The group continued to walk along the road, in partial silence, trying to find any signs of life or any structures to indicate that a town even existed, but all they saw was the empty stretch of road in front of them and the burnt trees scattered about the ground surrounding the road. After twenty minutes of walking they saw the outline of buildings ahead and all of them started to silently pray that they would find Seth quickly and get out of this ghost town.
"Damn! I thought we were never going to find anything out here but a dead forest." Dolph said as they continued to walk toward the town.
"Yeah, but if we find dead bodies everywhere and Seth is not one of them I will fucking change that for coming to a fucked up place like this!" Dean exclaimed, then Roman reached over and slapped the back of his head. "Ow! What the hell was that for, Rome?"
"For being a dumbass that's why! Now cut your bullshit out so we can find Seth and get the fuck out of HELL." Roman said as Dean rubbed the back of his head.
"Ok, fine, I'll stop so we can get out of here quicker." Dean said as he walked ahead of the group a bit drumming his knuckles on his collarbone.
A few minutes later they reached the town and saw how deserted and rusted everything looked, which only creeped them out more, then a small feeling of dread wash over them, but they ignored it as they saw movement up ahead. The guys began jogging to where they saw the figure moving slowly from building to building. Once the group got close enough, they found the figure to be Seth looking into a bookstore window oblivious to their presence. Roman felt a sense of relief come over him when he saw that Seth was fine and Dean walked over to him. As soon as Dean approached Seth he tapped him on the shoulder, which startled Seth so much he quickly turned around and pulled his knife on Dean.
"Holy shit Seth! What are you doing? Trying to be like the Spy from Team Fortress 2?! Put the knife away before you stab me!" Dean shouted as he backed away from Seth. "Damn man, it's just us."
Seth just stood there with his knife raised in front of him for a moment, then slowly lowered it as he saw, not only Dean there, but Roman, Dolph, Cesaro, Daniel, Kane, and Undertaker as well. Upon noticing them he flipped the knife closed and put it back in his pocket.
"Sorry, I didn't intend to do that but you startled me that's all. I just thought I was completely alone up here and nobody followed me." Seth said as he gave a small smile. "But I'm glad you're here now, maybe you can help me search this place a bit faster."
"Why did you come here in the first place? What makes you want to search this place so damn bad? Who the fuck is Tyler Black?" Dolph asked all these questions then looked at Seth's face. "Where did the marks on your face go?"
"Ummm... The marks...on my face...disappeared when I got here." Seth answered while rubbing his cheek, then continued to speak as he counted on his fingers. "And as for your other questions; One, I've been having these strange visions which forced me to come to this town; Two, I want figure out why I'm having these visions and maybe if I search here I can find answers to somehow make them stop; and Three, in the visions I can sort of see this Tyler Black guy, among others, in different places of this town, but I couldn't make out what any of them are saying. Also the visions seem to mix together so it's hard to tell where one vision ends and another begins."
"So, your telling us that you're having visions of a town that's been dead, for I don't know how long, and came here to find a guy you know nothing about or if he is even alive anymore?" Daniel asked Seth then added. "To tell you the truth Seth I don't think you will find anyone living here at all."
"Yeah, I know that, Daniel. All I want to do here is just find some information on this guy and to know why I've been seeing this crazy shit." Seth said as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Damn, I've been seeing crap like this since I was ten!"
"Hold on. You've been experiencing crazy stuff like this since you were ten! Why is it that you never told us this before? And why have we not seen that kind of insane shit ever, until now?" Roman asked. "Because the only place I've ever seen creepy shit similar to this was in movies."
"The reason none of you ever seen any of this shit before is that this is the first time they ever became real and up until now have only been fucked up visions in my head!" Seth exclaimed trying to hold back a few tears as he remembered back to when the visions started. "A few years after I was adopted, these nightmares started to haunt me and that's all I thought they were, at first."
"Wait! You were adopted, Seth?" Kane asked as he raised an eyebrow. "I thought the Rollins couple were your birth parents. Their names are even on your birth certificate."
