They ended up stood outside a rather moderate looking reception area, advertising itself as Cedar Grove Sanatorium. Dante rang the small bell on the counter, then again and again until finally Nero got fed up and blasted the thing with his Devil Bringer. It sparked another round of bitching from the two and Vergil sat in the corner and flipped through a leaflet slowly.

"Why are you wasting your time ringing a damned bell, its clear no one is gonna come along." Nero griped.

"The noise amused me." Dante folded his arms. "Calm down kid."

"Kid? Are you even aware of how childish you can be?" Nero's face darkened. Vergil flipped through another page of a booklet on the local sites of Silent Hill. "There are no patients, no doctors… you are wasting time."

Dante just smirked and opened a door with brute force, it looked like the door handle was pretty flimsy but everyone knew the strength they had. Nero pushed past him, and looked around. They could have searched high and low for keys but it seemed pretty pointless when it was likely they would be arrested, and with the three of them arrest would hardly be easy.

Nero opened a set of cupboards and old wardrobe finally finding their missing clothes and weaponry. He threw Yamato over to Vergil with the bundle of blue and black material. Vergil nodded his thanks and slid into his own clothes, he threw the robe at his brothers' head and looked around, they needed to get out of the place and start looking around.

"I have a list of places we can investigate, we can split up to make this faster but we're gonna have to make a base to meet at regular intervals." Vergil pointed at the map, he found a pen and some card and wrote down the places he had.

"Who put you in charge?" Dante muttered as he kitted back up.

"Well you would just have us steal a car and search for pizza." Vergil handed Nero a list. "I figured you'd be okay with the Cemetery and Police station."

"Yeah I can do that." Nero nodded; he made a mental note of the directions from the visitors map on the wall. "How long before we meet up?"

"Let's say an hour for each place, we likely won't need it." Dante said heading to the door. "That or meet when it gets dar…"

Dante opened the door and groaned, there was no way to work out day and night time with what looked to be a big mass of fog over the town. Nero snickered and headed past him then stopped as his boots connected with dust… no not dust or snow? He leant down in surprise and moved his fingers through the strange powder.

"It's ash." Nero looked at them both. "The whole town is covered in ash." He picked up an old paper from the front of an ambulance that had been left, Nero failed to question why the siren continued to whir the light around long after the fuel and battery were gone. "It says here that the residents were evacuated when the city set on fire."

"So how long ago was that?" Vergil moved towards him to take a look. He grumbled his annoyance when it turned out that the date on the top of the paper was unreadable. "Well let's assume it was a while back at any rate."

"Meet in three hours? Where?" Nero looked at the twins.

"The front of Grand Hotel? Seems like that's the easiest middle ground." Dante nodded and then headed out; ignoring the fact he was likely to end up covered in the strange ash. "So I get an amusement park and theatre?"

"Yes." Vergil stepped out, watching booted steps crush the strange layer under their feet.

"What did you get?" Nero looked at Vergil.

"The Town Hall for records, and the Shopping Mall." He looked at Dante's anger flare up, the blue eyes flashed red. "Brother if you go we'll end up getting nowhere fast."

"Humph." Dante headed out into the street, he hated it when his brother was right. "This is likely to end in disaster you know that…" He continued mumbling to himself until the three had finally split up and headed along on their own.

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In the darkest recesses of the old school the noise of padded feet wandering around the dark corridor went unheard, the demon was bored. The place only came alive at night, during the day all he seemed to find was the odd corpse and rumours of a bunch of very odd survivors, he hadn't seen them if they did exist.

"Boreds." PJ muttered, he picked up a rotted old pink rabbit, shock it around. "I fink I seen you somewhere afores…" He pocketed it and carried on around the empty building.

PJ had learnt only the very basics of the English language, he spoke it dismally but he thought he was doing okay. He wasn't stupid but he was certainly childish, and Robbie the Rabbit ended up his new playmate. He'd found that trying to interact with the monsters there resulted in him having to butcher them in fights.

He flopped down in the corner of the schools toilets, kicking open a door and seeing a rather emaciated corpse strung up in the cubicle. PJ touched it, it was not moving, he sighed, he just didn't see how the place was all that exciting, why did they want him summoned if they weren't going to tell him what they wanted?