Haven

Harry had been walking around the darkened motel for some time, checking each door for a person or some sort of clue to what will happen next. Just dark empty motel room upon dark empty motel room... And a few dogs along the way. Fortunetly, Harry had become accustomed to fighting the dogs and became more agile than before. Finally, after about a half an hour of searching, he came upon his destination --- the back exit.

He opened the door into sunlight... Or did he? There was no visible light source anywhere as everything was completely covered by fog. Light snow was falling from the sky -- If there really was one -- above. Harry pulled out his Silent Hill map. Something interesting was marked on the map: "Heaven's Night"

He ran west towards Heaven's Night and arrived. He stepped inside. Completely dark just like the motel. Memories came flashing back from when he was in Midwich Elementary with his mother, looking for Nen and Alessa. It wasn't so bad for him. He was with his mother. The hellish alternate reality wasn't as shocking because he was not alone. Now he is completely alone. Harry turned his flashlight on and looked around. He noticed a bit of light coming from a worn out neon light with a naked woman on it. He looked around, and then saw a woman in a booth. "Hello?" he asked, trying to see if the woman was alive or just some corpse hanging around. The woman moved her head and looked at him. She rubbed her eyes and looked around. "..Hello.. Who might you be?"

Harry sighed, relieved to find another living person. "I'm Harry. Harry Mason." The woman smiled. "Well, nice to meet you. I'm Maria." -- Harry raised an eyebrow. "Maria? Aren't you James Sunderland's wife?"

Harry rememebred seeing a picture of Maria in James' car on the way to Portland. A blue skirt, a yellow, long sleeved shirt, black boots, and a gold pendant. She also had blonde hair that at the bottom turned reddish. A little different that what she wore in the picture. Maria rubbed her eyes again. "No. I'm not married. I just lived with him. He was a very nice person... It's just that he left sometime last month and I haven't seen him since."

Harry rubbed his chin. "Last month? But I only rode with him today. How is that possible? He said something about hoping Maria wouldn't worry.. " He thought to himself. "Weird. It seems time doesn't really exist."

"Well Maria, would you happen you have seen a woman named Cheryl? She is about... 5 foot 10.. Short black hair. My mother."

Maria went into a state of thought, then shook her head. "I'm sorry, little Harry. I haven't seen her anywhere. Maybe I could go look? Where do you remember last seeing her in this town?"

"I remember seeing her.. In a place called Midwich Elementary."

Maria's eyes glistened. "Oh! That place! Well, it looks as if you only have the map of most of South Vale. I think I have a map of.. Ah, here it is."

Maria pulled a map of Old Silent Hill out from between her breasts and handed it to Harry. "There you go, Harry. I'll look around her and see if I have found her. Good luck!"

Harry smiled. "You too."

Maria walked out the front exit. Harry figured he would look around some more before he left. He found a few boxes of bullets and a backpack laying on the bar table. "What are bullets doing laying on a table?!" Harry asked. He put on the backpack and then found some empty pistol cartridges laying around. "I think I know how to use these. I saw it in a movie once."

He put some bullets into the cartridge and stuffed it into his pistol. He tested it on the wall. He figured in a place like this, who would care? BLAM. It startled Harry. "W--... Well. That worked!"

He put the bullets from the boxes into cartridges until there were no more bullets left and he put the cartridges into his newly found backpack. He then headed outside and turned left.. The road was blocked off by an enormous blue barrier! "What the.."

He walked around. The only location to go to now.. "Perhaps there is a way out in Brookhaven hospital." Said Harry. He went past Heaven's Night and to the front enterance of Brookhaven Hospital. He looked at the logo, and then proceeded inside and closed the door. Pitch black as usual. He turned on his flashlight once more and looked around. A very desolate place. There was a map to his left which he picked up and looked at. "Okay.. Three floors.. One is closed off for renovation. Hmm. Well, I don't think whoever was working on this place will be finished anytime soon. Another back enterance.. Right here."