"Actually, the reason their names are on my birth certificate is that when I was six they adopted me from the orphanage and I had no documents of my birth, so when they filled out the paperwork they created a certificate for me with their names on it as my birth parents." Seth explained to them. "As soon as they completed the paperwork they took me home and I lived as though they were my biological parents and I've never been happier."
"What about your real parents, did they ever come looking for you? I thought is was illegal to make documents like that." Cesaro spoke up. "How did you wind up in the orphanage and is Seth even your real name?"
"Why don't I just tell you all my whole life story so you won't keep asking me a lot of questions!" Seth said angrily then proceeded to tell his story. "It started when I was six, I woke up in a hospital and was told a couple driving down the highway found me walking along the side of the road in the winter time. The couple was shocked to find me completely naked and covered in small cuts, minor burn marks, and suffering from mild hypothermia, so they rushed me to the nearest emergency room. Once they told me how I got there the nurse asked me if I remembered anything before I got to the hospital. I told her that I couldn't remember anything at all and then she reached over to the table beside the bed and showed me a metal ID bracelet. As I looked at the bracelet, she told me I was wearing it when I was brought in, I noticed the picture of an angel with the words 'You Are Free' engraved on the front and the name 'Seth' with 'DOB: 5/28/1986' engraved on the back. She looked at the bracelet and asked if that was my name and birthday. Something in my head told me to say yes, so I did and since then my name was Seth." He paused for a second then continued.
"After all my injuries were healed, I was put in the orphanage in Davenport, but wasn't put up for adoption at first, as they were still trying to figure out where I can from. During their investigation they had a psychologist check on me to see if I could remember anything about my past. A few months passed, nothing new was ever discovered, my memory never came back, and no one showed up to claim me as their child, so the orphanage just got the ok to add me to the adoption list. Three weeks later the Rollins family came by looking to adopt, saw me all alone in the corner and came over to talk with me. Over the next couple of weeks they learned all there was to know about me, as I warmed up to them, and decided to adopt me. They didn't care that I had memory loss or that there were no documents on my existence, all they saw was a child that needed love and a home, so I was adopted." Seth briefly stopped again as he noticed light fog starting to drift in around them. 'That's weird.' He thought to himself, but then continued on with his story.
"So a few years pass and everything was going well. I was very happy and felt like I always belonged to this family. When my tenth birthday came around, it was normal at first, but that night the nightmares began and I could not figure out why I had them. I told my mom and dad about them but all they told me was to be brave, fight through them and eventually they would go away. A week later they did stop and I thought that was the end of them, but I was wrong." Seth sighed rubbing his forehead a little.
"Exactly ten years later they came back, but a bit worse. My parents and I where celebrating my twentieth birthday at their home and I went to lie on the couch to watch TV. About an hour later I fell asleep and a nightmare violently woke me up. This startled my mom as she came into the living room and she asked if I was alright. I lied to her telling her I was fine and that I just rolled over in my sleep, but caught myself before falling off the couch and she bought it. The entire week after I kept experiencing these visions, everytime I closed my eyes, and a very painful headache would follow. But once the week was through they would stop and life went back to normal." He closed his eyes tightly and rubbed the sides of his forehead in a circular motion with the tips of his fingers before continuing.
"Now it's been ten years since the last time this happened and today is my thirtieth birthday. It's like every ten years the visions return to haunt me and only get worse when they do. I just never thought that they would enter the real world, but they did and that just scares the ever loving fuck out of me!" Seth exclaimed as he finished.
"I thought my life story was crazy, but Seth I must admit that yours is crazier." Undertaker said as he took a step toward Seth. "So what do you say about finding information on Tyler Black quick so your nightmares can end and we can go home?"
"Yeah, let's get this over with quick." Seth said taking a step forward but quickly turning around as he heard the glass of the bookstore shatter. "What the hell was-"
Seth immediately stopped as he saw a creature with rotting flesh, the body of a human, the legs of what looked like a dog, long claw like fingers, and a vertical split where it's face was suppose to be, that had teeth in it. All of them just stared at the creature for a bit then started to scatter as it growled and began to spray acid at them.
