So... Once again thank you for giving my story a chance! You are a great incentive to continue this story, thank you!
Disclaimer: The story and characters aren't mine
Warnings: F- bombs, homosexual themes, written violence.
Previously right here on Assumption...
Henry was trapped upside down in his minivan; he unzipped the safety belt, only to bang his head against the minivan ceiling, he sprinted towards a figure, but as he was near reaching it he stumble on a random garbage bag on the floor. He then found a door in the very end of the floor, engraved in it was a circle in the center of it depicting the figure of Jesus Christ all over it; his curiosity took over, and he took the circle causing him to fall down into a fetal position, while everything around him went black, giving way to flashbacks he did not wish to see.
"Who the hell are you, and why am I here? Tell me now if you don't want to be beaten so badly, that your ugly, and skanky mother will barely recognize you!'' Henry said in an aggressive, threatening, and very characteristically while he was choking a man, and preparing his other fist if the man did not want to say anything.
''If you could stop choking me, and put me down I will tell you why'' said the wolf-ish appearing man. Henry did so, but still held the man's arm, avoiding any chance of the man to escape. 'Well, it seems like you don't trust me, but you must trust that I won't go away any time soon, let's go to a place I know, it would be safer.
They walked up the street when suddenly Henry saw a monster just out of the fog, but he couldn't remember leaving any of these things alive the first time he was here - "Well, its fine here" he said sitting in the porch, leaving his backpack near Henry.
''My name is Belphegor''
While Murphy was still squatting Henry stood up and threw himself to Murphy's unaware body. He started spreading hits all over Murphy's face, and body expelling all his repressed anger. "What are you doing" He said, but was caught at the middle of his sentence by Murphy's hands, each one at Henry's sides on his face, and instantly put his lips on Henry's lips. Henry was frankly surprised by what he was doing with his childhood friend, but he liked it, it was better than any kiss that Eileen had ever given him.
"Well, last night I lost one of my favorite records in a CD store, but there are some things that people like me aren't supposed to deal with. So, if you can give me back that record I will give you your precious gas, or I can guarantee you another way out of Silent Hill without passing the burdens surrounding this town." Mammon said
"Alright, anything else you need?" Said Henry not paying attention to the last part of what Mammon said
"Just another thing, my "beloved brother has stolen from me two precious objects, a music box and it's key. He's at the lake, so please bring me back those three things and I swear I'll help you with anything you'll need."
"Sure cupcake"
They turned towards the exit, but when they were about to reach the door Mammon stop them.
"Hey, I know a safer and quicker route to Toluca Lake, and to the record store I'm telling you.
They went up the ladder, hoping they wouldn't slip, hoping the bastards won't get to them. Murphy saw Henry climbing the last steps and offered his hand. Soon, Henry felt that something was dragging him onto the ground, and to his horror it was most of the monsters reaching their arms to drag him down into the depths of hell.
"Murphy! Help Me
"Reach my hand" He said extending his arm as far as he could. Henry was grabbing him but it was not enough, he was slowly seeping back to the sewers again.
Chapter 4
I got the ol' kozmic fear again, Damien!
"Finally, we survived that horde of nonsense monsters. I thought I was going to die!"
"I thought that too. Well, it's a blessing you have that baby and I have strong legs."
They were in some kind of store, there was only a single floor, and there was no type of roof over their heads in most of the areas of the building. There were cob webs everywhere you looked, as if there was the second house of spiders that lived in the Forbidden Forest on Harry Potter. But you're dying to know what happened between them entered the strange store and Henry being dragged by the monsters in the sewers, no?
"Murphy! Help Me!" Henry cried out
"Reach my hand" Murphy said extending his arm as far as he could. Henry was grabbing him but it was not enough, he was slowly seeping back to the sewers again. In a moment of brightness Henry thought of something that could possibly save his life from the things below him. He firmly grabbed to the ladder with one hand "Give me your Uzi.
"May I ask what for?"
"Just give me your motherfucking Uzi, and that's it, no questions, no pain after this" Said Henry hysterical.
"Here you go" Said Murphy" But I'm going to lose the grip in one of your hands.
" No time for hesitations Murphy!, oh, and by the way, grab me by the neck of my shirt" Murphy gave Henry the pistol and Henry à la Lara Croft started to shoot every living thing inside the sewers, and supported by Murphy's strong grip, he kicked all the things that grabbed him.