A strange groaning could be heard with a few low pitched banging and scratching of.. Of something. This was a little bit unnverving to Harry, obviously. He walked to the stairs as all the doors were locked or jammed on the first floor and there was an alternate route to the back exit on the second floor. He walked up the stairs and as he did, sirens rang outside the building and the walls and floors slowly transitioned into rusted materials, some of which looked like they had been underwater for the past century. Sheets of plastic appeared on the walls. He looked up the stairs going to the third floor, but the walls and ceiling had caved in there.

He opened the door to the second floor slowly. When he opened it, something came running at him in slow motion...

"Mommy..." sighed Harry as he closed his eyes. He opened his arms to give her a big hug, but she disappeared. He waited for the hug that never came. He opened his eyes. He looked around for her, but the strange apparition was nowhere to be found. He looked down at his feet and saw an object laying where the apparition disappeared. He picked it up. "What's this? What's this triangle?"

The circular object was that of a marked triangle, imprisioned by two circles on the outside. Harry looked around for signs of people. Nothing. He walked forward and bumped into a strange feeling creature. It screamed in a strange, tinny, female voice. It was lugging a large metal pipe and turned around heading straight for Harry. Harry didn't have any time to see what it was, so he shot at it. It grunted, and ran again. He shot it 4 more times and it fell down and started to go into convulsions. Harry put the barrel to its head. It was getting easier to kill these things. He felt littler and littler remorse. These could be things that took his mommy, and it certainly was one of the kinds of things that James saw. He pulled the trigger and it stopped moving around as the sixth bullet entered its brain. But what was strange as Harry took a closer look and turned it around.. The face of a human. He stepped back in shock. "What have I done!?"

He then looked at it closer. Its skin had rotted into a nasty greyish color and it looked very deformed in the face. "No, this isn't a person. It is another monster..." He said, but then second thought himself. " But.. What if.. They really are people?"

He shook off the idea. There was no way they could be real people. But then again, in a place like this.. Harry stepped over the corpse and turned to his right, then to his left and opened a door. As he stepped through, he encountered another female monster. Harry had noticed it had the shape of a nurse. He fired at its head and it went down and twitched. He shot again and it died. He looked at the map. Marked on the map was an X. M3 was the room. Harry ran to the room as fast as possible, dodging another nurse monster. He opened the door and stepped inside panting. Something wasn't right.. There was -- "Light! There's light in this room! This is a normal room! A safe haven! No rust, no nothing.."

Harry sat down on a clean white chair nearby and held his head. Harry had a splitting headache. He looked up at the ceiling and wondered where Cheryl could be and how this room could be so different from the other ones. Suddenly, he noticed a little bit of rust in the corner of the room. It started to spread across the tiled floor, the walls, the ceiling and the doors. The room was becoming like all the others. The rust started to move towards Harry and Harry cowered on the white chair. After a few minutes, he uncovered his face. The room was now like all the rest of the hospital -- except for the chair. It was still white. It in fact was glowing with a white bright light. "Did I just.. Save that chair from becoming like the rest of the hospital?" Harry asked himself. He shook off the idea as rediculous and moved towards the now rusted door. He put his hand on the door knob and twisted. It wouldn't move. "Come on!" He said. He pulled on it and pulled on it and it wouldn't budge. The walls, floor and ceiling started to move towards the center of the room like a trash compactor. Harry would soon be crushed into oblivion. He pulled out his gun and shot the door knob. It became a little looser. He shot it again and again. Nothing. After that first shot, it became stiff again. Harry looked quickly qround the room for a sign of something to get out with. He looked under the glowing white chair.. An oil can! He remembered rusty handles and hinges need oiling, so he started to oil the handle. He tried to oil the hinges, but he was too short! He pulled over the chair and stood on it and oiled the hinges. He twisted the nob and pulled and the door came straight open and knocked Harry on the head. Harry dove out of the room just in time to avoid being crushed.

