I DON'T OWN SILENT HILL! I DO OWN MAX, ALICE AND THE CHARACTER WITHIN THIS STORY (the names and game references come mostly from silent hill 3)

It felt lie they had been walking for hours, the fog still hadn't lifted, Alice kept a tight grip on Max, every noise coursed her to jump and shake. Max had tried to comfort her but she never answered, so they continued on in silence. Suddenly in front of them in the fog was the gas station, Max smile and looked at Alice, 'she I told you it would be fine.'

Slowly Alice looked at him, eyes still wide with fear, she spoke in a hushed whisper, 'we still have to get out.'

Max started at her trying to tell if she was joking, he turned away and continued to walk to the gas station, he tried the door, locked. But someone had to be near by, a tire iron lay next to a car with its hood propped up, sadly there was no engine.

'Well it seems as if it's locked so,' turning Max noticed Alice was not next to him, 'Alice?' Max felt his heart miss a beat, she wouldn't walk away, she was scared, when did she go?

'Alice? Alice!'

A loud scream sent chills run over him. He ran towards the noise, Alice was stood by the back entrance.

'Alice what is it? What's the matter?'

Max stood next to her and felt his stomach turn, on the floor was what looked like a slab of meat until you looked closer, which was when you noticed the tattoo over what could have been a ribcage, a glimmer of white at the end away from them, and finally a tangle of internal organs that appeared to have been pulled out. Alice rapped her arms around Max and sobbed, Max however, couldn't turn away, there was something about the body, the tattoo read To fine the truth see the cross. Max slowly slipped out of Alice's arms and walked closer, the body was laying on something, a sheet of paper? Max pull the paper came away with a wet sucking sound, a map.

'Max let's get out of here! Let's go, forget the car! We'll hick a life we'll…'

'Why not stay here awhile?'

Alice and Max jumped and turned, a man stood a few feet away, he was tall about 6'1, his broad shoulders where covered by a dark blue shirt and black jacket, it did hide the fact that the worked out, a narrow waist lead into ripped jeans. His black hair tangled into the collar of his jacket and dark eyes seem to lock on Alice, Max also noticed the man was strangely pale.

'Why not stay here awhile; Silent Hill is a lovely place.'

Alice and Max glanced at each other, how can he think it's a nice place with a dead guy on the floor? Max step closer to Alice, he did not like the way the guy was looking at her, 'I don't mean to be rude but, who are you?'

The man looked at him for about a minute in silence, and then he gently laughed, 'yes, I should have known you would not remember but you will soon. I am Mathew.'

Mathew smiled again at them, 'you have not changed, here take this, when you feel ready come to the inn and talk.'

Mathew handed Alice a key and slowly disappeared into the mist, Alice turned to Max, 'who was he talking to when he said 'you do not remember'?'

'I thought he was talking to you but… he does seem kinda familiar… come on we still got to try and get the car to work.'

Slowly they walked back to the front of the station, Max again tried the door, it was no use all where locked.

'We'll have to go somewhere else, here look at the map where do you thing?'

Alice leant over him and pointed, 'the hospital, there has got to be someone there.'

As they started off, Max suddenly stopped and picked up a tire iron he'd seen earlier, he looked at Alice, 'ok I know this sound stupid but…'

'…this town feels wrong?'

'Yeah and so does that guy.'

The fog seemed to lift a little as the got closer to the hospital, Max didn't tell Alice but sometimes he was sure he saw something…unnatural in the fog.

'This is it Brookhaven Hospital.'

Slowly they started to walk up the stairs, as they got to the top, Alice stopped, something like a radio static was coming from one of the bushes. She walked over and picked it up, it was a small hand-held cassette recorder, the kind a child uses, 'Max look at this.' As she turned as saw the dog run towards them but it wasn't a normal dog, it looked as is it's skin was inside out and where a head should be it appeared as if this dogs head had been split down the middle.

'What the hell is that thing?'

Max didn't have time to answer as the dog thing jump at him, he raised the tire iron, and he didn't stop hitting it until the creature had stopped moving. Max leant against the door frame panting, 'it's stopped.'

Max look at Alice and listened the white noise had stopped, 'well maybe it'll help, come on lets go.'

The pair entered the hospital; it was clean but quite, Max headed over to the doctors' office, 'Hello? Is anybody here? I think we should split up.'

'No fucking way! Did you see that thing out there? It was a dog with it's head spit open! I am not splitting up.'

Max sighed, 'look if we split up we'll find someone sooner, then we can leave. Just the first floor of the hospital, ok?'

'Fine.'

Alice turned down the left corridor trying door as Max headed down the right. Max found a storage room open, the looked in there was a boxes packed ceiling to floor, he was about to walk out when he saw a touch still on in the corner of the room. As he picked it up he knocked off some more of the boxes, 'Damn it! But at least someone has to be here. What the?'

Max bent down and picked up a piece of paper, it was a child's drawing of the hospital map with a large x in one of the rooms, 'I wonder if I'll find treasure there.'

A scream broke the silence of the room, Max flung the door open, the torch picked up on the red of the walls making them seeming to glow. The rest of the hospital was dark but not a normal dark but that of something sinister, the place smelt like copper and other things, Max felt his stomach churn but before he could retch the picked out a figure.

'What the hell is that?'