FIRST OF ALL THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO READS THIS STORY, I HAVE SOME POSSITIVE FEEDBACK SO FAR, I REALLY HOPE YOU KEEP ENJOYING THIS.

NOW, IN THIS CHAPTER, WE BEGIN WITH THE HINTS FOR DIFFERENT ENDINGS, THERE'S A HINT BOX AT THE END OF THE DOCUMENT AND A MARKED PART IN THE CHAPTER (YOU'LL RECOGNIZE IT RIGHT AWAY XD) WHERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO PICK ONE OF THE DIFFERENT POSSIBLE HINTS , LIKE I SAID IN THE PROLOGUE, THEY ARE SMALL PHRASES, BUT DEPENDING ON WHICH ONE YOU CHOOSE, THE STORY WOULD END DIFFERENT (I'M WRITING 4 POSSIBLE ENDINGS), BE SURE TO PICK ONE HINT AND FOLLOW THAT SAME HINT IN THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS (TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS TOO :D I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU LIKED THIS STYLE ;) )

NOW THAT EVERYTHING'S SET, ENJOY THE CHAPTER

Chapter 2: Shadows in the Mist

Beck walked further inside the Graveyard, judging by the tombstones and the little chapel in the far, it was extremly old, some of the tombs where cracked and the names in some others were impossible to read.
The rock in both the tombstones and the chapel was eroded and covered with silt, the floor by the other hand was covered by a carpet of leaves, some greener than other but most were withered and a small pond of surprisingly clear water was in one of the corners of the ancient graveyard.

Beck realized that someone was moving between the old tombstones, at first he thought about Jade, but then realized that a cementery wasn't a good place to be called a 'special place', then he got stunned and a little scared, he walked cautionously towards the shadow moving between the graves, prepared to either hit that thing or run away, but as he got closer, he found out it was a girl, she squated in front of each tombstone to read the name and then nodded, she appearently was looking for someone buried in that cementery.

Beck thought it could be dangerous to keep his way blindly with that sudden mist, so he got close to the girl, just to make sure he was following the right way

"Excuse me, i..." but Beck couldn't finish the sentence, the girl gasped terrified

"I, I'm sorry... I... I" said her with a panic tone on her voice "...I was just..."

"No, it's okay" said Beck trying to calm her down "I didn't meanth to scare you, i'm kind of lost" said him looking at the girl, she was like 18 or 19, not older than 20, she had shoulder-lenght very dark brown hair and eyes, she was wearing a beige sweater which reached to her waist; the sweater had a loose turtle neck. She had reddish-brown jeans and her shoes were dark blue.

"...Lost?" asked her like if that wasn't possible

"Yeah" answered him "I'm looking for Silent Hill, Is this the right way?"

"Um... Yeah," said her more calmed "It's hard to see with this mist, but there's only the one route, you can't miss it"

"Thanks" said Beck starting walking again

"But..." said her

"Yes?" asked him turning around

"I think you'd better stay away" said her with shaky voice, Beck didn't answered, so she kept going "This... uh... this town, there's something wrong with it" said her nervous at Beck's stare "It's kinda hard to explain but..."

"Is it dangerous?" asked Beck simply

"Maybe" said her looking around and then she talked almost whispering "And is not just the mist either. It's..."

"Okay, i got it" Beck interrupted "I'll be careful"

"I'm not Lying!" said her almost offensed

"No, I believe you" said him with a bitter smile "It's just... I guess i really don't care if it's dangerous or not, i'm going to the town either way"

"But why?!" asked the girl intrigued

"I'm looking for... Someone" said him simply

"Wh... who... who is it?" insisted her

"Someone... very important to me" answered the boy a little annoyed and holding the tears "i'd do anything if i could be with her again"

"Me too" said the girl with a different tone "I'm looking for my mama... I mean my mother!" she corrected quickly "it's been so long since i've seen her" added the girl looking at the gray sky

She walked a few steps away silently

"I thought my father and brother were here" said her pointing the tombstones "But i can't find them either..." then she waved her head "I'm sorry" said her bitterly "this is not your problem"

"No" said Beck, who totally understood what it felt to loose someone you loved "I... I hope you find them"

"Yeah, you too" said her

"Well..." said Beck and started walking away "Good luck"

"Same for you" said her without paying too much attention as Beck left the girl squating in front of each grave, looking for her family, he would've helped her, but he had his own person to find.

Beck crossed the graveyard and went through another iron gate in the opposite side, he kept following the way during a few minutes, soon he left the woods behind as he found himself on a highway, that, according to his map, would take him directly to the streets of Silent Hill.

