Chapter 6: School Days

Authors Note: okay first things first, I am indeed back. I'll tell you what happened to me, I went to a cabin in the woods and my friends and I came across this book the "Necronomicon Ex Mortis" roughly translated book of the dead. It unleashed evil in the woods, which took my friends and then came for me. It got in my hand and it went bad, so I cut it off at the wrist. Ya know forget what happened to me it's not important. As always Silent Hill is owned by Konami not me. Thank you list comes at the end of the chapter. (This highly Evil Dead plugging Author's note was brought to you by S-Mart. Shop smart, Shop S-mart)

School's Out for Summer, School's out forever. –Alice Cooper-

Rich and Kara left the Café and headed out onto the street, going south down Bachman Road. When they reached the crossroads at Matheson Street, Kara brought Rich's attention to something.

"What's that hanging from the streetlight?"

Rich moved forward cautiously. Swaying from the top of the lamp was a long rope with a hangman's noose at the end, with what appeared to be a small child occupying the noose. The child was dressed in a dingy red hooded sweatshirt and torn blue jeans, a brown courier's envelope covering its face.

Kara looked like she was about to throw up. "Oh lord… tell me that isn't really a child hanging there…"

Rich moved closer and began inspecting the body.

"No, it's a dummy. Cloth stuffed with rags. Whoever did this has a sick sense of humour."

Rich took the envelope off of the dummy's face and opened it. Out of the envelope fell a large key ring with more than a dozen different keys on it. There was also a folded piece of paper inside.

Kara looked over Rich's shoulder. "Oh great, another love letter from Brixton!"

Rich carefully read the letter before answering. "No I don't think so. It's not the same handwriting, it isn't as rigid in structure as one of his."

"So what does it say?"

Rich directed the light from his flashlight onto the paper and began to read aloud.

Detective Ericson

I believe that's your name isn't it? Well, whatever you call yourself now I couldn't care less. I do, however, care about what you do while you're here.

If you have any intelligence at all, you'll forget about the murderer you're chasing and take your little friend and get out of Silent Hill.

I have the feeling that you'll ignore my friendly warning and continue on anyway. If you truly see the need to catch Brixton, you should first head to Midwich Elementary School. The keys on that ring I left you should open the majority of the doors, save for a few.

You'll need to find a room that's attached to the main library. The room holds the older, infrequently used books. I left a text on the top of the desk there that will be of use to you. It may help you figure out exactly what's going on in this town. It will be far from easy getting there though.

The area surrounding the school and the school itself may be crawling with monsters.

One last piece of advice, If you come across a pale woman with silver coloured hair, don't listen to a thing she says. She's gone completely insane as far as I'm concerned.

Well I suppose I should end this little letter now as I have other important things to attend to, such as convincing your friends in South Vale to give up and go home as well.

Vincent

Kara looked at Rich, and asked him. "So I guess the school is our next destination huh? Thought I was done with school." She added laughing gently.

"Yeah it looks like that's our best bet for now." Rich answered.

Sighing and glancing around the street Kara quietly said. "Maybe we should do what that Vincent guy said and just get out of here while we can. I sure as hell don't want to deal with another one of those monsters like that thing in the alley, and I don't think either of us have enough ammo to handle one if we do."

Rich just frowned and shook his head. "We have no choice. I highly doubt our superiors would appreciate the reasoning of "well we tried to bring Brixton in, but there were too many monsters protecting him." Let alone the families of his victims."

Kara turned back to him and opened her mouth, as if to say something, but the words died coming out of her mouth, as her attention shifted to something behind Rich.

"I thought you said that the body was only a dummy." She stated.

"It is. Just rags and cloth, why?"

"Because it's bleeding all over the ground!" Kara exclaimed.

Rich sharply turned around to face the dummy, and saw that Kara was indeed correct. The dummy's eyes were now nothing but spouts of dark red blood, oozing it's way down the body and forming a large pool at the ground beneath it's feet.

"Shit!" Rich exclaimed as he backed up to avoid letting the rapidly spreading pool touch his feet.

As Rich and Kara were pondering this hideous new turn of events, their police radios once again began emitting the increasingly loud static noise.

"Wait, listen. Do you hear that?" Kara asked.

It was a few seconds before Rich also heard it, a quiet sniffing, gurgling sound that was steadily getting louder.

"Oh no, not another one." Kara whispered.

Grabbing Kara's arm, Rich quickly pulled her behind a hedge and ducked down.

"Stay down and keep quiet." Rich whispered.

It was only a few seconds before three shapes could be made out in the fog, approaching the intersection. The things were quadruped, strongly resembling dogs except they had no skin at all, and the red muscles of their bodies shimmering in the dim light. Each one had a long tongue hanging out of their mouths dragging on the ground as they walked.

