Harry used a nearby piece of metal to shield himself from the grueling rain and hail. Piece after piece of golf ball-sized ice bounced off the metal as Harry trudged forth towards the zoo. He stopped for a moment to take a breath and shiver, then he continued onwards. The fog had cleared a little bit, but it was still mostly covered his vision. Finally after walking a long distance, he ran smack dab into a brick wall. He looked up and something hung from the top. It looked like a broken sign. "ent Hill Zoo" it read. Harry walked around the perimeter of the brick wall... Then he figured out it wasn't just a wall, it was one huge brick that had completely crushed the entire zoo. Harry went to the opposite side of the brick towards the resort town. He finally made it and ran inside a motel to warm up a bit. He sat down on a dusty chair and covered himself up in a blanket hear found nearby. He then fell into a much needed slumber.

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Boys... So many raising their arms.. But not what happened didn't happen like the first one... Instead of something going in, something came out.. A blast of white light.. Then blackness. Blackness for a very long time. It scared Harry, but then after what seemed like an eternity, there was a huge flash of brilliant color and an exorbitant amount of white specks came flying towards him. Harry curled up into a fetus position. Suddenly it stopped.. Harry looked behind him and saw the Earth forming. Then more darkness.. Then another blast of brilliant color. Earth forming again. Darkness. Color. Earth. Darkness. Color. Earth. Darkness color earth. Darkness color earth. darknesscolorearthdarknesscolorearthdarknesscolorearth....... The scenery changed and he could see.. -----------

Harry awoke with a start on the chair and someone had grabbed his shoulders. "It's okay! It's okay! You're okay! It was just a dream!" The figure said. As Harry's eyes focused on the figure, he blinked a couple of times. It was Greg. "Greg.. What... What are doing here?" Asked Harry somewhat groggily. Greg frowned. "Looking for my sister of course. Still haven't found her. I suppose you've had the same luck." Said Greg. Harry nodded. "Haven't found either my mother or your sister. The zoo I was going to was -- Crushed by a giant brick. Really surreal looking, but I suppose in a place like this that's to be expected." Said Harry. Greg nodded, too. Harry took off the blanket that was on him and stood up. "Has it stopped raining, Greg?" Asked Harry as Greg walked to the door. "See for yourself. " Said Greg. He opened the front door. There was water on the ground, but it was not raining. The smell of stagnant water swayed strongly in the air. Harry looked around and Greg sighed. "What?" asked Harry at Greg. "I got this letter. It's for you." Responded Greg as he handed the letter to Harry. Harry laughed and said, "How would you kn--" but then he stopped. It said "Harry Mason" on the front in fancy handwriting. He opened the package(it had already been opened and resealed) and it said, "Lakeside Amusement Park. Normal path closed. Swim in Toluca Lake."

Harry raised his eyebrows. How was he going to get there? Greg knew what he was thinking. "I've already read the letter. I've already got the equipment. I originally was going to swim there, but I think that.. You need it more than I do. Here, take this scuba gear. I found it in a store around here." Said Greg. Harry grabbed the flippers, air tank and face mask with a tube going to the air tank. Also with the equipment was a swimming flashlight. Harry looked at all the stuff. "I've never.. Really actually gone swimming like this before." Said Harry. Greg rubbed his chin. "Well, it's really easy. Just flap your feet and swim like you usually do. I've got everything set up for you. Just put it all on."

They both walked over to the edge of the lake and Harry strapped on the equipment and Greg turned a valve on his air tank. "See you there!" Said Greg. For a split second, Harry wondered how Greg would get there. Then he felt a push and away he went straight into the lake. His body instinctively made him hold his breath. When he couldn't hold it any longer, he let let go and prepared to suffocate.. Then air filled his lungs. That's when his brain took over once more and he breathed the air coming from the air tank. He finally looked around at his surroundings. "Great. Instead of foggy air, I get foggy water." Said Harry as he continued to float down to the bottom of lake and turned on his water flashlight. He pulled out a water proof map of Silent Hill that he found in the face mask and looked at it. He then pulled out a compass. It was pointing east.. Harry spun around and started to swim. As he neared Lakeside Amusement Park, he saw a boat on the ground that had "itlle b r nes" on the side and also what looked like some kind of prison. He resisted to the temptation to visit it. He did view it for a minute or two before its eeriness got to him. He continued to swim and then finally reached a hole in the lake's wall. He squeezed into and pushed himself into it. He pushed and pushed, and finally made it into a room of water. The air tank was almost empty, which was quite strange. "Air tanks don't usually.." Then he looked behind him. There were two punctures in the tank! Harry swam upwards and upwards and finally saw the end of the water. He got to the top and put his head above the water just in time. The air tank had just run out. It was like a really deep pool. He crawled out and took off his gear. He pulled his shotgun out of his jacket and hoped it still worked. It did. He still had the backpack on strapped onto him. He let some water drain out of his shotgun and then reloaded it with 7 shells. His water-proof flashlight burned out, so he pulled out his regular chestlight, put it in his chest pocket and turned it on. He entered the only door in the room and stepped outside onto a metal platform. He looked around at his surroundings for a moment. A roller coaster was off in the distance. "This is it. Lakeside Amusement Park. I wish I knew why I'm here." Said Harry as he walked around. Something was off in the distance.. It got closer.. and then leaped! It was a dog like the one from the motel! Fortunately, this time he was prepared. It came around for him again and leaped. He pulled the trigger and the pellets hit the split faced dog in mid-air and sent it flying downwards. He hit the ground dead. Since the time in the motel, Harry had become resistant to guilt against his dog that died. He walked around, fighting dogs and a few other weird creatures, like one that looked like a huge torso, except where the torso ended, another one began. It spun around vertically and had long blades at the end of their heads. It also floated in midair and was very hard to get around. Finally, Harry heard music off in the distance. That off..