Henry was starting to feel the loss of his leg grip, so he quickly went upstairs. They were outside of a big street, and like the other streets it was gray, covered with ash, and fog so it was really hard to see any other car, or building, even the big ones. They ran incredibly fast, but seeing that it wasn't a great idea they stopped. Soon after this, the monsters burst out of the sewer at an alarmingly fast rate. The last monster had the amiability to close the drain, while its companions were fighting with Henry and Murphy.
The fight was clearly unfair. There were ten monsters for only two people. But both of our characters had been in Silent Hill, and Murphy knew how to deal with more than ten enemies, and by his own.
"So, how we are going to do this?" Said Henry quite anguished.
"First, give me back my Uzi, second, when they want to attack us, we'll split them five for one of us.
"Okay, I agree with you" Said the other man while giving the Uzi to it's original holder. "So, here's what we are going to do, you run to the left and I to the right, after we fight them, we come to this spot again" Said Henry, while the monsters were approaching them.
Henry and Murphy ran into different directions and the monsters followed them, one group to the left and one group to the right, like Henry and Murphy planned. First we're going to describe what happened to Murphy, why? Cause he's adorable and my preferred place to run is the left one, always.
Murphy stumbled and fell on something on the ground. It was a bush, and next to it there was slime. The slime was disgusting, disturbing, yellowish, and with a strange and penetrating odour. He looked at the way the slime was going and opened his eyes as widely as he could. The thing he saw was amazingly gross, with gruesome facial features, bruises all over it's immense body. That thing could have been six foot three, or taller, had the appearance of the bogeyman, but it was only wearing a butcher's garment and no mask to cover its horrendous face that was similar to a cross between a pig, Bruce Willis' and Henry's father. It had no feet; instead it was like a snail, with a big snail tail. After he saw Murphy's flashlight and heard the white noise from his cell phone he (if that thing could possibly be a "he") yelled. The yell was like that of a Tiger, and if you see it, in general it resemble the cliché of the typical father who is in his underwear with a big paunch, a greasy undershirt and a beer.
Murphy took out his gold pipe and bashed at all the weak points he could possibly see in the abomination right in front of his still shocked eyes. The only weak point he saw was his back, but it was quite difficult to reach it's bare back. After Murphy dodge one attack from the creature, the thing punched Murphy right in the face and then jumped in Murphy's direction. He rolled to the left, and the ground shook. Murphy quickly stood up and saw his opportunity to defeat the monster. He furiously bashed the monster three times in the back, leaving the monster in a stunned state. He took out his trusty Uzi and shot the thing in the head once. After that blood, and slime compound started to flow from the monster, but the phone was still emitting white noise and he saw from the shadows four Distant Mommies coming his way.
That was another story for Murphy, an easy one in fact, while he aimed at the womanish women he was reminded about the harpies from Greek myths. The four Distant Mommies went from four different points towards Murphy, a detail that Murphy didn't see coming, but rapidly managed to avoid, and saw how one of the creatures was accidentally ripped by the others. He didn't take his time seeing as how they were ripping each other apart, and all he had to do was shoot all the others in the head. He killed two and there was just one more, but that Distant Mommy was a little bit different. It had a latex outfit like the ones the gymnasts use in the Olympics with little stars sparkling around. Murphy shot the thing again, but it only was stunned. Murphy approached the thing and bashed it three times with his golden pipe and at last it died. His cell phone ranged and he knew what that ringing meant.
"So, hmm, let's see... it says: Distant Mommy type two: It has the same attacks, with a medium high endurance, the ways to kill it are the same, attack its head, and almost the same psychological meaning, this one demonstrates how Henry's mother will be in public, radiant, happy, but an extreme liar, even to her friends-and I'm going bananas, I'm talking to myself again" Said Murphy realising he was saying everything out loud. "Well, I'm going bananas for someone special" He said while smiling. The next portion he simply read
Name: Responsible Father,
Attacks: Punching
"And what a good punch I have to add" He touched the place where the thing punched him, and remembered he had nutritional drinks, he drank one and continue reading
He can jump on top of you asphyxiating you to death and finally, can kill you with the acid inside him when he shoots out of his open hands.
"Well, good reason why his fists are always closed" He said as he lifted his shoulders "But let's see more of this
Ways to defeat it: Hitting its back it's the only way to defeat it.
Psychological meaning: Its Henry's vision of his father. It's the only monster, apart from the slave with predominantly sexual features. The garment he uses represents the neglect of his own family, greasy and pretty cliché. The reason why he always has the fist closed is for the physical and sexual abuse Henry received. Its name is a sarcastic way of Henry's unconsciousness to scoff about the neglected state he lived.
