(Disclaimer I don't own any of the Silent Hill stuff that is in the story)
Chapter 8
Confrontation
"We're here." Eric said and hopped out of the boat.
The Island was roughly the size of a football field and had a lot of Pine trees and shrubbery all over. There was a small dirt path right next to the boat that Jill rowed to the small island. They examined the boat but found nothing on it.
"Time to get our little sister." Eric said as he started to walk down the dirt path.
Steven and Eliza followed behind him closely waiting for something to jump out at them at any second. They all noticed a small light that faintly made it's way to them. It was a fire off in the distance. They started to walk towards it knowing that Jill would be by it as well.
Eliza suddenly stopped Steven and looked at him, he saw a look of uncertainty on her face.
"Steven, we don't have to do this do we?" Eliza asked him. He looked at her in surprise.
"I have to get my little sister out of here." He said.
She stood there shivering even though there was no wind and the weather was warm. He watched Eric walk further and further towards the fire and then turned his attention back to Eliza.
"Eliza I have to get my sister out of there, I'm sorry, but after we grab her we are leaving." he said and then turned to catch up to his brother. She stopped him though and grabbed him kissing him briefly.
He looked at her in surprise and she blushed a little. "For luck." she said and then followed him to a small clearing.
The clearing was as big as a small room and it had a huge fire in the middle of it. There was an altar of some kind on the other side of it, Jill was standing behind the altar. She was standing there waiting for everyone to get to where she was.
"Jill what are you doing! Time to go, this place is insane and your not helping things by running around here!" Eric said.
Her eyes were glossed and blank as she walked off of the altar and approached them.
"How well did you know our uncle Jack?" she asked in a slow way. It sounded like she was drunk or under the influence of some kind of drug.
"We don't have time for this crap!" Eric started. She lifted her hand up and waved him off as if he were merely a child.
"Answer the question." She said in that dreamy tone.
Eric let out a sigh and then shrugged for a minute, this was insane but all he wanted to do was get his sister out of there.
"I knew him pretty well." He said quickly and then began to pace around the clearing.
"Pretty well…" she mimicked.
He looked at her and then to Steven who stood there stunned for a minute. His face was drawn back in terror, it seemed as if he'd seen something that Eric didn't.
"Steven don't start freaking out on me man!" Eric said as he rushed to where his brother was standing.
"I'm so sorry…" Steven whimpered as he fell to the ground in a heap. He seemed to be in an unconscious state.
"What's going on here?" Eric nearly screamed.
Eliza grabbed Steven and propped him up against a tree then grabbed the gun and held it close by. Suddenly Steven stood up and walked slowly to his sister.
His back was facing his brother and Eliza, but when he turned around they both knew something was horribly wrong. Steven's eyes were a pale red almost unnoticeable yet there was a reddish glimmer that both saw almost immediately.
Jill laughed a shrill demented laugh that sent chills down Eliza's spine. She knew that something big was going to happen soon.
"Steven is no longer with us, what you see is the one called Valtiel. I managed to control Valtiel by doing a certain ritual, all I need now is a sacrifice." She said.
Eric looked at her his face slowly getting more and more pale. He didn't quite grasp everything that was happening but he knew it must be extremely bad.
"Let's talk about this." He said, he glanced at Eliza briefly and then back to his sister.
She smiled at him and then went behind the altar grabbing some sort of chalice and then she drank from it. Eric and Eliza saw a slight change in Jill's face. She grabbed Steven by the shoulder and then gently pushed him forward.
"Strangle her." She commanded.
He walked unevenly toward Eliza as if he were merely a puppet that was being controlled by strings. His eyes were blank, nothing of the old Steven seemed to exist in them. Eric tried to stop him but was grabbed by the face and thrown to the ground.
He got up and made another attempt to stop his brother. This time Steven punched him in the stomach as hard as he could bringing Eric to his knees.
Eric looked down and saw a piece of fire wood right in front of him, he picked it up and stood up on shaky legs. He closed his eyes and swung it at his younger brother. It made perfect contact with his shoulder and sent him to his knees.
He got up and shrugged it off like it never happened. Eric looked at his sister shook his head, somehow she was controlling Steven. He ran up to her and punched her hard in the face, she fell over unconscious. Steven fell to the ground his eyes cleared of their redness.
"What's going?" he mumbled. Eliza rushed over to where he was and helped him up.
They watched Eric pick up Jill and they started to leave the clearing when all of a sudden he dropped Jill. They turned around just in time to see her stab him in the side.
"Eric!" Steven said and ran to where his older brother lay.
"Damn, I should've known something like this was gonna happen." He said.
"Jill, you've gone to far, if you don't stop this then I'm going to leave you here!" Steven threatened.
"Go ahead, you know what you did though don't you? Do you see that Doctors dead body in your mind every time you close your eyes?" She said and then added, " And what about that high school teacher I had you kill?"
He felt himself go weak in the knees, his body was sore when he was at Brookhaven. It was like he did some heavy lifting and his muscles were sore. He suddenly felt weary of his surroundings and of his situation.
"Tell me one thing before I leave, what happened to Jack? What really happened to him?" he asked.
She stood there for a few seconds glaring at him, then she drew in a deep breath and told him…
Jill looked at the clock on the wall, it was almost eleven. That meant that Jack would be coming home from work in a little over an hour. She waited there in the dark knowing she was supposed to be at a friends house for the night. She had to do this though, had to make him suffer for what he had done to her.
She closed her eyes and saw the basement, the handcuffs, and even the damn pipe sticking out of the wall. Her stomach turned at the thought and she had to catch her self from throwing up.