A merry-go-round. He walked towards the music. He could see something spinning.. The horses. The lights on the ride lit up to reveal the horses, rotten and hung on huge fishing hooks. But that was nothing to what horrified him next. Cheryl was on one. There was panel nearby that said "Ride toggle" and he pressed it, stopping the ride and the music. The lights still shone. He walked up to the nightmarish horse and stared at Cheryl. "Mommy. Mommy, are you.. Okay? Hey! Hey! Wake up! No! NO! NOOO!" He screamed. Cheryl was dead. He grabbed her off the horse and put her on the ground. He laid down next to her and sobbed himself to sleep....

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Harry woke up next to Cheryl. A part of him hoped he had hallucinated. He had not. She was still there, her eyes open and a blank face, looking upwards into the sky. He grabbed her and walked to the pool room. He didn't know how far down the pool went, but... He laid her down on the water and stared down it. "Goodbye.. Mommy." He said sadly as he watched her face go downwards until it faded into the blackness. He didn't know what to do next. He had found Cheryl.. Dead.. But none the less he found her. But what was... Suddenly, he felt something on the ground next to the pool. It was a piece of bloody paper. He looked at it. It had writing on it. He read it.

"It has been awhile now. I'm slowly realizing.. Who They are. Could it be... That everything I used to be believe in.. Samael.. Lilith... All just failed copies? -Leonard Wolfe " It read. He followed the trail out of the pool room and found another piece of paper. "Yes.. It's true.. It has to be.. The rest of the cult shall not know about what I have discovered. If they do, they'll just mangle me into oblivion.."

He followed the next trail to another piece of paper. "They've.. Threatened to kill me. But that does not matter now. They were just a deception by the unbelievers. All hail to our lord God." It read. There were no more trails. He looked around strangely at his surroundings. Just then, he felt something vibrating in his pocket. He pulled it out... The pyramid that he got from the church. It spun around and all the pieces of it moved around independently on the frame of the object. They spun faster and faster and created a white light. Harry blacked out...

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..And came back to consciousness. He had a splitting headache as sirens roared in his ears. He stood up and rubbed his eyes. He looked around.. Back in the hallway of the first floor in brookhaven? Near the stairwell.. He walked to the door ahead of him which should lead to the entrance.... He opened the door and found himself on the 99th floor of Brookhaven. "What the.. Where am I!?" He asked himself, almost hysterically. He just left the room he was just in and came out where he came out after fighting the hammer creature. He looked around and down the endless halls. He went back into the hallway. "WHAT THE HELL?!" He screamed. He opened the door once more and back into the 99th floor. He went to the elevator and it opened before he touched the button. He stepped inside the elevator which was made completely out of rusted metal grating and chain link fencing. It went upwards and it stopped after about 5 or 6 seconds of moving. It rattled and the doors opened... In the third floor of Brookhaven. He ran down the hall and looked very confused. Where was he? Not in Brookhaven. Couldn't be. He went into the room straight to his right.. And ended up in a room he had never seen before. A bed.. A table with someone's picture on it. He shook his head and left the room. He rushed to another elevator that was right down the hall. The elevator doors opened to reveal the church he had just been in. His eyes widened an he stepped inside. The door behind him closed and locked itself. He ran down the isles of benches and entered a door to the left and opened it.. Into a classroom. Not one from Estes University. Looked like an elementary school. He ran past the singular, alone school table and into another room.... The merry go round?! It spun around and around.. He entered a door that was placed on one side of the merry-go-round and into a room with a pedestal in it. It had a book on it. He put his hand near the book, but his hand went through it and hit the table. There was a door to the left of the entrance. He shook his head in lightheadedness and entered the door. the room was really empty. He then went into yet another door. It was.. Another room. He was about to rush to the door across from him, when heard someone say, "Harry!"

