Chapter 6

School

Steven woke up sometime after he fell off of the roof, surprisingly he wasn't injured from the fall. It was by sheer luck that he landed in a garbage dumpster. He was dizzy and confused at what he saw when he blacked out. He closed his eyes and thought about it again then shook his head, it was no use in thinking about it. He got up slowly and looked around at his surroundings. He was in an alleyway near the fence propped up against the wall.

"What happened to me?" he mumbled. He saw Eliza standing across the alley near a crate. Through his unfocused eyes she looked to be holding something, like a knife or a stick of some kind. Then a huge flash flew out of the tip and he saw that it was the gun.

"Please tell me you're ok now!" she nearly screamed as she fired off another round at a hulking creature. The creature was apparently handcuffed to another smaller creature that upon first glance looked to be an unwashed little girl. The bigger of the two was rather large and had no face, just two beady eyes that bulged from it's sockets.

The smaller of the two had the face of a very old and sickly woman, it's mouth stuck in a permanent smile revealing a set of very sharp teeth.

Eliza managed to kill the little one but the bigger of the two was making it's way to where she and Steven were at. He stumbled across the alleyway to where she stood. He steadied himself knowing that he wasn't quite recovered from the episode he had earlier.

"How much ammo is left?" he asked her in a panicked voice.

She looked fired off two more rounds and watched the fat creature that was cuffed to the little creature, fall to the ground dead. Then she put the gun on the crate and took the ammo out of her pocket.

"Nine rounds, plus four in the gun." she said. He watched her reload the gun and then hand it over to him. He took it not wanting to, and stuck it in his coat pocket.

"How long was I out?" he asked her, afraid of knowing just how long it was. He knew that it was more then an hour because it was getting dark outside.

She looked at him with her soft green eyes and then sat down on the crate, it was then that he noticed she was bleeding on the left side of her abdomen. He grabbed for the first-aid kit and remembered that it was on the other side of the fence.

"You've been out for three hours at least," she sighed, then contiued, "I did my best to make sure they didn't kill you." she finished. He took his coat off and draped it over her shoulders, then he ripped part of his shirt off and began wrapping it around her wound.

"Why didn't you tell me that you were wounded?" he asked as he finished wrapping the wound as best as he could tearing off two more strips of his shirt and wrapping those around her wound as well.

"You were so dead set on getting to your sister. When you fell I wanted to run and hide, but because of your determination I grew courage and managed to stop a few of those things out there from eating you." she replied.

"How did you get wounded?" he asked her. He whinced at the site of the bandaged wound, the blood was already seeping through.

"I was attacked by that thing over there!" she said and pointed with an unsteady hand at a disfigured human like creature. It had hooks of some kind in it's hands and it's mouth was gagged with some kind of a leather strap.

He walked over to the creatures that lay on the ground, five in all, and began taking out some frustration on their corpses. "If I hadn't passed out she'd never have gotten hurt!" He yelled at the dead nightmare that lay crumpled on the ground.

She slowly got up and made her way to where he was standing and she pointed at the school. Then she began to walk in that direction. He followed after her and as he caught up to her she handed him the gun once again. He grabbed it and held it in his right hand and grabbed her right hand with his left one ignoring the pain that blazed through that arm.

She squeezed onto his hand tight, so tightly in fact that he thought she might break it. They walked across the street and up the huge concrete steps of the high school. He glanced down at Eliza who stared at the school with fearful curiosity. He let go of her hand and grabbed for the entrance of the double doors. They opened and he and Eliza stepped into the gloomy darkness of the school.

"Do you think she would have stayed here this long?" Eliza asked him suddenly. He felt a knot grow in his stomach at the thought of his little sister roaming around Silent Hill.

"I hope shes still here, if not I'll try somewhere else." he replied to her. They walked into the main area of the school and looked down the right hall as far as they could see. It was empty except for some lockers and doors leading to classrooms. Across the hall from them was the offices and some more lockers as well.

"We should start there first." he said to her. They walked through the door that lead to the outer office and then to the principals office. After a brief search for any clue of his sister they left the offices and went down the left side of the hallway which had a nurses office and a door leading to a gym.

"We should go in here and get you some more medical attention." he said as he turned the knob to the infirmary. Eliza greatfully stepped inside and began looking around in the shelfs for some medical supplies.

Once she found what she was looking for, she rebandaged herself and then was ready to go with Steven. As she was walking to the door he stopped her.

"I don't really think you should go, I think you should stay here and lock this door until I come back." he said.

She began to protest immediately, "I don't think it would be wise for you to go out there by yourself!" she exclaimed. He stared at her for a minute then sat at the edge of the infirmary bed.

"Look you have a really bad injury, worse then mine. I'm only thinking of you here. You should rest until I get back." he said. She looked up at him frustrated.