He panted outside the room. He had just narrowly escaped Death itself. He felt sorry for the chair. Even though it was just an inatimate object, he felt as if him being on the chair saved it from turning into whatever kind of rusty, rotting substance this hospital was decaying into and he couldn't save it from the crushing room. Something gleamed at him from the wreckage. He pulled it out... A key! A key to.. The elevator! The elevator was locked on both floors, but the key said "Second Floor Elevator Key", so he ran on over to the elevator and unlocked it. It swung open. It was pure white just like the crushing room so he turned off his chest flashlight. He found 5 white buttons buttons on the panel that had black numbers and letters on them. Going upwards: BF, 1, 2, 3(although it wouldn't work.) and RF. A piece of paper taped to the area next to the 3rd floor button said, "Closed for reconstruction. 3rd Floor button deactivated for elevator use, stairwell closed off. Only authorized personel have the key to the elevator control room on the roof. For key use, see Dr. Sinclair in the basement. -CoNstruct Construction Company Employee"

Harry scratched his chin and then pressed the BF button. The elevator waited for a second, then clanked around and went downwards. Harry reloaded his gun just in case there were any more nurses in the basement. The clean elevator. stopped with a squsih and a clatter of metal. The door opened up and someone screamed and fell over. Harry turned on his flashlight and looked at the person on the floor. "Maria? What are you doing here?"

Maria smiled and stood up, brushing the dust off herself, then grabbing her wet skirt and waving it around. The floor was flooded with water. "Looking for your mother. I didn't expect you here in the basement! Any reason you're here?"

Harry nodded. "Yeah, I've come down to see Dr. Sinclair... If he hasn't been killed by a creature." Maria nodded. "Harry, you look like you have got yourself pretty well in hand, espescially for a kid your age. I really don't have anything to defend my lonely self with, so I'd be happy to go with you."

Harry smiled. "Sure, I'd be happy to have someone to be with... Espescialy with all these.. Creatures around. These nurses.."

Maria nodded. "Well, let's go!" She said, happy to find someone to defend her. She had a few scratches on her legs from something...

Harry looked around and saw a faint trail of blood on the ground. It lead to the electrical room. He opened the door to the electrical room.. And inside was Dr. Sinclair's black, decayed corpse. Maria coughed hard a few time, sounding like she was hacking up a lung. Harry wasn't sure it was disgust or if she was just sick. He checked his body and found the Elevator Control Room key. Suddenly, the hand of the corpse reached out and grabbed him by the throat. "Harry!" shouted Maria. She looked around to for something to bash the corpse of the doctor with. Nothing was around. Harry pulled out his pistol and put it against the doctor's head and pulled the trigger. His head went back and he let go of Harry for a second who backed up. The doctor had an oversized scalpel in his hand and when he regained composure he swung at Harry's head. Harry moved out of the way as the doctor slowly got up. Harry pulled the trigger a few more times and the doctor when down and squirmed around in pain on the floor, clutching his head and screaming like a million fingernails against a rusty chalkboard. Harry kick him in the head and he died. Suddenly from behind Maria, another demon doctor grabbed her. "HARRY! HELP!"

Harry tried to aim at the doctor, but it was using Maria as a human shield as it backed up. The doctor twitched its head around a little and Harry saw a glimpse of something strange on the doctor's back. "HARRRRRYYYYYY!" Maria screamed helplessly as she reached out for him. The apparently dead Dr. Sinclair reached out before Harry could grab Maria's hands. Harry shot the doctor in the head a few more times and got out of his grasp once more. It was too late. The doctor went out of the electrical room with Maria and closed the door.

Harry rushed to open the door and looked outside. The demon and Maria were gone. Harry couldn't believe he had dragged Maria into this. (Now they're probably doing horrible things to her.) He thought as he hung his head in shame. "I'm sorry Maria. There was nothing I could do."

He grasped the key in his hands and went to the elevator and pressed the RF button. The elevator had since been overtaken by rust and discoloration.