Chapter 37: Which Hospital is it?
Not much to say here so I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Outside Pete's Bowl-O-Rama
The Romper was jumping swiftly around Eddie as he attempted to shoot the thing, but continued to miss while Curtis narrowly dodged a sudden lunge attack by the Carrion, then counterattacked with a slow, but destructive horizontal swing of his Circular saw making a deep gash on it's side. Walter made quick work of the Closer. As it attempted a second lunge with it's hammer like arms Walter stabbed through it with his Chainsaw enjoying the ripping flesh, and gore as the blood expelled in large quantities. Then he warped behind the Closer, and impaled it at the center of the stomach, killing it while Curtis was pushed to the side from a reckless charge by the Carrion. He quickly got up, ignored the pain, and went to work slicing up the monster's body until Walter came, and lunged his Chainsaw at the base of the Carrion's neck, killing it. They turned to Eddie who was currently at the bottom of the Romper, and was being beaten several times, his Revolver on the floor, and just out of Eddie's reach. Walter laughed, and Curtis sighed in disappointment, then took pity, and decapitated the Romper by sawing the neck off while it was still on top leaving Eddie in a bloody mess.
"Alright then, let's go back, and report the bad new to everyone. Come on, chop, chop!" Walter urged as he created a hole of sludge, and goop from the wall of the Bowl-O-Rama.
"I think the fat one's knocked out..." Curtis grunted
"Damn, damn, damn, guess we'll have to drag him then." Walter said clearly annoyed at doing the chore.
Curtis grabbed the revolver, and shoved it inside Eddie's pockets, and grabbed Eddie's right hand while Watler gripped the left hand. Together they dragged the unconscious Eddie towards the slimy hole, and all three of them returned to their headquarters.
Brookhaven Hospital
"So the key will be in the director's office." James said
He attempted to open the door, but found the lock broken.
"But the door's lock is broken so we'll have to take the long path." James said
"Or I could make a path!" Wheeler said as he took multiple steps back
"What are you planning?" Cybil asked
"Simple I break the door, you grab the key, we leave." Wheeler explained
"I don't think we should be doing that." James nervously said
"Huh? Why not? Anyone else would have at least tried!" Wheeler argued
"Yeah, but it doesn't feel right doing it. Like it's going against something more powerful than us." Heather said
"Fine! I'll just tackle something else then!" Wheeler grunted
"The nurses? No way, they'll just club you with their steel...pipes..." James awkwardly said
He gazed at the two dead Nurses sprawled on the floor in a pool of their own blood, then he set his sights on the steel pipes they were still wielding.
"I know what you're thinking James, and the answer is no. You're better than that!" Maria scolded
"I know they look bad, but a steel pipe is a steel pipe." James argued
"Those things don't look like they'll last much longer. It will be a burden just carrying them around." Elle figured
"Maybe...yeah, I guess so. Can't be too desperate yet." James said
"James like you are so~ noble!" Angela complimented cheerfully
"Is that the right word for it?" Cynthia said
"Map, map where is that map?" Harry reminded everyone
"Oh yeah! Hospital...um~ let's start with the door right in front of the front door!" James instructed
"Whoa, whoa, whoa...who said you were leading? I've already been here so I know more about this place!" Heather argued
"But I've been here too! And I bet I know more than you!" James challenged
"Fine we'll see who knows more than who!" Heather said accepting the challenge
"I really don't care who leads, just don't get us lost." Alex reminded
"Well I know for sure we won't all fit in so let me just take a quick look, and I'll come back out." Heather said
"That's what I was going to say, and don't you mean 'let James take a quick look?'" James said
"Both of you go in together before we waste time of our lives we will never get back." Henry said
"Well that part is arguable, we are in Silent Hill after all." Heather said
"That I can agree with." James said
"(I hate my life sometimes...)" Henry thought to himself
James, and Heather entered the Reception Office, leaving everyone else to wait out in the hallway.
"That's a large circle..." James quickly commented as he noticed the Halo of the Sun symbol glowing a bright red on the wall in front of him.
"I thought you knew more than I did? Can't even remember that weird seal can you?" Heather teased
"Y-yeah I-I remember!" James lied
"Then what is it?" Heather challenged
"It's a mark! A-a...mark of the...moon! Yeah, the Mark of the Moon, because the circle is the full moon, and all the inner circles inside it are...craters!" James quickly hypothesized
It took Heather all her strength, and will to stop herself from laughing out loud, but settled with a stiffened giggle instead while James was in his own thoughts congratulating himself for being knowledgeable.
"Hehe, w-well I see a few health drinks on that cabinet so I'll just be holding on to them." Heather said as she regained herself
"I see another door, I guess we should go through it then." James said
"Hm~ nah, let's ignore for now, and meet back with the others. We shouldn't keep them waiting." Heather said
"Alright then..." James said
They left the reception office with the map, and returned to the group.
