(Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Silent Hill stuff I've used, Konami does.)
Chapter 9
End
Steven ran in the direction of Eliza's screams hoping that nothing happened to her. He got to where she was and saw why she screamed, Eric's dead body was laying on the ground a mere shell of what it used to be. He struggled to hold back tears that were threatening to come out, he didn't have time to mourn his brother yet.
He grabbed Eliza and she looked up at him in terror, they could feel the ground still shaking beneath their feet.
"Eliza I'm going to take you to the boat, you stay there and if I'm not back in five minutes leave." He said to her.
She nodded and then they began to run to where the boat had been left. She looked behind them and saw the ground suddenly rise.
"It's coming!" she managed to scream out as they ran for the boat. He had time to push her inside of the boat and grab the gun out of her hand as she landed inside of it, but that was all the time he had before the creature reached him.
It slammed into him sending him sailing into a tree close by. He watched it as it turned around and hunted for him. He took aim with the pistol, which miraculously stayed in his hand, and fired off a round into the creature. The ricochet almost hit Steven.
He fired another round at the creature but this one also bounced off of the creatures hide. He didn't have time to fire off anymore rounds, the monster rammed into him with it's huge body. He flew into the air and landed close to the clearing ripping the bandage off of his left arm. He looked at it and for a brief second thought, it was only hours ago that he recieved that wound.
He had to get to the clearing and find out where his sister was, he had to find out if he could kill it. Then a brief memory flashed through his mind, "Do you really think you can hack away at me with that toothpick?"
He shook his head, that was it, not that specific line but it did have a weakness. He ran to the clearing and was almost there when the shaking ground suddenly gave way and he fell to the ground. He felt the sharp pain as the pincer went into his side. He looked down at the monster and saw a small eye in the back of it's mouth.
It pulsated like a heart and had saliva dripping off of it, but there was no mistake, it was an eye. He lifted the gun up to fire it into the monster's eye when out of no where a knife went into his forearm. He screamed out in pain and watched in dumb amazement as his gun fell out of his hand and into the dirt below. His sister had thrown a dagger into his arm.
He felt the stink hot breath the beast gave off as it drew him closer and closer to it's mouth. He closed his eyes, this had to be it. He couldn't see any way out of it.
He heard a gun go off, he actually felt the bullet pass by his face, he watched it in surprise as it hit the monster inside of it's mouth. It suddenly began to thrash and it threw him yet again. He fell not too far from Eliza, who stood there holding the gun. She turned and smiled at him briefly then helped him up and began to run back for the boat.
"I thought I told you to wait for me!" he nearly screamed. His side was a bloody mess and it ached for him to run the way he was running.
"I got tired of waiting." she said back to him.
She handed him the gun as they continued to run for the boat. He looked down at his arm and saw the dagger sticking out of it. The pain was beginning to make his vision blurry so he stopped. He felt his knees go out from under him and he fell over.
"I got to get this knife out of my arm." he said and began to pull on it. But he withdrew his hand from it, the pain was too much for him.
"What's that!" Eliza said and pointed at something behind him.
He felt the pain as the knife was pulled from his arm. He grabbed the arm and began to try and stop the blood. He looked at her and smiled, she was worried about his arm but she still smiled at him. Smiling might have seemed like it was wrong to do in such a place but it also helped him.
So it looked so alien when Eliza stopped smiling and suddenly began to scream out in pain. He looked and saw a long sharp object sticking out of her back. The monster had somehow managed to sneak up on them and it had drove one of it's pincers in her back. The other one went deep into her side.
He jumped into action and grabbed hold of the gun shooting it deep into the big creatures mouth. That was the worms weakness, he thought as he did this. It had a single pulsating eye in it's mouth, but it might also be a heart.
He saw the bullets rip into it's eye/heart and watched as it began to thrash wildly throwing Eliza far into the island. It withered and began to die, as it was dying he took a huge rock he saw lying on the ground and threw it into it's mouth and onto the ruined eye of the great beast. It stopped moving and began to wither into the ground.
Steven heard his sister laughing, she was at the clearing, the last place he needed to go before he checked on Eliza to see if she was ok. He hoped deep in his heart that she was ok, but he knew she wasn't. That was way to much damage for someone to take. He felt the blood trickling down his side and out of his arm. He felt some blood coming up into his mouth.
He saw his sister standing at the altar again and breathed in a deep breath of air. He was beaten, the blood coming up from somewhere inside of him was an internal injury. He felt tears began to come out of his eyes, did it really have to end like this?
A memory came to him as he drew closer and closer to his sister, one of him pushing her in a little red wagon. His heart sank a little as he approached the now corrupt person that once was his sister. Another memory came to him, when the last real christmas she had with their family before she went off to Jack's house.
