(Disclaimer, I don't own Silent Hill or the items used in the story, Konami does.)
(Thanks for waiting for this chapter, I've been a bit busy but I now have some time to write the rest of this story. Special thanks to Silk Hope and liquidTres for the reviews.)
Chapter 7
Rose Water
Steven knocked on the door the way he told Eliza he was going to and she opened it and immediately felt more safe. He stepped into the door and sat on the bed for a minute. She knew something was wrong with him and put her hand on his shoulder.
"What is wrong with this town?" he asked her. She suddenly felt weak in the knees and had to sit herself.
"The town is in a cult. They believe in some kind of weird stuff, like the holy mother and a thing called Valtiel." She said. He looked at her for a second then looked back down.
"How do you know?" he asked. She turned her head away from him and handed him the Journal. He scanned through it and then layed it down on the bed.
"It reminded me of the things that the doctors and some of the nurses used to do in the hospital. The way they'd punish some of the patients and send them to the basement. I don't know what was down there but it scared some of the patients something fierce. A doctor named Sam Spencer used to punish the patients quite frequently. one patient even disappeared, this was a few years ago. I found out on accident that they were using the poor guy as a blood sacrifice in some kind of rebirth ritual. Apparently it failed and we were short two doctors and a nurse. They were found in the woods just outside of Silent Hill, all of them were horribly mutilated. The police called it an attack from a wild animal." She stopped and shivered.
"You never went to the authorities?" he asked her. The story was a bit out there for him, but then again so was everything else in the town.
"I wanted to but the police were in on it." she said. He stood up and then began to go for the door, she followed him.
"We need to get my brother and sister and get the hell out of this place." he said.
"You didn't find your sister?" she asked him in an alarmed tone. He looked back at her.
"She told me to meet her in Rose Water park." he said and then walked down the hall to the exit of the school.
They ran out of the building and across the street to where the fence was. Steven stopped when he saw the big hole that was cut out of the fence, he looked at it for a minute and then stepped through it. Eliza took a quick glance at it then went through it as well. Steven stopped and then pointed at the huge hole in the ground that cut off the path they originally took to get to the school.
"We're going to have to take a different route to get to the park." he said and then went down a different street. Eliza stopped him though and then looked around.
"Did you notice that nothing has been chasing us?" she asked him. He looked around and then listened to the silence that was all over. Then they heard a noise, it was off in the distance. A scraping sound like a pipe being dragged across the pavement.
"What's that noise?" she asked him. He grabbed her arm and led her up the porch of an old house. They hid in the shadows of the house not knowing what was waiting for them in the darkness of the town.
Steven gripped the flashlight tightly in his right hand. Eliza held the gun in her right hand, both of them waited silently for the noise to subside. Steven shined the flashlight at the thing as it walked by the porch they were on, it was Eric.
"Oh man am I glad to see you!" Steven exclaimed as he ran to where his older brother was standing. Eric looked at him and then to Eliza.
"Who is this?" he asked his little brother. She looked down at the ground embarrassed by the way he looked at her.
"This is Eliza, she found me at Brookhaven this morning sometime." he said to his brother.
Eric looked her over as if she were going to transform into something dark. Then he stuck his hand out and shook hers.
"We need to get out of here as soon as we find Jill." Eric said.
"I know where she is, and we're going to go get her." Steven mumbled and then went to the edge of the porch looking out into the dark street that was before them.
"Eric how well do you know Jill?" he suddenly asked his older brother.
Eric thought about this for a moment then replied, "I don't know."
It was something that Steven didn't want to hear because he suddenly realised that he didn't even know that much about her. For some reason that scared him a lot.
"Why ask such an odd question?" Eric asked.
Steven just shrugged and walked off into the direction of Rose Water park. They ran in the direction of the park and had to make only two detours. One was for a drop off that suddenly showed up out of nowhere and the other was for a car pile up that wasn't in the way earlier. Both were just obstacles that prevented everyone from getting to the park.
They finally made it to the park though, and it was a dark there. They all stood at the entrance to Rose Water wondering what to do next. It seemed like this was it, the end. Steven then said something that struck the others as odd.
"I saw something when I fell from that building a ways back. I'm not sure what it was but I know it was someones memories. Mine maybe, anyway, I think that we should be careful when we get to Jill. I'm not sure whats going on and I'm afraid of what I saw in that dream like state I was in."
They looked at him and nodded neither of them saying anything but both of them suddenly looking at him in surprise.
"I'm almost sure Jill will know what it was, it was a disturbing thing and I'm scared." he added.
Eric walked over to him and patted him on the shoulder, paused, and then gave him a rough hug. He stood there in shock, his older brother had never given him a hug before in his life.
"Man, we are going to make it through this you hear? Jill might be different now but then again we were never around her much so maybe we just never noticed how bad off she was." Eric said. He smiled at his little brother and then walked to the edge of a stairwell that led to a small dock.
On the dock was a small boat that was tied to one of the rotted wooden posts. Eric grabbed it and then grabbed an oar with his free hand and got into the boat. "Besides," he added,
"If shes that bad off then we'll take her kicking and screaming and put her in the nearest nut house."
This seemed to send chills down Eliza's spine a little as she felt phantom memories linger at the back of her memory. Steven and Eliza got into the boat both of them wondering how bad things were going to get when they got to the small island that was out there somewhere.
Eliza grabbed Steven's hand and clutched it tightly. It seemed like the two of them had made it through a lot together in such a short time. He looked at her and tried to smile but it failed.
He was beginning to realise that smiling wasn't something that should be allowed in this town.
Eric rowed the boat slowly out into the middle of Toluca lake and then stopped. He looked over at Steven and Eliza.
"The Island is right over there." he said pointing to the left of them. They looked in the direction and saw a small island covered in pine trees.
Steven felt a huge knot build up in his stomach and his hands began to sweat. This was where their sister went and he knew there was going to be some kind of a showdown. What had Jill been doing so that she needed to go to this island? Deep down Steven knew what it was and he knew that he didn't believe it either. It was so much easier for him to just cast assumptions on what his sister was doing.
Suddenly a memory came to him, one of when they were a few years younger. She was talking about power and how to obtain it. It always stuck in his mind because it was such and odd conversation.
"In order to get power you must sometimes sacrifice the ones you love."
It felt like she were saying it right next to his ear, a phantom version of his sister from happier times. He always wondered why she wanted power so bad and now it was starting to come together a little bit. Because she was the victim of bullying but that wasn't the only reason. There was one other reason and before he could actually think about it the boat came to an abrupt halt.