"I got the map." Heather said
"Can I keep hold of it?" Elle suddenly asked
"I don't see why not." Heather said giving Elle the map
"That's a start. Let's start opening doors." Harry said
Starting from the right hand side of the hallway they tried the pharmacy door.
"Lock broken." James said
"Crossing that on the map." Elle said
They tried the door next to it.
"Broken." James uttered
"Making a note of that." Elle said
"Next one, visiting room, and it opens!" Elle said as the knob she held turn with no difficulties
"It's pretty small, some of you go in, and keep the door open." Harry said
Heather, James, Eileen, Cynthia, Maria, and Henry went inside to get a closer look, at first the only weird thing about the room was that it was somewhat well kept, but the open book sitting atop the wooden table, and disgusting figure next to it soon caught their attention.
"Ugh~ I remember this. Can't believe after all this time it's still there." Heather groaned
"Oh~ drama? Now I got to read it!" Cynthia said quickly picking up the diary.
"No don't!" Heather cried out
"Oh come on, how bad can it be?" Cynthia said
Cynthia cleared her throat, and began to read out loud.
"'This day has finally come! That's right-the day when you, and I meet.' Whoa this is long, I'll just skip to the good parts. Let's see~ 'I was always thinking of you'-yadda, yadda, 'I know you're the one I've been waiting for. Skip, 'that's why you came to rescue me. Oh how I love you Heather. I want to give you my'-hehehe~'p-prized doll'! Hahaha~'the start of our everlasting love! Stanley Coleman'! Hahaha~" Cynthia said unable to control her teasing laughter
"Shut up! It's not funny, I was scared for my life, and virginity!" Heather argued
"Well think of it this way Heather, That diary is old, and if you haven't seen him the first time, there's no way you'll meet him now." Eileen assured
"Hey, yeah! I mean I don't even think the guy's alive to begin with. I'm sure he's gotten over his sick fetish of me." Heather said
"Hey look there's more to it." Cynthia said as she turned the page
"Oh Heather my true love you're alive! You've been gone for so long I feared one of those dreaded monsters have killed you. But now my heart's at ease seeing your beautiful face!" Cynthia began
"Ew~ never read that part, but I've never turned the page either. Oh well it's still old-" Heather began
"I see you've brought so many of your friends! I can't even count them all with my hands, are they here to be witnesses to our engagement! Are one of those men you're father? Because I would like to ask his permission to take our relationship to the next level." Cynthia finished reading
"No~no, no, no, no!" Heather moaned
"That's just creepy~" Maria said
"This is giving me the shivers." Cynthia admitted
"How do you think I feel!" Heather said
"Relax Heather, what can a ghost do against all of us?" Harry assured
"Well they could give us painful headaches, they can float, and moan loudly. Actually why am I explaining it? You've all seen what they could do." Henry said
"That's not helping!" Harry said
"Just stick with us, there's no way he'll do anything with all of us protecting you." Elle assured
"Yeah, and I still have a 'sword of Obedience' ready just in case." Henry said
"Alright, but if I see him I'm gonna give him such a kick in the groin it's going to rocket up his windpipe, and choke him to death." Heather said darkly
"I don't see how that's going to kill him if he's already dead, but that's the spirit, now let's keep investigating!" Harry said
"So what's next?" Cybil asked
"Exam room." Elle said
"I'll open it." Laura volunteered
"Fine, but don't run, stick with us." James said
"Fine~" Laura grunted
They reached the door, and Laura immediately went after it.
"*Ungh* it won't open!" Laura complained
"Broken lock I see. Was that your first?" Elle asked
"I guess so?" Laura answered
"Congratulations." Henry dully said
"Yeah, move." Alex said moving ahead of the team.
"There's a day room door to the right of us." Elle mentioned
"Let me try again!" Laura said
Without waiting for permission Laura skipped towards the door, but could not open it either.
"Broken too eh? Third time's the charm." Henry dully said
"Okay then...um, doctor's lounge seems legit." Elle said
They reached the door, and Laura tested attempted to open that door as well, and it opened.
"Who's going, who's staying?" Alex asked everyone
Everyone raised their hands, then turned, and looked at each other confusingly.
"*Sigh* Should have seen it coming." Alex said as he lowered his own hand
"Look let me lead for now-" Heather began
"*Ahem!*" James cleared his throat loudly
"Let me, and James lead for now, and just leave the door open for any small rooms we encounter." Heather proposed
"That's a good idea, well if you're ready go ahead, and take us in." Alex said
"Glad we could come to a conclusion." Heather said
Heather went inside first followed by James, Laura, Maria, Alex, Travis, and Lisa, but at that point the room was getting crowded, and a quick look around revealed there was nothing of interest here.