He remembered that it was one of the rare few times that their dad didn't beat on them. He was nice that day and even showed Steven how to shoot the BB gun he'd gotten for christmas. He in turn showed Jill how to use it and they shot everything they could shoot at until it got dark and they had to go in.
These memories kept coming to him as he drew nearer and nearer his sister. Jill, I know this town corrupted you, it's like a poison that controls and preys on the weaker people. I don't know how I know this but I do, he thought as he stopped in front of her.
"Jill, turn yourself in to the police, I'm asking you to." He said, blood was starting to come out of his side at a faster pace.
"Steven, Steven, Steven..." She trailed. She held up a new dagger and looked at it as if fascinated with the shiny blade. Before Steven could move out of the way she sunk it into his shoulder right to the hilt of the blade. He fell over and watched in horror as she pulled out another dagger from off of the altar.
He lifted the gun up and found that it didn't have any ammo in it.
"Tough break." She said to him.
"Jill no matter what happens I love you. You're my little sister and I care about you so much" he said as the tears began to pour down his face.
She pounced at him and he rolled out of the way as she ran the blade of the dagger into the ground. He pulled out the dagger that was stuck in his shoulder and held it up for defense.
"Don't make me do this Jill!" He began to plead.
She had the look of a person who no longer knew what reality was like, the look of an insane person. She raised her blade and swung it at him. He jumped back barely getting out of the way. She swung again and again each time just missing him. He was tiring and getting dizzy from blood loss yet he couldn't bring himself to swing back at his little sister.
She cornered him against a tree and began to swing at him again, cutting him only once across the face. He felt the hot blood as it poured down his torn cheek. He knew what he had to do and he knew what it required. He put his guard down and waited for it.
She swung the blade at him and watched in shock as he turned to the side the blade catching his chest cutting it a little. Then she felt the sharp blade dig deep into her side, she felt it stab her again. He pulled it out and then thought about it and stabbed her with it one more time. She fell to the ground and he walked off to go find Eliza.
His tears stopped for the time being, but his pain went beyond the wounds he had received. He loved his family no matter how bad they were, he loved Eric and Jill and their mother. He walked out into the wooded area of the island and soon saw Eliza.
She lay there in a pool of blood still breathing, when she saw him coming she smiled at him. He smiled back at her and then began to pick her up.
"I'm sorry I messed up." she said to him in a weakened voice.
"You didn't mess up, you didn't know that that was going to happen." He said and found that he was getting weaker with every step he took.
"I suppose I'm going to have to fix you up again." she said and smiled her last smile.
He looked down at her and then continued to walk, she let out her last breath and went limp in his arms. He felt the sting in his eyes as he continued to walk back to the clearing. He layed her down near the altar and went back for his sister.
She lay there still alive, he looked at her eyes, it was his sister not that wild thing that took control of her. He picked her up and took her to the altar as well then sat down next to where he put her.
"Steven?" she asked in a confused voice.
He looked at her and nodded then grabbed her hand.
"Why didn't you leave when I was crazy?" she asked him.
"You're my little sister, I'd never leave you behind no matter what the cost." he said to her.
She lay there in silence for a minute trying to think of what to say next then she said something that made him start crying again.
"I love you brother, I'm sorry for all of this." She said. Her breathing was starting to sound shallow.
"It's ok, Eric still loved you in the end, and so do I." He said. He felt his own lungs began to tighten a little.
"Jill, I didn't know about our Uncle, if I had known maybe we could have done something about it." He said.
"I wish I would have told you and Eric instead of mom." she said and then she begain to cry.
The tears were barely coming out of her eyes and she slumped her head forward, her breathing slowing down. Steven grabbed her and held her until she stopped breathing.
The sun was trying to creep up in the distance, a new day was coming soon and he felt better. He closed his eyes remembering a lullaby he used to sing to Jill when she was three. He closed his eyes tighter still, trying his hardest to remember what he used to sing to her. Suddenly he remembered and he smiled at the thought. Steven Bowers closed his eyes and never opened them again.
The End
(Thanks for reading the story to all of you that did. I'll be working on the next Silent Hill one very soon! Oh yeah and heres part of the chapter six that I was originally going to do but I decided not to and a different version of chapter 8 as well. I just thought it'd be interesting to show all ofyou who read the story a different look on different parts of this story.)
Chapter 6
Dreams...
It was all groggy and slow, it felt very unreal and yet for some reason it felt real. Nothing made sense in this dream that Steven was having. In it he finds himself walking to a house, he looks down and sees that he is holding a knife. He tries to drop the knife but knows that he can't. He can't even control his own body in the dream. He walks up to the door of the house and knocks, no one answers it, he knocks again and can hear someone walking to the door.
