He awoke with a start as the noise of something banging on the windows. He looked around, wondering where he was, then remembered. They had taken refugee in the Police Station, after being chased by a hoard of ape like monsters, blade handed monsters, and gun handed monsters, even a few he couldn't see. He looked over as Cassandra let out a scream. "Those are some of the survivors!" she said, hysterical. He looked at the bodies, then checked them. They had been stabbed, he assumed by some of the monsters and had gotten in here before dying.
He helped her to calm down before getting some gear together, and getting her and himself some body armor.
As they made their way for the mall he could tell she was still disturbed by what she had seen. The radio crackled, she began to run for cover as he had instructed her too, from the fog slowly crept three monsters, one had blades for hands, one was like it was in a straight jacket, and the other had a chainsaw for a hand. He brought out the shotgun and waited for them to get close. He took out the straight jacket easily, but the blades jumped high into the air, he dodged but it caught his body armor, slicing a bit of it, but did not make contact with his skin. He drove the blade on his shotgun into the chin of it, then blew out its brains. He looked to the chainsaw handed one, and growled lightly as it charged at him. He ducked and kicked at its knees, knocking it down. He pulled out his handgun and fired until he was sure it was dead. The radio was still crackling. In the fog he could see the sellout of a large beast of a monster, that seemed to glow blood red. It turned, walking off, the sound of a large rusty sword being dragged following the creature.
He sighed and got up. He looked for Cassandra but could not see her, he went to the ally where he saw her run. He got down to a crossroads. He stumbled towards where he heard a noise, and collapsed as he blacked out.
He awoke In a small room, the light above flickered above him. He had a horrible dream, it was starting to pull back into the darkness of his mind from where it came, and he fought to hold onto it, but failed. He opened his eyes and saw Cassandra. She had told him how she found him face down in an ally unconscious and with a few small wounds., she had saved him from demonic dog. He nodded his thanks and got up, he pushed asides thoughts of his dream, they needed to get moving. He slung the shotgun over his shoulder. "Lets go." He said and they left the building. They met no resistance despite the sounds the radio made. One of the survivors inside let him in, on the floor nearby were some dead bodies, they had been shot and gutted. The one who let him in, as he escorted them to the leader, told how they had gone outside to see what the sound of someone asking for help was, when they were ambushed and slaughtered.
He lay in his bed, not tired at the least. He planned to stay long enough to get up his strength before moving on to find out what called him here. He had met with the leader, a woman who was grateful for the return of one of them, she invited him to stay incase help arrived, but he declined. They had all been glad to see him, and was happen that he had survived. He was their town's hero. He had not seen Cassandra since they arrived. He rolled over, pushing thoughts from his mind and tried to find sleep.
He awoke hours later, he felt refreshed and got himself ready. Cassandra had come to wish him well, and after goodbyes and good lucks he left. He made it down a ways when he heard the sound of his daughter's voice, calling to him from an ally, he bolted down it, shotgun ready and the radio crackled to life. He knew she couldn't be here, she was up north in Lewiston. He skidded to a stop in a large courtyard which shouldn't be there, it had platforms scattered across the walls of the buildings, the fog had become very thin there. She was there, in the center of the courtyard, around her were 4 statues of the large creature with the sword he had seen, only they now had spears. they looked so real.
She looked to him, her mouth moved but her voice came from the radio. "Dad! Help! No! Stop!" repeated over and over again till her features took on the sight of pain. Her mouth was agape and a scream came from the radio, it hurt his ears. He wanted to help her, but didn't know what was wrong. The statues came to live and jammed there spears into her. He let out a scream of horror. A siren wailed in the distant just then, and a pain ripped through his head. He fell to his knees, blacking out.
His dreams were mixed with the images of his daughter, and those he saw in the mall, only they were dying. He awoke with a start, he was no longer in the courtyard, but in the ally, the way to where it had been was blocked by debris, all that was left that he could be was a endless abyss. He found himself drawn into it, and it took all his willpower to pull himself away. His head ached from the Siren noise, his heart hurt from seeing his daughter speared. He looked around, the world had changed, it was dark and twisted again, it was as if the world he was in had crashed into an even darker version of itself. He rose slowly, rubbing his forehead and cursing this town. He prayed this was all a nightmare.
His radio crackled constantly, and he tried to sneak his way through it. He was starting to think this wasn't a nightmare, that this was real. He tried to stay calm and collected, but was losing it slowly but surely.
He eventually made it to the park again. The siren blared and the pain blazed through his head. He watched as the world around him transformed back into the fog filled town. His radio crackled to life again, he turned to the direction of a noise and fired his handgun. Cassandra ducked out of the way and the bullets pinged off the head of the red creature, a pyramid like mask on it. It again wielded its large sword. It lurched towards him, he continued to fire. Cassandra ran a bit away. He pulled out a second handgun and continued to fire. Pyramid Head made a small noise and fell to the ground.
He looked to her and sighed. "Why did you follow me?" he asked. She explained how a man had entered the mall, he had taken out the lights, then began to slaughter everyone, she escaped and looked for him for protection. He told her he would protect her as best he could, till he could get her out of there.
They once again set off. He knew major construction had been going on at the time, so he opted for a forest path, despite the danger and his fears.