"What's on that desk?" Alex asked
"Just a bunch of notes, and useless paper." Lisa said
"I thought someone like you would find something of interest in medical documents." Travis said
"Yeah~, no" Lisa said
"Well here's something interesting I found on this table, it has the same name as that stalker of yours Heather." James said
"What? In that piece of paper? I thought it was useless." Heather said
"Well it mentions someone name Leonard, but the next one has the name Stanley Coleman. I'll just read that one since he seems much more important now." James said
"Uh, sure why not." Heather said
"Here goes, 'usually passive, and cowardly; also egotistical. Sometimes shows, and acts on obsessive attachment to a particular woman. This has caused violent incidents; use caution." James finished
"So, how does he know you Heather?" Laura asked
"I don't know! Well I think I do, and if what I'm thinking is right, then I think it's not me personally he's after...I think." Heather sort of, explained
"That just raises further questions." Alex said
"Yeah, I know, let's head back, this room's empty too." Heather said
"If you're sure about that." Alex said
"This is so weird, if my memory serves me right, the door was supposed to be locked. Or am I seeing everything differently?" James asked himself
"Who knows, but we won't find those answers here." Alex said
They left the room, and reported their findings to the rest of the team.
"You know you didn't have to repeat what you found, we could all hear you since the door was open." Henry dully said
"Just wanted to clarify." Alex said
"Next we got a line of doors starting with the meeting room." Elle said
"Let's go then." Douglas said as he took a quick swig of alcohol
They continued to walk towards the meeting room door.
"I thought you said those were suppose to serve as health drinks?" Alex insisted
"They are... I gave myself a splinter touching these old wooden doors." Douglas said
"You haven't opened any doors." Alex said
They made it towards their destination
"Here let me try now." Douglas insisted
"Be our guest." Heather said
He tried to open the door
"Broken." Douglas said
"Next one?" Elle said
This one's broken too." Douglas said
"Women's bathroom then." Elle said
"Broken, broken, broken. Kind of messed up right? What if we get stuck somewhere here, and we need to go?" Douglas asked
"I'd rather not think about it." Travis admitted
"Moving on, the cafeteria?" Elle said
"It's broken
"Kitchen?" Elle continued
"Broken as well." Douglas said
"Well that just leaves a second door towards the day room, and a possible exit, but I can clearly see they are both blocked, and inaccessible so I'll just mark them as broken.
"So what does that leave us then?" Alex asked
"How about the door leading towards the first floor hallway?" Elle said as she looked at the map.
"Let's find out." Cybil said
She turned the knob, but it wasn't broken like the rest, allowing them access. As those with radios started coming in, it became quickly apparent that their was definitely monsters ahead of them, of course the heavy breathing also made it obvious.
"Christopher, how's that golf club holding up?" Henry asked
"It has some dents, but still useful." Christopher examined
"Good, it seems like you've been able to handle low level monsters so I feel now's the time to take it a step further. First monster you see, you kill it, we'll cover you." Henry said
"What! O-okay I guess..." Christopher nervously said
A Nurse walking as if suffering from multiple broken bones appeared from out of the shadows, and into the light produced by multiple pocket lights, but as it drew closer, and Christopher was ready to fight it became quickly realized that, that Nurse was different than most of them have ever seen.
"That nurse has a gun." Henry announced
"A what!" Christopher exclaimed
Leaving no time for them to retaliate, the Nurse aimed her pistol at Christopher, and fired, hitting him in his left shoulder. Before it could fire again Alex drew his Chrome Hammer pistol, and shot it multiple times, killing it before it reached the floor while Lisa went to work on Christopher's shoulder.
"This hurts like hell!" Christopher groaned loudly
"Suck it up you big baby." James said
"How can you say that when I got shot!" Christopher said losing his cool
"Come on, you make it seem as if none of us have been shot, am I right?" Henry said
There were a few nods from Harry, James, Heather, Alex, and Wheeler, Cybil remained motionless which Harry noticed.
"Cybil you've been shot before actually." Harry said
"When!" Cybil suddenly asked
"...When you were possessed...you shot me once, and that pissed me off a bit-you know cause it hurt. So I shot you back...then killed the parasite with that red liquid, freeing you...I meant to tell you sooner." Harry awkwardly said
"You said that injury was made by the parasite when it burrowed into me!" Cybil exclaimed
"I'm sorry..." Harry apologized
"I'll pretend that never happened...for now. How's his condition Lisa?" Cybil said
"I think I could pull the bullet out of him with some small tweezers I found in a first aid kit, amazing how much medical stuff these things have don't you think?" Lisa said
"There's still another one, let's take care of it before it get's here." Elle said as the heaving breathing began to grow louder
"Wait I need some light to work!" Lisa said
"Alright then, kids you stay with Lisa, and one of us with some sort of light could stay." Alex quickly said
"I have a flashlight." Laura said waving her flashlight around
"Two would be nice." Lisa said as he was getting ready to remove the bullet inside Christopher's wound.