"Who is it?" he hears from the other side of the door. He doesn't answer back because he's not in control of his body.
What kind of dream was this, he wondered to himself as he continued to dream it. He felt the door give way as he rammed into it with his shoulder knocking back it's owner. He heard the man scream out in protest and then he felt himself swing the knife in the mans direction. He heard a choked gasp as the man fell on his back holding his slashed throat.
"Is this a memory?" he thought out loud. He didn't feel his mouth move in the dream when he said so it had to be a dream. He grabbed the dying man and threw him into the wall as hard as he could. Then he grabbed the man and told him to write down the password to a vault that the man had. Once the man managed to write the password down on a piece of paper, Steven stabbed him in the back of the head.
He went to a picture in the hallway and pulled it back revealing a safe, he opened the safe and then grabbed a small vile with a white liquid in it. He put the liquid in his pocket and left the house.
(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.
Eric grabbed Steven and held him with all of his might. He loved his brother but he had a feeling his brother might not even be around anymore. He picked him up and then ran into a tree as fast and as hard as he could using Steven as a shield.
Steven fell to the ground unconscious and Eric got up slowly.
"Look out!" Eliza cried.
Eric felt the sharp pain in his back it went straight into his left lung. He didn't turn around to see his sister Jill holding a bloody knife. He already knew what had happened.
Steven stirred a little and then suddenly stood up, blood trickling out of his freshly broken nose. He looked at his brother with a confused look and then saw his sister Jill standing behind Eric with a bloody knife.
Eric fell on his side and lay there in pain.
"Why? What do you hope to gain by all of this?" he asked his sister.
"The Jack you knew wasn't the same Jack I knew. The one you were fortunate enough to see was nothing more then an act." She said.
He looked at her not noticing that Steven was at his side as well as Eliza and they were looking at his wound.
"The one our mother sent me to live with was a disgusting man that did terrible things to me." She said in a trembling voice.
He felt a tightness around his chest, it felt like he was losing his breath. Steven let out a frustrated cry but Eric didn't pay any attention to this.
"But mom sent you to Uncle Jack because our dad used to beat us." He said.
She laughed a cruel and bitter laugh and then spit on the ground. She had nothing but pure hatred in her eyes now.
"I tried to tell her what he did and she still wouldn't let me go home. He did so many awful things to me. He even handcuffed me to a pipe in the basement once for being home a minute late! He used to threaten me and tell me if I ever told any of you that I would die." She breathed in a shaky sigh.
"Then I learned of the rituals that this town did, I learned of one that would give me access to the God Valtiel, and another I learned would give me power. Power to make this world feel the pain that I feel every day!" she screamed.
"Steven was the experiment, I had to see if Valtiel really existed or if the rituals were false. When we were entering Silent Hill I channeled Valtiel into Steven. He did most of the harder work I needed done and then I sent him to wait for me in Brookhaven. Steven might even remember what he did!" She said smiling at him.
He looked away thinking of the two men he had killed, one was a teacher that worked at the high school, the other was a doctor from Brookhaven.
"I didn't have enough power over Valtiel however and that's why Steven was able to break out of his trance." She added.
"Why would you want everyone else to suffer in this hellish nightmare?" he asked his sister.
She looked at him in surprise and then glared at him.
"Why? Because why should I be the only one who had to suffer!" she screamed out in anger.
"You're wrong, you weren't the only one who suffered!" Steven said and stood up lifting his shirt up to reveal a scar that went across his lower back.
"It's from dad, it's a knife wound similar to the one you just gave Eric. He cut him even worse then he cut me that night. " he said.
Her face darkened even more and then she started to mumble a crazed gibberish that didn't make sense to Steven in the least bit. Then just like that she stopped.
"As soon as I get my power from Samael you're all going to suffer!" she said but Eric, Steven, and Eliza all saw a new look of uncertainty go over Jill's face.
Then the ground started to tremble and quake. It was so light at first that none of them felt it, then it got stronger and stronger until it was too hard to even keep standing up.
Suddenly a huge worm burst out of the ground, it was unlike any sort of worm that Steven or the others had ever seen before. It had a mouth at the tip of it's head with rows and rows of needle sharp teeth, and it had two small pincers at the sides of it's great mouth.
It screamed out in rage and began to slither after the three of them and before Eliza and Steven could grab Eric it slammed into him with the force of a Semi truck. (And thats it, I hope you enjoyed the story I wrote. and thanks to those of you who gave me reviews, they helped me a lot!)