"Holy shit! What the fuck is that thing!?" Roman yelled as he dodged the acid. "Seth, I think we should just leave this town NOW!"
"I agree with Roman, because look at that!" Dolph screamed as he pointed to seven more similar creatures came their way. "Seth I know you want to find out about Tyler, but we can't do that if we are killed by those things!"
Seth just nodded as they started to run up the street back to where they entered the town. He looked back to see the creatures not far behind chasing them and then turned his head straight ahead as he heard someone yell. His eyes went wide as he noticed Daniel fall into a hole and gripping the the edge. Running over to Daniel, Seth and Kane helped him back up.
"Damn! The whole road ahead is collapsed. It's like the town is separated from the outside world." Cesaro said as he looked at the large crater where the road once was. "And I don't see any way around it back to the other side."
Just then the growls of the creatures alerted the group to their presence and the men found that they were surrounded. With nowhere to run they all thought they were going to die so they stood their ground trying to find a way to survive when they heard gunshots. Looking over they found Dean behind a car firing a handgun at the creatures and killing them. Once he killed them all Dean walked back to the group.
"Lucky I found this baby in that car over there." He said as he pointed back to the one he was behind. "Man this place is starting to remind me of those Silent Hill games I've played before, which is creepy as fuck."
"Shit, Dean! Where the hell did you learn to shoot like that!?" Daniel said in a bit of shock as he looked at the now dead creatures. "Because you killed them freaking quick!"
"Well I did train for my role as an officer in the movie I starred in." Dean told him as he stood next to Daniel. "And I do play a lot of first person shooter games, so yeah, I got the skills."
Everyone just chuckled a bit at Dean and tried to think of ways they could leave this town. Each one of them searched for any place to escape, but not one of them found a way out.
"Damn! We're fucking stuck in a town with fucked up monsters that probably inspired the whole Silent Hill franchise!" Dean said annoyed at the fact they couldn't leave. He looked to Seth to yell at him when he noticed dark spots on Seth's neck moving up to his face. "Ummm... Seth what's up with your neck and face?"
"What do you mean-" Seth began but was cut off when the dark red spots covered his face and he fell to his knees in pain. He held his head in his hands as his body began to violently shake. Once the shaking stopped, Seth raised his head to the others and they saw that Seth's eyes turned solid black with black tears streaming down his face. Then they heard him speak, but it didn't sound like him, it sounded like multiple voices talking at once.
"When the siren sounds the darkness will consume the town. Make your way to the church to avoid it. Wait inside until it is done then resume your search."
Once the voices stopped, Seth collapsed face down on to the ground and Roman rushed over to his side. When Roman turned Seth over to check on him, he noticed that the dark red spots were gone. Seth suddenly shot up and started to hyperventilate a bit.
"What the fuck just happened to me!?" Seth asked with a shocked expression on his face.
"You don't remember at all, Seth?" Roman asked and Seth just shook his head 'No'. "Well you got possessed or something, told us to head to a church to avoid the darkness that consumes the town and wait to begin our search."
"That's insane! I can't believe this is happening." Seth said as he wrapped his arms around himself and started to pace back and forth. "I wish this nightmare would end soon."
All of a sudden a loud siren wailed above them and the sky began to get dark. The group watched as the buildings around them started to shed their outer layers and the pieces floated upwards into the sky, like paper caught by the wind. Looking back at the buildings they saw that they all had a run down and rotting appearance and seemed to be covered in blood. Then the sounds of growling and howls could be heard, alongside the sounds of metal scraping together.
"Well, guys." Dean spoke up. "I believe this is our cue to all head to the church, NOW!"
A/N: Wow that was longer than I expected! The chapter lengths may vary further on. Now the nightmares truly begin and things get even worse. Warning to those reading: You may get nightmares of your own! Keep on reading though, at your own risk! :)