And back to the plot! Things are winding down and soon this story will be over. I enjoyed working on this one thats for sure...hmm maybe I will make that sequel... but you guys probably don't want to bother with something like that would you?
Lol anyway lets get on with the story.
Disclaimers I don't own assassins creed, prototype, or silent hill, only the creation of this crossover story.
Enjoy.
Slowly they both woke up wrapped in one another's arms, Desmond yawned and stretched as Alex leaned back and rested his hands behind his head with a smile.
"Could you not look like that." Desmond chuckled and stood up slowly checking his injured side.
"Look like what?" Alex opened one eye and watched Desmond shuffle to the bathroom.
"Like you just had the biggest score of your life." Desmond grabbed a set of scissors and cut his bandages off. Alex smirked and got off the bed. He strode up to Desmond and wrapped his arms around Desmond's waist and kissed his neck.
"But i just did." he laughed when Desmond elbowed him in the gut making him let go. "Okay okay. Sorry little birdie. But you can't lie." Alex grabbed Desmond's wrist and pulled him close enough to ghost his breath over the assassins lips. "That was an amazing night. And you are fantastic." Desmond smiled and leaned forward to give him a small peck on the lips.
"Not so bad yourself. And as fantastic as you and last night were; I do still want to know what happened after I passed out." Alex nodded and stepped back to morph on his clothes.
Desmond started to ask about what happened while he was unconscious and Alex answered every question he thought up. He explained where they were, who helped them, and even the human nurse that fixed him. Desmond stood in the bathroom and used a damp cloth to get cleaned up. He was thrilled to learn it was as clean as the rest of the room and opted to take a quick shower.
Alex helped him wrap his stitches and left Desmond to get cleaned. He picked up the assassins clothes and used his biomass to remove any foreign compounds on them, including the blood from the shirt and jacket. While they both held a small hole in them, the clothes were still wearable and Alex slipped them onto the bathroom counter as he plopped down on the bed. He rested his head on his hands and waited. The shower water turned off and soon a fully dressed and clean Desmond walked out of the bathroom.
"You have no idea how fucking good that feels." Desmond sighed and hooked his blade back on his wrist. "So now we should go talk to Alessa and figure out what she wants?"
"Yeah that sounds about right. We help her, get back your fruit of doom, then get the fuck out of this hell hole. Maybe go overseas?" Alex smirked as he stood and tossed Desmond his backpack. He caught it and put it on with a grin.
"Overseas? Anywhere particular in mind?"
"Anywhere is good. But first thing is first. The fruit of doom."
"Must you call it that?" Desmond walked over and opened the door.
"Well the name fits and doesn't sound as ridiculous as saying "we need to get the apple."" Alex laughed and froze when he looked out the now open door. Desmond snapped his head at the doorway and jumped back on instinct when a large form was seen. He looked up and sighed when he saw who it was.
"Damn it. Pyramid head I'm getting you a freaking bell. For a big guy you sure can sneak around." Desmond places his hand over his heart and laughed. Alex put his hand on his shoulder and chuckled.
Pyramid head tilted his large helmet to the side in confusion and surprise. Being known as the demon's guardian and the executioner of Silent Hill he wasn't used to people acting so at ease and relieved at his presence. Desmond walked up and smiled up at the larger man. Alex stood behind him and nodded at him with a grin.
"Thanks for all the help Big guy. That other guy would have ended us if not for you." Desmond said as he patted his healing side. Pyramid his nodded and stepped back to point down the hall. Alex stepped out of the room first and figured out that he was here to take the to Alessa. Desmond stood between both men and kept his blade arm ready at his side as they walked the halls. Pyramid head expertly directed them through the maze that was the hospital basement.
The fog and steam ghosting along the floor disappeared as their feet broke through it. Soon they came up to a set of double doors at the end of a long empty hallway. The door slid open and a blond haired women stepped out with a pile a bloody bandages.
"Oh!" She jumped slightly seening the three men in front of her and gave a pleasant smile. "I wasn't expecting to see you all here so soon."
"You're Lisa, I take it?" Alex asked. Lisa smiled and nodded making the nurse cap on her head slip a bit. He caught it before it could fall and giggled. "Alessa ready to talk then?"
