Henry

I drove steadily around the block and stopped at the pole once more. This time I snatched the paper barely clinging to it and fighting the rough wind. I rolled up my window and flattened the sheet across my steering wheel.

YOUNG DOCTOR MISSING

CLARA RICKETTSON Resident of 232 Maple Avenue. About five feet tall, 121 pounds, black hair and blue eyes. Clara was last seen visiting Silent Hill Graveyard mourning her recent cousin's death, exactly one week ago. Please contact 646 - 2315 or local county if any information has been retreived.

The rest of the sheet consisted of a large picture of Clara and then a tag note at the bottom reading 'Central Grey Town Hospital'. I placed the paper on the dashboard and scooped up the newspaper I snagged last week.

I opened it and flipped towards the fourth page and looked for an article on Lisa Schultz. I found it close to the bottom.

MURDER OUTSIDE DOWNTOWN BAR - NO TRACE OF KILLER FOUND

A bar in South Grey Town called Randy Lou's was the holding of the brutal murder of Lisa Schultz. Lisa, known as Liz to her friends, was stabbed twenty eight times in the lower stomach area. The murderer has not been captured, but DNA tests came to call the identity of Taylor Rick Coleman, who's body was buried in Silent Hill Graveyard three years ago.

"We've decided to run the DNA tests again," Dr. Amy Burgeise says, "Perhaps he was snooping around Taylor's old sheds in Silent Hill Graveyard. Taylor was the old gravekeeper, and he was rumored to have been holding over twenty different types of weapons, or 'tools' as he used to say, in the shacks on his property. Maybe the knife was from there. But it's highly unlikely the skin was Taylor's, but we do not have ANY blood samples of the killer. We cannot say much, we need tissue or blood from the ACTUAL killer." No fingerprints were found along Lisa or her cousin Clara, who was also attacked by the killer but managed to survive.

Clara was pushed into much interrogating, but all she could remember was skim details about the killer. He is a very tall and broad male, who was carrying at the scene a bat, knife, and gloves. He also had mysteriously beat up Clara's car, and blood was found running down the hood. Some of the blood was Clara's, but the tests show the other liquids were of people who had died years ago and of dead animals.

"I believe in alien LIFE not death. Your talking about passed away people coming back. I talk about the belief there is other life out there." A researcher asks us to tell the public. "And no, I don't believe this is an unsolved case. I think there's a logical reason behind it, and I assure you all dead people are not crawling out of there graves and killing us. Do I believe in aliens? Yes. Do I believe in zombies? Hell no. And that's that."

Further information about Lisa is unknown, but it is asked kindly by Lisa's family, that is anyone manages to attain further information to report it immediatly.

And then a few phone numbers were listed, and then a stupid ad about a cool foam that will make your hair turn purple. It even showed the steps of a weird looking kid putting it on, and then showed him with giant violet colored hair.

I finally got my focus off the scary looking kid and focused back on my papers. I grabbed the most recent newspaper I had and looked for Clara. And I found it.

QUIET AND YOUNG DOCTOR - VANISHED

Clara Rickettson is a twenty eight year doctor working at Central Grey Town Hospital. She was known to be quiet and kept to herself, but has strangely vanished and left no trace of where she was going.

To make the situation seem stranger, she is also the cousin of Lisa Schultz, who was murdered brutally by an unknown killer a week before Clara's dissapearance. Clara was last seen visiting her cousin at her grave, in Silent Hill Graveyard.

"She seemed sort of angry with me.." Clara's aunt tells us. "I mean, it's not like me and Rick were doing anything wrong. We planned out the funeral and payed for everything, and I just thought it would be nice if Liz was buried with her grandma. Clara seemed angry about the drive." Her aunt also says she was mad about them going on American Idol, which Rick also adds to please watch tonight and vote for him.

We also asked the doctor who worked with Clara, Amy Burgeise, who was also recently interviewed about Lisa's murder case. "Clara was acting weird," She tells us. "I called her and she answered the phone, I told her Jon cancelled his appointment today and she could stay home." She then adds that later in the day they heard screams coming from room two forty one, and found Clara cutting her wrists with a needle. "I told her to go home and get ready for the funeral. And now she's gone."

Her aunt told us Clara drove by herself to the graveyard. The graveyard has been checked out and no vehicles have been located near there. Clara's vehicle is missing along with her. Her aunt also says when she tries to call Clara's cell phone it will only ring twice, and then say the connection was lost.

No further information is known. Clara is five feet tall, about one hundred and twenty pounds, has blue eyes and black hair. Please call the following numbers if any other information is known.