He stopped and looked around. Greg was on a chair looking very sad. He had Harry's pistol in his right hand. "Harry." he said again. Harry looked sympathetic, but he didn't know what for. "Greg, what's wrong?" Asked Harry. Greg sniffled. "Well, I found my sister." Said Greg. Harry raised his eyebrows. "But.." Harry said before lowering them again, "Shouldn't you be happy?" He said. Greg shook his head. "No." He responded. "Well, where is she?" Harry asked. Greg pointed at the floor and said, "At your feet." He said quickly. Harry looked down, gasped and took a step back. "Oh my God! Greg! Oh your poor sister Greg.."

Greg's sister was laying on the ground... But her skin had rotted, there were bullet holes in her chest, and she was wearing a big pyramid helmet and a blood stained blue dress. "I KILLED HER! I killed my sister.. What have I done.. I'm so sorry, Cindy!" Cried Greg as he went down to her and weeped. "I.. I'm.. S-s-s-o.. S-s-s-sorry-y-y I sh-shot you.. I-i-it.. Was... J-j-j-just an accident.." He cried again. "But, you had no choice." Said Harry as he picked up a huge knife from the ground. "She was coming at you!" He said. Greg shook his head. "No.. I.. I was stupid.. I w-w-w.. Was playing around.. With a gun.. Oh I'm so stupid... What was I thinking.. She was there with me.. I didn't kn-kn-know.. It was... L-l-loaded.. I pulled the trigger while trying to look at it.. I... I killed her.." He cried again and again. Harry felt sorry, but it was Greg's own careless thinking. "Now," said Greg, "It's time to do.. What should've happened a long time ago.. It should've been me!" He screamed and he put the gun to his forehead. "NO!" screamed Harry, but the shot rang out in the room and Harry covered his ears as blood and brains splattered across the wall. "GREG! DAMN IT GREG!" Yelled Harry. "Now.. Now everyone I've met is dead. All of them. But I have to go on.... There's a higher meaning. A higher purpose. Rest in peace, Greg. Cindy." Said Harry as he entered the opposite door...

Harry took a step forward and tumbled down some stairs. "WuuahhhHHHH!" he screamed as he tumbled around and around the spiral staircase. Finally, he stopped. His body had been bruised, but he wobbly stood up and looked around..A huge grass field. The sky was... White. No birds. No wind. Just silence. He saw a lone door standing upright and he put his hand on the knob. A warmness went into his hands and it re-energized him. He opened the door and fell over. The door closed and disappeared behind him. There were some feet right in front of him. He looked upwards at the person. It was some kind of hooded figure. Harry tried to figure out what it was. He got up and saw a few more of the hooded figures.. "There must be about 5 of you here. What's your name--" He looked above its head and saw many, many more hooded figures. "No.. Not five.. Fifty.. No.. More than a hundred.. Thousands! Where did you all come from? This must be the place.. I don't know for sure, though."

The hooded figures started to chant and they cleared a space for him to walk. The sight in the horizon horrified him.. Huge, skyscraper sized cylinders working away far off into the distance. Huge wheels and fans into the sky spinning and spinning. "This is the place. I know it must be."

The hooded figures disappeared. He noticed that their chanting was high pitched.. "These must be boys." he said to himself. They kneeled to the strange metal grating flooring which also had fans spinning underneath it. Strangely, as weird and horrifying the sight below him, he feared it not. He walked down the path which was now set by large, towering walls. A glowing door was at the end of the path. He ran and ran and ran and ran and then opened it. It was another room, but it was like that of an arena. There was a huge mechanism in the center. The area made him feel very small. He walked trembling towards the mechanism. A blatantly obvious red button said, "PUSH ME". Harry looked strangely at it and then laughed. "This must be a joke!" he said. However, he stopped laughing. He figured that the button may be his only way out of the place. He pressed it and the arena rumbled. A long, long sword dropped down from the sky and implanted itself into the ground which Harry was standing on. He jumped away from it, and then walked towards it. He put out his right hand and pulled it out from the ground and swung it around. It had broken jewels incrusted on the handle. Just as he got comfortable swinging it around, the arena rumbled again and three HUGE white, glowing figures climbed out of the top of the machine. One of them swung an axe at him. He dove out of the way and the axe passed him and a freezing breeze swept across him, making him shiver. He rolled out of the way when he saw the axe chopping downwards. He scrambled to his feet and looked at the 3 massive king-like monsters. He swung at the one holding the axe and it evaporated into the air. The other 2 monsters were not effected. One holding a huge spear thrust it towards Harry. He deflected it with his sword. He looked at his sword. It was MASSIVELY powerful. He felt courage swell up in side of him and then took a large swipe at the one holding the spear. It evaporated just like the axe holder, then the last one also holding a sword came down at him. Harry held out his sword and they locked blades. Harry swung off the sword and pulled back his own sword. He didn't know who killed Cheryl, but he felt that he could release his anger by killing this thing. "YAH!" he shouted as he jumped and swung at the thing, making a large cut in its chest. One then appeared on his own. The sword holder collapsed to the ground, dropping his sword. It shrunk and shrunk and shrunk.. Into Harry, except wearing a black cloak. Harry grasped his chest and he walked slowly towards his doppleganger. He swung up his sword and his clone looked up at him depressingly. "Please.. Hear us.." It said in Harry's voice. Harry stopped the sword in midair. "Why should I stop myself from plunging this sword into you? When I cut your chest.. That was some sort of spell or something wasn't it? Well, when I kill you, it won't kill me!" He said.