"Well... She doesn't do much talking anymore. The little Alessa will do most of that." Lisa stepped to the side and motioned her free hand to the door. "My advice. Don't stare." With that she walked down the halls without a care in the world. Desmond and Alex exchanged odd expressions and followd Pyramid head as he opened the door to her room.
Desmond pushed away the plastic lines hanging from the ceiling and looked around the dank dirty room. Old blood and ruse covered every surface. Bit's of brown/black bandages where scattered everywhere and bloody surgical tools sat on the table. In the middle of the room was a plastic covered bed. Through the plastic cover an adult form was easy to make out. A tube extended out form the plastic barrier and into and IV bag for nutrients and blood.
Pyramid head stepped to the corner of the room and rested his back again the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. Alex stepped up next to Desmond and looked at the room with distaste. A soft giggle rang out in the quiet room as Alessa stepped out from around the other side of the bed with a creepy smile. She skipped up to Desmond and swung her arms back and forth at her sides.
"It's good your awake now. Feeling better?" she asked.
"Uh...yeah. Thanks for the help with that." Desmond replied hesitantly.
"Lets not drag this out all day." Alex leaned down with his hands on his knees and looked at Alessa. "What do you want from us? ...And who is that?" he pointed to the plastic covered bed.
"That is Alessa. What's left of her."
"What do you mean?" Desmond asked. "What happened to her?" he took a few steps closer to the bed and saw the woman's head move slightly in his direction as his shadow moved against the plastic surrounding her.
"You saw my drawing at the hotel didn't you?" Desmond nodded at the young Alessa. "The people of the church hurt Alessa. They called her a witch and tried to erase her of her sins. They took her to room one-eleven in the hotel." She spun and glared at them. "They put her on a metal cross and tried to burn her sin away."
"T-they tried to burn her alive?" Desmond gasped and looked at the floor in shock.
"Those fuckers have some serious issues that's for sure." Alex cringed and crossed his arms over his chest. "So if that's Alessa... then who are you?" Alex nudged his head toward the woman on the bed and glared down at the little girl who smiled.
"I am the evil in Alessa. I came to her when she was hurting the most and promised to help her get revenge at those that hurt her. To help her stop her pain. When we became one I took her rage and anger. Another took her remains of joy and happiness, but she was sent away. Never to return." She spun around the room and started to pic up and play around with the dirty tools on the table. "So then Alessa and I turned the town into Darkness. Brought the fog and drew in those that needed to suffer from the outside. And slowly we have worked to put an end to the beings that inhabit the church."
"Why not take them all out at once?" Alex pointed a thumb at Pyramid head. "He could do it easy all by himself."
"Their faith prevents me or my kind from stepping into their domain. We did put an end to them in the past once... But everything reset after she left." She sneered and sat down on a chair. "Before you another had come here like so many before. But unlike them she wasn't drawn here by her sin, guilt or pain. Her name was Rose and her daughter, Sharon, had come to Silent hill seeking an answer for the girls nightmares. She helped us kill them all by polluting their church to save her daughter. They all died in a rain of blood and then she left with her adopted child. We thought it was all over. That it was the end. That Alessa could be happy.
"But no. Everything just..reset. Every year things have repeated again and again. They came back and started to repeat themselves. They know it happens every time and despair in that truth. They repeat their lives every year over and over again driving them further into madness. Those who died are reborn only to die the same way again. Their despair takes form in the one that attacked you Desmond. The one with the spear. Since Rose left you two are the only new comers in years. We punish sinners, true sinners, that don't see their own guilt. Silent Hills calls them here and we show them what they did, make them see their guilt, and execute them. But no one has come once things started to repeat." Desmond looked at the young girl with a thoughtful oppression but didn't interrupt.
"But you Desmond. You can break the cycle." she walked up to Desmond and smiled up at him. "You can use the apple to heal Alessa. If you heal her she can stop the cycle. It will all be over." Desmond looks from the girl to the burned woman on the bed. He sighs and looks back to the girl with a solemn expression.
