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Blackness. Total blackness.......
Then light.
"Where am I?" Nen asked himself.
Details started to focus. He was back in Alchemillia. Kayla was sitting there on a chair next to Nen's bed. Suddenly, Nen felt a whisper in his head... "Open the door.."
Kayla wasn't just sitting there... She seemed to not even be alive. Her body was expressionless, souless, movementless.
He opened the door in his room. Alessa. However, she was much older and over half her body was wrapped in bandages. "Nen, I know this is all a dream.. I'm still sleeping, and you don't even exist, but...I want to let you know you've changed my life. I'm afraid that you will cease to be after I wake up... That's why I want to give you this."
Alessa embraced Nen and gave him a large, warm kiss. The kiss lasted forever. Nen loved Alessa, as did she.. Locked in embrace forever..
After Eternity faded, the world crumbled away... Alessa let go as Nen too was also crumbling. Pieces of his skin were falling to the floor as he started to bleed massively. He slumped to his knees.
"Goodbye, Nen. I love you.."
"Alessa, I..."
Nen was gone. Shattered into a million pieces. Now Alessa faded... The whole world was a blinding white light, then it started to decay...
Nen was back in Toluca Prison. He stood up and he rubbed his head. He could still feel immense pain. He pulled out the vial he had taken from Cheryl. Still 3 quarters full. He took a sip and could feel as if his internal organs were being cleaned out. Freed, in a way.
The pain was gone. He cocked his shotgun and found a gate ahead of him. He opened it and found a hole in the ground. "Another one, just like before.. Going deeper into hell, aren't I?"
He looked out into the dark hole. He couldn't see the bottom..
"Well, I either stay here and rot with the creatures, or I find out what's below this opening.. I choose the second choice."
He hopped down, no fear at all, waiting to find what was down there. He kept on falling and falling. Was there an end? It was like outer space had gravity and oxygen, and Nen was marooned there. Finally he saw a glint.. Glass. He hit the ground. Pain shackled his muscles and bones. He screamed out in pain, but there wass no blood, no broken bones. He stood up. An elevator was ahead of him. He cautiously stepped across the glass and blood that was on the dirt floor. He arrived inside the elevator. It was like a large cage. The huge grating gate behind him slamed closed and Nen gasped, startled, and 2 other concrete doors behind it shut also, all 3 of the closing offs had locking mechanisms which locked themselves. The elevator started to move downwards...Or was it? Nen couldn't tell. Sideways? Maybe upwards? The elevator eventually stopped and beeped. The elevator doors opened to reveal a clean hallway with a door at the end. He opened it and found him on a wooden panel. Everything else ahead was completely black. Nothing. Suddenly, walls and more flooring appeared out of the pitch and weaved themselves like thread from the yarn of reality. Nen stepped forward. Same wood. It felt quite stable, like not even a purified hydrogen bomb could crack this floor. Probably wouldn't. He found a hallway to his left. He walked down the hallway and heard a growl. He looked to his right down another hallway and saw a shaking monster, this time looking like it was caught in a straightjacket.
If there was a creature family, this one would be the brother of the creatures in Toluca Prison. It looked almost exactly the same. Nen aimed his shotgun at the creature. He suddenly felt the urge to say something. "This.. Is my BOOMSTICK!"
He pulled the trigger and he felt the recoil against his body. The creature fell down dead on the spot. Not so much as a twitch or gurgle. "Groovy." Nen said cooly. "You know, I've always wanted to say that." he said to himself. So what if you were crazy if you talked to yourself? He certainly wasn't as crazy as the strange abyss he was in. He walked down the hall he was in and found a ladder going down. He climbed down it and stepped foot onto metal grating. There were two ways he could go, left and right. They looked like they went in a loop, so he chose right. He came across a door. It was quite clean, strangely, as everything below the ladder was rusty and disgusting. He heard a scraping of metal from inside. Sounded like someone was sharpening something.
He opened the door and found the pyramid creature inside. Surrounding it were cages with human bodies, bodily waste of all kinds on the walls, and different kinds of painful looking weapons on the walls. The pyramid-headed creature stopped the sharpening of it's monstrous knife. It picked it up by the handle and turned around to look at Nen. Nen got scared and turned around to open the door. It was jammed! Nen turned around again. He could see metal in mid-air. Then it was in his right shoulder. Finally, it went completely through it like a crazed lightsaber through very thin paper and stuck itself into the jammed door.
Nen screamed out in pain. The pyramid creature let go and stared at him.
A large boom of an unknown power surged psychopathically through Nen's veins like Arnold Schwarzenneger on a large rocket to the moon. The pain became his adreniline as Nen pulled the large knife out of his shoulder and the door, put his other arm up to turn it around, and grabbed the handle. He impaled the monster through the stomach as it groaned and wailed. It slumped to the decaying floor.