The clone shook his head. "We ARE you. Just listen to what we have to say." It said. Harry frowned a bit, then put the sword down. "Okay. Talk." He commanded. His look-alike nodded. "Fine. You know that.. Higher purpose you asked yourself about? Well, We're about to tell you what it is, but first, let us get in a little bit of.. History." He said. Harry nodded and the thing took a breath. "Eons ago, longer than we could remember, the universe was collapsing. We were the most advanced race in existence and we had found a way of creating our universe, but we could only copy ours, which meant that the same thing would happen over and over again. We didn't really care, it didn't matter, at least that was what we thought. We thought the copies would stay 100 percent true.. But they didn't. They have been degrading. The original universe used to be a.." Just then he was interrupted by Harry. "What? What do you mean copy? Original universe?" He asked. It put its hand up. "Hang on, we'll get to that. So, we created the beings of the universe, including man kind, which was what our race evolved out of. A few of them saw us, but they were so primitive, so weak minded. They had no way of explaining to their own what we were, so they explained as best as they could, although not particularly accurately. They invented the idea of Gods. First, the mayans, the greeks.. The romans... Paganism, Buddhism, Muslim, Christianity.. All primitive explanations of what we really were. However, because of the history of our race, we had implanted the thing that was to copy again into the heart of our capital city, Silent Hill. That thing was ourselves. The first few thousand attempts were failures, hence the other "gods" that you've seen, mainly Samael and Lilith, but we didn't know that they'd turn cruel, disgusting, wicked, evil. Because of our ignorance at that time, we let them be the bodyguards to the successful copies of ourselves. However, they turned out bad and wanted to destroy everything. They failed fortunately. Our copies at the time had a single fail-safe system installed into them at baby stage and the failures could not break that fail-safe. However, they fed off the emotions of mankind.. A shame, really. But after our copies had matured, they looked for the strongest family they had witnessed and made their newest born child the new copier of another universe. We thought this cycle could continue endlessly, but peacefully. But, as I was going to say before, the universe did not stay truthful. It degraded with each new copy. It degraded like the video tape. We've noticed this only recently. We are not perfect, which was why we were ignorant. We are not Gods, only copies of an amazingly advanced species which evolved from mankind. So, when our matured copies from the universe before this one found out that the universes were degrading with each copy, faster and stronger than the one before, we had set a new goal into the copies for the next universe --- To have the copier find a way to stop the cycle, to stop the current universe from falling apart, as it was at this time in the original universe that we found that our very existence was threatened by the old age of our universe. If in the original universe we hadn't made a complete copy, the day after when the universe was supposed to be successfully copied we would have all blinked into nothingness. The original universe was a place of happiness, but it was so many, many universes ago, even we cannot fully remember it. We can only see bits and pieces of it when we dream, which is why you saw it as well, as the family you are in was the strongest one we saw. You were the next born child. We chose you to save existence. We can only give you hints of information on how to do it, as that is all we know ourselves. We only had one universe to try and figure it out. One day, Harry, that's all we have left now. We'll help you, but.. You have to help us. The very fate of existence rests in your hands. I've contacted all the other alien races. One in particular had captured James and Harry(your Godfather) in another universe. But if we fail, we will feel the fate that we would've and we can not just simply copy this universe. There will be no chance to save the next universe if we copy this one now. It will have been too late. Too much degradation. Well, anyway.... Let's get out of this place, shall we? We've got lots of work to do." It finished.

Harry took a huge breath. He thought it would probably take just one day to absorb all that information and who knows how much longer to stop the cycle, but he was sure that in his heart that he could do it. He had to. For existence. For himself.... For Cheryl....

THE END

silent hill: deja vu is a story by grub. silent hill and all its characters not introduced in this story are owned by konami. this is a non-profit story. please don't sure me. R/R.