"...I'll stay." Travis volunteered, seeing as no one else said anything
"Great, we'll be back as quickly as possible while we check this side of the building." Alex said
"Travis help me move him towards the wall behind us, I can work better." Lisa asked
"Sure no problem." Travis said as they pulled Christopher towards the wall next to the door leading towards the day room
Before leaving them, they checked the first door on their left, and right, but both were broken, and soon after that they advanced towards the hallway, and away from Travis's length of light his pocket light could produce.
"Take your shirt off really quickly so I can work better." Lisa advised
"O-okay!" Christopher said
"He removed his upper clothing with help from Lisa, and Travis, and with he light she was given, Lisa could see the bullet wound much more clearly.
"Christopher I'm about to pull this bullet out of you, can I trust that you won't scream in pain?" Lisa sincerely asked
"N-no" Christopher answered
"Hm~ we need something for him to bite down then." Travis said
"I agree nurse." Lisa said
"Nurse?" Travis asked
"Here bite down on this." Lisa said as she shoved the hilt of her Katana into Christopher's mouth before he could argue
Suddenly they began hearing a ruckus from ahead of the hallway, but it was too dark to see clearly, just what they were all doing.
"Alright here goes, nurse keep him steady." Lisa said
"I'm not a nurse, but I will keep him steady." Travis muttered
Wearing latex gloves she also found in a med kit she went to work. Luckily the bullet didn't travel very, and she could even see it upon closer inspection so using her tweezers she carefully began her attempt to grab the bullet as Christopher began grunting in pain. The treatment only lasted for minute, or two which felt like forever to Christopher, while Travis, and the kids were looking with mixed feelings of disgust, and interest. She then went to work bandaging the wound as thickly as she could to prevent further blood loss, and giving Christopher a health drink to make him feel better.
"And done! You can keep the bullet, think of it as a souvenir." Lisa said showing the extracted bullet to Christopher.
"Thank you?" Christopher thank as he spat the hilt out of his mouth, and took the bloodied bullet
"Don't thank me, I forgot to put rubbing alcohol in your wound so you might catch something." Lisa said with a smile
Christopher's face dropped.
"See this is why I never made it any further than nurse, hehe~" Lisa explained
"Well I still think you did great considering the conditions we're in." Travis complimented
"Aw~ thanks, but now comes the painful part." Lisa said
"The what-*hmph*!" Christopher said as the hilt was once again shoved in his mouth
"Yeah, you see turns out that bullet dislocated your shoulder, and I have to um~...relocate it." Lisa explained
"Wow, that sounds like it will hurt." Laura said
"Yes, yes it will, but if I do it really quickly, it won't feel so bad. You ready Christopher? I'm gonna do it at the count of three. Keep holding him " Lisa said
Christopher was shaking his head, but Lisa chose to ignore this
"One...two-" Lisa began
She then quickly shoved Christopher's shoulder back into place. A loud cracking sound could be heard from Christopher's shoulder while he himself bit down onto the hilt harder then ever as he grunted even louder in pain than the first time. Everyone flinched as they heard the sudden crack, and just how painful it must have been for Christopher to have his shoulder forcefully put back in place.
"Three." Lisa finished
"Well this was certainly educational, but now we need to know if you can move your shoulder." Travis said
Christopher spat out the hilt.
"You guys are secretly enjoying this aren't you?" Christopher suspected
"Us? No way it's um~ Silent Hill's...influence? yeah that's it!" Lisa explained
Christopher was unsure of what to say so he decided to test out his newly patched shoulder. Moving it anyway he could, he found that it still stung a bit, but he could deal with it.
"Seems fine, kind of hurts still." Christopher said
"We'll I can't give you anymore health drinks, I'm trying to conserve as much as possible." Lisa explained
"We should meet with the others, they should be just about done anyways." Travis suggested
"If you say so, come on everyone we're heading out." Lisa said
While this was going on
A Faceless Nurse awkwardly marched towards them with uneasy steps. Cynthia took the lead, and slapped her across the face with her riding crop, causing it to flinch before she could complete her attack. Then Harry came, and swopped her off her feet with a well placed hammer swing to the knees, she was then stomped on by Henry. Once the fight ended they began to inspect for any accessible rooms to explore.
"Lock's broken on this one." Eileen said
"Dully noted." Elle said
"Why did we give Elle the map again?" Heather suddenly asked
"Because I-" Alex began as he was attempting to open a double door to the left hand side. "Oh, we can open it." Alex suddenly said
"C-2 can be opened." Elle said as she noted this on the map.