"Now it's time to see what you really are." Nen let go of the long sword and put the back half on the floor as blood poured out of Nen's fresh wound in his right shoulder. Nen didn't seem to care at the moment. He grabbed the creature's helmet and gave it a twist. Nothing. He pulled the knife out of the creature. It screamed and clutched its stomach. Nen took the huge knife and lodged it into a space in the thing's helmet. He lifted up hard and the helmet came off. The face was of an old man.
Douglas Cartland.
"What the hell!? Douglas?! This can't be!"
The head laughed. "Of course it can't be. I am not Douglas the detective. Douglas died April of this year as his adopted daughter Cheryl was making some food for her son at Douglas' house. It was a small funeral consisting of Cheryl and Herald, her son. I am not Douglas. You did not meet Douglas at all in the Insane Asylum. That was Me."
Nen stared at the face of the late detective. "All those times I met Douglas.. Well, who the hell are you anyway?"
The face grinned mockingly. "Hell indeed!" The face chuckled. "I am Lilith, wife of Samael, ruler of all. However, you should know that by now." The shoe from Lilith's puppet body kicked Nen in the crotch. Nen crumpled to the floor in pain. Lilith chuckled again. "Interesting! Much better than- - Well, I do hope that you fare well in your journey.. As for me, I have other things to attend to. I hope you liked the show I performed for you as Douglas, a person called up from your memory. I can be many other faces, but as I said, many other things call me."
The head dissappeared. Nen was left in shock. "Damn." Nen panted as he sat down on the floor. A picture dropped from above. The missing picture from Silent Hill Historical Society.
Nen grabbed it and looked at the back. "Continue your journey, the path of the hermit concealed by Flauros." was written on the back in red ink.
Nen turned the picture around. It was the opening to a mine. On the bottom of the picture frame was written, "Wiltse Coal Mine".
Nen felt the screaming and moaning return, but it did not hurt anymore. The world swirled out, then back again. He was outside in Silent Hill, but there was no fog. There was however snow. He was outside the large opening. It looked truthfully like a mouth. Nen breathed in the air. It was clearer in the air, as was his path, the path now direct. He knew exactly where to go now. It was obvious. It was right in front of him.
Nen took his first step into the darkness.
Blackness. Total blackness.......
Then light.
"Where am I?" Nen asked himself.
Details started to focus. He was back in Alchemillia. Kayla was sitting there on a chair next to Nen's bed. Suddenly, Nen felt a whisper in his head... "Open the door.."
Kayla wasn't just sitting there... She seemed to not even be alive. Her body was expressionless, souless, movementless.
He opened the door in his room. Alessa. However, she was much older and over half her body was wrapped in bandages. "Nen, I know this is all a dream.. I'm still sleeping, and you don't even exist, but...I want to let you know you've changed my life. I'm afraid that you will cease to be after I wake up... That's why I want to give you this."
Alessa embraced Nen and gave him a large, warm kiss. The kiss lasted forever. Nen loved Alessa, as did she.. Locked in embrace forever..
After Eternity faded, the world crumbled away... Alessa let go as Nen too was also crumbling. Pieces of his skin were falling to the floor as he started to bleed massively. He slumped to his knees.
"Goodbye, Nen. I love you.."
"Alessa, I..."
Nen was gone. Shattered into a million pieces. Now Alessa faded... The whole world was a blinding white light, then it started to decay...
Nen was back in Toluca Prison. He stood up and he rubbed his head. He could still feel immense pain. He pulled out the vial he had taken from Cheryl. Still 3 quarters full. He took a sip and could feel as if his internal organs were being cleaned out. Freed, in a way.
The pain was gone. He cocked his shotgun and found a gate ahead of him. He opened it and found a hole in the ground. "Another one, just like before.. Going deeper into hell, aren't I?"
He looked out into the dark hole. He couldn't see the bottom..
"Well, I either stay here and rot with the creatures, or I find out what's below this opening.. I choose the second choice."
