Chapter 5: Hospitals are hell
The snow had grown colder and the fog still remained. Aya held on to Marik for support since she was practically tired and edgy. He looked at her again, she looked like a reincarnation of his sister, except for the gothic style of clothes.
"Just like a fallen angel." He thought. Aya then started to regain her energy and she yawned.
"I'm tired, can we just go find a place to rest?" she whined.
"I wish we could, but we won't be able to, this town is crawling with those freaks." Marik answered. Then they saw a building in front of them and Aya looked at the rusted sign.
"I can't see it, let's move in closer." Aya said and they walked up to the building and the sign said, "Brookhaven Hospital" It would've said that, but the letters were painted on the sign and the paint was chipping off.
"We probably might find someone here, so let's get going." Marik said, but his determination was then crushed when there were three locks on the door. He then remembered the gun and he fired at the three locks and they broke off, causing the door to swing open, knocking Aya and Marik down.
"That was....a bit convenient." Aya said as she got up and she helped Marik up on his feet.
They entered the hospital. The walls were starting to decay and the floor smelt like vomit, shit, piss, and semen. There was also a bathroom and a receptionist's desk with a rusted chair behind the counter. Not only that, but there seemed to be a strange message scribbled on the wall where a corpse was. The message said:
"REPENT FOR YOUR SINS. THE END IS FUCKING NIGH!"
"What does it mean?" Marik thought. He had ran into one of these messages before at the apartment and he wanted to know who was behind it.
"Is something wrong?" Aya asked.
Marik then heard her voice and he shook his head.
"Nothing's wrong Aya." He answered.
They walked down the hallway, there was only the sound of them walking through the rotting hallway of the Brookhaven Hospital. The thought of being attacked didn't seem to sit well in their minds. Not only that, it was dark, but Aya was carrying a small flashlight with her and holding her gun in her hand, her fingers trembled as she held it, afraid of accidentally shooting someone who wasn't a deformed and decaying monster.
"Don't worry Aya, I'm here also." Marik whispered as he placed his hand on her shoulder. She smiled a bit, knowing that even in the darkness that there was someone who would protect her even if it meant putting themselves in danger.
Then Marik felt his foot hit something. He picked it up and noticed that it was a small doll with an evil grin and yellow eyes. The grin is what disturbed him the most and he dropped the doll as he felt like something pricked his finger.
"What was it?" Aya asked, looking at the demonic looking toy that was at her feet.
"That stuffed toy had a pin in its arm." Marik answered. Then he heard the sound of someone walking and the sound of something metal hitting the walls. They turned around and saw what it was, it was two decayed and faceless nurses that were dressed in nurse like outfits and a decayed man in a white lab coat holding a knife in its hand.
"These guys just don't know when to quit." Aya said as she fired at the doctor, causing its hand to burst off in a mess of rotting flesh and the knife that it carried fell to the floor, but it wasn't much to stop it from approaching, then it wrapped its hand around her neck and she felt to stiff to do anything.
Marik, noticed the faceless nurses and he shot at one of them, causing it to fall and die and he picked up the lead pipe and impaled the second one. He then heard Aya's shrill cries for help.
"Please....don't hurt me." Aya begged.
The demon ignored her and begun to choke her, causing Aya to choke out her words. Marik then picked up the lead pipe and hit the back of the demon's head, causing it to release its grip on her and she fell to the ground, gasping for air while she watched Marik battle against the decayed doctor.
"What do you want from us?" Marik asked, his voice was filled with rage as he swung again, this time, killing the decayed creature from hell.
Aya got up and smoothed out the creases in her clothes. She was still coughing and gasping for air. She then stopped coughing and rang her fingers through her hair, trying to get it to look as perfect as possible.
"Thank you. Now let's get the hell out of here." Aya said as she and Marik walked up the fleet of stairs and into another hallway.
They proceeded down the dark hallway. To Marik, the darkness seemed to be like an abyss of wandering wayward souls. It was practically just like the shadow realm, except that Silent Hill was more disturbing than the Shadow Realm would ever be.
Aya then yawned and stretched at the same time, noting that she was still exhausted.
"You're still tired?" Marik asked.
She only responded with a nod, to tired to even put anything into words.
They entered a hospital room and he watched Aya fall asleep on the bed, not even bothering to pull off her boots or to pull the covers over her head and Marik just laid down on the floor, the place seemed to bring back his memories of Ishizu's illness. Not just the ones where she lashed out at him uncontrollably, but the ones where she was calm.
**flashback**
Marik sat in a chair, watching his sister sleep and the sound of a machine watching for her heart beating.
"Why did this happen? What went wrong?" Marik asked himself.
The doctors had told him that she was suffering from an unknown disease, one that they could never cure. The disease had symptoms such as sweating, heart problems, coughing and irritable chest pains. To Marik, it seemed that god himself had planned her death all along.
"Ishizu, if you can hear me, please wake up, I don't want you to suffer any longer." Marik whispered.
The doctor then came in and he told Marik to leave, Marik then left the room, feeling miserable and self-doubtful.
**hours later**
The phone in Marik's apartment room started to ring and he rushed down to pick it up.
"Hello." Marik answered.
"Hello Mr. Ishtar, I have terrible news, your sister.....she didn't make it. I'm sorry." The doctor then hung up and Marik did the same.
He then fell in a heap on the floor, knocking over several dishes and they broke as they hit the floor.
**end flashback**
"Why Ishizu? Why did you have to go?" Marik thought as he punched the floor.
He then saw Aya sleeping peacefully and she murmured in her sleep. He sighed and he started to fall asleep as well, his fears and worries for his sister, Ishizu and his newfound friend, Aya drifting in his head.