"That son of a bitch, after I'm out of this town with Henry he will pay, and in a very bad way. It's a promise "He said while he returned in a slow pace to the spot Henry said they were going to reunite. While Murphy is here, let's go back, back a few minutes to see what happened with our protagonist.
Henry ran as fast as he could (but not as fast as Murphy) and noticed in his steady sprint the record store, but he didn't have the time to stop to look where in the map it was. He heard his radio emitting noise and stopped, pulling out his mighty rusted axe
"Well Sharon, it's you and me, you and me" He said while rubbing handle of the device with one hand. He saw six silhouettes coming from different points, and at the same time different spits coming from different sides. He knew this wasn't good, and he dodge them as fast as he could. He saw coming out of the fog five Slaves and two Responsible Fathers. He tried something different just to see if it could possibly work and saw a perfect moment. He went in the middle of the two Responsible Fathers and the Slaves spitted on them, the acid had the same effect as in anything it could possibly touch, and started to melt their monster targets, one in the face and the other in the arm. It melted their flesh up until the bone.
Henry ran again, but between five slaves, and while three were trying to hit him, the other two spit, and surprisingly for Henry his plan worked again, and all the monsters were stunned. He then started to repeatedly hit anything he could in their bodies, head, arms, shoulders, legs, chest, belly, and after a few moments he saw a big pool of blood coming from the little group. But he still had to deal with the two unknown monsters for him. He saw a big lump in the back and figured it was the weak point of those things. Then, one of them jumped towards him, but Henry dodged him and with his axe he gave the creature a strong attack, killing it instantly. The other one didn't jump, but tried to punch Henry. He intercepted the attack with his axe, but the monster with the other hand opened it's palm, and shot acid out of it. Henry again dodge it, but stained portions of his favourite blue shirt. It started to feel like burning flames so Henry removed his shirt.
"Now you're in very deep shit motherfucker!" Said Henry while tossing his shirt away. He circled the thing and with his combat knife stabbed it in the back several times very psychotically. It would appear from the outside that he was really enjoying this. "And next time you're going to fuck with my things, don't touch my weed." He said while sprinting to where he was going to see Murphy. He turned towards the place where the record store was supposed to be and it was still there, with big blue neglected neon spectacular Vegas' style.
He then saw Murphy waiting for him on their spot, and pulled out the map to locate themselves in this new area. In general Henry was more accustomed to tighter and more claustrophobic places.
"I think I saw where the record store is, let's go" Said Henry, almost pulling Murphy from his shirt. After Henry retraced his footsteps they were in front of a record store named Psionic: Records, Vinyl, Chords and Stuff!. The only letters working formed the word psycho "How suggesting, this town is full of sarcastic jokes" Henry said trying to laugh but something (his pride) didn't allow him to go further than a Mona Lisa style smile.
"I suppose. They have a crude sense of humour." said Murphy, raising his shoulders, smiling and then stuffing his hands in his pockets.
They entered the record store expecting the worst, and they started looking everywhere to be sure there were no threats surrounding them while at the same time they were searching for the special CD for Mammon. After this they sat down in a clean area of the floor, relaxing their stressed muscles
"Finally, we survived that horde of nonsense monsters. I thought I was going to die"
"I thought that too. Well, it's a blessing you have that baby and I have strong legs."
"You don't say babe, I think I was totally going to die out there girl, oh and see, there are two new types of monsters my phone discovered "Murphy said, not looking at how pissed Henry was with the kind of treatment Murphy was giving him with such words such as babe and girl. Henry saw the Responsible father and the Distant Mommy type two
"So, these things were the fat bastards out there that tried to asphyxiate me with their jumps. It's incredible how far one of these things can possibly jump, even though they must weigh at least 200 kilograms
"You know what they say"
"What do they say?"
"That this is a paradox of Silent Hill, man, paradox of Silent Hill everywhere."
"You didn't lose the opportunity to use that meme right?" Said Henry while standing up"
"Nope, I didn't lose it"
"So, what are the clues we have for the CD he wants?"
"He said it was from a girl, I think he said it was rock genre and she was WICKED"
"And you had to yell it like that?"
"I think if we said it like him we can know more precisely what he wants"
"Hmm, let me think" Said Henry while grabbing his chin in a thinking way "I know! He said it was a girl and she WAS WICKED, it's the cosmic witch, Janis Joplin!"
"Alright Henry, are you completely sure? What if we grab the wrong CD and he sends us back here? Or even worst, if we take the wrong CD and the place starts to crumble and we get stuck in a tomb and we have to survive by eating each other?