*E1
*E2
*E3
*E4

The trees around him eventually were replaced by houses and the soil under him was replaced by concrete, finally he was in the town main streets, everything looked abandoned, all the stores were closed, and there was no people or even cars on the streets.
He remembered Silent Hill as a peaceful town, but it was just deserted now.

Waving his head to try to focus, Beck unfolded his map, he was about to check it to find the fastest route towards the park when the sound of footsteps made him startle, he quickly turned around looking for the person who was producing the sound,
he managed to see yet another shadow walking numbly in the mist.

"Jade?!" he screamed excited and hopeful, but the shadow didn't stopped, it just kept walking, Beck decided to follow it to find out if it was actually Jade or someone else.

Beck walked a pair of blocks through the deserted town and then he found something that made him stop: A big stain of blood (that looked fresh) was on the concrete, it seemed like if someone was dragging a big bag with something bloody inside and the track kept going
down the street.

Decided to find out who was the one walking in the mist (and a little worried he or she was wounded), Beck followed the track of blood until he arrived to a dark tunnel with an old and creaky wooden fence, as he got closer, he could listen static, coming from a little
pocket radio behind the fence, the track of blood ended there and someone was moving a few inches from the radio.

"Hello?" said Beck "Jade?, is that you?" nobody answered, but he could see the person moving in front of what looked disturbingly similar to a dead body.

Beck crossed the fence and went into the dark tunnel, the Lying figure was squating in front of the dead body (it was real, sadly), at first Beck thought of the girl in the cementery, but it was impossible she arrived there before him, as he got closer he realized that
it wasn't even a human, it had humanoid figure, but it looked like a body trapped into some sort of straightjacket made with a corrupted and decaying brown flesh with stains of blood, which covered the body from head to toes, it slowly stood up, making a high-pitched
wailing noise that sounded like the scraping of metal, it slowly walked towards the boy, twitching every often, Beck was stunned, he just walked back towards the fence, trying to take it down as the monster approaced him, he pulled the fence with all his strenght
but only a small wooden plank with a rusty nail on the tip came off, the figure's chest opened vertically and it fired a nasty black goo at the boy, as it touched his clothes, they started to smoke, the monste fired acid at him.
Throwing his jacket on the floor to avoid getting burned, he wielded the wooden plan and started hitting the monster until it went down, he thought it was over, but the monster started crawling around while wailing without stopping and leaving a track of black liquid behind,
the sight of it was pretty disturbing and terrifying, but Beck didn't stop hitting the creature until stopped moving, as soon as the creature was dead, the radio stopped sounding.

"Is it dead?!" said him breathing harshly but without putting the wooden plank away "What the hell is it?!" he took the small radio and found a key underneath it, it had a small label which read: Woodside Apartment.

He tried to turn on the radio, but only static could be listened... for a few seconds, then a blurry voice could be listened:

"Be...I'm...re...Come to...spe...Be...wh...k...Bec..."

"I think's broken" said him resigned "But it detected that creature, so i'll better keep it, it could come in handy, and this too" said him looking at the wooden plank, then he unfolded his map again, thinking that it wasn't a vey good beggining for his search for Jade,
actually he was a little mad at himself because he wasted precious time killing that creature, time that he could use to find her.

"No more distractions!" said him firmly, walking towards the main streets of the town again, but that wasn't going to be so easy, because now the streets were plagued with those creatures Beck nicknamed "Lying Figures"...

-Hints-

*E1: With his hands on his pockets, he could feel the letter from Jade and the photo of the girl, but he decided he wouldn't watch them again, not until he was sure Jade was alive again, the picture and the letter made him feel uneasy and he needed all his focus to be able to find the girl...

*E2: He Couldn't stop looking at the letter and the photo of Jade every often, he wasn't sure why he kept doing that because he felt a little sad everytime he did, but he needed to see her, he needed to read her letter, he needed to believe she was alive...

*E3: The girls warnings were spinning in his head and suddenly a weird thought assaulted Beck's mind: If the town was so dangerous as the girl said... was it really worthy to risk his life for Jade? he waved his head to snap out, of course it was worthy...

*E4: Looking everything around him, Beck thought nothing of that made sense, How did Jade reached to Silent Hill on the first place?, Why he couldn't Remember anything about Jade's funeral or disease?, Why he couldn't remember their vacation in the town of Silent Hill, and why the mention of that
town made him shiver...?

HAPPY LATE HOLLYDAYS BTW xD AND I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE CHAPTER AND THE HINT STUFF :), I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE THE FEEDBACK :D