Alex open the double door wide, only to be introduced by 3 very different looking nurses. One nurse with short dark hair was holding a gun, the second one by her right side was carrying a steel pipe, and had no facial features except for a bloody jaw, and the third nurse was wearing a very old blue nurse outfit, had almost clean blonde hair, and a hunchback that looks clearly infected.
"Another one with a gun!" Alex called out
"Got it!" Angela excitedly said
She levitated her knives, and flung them at nearly bullet speed towards the Nurse hitting her directly in the forehead, and a second towards the heart. While Alex rushed towards the scalpel wielding Puppet Nurse, while Henry, and Heather simultaneously went after the Bubble Head Nurse. Alex parried a slow stabbing attempt by the Puppet Nurse, and moved directly behind it, and assaulted the hunchback with a flurry of stabs, and slices. The Puppet Nurse unable to counterattack such an attack was quickly neutralized as Alex ended his barrage with a well placed stomp. While that was going on, Henry was drawing the Bubble Head's attention, and blocked a swing with his own Steel Pipe, giving Heather the opening she needed as she swung her Maul in a slow, but destructive swing. She tried aiming towards the head, but fell short, and hit it's shoulder instead, but the blow was strong enough to fling her towards the nearby wall causing multiple fractures. Unable to get up, Henry took this moment to finish it off with a fierce stab of his Pickax of Despair.
"Woah~ there Henry we're on the second floor, and I don't think this building can take a hit like that." Heather said
"Sorry, kind of a habit of mine." Henry said
"Looks like even the nurse have joined together in this. It could mean we might be dealing with more monsters than normal." Alex said
"And in such a cramped space it will only make it more annoying." Elle said
"Hey check out what they were guarding!" Maria called out
She picked up the ampoule lying on the floor.
"Well that makes it all worth." James said
"Is that it?" Cynthia asked
"Yup, let's keep going," Heather said
They left C-2, and headed towards C-3.
"Broken lock." Maria said
"Right." Elle said
"Next room will be C-4, naturally." Cybil mentioned
"Speaking of C-4...Angela, are those things still strapped to your chest, and stomach?" Maria suddenly asked
"Hm~" Angela hummed as she went deep in thought.
"What is she talking about?" Alex asked sounding more annoyed, and frustrated at the mention of such dangerous explosions held by an unstable person he just met.
"Nope there not on me at the moment. Probably like-a transformation thing, or something." Angela explained as if it were no big deal
"Still not getting an answer here..." Alex said
"C-4 can be opened." Douglas said as he took a quick swig of his drink
"As expected." Heather said
"Aren't any of you concerned about the mention of powerful explosives?" Alex asked
The team went inside room C-4 leaving Elle, and Alex.
"I heard a saying once, that a sane person in an insane asylum is often called crazy by the crazy people. You think this is something like that?" Elle asked
"*Sigh* you have no idea how right you are." Alex said
They soon followed everyone else, and saw them huddled together on a portion of a wall at the far right.
"What are you guys looking at?" Alex said
"We found a bunch of junk glued to a wall here!" Wheeler explained
"Why?" Alex asked
"Alex...we are in a hospital that housed mental patients at some point." Heather said
"Is that right? I thought Alchemilla handled all that." Harry said
"I thought so too, you mean there were so many mental patients near Silent Hill they had to build two hospitals to house them all in?" Alex asked
"Yeah, seems like it. Although I'm not too familiar with these hospitals." Henry said
"Then you're one of the lucky ones." Harry said
"Well anyways, the key is stuck in there pretty deep. I know nail polish remover could set it free, but it's all the way upstairs, and I don't suppose any of you girls brought any." Heather said
"It's the strangest thing, I swear I brought some nail remover in my purse, shame." Cynthia said while shrugging
"Or we could use Angela's power." James suggested
"...Wouldn't hurt to try." Heather said
"I saw a cat perform miracles, I wouldn't be surprised if James' plan works." Elle said
"Alright! Like-stand back everyone!" Angela cheerfully exclaimed
Everyone took a step back, but safety was not part of their concern. They spread out evenly to get a better look instead. Once Angela saw everyone back away she went to work concentrating at first at the key, but the many objects surrounding the key were a distraction.
"(Just got to focus on that-is that a cookie!)" Angela thought to herself excitedly
Just then the cookie began to rumble, and shake vigorously, the old glue around it beginning to crack. Soon the mental force was too strong, and the cookie shot out of it's sticky prison
"Heads up!" Angela shouted
But her warning came too late, and the cookie reckless take off hit a poor unsuspecting person
"My eye!" Alex cried out as the cookie crashed onto Alex directly in the face
"Sorry~!" Angela sang, sounding the complete opposite of sorry
The double doors behind them swung open, and everyone quickly turned around, and gripped their weapons tightly, ready for another fight, but then withdrew when they say Lisa, Travis, Christopher, Laura, Alessa, and Little Walter coming in.