"You're just exaggerating, and to prove that, I will take it" Henry said while removing a Lilly Allen CD. Murphy was expecting the worst, he even closed his eyes and went into a fetal position, Henry was a little influenced by Murphy's ideas, but he rolled his eyes after he realized that nothing was happening."There told you nothing was going to happen, you're just a little bit paranoid, that's all.
"Oh, Britney! And you have blackout, this one is marvelous, excepting she is in her fat and decayed part of her life here."
"Whatever" Henry dully said throwing away the CD and breaking one of the windows, not caring for the damage done to anything of the rest of the already broken items. "Look in the right wing of the store; I'll look in the left"
"And if I wait for you here?"
"As you want" Said Henry after he gave one of his now signature sighs after Murphy said something frustrating or annoying.
He first looked to the right side of the store, not finding the rock; the alternative or the sixties rock section. In fact, there weren't any common sections in this music store. The sections were "Slutty", "Happy", "Drunk", "Cheating" and "Hardcore" section, which also included video tapes, in old fashion eighties cassettes. They only found recordings of such trivial things, but each one with a different tape, and then a flash was appearing at one of the records in the "Drunk" section. It was a cassette tape that had "Henry" labeled on it. Henry raised an eyebrow and took it from the shelf, and stuffed the tape inside the paradox backpack. Then in the "Hardcore" section he found a videotape with "James and Mary" in front of it, with James holding a pillow, Mary in the bed and with a big title that said "Necrophilia can't get better than this!" Henry also stuffed that item in his backpack, and then found what he was looking for: the only stand that had real CD and vinyl, and actually made the record store look legitimate. To his luck, but not as he thought, there were only CD's from Madonna.
(Mammon didn't specify which of this girls he like at all) thought Henry while sighing and lifting his shoulders. He stuffed the complete collection in his backpack and then he retraced his footsteps to his lovely sidekick that was shivering like a Chihuahua dog in the entrance of the store
"Hey! I was afraid you wouldn't be here"
"I only lingered around the store for about ten or fifteen minutes, don't be that psychotic"
"I will only calm down with one thing, and after that I will tell you about something I found"
"What do you want Murphy?"
"A long, tongue based, French cute kiss"
"No way"
"But the thing I found could come in handy"
"Don't give a shit" Henry said while he was going out of the poor and limited establishment
"Well, okay, you don't have to give me a kiss, but come here, this is a big surprise, and the joke of all the logic here in Silent Hill too" Murphy dragged Henry backwards the store to a small door that read "Only personnel". Murphy had a big, proud smile on his face from his discovery "Here it is
"So?" Henry said lifting his eyebrow"
"Well, I found out that on the other side of this store, there's another record store!
"What the hell?" Said Henry with his mouth wide open, so open it could almost reach the floor, and his eyes were too wide open as if he was being raped by Pyramid head "This is plain stupid man!" said Henry angry while grabbing the Madge collection "A record store inside a record store, seriously?
"Silent Hill and its twisted ways girl, you can blame it on that"
"Stop calling me that Murphy!" Henry turned to see the ex convict brown eyes "I have a dick, so there's no point for you to call me girl, okay? "The last word he said as he trapped Murphy against a wall "And trust me, if you ever again dare to call me such a stupid thing like that I will not care if you're my best friend or my mom, you can be sure as hell that I will bash you so badly that your mother will barely recognize you, do you understand?
"Y-y-yeah Henry, I understand" Murphy was stuttering and trembling more violently by the fear Henry was influencing on his body.
"So, let's go, we'll have a lot of ground to research I think.
And Henry was right. This store inside the little store was much bigger, and it appeared to be similar to a big record Virgin store in Times Square at New York. It even had the same color patterns as mentioned before, red, and yellow. The store didn't lack any type of roof, it had complete an intact roof, and the entire area was completely clean, ignoring all the stands, cashiers, images and other stuff that was all messed up in the building, making it more difficult to access other areas here. The staircase was a stereotypical fifties staircase, divided in two sites, and it was, in appearance black, and white with some red details on it. At the right of the staircase were the cashiers, three in total, but there was money all around the place, and the cashiers were scattered all around the floor. There were photographs of known artists all around the store, and some were even autographed. The shape of the store was squared with an overpass in the first floor, but covered with some rubble. Even though, the store was gigantic and it will need several minutes to be checked completely.
They divided to make the search quicker and more effective. Henry stayed in the first floor, and Murphy in the second floor (obviously). First I will count to you what happened with Henry at the first floor.
