Welcome back. When we left off, Cynder had decided to find a mysterious "queen" spoken of by Spyro, discovering the first key to her location was in a chillingly familiar place, Dante's Freezer. Now our story continues…

As the biting winds of Dante's Freezer blow, Cynder attempts to make her way through.

Cynder: (Shivers) I thought I'd never have to come back here. The cold is even more evident than I remembered.

Cynder continues through the sheer cold environment, but then she spots a couple of snow piles. As she approaches them, Cynder brushes off a bit of the snow, revealing they're some of her old victims, having been tortured in the snow and dying of frostbite.

Cynder: Poor souls. I almost forgot I did this to these poor people.

As Cynder moves away from the frozen corpses, some of them start moving slowly, snapping joints out of place and slowly icing over, many of them growing ice over their teeth.

Frostbiters: So cold…

Cynder: (Hearing this) Oh god!

Frostbiters: So cold…

All Cynder can do is run, but eventually these frozen beasts catch up to her and attempt to bite Cynder with their icicle teeth. Cynder can only outrun them for a few moments, but then as she brushes snow off a stone with those same sickly green drops from before, allowing her irises to glow sickly green again and she spews poison at the frozen beasts

Frostbiters: Thank you…

The frozen creatures melt away, finally warmed from their eternal cold.

Cynder: What on earth? (Sees the poison on the ground and then sees the symbol again) That's the same symbol from before! Okay, I think I'm starting to get it, I can only use this new poisonous ability when these symbols are nearby. Better keep an eye out for that.

Cynder continues her trek through Dante's Freezer, occasionally finding a pack of those frozen beasts from before and either running away from them or fighting them off with her odd poisonous powers. But then, she comes across a scary moment of her past, a lot of victims frozen together.

Cynder: (Shudders) Why did we freeze them together?! That's just sadistic!

Cynder can't even stand to look at the gruesome scene without vomiting, but just then the frozen bodies start moving again, breaking free from their icy prison. It's just a mix of each person's body parts strapped together with frozen metal spikes, and their heads are even sewn together

Twinsickles: So cold…

Cynder notices the incredibly freakish monsters, and can only scream as there's no poison symbols nearby. So all she can do is run, but then she does find one. And after a couple of poison attacks, they have very little effect, but do eventually manage to melt them.

Twinsickles: Thank you…

Cynder: Thank you? Why are they…? (Realizes it) Oh… I get it.

Amidst the biting cold, Cynder continues on through this strange replica of Dante's Freezer, but eventually things appear… odd, as more of traditional Silent Hill starts to peak through.

Cynder: (Notices what appears to be an apartment building in the snow) Wait a second, I don't remember that being there last time I was here. (Notices a few more buildings) Or any of those… What is going on?

As Cynder continues through this odd version of Dante's Freezer, we eventually arrive at a door to an old fortification.

Cynder: This is the place. Volteer's old prison should be nearby.

Just as Cynder enters the place, the walls come to life, as the battered fortification collects in the snow and ice with the remaining victims in the area, creating a giant monster with giant slabs of ice for fists, fortification cannons on its shoulders, and two of the victims for eyes

Double Zero: Cold-blood… Cold-blood… (Notices Cynder) MURDERER!

Cynder can only stare up in fear at the frozen monster, but manages to move just before it tries to crush her with a giant hand of ice. Cynder continues to run from this monster as it tries to crush her at every turn.

Double Zero: Cold-blooded…. Cold-blooded!

As Cynder runs, the monster fires the cannons on its shoulder, sending a massive projectile into the ground, which causes an avalanche that reveals a large poison symbol, and the glow from its activation blinds the monster.

Cynder: Now that's what I'm talking about!

Cynder rushes over towards the symbol, and starts attacking the beast, but to no avail. Then however, she sees the monster's weak spot, the entrance to the fortification. All she has to do is deliver a hit to it and the doors will fly open, breaking the monster apart

Double Zero: Blood of snow, Heart of Ice, MURDERER!

Cynder: Hope this works!

And with that, Cynder flips through the air, accidentally coating herself in poison and lands right on the creature's back, breaking through the door, causing the monster to collapse in on itself, aside from its head for one final speech

Double Zero: Heart of Ice… melting…

And with that, the creature is dead and Cynder is trying to get the venom off herself and eventually does by plunging herself into a snowbank.

Cynder: That was… interesting.

And with that, the mountain parts, revealing a door, a very familiar door, the door to where Volteer was once kept, but it looks… different somehow

Cynder: Here we go. If that guard and this Galvanic Key are anywhere here, it's going to be there. (Notices how odd it looks) Wait, why does it look like a school? Okay, this is just weird. But I've got to press on.

And with that, Cynder steels her determination and enters the building, not knowing what lies beyond.

And with that, we end today's work. And if you were wondering, the "school" Cynder is seeing is Midwich Elementary School from Silent Hill 1. I hope you all have a Happy New Year and here's hoping I update more regularly in 2017. With that, I will see you around. I am planning a huge update tomorrow, as I plan to welcome in the New Year. So, what is Cynder about to find? You'll see, tomorrow.