.

She lifted the corpse' hand to her cheek and began to sob.

The hand began to caress her cheek in tenderness, wiping away tears and raindrops, then began to decay. The flesh melted away and left a skeleton.

The girl woke to the dark of night with tears running down her cheeks.

'Not again Emily.' She thought as she angrily wiped away the tears. She then heard a familiar sound of metal scraping on the tiled floor of the hospital.

She made herself scarce and she saw that is was just a doctor dragging a metal shelf behind him with great difficulty.

Emily sighed and returned to her bed, but before she slipped into deep sleep, she thought she felt a familiar hand caress her cheek.