Henry was looking around the overpass to make sure he didn't miss any detail of importance here, like ammo, or health items. He didn't have to walk a lot to find a med kit, which could perfectly replace the med kit he had to use with the Distant Mommy back then. He didn't find it naturally, but instead stumbled on it. It was a medieval trumpet that made Henry fall to the floor in his butt. After he recovered from the wild trumpet that attacked him, he looked for a place to put it and he found it in a place between the staircase for the second floor and the cashiers. He placed the trumpet in one of the sloths and a little cabin opened, less than a complete inch.
"Interesting, I think I will have to find others like it, let me see if there is any more." He counted the other spaces "Six trumpets. Okay, I'm in." He smiled to himself, and as always, he totally forgot the original purpose for being here.
He looked around the overpass again to see if there were other important items in that portion of the gigantic first floor, but the only thing he could find was another trumpet, garbage, dust, fog, and his own frustration while making an almost illogical quest for dumb things. After that he used his axe to remove some of the rubble to get over the pass and went downwards. At first sight he found one of the iconic CD's of Janis Joplin "Pearl", and next to it, a trumpet. (Great, this is easy) Thought Henry, but he stopped (Wait, this is WAY too easy, is there a Tomb Raider trap or something?) After realizing he was just being dragged to the same loony ideas of Murphy he just smiled, stuff both things in his backpack and continued to search. Let's leave Henry to look around a little here, but don't be anxious, we'll soon come back to see him if he found any more things of interest. Now let's go to Murphy upstairs.
After he and Henry divided to register the huge paradox record store he started to search the upper floor, and ironically found that the name of the store was in fact "Paradox". He laughed at the idiotic sense of humour people had 'round Silent Hill, and he stumbled upon a trumpet, he lifted an eyebrow and he realized that somehow he might need that item to unlock a puzzle or something, even though he didn't have any device to stuff this item in, he could gladly use it as a weapon if needed. He looked for the records of Janis Joplin, but it was way too hard to look for any kind of thing that resembled a record. There was a big difference between the two floors. While the first floor was only covered with rust and rubble, the second floor looked like it was burning from its insides, and almost most of the stuff inside were mere ashes or deformed cases. Despite all of this, Murphy was having a tough time looking for the records, and with his not so good vision, things were getting worst.
He looked around, and gave himself five minutes to see how the place looked like from a top of a table where a cashier was supposed to be. The place, as in comments before, was really just one big fire disaster, well, the mess after that. Most of the things were barely recognizable, and it looked like the fire was recent too. It was just one big room that had the stands and the sections, but most of it was way too fragile to step on, or the path was covered with a big pile of rubble. Murphy then saw that one section was intact, the "Rock" section and there was another special section at one side of it labelled "Jazz N' Shit".
Murphy smiled at this little joke while he shook his head, and gave himself a slight face palm not believing the rare sense of humour his north east neighbours had. He then proceeded to go the correct path to look for the records they needed.
After some research in the over pass, Henry found to his frustration locked up in finding another trumpet in one of the corners of the little space he was in, and while he was taking the trumpet, a cabinet almost fell on his head. Henry kicked the stupid and wild cabinet that almost chopped his head, and saw another Janis Joplin record, the "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Mama!" After that, Henry's radio began to emit some white noise and he waited on the spot for a monster. It was just another Sniffer Dog, but this was much rarer, with a different colour pattern, that made it looked more like a zombie Doberman, than a normal Sniffer dog. He was preparing his combat knife. When from out the ceiling a big pile of rubble and roof fell down, squashing the dog, and making Henry fall on his butt.
Murphy walked down the little alley looking for a record conveniently placed in one of the shelves they had in there for CD's, when he saw another trumpet placed there, and nothing else. He took the trumpet and hoped that the record was nearby, because he couldn't hold no more, and luckily for him the CD was near him, but it had some note attached to it
"Let's see, here says: Only the worthy ones to paradise will not fall if Earth crumbles and falls by the power of the dark reign he wants to extend to the perishable world" Murphy sighed "This dudes can really make me doubt my mental health sometimes, whatever "Murphy continued as he raised his shoulders and took the CD, not expecting anything, he turn around and saw another trumpet. So now he had three trumpets and one CD, but the only thing he wasn't expecting was that the ground was going to crumble beneath him. While he was rambling in nonsense he noticed a little crack noise, and then he realized the ground beneath him was falling apart. He ran for his life and went directly for the stairs. He jumped the last part, while a big hole was interfering between him and the stairs.