The paper then had a list of numbers, which included the police, her aunt, Rick, and a few others. I threw the paper down on the seat and started the car. Silent Hill. I knew what was happening. When I left my apartment, I found a place to stay and I looked up information on Ashfield. It let me to the wonders of Silent Hill and the other dissapearances of people and the weird things that used to happen there.

Clara was stuck. She was stuck in that world that I lived and never wanted to witness again, and she had no idea. She had no idea the things that could happen to her, the things she would see. If she's seen anything, she's only witnessed the beginning.

I rolled down the street and pulled up to the highway. Why did it pull her into this? She seemed so innocent when I talked to her, why would anyone want to hurt her? I thought about Taylor again. The gravekeeper who died three years ago was the only answer coming out of DNA results. It was his skin piece, but there was NO blood of the killer, none at all. Just Clara and Lisa's blood. Not forget the blood on the car, the ones of people who died years ago. Is that even possible? And what was with the animal blood?

I continued to drive down the highway. I felt suicidal. I was returning to a place I had barely escaped before, and I didn't understand why. I barely knew her, so why should I help her? I could just move on and pretend I never met her, go on and save myself.

And I remembered what happened to Cynthia. And Jasper. Andrew and Richard. They died in that world, and they stayed there. Their souls were lost in that place, lost forever. And Eileen... how could I have been so stupid?

I couldn't let Clara be lost there, I couldn't let her die the same way Eileen had to die. I had to help her, she needed me. I could help her, and I wasn't going to let that hang over me for the rest of my life.

I pressed my foot harder on the petal and the car picked up amazing speed. I didn't mind it, for no one was heading for Silent Hill. No one wanted to be near it, too afraid it was haunted. And well... it was.

I kept my eyes on the road and reached under the seat. I pulled out a gun I bought the minute I left my apartment. I loaded it up. This was what it was for, and I had to use it sometime or another.

I grew dark out now, and I reached a sign on the side of the road.

Silent Hill - 3 Miles

I took a breath and continued moving. I looked at the passengers seat and quickly glanced at the gun I had loaded and the flashlight laying near it. I let out the air in my lungs and saw the giant forest before me. I forgot about the woods in front of the graveyard. I didn't slow my car though. I continued to drive.

The woods weren exactly what I expected. They were quiet, eerie, and creepy. Just like the ones I had to travel through with Jasper, except that I was on a road and the trees were growing closely together. They were tall and the ones closest to the road seemed to be rotting.

I eyed the road ahead of me carefully and slowed my vehicle down. I had to watch what I was doing, I was messing around with the dead, and I knew where that could put you.

My head starting to hurt. I rubbed it and remembered the dead people I encountered during my last visit. For some reason, they kept flashing before my eyes. I saw the nightmare I had, the ones who possessed my apartment while I was gone, and I saw Walter's eyes.

I moaned and tried to ignore it. I looked at a tree nearby and saw a shape of what looked like a tiny child. My head was stinging. I drove past it and kept going. I looked on and kept seeing shapes of people in the trees, shapes of bodies laying on the sides of the road. I head was killing me, but I thought I was just seeing things. Illusions maybe. It was all in my head, I was just scared.

My head hit the roof of the car and the vehicle bounced on my side. I sped up and the back side did the same thing. Guess I hit one. But my head wouldn't stop irritating me. My eyes started to feel sore, I rubbed them. They started letting loose tears from my constant rubbing, and it began to make them feel heavy and like they were falling out.

My head was so sore and I heard people screaming and crying. My attention then slowly shifted away from the road. When I finally focused back, I saw someone floating ahead of me and towards my car. I yelled and spun the wheel, the car flew to the side and I saw the man's legs fly past my window. The forest had a small hill and I managed to ride about half way down it before I hit a tree.

I got out of the vehicle as fast as I could, and slide further down the hill. My headache was still there but not as bad as before, and I had enough sense to make it to the bottom of the hill. I reached it and fell on my stomach. I looked ahead of me and saw lights, and everything faded out.

I woke up and saw the lights again. I slowly got up and looked back up the hill. The car was still crashed and the lights were all on inside and out of it. I looked back ahead where I saw the other lights. It was a light pole, and it was shining down on to a large rock. I got up and quickly stumbled over to the chipped and damaged stone. Letters were lightly carved into it.

Silent Hill Graveyard Entrance - Please Enjoy Your Stay

I stared at it and wondered how anyone could possibly enjoy visiting the graveyard. I shrugged it off and figured happy mental pyschos wrote it, just like everything else.

A sheet of clean paper was placed lightly on top and folded up. My name was written on top of it. I opened it up and read it's contents.

Welcome back. We've been expecting you.

I looked ahead and saw blood stains on the entrance to the graveyard. I swallowed hard and crushed the paper in my hand.

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