She often wondered about what it would have been like to live with her real parents. Would she have been treated like this there as well? She highly doubted it, she knew her father was a mean person but he wouldn't touch her the way Jack did. He wasn't like Jack in the least bit, because he didn't put on a big show like Jack.
She thought about the last phone call she made to her mother and thought about it over and over. She told her mother Jack was molesting her and her mother was upset, but not at Jack at her for telling such "lies". She wasn't allowed to go to her real home for her own safety.
She felt any hope that she ever had leave and that night Jack locked her in the basement. She often wondered if she was the one who started all of the abuse that Jack gave her. Then she met the good Doctor Hanson.
He was there for career day at her high school, as he was leaving he dropped a book. She picked it up and flipped through it before running up to him and giving it back. She had asked him what kind of a book it was, and he smiled and told her it was a book about the Gods.
She was interested enough to ask him if she could borrow the book and he smiled and handed it to her. He gave her his business card and then told her to get a hold of him when she finished the book. She smiled and walked away clutching the book close.
But there had been so many weird things in the book that she didn't really understand too much of it. It seemed to be a book of incantations or something close to the like. There were different rituals described in the book some were scary in her mind some were quite interesting. One stood out from the rest in her mind, it was one about power and how to obtain it.
She began to call Hanson and ask him questions about the book and wondered if there were more like him in Silent Hill and he told her yes. She called him almost everyday for two weeks straight and finally he came up and taught her how to read some of the things she couldn't read in the weird book.
Then he was gone again and the abuse from Jack intensified, it all built up to her sitting here in the dark waiting for him. She prayed to her God Samael that she'd have the strength to take him down.
She heard a car door slam and then waited for the door to open. She felt stupid, all the thoughts racing through her mind caused her to lose track of time and she must have dosed off a little while waiting. She heard the door open and close then she heard Jack walk into the living room from the hallway.
He mumbled something about that dumb bitch not being home to cook for him. She felt her stomach knotting up as he got closer and closer to his favorite chair. The chair she was hiding behind. After she killed him she could began her ritual in Silent Hill. All she really needed was a little of his blood for the ritual.
She heard him digging in the refrigerator and then heard the sound of a can being opened. He gulped down whatever it was in a single drink and then belched out loud and then went to the living room.
She heard the creak of the old chair as he lowered himself into it. She felt her arm reach up from behind the chair and she knew the blade sunk into his neck. He struggled as she jumped up from behind the chair and showed him the last face he'd ever see.
She began to swing the knife at him blindly cutting him across his chest and neck and even parts of his face. She heard him begging when she began this brutal attack and when she finished he was dead.
She ran out of the house and after she cleaned herself up and went to her friends house. The knife tucked away in a safe place, she'd need it again later. Her friend still lay in her bed in a trance, at least the channeling of Valtiel worked. Suddenly she began to twitch a little and just like that she was talking again like nothing happened.
Jill knew the doctor had one of the items she needed and that a high school teacher named Ramous had the other item she needed. She'd get those items sooner or later and then she could make the world feel what she felt…
It sickened Steven to hear all of this because suddenly he realized that she had him kill those two men. But it also brought light on something he and Eric never saw, his sister was a victim of sexual abuse. That explained so much to him and he suddenly felt very sorry for her. Looking at her he could see how pitiful she was in spite of all she had done.
"I'm so terribly sorry Jill, I didn't know he did that to you." Steven said.
She looked at him and he thought he saw his sister in there past the hate. She looked away for a second and then looked at him again.
"What you see in Silent Hill is only the beginning, it's going to spread all over the world slowly like a poison, and the only way to stop it is to kill me!" she said.
"Steven, Eric is bleeding pretty badly here, I don't think I can stop!" Eliza said from behind him. He looked back and saw a pool of blood underneath his brother.
"So you use our own brother as your sacrifice? Jill what's the matter with you?" he asked.
She began to say something in a different tongue, it was just gibberish to Steven. He turned around and began to walk to where Eric and Eliza were when the ground trembled. It was a small trembling at first, but it got bigger and bigger. Has to be an earthquake! He thought as he fell to the ground.
The ground started to rise in the air and suddenly a huge creature burrowed out of the ground. It looked similar to a snake without eyes and when it opened it's mouth Steven saw rows and rows of sharp needle point teeth. It had two long pincers on the sides of it's mouth. It was as big as two school buses, Steven guessed.
"Run!" he screamed at Eliza, she picked up Eric and they ran into the woods.
Steven ran the other way, his sister might be in danger as well and he had to make sure she wasn't. He saw her standing there smiling and then she looked at him and went after him with the knife.
He grabbed her by the wrists and threw her down to the ground and ran into the woods after Eliza and Eric. The worm was somewhere underneath them. He wasn't sure where but he had a feeling it was right under them and that it might get them yet.
Steven didn't see Eliza and Eric hiding behind a fat old pine tree and he didn't see or hear the huge creature when it resurfaced. Eric saw Steven though and he also saw the creature preparing to lunge at Steven. He pushed Eliza back and ran for his brother, he felt all of his strength leaving his body with each step he took.
Steven saw movement out of the corner of his eye and when he turned to look, his brother had knocked him down. When he looked again, Eric was impaled on one of the creatures pincers. Steven screamed out at it and pitched a rock at it. It dropped Eric and went after Steven with great speed. Steven ran through trees and bushes and then stopped and hid behind a tree. His brother was dead, Eric was gone. That was all that raced through his mind.
Jill had gone way too far with this thing she was doing, he was shocked when he found out about Jack but that didn't give her any reason to harm any of them. He had to go back to where his sister was and take her out of here by force. He started to go back, wary of the creature, when he heard Eliza scream.