Both of them reunite at the staircase, to be more precise, at the very end of it. Henry saw that the other had in his hands three trumpets and he realized that Murphy apparently wasn't always so idiotic all the time
"Told you this place was going to fall apart, didn't I?
"Just, be quiet, okay?
"Sure hooker
"So you found the other ones" Henry said, not caring more the names Murphy was calling him
"What are you talking about?"
"Haven't you seen the puzzle?"
"What puzzle?"
"This one, moron" Said Henry after he rolled his eyes and mentally face palmed himself
"Oh, alright, yes, I found this" Murphy said, showing the three trumpets he had
"So..."
"So?"
"Give me the trumpets and let's reveal the mystery behind this puzzle"
"Good idea dude"
Henry placed all the trumpets in the right place and it slowly opened with a fog golden and silver glow that for a moment left Henry and Murphy blind. After some minutes passed the only thing inside was one red and golden grail that was studded by some ruby and diamond incrustations.
"And how after this we sell this, and make lot's of money?"
"I will answer you with another question, seriously?"
"What? I didn't ask for nothing bad" Said Murphy in an innocent and tender tone
"Just...Forget it, okay? Forget it. " The other said, while he took the grail.
"Whatever" Said Murphy while he rolled his eyes.
They walked a little, but all the path was blocked by a big pile of roof, and rubble that fell to the first floor. All the ways except one, that consisted of a simple wooden door that was revealed after the place had fallen apart, and in the middle it had a strange CD, but Henry wanted to investigate other routes before this one.
"Did you find any CDs?
"Yes, here it is, it's" Murphy said while he was reading it, but then he threw it away
"Why on Earth you did that?"
"I took a completely wrong CD cupcake. It was from Jimmy, not from Janis"
Henry sighed before answering Murphy. "Luckily for you, I have three of her records
"Well, we're lucky enough, but what does the cup says?"
"It only has seven in the back part, and it's not a cup, it's a grail ignorant"
And I can't pass this opportunity to say to you what happened after the roof fell apart, but in Henry's perspective.
We were at the point that he found a look alike of a Sniffer Dog, but more aggressive to the eyesight, no? After the roof squash it to mere pulp the other part of the roof started to fall apart as well, and Henry only ran to the other direction that the roof was falling, and a big shelf fell in front of him at one point while he was running. He looked at it quickly and he saw the final CD he needed for the collection. So he stuffed it inside. He then saw that the floor beneath him was crumbling too, so he climbed up the overpass in a frantic way, too scared to even see the deep hole beneath him.
Henry sighed and with his left hand as he swept a thin layer of sweat he had on his forehead "That was too close" He walked to see how big the damage was and saw a bottomless pit "What the hell?
He walked towards the cashier tables to put the trumpets he needed and to wait for Murphy. When he arrived he saw that Murphy was going downwards in an inhuman way, and almost stumble at the end of the stairway. Now, let's go back to the present, well, the present of the protagonists.
After them exploring the store (not counting the bottomless pit) they found that the only way to get out of the store was through the mysterious door with a strange disc on the front. The two men approached the door very cautiously, expecting a bear trap or something was going to scare the shit out of them, as always in this nightmarish town.
They were at mere centimetres when they realized that they were over exaggerating the situation, so they walked casually to what was left of the distance between them and the simple wooden door with the disc in the middle. First, Murphy tried to open the door by turning the knob, but it looked like it was jammed, or someone from the inside of that door lock it. After that, Murphy again tried to pry the door with his golden pipe, resulting only in injuring in his forearm and, Henry's head when the golden pipe went out of Murphy's hands. A little annoyed at this, Henry knew that the only possible way to open that door was by removing the disc, but he was too afraid of the result it could have on him, as the other disc only brought him depressive and violent memories.
"Can you, please, take the disc?"
"Sure cupcake" Said Murphy smiling to Henry. He tried to take it from the door, but the thing didn't want to budge for Murphy "I can't, sorry" Said Murphy with a disappointed tone
"Don't worry" Said Henry, giving the other man a comfort smile "I'll do it for you okay?"
"Okay" Murphy returned the comfort smile to Henry
Henry sighed and took a big gulp, before removing the disc from the bottom. It had some obscure details, and like the other disc, it looked like it came out of a medieval painting. His hands were shaking while he was taking the disc, and soon, all of his surroundings where turning around him, then they became blurry, and finally all he can see was white. He shut his eyes, trying not to feel dizzy. After all of that his surroundings became clearer, and he started to hear noises coming to him.