The sniffing sounds coming from the dogs increased in intensity as they approached the large pool of blood. When they did finally reach it, they quickly shoved their tongues into it and a loud slurping sound echoed through the street.

"Oh geez." Kara groaned as she looked away.

Rich just nodded as he turned a little green himself, unwilling to take his eyes off the monsters as they fed.

In the span of two minutes the large pool of blood was nothing more than a red stain on the cracked concrete of the road.

"Good, maybe now they'll leave." Kara said.

The creatures, having finished their meal, turned to go when one of them stuck its head in the air and began sniffing again. The other two soon joined in smelling the fog-ridden air.

"What the hell are they doing? All the blood's gone." Kara said.

"I'm not sure." Rich answered.

It wasn't until the animals starting heading toward the hedge Rich and Kara were hiding behind did Rich realize what they smelled.

"My arm!" Rich said. "Those things can smell the blood coming out of the wound on my arm."

"Great, what do we do?" Kara asked.

"Run, there are way too many to fight."

Rich and Kara took off west down Matheson Avenue. The dogs heard the movement and let out a loud howl, giving chase. The dogs were hot on their heels all the way down Matheson, until they finally reached Midwich.

Rich fired a couple of shots backward, managing to hit one of the dogs in the head. The animal went down, falling to the ground twitching. The other two creatures broke off the chase long enough to drain their former packmate of all it's blood.

Kara and Rich continued to sprint down Midwich until, to both of their relief's, they saw the outline of the school in the fog. They redoubled their efforts, finding a new source of strength from deep down to help them run the rest of the distance to the door.

They had almost reached the door when they heard the howl of the dogs getting closer. Rich reached the door and pulled frantically on the handle. The door refused to budge an inch.

"Damn it!" Rich yelled as he dug into his pocket for the ring of keys. He shoved key after key from the ring into the lock on the door, none of them unlocking the door and their path to relative safety.

Rich wouldn't have been aware that the dogs had caught up to them if it wasn't for the loud BOOM, BOOM, noise of Kara's 12-gauge as she fired off two shells in the direction of the dogs. Both shots missed their intended targets but managed to buy enough time for Rich to find the right key.

Rich and Kara quickly darted inside the now open door and slammed it hard behind them, relocking it as the first dog leapt and impacted against it uselessly.

Both Kara and Rich flopped down into sitting positions on the floor resting their backs against the wall.

Rich turned to look at Kara. "Well I think it's safe to say that we're not getting back out that way anytime soon."

"No kidding. I'd really rather find a different exit altogether, or at least some more ammunition if we go back out that way. I have two more shells then this thing becomes a paperweight." Kara said hoisting her shotgun.

"I don't think we're going to have much luck with that happening in an elementary school. We'd probably best find some heavy objects to use as clubs, before we try getting out of here." Rich suggested.

"Hey did you notice that our radios started in with the static again when those monsters got close?" Kara asked.

"Yes, it seems to be a direct connection to how close the monsters are to how loud the static is. From now on let's be extra careful when we notice the static and be sure to keep our guards up." Rich said lifting himself up off the floor.

Rich looked around taking in his surroundings. The halls of the old school were deathly quiet, with little to no illumination. The walls, which were probably once a bright blue, were now faded and worn, with places where the paint had peeled away.

A flash of colour from a nearby bulletin board caught Rich's attention. Moving closer he saw it was a pamphlet holder with maps of the school in it.

Taking one of the maps and putting it in his pocket, Rich handed a second map to Kara and nodded toward the darkened hallway.

"Well let's get moving and find this book of Vincent's." Rich said tiredly.

Picking herself up off the floor and holding her shotgun at the ready Kara proceeded down the dark corridor, with Rich watching her back.

Authors note: well that's another chapter down, it seemed a little harder to write for me than earlier ones so please leave me a review, telling me what you liked or how much it sucked. Thanks in advance. And no the thank you list.

Cuiasodo: Yeah Pyramid Head and Claudia can be real bad news, and things will get worse before they get any better.

Wolf Ravensoul: glad you thought the arrest scene was funny, I hadn't intended it to be so, but taking a second look at it as a Silent Hill fan I could definitely see the humour in it.

Buffyrules: Don't worry the cast will come into direct contact with people from the games, just not Heather or Douglas. It's about a month before they arrive.

Deacon87: glad you liked the dialog, I worked a long time to get the cultists speech correct. It's rewarding to know other people thought it was appropriate.

PaulC: Thanks for your review, I'm happy I've got a good mix of suspense and mystery. Now that my schedule is a little more solid, people can start expecting more updates from me, at much closer intervals.

Havenoname: thanks for your kind words, I hope you like this one as much.

Inguz: Thank you, you're not the first to mention that you like the way I write dialog and I hope that my latest chapter doesn't disappoint.

Well that's all for this chapter see you all in your stories reviews and in my next chapter.