"You guys made it!" Heather reported
"How are you holding up Christopher?" Harry asked
"The pain is mostly gone, and Lisa did a good job...(I guess)." Christopher said, then thought
"We saw what you guys did a few rooms back, must have been quite a fight." Travis said
"I wouldn't say that, kind of easy for me." Henry said
"I think that cookie gave you a black eye!" Wheeler half-joked
"Shut up, just, shut up." Alex said as he grip his still stinging eye with both hands
"Sounds like we missed something here too." Lisa said
"Yeah! Angela may have accidentally blinded Alex with a cookie!" James excitedly said
"You need a health drink?" Lisa asked
"No, no! Just try again, I'll shake it off." Alex said
"Okay!" Angela gladly said
Angela began to focus once again on the key, but something on the corner of her eye distracted yet again.
"(Alright I can do thi-I so want that teddy bear!)" Angela thought
The blood stained, stuffed bear began to shake, but it was the glue around it that felt the full force of Angela's mental telekinesis as they began to crack, and rip around the bear. Finally the glue's grip was weak enough for the pull Angela had on the teddy bear to free it sending it flying outwards in an arc.
"Here it comes!" Angela shouted
"I got it!" Eileen proclaimed
She jumped, and reached her hand up just in time to catch the flying bear, and after landing giving everyone a grin, and herself a sense of accomplishment.
"Are you doing this on purpose?" Alex said
"Sorry~ when you're more chipper you notice a lot more things. Guess I'm not use to it yet!" Angela happily said
"Eileen that thing is filthy, you should get rid of it." Cybil said
"It's not so bad." Eileen argued
"It's covered in blood." Henry said
"That's why we got a washing machine." Eileen said
"Is there any reason why everything has to be covered in blood?" Elle asked
"I think it has something to do with a paranoia one of us has." Harry answered
"Who here is afraid of blood?" Travis asked everyone
Everyone shook their heads except for one dark haired little girl.
"I'm sorry..." Alessa muttered
"Hm~ Nothing we could do about it now, so how about giving that key think another go?" Henry said
"Like, roger wilko!" Angela said
"I'm starting to think that maybe just getting that nail polish would have been much less of a hassle." Alex said
This time not losing focus on the key Angela extended both her arms forward as the key began to shake, and the dry glue cracking more, and more. Soon the tension was too much, and they key was free, free to rapidly fly towards Angela's open palms catching it with ease.
"Well that's one way, what does the key open anyways?" Laura asked
"The stairwell." Heather answered
"What! The stairwell was unlocked the entire time I was there!" James said
"Well I don't know which hospital you were exploring, but I'm certain those doors were locked!" Heather argued
"Guys! Check it out, I found another diary from that stalker of yours." Cynthia called out
"Another one, and I'm sure you can't wait to read it out loud." Heather groaned
"You know me so well in such little time." Cynthia teased
"I think you should go ahead, and read it, the old, and new one of there is one." Cybil said
"Why do you care?" Heather asked
"I figured this would be the best way to get to know this character, find out his strengths, and weaknesses." Cybil said
"But we already know enough about him from that medical document James read." Heather argued
"I'm reading it regardless." Cynthia began, and as she took a moment to clear her throat again, she began to read out loud. "'The organization has me shut up in here', something, something, 'but I'll stay sane even if they throw me with lunatics. This one's not as hot as the first one, just like most movies...oh here we go. 'If a thing has no meaning, there's no reason for it to exist at all. Just as you exist for me, but why haven't you taken my doll with you? Ah, my gift must have embarrassed you. How cu~te you are, Heather-hehehaha!" Cynthia said giggling afterwards
"He knows you so well." Henry dully joked
"Anything after that!" Heather grunted angrily as she began to think of violent acts to do to Stanley
"Yeah there is! Here goes *ahem*, 'how clever of you to remove my belongings with magic, you're originality is as inspiring as you are beautiful. How lucky I feel knowing you exist when so many millions of people don't. You may think your friends can stop me, but fear not! For our love is too strong to be torn apart by so many, we will be together my love. Stanley Coleman." Cynthia finished
"Crap he can hear us too!" Harry said
"And I just spilled the beans on the Sword of Obedience too." Henry realized
"And apparently he knows what we're doing, and can rewrite almost on the dot." Travis said
"Well that settles it...this guys is a real creep. Threat? probably not, disturbing? Definitely." Elle said
"Yeah, all of a sudden Silent Hill starting to get scary...when the hell did that happen?" Douglas said
"Okay so the art of surprise is gone, but it is merely a small setback, and for the most part we might not even see this guy." Lisa assured
"Yeah stalkers rarely come out of their hiding places, and confront their fixation, isn't that right Angela?" Maria teased
"Hehe, like that joke was so funny." Angela complimented while laughing wholeheartedly
"You know if we had the old Angela she would have given us helpful tips on how stalkers work. What a perfect time to completely change yourself." Maria said with sarcasm towards the end
"Come on let's go, I believe we're done with this floor, we should explore the second floor now." Alex said
The team made a hasty retreat, wanting to get as far away from the diary as possible, and made their way out of the hallway. Heather lead the team towards the front of the staircase.