He was in the same place, but now the store was clean, nice, and outside there were rays of light. Probably another one Henry's memories, and he was right. When he saw himself, he appeared to be seventeen, bursting from the entrance door, and right behind him. But this Henry looked different from how he conceived and remembered himself when he was about that age. This Henry was completely off the edge, rude, and most of all, he was more of human person, not the hermit that Henry is.
When Teen Henry walked, old Henry was forced to follow as if he was being dragged by some unnatural force to the other Henry. He then saw how teen Henry was hiding beneath his leather jacket a CD of Janis Joplin
"Hey! What cha' doing man?" Said one of the employees
"I think this is none of your business, and it never will be, okay?" Teen Henry said as he pull out a small pistol, same one as when he was trapped in his room
After that all went white again, and now Henry was in a completely different environment. He was in what looked like a restroom, and he could hear from the distance deep electronic beats. He related those things and he discovered that he was in a discotheque or at a massive party, considering the amount of people opening and closing the door. He then saw himself as a teen entering one of the restrooms cubicles, and to his surprise, the door was open. Henry of course entered through this door, and what Henry saw was like seeing stoner. The other Henry was going to inject heroin with a not that trusty syringe.
"No! Don't do it, please!" Henry said, while he tried to kick the tray where the coke was, but it was pointless, as the only thing that happened was that he could penetrate through the tray and himself as a teen like he was just smoke, and afterwards, teen Henry inject himself, and by the time he did that, Henry look to the place where he injected himself. But that was stupid, Henry knew he didn't do anything like that, it was just a cruel prank from Silent Hill; deep in his heart he knew it. After the entire heroin was injected all was white again.
Now Henry was in a car, and by the way it was going, the car was going really fast. After five minutes the car stopped and Henry, a man and other three women were inside of a motel room. Henry entered to the room and he saw another thing that left him cold. Henry was getting into an orgy, with at least fifteen people, and most of them were in their way to have sex, or some of them were already bumping each other, but what really impressed Henry was that his younger self was in the middle of a woman and a man inhaling cocaine, and having a triple kiss. They soon started to undress between them, but when they were taking their pants all went black and Henry felt his head was suddenly a million times heavier
"Henry? Henry? Please don't die, I love you, I will always love you" Said Murphy, and after that he gave Henry a bitch slap, not knowing Henry was already awaken, but weak "Please, don't die my love" Murphy said, and gave another slap "NO!" Murphy cried out, but with his rare logic, he for the third time slapped Henry again, but now Henry was strong enough to stop Murphy's slap
"Do it one more time, and I swear by tomorrow you will be a woman"
"You're alive!" Said Murphy, dropping Henry's head from his lap, but then he was at top of him "I thought I was going to lose you
"Don't be stupid Murphy! And let me tell you, you slap really hard" Said Henry rubbing his injured cheek, then he saw the disc, and backwards he saw written in read "Hell"
"Oh! Sorry for that!" Murphy said, really anguished, and then he kissed Henry's cheek "Here you go, this will relieve the pain"
"Or this too" Said Henry, then slapping Murphy really hard in the face on the side where he didn't have the scar "This will teach you how to properly slap someone, not just bitch slaps, okay?"
"Oh, well, and this will teach you how to respect me" Said Murphy, while at the same time giving a punch in the face to Henry
"Ouch? That really hurt dildo head"
"It was meant to be like that"
"You don't have any idea of who you're messing up" Henry said, and after that, he punched Murphy again in the face and turned him over, now he was on top. They started fighting really badly, like two douche bags in a party. They were rolling in the deep of the record store, rolling, and rolling around while giving punches and kicks at random places of their bodies "Hey, stop, stop idiot!" said Henry, once again being on top of Murphy, while he was grabbing the other man wrists "We're supposed to support each other, not to fight one another. A tense silence was between the two men "And what you're going to say?"
"I don't know what I'm supposed to say"
"Okay, I'll say it first, sorry Murphy for punching you"
"Sorry for slapping you and then fighting with you" He gave the other an awkward smile "So, you're going to give me a kiss or are you going to get off me?"
"Oh, sorry Murph, I'm going right off you right now" Said Henry, with a big red blush on his cheeks. When he tried to stand up, Murphy grabbed him by the arm "Do you really want to do that?"
"I, I... Murphy, I don't know, but I- you know like" all of this said in an awkward tone, making Henry's blush more intense, while stuttering a little
"It's okay, I'll understand you have not decided that you love me, but I know you will. I'm sure about that" Murphy said, while he was standing up from the messed up floor
"And if I said I liked you a little?" Said Henry approaching Murphy
"I'll be the happiest man on Earth, and in this other parallel dimension"
"You're really crazy for me, no?"
