The small troop of rag-tag demon bloods were slowly searching the city, Nero had insisted they look into the library, perhaps with some clues about the history of the place they would find ideas about where to look. Dante hated the idea, PJ followed saying yes to both of them as he clutched his pink rabbit and Nero ended up winning the fight for once.

Nero broke in and slid through the door, Dante and PJ followed and then found somewhere to sit down and wait. Dante ended up searching around the various floors until he found a vending machine, plugging it in seemed a bit pointless so he just elbowed the front glass, the cans of soda's and various munchies fell through. Not bothering to worry about date of expiry he grabbed a chocolate bar and tucked in.

Nero looked up the various places in Silent Hill, he read up on murders, strange activity and then looked into noted characters. The one that came to mind was Walter Sullivan, he had been arrested the same day as Nero's Birthday, June 18th for a series of murders. Nero looked at the various places they had been, the fact that the man was obsessed with Silent Hill's Order and began to plot a map out.

Dante meantime returned and threw the various munchies over, PJ sniffed the packet, licked it and then finally ate it without worrying about the wrapped. Dante chuckled, the kid really was a blank slate.

"This guy was a proper head-case…" Nero looked down the lists. "Alongside quite a few of them. There's listed records of murders, missing people, some woman who seems to lead a cult that's caused a fair whack of it, she might need to be found."

"I see this man." PJ pointed at Walter, his tail went limp. "I follows him, he goes around and there is peoples killed in places. He talked to me make me come heres."

"He summoned you?" Dante looked over, it was starting to sound more engaging, they had a lead!

"Yeah, I sees him. Didn't likes him though. He wasn't gonna let me has Robbie but I got him anyways."

Nero rolled his eyes, the demons rudimentary language was driving him nuts. He looked down the list of known victims. Jimmy Stone at Wish House, Bobby Randolph and Sein Martin who were killed the same time and dumped in a river. Steve Garland, a pet shop owner in the town, Rick Albert who had a sports store…

He stopped a moment at a guy named George Rosten, a quick check showed that he was likely the one that educated him on the sacraments that Walter was mentioning in notes where they had spoken to him, he had been likely killed by the information he had provided. Nero shuddered and read on…

The two twins were listed and he explained about them to Dante, how Miriam had suffered worse than her brother in the end. PJ was listening the entire time clutching on to the rabbit, his eyes wide. And this wasn't even hell itself! Nero carried on with the watch store owner, a bar tender celebrating his birthday called Eric Walsh who had tried to shut up early following the news of the pet store owners killer being at large. Walsh went home and Sullivan was there waiting!

"The Eleventh of his twenty one victims had been listed as Walter himself, presumably committing suicide after he had been arrested and placed in prison. It's said he was buried in an unmarked grave at Wish House," Nero looked at Dante who rolled his eyes, great twice that nutjob orphanage had been mentioned now, "after the next string which were thought copycats at first they went to exhume the grave only to find nothing there."

Nero carried on down the news reports, the journalist's sensationalism grew with each one of course, and the hysteria that would have come with it would no doubt have given yet more energy to the strange town.

Peter Walls was a drug addict that had been beaten to death, claiming he could see god. Toby Archbolt was a priest of the Holy Mother Sect of the Order, again they operated at Wish House and Archbolt tried to use previous deaths to elevate his own station in the order. During a trip to Mexico he was pushed off a cliff by Sullivan, his was the only death mentioned outside of the USA.

Shreiber was the next; he was a private investigator who did an exposé on Wish House whilst investigating the murders. Apparently he was trapped into his apartment and escaped via a mysterious hole in the wall, his body had never been found and he was the 15th victim.

Cynthia was the first woman mentioned outside of Miriam, the crime scene for her was very graphic, blood all over and the mark 16/21 carved brutally into her chest meant it was clear why she was murdered. Jasper Gein, a mentally unbalanced kid with a love of the mythology of the Order succumbed when investigating Wish House. Sullivan immolated the boy and whilst bathed in flames Gein carved 17/21 into his chest. Dante shuddered, this was all very gruesome when he took into account they were human lives.

18th on the list was Andrew DeSalvo, an abusive guard at Wish House who used the Water Prison there to punish children. He was locked into his own cell and shortly after his escape was drowned. Last on the list of victims was Richard Braintree, who lived near Walter's obsession, a flat numbered 302 that was where he was sure his mother was all along. Richard lived at 207 in the Ashfield Heights complex, a place that was also mentioned several times, spotting the strange events he tried to escape but was still caught by the madman.

"So Ashfield Heights and Wish House are the places to try I guess." Dante stood up. "Nice history lesson… so how the hell's this place so fucked up?"

"No idea. It seems from reports though that the reason for the ash could be an underground mine… there's basically a fire running through it and the town ended up evacuated but some people say that's just the official story to get this weird ass place off the map." Nero picked up a few more books as they passed, in truth whilst he was in pain and tired the story itself was pretty interesting.

"I know where they is."

"Are, PJ it is I know where they are." Nero looked at him. "We're going to have to help you with that once you get out."

"If…" Dante muttered and looked around. "Right I am gonna get us a car sorted."

PJ watched as Dante looked along the streets at several cars, some were missing windows, tyres etc and others were too far rusted. He settled on an old but reliable looking Mustang and set to breaking in, as far as he could tell the police were not likely to arrest him as they were dead.

"Dante…" Nero came up alongside him, he stopped him a second. "You understand that currently we are playing right into this nutjobs hands?"

"Yeah." Dante looked at him. "But if my brother is gonna be number 20… I am making damned sure I am there with him."

"I will never understand you two."

"You don't have too." Dante slide into the front seat. "We were close as kids, mom died… that was the end of it. Now if one of us is going down it's up to the other to be there. Even if it is just to check the final score."

Nero slide into the passenger seat with a sigh, PJ got in the back and curled up with Robbie. The talk sounded far more serious than he liked and then when Dante skidded off at full speed he decided that these weird travelling beasts were definitely not to his liking either!