Silent Hill: Coldheart
Chapter Two: Searching the Fog
Sharon walked through the town of Silent Hill, pulling her hood over her head to stay warmer. She takes the note out of her pocket, which was written in the stereotypical style of "cutting-letters-and-words-out-of-newspapers-and-magazines." The note read:
"yoUR ChiLD is sAfe wITh Us. You caN CoMe vISIT HiM iN siLENT HIll if You LiKE, Bluebell."
Sighing, Sharon puts the paper back in her coat pocket and pulls out a flashlight, as it was still very early. Walking through the snowy and foggy streets, she reminisces about her days living in the resort town, back when she was just a child. She remembers moving away after her father inherited the house she lives in now. She remembers all the buildings, but she was confused.
Where is everyone?
Why does it look like no one has lived here in 30 years?
She runs her hand along one of the stores, scraping off some of the grime on it.
Gross.
The store in question still had a banner proclaiming something called "Super Tuesday". While most of the details have been rotted away, she still saw the date: "August 15th, 1982," only two months after she left. Thinking about it, Silent Hill has been suspiciously absent from conversation, despite being a fairly popular resort town when she was younger.
Deciding that this was none of her business, she continued onward.
After many twists and turns, and consulting a dirty map she found, she came the hospital, her first stop in locating her child. Coming to the door of the hospital, she was surprised to find a rusty padlock and chain on the door. Not wanting to waste any ammo, she looks around for something to bash the lock in. She finds a crowbar in the alleyway, and, not questioning why someone would leave a perfectly good crowbar near a hospital, returns to the lock.
"Hold it!" A voice behind her says. She turns around to find a blonde cop with a gun trained at her. He had a shoulder bag draped over his left arm.
"What's with the purse?" Sharon sarcastically asked.
"I'll be asking the questions here." He said. "What are you trying to do here?"
"Obviously, I'm trying to break into a hospital." She says as his handcuffs fall.
"Okay, you're coming with me." He turns around to pick up the cuffs. When he did, Sharon breaks the padlock and enters the hospital.
The hospital was cold and dark, which makes sense for it being in the middle of winter with no power.
Sharon immediately headed for the basement to get the power going. She descended a surprising number of flights of stairs before getting to the basement. Finding the generator, she turned it back on. She almost instantly felt the warm air rush back in as the lights turned on. She walks back to the stairs and finds an elevator that she didn't see in the dark. Not wanting to walk up 15 flights of stairs, she decides to take the elevator back up. She calls the elevator, finding out that it was already there, and enters it. She was about to hit the button for the first floor, but then she spied a button labeled "4". She was puzzled, as the hospital had only three floors, excluding the basement. Curiosity gripping her, she presses it, and fells the elevator go down. Scared, she grips the crowbar tightly and waits for the doors to open.
When they do open, she finds herself back at the basement, but everything has been frozen over. She tries to go to a different floor, but all the buttons are frozen stuck. Seeing no other way out, she exits the elevator. She walks up the stairs, finding out that they have decreased in number. Along the way she finds many babies seemingly made of ice on the ground. She finishes climbing the stairs, only to find herself on the top floor, labeled "4". Turning around to go back down, she discovers that the stairs have completely disappeared. Confused, she looks around for another set of stairs, encountering more of the ice babies. Looking for the stairs, Sharon finds a framed photo of a pretty generic looking man. The label on the frame reads "1983". Finding this weird, she leaves it alone. She eventually finds another staircase leading down. She looks back at the strange floor, only to see that the babies have moved. Making sure that she's not going crazy, she looks back and forth, and the babies move whenever she's not looking. Fearing for her life, she shoots one of the children, and it shatters. The other babies turn their heads at the shattered one, then Sharon, and start barreling towards her.
"Oh shit!" She swears before running down the stairs. The babies relentlessly chase after her, gaining more followers each floor. Some even manage to latch onto Sharon, biting and clawing her before she hits them off, shattering them. She finds her way to the front door and bursts through it, only to be caught in a furious blizzard. Snow has almost covered the entire town in a thick, heavily blanket, leaving her to wonder how she got outside in the first place. She runs as fast as she could in the snow and wind, but it was too much for her. She falls to the ground, hands and face frostbitten. She curls up in the snow, before succumbing to the elements.
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