"I'm sorry. The Apple can do many things but it can't heal or bring people back from the dead. It may seem like it but it's not like magic, it just can't do everything." Alex placed his hand on Desmond's shoulder knowing that it hurt him to not be able to help the hurting woman. "But their may be another way we can do to try and break the cycle."
"What?"
"They keep coming back because of their faith and their pain brings about the fake Pyramid heads right?" Alessa nodded at Desmond. "Then what if we destroy their faith?" Alessa's eyes opened wide.
"Destroy it? They have been trapped her for forty years, they revel in insanity and cling to their faith as their only way. How would we do it?"
"We cant scare them from their faith... but we can make them break it."
"The biggest thing in a religious faith is not to sin. Many sins can be forgiven if you repent. But the worst sin is suicide." Alex glanced at Desmond. "If they kill themselves then their is no God for them. Their faith will be gone."
"That... could actually work. You swallow a few priests in New York?" Desmond chuckled making Alex smirk back.
"You'd be amazed how quickly a guard will pick up a bible when a walking parasite is taking over the city." Desmond laughed but sobered up and looked back at the young Alessa.
"I can make them do this Alessa. I've seen them all and they are not innocents. By my Creed I can and should kill them to better the world." He leaned down to look her in the eye. "But the only way I can do this is if I get my Apple back."
Alessa thought this over. She placed her hand on her chin and walked around the room. She stepped up to Pyramid head and they seemed to have an internal conversation. He motioned his hands a bit and even moved his head as if he was talking. She nodded and walked back to Desmond and Alex.
"How do I know you won't leave as soon as you have the Apple back?" she asked.
"You cleary don't know a thing about his Creed." Alex replied. "The main thing is to never harm an innocent. Alessa was an innocent when those bastards tried to burn her alive." Desmond nodded at Alex.
"I don't make a habit of lying. I will help you Alessa. But I have to have the Apple back first."
"Alright. But getting it may be a problem..."
"Problem?" Alex hissed. "How much of a problem?"
"I hid the Apple so it wouldn't be taken. In the Cemetery... But the fakes have made that place their home as of late."
"You have to be fucking kidding me. There is more than one?" Alex groaned and rubbed his head.
"Where exactly in the Cemetery? And how many of those things are their?" Desmond asked.
"At the alter, under the stone cross. As for how many... at least ten. A new one has shown up every year since the repeating started. They have started to congregate there." Alessa answered.
"Fucking fantastic..." Alex muttered.
"Yeah it is." Desmond smiled and held up his blade arm. Alex raised an eyebrow at him. "Now we can let loose." Desmond ejected his blade. "I'd like to get back at one of them for my stab wound."
"Your not even fully healed." Alex argued.
"I've done worse things with worse wounds before. I can handle it." Desmond sheathed his blade and smirked. "Besides my way of letting loose is much different from yours." Pyramid head moved from the wall and stood next to Desmond with a finger pointed at himself. He let out a few short groans as well.
"He wants to go with you both and help." Alessa explained. "I'd go too, but I need to keep the church goers away. If they found out that their were things that fight against me here it wouldn't be good." Pyramid head nodded. "As far at they know the fakes are under my control as well. They attack everything that moves."
"Then it's simple." Desmond said. "You two will fight those things and I will sneak around and take the Apple with out them seeing a thing. Then I'll come up behind them and take out whats left of them."
"Sounds too easy...But it's the best we have sadly." Alex sighed.
"We'll make it work. And you get to rip those guys to shreds."
"I can live with that." Alex smirked. "Then lets get going. The sooner we finish this the better." Alex walked to the door with Pyramid head in tow. Desmond paused at the door and turned around. He walked to Alessa's bed and places his hand against the plastic. He looked down at the shadow of her head and heard her raspy breathing.
"I'm sorry for what happened to you Alessa. I can't heal you but I can help you." With that Desmond turned and walked out of the room. The younger Alessa watched him with curiosity. Alessa made some rasping noises from her bed after he left the room that made the younger girl smile.
"He is a surprising one. But if he doesnt break the cycle then he's worthless to us." She giggled.
Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnnn. To the Cemetery for Desmond to be all assassin-y, Alex to go manhunter on the fakes and pyramid head to cut them all a new one in a bloody mess. It's going to be a fun one.
R&R