"Fine, but how will I know it's you at the door?" she asked him. He walked up to it and knocked three times paused and knocked three more times.

"Thats the signal that it's me." he said and walked out the door. As he walked out she stopped him and looked at him. He turned around and looked at her for a second waiting for her to say whatever she had to say.

"Be careful ok?" she said in a half worried voice. He nodded at her and then went out the door leaving her in the darkened room of the infirmary. As she latched the door shut she shuddered at the thought of being alone.

She layed on the infirmary bed and tried to relax but it was no use, she knew that it would be impossible to do any kind of relaxing here. She watched as a small bug crawled across the counter that held all of the medical things. It found a small crack to slip into and disappeared. She shivered at the sight of it. She got up and walked over to the window and looked out into the darkening world. The book was still in her possession so she decided to read it.

It was a journal of some kind, she read the last entry, it wasn't dated.

I have to keep this as a witness to the attrocities that took place in this little town. I know about their little secret, the ritual, and I've studied it. I know every possible detail to the ritual and if you make so much as one mistake something bad will happen. I know of at least four items that you must get in order for the ritual to actually work. The white chrism is a kind of annointing oil that you must use in the beginning of the ritual, The book of the crimson ceremony is to be read as you spill the oil into the Obsidian goblet, and finally after a blood sacrifice is mixed with the White Chrism you read from the book of lost memories.

I have no idea where to get these items nor do I want any of them. If I were to ever have any of these items in my possession, I'd destroy them. I'm going to hide on the roof of this grocery store until it gets lighter out here and the fog lifts up. If I happen to get killed I want everyone to know I never participated in the rituals that went on in the Brookhaven hospital. Billy Lloyd

She closed the journal looking into the dark room thinking of all the bad things she saw in Brookhaven. She lowered herself on the bed and tried to relax once again, but knew that it wouldn't be possible.

Steven walked into the gym of the building and walked down to the center of the room looking around. He called his sisters name out a few times but she never replied. She must have left, was the only thought that was going through his head. Then he saw something sitting on a bleacher towards the end of the gym. He approached the figure cautiously making sure it wasn't some kind of weird creature. When he shined the flashlight on the figure he saw his sister.

When she saw him she got up from the bleacher and ran in his direction, she hugged him. He hugged her back and then began to ask her questions.

"What happened after we saw that bright light?" he asked her. She looked at him in comfusion and then sat back down on the bleacher.

"What bright light?" she asked him. He looked at her for a moment deciding wether she was kidding or not. He realized she wasn't kidding.

"I saw a bright light just before we reached the town limits. You didn't see it?" he asked her. She shook her head.

"Steve, you drove right into Silent Hill. I told you that I was going to use a rest room and when I got out you were banging your head against the steering wheel and talking about Uncle Jack. I asked if you needed to rest and you told me to take you to a hospital. Brookhaven was the closest one and they said they would provide you medical attention. You blacked out after that and then the town suddenly went looney." she said.

"But I don't remember any of that!" he exclaimed. He suddenly felt tired and that was when she noticed his arm.

"What happened?" she asked him in a panicky voice. He down at his arm and then shook his head.

"It's nothing, I just got wounded by one of those things out there." he said. None of it was making sense to him and he didn't want to alarm his sister. He looked at her and then asked her another question.

"Why did you come here?" he asked.

"I don't know, I just felt like it would be safer here, you know?" she answered. He nodded, it seemed to make sense to him.

"You were going to tell me something earlier, something about Jack-" he started then she cut him off.

"Why don't we talk about that later?" she said, her tone suddenly changed from concerned to an odd emotionless one.

"You were the one that brought tha-" he began to say.

She suddenly grew angry and stood up.

"Drop it!" she yelled. He stared at her in stunned silence.

"Your always so persistant when it comes to my personal life!" She yelled and then continued.

"What else are you going to try and pry into? HUH? Would you like to know what everyone used to say about me in school too? HUH! Well?"

He looked at his sister, who only moments before was glad to see him. Right then and there he wondered if she had taken the death of their uncle harder then everyone expected.

"School? Jill I had no idea anyone bothered you in school." he said in a concerned tone. She glared at him for a minute and then sighed and slumped back into the bleacher.

"You didn't know because I didn't tell you or Eric or even mom. Uncle Jack knew but..." she trailed off and started to stare at the ground. It seemed like she was lost in thought.

"Steve I got to go, meet me at Rose Water park, if I'm not there then I went to that little island out on Toluca lake. You find Eric and that nurse that I saw in Brookhaven ok?" she suddenly got up and walked towards the door.

"Wait! Why would you even think about going out there?" he called to her. She turned around and smiled at him.

"I have to take care of some business and I need you to meet me at that little island ok?" was all she said and then she was out the door and back into the dark town of Silent Hill.