"If this answers your question, I'm crazy enough to follow you through this stupid quest, and face again the horrors of Silent Hill. Anyway, we have to go to Toluca lake and then to the gas station
"Hey Murphy" Henry interrupted the other "What happened after I took the disc"
"You only passed out in my arms, that's all, but you were mumbling some unintelligible words"
"Hmm, okay... The thing is that I saw some things that I... don't remember I truly do"
"What kind of things?" Murphy said thrilled
"When we were like seventeen was I into things like drugs, or orgies, or did I steal from record stores
"Hmm" Murphy rubbed his chin while he was thinking "I don't remember you in such things. All that I remember from you when you were a teen was that you were always reading a book, or taking photos of anything
"You have to be joking"
"No Henry, I'm not joking about something so serious"
"And who was the Henry in my memories?"
"I think that you're on drugs now..."
"Just... shut up, okay? Just shut up"
They start to walk to the wooden door, which was now wide open. They realized how much they rolled, being several feet away from the door. When they were close enough they heard something that caught their attention.
"Mommy? Are you there? Daddy, please, don't leave me here alone, it's dark and I know you can hear me"
"We're not your parents, but where are you?" Murphy said, preparing his pipe in case it was a monster
"I... I don't know, but please, help me, I'm scared" The little child started sobbing.
"Don't worry, we will be there in a minute" Henry said, while he rushed to the place where he heard the kid. He quickly found the child, that was sitting in a corner trembling like a Chihuahua in one of the dark corners near the wooden door. Near him were a videocassette recorder, and a stereo. He remembered he had some recordings on his backpack. He reached the little boy and he saw there was a gap between them, not very long, but big enough so the child couldn't jump it by himself. "I'll help child, don't worry okay?
The unknown child merely nodded his head, too afraid to even speak. Henry jumped to the other side of the gap and he went with the child, but before helping him pass over the other side he played the videotape first, only to find out that it was a recording of James killing his own wife with his pillow. (What the hell) Thought Henry giving his best poker face he could. After that, while he was quite disturbed by what he viewed he put the tape in the stereo, at this time Murphy was with him. First there was no sound, and Henry thought it was broken, and when he was going to take off the recording, someone started to talk, someone too drunk, by his voice tone
"So, I was telling that bitch "who wants to be alone in this world, you look around and you see his hurt, and that ass only answered me by giving me a punch, even though the only thing I did was open his eyes
"Hush Henry, you're a little drunk to talk
"But Eileen... I don't want to sleep
"You'll sleep. You'll thank me tomorrow morning
The next recording were only unintelligible mumbling by Henry. At that point Henry felt really ashamed for the monster he was becoming. Since the accident in his room he became more and more dependent on the alcohol. Even though it didn't affect his life at all, sometimes he got really drunk just because he wanted to, not caring if it was in the middle of the week, or at work hours when he decided to start. After that he shook his head to set aside the entire "not that great memory" he was having. He then focused on helping the little child to pass to the other side, he thought and thought about different ways to do it, and the only way he figured was by carrying him in his arms and hoping he wouldn't fall at the middle of the jump.
"Hey child, I have to carry you, do you prefer if I carry you in my arms or you want to ride my back?
"In your back! Please carry me in your back like you were my horse!" The child said a little bit too enthusiastic. Henry sighed and emitted a little groan
"Okay" He kneel down and waited for the little one to ride his back.
The child prepared himself to jump at the unknown man in front of him, and after some hesitant moments he finally put his trust in the other person. He jumped into the other's back, and Henry felt this, but surprisingly to him, when he stood up, the child didn't weighed a lot. Henry gave himself a moment, and after a deep sigh he jumped to the other side. He put the child on the floor and waited for Murphy to cross the gap.
"So, why you're in such a dangerous place child?" Asked Murphy confused
"I... I really don't know, my parents left me here alone when we were searching for some food, and after that I only remember the roof was falling and I hid myself in that corner
"And do you know where we can locate your parents?"
"And get out of this store" Murphy added
"Well, I can show you a way to get out of this store, but I really don't know where my parents are
"Can't even remember the name of the street? "Murphy said, sounding really interested
"I think it's Grahams street"
"Well, we'll help you" Henry gave the child a comforting smile "And now guide us through this store
"Here" The little child said, while he entered the wooden door where Henry had removed the disc.
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