He hopped down, no fear at all, waiting to find what was down there. He kept on falling and falling. Was there an end? It was like outer space had gravity and oxygen, and Nen was marooned there. Finally he saw a glint.. Glass. He hit the ground. Pain shackled his muscles and bones. He screamed out in pain, but there wass no blood, no broken bones. He stood up. An elevator was ahead of him. He cautiously stepped across the glass and blood that was on the dirt floor. He arrived inside the elevator. It was like a large cage. The huge grating gate behind him slamed closed and Nen gasped, startled, and 2 other concrete doors behind it shut also, all 3 of the closing offs had locking mechanisms which locked themselves. The elevator started to move downwards...Or was it? Nen couldn't tell. Sideways? Maybe upwards? The elevator eventually stopped and beeped. The elevator doors opened to reveal a clean hallway with a door at the end. He opened it and found him on a wooden panel. Everything else ahead was completely black. Nothing. Suddenly, walls and more flooring appeared out of the pitch and weaved themselves like thread from the yarn of reality. Nen stepped forward. Same wood. It felt quite stable, like not even a purified hydrogen bomb could crack this floor. Probably wouldn't. He found a hallway to his left. He walked down the hallway and heard a growl. He looked to his right down another hallway and saw a shaking monster, this time looking like it was caught in a straightjacket.
If there was a creature family, this one would be the brother of the creatures in Toluca Prison. It looked almost exactly the same. Nen aimed his shotgun at the creature. He suddenly felt the urge to say something. "This.. Is my BOOMSTICK!"
He pulled the trigger and he felt the recoil against his body. The creature fell down dead on the spot. Not so much as a twitch or gurgle. "Groovy." Nen said cooly. "You know, I've always wanted to say that." he said to himself. So what if you were crazy if you talked to yourself? He certainly wasn't as crazy as the strange abyss he was in. He walked down the hall he was in and found a ladder going down. He climbed down it and stepped foot onto metal grating. There were two ways he could go, left and right. They looked like they went in a loop, so he chose right. He came across a door. It was quite clean, strangely, as everything below the ladder was rusty and disgusting. He heard a scraping of metal from inside. Sounded like someone was sharpening something.
He opened the door and found the pyramid creature inside. Surrounding it were cages with human bodies, bodily waste of all kinds on the walls, and different kinds of painful looking weapons on the walls. The pyramid-headed creature stopped the sharpening of it's monstrous knife. It picked it up by the handle and turned around to look at Nen. Nen got scared and turned around to open the door. It was jammed! Nen turned around again. He could see metal in mid-air. Then it was in his right shoulder. Finally, it went completely through it like a crazed lightsaber through very thin paper and stuck itself into the jammed door.
Nen screamed out in pain. The pyramid creature let go and stared at him.
A large boom of an unknown power surged psychopathically through Nen's veins like Arnold Schwarzenneger on a large rocket to the moon. The pain became his adreniline as Nen pulled the large knife out of his shoulder and the door, put his other arm up to turn it around, and grabbed the handle. He impaled the monster through the stomach as it groaned and wailed. It slumped to the decaying floor.
"Now it's time to see what you really are." Nen let go of the long sword and put the back half on the floor as blood poured out of Nen's fresh wound in his right shoulder. Nen didn't seem to care at the moment. He grabbed the creature's helmet and gave it a twist. Nothing. He pulled the knife out of the creature. It screamed and clutched its stomach. Nen took the huge knife and lodged it into a space in the thing's helmet. He lifted up hard and the helmet came off. The face was of an old man.
Douglas Cartland.
"What the hell!? Douglas?! This can't be!"
The head laughed. "Of course it can't be. I am not Douglas the detective. Douglas died April of this year as his adopted daughter Cheryl was making some food for her son at Douglas' house. It was a small funeral consisting of Cheryl and Herald, her son. I am not Douglas. You did not meet Douglas at all in the Insane Asylum. That was Me."
Nen stared at the face of the late detective. "All those times I met Douglas.. Well, who the hell are you anyway?"
The face grinned mockingly. "Hell indeed!" The face chuckled. "I am Lilith, wife of Samael, ruler of all. However, you should know that by now." The shoe from Lilith's puppet body kicked Nen in the crotch. Nen crumpled to the floor in pain. Lilith chuckled again. "Interesting! Much better than- - Well, I do hope that you fare well in your journey.. As for me, I have other things to attend to. I hope you liked the show I performed for you as Douglas, a person called up from your memory. I can be many other faces, but as I said, many other things call me."
The head dissappeared. Nen was left in shock. "Damn." Nen panted as he sat down on the floor. A picture dropped from above. The missing picture from Silent Hill Historical Society.
Nen grabbed it and looked at the back. "Continue your journey, the path of the hermit concealed by Flauros." was written on the back in red ink.
Nen turned the picture around. It was the opening to a mine. On the bottom of the picture frame was written, "Wiltse Coal Mine".
Nen felt the screaming and moaning return, but it did not hurt anymore. The world swirled out, then back again. He was outside in Silent Hill, but there was no fog. There was however snow. He was outside the large opening. It looked truthfully like a mouth. Nen breathed in the air. It was clearer in the air, as was his path, the path now direct. He knew exactly where to go now. It was obvious. It was right in front of him.
Nen took his first step into the darkness.