"This feels a little off you know. I remembered having to take the elevator for the most part, seems a bit off." Heather said
"Well this whole thing feels a bit off." Douglas said as he emptied his third bottle
"For crying out loud Douglas I know what's gonna happen to you soon, and I won't like it!" Alex said
"Relax~ I'm not the violent drunk type, or something. In fact you won't even know the difference between sober, and drunk me." Douglas said
"I would like to believe that...I really do." Alex said
Heather unlocked the door, and the team climbed the stairs towards the second floor, and after unlocking it, the group went inside only to be confronted by a skimpy wearing nurse wielding a long knife, and a grotesque six to seven foot tall disfigured woman wearing a black gown, skin missing, and wielding a small pipe. Heather, James, Cybil, Elle, and Lisa were the first of the group to enter the second floor, so both monsters concentrated on them before any more showed up, and crowded the whole floor. Seeing such a tall monster for the first time fazed them slightly, but when it was time to fight they stood their ground, and fought. The tall one Henry would often identify as a 'Patient' walked briskly towards them swinging it's pipe madly, and blindly while the Nurse waited behind it. Heather attempted to stop it's constantly swinging by blocking with her own Steel Pipe while Elle, and Cybil waited for the perfect moment to strike it. Predicting it's movements, Heather was able to block the pipe, thereby ending it's attack, and leaving it open for a counterattack which the girls were more than happy to oblige. Elle thrust her bat as hard as she could hitting the stomach with a lot of force, if it had anything in that stomach the Patient would have puked it all by now. The force was enough to stun it, and bend it's head forward, and just as Elle ducked, Cybil came from behind her, and delivered a devastating uppercut with her nightstick. Practically lifting it off the ground from that blow, the Patient was sent flying back, nearly crashing towards the Nurse, but it remained alive, and they knew that any minute now it would stand back up. Unfortunately the Nurse decided it was her time to fight, and blocked any attempts of reaching the downed Patient. This was were Lisa, and James came in. Lisa unsheathed her blade, and dash towards the Nurse, but the Nurse was faster than the others, and mangaed to block a quick horizontal swing from Lisa's Katana. This didn't stop Lisa from swiftly sliding her blade out of the block, and attempt a low thrust, but saw that the Nurse was doing the same, except her thrust could pierce her neck if Lisa didn't do something quick. So she hopped to the side practically crashing into the wall which gave James more than enough room to safely swing his Great Knife at the Nurse. Luckily he had already prepared himself for an overhead swing while Lisa was attempting to injure it, and so he was already swinging his blade down on it. The nurse knew that such a blow would be impossible to block with such a small dagger, and simply stood there waiting for the end, but it never came. Turns out James hasn't been practicing his overhead swings lately so about half way there the weight of his Great Knife was too much for him, and he couldn't complete the swing. Instead he fell on his ass with the back edge hitting the back of his skull causing a near concussion. So while James made a fool of himself, Lisa attempted a third swing at the neck, but only just slicing a think part of the Nurse's upper chest as it attempted another reckless swing, and clearly missing. It swung again, but Lisa was ready for it, and dove just under it, and parried the attack with a quick jab, and dashed away from another attempted stab. At this point she was just behind the Nurse, and before it could retaliate Lisa struck at it's back, and ribs multiple times, and finally impaled it at where she knew the heart would be at. The Nurse putting up a surprisingly good fight died a warriors death, just as Lisa walked over to the Patient, and stabbed it multiple times giving it a dog's death. By the time the fight was over everyone had already made it to the second floor, and saw most of the fight.
"I can't tell whether the monsters are getting stronger, or we're getting weaker." Harry said
"So where do we start?" Alex asked
"Well obviously the long hallway would be the most important, but for now we could start with the short hallway behind us, and see if we can find something to scavenge." Elle said
"Or we could start by reading another entry from our stalker!" Cynthia said as she noticed the diary, and dirt doll next to it.
"*Sigh* let's see what it has to say this time." Alex said wanting to just ignore it, and move on, but tried not to show it.
"With pleasure! Glad to see you're getting interested in these notes as well." Cynthia said
Alex gave a brief sigh, and nodded his head slowly to make the act look convincing, although he wasn't really fooling anyone.
"Alright let's start it from the top, *ahem*! 'You may have not yet realized your own true feelings. But you sense them unconsciously, and so you're trying to get closer to me. That's a virtue, the path to Paradise.' Wow someone has high self esteem, anyways moving on, door's locked, needs a password, uses 4 numbers, skipping to the good part-ah! Here we go, 'isn't it a shame? I'm not there. Aren't you irritated? I long for you, but you're so cruel. Still I want you, Heather~" Cynthia said ended the last sentence with a soft, seductive, and somewhat soothing voice.
"E-ew~ don't talk like that in front of me like that Cynthia...you're making me feel weird." Heather complained
"Anything else?" Harry asked, although he already knew the answer.
"Yup here's the newest part, 'I can see that some of these so called nurses are trouble you. Though I could care less what happens to the rest of you, I wouldn't want any of you to die just yet.' Aw~ how sweet. 'You still have your usefulness, such as being human shields for Heather, solving riddles for Heather, then congratulating Heather for solving the riddle on her own. Pampering Heather, and being a witness for me, and my love's wedding. Other than that I personally have no use for any of you. Heather, I promise to write more about my love, and affection the next time your slut of a friend poorly reads these-' hey!" Cynthia said finishing the last sentence in an angry shout.
"Definitely hinted at a puzzle." Douglas slurred
"No, really?" Alex dully said
"Yeah, I should know I'm a detective." Douglas announced
"That should be a drinking game. Drink every time Douglas announces he's a detective." Henry Dully said
"Well if we're done here, I see a small hallway with four doors we should check out really quickly." Elle said
"Good idea! That's why you're the smart one." Alex complimented
They began their investigation with the first door to their right.
"Door's broken." Henry mumbled
They
Moved to the second door on the left.
"It's broken you guys." Travis said
The third door on the right.
"Broken, this is getting repetitive." Maria said
Fourth door on the left side.
"We can open it!" Eileen said
"Well even I knew we could open that one." Heather said
The peered inside, and saw a small woman's locker room.
"There's no bear on the table...?" James said to himself
"What are you talking about, we're carrying an old bear with us now." Heather said
"Like, could it be the same one!" Angela said
"Wait where's the shotgun!" James shouted
"You brought it with you remember." Maria assured
"Oh yeah~" James said
"Why haven't you been using it more often?" Alex asked
"It's pump action, and I could never get the rhythm right." James answered
"Well I'll just take a quick peek inside." Heather said
"Yes, let's" James said, but as he made his way inside he was pushed away by Heather.
"Sorry, woman's! Bathroom, got it." Heather said
"Oh come on! I've been there before, and with Maria too!" James argued
"That's because it felt really exciting being with you were you shouldn't be." Maria purred
"Oh, well that's different, but nothing really happened there." James said
"That's because you killed the mood when you shrieked in pain from pricking yourself." Maria teased
"You know these trips down memory lane make me depressed." James dully said
"Well it should they're depressing." Maria reminded
"Well while you guys were talking, I just finished picking up nothing of use here." Heather said showing them the now useless nail remover, and small round perfume.
"Perfume? Any particular use?" Cybil asked
"It doesn't smell like perfume." Heather said
"Interesting, let's keep it." James said
"I think that's asking for trouble." Henry said
"You had a bad experience with perfume?" Elle asked
"No, but maybe it's too soon to say, let's wait a while, and see if my hunch is right." Henry said
"Okay then...so where we should we go next?" Alex asked
"There's two more doors, then the door to the wing on this floor." Elle said
"Well I wouldn't bother with the first two doors, they were broken, and blocked, let's just stick to the wing." Heather said
Alex nodded, and the team walked towards the double doors, only to find that they were locked, and a working keypad acting as their only key. They saw a poster on a bulletin board next to the door which acted as their only clue.
"Well it was inevitable, our first puzzle here." Travis said
"A puzzle? Do they think this is a game!" Wheeler grunted in frustration
"Well it's the first puzzle it can't be too hard." Alex assured
"The first is larger than the second; the second twice the third; the third smaller than the fourth; the fourth is half the first. Four of the numbers are not repeated, three are not in the top row, two are not in the right row, one of the numbers is the final key." Lisa read out loud
There was a brief pause.
"Any particular chance you memorized the password." Alex asked, hoping for a miracle
"Nope, we're doing this the old fashion way." Heather muttered
Everyone sighed to themselves as they had no choice, but to solve this new challenge. They could only hope it won't take them forever to solve.
End of Chapter
Really sorry for the late entry, late shopping, and a bunch of family visits, and school/work are making things hectic. I love writing this, and you guys are cool, but family comes first, even if they are annoying sometimes. Anyways I'll try to submit something special in time for Christmas, but it won't be a Christmas special, but a gift. The gift of answers, and possibly more questions.